Jason Aronson Inc imprint: 443 books
Enchantments of the Clinic
Power, Eroticism, and Illusion in the Clinical Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Reflecting on his experience in the clinical trenches, a pragmatic existential therapist offers a provocative study of power, erotic influence, and illusion in the clinical relationship. Written in a conversational style that makes a challenging subject accessible to specialists in the clinical professions,...
Accelerated Ecological Psychotherapy
ETT Applications for Sleep Disorders, Pain, and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Accelerated Ecological Psychotherapy: ETT Applications for Sleep Disorders, Pain, and Addiction describes a number of therapeutic breakthroughs for a diverse array of conditions. The means for accomplishing these advances are specific attachment-based interpersonal processes that are radically amplified...
Centers of Power
The Convergence of Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Kabbalah and psychoanalysis are conceptions about the nature of reality. The former is over two thousand years old. The latter has been formalized less than a hundred years ago. Nonetheless they are parallel journeys of discovery that have forever altered not only what we see, but the very nature...
Judaism Online
Confronting Spirituality on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Through conversation, journal entries, and actual e-mail dialogue, Judaism Online: Confronting Spirituality on the Internet tells the true story of one woman’s remarkable spiritual journey. In her search for fulfillment and meaning, Susan M. Zakar moved from fundamentalist Christianity to Conservative...
The Internal Triangle
New Theories of Female Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Based on over twenty years of clinical work with women, both individually and in groups, The Internal Triangle represents the first attempt by a woman to use Freud's drive theory to explain female development since Helene Deutsch's two-volume Psychology of Women in 1945. It presents a completely new...
The Synagogue Survival Kit
A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue, The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services offers introductions and instructions for all aspects of the synagogue...
Therapeutic Action
A Guide to Psychoanalytic Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
This book advances a new understanding of producing change in psychotherapy. It proposes the concept of interaction structure, repeated mutually influencing interactions between therapist and patient that are a fundamental aspect of therapeutic action. Interaction structures allow consideration of...
Fostering Healing and Growth
A Psychoanalytic Social Work Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Wherever contemporary therapists offer treatment, whether in social agencies or clinics, in outpatient or inpatient services, or even in private practice, they are likely to find themselves increasingly working with people whose histories are characterized by deprivation and repeated trauma–experiences...
Containing Rage, Terror and Despair
An Object Relations Approach to Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Containing Rage, Terror, and Despair presents Jeffrey Seinfeld's object relations approach to treating various common and debilitating mental disorders. Clinicians are often perplexed and discouraged at seeing their patients suffer even more intensely as they face the defenses, conflicts, and deficits...
Object Relations in Severe Trauma
Psychotherapy of the Sexually Abused Child
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Building upon the theoretical work of Ferenczi, Fairbairn, and Berliner, the author describes four basic relational patterns in the lives of abused children: the reliving of abusive relationships, either as victim or as perpetrator; identification with the aggressor; masochistic self-blame; and the...
Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth
Transcending Homonormativity and Constructing Preferred Identities
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This is the first therapy book that focuses on clinical work with youth who construct queer identities (as differentiated from essentialized gay or lesbian identities). It's also the first practice-based book that draws on queer theory, constructionist philosophy, and cultural studies to inform and...
by Jerome D. Levin
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
This is a comprehensive clinical resource for addiction counselors who want to learn about the psychological components of the problem, for individual therapists—dynamic, cognitive, and behavioral—who want to understand systems approaches in order to draw on a broader repertoire of useful interventions,...
Object Relations and Relationality in Couple Therapy
Exploring the Middle Ground
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
During the course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with couples, the practicing clinician is commonly faced with problems and issues that at times can seem nearly insoluble. Integrating the rich ideas and techniques from two psychoanalytic traditions, object relations and relational theory, Object...
Treating Trauma
Relationship-Based Psychotherapy with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Treating Trauma: Relationship-Based Psychotherapy with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults presents a theoretically based and empirically supported framework for work with traumatized children, youth, and young adults who have spent time in foster care. It offers vivid examples of cases from the...