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Illustrates the treatment modality employed by a psychiatrist with patients suffering from the eating disorder of anorexia.

Presents the history of Jewish food from biblical times. This title explores the traditional foods - the everyday diets as well as the specialties for the Sabbath and festivals - of both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic cuisines. It discusses what makes certain foods Jewish and details the evolution of traditional dishes as cholent and gefilte fish.

Selective mutism in children is characterized by persistent refusal to speak in one or more social situations, notwithstanding the demonstrated ability to use language at home. This book presents therapeutic approaches and offers alternatives to professionals working with selectively mute children.

This title contains the ethical and moral principles which guide the Jewish way of life, as handed down by the sages.

This compilation gathers the writings of leading scholars in the field of Kabbalah and introduces its basic ideas. These discourses also serve to point the serious student to sources and resources that will be useful for further study.

Makes the concepts of self psychology accessible for both students and clinicians. Beginning with an overview of the development of Kohut's ideas, particularly those on narcissism and narcissistic development, the author explains self object concept and why it is at the core of the self psychological vision of human experience.

Why do people migrate from one country to another? What is the difference between an immigrant and an exile? What determines the psychological outcome of immigration? Can one ever mourn the loss of one's country?

Argues that attachment pathology is a disorder of the self based on developmental trauma that predisposes patients toward a future trajectory marked by structural deficits, character pathology, and interpersonal discord that fuel and sustain myriad forms of clinical symptomatology.

People's lives can be transformed by psychoanalysis. Yet the decision to undertake this enterprise can seem so formidable that many deny themselves an extraordinary experience. This book provides seven case reports in which the patients' lives - in their own judgements - were transformed.

Exploring the crucial role of parents' work in child and adolescent treatment, this book illustrates the expanded range of clinical techniques used with parents to establish an alliance at various phases of treatment.

This book teaches parents how to conduct play therapy with their own young children. Teaching parents to be play therapists enhances the efforts of the mental health professional, who now becomes a consultant to the parent-therapist.

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Encompasses the entire spectrum of Jewish thought, from the early Kabbalists to the modern Chassidic and Mussar masters, the sages of the Talmud, to the modern philosophers. Both a scholarly study of meditative practices, and a practical guide, this title is suitable for anyone interested in meditating the Jewish way.

Explores the developments in technique in the practice of psychoanalysis today.

A study showing the rewards of therapy by removing a patient's defences; and by encouraging them, with the therapist's help, to face painful issues such as fear of intimacy, loss, long-term depression, and sexual disfunction. A commentary critiques the interaction and explores responses.

Offers hope and specific techniques designed to address the complexity of treatment.

"Beyond Technique: Psychotherapy for the 21st Century".

A collection of 68 stories. This book shows how you can shape the destiny of the timeless tradition of Jewish storytelling.

An examination of the work of Heinz Kohut which includes some of the clinical experiences of the authors themselves. The book is suitable for beginners, but contains ample reference to the traditional psychoanalytic matrix to make it useful to experienced clinicians.

Studing the criminal mind, this book describes an intensive therapeutic approach designed to change the criminals way of thinking. It rejects traditional treatment approaches as reinforcing of the criminals sense of being a victim of society, and stresses that the criminal must make a choice to give up criminal thinking and learn morality.

Offers a framework for living with the complexity of the therapeutic endeavor without falling prey to the practitioner's two great occupational hazards - grandiosity and despair.

This book provides the reader with an introduction to important philosophical ideas of Jewish philosophers throughout history.

This book explores the mother-daughter bond within the life cycle, from early development on into the turbulence of adolescence and the ambivalence of separation then to the daughter's marriage and maternity, and finally, thoughtfully, to reparative opportunities inherent in the mother's aging and dying.

Allan Gonsher is an experienced family therapist with the dual perspective of a practicing Jew and a clinical training in psychology and inter-personal dynamics. "An Allowance is Not a Bribe" is the result of this viewpoint on Jewish parenting.

A guide to Jewish Sabbath observance. It walks us through the celebration with an easy-to-follow how-to approach, allowing us to experience a traditional Shabbat. It explores common questions and concerns by the author, who has also included personal reflections by other individuals on each aspect of the observance.

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Addresses the ways that mental health practitioners can assist survivors of terrorism. This volume explores the methods employed to help people heal and even grow from traumatic experiences. It argues for a multi-dimensional approach to understanding and treating the effects of terror-related trauma.

The Therapeutic Process presents an informative, sequential, well-defined, and clinically rich guide to the process of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Specifically designed to have broad appeal and value for the beginning clinician as well as the more experienced clinician, this book includes many illustrative examples and well-defined terms.

When unmourned experiences of helplessness and disavowed desires turn into a passive fatalism, people stop hoping for the best and fear the worst, despairing that the real world has anything good to offer.

Designed and arranged according to the DSM-IV diagnostic categories, this book contains chapters which address the short-term treatment of a specific condition or patient population.