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Portrays the therapist as healer through a series of clinical vignettes from the treatment of a younger therapist whom the author perceives to be more intelligent, talented, and better educated than himself.

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This is a thinking person's guide, and as such it supplies a theoretical framework for understanding attachment and loss as well as actual advice on everyday care, costs, and regulations.

Dr. Joan Lachkar examines the origins and early warning signs of the psychological violation she describes as a dance between abuser and abused. She goes on to introduce typologies of each (the narcissistic or passive-aggressive abuser, the unentitled self) and to explore the bases for their collusive attachments.

This study looks at fantasies of omnipotence, and how they grow out of feelings of helplessness. It addresses various aspects, from the merger fantasies of babies who feel like an extension of their parent, to the soothing spiritual and religious feelings that ease acceptance of loss and mortality.

Shows how to work successfully with emotional and behavioral problems rooted in deficient early attachments. This book addresses the emotional difficulties of many of the foster and adopted children living in our country.

Once a journey for self understanding has begun, there is inevitably a struggle against real change. Inner roadblocks on both sides of the couch impede the journey of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This book explores these resistances.

Presents a selection of the papers of a beloved teacher & mentor by several of his students & collaborators.

Presents reviews of psychoanalytic theories and research. This title contributes to the study of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy.

Judaism is primarily a religion of actions rather than beliefs. When the Jewish people accepted God's covenant, they committed themselves first to obedience and practice, and then to striving to understand the message implicit in the Torah. This textbook presents a comprehensive explication of the Jewish faith.

Addressing the adult children of borderlines and the therapists who work with them, this book shows how to care for the waif without rescuing her, to attend to the hermit without feeding her fear, to love the queen without becoming her subject, and to live with the witch without becoming her victim.

Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia provides a detailed program for eliminating social anxieties based on the latest cognitive behavioral treatments for social phobia.

From the start of life, all of us strive to achieve two goals: intimacy with another person and discovery and expression of our own identity. All too often, however, we experience these goals as conflicting. This book focuses on the image of self and of others formed in the first three years of life.

Discusses affect - its origins, development, and uses - and how it is viewed in a clinical setting.

Presents a study of Hebrew letters and words. This work uses gematria (interpretive Jewish numerology) to reveal the correlation between Jewish ethics and practices and the numeric values of Hebrew words which name and describe them. It uncovers the spiritual resonance of Jewish thought, and explains a variety of theological issues.

A resource for the person new to play therapy or for a person wishing to review. It contains information in presenting perspectives on various theories of play therapy. These theories then transfer from the abstract into the functional realm of practice so that the reader can move from the cognitive understanding to the experimental.

This controversial book proposes that therapists work with parents in therapy rather than with the child. The authors argue that parent therapy is not only a useful alternative to individual child treatment, but is also more effective in helping the child.

Explains the ideas and concepts of Jewish mystical thought. This book presents the elements of Jewish mysticism.

Treatment for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has dramatically improved with the innovative use of cognitive-behavioral therapies. Here, the authors have developed a comprehensive method of treatment that combines psychoeducational and cognitive restructuring with traditional exposure and response prevention techniques.

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In his fifth book Thomas Ogden, widely regarded as the most profound and original psychoanalytic writer of this decade, explores the frontier of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of the analyst and patient in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity.

Integrates cognitive therapy with hypnotherapy and offers principles and illustrations of hypnotic routines that can be used in changing cognitive self-statements, cognitive processing distortions, and tacit cognitive structures.

Defining the demands and expectations that parents place upon their offspring from the very beginning, this book explains how even the youngest can adapt to a role that is expected of them. It demonstrates how parents can transfer problems from their own childhood into this new relationship.

Theraplay is a form of structured play therapy designed to strengthen the attachment between parents and their child. This book emphasizes on enhanced self-esteem, trust, and confidence and presents Theraplay techniques.

For five decades prior to his death in 1993, Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik was the leader of modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States.

Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood. This work incorporates methods developed to elicit the best responses.

Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do mental health professionals get past the facade? This book offers play therapy approaches geared toward adolescents. It shows how to make connections and alliances.

Shows how gender, race, social class, age, physical disability, and sexual orientation affect the classification of human beings into psychiatric categories.

Offers an approach from structuring the play therapy session to therapeutic limit setting to termination-closure and involves readers in learning and applying these skills in the therapy practice. This book is suitable for practitioners, students, and play therapy supervisors.

In this immensely practical manual, two leading child psychologists provide specific, down-to-earth advice for effectively handling the everyday problems of children from early childhood through adolescence.