Jason Aronson Inc imprint: 443 books
Playing Pygmalion
How People Create One Another
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Like Pygmalion with his Galatea, we create the characters of people in our lives. Although others appear to us to be who they just "are", there are complicated psychological processes, outside of our awareness, that lead us to experience people in ways that we ourselves construct.
Psychoanalytic...
by Harold F. Searles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1994
This text contains descriptions of how to work with borderline patients.
by Sheldon Bach
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
Dr. Bach composes diverse clinical experiences into a coherent portrait of the narcissitic patients.
The Many Faces of Deceit
Omissions, Lies, and Disguise in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
This work examines the concept of deceit and its ubiquity both in everyday life and in various forms of psychopathology. It offers examples of clinical work with true impostors, those with imposturous tendencies, and those who fear they are impostors when in fact they are not.
by Paul Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
The Ego and Analysis of Defense, by Paul Gray, without a doubt represents a major advance in analytic technique. This book, together with the series of seminal journal articles he published over the past 30 years are a testament to Gray's pioneering intellect. They have stirred up enormous interest...
The Modern Kleinian Approach to Psychoanalytic Technique
Clinical Illustrations
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
The Modern Kleinian Approach to Psychoanalytic Technique: Clinical Illustrations describes how today's practitioner typically treats a number of types of very disturbed and hard-to-reach patients who, while prone to intense acting out and early termination, are in great need of in-depth psychological...
The Problem Is the Solution
A Jungian Approach to a Meaningful Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung said that a life without meaning is unlived. Today our secular worship of the material, the superficial, and the instantly gratifying is as powerful as any ancient idol worship. While our problems appear to be the enemy, they are really our secret allies, and by wrestling...
Enactment
Toward a New Approach to the Therapeutic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
For many therapists it has replaced previous action terms such as acting in and acting out. Something new has been captured by this concept: a recognition of a process that may involve words but goes beyond words. For some, enactment addresses a continuous undercurrent in the interaction between patient...
Caring and Compassion in Clinical Practice
Issues in the Selection, Training, and Behavior of Helping Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Although no conscientious practitioner in a helping profession wishes to be regarded as insensitive, too frequently such professionals treat their patients more like illnesses or problems than persons in distress. Seymour Sarason shows that such treatment derives not from intent, but from the ways...
Listening with Purpose
Entry Points into Shame and Narcissistic Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
This manual has been written for a wide range of dynamic practitioners involved in treating patients with narcissistically-infused issues. The treatment model and case material presented in Listening with Purpose cover the spectrum of narcissistic vulnerability and may be applied to the relatively...
The Electrified Mind
Development, Psychopathology, and Treatment in the Era of Cell Phones and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Electrified Mind helps therapists understand and empathize with patients who rely heavily upon cell phones and the internet for the purposes of self-expression as well as for defensive avoidance of actual interpersonal contact. The chapters by distinguished mental health professionals delineate...
Erik Erikson and the American Psyche
Ego, Ethics, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2006
Erik Erikson and the American Psyche is an intellectual biography which explores Erikson's contributions to the study of infancy, childhood and ethical development in light of ego psychology, object-relations theory, Lacanian theory and other major trends in psychoanalysis. It analyses Erikson's famous...
by Jill Savege Scharff, David E. Scharff, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
In this landmark book, David Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff, both psychoanalysts, develop a way of thinking about and working with the couple as a small group of two, held together as a tightly knit system by a commitment that is powerfully reinforced by the bond of mutual sexual pleasure.
Judaism's Encounter with Other Cultures
Rejection or Integration?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1997
The issue of Judaism's relationship to secular learning and wisdom is one of the most basic concerns of Jewish intellectual history. The authors collected in this study discuss both sides of the issue and collectively offer an eloquent and convincing case for the perpetuation of Judaism's dialogue with the 'outside' world.