Jason Aronson Inc : 443 books
Hasidic Williamsburg
A Contemporary American Hasidic Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Hasidic Williamsburg recounts the dramatic emergence of this unique community in the face of major crises. It is the story of the loyalty of its members to their rebbes and their teachings and to the milieu they created in an old Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Based on his previous book...
Sparks of Light
Essays on the Weekly Torah Portions Based on the Philosophy of Rav Kook
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
The author writes: "Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook (5635-5695/1865-1935) was one of the greatest Jewish leaders of recent history. He was steeped in Jewish knowledge of all kinds, a master of halacha, Talmud, and Jewish philosophy, and he also had a good knowledge of the general philosophy...
The New Rational Therapy
Thinking Your Way to Serenity, Success, and Profound Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Throughout the ages, great thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Aquinas,Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, and many others have had incredibly useful things to say about overcoming the strife of everyday living and attaining happiness. Unfortunately contemporary approaches to psychology...
The Therapist's Emotional Survival
Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
This book explores the private thoughts of the therapist in response to the patient's inner expressions and how each affects the other over the course of treatment. Perlman documents his own journey of having treated trauma. and sexually abused patients over many years. He details the issues the therapist...
Sandtray
Playing to Heal, Recover, and Grow
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Sandtray refers to psychotherapies that use sand, water, and miniatures. In this versatile and multisensory process clients create a three-dimensional “world” in a tray of sand. In doing so, a person can uncover and access the image or implicit thinking portion of his or her mind that lies out...
Why It Is Good to Be Good
Ethics, Kohut's Self Psychology, and Modern Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
In Why It Is Good to be Good, John H. Riker argues that modernity, by undermining traditional religious and metaphysical grounds for moral belief, has left itself no way to explain why it is personally good to be a morally good person. Furthermore, modernity's regnant concept of the self as an independent...
by Heidi Kaduson, Charles Schaefer
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
This book is an amazing resource for play therapy techniques. The contributors come from a diverse group including child-centered, cognitive-behavioral, gestalt, Jungian, psychodynamic, and prescriptive play therapy.
by Devra B. Adelstein, Ann Alaoglu, E. James Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work with infants, children, and adolescents, and who are seeking modes of working that respects emotions, that...
In Memory's Kitchen
A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
The sheets of paper are as brittle as fallen leaves; the faltering handwriting changes from page to page; the words, a faded brown, are almost indecipherable. The pages are filled with recipes. Each is a memory, a fantasy, a hope for the future. Written by undernourished and starving women in the...
by Murray Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
When Bowen was a student and practitioner of classical psychoanalysis at the Menninger Clinic, he became engrossed in understanding the process of schizophrenia and its relationship to mother-child symbiosis. Between the years 1950 and 1959, at Menninger and later at the National Institute of Mental...
Play Therapy and Asperger's Syndrome
Helping Children and Adolescents Grow, Connect, and Heal through the Art of Play
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Play Therapy and Asperger's Syndrome: Helping Children and Adolescents Grow, Connect, and Heal Through the Art of Play is for the mental health professional (psychologist, licensed counselor, licensed social worker) who utilizes play therapy and who works with children and adolescents diagnosed with...
by Arthur Becker-Weidman, Geraldine Casswell, Craig W. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
This collection of transcripts from sessions by certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapists gives therapists, educators, and child welfare and residential treatment professionals a detailed understanding of how Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy is used to help children who have a history of neglect,...
by Thomas H. Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Subjects of Analysis, the fourth of Thomas Ogden's books, explores the frontier of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of analyst and analysand in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity (the individual 'I-ness' of each participant) and intersubjectivity (the 'shared' experience of...
by Simon A. Gronlnick
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1990
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