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Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion. It examines how the prevalence of exhaustion – both as an individual experience and as a broader socio-cultural phenomenon – is manifest in the...
Learning from Animals?
Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Human language, cognition, and culture are unique; they are unparalleled in the animal kingdom. The claim that we can learn what makes us human by studying other animal species provokes vigorous reactions and many deny that comparative research can shed any light on the origins and character of human...
Cultural Diversity: Understanding the Complexities involved in Multi-Cultural Therapeutic Counseling
Cultural Diversity: Understanding the Complexities involved in Multi-Cultural Therapeutic Counseling
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
This master-level educational work in psychology demonstrates an understanding of cross-cultural traditions, customs and values with an emphasis on understanding effective counseling between different identity groups
It aims to increase awareness of the complex dynamics of identity and development....
Making a Difference in Patients' Lives
Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2008
Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication!
Within the title of her book, Making a Difference in Patients' Lives, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. But, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its own, is often not...
Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation
Emotional Engagement in the Analytic Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation demonstrates how interpersonal psychoanalysis obliges analysts to engage their patients with genuine emotional responsiveness, so that not only the patient but the analyst too is open to ongoing transformation through the analytic experience. In so doing, the...
by Theodore L. Dorpat
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1996
In treatment, the psychotherapist is in a position of power. Often, this power is unintentionally abused. While trying to embody a compassionate concern for patients, therapists use accepted techniques that can inadvertently lead to control, indoctrination, and therapeutic failure. Contrary to the...
Being of Two Minds
The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
From the unfaithful husband to the binge eater, from the secret cross-dresser to the pilferer of worthless items, there are those who seem to live two lives, to be divided selves, to be literally of two minds. This division or "vertical split" appears in a person at odds with himself, a...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 4
Learning from Kohut
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The fourth volume in the Progress in Self Psychology series continues to explore the theoretical yield and clinical implications of the wok of the late Heinz Kohut. Learning from Kohut features sections on "supervision with Kohut" and on the integration of self psychology with classical...
by Susan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In this enlightening and gracefully written study, Susan Miller examines shame in a variety of clinical contexts en route to a richer understanding of shame dynamics. Miller attends especially to the role of shame in creating and maintaining character pathology and devotes separate sections of the...
The Power of Countertransference
Innovations in Analytic Technique
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
A signpost of the relational turn in contemporary psychoanalysis, Karen Maroda's The Power of Countertransference, published in 1991, is perhaps the first systematic effort to integrate the need for mutual emotional exchanges, which may include the analyst's own self-disclosures, into an interactive...
by William W. Meissner
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
This book is a study of time, particularly of the nature of subjective time-that is, time as subjectively experienced and lived in contrast with time as measured objectively as, for example, by a clock. The argument first addresses the development of the time experience, its origins in infantile experience,...
by Patrick McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Technical advances in the life and medical sciences have revolutionised our understanding of the brain, while the emerging disciplines of social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience continue to reveal the connections of the higher cognitive functions and emotional states associated with religious...
International Handbook of Anger
Constituent and Concomitant Biological, Psychological, and Social Processes
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Book covers a broader range of topics than other books in this area. Notably, extensive coverage of the neurobiology of anger in context of psychology and sociology is unique.
Book provides broad, integrative coverage while avoiding unnecessary duplication. Contributors have read each others’...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2004
The public has a right to know that when they go to a therapist, they are almost certain to be given a psychiatric diagnosis, no matter how mild or normal their problems might be. It is unlikely that they will be told that a diagnosis will be written forever in their chart and that alarming consequences...