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by Thomas H. Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Explains the patient's identification in treatment with a significant other for purposes of mastering traumatic experiences.
"This book is a clear, constructive, and instructive treatment of an important observation. It is also an example of clinical sophistication of the very highest order."
–Jeffrey...
The Facilitating Partnership
A Winnicottian Approach for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1995
A young mother suspected of abusing her toddler, a severely behavior-disordered teenager who faces expulsion from his community residence, a depressed and illiterate homeless man who fears psychiatric evaluation. These clients populate the caseloads of most mental health professionals, who often view...
by Martha Stark
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
"Martha Stark's primer on resistance is a unique book. It takes as the heart of the clinical problem the patient's reluctance to change, that ubiquitous and paradoxical phenomenon of our work in which people come to us asking for help in changing, and then do their level best to keep change from...
Matrix of the Mind
Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
This book is exciting, original, and above all accessible–a rare combination for a text which deals in depth with psychoanalytical theory. Non-analysts are frequently both baffled and alienated by the jargon and the complexity of works which extend psychoanalytical thinking, but Ogden is revealed...
The Criminal Personality
The Drug User
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
'The third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 121 criminal men who used drugs and/or alcohol to excess. Originally set in writing by Yochelson before his death in 1976, the materials were edited and...
Healing Homosexuality
Case Stories of Reparative Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
In 1973, when all the arguments were presented to the American Psychiatric Association both for and against the idea of homosexuality as pathology, it was the personal disclosures of gay men that had the most influence. Listening to their stories of frustration in treatment–and their newfound happiness...
Crossroads in Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and Mindfulness
The Word and the Breath
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
A comprehensive collection of essays exploring the interstices of Eastern and Western modes of thinking about the self, Crossroads in Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and Mindfulness: The Word and the Breath documents just some of the challenges, conflicts, pitfalls, and “wow” moments that inhere in...
The Jewish Holidays
A Journey through History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2000
The events surrounding the holidays molded the foundation of the Jews as a nation and are related to their continuity and survival as Jews throughout history. In The Jewish Holidays: A Journey through History, author Larry Domnitch contends that there is a cyclical nature to the events of Jewish history....
by Mitchell G. Bard, Moshe Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Hardly a day passes when Israel is not in the news. Virtually all the press coverage, however, is about the conflict between Israel and her neighbors. There is so much more to Israel that is positive and should be better known. This book provides essential facts about not only the political events...
The Holy Fire
The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto is a journey into the mind and spirit of a sublime hasidic master in his moments of joy and tranquillity, and later, in his time of personal and communal catastrophe. The reader takes a voyage into the rich...
The Basic Beliefs of Judaism
A Twenty-first-Century Guide to a Timeless Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
One of the oldest monotheistic religions known to humankind, Judaism has withstood the tests of time. So what exactly are the tenets of this ancient faith that have been passed down over the millennia, and how do they apply to our lives in the 21st century? The Basic Beliefs of Judaism gives an updated...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
The quotations contained in this monumental volume consist of aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and comments of Jewish authorship or on Jewish themes. Here is a rich treasury compiled from over 2,500 years of Jewish writings–from the Talmud, the Mishnah, the Zohar, and the Bible, through excerpts from...
Breaking the Addiction to Please
Goodbye Guilt
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Many people are responsible for taking care of an aging parent, an ailing spouse, or a handicapped child and do so out of love, devotion, or obligation, and many others have caretaking occupations in the areas of nursing, social work, counseling, and so on. But there are other less benign caretakers...
Chosen Tales
Stories Told by Jewish Storytellers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
The storytellers represented in Chosen Tales are among the most active and talented Jewish storytellers in the world. This extraordinary collection of 68 stories is, in a way, a Jewish storytelling festival, where storytellers gather to share stories, hear each other's stories, and get to know each...