Jason Aronson Inc imprint: 443 books
Another Chance to be Real
Attachment and Object Relations Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
By most accounts, people with a borderline personality disorder prove exceptionally difficult to treat. Divergent opinions abound about what, if anything, contributes to a positive outcome. Is it the quality of the relationship with the psychotherapist that is curative, in that the careful attunement...
Working from the Heart
A Therapist's Guide to Heart-Centered Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
When therapists work in a heart-centered way, they feel freer to be both professionals and loving human beings. Working from the Heart advocates for a deeper understanding that the therapist's expressions of non-sexual, non-romantic love are a core ingredient in effective psychotherapy. Each chapter...
by Clark E. Moustakas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
This text examines a series of pervasive themes of human existence and the challenges of being and relating. Areas investigated include: the nature and meaning of being different; possessiveness and being possessed; and dimensions of loneliness, mystery and self-disclosure.
Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker proposes that “death anxiety” is responsible for the American society’s failure to address costly futile care at the end of life; more specifically, doctors default on the appropriate prescription...
Immigration and Acculturation
Mourning, Adaptation, and the Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Moving from one country to another causes a radical alteration of one's cultural and geophysical surround. Separation from friends and family, loss of valued possessions, and encountering new ways of living result in mental pain and disorienting anxieties. In Immigration and Acculturation, Salman...
by Glen O. Gabbard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Passionate feelings of love and hate are stirred in psychotherapy. Paradoxically, these passions may either undermine the therapist catastrophically or serve as the crucible in which profound understanding is forged.
Transferences and countertransferences of love and hate occur on a spectrum...
The Essential Maimonides
Translations of the Rambam
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
Each of the five discourses and letters offered in the present volume is a celebrated treatise of timeless relevance. Taken together they comprise, in capsule form, the full range of the Rambam's views on
God, Torah, man, and the world. In addition to answering questions on crucial issues relating...
Path of the Baal Shem Tov
Early Chasidic Teachings and Customs
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
The original teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of chasidism, on more than fifty subjects.
Practicing Cognitive Therapy
A Guide to Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Since its development thirty-five years ago, the practice of cognitive therapy has been extended well beyond the treatment of depression. It is now effectively used with substance abuse, marital conflict, sexual dysfunction, panic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, paranoid delusional disorders,...
Slings and Arrows
Narcissistic Injury and Its Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1995
Levin examines what therapists can do to help the victims of narcissistic wounds to integrate, mourn, and heal them. He shows the nature of the injuries to each party and considers ways to minimize them, since treatment itself can seem an injury to both patient and therapist.
Being and Loving
How to Achieve Intimacy with Another Person and Retain One's Own Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
From the start of life, all of us strive to achieve two goals: intimacy with another person and discovery and expression of our own identity. All too often, however, we experience these goals as conflicting. Being and Loving is an outgrowth of Dr. Horner's work as a teacher and psychotherapist. In...
The Total Transference and the Complete Counter-Transference
The Kleinian Psychoanalytic Approach with More Disturbed Patients
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
The book takes the reader “into the trenches” with the author as he describes his psychoanalytic work with a variety of patients with difficult and complex conditions. The reader becomes familiar with the clinical and theoretical difficulties psychoanalysts encounter in their day to day practice...
by Clark E. Moustakas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
Existential Psychotherapy and the Interpretation of Dreams, by Clark Moustakas, presents a fresh model for the effective integration of dreamwork in humanistically oriented psychotherapy. The existential-phenomenological emphasis opens channels of conscious awareness that enable people in therapy...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1994
Provides stimulating interpretations of Christian practice.