Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
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Infant Observation and Research
Emotional Processes in Everyday Lives
- Edited by Cathy Urwin, and Janine Sternberg.
Published April 2012
Psychoanalytic infant observation is frequently used in training psychoanalytic psychotherapists and allied professionals, but increasingly its value as a research method is being recognised, particularly in understanding developmental processes in vulnerable individuals and groups. This book…
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Self Experiences in Group, Revisited
Affective Attachments, Intersubjective Regulations, and Human Understanding
- Edited by Irene Harwood, Walter Stone and Malcolm Pines.
Published April 2012
Since the publication of Self Experiences in Group in 1998—the first book to apply self psychology and intersubjectivity to group work—there have been tremendous advancements in the areas of affect, attachment, infant research, intersubjective regulation, motivational theory, neurobiology,…
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Still Practicing
The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career
- By Sandra Buechler.
Published April 2012
"Still practicing" has several meanings. Still practicing suggests that the balance of heartaches and joys must not deter us from pursuing a clinical practice. At the same time, still practicing suggests that for the clinician "practice" never "makes perfect." We continue to refine our clinical…
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Minding the Child
Mentalization-Based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families
- Edited by Nick Midgley, and Ioanna Vrouva.
Published March 2012
What is 'mentalization'? How can this concept be applied to clinical work with children, young people and families? What will help therapists working with children and families to 'keep the mind in mind'? Why does it matter if a parent can 'see themselves from the outside, and their child from…
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An Accident of Hope
The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton
- By Dawn M. Skorczewski.
Published February 2012
In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her "confessional" poems dealing…
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Bothered By Alligators
- By Marion Milner.
- Introduction by Margaret Walters.
Published February 2012
Milner's final text, Bothered by Alligators, came about when, in her nineties, she unexpectedly came across a diary she had kept during the early years of her son's life, recording his conversations and play between the ages of two and nine. With it was a storybook written and illustrated by him…
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Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11, 2001
A Primary Prevention Project
- Edited by Beatrice Beebe, Phyllis Cohen, K. Mark Sossin and Sara Markese.
Published February 2012
The group of papers presented in this volume represents ten years of involvement of a group of eight core therapists, working originally with approximately forty families who suffered the loss of husbands and fathers on September 11, 2001. The project focuses on the families of women who were…
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The Silent Past and the Invisible Present
Memory, Trauma, and Representation in Psychotherapy
- By Paul Renn.
- Foreword by Judith Guss Teicholz.
Published January 2012
Drawing on research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience, as well as 20 years in forensic and private practice, Paul Renn deftly illustrates the ways in which this research may be used to inform an integrated empirical/hermeneutic model…
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The Importance of Suffering
The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent
- By James Davies.
Published November 2011
In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional…
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Loneliness and Longing
Conscious and Unconscious Aspects
- Edited by Brent Willock, Lori C. Bohm and Rebecca Coleman Curtis.
Published October 2011
We all experience loneliness at some time in our lives and it often motivates people, consciously or otherwise, to enter treatment. Yet it is rarely explicitly addressed in psychoanalytic literature. Loneliness and Longing rectifies this oversight by thoroughly exploring this painful psychological…
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