Bücher von Joseph D. (Private practice Lichtenberg

Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes.

This text offers ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. They integrate the findings of self psychology with developmental research that has refined understanding of the self as a centre of experience and motivation.

The motivational systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of mental states and the process by which affects, intentions, and goals unfold. Placing motivational systems theory within a contemporary dynamic systems theory, this title offers responses to the critics of motivational systems theory.

Containing 10 chapters, this book expatiates on the craft of exploratory psychotherapy as it pertains to patients who typically bring to therapy backgrounds of insecure attachment and serious concerns about safety and retraumatization. Each chapter formulates a different guideline for technique.

Carrying forward his inquiry into the nature and conditions of normal and abnormal development, the author focuses on motivation. The text offers an alternative to psychoanalytic drive theory that accommodates the developmental insights of infancy research.