Pathological Psychology category: 903 books
by Judy L. Kantrowitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The question of how psychoanalysts are affected by their patients is of perennial interest. Edward Glover posed the question in an informal survey in 1940, but little came of his efforts. Now, more than half a century later, Judy Kantrowitz rigorously explores this issue on the basis of a unique research...
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry
Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.
Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis,...
Disturbed Consciousness
New Essays on Psychopathology and Theories of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.
In Disturbed Consciousness, philosophers and other scholars examine various psychopathologies in light of specific philosophical theories of consciousness. The contributing authors—some...
Imagination and Social Perspectives
Approaches from Phenomenology and Psychopathology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations. The same object can be seen from many different points of view, an event can awaken different emotional reactions...
by André Green, Gregorio Kohon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
In Love and its Vicissitudes André Green and Gregorio Kohon draw on their extensive clinical experience to produce an insightful contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of love.
In Part I, 'To Love or Not to Love - Eros and Eris', André Green addresses some important questions: What...
Family Stressors
Interventions for Stress and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Sheldon Bach
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
Dr. Bach composes diverse clinical experiences into a coherent portrait of the narcissitic patients.
The Psychoanalytic Vocation
Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Object relations, which emphasizes the importance of the preoedipal period and the infant-mother relationship, is considered by many analysts to be the major development in psychoanalytic theory since Freud. In this reinterpretation of its history Peter L. Rudnytsky focuses on two pivotal figures:...
Depression and Women
An Integrative Treatment Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2001
In her newest book, Simonds presents "Integrative Relational Therapy," her unique nonpathologizing approach to psychotherapy with depressed women. IRT integrates empirically-supported therapies, feminist theories of depression, creative arts therapies, and mindfulness-based techniques into...
by Martin Kantor MD
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder (PAPD) is now recognized as a distinct personality disorder. Those who suffer from PAPD are sorely in need not only of diagnostic recognition, but also of specific therapeutic intervention. This new book from Martin Kantor speaks to therapists; guides those...
by Jim Richards
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
This book contains the bulk of the first five books of the Old Testament (the Jewish “Torah”), edited for easy reading, along with commentary. Reading this will make you more of an expert on the Torah (and the Old Testament) than most Americans. The Torah itself is clearly full of lies, nonsense...
Falling into Peaces
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Reading this book may just leave you screaming for Lithium. Taking us viscerally into her mammoth fears, great energy, deep sadness, and often indignant spirit, Carol Coussons de Reyes chronicles her personal journey with bipolar disorder.
While other memoirs have given us an intellectual understanding...
Predators
Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions surrounding them to evade discovery. Arguing that even the most knowledgeable among us can be fooled,...
Explaining Abnormal Behavior
A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Highly readable and accessible, this book describes how research in cognitive science is transforming the way scientists and clinicians think about abnormal behavior. Bruce Pennington draws on work from multiple disciplines to identify compelling links among psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurological...