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Book SynopsisTraditionally, psychoanalytically oriented clinicians have eschewed a direct focus on symptoms, viewing it as superficial turning away from underlying psychopathology. But this assumption is an artifact of a dated classical approach; it should be reexamined in the light of contemporary relational thinking. So argues Mary Connors in Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy, an integrative project that describes cognitive-behavioral techniques that have been demonstrated to be empirically effective and may be productively assimilated into dynamic psychotherapy.What is the warrant for symptom-focused interventions in psychodynamic treatment? Connors argues that the deleterious impact of symptoms on the patient's physical and emotional well being often impedes psychodynamic engagement. Symptoms associated with addictive disorders, eating disorders, OCD, and posttraumatic stress receive special attention. With patients suffering from these and other symptoms, Connors finds, sTrade Review“This is a book filled with uncommon clinical wisdom. The interventions suggested by Connors are consistently informed by deep understanding of their meanings for the patient, and her attention to character, transference, and countertransference is masterful. At the same time, she demonstrates clearly how the deeper aims of psychoanalytic work can be enhanced rather than compromised by thoughtful inclusion of methods whose origins lie outside the psychoanalytic tradition. Connors is theoretically sophisticated, but it is the patient and his or her suffering, rather than theoretical ‘purity,’ that is the central focus of her work.”- Paul Wachtel, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology, City College and CUNY Graduate Center“Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy integrates active, instructional, and cognitive-behavioral techniques with psychodynamic principles in an impressively thoughtful, comprehensive, and compelling way. Grounding her synthesis in contemporary self-psychological and relational theory, Connors shows how the skilled application of symptom-focused techniques is often the most attuned, relationally responsive intervention a therapist can make. Moreover, Connors’ conceptual clarity and clinical wisdom combine to make this book highly useable not only as a guide for experienced clinicians of various theoretical persuasions, but as a comprehensive text for graduate and professional students in the mental health fields.” - Steven Stern, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis“Connors’ writing reflects both rigorous scholarship and great personal warmth. The comprehensiveness of her treatment of her material and the clarity of her prose will be appreciated by teacher, student, and clinician alike. It is also the particular gift of this volume that the working clinician is offered a pathway through which neither depth-psychological understanding nor symptom-focused relief has to be sacrificed in providing sound clinical care.”- Jill R. Gardner, Ph.D., University of Chicago"This volume might well be a valuable addition to the syllabus of a graduate course in which psychoanalytic or psychodynamic therapy is a central topic. The book is clearly written and well organized and is an accessible read..."- PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsPreface. Rationale for a Symptom-Focused Dynamic Treatment. Active Techniques in a Context of Integrative Possibility. The Decision to Use Active Techniques. Cognitive Interventions. Behavioral Techniques. Suggestions for Intervention with Specific Symptoms. A Patient with Compulsive Behaviors. A Patient with Generalize Anxiety. A Patient with Binge Eating and Depression. A Patient with a Relational Dilemma.

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Book SynopsisClarifying the parameters of Gestalt therapy principles and how they co-exist with therapeutic contemporaries such as "intersubjective" self psychology and "Buberian" dialogic psychotherapy, this text confirms Gestalt therapy's prime concepts of contact, self-awareness and the phenolmenology.

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Book Synopsis'As the problems raised in this book are fundamental to learning they have a long history of investigation and discussion. In phsycho-analytical practice, particularly with patients displaying symptoms of disorders of thought, it becomes clear that psycho-analysis has added a dimension to problems if not to their solution. 'This book deals with emotional experiences that are directly related both to theories of knowledge and to clinical psycho-analysis, and that in the most practical manner.'- Wilfred R. Bion, from the IntroductionTable of ContentsIntroduction, Chapters 1 to 27. Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that focus on physical illness as the natural end result of long term unresolved emotional trauma.Table of ContentsTrauma as the key to understanding physical suffering - Harald Banzhaf. My heart, my love, my trauma - Dagmar Strauss. Food, the digestive system and trauma - Evelyn Hahn. Severe constipation - Beate Herrmann. When traumas affect the kidneys - Ingrid Perg. My breathing, my lungs, my trauma - Patrizia Manukian. My eyes, my trauma, my I - Aurora Wolf. Chronic pain as a consequence of trauma - Annemarie Denk. Psychotrauma and skin diseases - Marta Thorsheim. My teeth, my trauma, my I - Thomas R. Roell. Back pain and its causes - Thilo Behla. My right hip and I: the story of my rebirth - Gerlinde Fischedick. Chronic shoulder pain - Martina Wittmann. "What has happened to my neck?" - Juliane von Krause. Trauma and posture - Catherine Xavier. Rheumatoid arthritis - Isabella Gerstgrasser. Lymphoma - `cancer' - Kate Collier. Sleep disorders and psychotrauma - Nadja Palombo. Childhood diseases, parents and trauma -. Bettina Schmalnauer. Who am I in my body and in my sexuality as a woman? - Ellen Kersten. Cervical cancer and becoming a mother - Diana Lucia Vasile. The male body, sex and trauma - Stephan Konrad Niederwieser. The menopause - opportunity for a change in perspective - Andrea Tietz. Sport, the body and trauma - Christina Freund.

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Book SynopsisFull of new techniques and concepts, this book will help professional hypnotherapists at all levels to find a new standard of excellence. It includes The Invisible Therapist; Personality-related therapy; Archetypal Parts Imagery; Effective Working with Emetophobia; Virtual World: Obsession or Phobia?; Working with Sexual Difficulties

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