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Book SynopsisOverwhelmed is a helpful, positive guide to dealing with the challenges-both expected and unexpected-that accompany change. More than a discussion of turning points and transitions, it offers real-life examples and specific guidelines for responding constructively to all kinds of changes, welcome and unwelcome. Nancy K. Schlossberg shows readers how to evaluate each change and determine its affects, how to assess personal strengths and the support systems brought to the change, and how to pinpoint the best coping strategies for the situation.Trade ReviewFor the overwhelmed woman, time given to reading Overwhelmed will be well spent. The author has a rare gift: insight combined with clear, crisp writing. Her prescription for coping is mature, sympathetic, and-best of all-realistic. -- Ann McLaughlin, former Secretary of LaborSchlossberg's work represents an important and enormously helpful alternative to old-fashioned 'stage theories.' When you think you are having an 'age-thirty (or whatever) crisis,' there's nothing much you can do. When you realize that it isn't being thirty, or forty, or sixty that matters, but what is happening in your life, you can learn to cope with inevitable changes-and even thrive on them. This warm, wise book shows how. -- Carol Tavris, Ph.D., author of Anger: The Misunderstood EmotionFor better or worse, Americans are among the most mobile people in recorded history. Almost willy-nilly, they change their places of residence, occupations, schools, life styles, etc., at a dizzying pace. For those of us-and our name is legion-who at times feel overwhelmed by these unexpected and, more often than not, extremely painful disruptions in our hectic lives, Schlossberg's study of people in transition is just what the doctor ordered. She is a scholar in the best sense of the word, but wears her scholarship lightly, and her study is suffused with an appealing note of personal warmth and empathy too often lacking in works of this kind. I found her book instructive and personally very helpful, and I am pleased to recommend it enthusiatically. -- Rev. Msgr. George G. Higgins, adjunct lecturer, Department of Theology, Catholic University of AmericaSchlossberg comes to the subject with great professional competence and experience and presents readers with much-needed solutions. -- Gerard I. Nierenberg, author of The Art of Negotiating and The Complete Negotiator and president of the Negotiation InstituteTable of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 Part I: APPROACHING CHANGE Chapter 4 The Transition Process Chapter 5 Transitions: Their Infinite Variety Part 6 Part II: TAKING STOCK Chapter 7 TAKING STOCK of Your Situation Chapter 8 TAKING STOCK of Your Self and Supports Chapter 9 TAKING STOCK of Your Strategies Part 10 Part III: TAKING CHARGE Chapter 11 Your Action Plan for Mastering Change Chapter 12 TAKING CHARGE of Your Work Transitions Chapter 13 Profiting from Change

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Book SynopsisThis book is an ethnographic account of the practice of clinical psychology under the auspices of the reductionism of biomedicine. Sylvia Olney uses Peircean linguistic analyses to naturalize consciousness by validating the dimensions of mind and intention to restore psychotherapy to its place as a significant healing art.Trade ReviewThe conditions of psychotherapy have changed significantly in the biomedical era. This useful and thoughtful book explains how those changes work from the inside, and how they alter the moral climate of care itself. -- Tanya Luhrmann, Stanford UniversityDr. Olney has captured the fundamental contradictions within the system of capitalistic health care. The economic powerhouses of insurance and pharmacy companies now drive everything from diagnoses, to treatment plans, to the personal philosophies of the practitioners in the direction of profit rather than the direction of healthy patients/clients. The managed care and best practices required by insurance companies and supported by pharmaceutical companies selectively ignore large areas of psychological research while emphasizing brief and biologically-based treatments. Interestingly, Olney’s deeply probing interviews with mental health practitioners suggest that in spite of these powerful economic influences, a humanistic undercurrent continues to thrive as a kind of underground opposition. Her interviewees reveal their willingness to play the CBT/medication game for insurance reimbursement while believing that empathy, human connection, and self-awareness carry tremendous power for healing. The book provides a fascinating view of cynical practice being undermined by humanist care. -- Marsha Driscoll, Bemidji State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Ethnopsychiatry and Human Awareness Chapter 2: The Heart and Soul of the Matter Chapter 3: Attempts at Explanation Chapter 4: Getting by with a Little Help Chapter 5: Seeing through a Glass Darkly Chapter 6: Getting Real Chapter 7: Making Meaning out of Madness Chapter 8: Lower than Angels Bibliography Appendix About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe Family Emotional System: An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science, and Practice presents an ongoing dialogue among scientists, family investigators, and clinicians related to a natural systems view of the family and human behavior that has been occurring over several decades. The concept of the family as an emotional system, as defined in Bowen theory, is presented as the principal integrative concept underlying this dialogue and an effort to move toward a science of human behavior. As a natural system, the family forms the immediate and most important context for individual development, and may be the most central and important environment shaping brain development across the lifetime of the individual. This book explains how the family system can serve as an integrative framework within which specific factual discoveries and hypotheses from many areas of science can be brought together and understood as various manifestations of a coherent whole. The Family Emotional System proTrade ReviewThis collection of fine papers is an impressive collaboration of Bowen theory scholars and eminent scientists—such a credible and exciting contribution! A must read for any who seek to better understand human functioning, the family system and its connection to the natural and biological sciences. -- Jenny Brown, Family Systems Institute & Practice and author of Growing Yourself UpMurray Bowen developed a new theory of human behavior. It uses natural systems thinking to combine knowledge of man as a product of evolution with facts about human behavior derived from many disciplines. The book’s focus on the family emotional system as an integrative concept is precisely the right approach. Vigorous exchange between top-notch scientists and seasoned Bowen theorists/therapists has been happening for forty-odd years. Thank goodness this exchange has finally been reflected in a book. Each chapter by the scientists and Bowen theorists can stand alone, but the combination of authors from diverse fields makes for a very good read that generates a unique comprehension of the depth and breadth of Bowen family systems theory. -- Michael E. Kerr, Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, author of Family EvaluationTable of ContentsPart I Bowen Theory and the Family Emotional System Chapter 1 Toward a Science of Human Behavior Robert J. Noone and Daniel V. Papero Chapter 2 The Family Emotional System Daniel V. Papero Chapter 3 Multigenerational Family Emotional Process as a Source of Individual Differences in Adaptiveness Robert J. Noone Chapter 4 The Predictability of the Family Emotional System Randall T. Frost Chapter 5 The Family as an Emotional Unit Concept: Origins and Early History John F. Butler Part IIScientific Contributions to an Emotional Systems Perspective Chapter 6 Epigenetic Effects of Parental Care within and across Generations Frances A. Champagne and James P. Curley Chapter 7 Early Context-Dependent Epigenetic Modifications and the Shaping of Brain and Behavior David Crews and Robert J. Noone Chapter 8Nonhuman Primate Models of Family Systems Charles T. Snowdon Chapter 9 The Instinctual Foundations of Infant Minds: How Primary Affects Guide the Construction of Their Higher Cognitive Proclivities and Abilities Jaak Panksepp & Marina Farinelli Chapter 10 Evolution of Psychological Mechanisms for Human Family Relationship Mark V. Flinn Chapter 11 The Family System of a Social Wasp Raghavendra Gadagkar Chapter 12 Ants and Families LeAnn S. Howard and Deborah M. Gordon Part IIIExamples of the Influence of a Family Emotional Systems Perspective on Research and Practice Chapter 13 Emotional Systems and the Regulation of Reproduction with Ovulation as an Illustration Victoria Harrison Chapter 14 Mating and Parental Care: The Influence of Gender on the Primary Triangle Margaret G. Donley Chapter 15 Understanding Autonomic Physiology and Relationship Processes in High-Risk Families Elizabeth Skowron About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe Family Emotional System: An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science, and Practice presents an ongoing dialogue among scientists, family investigators, and clinicians related to a natural systems view of the family and human behavior that has been occurring over several decades. The concept of the family as an emotional system, as defined in Bowen theory, is presented as the principal integrative concept underlying this dialogue and an effort to move toward a science of human behavior. As a natural system, the family forms the immediate and most important context for individual development, and may be the most central and important environment shaping brain development across the lifetime of the individual. This book explains how the family system can serve as an integrative framework within which specific factual discoveries and hypotheses from many areas of science can be brought together and understood as various manifestations of a coherent whole. The Family Emotional System proTrade ReviewThis collection of fine papers is an impressive collaboration of Bowen theory scholars and eminent scientists—such a credible and exciting contribution! A must read for any who seek to better understand human functioning, the family system and its connection to the natural and biological sciences.— -- Jenny Brown, Family Systems Institute & Practice and author of Growing Yourself UpMurray Bowen developed a new theory of human behavior. It uses natural systems thinking to combine knowledge of man as a product of evolution with facts about human behavior derived from many disciplines. The book’s focus on the family emotional system as an integrative concept is precisely the right approach. Vigorous exchange between top-notch scientists and seasoned Bowen theorists/therapists has been happening for forty-odd years. Thank goodness this exchange has finally been reflected in a book. Each chapter by the scientists and Bowen theorists can stand alone, but the combination of authors from diverse fields makes for a very good read that generates a unique comprehension of the depth and breadth of Bowen family systems theory. -- Michael E. Kerr, Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, author of Family EvaluationTable of ContentsPart I Bowen Theory and the Family Emotional System Chapter 1 Toward a Science of Human Behavior Robert J. Noone and Daniel V. Papero Chapter 2 The Family Emotional System Daniel V. Papero Chapter 3 Multigenerational Family Emotional Process as a Source of Individual Differences in Adaptiveness Robert J. Noone Chapter 4 The Predictability of the Family Emotional System Randall T. Frost Chapter 5 The Family as an Emotional Unit Concept: Origins and Early History John F. Butler Part IIScientific Contributions to an Emotional Systems Perspective Chapter 6 Epigenetic Effects of Parental Care within and across Generations Frances A. Champagne and James P. Curley Chapter 7 Early Context-Dependent Epigenetic Modifications and the Shaping of Brain and Behavior David Crews and Robert J. Noone Chapter 8Nonhuman Primate Models of Family Systems Charles T. Snowdon Chapter 9 The Instinctual Foundations of Infant Minds: How Primary Affects Guide the Construction of Their Higher Cognitive Proclivities and Abilities Jaak Panksepp & Marina Farinelli Chapter 10 Evolution of Psychological Mechanisms for Human Family Relationship Mark V. Flinn Chapter 11 The Family System of a Social Wasp Raghavendra Gadagkar Chapter 12 Ants and Families LeAnn S. Howard and Deborah M. Gordon Part IIIExamples of the Influence of a Family Emotional Systems Perspective on Research and Practice Chapter 13 Emotional Systems and the Regulation of Reproduction with Ovulation as an Illustration Victoria Harrison Chapter 14 Mating and Parental Care: The Influence of Gender on the Primary Triangle Margaret G. Donley Chapter 15 Understanding Autonomic Physiology and Relationship Processes in High-Risk Families Elizabeth Skowron About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis book utilizes the profound insights present in spiritual literature for psychotherapeutic use. Jewish spiritual writings are a rich source that encompasses three thousand years of scholarship and experience dealing with emotional problems. These insights can benefit all clients, not only those nurtured in the Jewish tradition.Trade ReviewA small, 87-page book packed with insight regarding old and new philosophies about a vast array of mental health issues as viewed by Judaic thought. The prominent difference of this volume from other discussions regarding Judaism and psychotherapy is its valuable foundation in spiritual thinking as contrasted to traditional psychologyical thinking....Rabinowitz's book is timely, valuable, and, although specific to Judaism, very beneficial for all psychotherapists....The book allows the reader to examine his or her own religious views in a nothreatening, literature-based, historically accurate manner. * PsycCRITIQUES *Table of ContentsChapter 1 1.Introduction and Brief History 2 2.Judaic Psychotherapy 3 3.Principles of Judaic Spiritual Psychotherapy 4 4.Methodology 5 5.Meditation: The Judaic View 6 6.Forgiveness: Critique of the "Sunflower" 7 7.Conclusion: Value in Psychotherapy

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Book SynopsisDr. Joel Kotin gives numerous examples of common situations and problems that therapists regularly encounter and then tells the reader how to approach them.Trade ReviewAs the commercial says, 'I like it.' It spells things out in a clear, understandable way—quite without jargon. It should be helpful to beginners and would make an excellent text from which to teach. -- Richard P. Fox, M.D.This book contains much of the common sense and the uncommon sense of the therapeutics encounter. Through his lucid, organized, and compassionate approach, Kotin effectively guides the beginning therapist around the shoals that we are all most likely to founder on. Moreover, the book is an invaluable source for anyone teaching dynamic psychotherapy. By not oversimplifying, or trying to force resolutions where none may exist, Kotin provides a rationale for clinical work that brings a rare wisdom to the field. -- Morton Shane, M.D.Almost four decades have passed since my friend Dr. Robert Wallerstein and I published The Teaching and Learning of Psychotherapy. Joel Kotin's work goes beyond our beginning and helps students to get started. He then goes far beyond his teachers. This important work should reach every beginning therapist. -- Rudolf Ekstein, Ph.D.A work of great warmth and wisdom that welcomes the reader new to psychotherapy. Dr. Kotin offers a practical approach that respects the individuality of each therapist as well as the nuances in such a complex field. This is the book and the teacher we all wish we had encountered as we were getting started. -- R. James Perkins, M.D.

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Book SynopsisA 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.

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Book SynopsisRedecision therapy has roots in transactional analysis, and Gestalt therapy. This work presents a action-oriented treatment model created by the authors in the 1960s built around contracting for change, insisting on a language of self-responsibility, enacting change within the therapy session, and encouraging action outside the therapy session.

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Book SynopsisDr. Seruya orients mental health professionals to brief therapy in general and to relevant elements of self psychology in particular, identifying new metaphors to form a conceptual bridge from traditional theories and strategies to a patient-centered experience encouraging focus on symptoms and rapid behavioral change.

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Book SynopsisPeer counseling is the process by which an individual gives nonjudgmental, nondirective support to a peer who is experiencing a personal crisis. It is short-term, often done by telephone, and provided by a lay person rather than a professional therapist.Trade ReviewA Guide to Peer Counseling is an invaluable tool for any mental health professional who is involved in training lay persons to do peer counseling. Based in the actual peer counseling experience of the author, the information and direction of the training will make for a better outcome for trainees than those books based solely on theoretical assumptions. -- Jean Williams, Ph.D., executive director, Women's Center of Wake County, Raleigh, North CarolinaMrs. Cox has written an insightful guide for the serious peer counselor. She offers practical advice from the perspective of an experienced volunteer who understands the challenges faced by lay persons providing counseling. This book belongs on the bookshelves of all peer counselors and the agencies that utilize their invaluable services. -- Jeffrey C. Holden, Ph.D., consulting psychologist, Murdock Center, State of North Carolina

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Book SynopsisTeases out and examines the therapist's role in the divorce. The author challenges recommending appropriate interventions for sustaining the therapeutic relationship at whatever stage termination is threatened, be it right at the outset, during the honeymoon phase, in the face of the first treatment crisis, or later still.Trade ReviewDr. Herbert Strean shares the thoughtful insights of an experienced and sensitive clinician about how we inadvertently push our patients out of treatment at each stage of the process from the first phone call on. Even the most seasoned of us will learn more about what we are doing—to the benefit of our case loads to be sure, but, more important, to the benefit of our patients. -- Betram P. Karon, Michigan State UniversityDr. Strean's heartfelt, clinically expert conviction that preventing premature termination is essential in promoting healing stands in refreshing contrast to the prevailing managed care view that no psychotherapeutic process can be too brief. -- Gerald Schames, Smith College School of Social WorkHerbert Strean has a knack for tackling the most significant problems in the practice of psychotherapy and coming up with clear, pragmatic solutions. We know that the patient dropout rate is very high, and in this volume Dr. Strean analyzes the many reasons therapists lose clients, often before treatment has really begun. Using copious clinical vignettes and drawing on up-to-date psychodynamic concepts, he steers clinicians through the shoals of patients' ambivalence, resistance, and negative transference, as well as their own counterresistance and countertransference. The book's unadorned, jargon-free writing and abundant clinical wisdom make it a pleasure to read and an invaluable aid to both helping and keeping our patients. -- Stanley B. Messer, Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology

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Book SynopsisKaren Weinberger and her colleagues warn clinicians that adapting to the rule of managed health care is inevitably accompanied by a gradual shift in professional ethics and values. The authors discovered how they had unknowingly transformed themselves in both obvious and subtle ways that touched their practice, teaching, and supervision.

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Book SynopsisFrom memory recovery to relaxation training, from cognitive restructuring to empathic reflection, the interventions are based less on the theoretical preconceptions of the therapist and more on the problems and desires of the patient. This work offers a way of tailoring each clinical encounter to the needs of the particular patient.

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Book SynopsisA well-written and valuable resource for both grievers and the mental health professionals who help them, this book provides hope for transformational grief and the tools to forge that outcome.Trade ReviewThis book offers us a highly compelling and credible account of the human capacity to grow from the adversity of grief. It maps a sophisticated journey that can lead us from our most searing losses into unusual strength of character and conviction previously unknown to us. Both poignant and practical, this clearly written book provides solid, compassionate company for grievers and helpers alike. -- Gina O'Connell Higgins, Ed.D, author, Resilient Adults: Overcoming a Cruel PastThis book is like feeling the steady hand of a warm, compassionate friend who will walk with you through every step—all the way from surviving the agony of your loss, helping you cope, recovering, and eventually finding new meaning and purpose in your life. -- Al Siebert Ph.D., author of The Survivor PersonalityIn recent years, there has been a change from understanding the ways that individuals cope with grief to seeing the ways that grief changes people. In this wonderful book, Jozefowski offers sage advice and inspiration to both counselors and grieving persons that will help them grow even in the midst of loss. -- Kenneth Doka, Ph.D., author, Spirituality and GriefThis is an inspirational book for psychotherapists, physicians, clergy, and all of us who must learn to keep living when someone we love has died. Dr. Jozefowski teaches us that grief is not about letting go but making contact: with our loved one, emotions, self, community, values, and hopes. She and her patients show us that these connections can be transforming and, like the Phoenix, can permit one of our saddest moments to become an occasion for rebirth. -- Nicholas A. Covino, Psy.D., Harvard Medical School

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Book SynopsisThis books offers guidelines to enhance the clinician's ability to conduct an effective first session. Armstrong identifies eight essential tasks of the first session, (including, for example, an atmosphere of safety, patient assessment, the contract, and transition), and demonstrates the steps he takes to accomplish them.Trade ReviewThe first session of psychotherapy is crucial. It sets up expectations for the kind of treatment that is to follow, and if not well conducted, it may be the last session. Challenging experienced therapists to examine their own habits, Peter Armstrong also guides beginners through the opportunities and pitfalls of this surprisingly neglected subject. From the first words spoken by the therapist through fees, legal issues, the various kinds of assessment, to the offer of a second appointment, he discusses all of the practicalities from a psychodynamic perspective. He focuses on creating an atmosphere of safety that will facilitate exploration of the patient's experience and transference. -- George Pigman, Ph.D., training and supervising analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los AngelesWith rare teaching ability, Dr. Armstrong explicates how the psychotherapist approaches the first session, but this book is as much about the rationale for and substance of the psychoanalytic attitude. A must-read for beginning therapists or those interested in beginning psychotherapy themselves. -- Helen Desmond, Ph.D., past president an dtraining and supervising analyst, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and InstituteDespite the fact that every clinician has conducted many first sessions, until now there has been no definitive book on the subject. Dr. Armstrong has ably filled that vacuum. Buttressed with sound theoretical underpinnings and clear clinical illustrations, he covers everything from the therapist's first words to transference and countertransference phenomena, resistances and counterresistances, arrangement of the office, establishing fee schedules, and much more. All clinicians will welcome this very readable book. It is highly recommended, particularly for those who want to help their patients stay in treatment—and that is just about all of us. -- Herbert S. Strean, D.S.W., Rutgers University; director emeritus, New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training

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Book SynopsisThe defiant child presents a challenge to the therapist's patience as well as to his skill. To help clinicians grow in both, this skillfully written volume by Dr. John B. Mordock draws on more than twenty-five years of experience with troubled children and their families.Trade ReviewWhile recent psychological literature emphasizes family therapy, most counselors spend a great deal of their time counseling children alone. Mordock helps them to consider whether individual or family therapy is the best route for a particular child, and offers proven principles and methods for them to help troubled children in a variety of situations. He provides numerous counseling dialogues between an adult and a child, many of them interchanges with aggressive-defiant children, the most difficult to counsel. * Adolescence Magazine *Mordock uses his wealth of experience to produce a well-written, well-organized, and easy-to-read volume that focuses heavily on understanding and producing therapeutic verbal encounters with children. * Contemporary Psychology *John Mordock has written a book that will be helpful to parents, relatives, foster, and adoptive parents—those who will be in a position to refer a troubled child for counseling, and the many persons ranging from psychologists, school staff, nurses, child care agency workers, and others who, as part of their work, assist troubled children every day. -- William Van Ornum, Ph.D., Marist College

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Book SynopsisOnce confined to crisis situations, telephone contact now serves a multitude of therapeutic functions. In this book, Dr. Joyce K. Aronson examines the practical, theoretical, and technical implications of the increasing use of the telephone, and identifies the rich and complex issues that emerge from such scrutiny.Trade ReviewPsychotherapy is, above all, about communicating with our patients. Dr. Joyce Aronson provides us with a breakthrough contribution on a frequently used pervasive instrument in our work: the telephone. There are few, if any, guidelines on the many issues involved when we use the telephone with our patients. This volume broaches many of the practical, subtle, and often complex dimensions of routine contacts, doing psychotherapy, dealing with special populations, crisis intervention, and legal issues, when we employ the telephone for therapeutic contact. I believe I speak for most clinicians in saying that some of our most perplexing and difficult times with patients occur on the phone. This book will be of tremendous help to practitioners in an area that has up to now been uncharted. -- Edward J. Khantzian, M.D., Harvard Medical SchoolHere it is! The admission that psychotherapy is done on the telephone. The decision to meet a patient's need for telephone contact is no longer considered a sin of gratification. Rather, this book demonstrates the usefulness of telephone contact in many circumstances, including geographical moves, hospitalization, business travel, crises of aloneness, suicidality, fear of intimacy, and addiction. Abundant clinical examples and a self-preservative chapter on legal and ethical issues further enrich this timely book. Telepsychotherapy is tailor-made for our highly mobile society in the global economy of the twenty-first century. -- co-director, International Institute of Object Relations Therapy, Jill Scharff, M.D., co-director, International Institute of Object Relations TherapyFreud's bypass of face-face contact with his patients via the use of the couch has found a new and uncanny counterpart in the contemporary patient's communicating via telephones, answering machines, fax, e-mail, and so on. Previously restricted to an occasional refueling device, the use of the telephone has blossomed into a clinical diversity of astonishing range, including crisis intervention, long-term psychotherapy, long-distance psychotherapy, and even psychoanalysis. This remarkable book by Joyce Aronson helps us think in new ways, heightens our empathy with our patients' need for distance contact, and adds to our clinical armamentarium. A superb addition to the literature indeed! -- Salman Akhtar, MD, is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Book SynopsisIssues such as the superviseeOs internalizations of the supervisor, impasses, gender roles, personal styles, and different needs of the supervisor and supervisee are opened up in this wide-ranging, timely book.

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Book SynopsisDescribes the links between crisis and personality style, and offers a plan for approaching cases with these connections in mind. This book discusses ways to help patients learn coping strategies, modify enduring attitudes, and improve their relational patterns. It outlines the history of brief dynamic psychotherapy.Trade ReviewThe advancement of psychotherapy as a scientific discipline and clinical art requires the kinds of incisive analyses undertaken by Dr. Mardi Horowitz and his collaborators. Their work is thought-provoking and exemplifies the directions in which the field must move. -- Hans H. Strupp, Ph.D., Vanderbilt UniversityDr. Horowitz and his colleagues have made a significant addition to the literature on brief psychotherapy. The initial chapter reviewing historical developments is not only an excellent summary of current psychotherapeutic techniques, but it provides a fitting background to the authors' own unique concerns with tailoring brief therapy to the individual patient's personality configuration. This is a book from which all psychotherapists will profit, whether they are budding beginners or in the full flower of a successful career. -- John C. Nemiah, M.D., Harvard Medical School; psychiatrist-in-chief, Beth Israel Hospital

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Book SynopsisThrough case histories Seinfeld illustrates his way of entering into the patientOs internal world. By helping patients understand the transference of their internal objects, they begin to understand their own experience of self and others, which leads to character change.Trade ReviewJeffrey Seinfeld offers a clearly written, engaging, and much needed exploration of the work we all encounter in the clinical setting—that of the negative therapeutic reaction. Ongoing work with 'difficult' patients is rarely explored in such a thorough, readable, and theoretically grounded way. Seinfeld provides a careful deconstruction of cases many would consider to be beyond the scope of our psychotherapeutic paradigm: patients for whom action is more accessible than verbalization. In this way he encourages a great optimism about who is actually amenable to treatment. Through clinical vignettes he brings to life the sense of futility these cases can evoke, a feeling familiar to the beginning therapist as well as to the senior clinician. Seinfeld provides an array of paths to achieving the holding function he believes is necessary to traverse these prolonged therapeutic impasses. -- Carol Wachs, Psy.D., co author of Parent Therapy, A Relational Alternative to Working with ChildrenReading A Primer of Handling the Negative Therapeutic Reaction is like having a private supervisory consultation with the leading authority on the topic, Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld. Using a question and answer format, this clinical social work scholar and charismatic proponent of the British School of Object Relations elucidates the negative therapeutic reaction by providing a rich clinical dialogue, complete with practical suggestions for intervention and management of untenable countertransference reactions. An outstanding introduction to object relations, this book explicates the essential clinical concepts and their treatment application. -- Carol Tosone, Ehrenkranz School of Social Work, New York UniversityIn A Primer of Handling the Negative Therapeutic Reaction, Seinfeld does more than discuss working with resistance in difficult patients. He weaves in essential pearls from old masters of the therapeutic art such as Klein, Anna Freud, Fairbairn, Jacobson and Searles, and presents an overall model for working with character defenses. He addresses in a very practical way the process of change in therapy. Patients and clinicians alike often revert to the fundamental question: Understanding is fine, but how can therapy lead to change? Seinfeld provides a series of rich clinical examples, including some with children, of working toward the kind of character change that can turn a patient's life around. These case histories illustrate his style of entering into the patient's internal world from the vantage point of focusing on the transference. Then, and only then, can the understanding of the patient's internal objects and how they determine the patient's current experience of self and others lead to character change. -- Frank Yeomans, Ph.D., Weill Medical College of Cornell University

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the psychoanalytically informed understanding, recognition, and treatment of severe psychological trauma. It goes beyond the limited notion of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and addresses the issues associated with problems ranging from physical and sexual abuse to genocidal persecution.Trade ReviewThis dynamic and passionate book brilliantly draws the reader into the chaotic and dreadfully injured world of those of our patients who have suffered unspeakable traumas and personality fragmentation. Brenner's evocative and genuine writing style guides one in a deeply disturbing journey, which is so intense it is at times necessary for even the experienced clinician to take a break. Gently and patiently he provides solid benchmarks for the clinician and unfailing hope and compassion for the patients. His dissertation on self disclosure and activity of the analyst is a gem in its own right. Brenner is a leader of a new breed of psychoanalysts who are flexible and open in their theoretical and clinical models and insist on keeping the patients' needs at the center of the treatment, in the best Hippocratic tradition. This is destined to be a classic. -- Stuart W. Twemlow, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Kansas School of MedicinePsychic Trauma is conceptually astute, clinically sensitive, and—that all too rare attribute—it is a pleasure to read. Brenner's lucid exploration of the nuances of intergenerational trauma and Dissociative Identity Disorder is illustrated with rich clinical material and informed by his humane sensibility to the therapist's counter-transference issues. This book is essential reading for all mental health clinicians. -- Peter Loewenberg, PhD, dean and chair of the Education Committee of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and professor of history and politA fascinating exploration of the field of trauma, its dynamics, symptoms and treatment. Through this analytic journey, readers can observe the impact of overwhelming life experiences on those affected by severe early sexual abuse, as well as on those marked by the genocidal persecution of the Holocaust. This is a fine fusing of psychodynamic thinking with interactive and neurological approaches that yields an integrative perspective for a richer understanding of trauma. -- Ilany Kogan, training analyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Society; author of The Struggle Against MourningDr. Brenner has written a path-breaking and pioneering book, which creates a theoretical and clinical model for the understanding and treatment of severely traumatized patients, whose symptoms are of such gravity that they were hitherto considered unsuitable for psychoanalytic treatment. The book studies the architecture of the human mind and its dynamic processes through case presentations of severely traumatized patients. With each chapter another powerful drama unfolds in front of the reader—its plot being life and transference re-enactments of traumatic neuroses. Dr. Brenner is a passionate and empathic observer whose clinical case studies allow for insight of exceptional depth. He is a careful chronicler of his patients' evolving stories and a powerful facilitator of their treatments. The book presents a variety of traumatized patients, such as victims of incest, of sexual abuse during childhood, and with Holocaust survivors. Dr. Brenner carefully avoids any equations and leaves it to his readers to find resonances between the different classes of 'unmetabolized introjects' of severe trauma. -- Dori Laub, MDTable of ContentsChapter 1 An Effect on Development: Trauma and Dissociation Chapter 2 A Longstanding Secret: Mother-Adult Daughter Incest and "The Confusion of Tongues" Chapter 3 An Elusive Manifestation and an Attempt to Study It Chapter 4 The Lifelong Persistence of Symptoms: Returning to the Fire Chapter 5 Intergenerational Transmission: Barbed Wire in the Soul Chapter 6 An Effect on Development: Unresolved Grief and the Manic Defense Chapter 7 The Analyst's Own Trauma: Anonymity and Its Discontents Chapter 8 Falling Asleep on the Job: Facilitation of the Patient's Process or the Analyst's Resistance? Chapter 9 Can the Length of Treatment Be Shortened? A Psychoanalytic View of E.M.D.R

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Book SynopsisOffers a historical overview of transference, countertransference, and the therapeutic alliance. This book includes cases which graphically demonstrate how transference is addressed in psychotherapy and focuses on projective identification and enactment.Trade ReviewDrs. Goldstein and Goldberg distill the essential elements of classic transference and trace its evolution to contemporary theory and practice. The authors present a thorough, lucid, and succinct understanding of transference, which will be extremely useful for students as well as seasoned practitioners. Using the Transference in Psychotherapy makes a unique and exceptional contribution to the field of psychodynamic psychotherapy. -- Aimee G. Nover, training and supervising analyst, Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis; academic chair, Clinical and Social Work InTable of ContentsChapter 1 The Old Model of Transference Chapter 2 The New Model of Transference Chapter 3 Countertransference Chapter 4 The Therapeutic Alliance Chapter 5 The Old vs. the New Chapter 6 The Transference in Pyschotherapy Chapter 7 The Continuum of Psychotherapy Chapter 8 Projective Identification, Enactment, and Transference Chapter 9 Love for the Therapist: Analytically Oriented Psychotherapy Chapter 10 Mr. B and Ms. G: Dynamically Oriented Psychotherapy Chapter 11 A Classical Case of Analytically Oriented Psychotherapy Chapter 12 Short Vignettes of Dynamically Oriented Psychotherapy Chapter 13 Fully Developed Transference and Its Resolution in Psychoanalysis

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Book SynopsisListening to the Melody of the Mind carefully scrutinizes the person of the psychodynamic therapist across the full range of necessary attributes. The theme can be summarized in the following question: what are the distinguishing characteristics of the competent psychodynamic psychotherapist?Trade ReviewThis book is not organized as a textbook, nor does it constitute a systematic course. But it does serve as a handbook that will guide the beginning psychotherapist with a firm hand and well-grounded footing. It treats the subject of becoming and being a psychotherapist with a down-to-earth pragmatism that will be of enormous help to those who are considering such a career, either for the first time or as a career change. For the senior clinician, reading this volume will act as a gratifying reminder of difficult battles won and lost in the career of professional psychotherapy. Brauer and Faris provide an antidote to the contemporary literature that is weighted more toward the evocative and process-oriented aspects of the work, a perspective which is much more difficult for the beginner to grasp and integrate. The authors thus illustrate the practical value of an approach that is denotative, specific, and concrete. -- Michael N. Fulco, private practice, neuropsychology and psychoanalytic psychodiagnosticsThis is a book that pulls no punches. The authors have a clear view of what it takes to become a good-enough psychotherapist. They have an equally clear view of why many clinicians do not become adequate psychotherapists, why many treatments falter, and most importantly of what does and does not constitute helpful psychotherapy. -- Graham S. Gibbard, clinical psychologist, ret., Yale School of MedicineThe twenty-four chapters of this slim volume are a powerful introduction to psychotherapy, and will be a valuable resource for teachers and supervisors in grabbing and holding the attention of harassed, distractible students.... The authors draw on their rich experience to focus not on a 'how-to' approach, but on the person of the therapist and on the cumulative poise and wisdom that develop in the clinician’s personal therapy or analysis, extended study, extensive practice, and thoughtful reflection. This is a fresh, forthright account of a life dedicated to the study and advancement of psychotherapy. * Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association *This is a wonderful book. It is well written and easy to read with extensive coverage of the clinical experience in psychodynamic psychotherapy...This is an outstanding text for psychiatric residents, clinical psychology interns and post-graduate clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, and APRNs. -- Theodore F. Mucha, The Institute of Living, Hartford HospitalTable of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Part I. Introduction Chapter 3 1. Two Minds Establish a Psychotherapy Chapter 4 2. How the Talking Cure Works Chapter 5 3. When the Therapist Is Good Enough Chapter 6 4. When the Therapist Isn't Good Enough Chapter 7 5. Authenticity Part 8 Part II. The Necessary Clinical Knowledge Chapter 9 6. Adequate Theoretical/Conceptual Frameworks Chapter 10 7. Multiple Points of View Chapter 11 8. Supervised Experience in Diagnosing and Treating Chapter 12 9. Spectrum Disorders—Schizophrenia, Mood Disorders Chapter 13 10. Disorders of the Borderline Syndrome Chapter 14 11. Coordinated Split Treatment Part 15 Part III. The Nature of the Clinical Experience Chapter 16 12. Patient-Therapist motivations for Psychotherapy Chapter 17 13. Empathy and Therapeutic Tact Chapter 18 14. How the Therapist's Mind Works Chapter 19 15. Cognitive Style and the Therapeutic Alliance Chapter 20 16. Addressing the Patient's Need to Fight Chapter 21 17. The Place of Dreams in the Therapeutic Process Chapter 22 18. Psychopharmacology and the Complexity of Psychodynamics Part 23 Part IV. The Challenges of the Clinical Experience Chapter 24 19. Countertransference and Rescue Fantasies Chapter 25 20. Feelings Chapter 26 21. Negative Therapeutic Reactions Chapter 27 22. People Psychotherapy Probably Can't Help Chapter 28 23. Rarely Encountered Disorders Chapter 29 24. Non-empirical Psychotherapists Part 30 Closing Comments

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an eminent basic psychoanalytic text—based on a case history—by an empathic, classical analyst, working with a generous, interesting patient. Both beginners and experienced analysts can profit from it. Volkan also succeeds in showing the importance of transgenerational transmission and its power in creating symptoms and personality traits. -- Tomas Böhm M.D., Swedish Psychoanalytic SocietyVamik Volkan is renowned for bringing his psychoanalytic knowledge and insight to problems on a world scale. Here he applies his gifts to the microcosm of an individual psychoanalysis, the story of two people wrestling with the demons of one man's past to achieve his personal liberation and rebirth. Readers of all kinds will be moved and enlightened by the access Volkan offers to the process. Professional readers at all levels of experience can learn here from a master craftsman about technique, the true application of empathy, and the personal grit demanded of the analyst. The innovative structure of the book provides a sophisticated and sensitive interlocutor in J. Christopher Fowler, who speaks for the reader to enhance our understanding of Volkan's thoughts, feelings, and choices. -- Kerry Kelly Novick, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, author of "Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work"Volkan and Fowler have given us a gem of a story and a rare opportunity to slow it down and examine the inner workings of a successful psychoanalysis. With Fowler as interlocuter, we are with the analyst as he hears the patient's material, notices what goes through his mind, lets his feelings inform him, speaks and then listens to what comes back. We feel an accruing appreciation for the deep historicity of human lives and the intertwining of technique and relationship in the consulting room. Like the patient and the analyst, we come away from this encounter profoundly enriched, not only by our renewed understanding of the work of a clinical psychoanalysis—its pulse, pain and beauty—but also by the joy of it as well. -- M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, ABPP, Austen Riggs CenterTable of ContentsChapter 1 1. Dr. Schreber's Shadow Chapter 2 2. A Boy in a Mailbox Chapter 3 3. Inky Messes Chapter 4 4. Pineapple Upside-down Cake Chapter 5 5. Madonna and the Dead Child Chapter 6 6. Shrinking the Torture Chamber Chapter 7 7. Finding and Letting Go a Warm Breast Chapter 8 8. Why Did Ataturk Encourage Turkish Women to Remove Their Veils? Chapter 9 9. Joining the Man's World Chapter 10 10. You Have Your Tools and I Have Mine Chapter 11 11. The Gulf War and the Mannequins of the American Civil War Chapter 12 12. Taking Stock Chapter 13 13. A Blue Ribbon Family Chapter 14 14. Years Later

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Talking with Patients, Sanford Shapiro, like the best of mentors, takes his readers along with him as he recounts his own experience in learning to be a therapist, psychoanalyst, and supervisor. Each experience of learning theory and therapeutic approach is explained through richly informative clinical examples. Shapiro has mastered the art of presenting complex concepts (ego psychology, self psychology, intersubjectivity, control mastery, and relational theories) in language that is deceptively simple and easy to comprehend. -- Joseph Lichtenberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Psychoanalytic Inquiry and Founder and Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy aThe revised edition of Talking with Patients: A Self Psychological View of Creative Intuition and Analytic Discipline is a gem of a book....The author's voice, resonant with compassion, empathy and intuition, mirror what transpires in psychoanalytic therapy....This book will be of interest to both those entering the field as well as seasoned practitioners who seek a jargon free and user friendly understanding of the practice of contemporary psychoanalysis. -- Marilyn S. Jacobs, Ph.D., 2009 * Ivision Of Psychoanalysis *A gem of a book....An addition to the literature that explains psychoanalysis clearly and concisely. We are indebted to Dr. Shapiro for taking the time to revise the previous edition. This book will be of interest to both those entering the field as well as seasoned practitioners who seek a jargon free and user-friendly understanding of the practice of contemporary psychoanalysis. * Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Newsletter *Sanford Shapiro talks with his patients, tells us how he talks to his patients, and demonstrates this in the way he talks with the readers of the book. He leads us through his analytic training and thereby illustrates the theoretical and treatment obstacles he has overcome as well as how his personal and professional experience led him to embrace relational self psychology. In a deceptively simple style that conceals his breadth of knowledge, creativity, and clinical acumen, Sanford Shapiro really teaches us how to listen to our patients in the sensitive, self-reflective way in which he does. -- Frank M. Lachmann, Founding Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity and author of Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on ETable of ContentsChapter 1 Chapter One: A Tale of Two Theories Chapter 2 Chapter Two: The Role of Theory Chapter 3 Chapter Three: The Role of Psychoanalysis Chapter 4 Chapter Four: Listening to Patients Chapter 5 Chapter Five: Technical Guidelines Chapter 6 Chapter Six: Resistance Chapter 7 Chapter Seven: Control Mastery Theory Chapter 8 Chapter Eight: Connecting with Despair Chapter 9 Chapter Nine: What Price Survival? Chapter 10 Chapter Ten: Patients Without Mercy Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven: Being with Patients Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve: Couples Therapy Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen: Working with Dreams Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen: Supervision Chapter 15 Chapter Fifteen: Hazards and Rewards

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBuilding on and synthesizing a half century of practice and personal analytic experiences with the likes of Balint, Winnicott, Bion, Milner, and Kohut, Howard Bacal offers us a broadly relational, process theory that addresses the heart of all psychotherapy and its supervision: the specifics of fittedness between patient and therapist as well as the unique match between therapist and supervisor. It is just this that was neglected for so long in psychoanalytic theory and practice that is now presented so clearly, and richly integrated with contemporary neuroscience and infancy research. -- Lewis Aron, PhD, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & PsychoanalysisThe Power of Specificity In Psychotherapy expands and deepens our understanding of therapeutic action and the change process. Specificity theory is as groundbreaking as it is orienting for the therapist or analyst who wonders why accepted doctrine and standardized technique so frequently do not work. Presented in a well-written, articulate, and accessible manner, Bacal's cutting-edge approach to reconceptualizing therapeutic interaction and to appreciating the uniqueness of relational engagement frees us from our reliance upon linear, codified, and objectivist methodologies aimed at therapeutic change. In true contextualist, process-based fashion, Bacal conveys a deep respect for the individual and the uniqueness of the dyadic engagement—without which patients, and therapists, are otherwise so often rendered less than human. Grounded in personal lived experience as well as current research, this must-read book is as immediately clinically useful as it is scholarly and expansive of theory. -- William J. Coburn Ph.D, Psy.D., editor, International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self PsychologyBacal's lucidly written and richly illustrated book is a pleasure to read. Both seasoned clinicians and beginners will find a freshness in his approach. Thinking about the specificity that emerges in the process of the dyad of patient and therapist or the triad of supervisor, supervisee, and patient makes each clinical exchange a unique opportunity for emotional growth and learning. -- Judy L. Kantrowitz, PhD, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Harvard Medical SchoolTable of Contents1 Preface 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 1. The Need for a New Theory of Therapy Chapter 4 2. The Use of Theory in Psychoanalytic Practice Chapter 5 3. How Specificity Theory Changes Clinical Practice Chapter 6 4. The Neurobiological Substrate of Specificity Theory Chapter 7 5. The Evolution Of Specificity Theory: A Professional and Personal Odyssey Chapter 8 6. The Foundational Perspectives of Specificity Theory Chapter 9 7. Clinical Consequences of the Shift from the Universality of Structure To the Specificity of Process Chapter 10 8. How Specificity Theory Alters Our View of Psychoanalytic Concepts And Principles and How This Affects Therapeutic Action Chapter 11 9. Correlates of Specificity Theory within Infant Research Chapter 12 10. The Power of Specificity in the Process of Supervision 13 References 14 Index 15 About the Authors

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Book SynopsisKeeping Couples in Treatment provides the theory and practice tools for the beginning to seasoned individual or couple therapist striving to keep couples in couple treatment and needing an in-depth method of assessment and treatment to accomplish the task.Trade ReviewKeeping Couples in Treatment: A Surface to Depth Approach offers an astute and sophisticated application of object relations concepts to couples. Bagnini’s approach is carefully articulated in ways that reveal the nuances and depth of a highly experienced, insightful master therapist. The book is finely balanced with presentation of theory illustrated by abundant case material that explicates the exact role and reasoning of a therapist who has successfully treated a wide range of couples in extreme distress. As a result, both the emerging as well as advanced couple therapists will find ample material to stimulate and expand their understanding of couple therapy. -- Judith Siegel Ph.D, New York UniversityThis is a warm-hearted book from a seasoned psychotherapist. In it Carl Bagnini assembles the knowledge and experience he has developed and accrued from a lifetime of psychoanalytically informed clinical practice. He offers novice and experienced therapists alike a window on the unconscious dynamics of couple relationships, and a means of making sense of the affective turmoil that motivate couples to seek help. Modest and humane, this book invites us to reflect on the totality of the encounter between couple and therapist in working with complex relationship problems. -- Christopher Clulow, Tavistock Centre of Couple Relationships, LondonThis is an excellent, closely observed, and humane exposition of the troubled couple relationship from an object relations psychoanalytic perspective. Keeping Couples in Treatment is of enormous value in a world in which the psychoanalytic understanding of the complexity of the couple relationships has still a long way to go. The book is suffused with clinical examples and one feels the privilege of being invited right into the author's consulting room, and his thinking within the session, to see him at work. He does not shy away from the complexity of couple dynamics, the sometimes disturbing impact on the therapist, and makes a stand for giving the psychoanalytic process time in a world where brief interventions that stay on the surface dominate, though are gradually being shown to be less effective. His capacity to move from surface to depth stems from a wealth of clinical experience and theoretical understanding that will guide practitioners at whatever level of experience and his book may be one they want to symbolically hold on to while weathering the storms of couple psychotherapy. -- Mary Morgan, MSc, British Psychoanalytic Society, Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, LondonThose readers who have had the good fortune to see him present his couple work, or respond to presentations, will recognize the voice that comes through strongly in this book: a voice that carries an enthusiastic and feeling-full engagement with the emotional struggles that couples bring to the consulting room and a clinical stance that values access to a flexible and well-articulated counter transference response. The book is an invitation to a dialogue with a wise, energetic, and self-questioning clinician – read it twice!Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Walk in the Woods—From Surface to Depth Chapter 3: Object Relations Couple Therapy Chapter 4: Types of Marriages Encountered in Couple Treatment Chapter 5: Couple Assessment and Treatment of Narcissistic Anxieties and Defenses Chapter 6: Infidelity and Intimacy—Working with the Extramarital Affair Chapter 7: Accessing the Internal World of Couples through Their Dreams Chapter 8: The Persecution of Divorce Chapter 9: Containment, Projective Process and the Couple: The Therapist’s Dream Chapter 10: The Couple Therapist’s Growth Experience Chapter 11: Are We There Yet? The Journey and Destination of Keeping Couples in Treatment References About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis approach to group work is worth taking a look at. It is a strength-focused model that incorporates the whole person and gets right to the essential issues while being efficient with group time. As a group facilitator using these tools I found it effective and honoring of clients' experiences. The use of body movement in group is also an essential element that helps the transformation process. -- Michael Koo, MA, Registered Clinical CounselorAlyson Quinn has put together a therapeutic technique which can help people to find their authenticity and live their lives free of the life imposed upon them by authority figures. By confronting the issues in a caring group setting true healing of one's life can occur and the mind, body, and spirit all benefit from the change. -- Bernie Siegel M.D., author of A Book of Miracles and Faith, Hope & HealingExperiential Unity Theory—AKA Soul Theory—allows the clients to transcend the confines of their intellects and go to deeper ground where profound change can take place. Quinn offers therapists and clients creative tools for uniting their psyche with their soul. An essential element if authentic transformation is to take place in the individual. Grounded in the roots of Jung, Erickson, R.D. Laing, Satir, and most importantly the traditional knowledge of First peoples, Experiential Unity Theory is a necessity for any group therapist who knows the habituated ways of doing group therapy are not leading to substantial change for the client. -- Crystal Allinott, MSW, PsychotherapistHow to unlock the body, mind, and emotions that have been frozen in depression, anxiety or other maladies? Alyson Quinn has found the way through movement, yoga, music, and self reflection. Her book describes a brilliant and holistic way to provide integrative healing. -- Cris Boyd, M.Ed., Registered Clinical CounselorTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of illustrations Chapter 1 A brief history of group therapy Chapter 2 Cultural influences impacting healing Chapter 3 Bridging Indigenous and Western healers Chapter 4 Experiential Unity theory and model Chapter 5 Facilitator skills and complementary components of the model Chapter 6 Examples of other tools and process Chapter 7 Conclusion References About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides information about domestic violence in todayâs society. Chapters explore the current landscape; issues of domestic violence in ethnic, racial, and cultural contexts; treatment issues; and intervention recommendations. Features include discussion questions, resources for domestic violence intervention, and legal precedents.Trade ReviewThis comprehensive volume offers the clinician a treasure trove of statistics, theory, insight and approaches to dealing with domestic violence. It is a must-have book for the clinician’s personal library. -- Athena A. Drewes, director of Clinical Training, Astor Services for Children and FamiliesJavier and Herron present a comprehensive text on the assessment and treatment of intimate partner violence. The book offers perspectives on the dynamics of abuse, with focused attention on diversity issues. The chapters are informative, practical, and easy to read and could be used in family violence and couples therapy courses. -- Gregory Canillas, PhD, The Chicago School of Professional PsychologyFor professionals who deal with domestic violence (DV), this volume is an ideal new tool. Its chapters describe evidence-based resources to understand, prevent, and reduce DV while also offering unusual features not found in other volumes, in a carefully crafted volume that is the state of the art in coping with DV. -- Harold Takooshian, PhD, past-president, Division of International Psychology, American Psychological AssociationThis edited book takes a unique perspective by dealing with topics that we do not usually see in the domestic violence field. Including disabilities, the intersection of ethnic and cultural factors, and treatment approaches from a trauma informed lens is an excellent combination to focus on that helps move the field forward. -- Robert Geffner, founding president, Institute on Violence, Abuse & Trauma, San Diego, CATable of ContentsChapter 1 Domestic Violence through the Trauma Lens: An Introduction, Rafael Art. Javier & William G. Herron Part I Conceptual Framework Chapter 2 Domestic Violence in All of its Contexts: An Issue for All Cultures, Races, Genders, and Classes, Rafael Art. Javier, William G. Herron, Gerald A. Pantoja, and Jennifer De Mucci Chapter 3 Aggression, Domestic Violence and Risk Factors: An Overview, William G. Herron & Rafael Art. Javier Chapter 4 Clinical Applications of the General Aggression Model to Domestic Violence, Wayne Warburton & Craig A. Anderson Chapter 5 Psychoanalytic Theories of Domestic Violence, William Herron & Rafael Javier Chapter 6 21st Century Medeas, Medusas, and Salomes: Violence Female Style, June Chisholm & Kristy Magee Part II Challenges and Interventions: Domestic Violence in Ethnic and Cultural Contexts Chapter 7 Family Maltreatment and Domestic Violence among Arab Middle Easterners: A Psychosocial, Cultural, Religious, and Legal Examination, Fatimah El Jamil & Naji Abi-Hashem Chapter 8 Crucial Considerations in the Understanding and Treatment of Domestic Violence in African Couples, Carolyn West Chapter 9 Understanding Domestic Violence within a Latino/Hispanic/Latinx Context: Environmental, Cultural, and Ecological Mapping as a Culturally Relevant Assessment Tool, Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers & Fred Millán Part III Treatment and Intervention Issues Chapter 10 Victimized and Disabled: Neuropsychological Issues at the Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity, Martha E. Banks Chapter 11 The Impact of Stigma on Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Implications for Counseling, Christine Murray & Allison Crowe Chapter 12 Essential Elements for an Effective Treatment Model of Domestic Violence in our Complex World: New Directions, Lenore Walker & Tara Jungersen Part IV Conclusion Chapter 13 The Complex Nature of Domestic Violence: Possible Causes and Solutions, Rafael Art. Javier, W. G. Herron, & Michelle Yakobson Appendix I Resources for Domestic Violence Intervention Appendix II Legal Precedents Glossary

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Book SynopsisFailure to Launch sets out to identify the underlying reasons for the failure to launch epidemic with adult children. Morever, it also lays out a treatment plan to help launch these children out of their parents' homes and into their future.Trade Review“Michael DeVine has done it! The challenges of a science/practitioner model have been one of the most hotly debated topics in psychology for decades—i.e. the rigors of academic science vs. the practice of psychology. Yet, in Failure to Launch, DeVine takes us on a journey to understand narcissism today by incorporating both the science and practice of psychology. Through DeVine’s honest and lucid writing style, he integrates counseling theory, family systems theory, psychiatry, and cutting edge neurological research. With ease, he guides us to an understanding of how his generation bridges the ‘Baby Boomers’ and the ‘Millenials.’ He writes with passion and verve. The case examples are wonderfully clear examples of real life happening all around us. This is a book for everyday people and those of us honored and privileged enough to work with narcissism as it is seen today through the eyes of a brilliant young mind—a mind willing to mirror the truth back to us, even when we prefer not to see it. This book is a must read for any professional with ‘stuck’ individuals, as well as their families who often unwittingly contribute to the ‘failure to launch.’” -- Larry Bugen, PhD, private practice, author of "Stuck on Me, Missing You: Getting Past Self-Absorption to Find Love"“The topic of dependent adult children is one that needs to be addressed. Clinicians who work with the young adult population have long been forecasting this generational issue of a 'failure to launch.' Thus, it is no surprise that Michael's work is filling a need for clinicians at just the right time. Michael has done his research. While this book looks at the sociological dynamics of the trend of overly dependent adult children, Michael also provides concrete, practical ways in which clinicians can address this problem. For this reason and many more, I strongly recommend Michael Devine's Failure to Launch.” -- Roger L. Johnson, CMAT, private practice, co-owner of onlyonebrain.comTable of ContentsForeword Introduction Section 1: Background & Theory Chapter 1: What is Failure to Launch? Chapter 2: 22 is the new 18 Chapter 3: So are they Narcissistic, entitled, or just a bunch of a$%hol&s? Chapter 4: The Loving Enabler Section 2: Underlying Mental Health Issues Chapter 5: Mood Disorders & Anxiety Chapter 6: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Chapter 7: Pervasive Developmental Disorders Chapter 8: Substance Abuse Section 3: Moving the Immovable Object Chapter 9: Why Change? What is My Motivation? Chapter 10: “What Do You Want To Do Now That You Are Grown Up?” Chapter 11: Career and Life Coaching Chapter 12: Empowering the parent Section 4: It’s Now Up to the Family Chapter 13: Preparing For Launch Chapter 14: The Launch Pad Chapter 15: Clearing the Tower Chapter 16: Houston …We Have a Problem Chapter 17: Houston…We Have Lift-Off Afterword

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDan Merkur, a practicing psychoanalyst in Toronto, has become one of the most important thinkers and prolific writers in the area of psychology and religion. While academic psychology of religion is increasingly preoccupied with cognitive neuroscience and brain studies, Merkur has steadfastly pursued his own path, which concentrates on sources in anthropology, ecstatic experiences, and the history of religions. This book, his latest of more than a dozen, is a worthy extension of his erudite interests, amounting to what Merkur understands as a ‘psychoanalysis of religion.’. . .This is the third book by Dan Merkur I have read closely, and I find his work to be very impressive. His reading of others is balanced and fair, he never ignores sources that disagree with his judgments, and his work in general is a significant contribution to the field. * RELIGION *With a background in both the history of religions and in clinical psychoanalysis, Dan Merkur provides a thoughtful and thorough survey of a century of psychoanalytic thinking about religion and spirituality. His discussions of prayer, mysticism, the numinous, contemplative practice, and the image of God culminate in a thoughtful reflection on the therapeutic relationship as a Buberian ‘I-Thou’ encounter in which trust, meaning, and faith can emerge. Designed primarily for clinicians, the volume will also interest scholars of religion. -- Diane Jonte-Pace, Santa Clara UniversityDan Merkur is one of those increasingly rare scholars who can insightfully and authoritatively relate the history of religions to the different schools of psychoanalysis, and vice versa. The present volume is a classic Merkurian performance, ranging from the Prophet Dance of the Beaver Indians of Canada and Freudian discussions of animism and cultural evolution, through the later ego and object relations psychologists and the Anglo-american conversion experience, to Bion’s mysterious O and the ‘negative way’ of Buddhist, Christian and Jewish mystical literature. A very impressive volume witnessing once again to the historical fact that robust comparativism never went away, nor should it. -- Jeffrey J. Kripal, PhD, Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism Table of ContentsPreface 1. Freud on Animism and Religion 2. Freud’s Search for Spirituality 3. Clinical Psychoanalysis and Religion 4. Analyzing the Transference onto God 5. Interpreting Numinous Experiences 6. Mentalizing God 7. Unsaying God 8. Revelation and Prophecy References Index

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Book SynopsisKeeping Couples in Treatment: Working from Surface to Depth is written for the beginning or seasoned therapist who wants to learn a powerful and effective in-depth approach for keeping couples in treatment. The book focuses on the problems that present themselves when the therapist lacking in-depth knowledge of couple treatment loses empathy and curiosity, resulting in a feeling that couple therapy presents an overwhelming task. Therapists who embark on couple work need practice theory for making meaningful contact with the couple's internal conflicts. In the surface to depth approach the treatment field consists of two spouses, their unconscious relationship, and the therapist. Therapists may micro-manage couple emotions because they cannot conceive ways to deal with couple anxieties because their own anxieties run so high. This book illustrates the therapist's use of self and the theory behind this powerful treatment approach that can help therapists more effectively manage treatment anxieties. For the beginning couple therapist, this book offers an object relations rationale for treatment and an expansion of the technical shifts from individual therapy to couples. The book guides the inexperienced therapist through the couple's pain, rage, and attacks on the frame when in deeply distressing situations. For the experienced therapist the book emphasizes the couple as an unconscious and conscious system best treated using an in-depth understanding of intrapsychic-interpsychic communications. Couple situations demonstrate a treatment that experienced therapists will find liberating. Throughout the book the therapist's countertransference and use of self as a therapeutic instrument is examined. Divorce, infidelity, dreams, and disorders of the self are detailed in the case materials. The cases represent a variety of problems difficult to treat at any level of therapist experience. The book studies the therapist's personal feelings and countertransference throughout treatment that enables the reader to hone his or her capacity to deal with difficult couples.Trade ReviewKeeping Couples in Treatment: A Surface to Depth Approach offers an astute and sophisticated application of object relations concepts to couples. Bagnini’s approach is carefully articulated in ways that reveal the nuances and depth of a highly experienced, insightful master therapist. The book is finely balanced with presentation of theory illustrated by abundant case material that explicates the exact role and reasoning of a therapist who has successfully treated a wide range of couples in extreme distress. As a result, both the emerging as well as advanced couple therapists will find ample material to stimulate and expand their understanding of couple therapy. -- Judith Siegel Ph.D, New York UniversityThis is a warm-hearted book from a seasoned psychotherapist. In it Carl Bagnini assembles the knowledge and experience he has developed and accrued from a lifetime of psychoanalytically informed clinical practice. He offers novice and experienced therapists alike a window on the unconscious dynamics of couple relationships, and a means of making sense of the affective turmoil that motivate couples to seek help. Modest and humane, this book invites us to reflect on the totality of the encounter between couple and therapist in working with complex relationship problems. -- Christopher Clulow, Tavistock Centre of Couple Relationships, LondonThis is an excellent, closely observed, and humane exposition of the troubled couple relationship from an object relations psychoanalytic perspective. Keeping Couples in Treatment is of enormous value in a world in which the psychoanalytic understanding of the complexity of the couple relationships has still a long way to go. The book is suffused with clinical examples and one feels the privilege of being invited right into the author's consulting room, and his thinking within the session, to see him at work. He does not shy away from the complexity of couple dynamics, the sometimes disturbing impact on the therapist, and makes a stand for giving the psychoanalytic process time in a world where brief interventions that stay on the surface dominate, though are gradually being shown to be less effective. His capacity to move from surface to depth stems from a wealth of clinical experience and theoretical understanding that will guide practitioners at whatever level of experience and his book may be one they want to symbolically hold on to while weathering the storms of couple psychotherapy. -- Mary Morgan, MSc, British Psychoanalytic Society, Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, LondonThose readers who have had the good fortune to see him present his couple work, or respond to presentations, will recognize the voice that comes through strongly in this book: a voice that carries an enthusiastic and feeling-full engagement with the emotional struggles that couples bring to the consulting room and a clinical stance that values access to a flexible and well-articulated counter transference response. The book is an invitation to a dialogue with a wise, energetic, and self-questioning clinician – read it twice!Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Walk in the Woods—From Surface to Depth Chapter 3: Object Relations Couple Therapy Chapter 4: Types of Marriages Encountered in Couple Treatment Chapter 5: Couple Assessment and Treatment of Narcissistic Anxieties and Defenses Chapter 6: Infidelity and Intimacy—Working with the Extramarital Affair Chapter 7: Accessing the Internal World of Couples through Their Dreams Chapter 8: The Persecution of Divorce Chapter 9: Containment, Projective Process and the Couple: The Therapist’s Dream Chapter 10: The Couple Therapist’s Growth Experience Chapter 11: Are We There Yet? The Journey and Destination of Keeping Couples in Treatment References About the Author

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Book SynopsisBreaking down the barriers Most men are trained from earliest childhood to suppress emotional distress, to avoid the subtle signals of interpersonal conflicts, to experience humiliation at the first hint of failure, and most of all, to resist asking for help.Trade Review"A comprehensive, scholarly volume brimming with clinical insightinto the hearts and minds of the traditional blue-collar men he soadroitly treats. . . .offers not only a guide, but inspiration andhope that men whose lives have been badly damaged?men who arelikely to be considered poor risks for therapy?can find significanthelp in the therapy relationship." (Ronald F. Levant, dean, Centerfor Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University) "Carefully weaving the psychological literature together withglimpses into real men's lives, Gary Brooks creates a tapestry ofthe ?new man' that is at once honest, poignant, and our hope forthe future. Millions of men's and women's lives will be enriched byreading this book. I already have a number of traditional men on mygift list." (Lenore Walker, author of The Abused Woman and TheBattered Woman) "This wonderful book is filled with wisdom and compassion. Itshould be required reading for anyone doing psychotherapy with men;it should be required reading for anyone who is in a relationshipwith a man! It is clear, sensitive, incisive. In a time of genderstrife and misunderstanding, Dr. Brooks provides a beacon of hope."(Judith V. Jordan, assistant professor of psychiatry, HarvardMedical School and training director, Stone Center, WelleslyCollege)Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Contemporary Crisis of Masculinity: Why Men NeedPsychotherapy. 2. Why Traditional Men Hate Psychotherapy. 3. Core Elements. 4. Doing Men's Groups That Work. 5. Marital and Family Therapy. 6. Therapist Gender. 7. Gender Role Strain in Therapy and Beyond. References.

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Book SynopsisThis vital resource--edited by Harvard Medical School''s DouglasJacobs, a nationally recognized expert on suicide anddepression--is the definitive guide for helping mental healthprofessionals determine the risk for suicide and appropriateinterventions for suicidal or at-risk patients. Created primarilyfor mental health clinicians (with several chapters directed towardprimary care physicians), the book is a hands-on guide for thosewho are often the first line of defense for assessing if a patientor client is suicidal. Comprehensive in scope, the book offers a wealth of informationabout such useful topics as inpatient and outpatient issues,psychopharmacology, and advice about working with specialpopulations. Most importantly, the book''s contributors detaileffective techniques for intervention and offer a model of suicideassessment that focuses on predisposing conditions, potentiatingconditions, and specific suicide inquiries. As a special feature,the book also includes a helpfuTrade Review"The Harvard Guide puts the best and the brightest of consultingsuicidologists on the practicing clinician's bookshelf, . . . .must-read." (Lanny Berman, executive director, American Associationof Suicidology) "[This book] presents the most up-to-date material and combinesthis framework with practical suggestions for the clinician. Thisis sure to become a classic." (Alan F. Schatzberg, Kenneth T.Norris, Jr. Professor and chairman, Department of Psychiatry andBehavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine) "The threat of suicide is riveting; its reality is devastating; itis our life-or-death clinical challenge. This volume is thesingularly comprehensive, authoritative, definitive, and usefultext on suicide. We are now strengthened for our work." (Jerrold F.Rosenbaum, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard MedicalSchool) "For the clinician needing help with a suicidal patient?this isyour book. For the student or researcher seeking the state of theart on suicide?this is your book." (Robert M. A. Hirschfeld, TitusHarris Distinguished Professor and chair, Department of Psychiatryand Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch atGalveston)Table of ContentsForeword, Joseph T. Coyle, M.D. Preface, Douglas G. Jacobs, M.D. ASSESSMENT. Suicide Assessment: An Overview and Recommended Protocol (D.Jacobs, et al.). Epidemiology of Suicide (E. Moscicki). A Community Psychiatry Approach to Preventing Suicide (R. Dorwart& M. Ostacher). The Psychodynamic Understanding of Suicide (J. Maltsberger). Perturbation and Lethality: A Psychological Approach to Assessmentand Intervention (E. Shneidman). The Neurobiology of Suicidal Behavior (J. Mann & V.Arango). Profiles of Completed Suicides (J. Fawcett). Self-Mutilation (A. Favazza). Standard Protocol for Assessing and Treating Suicidal Behaviors forPatients in Treatment (M. Linehan). Murder Suicide: Phenomenology and Clinical Implications (M. Nock& P. Marzuk). Excerpts from Academic Conference and Recognition of Suicidal RisksThrough the Psychologic Examination (L. Havens). Critical Points in the Assessment and Management of Suicide Risk(J. Motto). Can Suicide Ever Be Eradicated?: A Personal Journey (P.Cantor). INTERVENTION. Suicide and Manic-Depressive Illness: An Overview and PersonalAccount (K. Jamison). Lifetime Risk of Suicide in Major Affective Disorders (D. Clark& A. Goebel-Gabbri). Suicide and Schizophrenia (M. Tsuang, et al.). Substance Abuse and Suicide (R. Weiss & M. Hufford). Borderline Personality Disorder (T. Davis, et al.). Trauma and Suicide (J. Chu). Antisuicidal Effect of Lithium Treatment in Major Mood Disorders(R. Baldessarini & L. Tondo). Treatment of the Suicidal Patient with Psychotropic Drugs and ECT(C. Salzman). The Inpatient Management of Suicidality (G. Jacobson). ECT and Suicide (E. Metzger). SPECIAL ISSUES. Suicide in Children and Adolescents (S. Goldman & W.Beardslee). Suicide in the Elderly (D. Steffens & D. Blazer). Suicide-Prevention Contracts: Advantages, Disadvantages, and andAlternative Approach (M. Miller). Guidlines for Conducting a Suicide Review (S. Stelovich). Medical Settings and Suicide (M. Kelly, et al.). Suicide Assessment in the Primary Care Setting (M. Miller & R.Paulsen). Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia (H. Hendin). Liability Issues and Liability Prevention in Suicide (T.Gutheil). Appendix A: Guidelines for Identification, Assessment, andTreatment for Suicidality. Appendix B: Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard MedicalInstitutions. References. About the Authors. Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisA Practical, Hands-On Resource Treating Sexually Abused Boys is a much-needed resource that offersclinical guidelines for addressing the unique needs of thispopulation. Written by an expert in the field of childhood sexualabuse, the book contains a wealth of exercises and activities thatcan be effectively applied in individual and group therapysettings. The techniques and exercises outlined are specificallydesigned to help sexually abused boys overcome feelings ofhelplessness, fear, and vulnerability and regain a sense ofpersonal power. Treating Sexually Abused Boys offers relevant and comprehensiveguidance for all mental health professionals who work with childrenand adolescents. The ready-to-use therapeutic activities make it aninvaluable resource for today''s busy clinician. --Tim Bynum, program director, Sexual Abuse Treatment Services forYWCA of Kauai, Hawaii Camino has written a practical, easily understood guide for thosewho work with boys affected by sTrade Review"Treating Sexually Abused Boys offers relevant and comprehensiveguidance for all mental health professionals who work with childrenand adolescents. The ready-to-use therapeutic activities make it aninvaluable resource for today's busy clinician." (Tim Bynum,program director, Sexual Abuse Treatment Services for YWCA ofKauai, Hawaii) "Camino has written a practical, easily understood guide for thosewho work with boys affected by sexual abuse. Both the experiencedtherapist and the newcomer will find it helpful."I (Mic Hunter,author of Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse andeditor of The Sexually Abused Male, Volumes I & I) "If you have ever shrunk away from working with boy victims ofsexual abuse-out of fear of the subject's complexity or your ownuncertainty--this book is a must read. It combines practicalitywith a refreshing directness in teasing apart some of theintricacies of power and vulnerability as those issues play outwith this tragically underserved population." (Eugene Porter,author of Treating the Young Male Victim of Sexual Assault)Table of ContentsPreface. Part One: A Therapeutic Approach Based on Empowerment. Chapter 1 Introduction This Book and Its Intended Audience Meetinga Potential Client Sexual Abuse of Boys Empowerment: The Foundationof Recovery Your Responsibilities as a Therapist Conclusion. Chapter 2 Completing an Initial Assessment Phase 1: Interview withReferring Party Phase 2: Assessment Session Conclusion. Chapter 3 Individual Therapy Determining When to Use IndividualTherapy Increasing the Likelihood of Success in Individual TherapySample Session Format Addressing Problem BehaviorsConclusion. Chapter 4 Group Therapy Determining When to Use Group TherapyPlanning a Group Recruiting Group Members Setting Group GoalsLeading a Group Session Preparing a Child to Leave Group TherapyConclusion. Chapter 5 Working with Parents and Significant Adults Developing aTherapeutic Alliance with the Parent How a Parent Can Help Workingwith Other Significant Adults Conclusion. Chapter 6 Handling Challenges Individual Therapy Group TherapyChallenges Related to External Factors Administrative ChallengesConclusion. Part Two: Structured Activities to Use in Therapy. About the Activities Activity 1 Definitions Activity 2 TV Interview Activity 3 Completing a Self-Evaluation Activity 4 Creating Group Rules Activity 5 Establishing a Ritual for Starting or Ending SessionsActivity 6 Brainstorming Power Behaviors Activity 7 Coping Through Relaxation Activity 8 Affirmations Activity 9 Letting Go of Blame Activity 10 Taking Responsibility for Yourself Activity 11 Forgiving Yourself Activity 12 Feelings Wheel Activity 13 Feelings and Behavior Activity 14 Creating a Slang Chart Activity 15 Making a Floor Plan Activity 16 Sharing the Details Activity 17 Understanding Everything You Always Wanted to KnowActivity 18 Discussing the Big "M" Word Activity 19 Sexuality Quiz Activity 20 Learning to Trust Activity 21 Taking a Trust Walk Activity 22 Deciding Who Will Know Activity 23 You and the People Around You Activity 24 Making and Keeping Friends Activity 25 Creating "Self" and "Offender" Drawings Activity 26 Differentiating Anger That Helps from Anger That HurtsActivity 27 Identifying Your Anger Zone Activity 28 Releasing and Resolving Anger Activity 29 Differentiating Assertive from Aggressive Activity 30 Recognizing What's Always Okay and What's Never OkayActivity 31 Fear Mural Activity 32 Conquering Nightmares Activity 33 Practicing the Problem-Solving Process Activity 34 What If Activity 35 Making Life Choices Activity 36 Clarifying the Connection Between Abuse and ArousalActivity 37 Identifying Your Red Flags Activity 38 Taking Preventive Action Activity 39 Changing Erroneous Thinking Activity 40 Understanding the Sexual Assault Cycle Activity 41 Brainstorming Consequences Activity 42 Establishing a Prevention Plan Activity 43 Taking Action to Avoid Offending Behavior Activity 44 Writing a Letter to the Offender Activity 45 Introducing the Grieving Process Activity 46 Identifying Your Sadness Triggers Activity 47 Meeting with an . Appendix: Ten Therapeutic Interventions Resources. References. The Author. Index.

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Book SynopsisAre we in control of our own development in adulthood, or are we shaped by circumstances beyond our control? By adopting the concept of intentional self-development (ISD), this text outlines an action-theoretical approach to human development that emphasizes both an individualâs ability to shape their own development throughout the lifespan, and the extent to which this potential is limited.By examining general age-related changes and critical life events, Intentional Self-Development and Positive Ageing explores the adaptive cognitive-motivational processes that generate positive development in adulthood, including developmental tasks, cognitive changes, life-stage transitions, and biological and neural processes. Leipold goes on to discuss the concept of positive ageing, highlighting the flexibility of the term and evaluating it from multiple perspectives to demonstrate its subjectivity, as well as its importance. This text also discusses the importance of resilience in positive development, contributing to the search for conditions conducive to positive life conduct across the lifespan.This book will be essential reading for undergraduates and postgraduates studying lifespan development and gerontology, positive psychology, or health psychology, as well as researchers in those fields. It will also be of interest to developmental counsellors, clinicians, and other applied occupational groups who are seeking to understand the psychological basis of actions.Table of ContentsPreface 1 What is intentional self-development (ISD)?2 Developmental prerequisites and challenges across the lifespan3 The role of non-intentional processes, affect, and evaluation4 Cognitive-motivational processes of intentional self-development5 Positive development and resilience6 Balance and dimensions of meaningReferences

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