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Book SynopsisA tour de force of scholarship and major contribution to the history of thought concerning the nature of personal identity, Internarrative Identity: Placing the Self asks how identity is created and examines the history of conceptions of the self, from Aristotle to Postmodernism, to find the answers. Ultimately, Maan discovers that the human capacity for self-creation exists in what have previously been problematic areas of experienceconflict, marginalization, disruption, exclusion, subversion, deviation and contradiction.Trade ReviewInternarrative Identity confronts us with deep questions about personal identity and about how we are to trace the significance of a person's life . . . urges us to rethink the range of ways available to us for making sense of who we are and how we ought to live. -- Mark Johnson, author of Metaphors We Live By and Philosophy in the FleshTable of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Chapter I: Narrative Identity Chapter 6 Chapter II: Fault Lines Chapter 7 Chapter III: Comparative Analysis Chapter 8 Chapter IV: Internarrative Identity Chapter 9 Chapter V: Repression and Narrative Unity Chapter 10 Notes Chapter 11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Author

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Book SynopsisRecognizing the crucial importance of knowing how to be present with a child in a reparative role, this work incorporates training in developmental play into the body of the book to provide therapists, teachers, and other helping professionals with the experience they need to understand and practice capable touching.Trade ReviewViola Brody brings the wisdom of genuine maturity to her work. She combines it with a passion and a commitment that could move mountains. And it is mountains, indeed, that her book moves. With courage and enormous insight, she gets right into the heart of where touch needs to be in this uptight world. This is a book as practical as a mother's lap and as tender as a father's belief in you. Dr. Brody has my full support on her mission of mercy and enlightenment. -- Sidney B. Simon, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus, Psychological Education University of MassachusettsDialogue Of Touch is as informative as it is practical and a highly recommended addition to therapeutic reference book collections. * Midwest Book Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA comprehensive, reader friendly and exceptionally informative guide for properly identifying and contributing to a healthy parent-child relationship for the potential and long-lasting benefit of the child in a therapeutic pursuit. Supplying an expansively illustrative content of examples, studies, in-depth detailing, Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work covers diverse but common situations. Vitally important reading for counselors and psychotherapists working with families in clinical settings, Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work is also very highly recommended for the struggling parents of struggling children and teens for its invaluable and accessible contribution of helpful insights and general content. * The Bookwatch *Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work is a rare book. It is a book on a subject that is almost never written about in psychoanalysis. This is also a rare book for another reason: while it makes no extravagant claims, it quietly turns the traditional way of thinking about parent work in child analysis on its head. For this reason especially, all child analysts should read it and consider its message. This book has an interesting mix of practical advice and theoretical ideas. It is useful for clinicians at all levels of experience. A new and thoughtful look at how we work with the families of the children we treat is most refreshing and long overdue. This view is especially relevant since it is based on years of clinical practice by two excellent clinicians.. * Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association *For far too long parents have been denied their rightful place as partners in therapeutic work on behalf of their children. The Novicks advocate unequivocally for their inclusion when working with children of every age and in every phase of development. There is much to be learned from their model and the many clinical illustrations they provide in this invaluable contribution to a neglected area of practice. -- Denia Barrett, Editor, Child Analysis: Clinical, Theoretical, and AppliedWorking with Parents Makes Therapy Work by Kerry and Jack Novick is an extraordinarily important contribution. Their work effectively counters the decades-old resistance to caring work with parents by child and adolescent psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Their work underscores the inevitable ongoing interaction between parent functioning and child development. -- Leon Hoffman M.D.The book is a highly practical treatise on techniques to involve parents meaningfully in their child's therapy. -- Elissa P. Benedek M.D., author of How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce * Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health Professions, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Fall 2007) *In Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work, psychoanalysts Jack and Kerry Kelly Novick offer a theoretically rigorous yet highly practical and intuitively appealing framework for involving parents meaningfully in their children's therapy. One of this volume's many strengths lies in its use of numerous salient and well-crafted clinical illustrations derived from the authors' extensive clinical and supervisory experience. It also offers further elaboration and new applications of the Novicks' earlier research on the "two-systems" model. Indeed, because the work is so well written, one nearly loses sight of the fact that it represents a bold new vision of the role of parents in the psychoanalytic treatment of child and adolescent patients. -- Jerrold R. Brandell, Ph.D., Wayne State University School of Social Work; author of Psychodynamic Social WorkWorking With Parents Makes Therapy Work is a rare book. It is a book on a subject that is almost never written about in psychoanalysis. This is also a rare book for another reason: while it makes no extravagant claims, it quietly turns the traditional way of thinking about parent work in child analysis on its head. For this reason especially, all child analysts should read it and consider its message. This book has an interesting mix of practical advice and theoretical ideas. It is useful for clinicians at all levels of experience. A new and thoughtful look at how we work with the families of the children we treat is most refreshing and long overdue. This view is especially relevant since it is based on years of clinical practice by two excellent clinicians. * Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association *This book represents a turning point in our child psychiatry practice which legitimizes a shift that many of us have adopted clinically several years ago. It should be read, discussed and improved upon by all child and adolescent practictioners. -- 2008, Vol 17 No. 2, pp97-99 * Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry *The Novicks have offered us a significant volume....This book is an important addition to the literature and can be a resource for child therapists at all levels of experience. * Psychologist - Psychoanalyst, Fall 2008 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Parent Work—Introduction and History Chapter 2 Our Assumption When We Work with Parents Chapter 3 Evaluation Chapter 4 Recommendation, Setting the Frame, and Working Conditions Chapter 5 The Beginning Phase of Treatment Chapter 6 The Middle Phase of Treatment Chapter 7 The Pretermination Phase of Treatment Chapter 8 The Termination Phase of Treatment Chapter 9 Posttermination Chapter 10 The Application of Our Model of Parent Work to Individual Treatment of Adults Chapter 11 Summary and Further Questions

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Book SynopsisDr. David Scharff explores the role of sexuality in human relationships by combining his extensive experience in individual, marital, family, and sex therapy with theoretical contributions from object relations theory and child development.Trade ReviewScharff shows how sexual union gives us the repeated opportunity to return to the source of our most profound instinctual needs so that we can find there the nourishment for emotional renewal through a harmonious interplay of our internal object relations. . . . Scharff sees patients with problems in sexually relating as needing help in finding out how to translate the problems into emotional equivalents that are susceptible to therapeutic change. . . . The family group offers the means of working through a second time in adulthood what went wrong the first time in childhood, by continued object seeking, finding, and repairing. It is the unique situation in which transferences can be creatively satisfied. -- Andrew Powell

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Book SynopsisExplores the developments in technique in the practice of psychoanalysis today.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable book. I have not seen a more encompassing, intelligent, and fair summation of the state of modern Freudianism and the psychoanalytic literature. Its array of authors and opinions represents the major currents and controversies in psychoanalysis today. If we are in a transitional period, students, practitioners, and teachers alike will be better prepared for a stable future by absorbing its messages. -- Leo RangellA timely exploration of Freudian psychoanalytic technique at the end of the century, The Modern Freudians provides an overview of developments in technique through a dialogue among Freudian analysts. It sheds light on problems and issues generated by modern analytic practice and raises questions that thoughtful practitioners will find helpful in advancing their own understanding as they search for answers. In surveying the past and examining the present, this book prepares us to look forward to the next century. -- Charles HanlyPsychoanalytic discourse is expanding at an explosive rate. Virtually all of theory is under review; a rich multiplicity of perspectives is being generated and their clinical implications examined. Now is the perfect moment to ask: What is Freudian about contemporary psychoanalysis? Which principles have endured as fundamental in our field since its inception? Which have been discarded? Which are being implicitly modified? In The Modern Freudians, an outstanding group examines transference, resistance, the Oedipus complex, even the very notion of mental functioning, with respect to current diversity in thinking within the Freudian tradition and in comparison with important developments in other schools of psychoanalytic thought. Ellman and colleagues have assembled a valuable resource for use by all students of psychoanalysis, novices, and veterans, at this particularly exciting moment in psychoanalytic history. -- Owen Renik

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Book SynopsisOnce 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.Trade ReviewIn this highly readable, richly informative book Jane Hall considers those inner forces in both patient and therapist that can impede the therapeutic action of psychoanlaytic treatment. She emphasizes the complexity of these inner resistances and elaborates on their multiple determinants, particularly on the way in which attachment to pain-inducing caretakers may block the therapeutic path. Through numerous detailed verbatim accounts of interchanges between therapist and patient, she shows how, by drawingon transference and countertransference manifestations, these roadblocks may be understood and modified, even in the treatment of severely troubled patients and even in once or twice-a-week therapy, although not always! Indeed, this volume reminds us ofhow difficult such work can be, how much it demands of the therapist, and how even with the best of efforts, it may be impossible to bring the treatment of certain indivdiuals to as satisfactory a termination as one would hope for. Readers will appreciateMs. Hall's candid accounts of a few of these less than successful therapeutic journeys that she or her colleagues have traveled . Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy should prove to be a valuable resource for experienced practioners as well -- Joyce Edward, CSW, BCD, co-editor of Fostering Healing and GrowthThis book is an excellent introduction to analytic psychotherapy. In addition to providing a clear and comprehensive understanding of the therapeutic situation, it offers an informed and insightful discussion of the barriers in both patient and therapist to doing effective psychotherapy. This approach makes this a work that is both unique and immensely valuable for all those interested in the art of psychotherapy. -- Theodore Jacobs, MD, Albert Einstein College of MedicineThis book was clearly written by a seasoned, dedicated clinician who has a very clear and coherent approach to work with an entire spectrum of patients who—while trapped in enduring patterns of relating to self and others and who hang on to their familiar manner of being as if their lives depended upon it—still wish for something better. Hall has a strong, intelligent, sensible voice, and it is a voice of a veteran. The latter comes through loud and clear. Her explication of her work with (as she puts it) is the most difficult roadblock of all...the need to hold on to internalized sadomasochistic object relationships (p. 213) is exquisite. I have not seen elsewhere such a compelling presentation of theory (with succinct and illuminating references) and demonstrations of technique—and solid recommendations about technical approaches with specific aspects of s-m transference-countertransference—all hand-in-hand with case presentations that are written in the language of experience. And this: She clearly conveys her INTENTION to be helpful to your patients, and her judgment about technical approaches is clearly designed with what is best for the patient in mind—not just for what's best for the therapist (to modulate her anxiety). And what is b -- Fred L. Griffin, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alabama School of MedicineJane Hall's new book is a fine introduction to the psychotherapeutic process by a clear writer with a gift for teaching. While a major focus is on 'roadblocks' in therapy, the text and the examples range widely over all aspects of the process; and it is rich with these clinical examples. Written for the beginning therapist, the book nonetheless tackles complex issues of the practice of psychotherapy from the most traditional to the most contemporary. It is an excellent text for teacher and student alike.... -- Fred Pine, Ph.D., private practice, New York CityThis book was clearly written by a seasoned, dedicated clinician who has a very clear and coherent approach to work with an entire spectrum of patients who—while trapped in enduring patterns of relating to self and others and who hang on to their familiar manner of being as if their lives depended upon it—still "wish for something better." Hall has a strong, intelligent, sensible voice, and it is a voice of a veteran. The latter comes through loud and clear. Her explication of her work with (as she puts it) is "the most difficult roadblock of all...the need to hold on to internalized sadomasochistic object relationships" (p. 213) is exquisite. I have not seen elsewhere such a compelling presentation of theory (with succinct and illuminating references) and demonstrations of technique—and solid recommendations about technical approaches with specific aspects of s-m transference-countertransference—all hand-in-hand with case presentations that are written in the language of experience. And this: She clearly conveys her INTENTION to be helpful to your patients, and her judgment about technical approaches is clearly designed with what is best for the patient in mind—not just for what's best for the therapist (to modulate her anxiety). And what is best for the patient is that a place may be created in the consulting room in which the life of the patient's internal object world has a chance to become animated with the analyst/therapist, so that he/she has the possibility of discovering the road to (and the universe of) that "something better." -- Fred L. Griffin, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alabama School of MedicineJane Hall's new book is a fine introduction to the psychotherapeutic process by a clear writer with a gift for teaching. While a major focus is on 'roadblocks' in therapy, the text and the examples range widely over all aspects of the process; and it is rich with these clinical examples. Written for the beginning therapist, the book nonetheless tackles complex issues of the practice of psychotherapy from the most traditional to the most contemporary. It is an excellent text for teacher and student alike. -- Fred Pine, Ph.D., private practice, New York CityIn this highly readable, richly informative book Jane Hall considers those inner forces in both patient and therapist that can impede the therapeutic action of psychoanlaytic treatment. She emphasizes the complexity of these inner resistances and elaborates on their multiple determinants, particularly on the way in which attachment to pain-inducing caretakers may block the therapeutic path. Through numerous detailed verbatim accounts of interchanges between therapist and patient, she shows how, by drawing on transference and countertransference manifestations, these roadblocks may be understood and modified, even in the treatment of severely troubled patients and even in once or twice-a-week therapy, although not always! Indeed, this volume reminds us of how difficult such work can be, how much it demands of the therapist, and how even with the best of efforts, it may be impossible to bring the treatment of certain indivdiuals to as satisfactory a termination as one would hope for. Readers will appreciate Ms. Hall's candid accounts of a few of these less than successful therapeutic journeys that she or her colleagues have traveled . Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy should prove to be a valuable resource for experienced practioners as well as students and teachers. It offers guidance for the work at hand, while at the same time reminding us that each patient and therapist are unique and each therapeutic journey a one-of-a-kind experience in which the 'benign curiosity,' openess, empathy, flexible use of theory, creativity of the analyst and the provision of a safe therapeutic environment play an important role in the treatment outcome. -- Joyce Edward, CSW, BCD, co-editor of Fostering Healing and GrowthTable of ContentsChapter 1 Transference: Its Ubiquity and Utility Chapter 2 Countertransference Chapter 3 Tracking Transference: Connecting Now and Then Chapter 4 Inner Roadblocks Chapter 5 Attachment to Abuse Chapter 6 The Many Faces of Rage Chapter 7 Professional Dilemmas Chapter 8 Stalemates and Beyond Chapter 9 Light at the End of the Tunnel

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Book SynopsisDeals with obstacles in the mourning process as experienced in individual cases and in large groups, in life-threatening situations. This book describes the therapeutic tools that the author employed to achieve healthy outcomes. It focuses on various defenses, their function and importance, and on the difficulty of relinquishing them.Trade ReviewFrom the triple vantage points of individual grief, communal struggles with trauma, and societies existing under constant terror, Ilany Kogan offers a throbbing elucidation of mourning and defenses against it. A deft combination of experience-near voice, evocative story-telling, keen awareness of reality-based imperatives, and an unerring devotion to psychoanalytic theory and technique is Kogan's trademark. In a step-by-step fashion, she takes us on a sojourn where rupture and pain are, at times, responded to by loss of heart and psychic breakdown and, at other times, by resilience, imaginativeness, and creativity. Seamus Heaney's declaration that in writing poetry, the movement is 'from delight to wisdom,' has found its clinical counterpart in Kogan's impressive work! -- Salman Akhtar, MD, is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.For decades Ilany Kogan has devoted her professional life to studying adaptation and mal-adaptation following loss, especially loss associated with massive traumas. In this passionately and lucidly written book she describes societal mourning and illustrates its lasting effects, such as the unresolved mourning in Israel and Romania. She explores individual mourning as well, using patients' cases to tell moving stories that range from the person who responded to internal deadness with eroticism to another who was a replacement child. She includes a study of the life of Solomon Perel, the hero of the movie Europa, Europa whom I interviewed years ago and whom I consider a living monument, recalling both the horror of Nazism and the human resilience for survival. This excellent book can teach us many new nuances in the psychology of mourning, remind us of current losses in the age of terror, and induce in us a wish for a more peaceful world. It should be read not only by clinicians, but by anyone interested in a detailed exposure to conditions in which persons or societies are robbed of their ability and right to mourn. -- Vamik D. Volkan M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA and the author of Killing in the Name of Identity: Stories of Bloody Conflicts.Ilany Kogan has enriched our understanding of mourning in her remarkable new book. Continuing her psychoanalytic investigation of the psychic pain of Holocaust survivors and their children in her 1995 book The Cry of Mute Children, she has earned the gratitude of psychoanalysts everywhere with her new penetrating study of the universal struggle against mourning, our adaptations to this struggle, and its healthy and pathological consequences. She examines with fresh insight the questions of exactlywhat mourning is, how we deny it, and how we accept it. She has had the courage not only to conduct her analytic work in the midst of indescribable dangers, but to candidly acknowledge her own therapeutic limitations with some of her patients so that psychoanalysts everywhere can respond with their own experiences and increase our clinical knowledge. She traces the impact of unresolved mourning in both individuals and groups. One of the great strengths of this book is the author's extensive use of richly detailed clinical examples. She succeeds brilliantly in making the reader 'present' in her consulting room. One of the many benefits of reading this book will be the opportunity to witness the extraordinary courage of a gifted analyst who has manage -- Dale Boesky M.D., former editor-in-chief, Psychoanalytic Quarterly; training and supervising analyst, Michigan Psychoanalytic InstituteThis is an ambitious book, large in scope and large in its subject matter, but well worth reading in its entirety. . . . If we read this book as a form of enormously creative personal and professional autobiography, we will be richly rewarded with the fruits of an extraordinary significant personal contribution to our field. * The International Journal of Psychoanalysis *With admirable acumen and insight, Ilany Kogan writes of the enormous challenge mourning poses not only to the patient who has experienced trauma, but also to the psychoanalyst working with such a patient. Kogan's candor and courage to look at her own work as analyst and human being are admirable. She also goes a step further to apply what she has learned in the clinical analytic situation to the societal settings of her native traumatized Romania and her long-embattled home, Israel. Trauma abounds; torment and pain are enormous; they transport themselves from burdened victims and perpetrators to their descendents who then struggle with their parents' unfinished, interminable work of mourning. Kogan shows that in our efforts to help, even though there is much we can do, we must accept our and our profession's inevitable limitations. There is much to learn from this deeply feeling human being, thinker, and clinician. -- Henri Parens, MD, professor of Psychiatry, Thomas Jefferson University; training and supervising analyst (adult and child), Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, PA; author of Renewal of Life—Healing from the HolocaustIlany Kogan has enriched our understanding of mourning in her remarkable new book. Continuing her psychoanalytic investigation of the psychic pain of Holocaust survivors and their children in her 1995 book The Cry of Mute Children, she has earned the gratitude of psychoanalysts everywhere with her new penetrating study of the universal struggle against mourning, our adaptations to this struggle, and its healthy and pathological consequences. She examines with fresh insight the questions of exactly what mourning is, how we deny it, and how we accept it. She has had the courage not only to conduct her analytic work in the midst of indescribable dangers, but to candidly acknowledge her own therapeutic limitations with some of her patients so that psychoanalysts everywhere can respond with their own experiences and increase our clinical knowledge. She traces the impact of unresolved mourning in both individuals and groups. One of the great strengths of this book is the author's extensive use of richly detailed clinical examples. She succeeds brilliantly in making the reader 'present' in her consulting room. One of the many benefits of reading this book will be the opportunity to witness the extraordinary courage of a gifted analyst who has managed to achieve new psychoanalytic knowledge while living in the shadow of terror. -- Dale Boesky M.D., former editor-in-chief, Psychoanalytic Quarterly; training and supervising analyst, Michigan Psychoanalytic InstituteTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Revisiting defenses against pain and mourning Part 3 Obstacles to individual mourning Chapter 4 Forever young Chapter 5 Lust for love Part 6 Unresolved mourning and its bearing on society Chapter 7 Introduction Chapter 8 Romania and its unresolved mourning Chapter 9 From enactment to mental representation Chapter 10 Trauma, resilience and creative activity Chapter 11 On being a dead, beloved child Part 12 Obstacles to mourning in an age of terror Chapter 13 Who am I—Trauma and identity Chapter 14 The role of the analyst in the analytic cure during times of chronic stress Chapter 15 Working with Holocaust survivors' offspring in the shadow of terror Part 16 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisInjured Men is a unique casebook of clinical material pertaining to men who have sustained trauma. With the exception of those publications dealing with the military, clinical vignettes of traumatized individuals are overwhelmingly female. By comparison, little has been written about the plight of men. Injured Men begins to fill that void. Richly illustrated with both brief and extensively detailed analytic case reports, Injured Men describes the manifestations of such phenomena as physical and sexual abuse, unresolved grief, genocidal persecution, intergenerational transmission of trauma, and of course, combat. With his perspective on dissociation and dissociative disorders, Brenner also presents a traumatic pathway to the development of a masculine self in those with female bodies. In dealing with the long term effects of trauma, he advocates a pluralistic approach, which he demonstrates in the final chapter of this fascinating volume.Trade ReviewInjured Men is an extremely rich casebook of clinical material pertaining to men who have sustained trauma. By means of his evocative and genuine writing, Brenner guides us through the world of men who have been affected by sexual abuse, unresolved grief, genocidal persecution, intergenerational transmission of trauma, and combat. His pluralistic approach to the long-term effects of trauma is conceptually astute and reverberates with his humane sensibility.... -- Ilany Kogan, training analyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Society; author of The Struggle Against MourningWith an eye on the complex interplay between developmental processes and the psychic detours resulting from trauma, Ira Brenner takes on the elusive topic of what it takes to be a man and how manliness is threatened, eclipsed, reclaimed, and expressed under ordinary and extraordinary circumstances. He deftly weaves a tapestry of ideas blending individual dynamics, large group psychology, phenomenology of dissociation, Holocaust studies, Vietnam War experiences, and the psychosocial aftermath of September11th. The result is a book of rare intelligence, authenticity, and clinical wisdom... -- Salman Akhtar, MD, is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Before Ira Brenner, no other psychoanalytic investigator explored the severe early trauma leading to dissociative psychopathology as fully as it is described in this book. With lucid clinical illustrations, Injured Men: Trauma, Healing and the Masculine Self is destined to be a textbook for understanding and treating individuals who have been exposed to severe childhood traumas, are children of survivors, and have earlier traumas revived by more recent events.... -- Vamik D. Volkan M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA and the author of Killing in the Name of Identity: Stories of Bloody Conflicts.Table of Contents1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. On the Need to Be a Man: Traumatic Influences Chapter 4 2. Dissociation and Its Vicissitudes Chapter 5 3. Dissociation and the Enactment-Prone Patient Chapter 6 4. September 11 and the Analytic Process Chapter 7 5. A Time-Traveling Man Chapter 8 6. Echoes of the Battlefield Chapter 9 7. Forged in the Holocaust Chapter 10 8. Healing 11 Bibliography 12 Index 13 About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe Mind-Body Interface in Somatization addresses the underlying psychological and personality factors predisposing patients to experience somatization and somatizing syndromes. It is directed at the needs of the practicing medical, psychiatric, and psychological clinician.Trade ReviewThe authors tackle the complexity of somatization head on. Neuroplasticity, ego psychology, existential psychotherapy, and psychopharmacology are all given their due. Treatment recommendations are useful and solid. -- Walter A. Brown, M.D, Brown University and Tufts University School of MedicineThis is a much needed book on a long neglected topic. Somatization is a problem that has been well-described but poorly understood for many years. The book is illuminating. Jonathan Cole’s contribution, probably the last words he wrote for publication in his long life, is classic Cole: wise yet playful, cautious yet ready to take action, acknowledging uncertainty yet offering hope. It is so typical of him that his last statement in clinical psychopharmacology, a field he had founded 50 years before with a handful of others, was a thoughtful, provocative, nicely researched little essay concerning an area that few had thought about and about which only a little was known. -- J. Alexander Bodkin, MD, chief of the Clinical Psychopharmacology Research Program, McLean HospitalSomatization is an underappreciated aspect of medical care. This book addresses the need to weave the science and the art of medicine into a whole. Individuals are a complexity of physiologic and emotional interactions influenced by cultural expectations, societal norms, personal experiences, and spiritual orientation. The authors recognize this truth. This book challenges us to examine professional objectiveness and scientific certainty while remembering that there is a person within the patient that presents to the clinician. -- Bruce P. Bates, DO, Departments of Geriatric Medicine and Family Medicine, University of New England College of Osteopathic MedicineThe book itself is comprised of 11 chapters covering ideas about somatization from every conceivable aspect, whether conventional or unusual. Among those, there is a hankering after dialectical behaviour therapy in the management of chronic somatization. All of the chapters are well-written, clear, and reasonable. There are many discussions of related theoretical and social issues which offer thoughts for consideration in a broader focus. The book is nicely produced and easy to read. * The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry *Table of ContentsChapter 1 1: Somatization and the Power of Conventional Wisdom Chapter 2 2: Somatization and Its Discontents Chapter 3 3: A View from outside the Box Chapter 4 4: Ambivalence and Progressive Regression in Somatization Chapter 5 5: Perception and Multi-Level Perceptual Diagnosis Chapter 6 6: Dealing with Impasse Resistance Chapter 7 7: Cognitive Behavioral Treatments of Chronic Somatization Chapter 8 8: Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Chronic Somatization Chapter 9 9: The Situational Somatizing Patient in Treatment Chapter 10 10: Psychopharmacology and Somatization Chapter 11 11: Death or Transformation

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt is difficult to simultaneously deliver a meaningful narrative to a mixed audience of parents and professionals, but that is what the author has managed to do here. The short, pithy case vignettes drive home the author's points, which really add to the practicality of his smooth read. This book melts in your mouth. -- Steven G. Gray, PhD, American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology, author of The Maltreated Child: Finding What Lurks Beneath, University of the RockiDr. Becker-Weidman's book is an excellent guide for the therapist using the DDP approach. The core use of the sequential phases as an instructional tool makes the—sometimes intangible and abstruse—concepts a tangible and facilitative guide for the psychotherapist. -- Joseph J. McGuill, Villa Santa Maria, Inc.Table of Contents1 Foreword by Daniel A. Hughes 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 1. Introduction Chapter 4 2. First Things First Chapter 5 3. A Trauma and Attachment Perspective Chapter 6 4. Components of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Chapter 7 5. Phases Chapter 8 6. Primacy of Parents Chapter 9 7. Parents Are the Keystone Chapter 10 8. Conclusion and Summary 11 References 12 Index 13 About the Authors

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt remains the best work on literature and psychoanalysis, essential reading for anyone interested in pursuing the relations between the two or wanting to know about the possible effects of the French re-reading of Freud for a reading of literature. Year's Work in English Studies Even the strictest clinical focus could profit from these essays, since there is always more to be learned about the complexities of language and narrative form, the colors and shapes in the language of the self struggling free of its silences. Modern PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsForeword to Johns Hopkins EditionForeword to Yale French Studies EditionTo Open the QuestionChapter 1. The Practice of Reading: Psychoanalysis with LiteratureChapter 2. The Practice of Reading: Literature with PsychoanalysisChapter 3. The Practice of Writing and PsychoanalysisChapter 4. The Statue of Theoretical Discourse: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, LIteratureContributors

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Book SynopsisPlato’s Psychology, originally published in 1970 and reprinted in 1972, is still the definitive modern discussion of the nature and development of Plato’s concept of psyche. In a lengthy and detailed new introduction, T.M. Robinson surveys the scope and value of a number of contributions to Plato’s theory of psyche, individual and cosmic, that have appeared since 1970. He then offers his own ‘second thoughts’ on various aspects of the subject, revisiting inter alia such questions as the dating of the Timaeus, and the implication thereof, and the understanding and implication of the myth of the Politicus. Finally, he widens the whole discussion of Plato’s cosmic psychology to include an analysis and appreciation of the remarkably close relationship between much of Plato’s thinking about the universe and its origins and a good deal of twentieth-century theorizing, from Einstein to Hawking. (Phoenix Supplementary Volumes)

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