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Taylor & Francis Ltd Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Substance Abuse as Symptom A Psychoanalytic Critique of Treatment Approaches and the Cultural Beliefs That Sustain Them
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Taylor & Francis Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
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Taylor & Francis Relational Psychoanalysis Volume 14
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Objects of Hope Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis 18 Relational Perspectives Book Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Being of Two Minds
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From the Radical Center The Heart of Gestalt Therapy Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Publication
Book SynopsisThis remarkable collection traces central themes in the work of Erving and Miriam Polster, two of the best-known and best loved Gestalt therapists in the world. The writings herein span 4 decades in the history of psychotherapy, bringing together practical, theoretical and aesthetic dimensions of the Polsters'' work in a single book. Ranging across diverse subjects and distinct historical periods, the work collected in this volume will educate, provoke, inspire and nourish Gestalt therapists for years to come.Trade Review"The Polsters have put forth an original body of work which distinguishes itself not only by its theoretical bravado, but by its intention to include and acknowledge a great variety of dissonant perspectives within Gestalt therapy. The energy resulting from their effort leaps off the page."- Arthur Roberts, Ph.D.Table of ContentsRoberts, Introduction. Prologue. Part I: Setting the Stage. A Contemporary Psychotherapy. The Language of Experience. Sensory Functioning in Psychotherapy. Women in Therapy: A Gestalt Therapist's View. Gestalt Therapy: Evolution and Application. Part II: Transformation of Principles. Therapy Without Resistance: Gestalt Therapy. Escape from the Present. Tight Therapeutic Sequences. Every Person's Life is Worth a Novel. The Therapeutic Power of Attention. The Self in Action: A Gestalt Outlook. Translating Theory into Practice: Martin Heidegger and Gestalt Therapy. Commonality and Diversity in Gestalt Therapy. In Memory of Carl Rogers: Great Men Cast Great Shadows. Part III. The Role of Community. Encounter in Community . Eve's Daughters: The Forbidden Heroism of Women. Individuality and Communality. Beyond One to One. It's Only the Most Recent Year of the Woman. Coda. What's New?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beyond Individualism Toward a New Understanding
Book SynopsisIn this pathbreaking and provocative new treatment of some of the oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler challenges the most basic tenet of the West cultural tradition: the individualist self. Characteristics of this self-model are our embedded yet pervasive ideas that the individual self precedes and transcends relationship and social field conditions and that interpersonal experience is somehow secondary and even opposed to the needs of the inner self. Assumptions like these, Wheeler argues, which are taken to be inherent to human nature and development, amount to a controlling cultural paradigm that does considerable violence to both our evolutionary self-nature and our intuitive self-experience. He asserts that we are actually far more relational and intersubjective than our cultural generally allows and that these relational capacities are deeply built into our inherent evolutionary nature.His argument progresses from the origins andTrade Review"...an exploration of selfhood which will alter forever how we experience ourselves and our shared world. Gordon Wheeler has a gift for rendering scholarly ideas understandable, meaningful, and usable. Unlike many other deconstructive writers, he actually offers an alternative: an ecologically based paradigm of selfhood, firmly rooted in a contextualist, thoroughly intersubjective worldview." Lynne Jacobs, Training Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Co-founder, Gestalt Institute of the PacificTable of ContentsPart I: The Problem of Self: In Search of a New Paradigm. The Legacy of Individualism: The Paradigm in Practice. Constructing a New Model. Part II: The Self in the Social Field: Relationship and Contact. The Self in Relation: Orienting and Contacting in the Social Field. The Self in Contact Integration and Process in the Living Field. Part III: Support, Shame, and Intimacy: The Self in Development. Support and Development: The Self in the Field. Shame and Inhibition: The Self in the Broken Field. The Restoration of Self: Intimacy, Intersubjectivity, and Dialogue. Part IV: The Integrated Self: Narrative, Culture, and Health. Self as Story: Narrative, Culture, and Gender. Conclusion: Ethics, Ecology, and Spirit: The Healthy Self.
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Taylor & Francis Psychoanalysis in Transition
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Taylor & Francis Awakening the Dreamer
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Taylor & Francis The Fallacy of Understanding The Ambiguity of Change
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Taylor & Francis ComparativeIntegrative Psychoanalysis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Adolescent Identities A Collection of Readings 37 Relational Perspectives Book Series
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Taylor & Francis Attachment and Sexuality
Book SynopsisThe papers featured in Attachment and Sexuality create a dense tapestry, each forming a separate narrative strand that elucidates different configurations of the relationship between attachment and sexuality. As a whole, the volume explores the areas of convergence and divergence, opposition, and integration between these two systems. It suggests that there is a bi-directional web of influences that weaves the attachment and sexual systems together in increasingly complex ways from infancy to adulthood.The volumeâs unifying thread is the idea that the attachment system, and particularly the degree of felt security, or lack thereof in relation to early attachment figures, provides a paradigm of relatedness that forms a scaffold for the developmental unfolding of sexuality in all its manifestations. Such manifestations include infantile and adult, masturbatory and mutual, and normative and perverse. Also central to the papers is the idea that the development of Trade Review"This groundbreaking volume adds immeasurably to our understanding of love relations by illuminating the interplay between attachment and sexuality. Historically, attachment theory and research have been weakest in their consideration of the role of sexuality in the formation and disruption of attachment bonds. Hence this volume which explores the myriad ways that attachment and sexuality converge and diverge in individual development and the treatment process, fills a significant theoretical gap. Unique in their integration of detailed clinical material and empirical studies, the papers address the relationship between the quality of early parent-child attachment bonds and the evolution of desire, the impact of attachment on the oedipal phase, and the recapitulation and reconfiguration of attachment and sexuality in the transference. Attachment and Sexuality is destined to take its place as a classic in the widening literature on the intersection of psychoanalytic thought and attachment research."- Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, USA"This volume offers a critical and much needed addition to attachment perspectives. For decades now, attachment theory has shed light on what makes us human--our earliest relationships, those that endure through our lives, those that offer us safety and comfort during hard times. But until this book, attachment perspectives have not so clearly addressed romantic love and those sexual passions and drives that are equally core to human need across the lifespan. Each of the authors brings a clinically and scholarly rich integration of how passionate love and enduring love are necessarily woven together in all human relationships. This volume will soon be essential reading for all who work clinically with attachment perspectives and it sets a very clear clinical research agenda for all attachment scholars wishing to move the field forward." - Linda C. Mayes, M.D., Arnold Gesell Professor, Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Yale Child Study Center, USA"Diamond, Blatt and Lichtenberg have assembled a radical set of original chapters exploring the many links, and interdependencies, between sexuality and attachment. Emerging from this indispensable volume are important implications for theory and research in developmental, evolutionary and social psychology, as well as for clinical practice. Freud’s drive theory approach to love and sex on the one hand, and Bowlby’s ethological and control-systems approach on the other come into full relief from this outstanding edited book whose contributing authors represent the cutting edge in their respective fields. This groundbreaking book is essential reading both for advanced students and scholars in the social sciences, as well as for clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychoanalysts." - Howard Steele, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, New School for Social Research, USA"In this case you can judge the book by its cover. The essays are as beautiful in their own way as the Klimt paintings of mother and child and of lovers one sees before opening the book. This ambitious undertaking leaves one with a sense of hope that the extensive and deep clinical insights that psychoanalysts have gleaned from thousands of hours of listening to people speak about their irrational fantasies and behaviors...can be incorporated into psychological science in a way that is enriched by clinical understanding."- Rebecca Curtis and Daniel Winarick, PsycCRITIQUES 53, 2008Table of ContentsDiamond & Blatt, Prologue. Eagle, Attachment and Sexuality. Mikulincer & Shaver, A Behavioral Systems Perspective on the Psychodynamics of Attachment and Sexuality. Ammaniti, Nicolais, & Speranza, Attachment and Sexuality During Adolescence: Interaction, Integration, or Interference? Weinstein, When Sexuality Reaches Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Attachment, Repetition, and Infantile Sexuality. Holmes, Sense and Sensuality: Hedonic Intersubjectivity and the Erotic Imagination. Buchheim, Kachele, & George, My Dog is Dying Today: Attachment Narratives and Psychoanalytic Interpretation of an Initial Interview. Lieberman, St. John, & Silverman, Passionate Attachments and Parental Exploitations of Dependency in Infancy and Early Childhood. Diamond & Yeomans, Oedipal Love and Conflict in the Transference/Countertransference Matrix: Its Impact on Attachment Security and Mentalization. Lichtenberg, Discussion.
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Taylor & Francis Trauma and Human Existence
Book SynopsisTrauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional trauma is built into the basic constitution of human existence.This volume traces how both themes interconnect, largely as they crystallize in the authorâs personal experience of traumatic loss. As discussed in the book's final chapter, whether or not this constitutive possibility will be brought lastingly into the foreground of our experiential world depends on the relational contexts in which we live.Taken as a whole, Trauma and Human Existence exhibits the unity of the deeply personal, the theoretical, and the philosophical in the understanding of emotional trauma and the place it occupies in human existence.Trade Review"As I left for a deployment to Iraq in the summer of 2008, I was wrestling with how to reach soldiers with traumatized experiences.... [While there] I stumbled upon the writings of Robert Stolorow. I obtained a copy of his recent book, Trauma and Human Existence (2007). It fundamentally changed how I work with traumatized military personnel [and it] profoundly altered my understanding of the impact trauma on an individual’s subjective experience of the world and helped me be empathic with traumatized soldiers in ways that enabled us to connect.... In my remaining months in Iraq, I read ... Trauma and Human Existence repeatedly, carrying it with me as I traveled between forward operating bases and outposts."--Russell B. Carr, Psychoanalytic Psychology (2011)"In this book Robert Stolorow draws on philosophical reflections, primarily those of Heidegger, to further elucidate the phenomenology of emotional trauma, lending it depth and richness, and contextualizing it in the ontology of the human condition…. This is a book whose author remains steadfastly and unflinchingly present, both to the immediacy of his own pain and to the comfort he finds when such pain is understood…. [The] book is an admirable example of creative psychoanalytic writing, encompassing in a few pages almost everything one needs to understand about the principles of intersubjective psychoanalytic practice." —Dori Laub, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 58(5), 2010"This book is a remarkable integration of deep self-reflections on intimate, often painful, and sometimes tragic experience, his philosophical investigation of selfhood in living context, and psychoanalytic theorizing on time, affect, and trauma. This is an important addition to the now long line of works that constitute the corpus of Stolorow and colleagues’ intersubjectivity theory." - Lewis Aron, Director, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, USA"In his new book, Robert Stolorow has accomplished a minor miracle, presenting for the reader a theoretically complex, philosophically strong, and yet almost unbearably sad and humane understanding of traumatic experience. Anyone reading this book must take away from it not only a heightened appreciation for the uses of philosophical-psychoanalytic investigation and integration, but as important, a greater understanding of one’s own private life in which traumatic loss surely plays its central organizing role." - Estelle Shane, President, International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology"Robert Stolorow has done a masterful job of integrating two central themes: one involving the context-dependence of the experience of emotional trauma and the other relating to the idea that emotional trauma is built into the basic foundation of our existence. It represents psychoanalysis at its finest – its themes are beautifully conceptualized, richly exemplified, and profoundly relevant." - Judith Alpert, President, Division of Trauma Psychology, American Psychological Association, USA"This is a fascinating, phenomenologically rich reflection on emotional trauma that shows the surprisingly powerful relevance of Heidegger for contemporary psychoanalysis." - Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, USA"Robert D. Stolorow's new book...is a poetic and deeply poignant study of psychological trauma. The work elegantly manages to convey a profound mastery of the nuances of trauma in a manner in which no prior work has achieved. It will be read many times over by those who first encounter it, with new wisdom to be discovered with each reading. It is succinct, yet incisive and stirring. It leaves a lasting impression." - Marilyn Jacobs, Trauma Psychology Newsletter"Trauma and Human Existence is literally a slight book but with weighty themes. Stolorow has written a book based on years of theorizing and clinical practice. The simple structure of this book allows for repeated powerful statements that are based on decades of serious and creative thinking about good clinical listening." - Spyros Orfanos, PsycCRITIQUES"Although a 'short' book, Stolorow presents a detailed theoretical and personal account of mood, unconscious, temporality and therapeutic change which draws upon the thought of Gadamer, intersubjective theory, and primarily the philosophical work of Heidegger. As such, it would be of interest to both practicing psychotherapists seeking to integrate philosophical insights into their work, and philosophers interested in the 'lived experience' of existentialist thought." - Laura Cook, Metapsychology Online"Weaving his love affair with philosophy with his decades-long passion for positioning affect, and now, emotional trauma, within a relational, contextual field, Stolorow accomplishes a lot in a surprisingly brief treatise. Though often dense, and at times poignantly heart-wrenching, [it] is immensely readable. Unsurprisingly, he makes a valuable contribution to the psychoanalytic literature on trauma and its vicissitudes." - Nancy VanDerHeide, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst "This is a little gem of a book. Through his resolute effort, relational psychoanalysis has been enriched by phenomenology. Additionally, I have no doubt in my mind that readers who have experienced a traumatic loss in their lives will find validating resonance to the emerging insights of Stolorow's description and reflective understanding of the experience and resolutuion of this type of loss." - Mufid J. Hannush, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 39, 2008"Robert Stolorow takes the reader directly to the heart of trauma - as well as how to deal with it, including helping others who suffer such pain." - Christopher J. Mruk, The Humanistic Psychologist"In this small but concentrated book, Robert Stolorow makes a most coherent case for an existential understanding of trauma, and it deserves to be read by anyone with an interest in trauma, existential philosophy, and psychotherapy." - Martin Adams, Existential Analysis"I highly recommend this slim volume of expansive and robust ideas to all clinicians who seek an in-depth understanding of emotional trauma and its implications for treatment. It will be especially appreciated by those who welcome a phenomenological approach to the immeasurable impact of traumatic loss in one's own life, as well as the lives of those who come to us for understanding." - Lorraine Cates, Psychoanalytic Social Work"In this book there is all the power and intensity of a human event, the turmoil of traumatic inconsolable grief, the courage of thinking that exposes and subjects itself to existence, to its reality, its flesh." - Antonio Sichera, Studies in Gestalt Therapy"Trauma and Human Existence artfully captures the experience of trauma and its vicissitudes, while offering a sober rendering of how it is possible to live a life with an acute awareness of life's uncertainties." - Joan Rankin, Journal of Loss and Trauma"Trauma and Human Existence is a thoughtfully written account of Robert Stolorow’s understanding of trauma when seen through the eyes of Heidegger’s Seinsdenken… His writing is clear and logical. He successfully uses his own experience in illustrating the phenomenon of trauma. He gives a clear account of the differences between traditional psychoanalytic theory and the assumptions used by an existential therapist." - Dominique Walmsley, Comparative and Continental Philosophy"Robert Stolorow’s Trauma and Human Existence is ... a good dose of medicine. At the factual level it is about personal and individual trauma, and as such, is moving and thoughtful. At the epistemological level it is concerned with erroneous conceptions, with an ecological ignorance that neglects the deep embeddedness of humans in systemic relations with others’ experience and the surroundings. We are, despite this neglect, 'siblings in the same darkness,' as Stolorow says (p. 47). If we wish to take up our epistemological responsibility, this tiny book is a candle in the darkness." - Tor-Johan Ekeland, Phenomenology & Practice, Volume 4 (2010), No.1"When he discovered Dr. Stolorow's book, Trauma and Human Existence in 2008 while he was still in Iraq, Dr. Carr carried the book around with him all the time, squeezing every bit of knowledge out of it that he could:"Stolorow's book was more like a companion in the darkness of trauma, helping me to understand and bear the experiences of being in a combat zone. Otherwise, I was left in my isolation, only with answers that seemed to blame my childhood fantasies about my parents for the mortars exploding outside my office." Dr. Carr feels that his adoption of Stolorow's ideas has saved both him and his patients from the isolation and despair of living in a shattered experiential world following combat." - Helen Davey, The Huffington Post"This book is a remarkable integration of deep self-reflections on intimate, often painful, and sometimes tragic experience, his philosophical investigation of selfhood in living context, and psychoanalytic theorizing on time, affect, and trauma. This is an important addition to the now long line of works that constitute the corpus of Stolorow and colleagues’ intersubjectivity theory." - Lewis Aron, Director, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, USA"In his new book, Robert Stolorow has accomplished a minor miracle, presenting for the reader a theoretically complex, philosophically strong, and yet almost unbearably sad and humane understanding of traumatic experience. Anyone reading this book must take away from it not only a heightened appreciation for the uses of philosophical-psychoanalytic investigation and integration, but as important, a greater understanding of one’s own private life in which traumatic loss surely plays its central organizing role." - Estelle Shane, President, International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology"Robert Stolorow has done a masterful job of integrating two central themes: one involving the context-dependence of the experience of emotional trauma and the other relating to the idea that emotional trauma is built into the basic foundation of our existence. It represents psychoanalysis at its finest – its themes are beautifully conceptualized, richly exemplified, and profoundly relevant." - Judith Alpert, President, Division of Trauma Psychology, American Psychological Association, USA"This is a fascinating, phenomenologically rich reflection on emotional trauma that shows the surprisingly powerful relevance of Heidegger for contemporary psychoanalysis." - Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, USA"Robert D. Stolorow's new book...is a poetic and deeply poignant study of psychological trauma. The work elegantly manages to convey a profound mastery of the nuances of trauma in a manner in which no prior work has achieved. It will be read many times over by those who first encounter it, with new wisdom to be discovered with each reading. It is succinct, yet incisive and stirring. It leaves a lasting impression." - Marilyn Jacobs, Trauma Psychology Newsletter"Trauma and Human Existence is literally a slight book but with weighty themes. Stolorow has written a book based on years of theorizing and clinical practice. The simple structure of this book allows for repeated powerful statements that are based on decades of serious and creative thinking about good clinical listening." - Spyros Orfanos, PsycCRITIQUES"Although a 'short' book, Stolorow presents a detailed theoretical and personal account of mood, unconscious, temporality and therapeutic change which draws upon the thought of Gadamer, intersubjective theory, and primarily the philosophical work of Heidegger. As such, it would be of interest to both practicing psychotherapists seeking to integrate philosophical insights into their work, and philosophers interested in the 'lived experience' of existentialist thought." - Laura Cook, Metapsychology Online"Weaving his love affair with philosophy with his decades-long passion for positioning affect, and now, emotional trauma, within a relational, contextual field, Stolorow accomplishes a lot in a surprisingly brief treatise. Though often dense, and at times poignantly heart-wrenching, [it] is immensely readable. Unsurprisingly, he makes a valuable contribution to the psychoanalytic literature on trauma and its vicissitudes." - Nancy VanDerHeide, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst "This is a little gem of a book. Through his resolute effort, relational psychoanalysis has been enriched by phenomenology. Additionally, I have no doubt in my mind that readers who have experienced a traumatic loss in their lives will find validating resonance to the emerging insights of Stolorow's description and reflective understanding of the experience and resolutuion of this type of loss." - Mufid J. Hannush, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 39, 2008"Robert Stolorow takes the reader directly to the heart of trauma - as well as how to deal with it, including helping others who suffer such pain." - Christopher J. Mruk, The Humanistic Psychologist"In this small but concentrated book, Robert Stolorow makes a most coherent case for an existential understanding of trauma, and it deserves to be read by anyone with an interest in trauma, existential philosophy, and psychotherapy." - Martin Adams, Existential Analysis"I highly recommend this slim volume of expansive and robust ideas to all clinicians who seek an in-depth understanding of emotional trauma and its implications for treatment. It will be especially appreciated by those who welcome a phenomenological approach to the immeasurable impact of traumatic loss in one's own life, as well as the lives of those who come to us for understanding." - Lorraine Cates, Psychoanalytic Social Work"In this book there is all the power and intensity of a human event, the turmoil of traumatic inconsolable grief, the courage of thinking that exposes and subjects itself to existence, to its reality, its flesh." - Antonio Sichera, Studies in Gestalt Therapy"Trauma and Human Existence artfully captures the experience of trauma and its vicissitudes, while offering a sober rendering of how it is possible to live a life with an acute awareness of life's uncertainties." - Joan Rankin, Journal of Loss and Trauma"Trauma and Human Existence is a thoughtfully written account of Robert Stolorow’s understanding of trauma when seen through the eyes of Heidegger’s Seinsdenken… His writing is clear and logical. He successfully uses his own experience in illustrating the phenomenon of trauma. He gives a clear account of the differences between traditional psychoanalytic theory and the assumptions used by an existential therapist." - Dominique Walmsley, Comparative and Continental PhilosophyTable of ContentsThe Contextuality of Emotional Life. The Contextuality of Emotional Trauma. The Phenomenology of Trauma and the Absolutisms of Everyday Life. Trauma and Temporality. Trauma and the Ontological Unconscious. Anxiety, Authenticity, and Trauma. Conclusions: Siblings in the Same Darkness.
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