Jason Aronson Inc imprint: 443 books
Jewish Mysticism
Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Interest in Jewish mysticism is, in our generation, widespread and growing. From Hebrew schools to Hollywood, people of all backgrounds and levels of knowledge are pursuing the subject. Books, magazines, journals, and classes are rapidly growing in number.
One result of this burst of interest...
Sacred Fire
Torah from the Years of Fury 1939-1942
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2002
Sacred Fire: Torah from the Years of Fury (1939-1942) consists of commentaries on each weekly Torah portion. It also includes a number of lengthy sermons delivered on the major Jewish Festivals as well as a few discourses alluding to people loved and lost. Because writing is not permitted on the Sabbath,...
by Michael Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Love, Marriage, and Family in the Jewish**Law and Tradition is everything you wanted to know about the Jewish view on marriage, sexuality, and child bearing in clear and concise language. This comprehensive book looks to inform the reader about all the Jewish laws concerning family, marriage, procreation, and child rearing.
Object Relations Psychotherapy
An Individualized and Interactive Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
"Glickauf-Hughes and Wells present a clear and well-organized review of personality development according to object relations theorists. They offer an explanation and critique of each major theorist, note issues on which there is disagreement (along with areas of investigation not fully explored),...
by Martha Stark
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
How do we position ourselves, moment by moment, in relation to our patients and how do these positions inform both what we come to know about our patients and how we intervene? Do we participate as neutral object, as empathic self-object, or as authentic subject? Do we strive to enhance the patient's...
Making Sense Together
The Intersubjective Approach to Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
As in raising children, in which each unique parent and child pair emerges from the ongoing, mutually influencing relationship, so it is with therapists and patients. Peter Buirski and Pamela Haglund argue that intersubjectivity is founded on two assumptions: First, our moment-by-moment experience...
Sexual Boundary Violations
Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Sexual boundary violations are considered the most serious ethical infractions in the mental health profession, as well as in higher education and pastoral counseling. Recognized as unethical due to the power imbalance inherent in the structure of the therapist-patient and teacher-student dyads, erotic...
The Embodied Subject
Minding the Body in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's development of a psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated from his consideration of neurology, aphasia, and the great range of embodied signs constituting the hysterical...
The Wound of Mortality
Fear, Denial, and Acceptance of Death
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings...
Good Stuff
Courage, Resilience, Gratitude, Generosity, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Good Stuff is divided into two main parts; Part I addresses Positive Attributes and Part II, Positive Actions. The former contains chapters on Courage, Resilience, and Gratitude. The latter contains chapters on Generosity, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice. Together, the six chapters constitute a harmonious...
by Susan M. Knell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy (CBPT) incorporates cognitive and behavioral interventions within a play therapy paradigm. It provides a theoretical framework based on cognitive-behavioral principles and integrates these in a developmentally sensitive way. Thus, play as well as verbal and nonverbal...
Why Me God
A Jewish Guide for Coping and Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
Why Me, God? is the first English-language book that melds traditional Jewish perspectives about suffering with practical suggestions for coping. Chapter by chapter, this book provides real strategies to deal with all manner of suffering from loneliness, to suicide, to terminal illness, and everything...
by Rabbeinu Yonah
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
The Gates of Repentance (Sha'arei Teshuvah), by Rabbeinu Yonah of Geronah (d. 1263), is one of the most important books of Jewish literature. Now available in a modern English translation, this volume probes the profound idea of teshuvah, often translated as "repentance" but in reality far...
Knowing God
Jewish Journeys to the Unknowable
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
Contemporary Jews often find meaning in Judaism's family and communal orientation, its beautiful rituals, its enriching culture, its sense of ethnic rootedness, and its moral values. For the classical Jewish tradition, however, all of these features of Judaism depend on a belief in God. Since many...