Jason Aronson Inc imprint: 443 books
by Charles Schaefer, Howard L. Millman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
In this immensely practical manual, two leading child psychologists provide specific, down-to-earth advice for effectively handling the everyday problems of children from early childhood through adolescence.
Working with Trauma
Lessons from Bion and Lacan
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan by Marilyn Charles takes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates them into user-friendly language. In this book, Charles focuses on clinical work with more severely disturbed patients, for whom trauma has impeded their psychosocial...
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting
Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child’s Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to understand and reflect on their children’s emotional states, as a way of helping them to be more...
Melting the Darkness
The Dyad and Principles of Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
Clinician and psychoanalyst Warren S. Poland addresses some of the key questions in the field today. What is an analysis? What is the relationship of the individual patient to the specific analyst and to the work at hand? How can attention to the uniqueness of an individual patient be balanced with...
Jewish Mysticism
The Middle ages
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...
Working with Parents
Establishing the Essential Alliance in Child Psychotherapy and Consultation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
The author encourages therapists to approach parents as individuals (not just as parents), and to maintain the same professional perspective in dealing with them that informs the rest of their work. Illustrative case material draws on a considerable range of presenting pictures, from parents who are...
Motherhood Optional
A Psychological Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Reminding women that motherhood is an option, not a given (much less an instinct), New York psychotherapist Phyllis Ziman Tobin contends that choosing to be or not to be a mother is the defining rite of passage for today's woman. She draws on the composite struggles of real people to show how the...
by Jerome D. Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
The authors incorporate the neurologic examination into a play framework, wherein they can analyze a child's personality and development, searching for 'soft' signs of postural or motor incoordination, and for 'hard' signs of childrens' mental status.
by Jill Savege Scharff, David E. Scharff, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
In their groundbreaking A Primer of Object Relations, Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff answered readers' questions about this burgeoning field in remarkably clear and readable prose. It is difficult to imagine any other team of authors who could provide such a comprehensive survey of the broad...
Ethical Practice in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Psychotherapy
Protecting Safety in a Therapeutic Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Ethical Practice in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Psychotherapy: Protecting Safety in a Therapeutic Environment by Anita G. Schmukler, Paula G. Atkeson, Helene Keable, and E. Kirsten Dahl provides a detailed study of ethical dilemmas of the child therapist and the child analyst, whose work with...
Therapeutic Engagement of Children and Adolescents
Play, Symbol, Drawing, and Storytelling Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
This book addresses the issues that child and adolescent therapists struggle with the most—how to meaningfully engage and create conditions for transformative change with children and teens who are unwilling participants at the outset and who regard any allowed influence by the therapist to be a...
A Story of Her Own
The Female Oedipus Complex Reexamined and Renamed
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
A Story of Her Own is a reformulation of the psychoanalytic concept of the 'female oedipal complex'—a term that encompasses the triangular development phase and the important conflicts and experiences in girls and women. Inspired by the mythic role in human experience and in the unique aspects of...
The Risk of Relatedness
Intersubjectivity Theory in Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
The success of psychotherapy depends on the development of both the patient and the psychotherapist. This is the central thesis of Jaenicke's book, which addresses the clinical application of intersubjectivity theory in terms of the risk—what Jaenicke terms the 'risk of relatedness'—the theory...
The Primacy of Structure
Psychotherapy of Underlying Character Pathology
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
In "The Primacy of Structure" Althea Horner argues that effective psychotherapeutic intervention depends on the understanding of clinical symptoms in terms of the patient's underlying character structure. For example, obsessive behavior that functions to hold together a fragile, inadequately...