Jason Aronson Inc imprint: 443 books
by Ken Blady
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Jewish Communities in Exotic Places examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. These groups, situated in remote places on the Asian and African Jewish geographical periphery, became isolated from the major centers of...
Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis
Point/Counterpoint
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis: Point/Counterpoint, edited by M. Andrew Holowchak, features pro and con essays on some of the most extreme Freudian claims, including the Freudian unconscious and the Oedipus complex. Holowchak collects the writings of critical scholars in the fields of psychology...
Stress Response Syndromes
PTSD, Grief, Adjustment, and Dissociative Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The first edition of this now classic work provided the basis for adding post traumatic stress disorders to diagnoses of mental conditions. Each subsequent edition added new understanding, summaries of empirical new research, and new guides for clinicians. The thoroughly revised fifth edition adheres...
The Colors of Childhood
Separation-Individuation across Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
How does culture affect child-rearing practices? How do factors such as poverty, ethnic difference, racial minority status, and having immigrant parents alter the experience of a growing child? Are there culturally distinct sub-groups within the African-American population? How ubiquitous are psychoanalytically...
The Midrash
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
The Midrash: An Introduction sets forth the way in which Judaism reads the Hebrew Bible. In this masterful presentation, the reader is introduced to the classics of Jewish Bible interpretation, with special attention to the way in which the ribbis of Talmudic times read the Pentateuch, the Book of...
The Mishnah
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1988
In his brilliant introduction on the Mishnah, Jacob Neusner asks:
How do you read a book that does not identify its author, tell you where it comes from, or explain why it was written – a book without a preface? And how do you identify a book with neither a beginning nor end, lacking table of contents...
by Naomi Pasachoff, Robert J. Littman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
How does this Jewish history book differ from all others? Instead of burdening the reader with endless details about every single aspect of Jewish history, Pasachoff and Littman provide essential information, easily digested by readers of all ages, that chronicles only the major events and people...
The Sibling Relationship
A Force for Growth and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
This book focuses on the role that siblings play in each other's development, on the ways in which they may enrich or cast a shadow over each other's lives, and on how their internalized influence can be recognized and dealt with in the clinical setting. Drawing from observational research and clinical...
Therapeutic Attachment Relationships
Interaction Structures and the Processes of Therapeutic Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
The 75 years that span the writings of Sigmund Freud and John Bowlby_two minds that have significantly shaped thinking about the processes of change in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis_have yielded dramatic changes in the ways in which we conceptualize human relationship as curative. Their different...
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder
A Case Study and Contemporary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, remains controversial, despite its inclusion as an established diagnosis in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV). This book consists, first, of the detailed description of the treatment...
Sandplay
Therapy with Children and Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Family therapy that doesn't actively and intentionally engage children is not family therapy, notes Daniel Sweeney's extended introduction in support of Lois Carey's creative synthesis of sandplay therapy with a family systems orientation. Reminding us that we can only take clients as far as we ourselves...
Multicultural/Multiracial Psychology
Mestizo Perspectives in Personality and Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
This book presents a cognitive styles framework that explores the relationship between traditionalism/modernism and cognitive styles and offers a method for multiculturalism assessment and psychotherapy that promotes the development of pluralistic perspectives and lifestyles.
by Judith Z. Abrams
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
In A Beginner's Guide to The Steinsaltz Talmud, Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams selects a fascinating and provocative section from the Talmud and helps students to reap the vast rewards that can be achieved when one encounters Rabbi Steinsaltz's historic, ground-breaking work.
With the publication of The Talmud:...
by Roger Frie, Bruce Ries, M Guy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of scholars and clinicians assembled here are largely preoccupied with tracing the theoretical underpinnings...