Jason Aronson Inc imprint: 443 books
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War
Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions—spanning developments for more than one hundred years—may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Colleagues representing different traditions...
The Power of the Inner Judge
Psychodynamic Treatment of the Severe Neuroses
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
This book describes in detail how to effectively treat severely ill but not psychotic patients, by careful psychotherapeutic work on the defenses and the superego. Diverging widely from Kernberg's and Kohut's work with the same broad spectrum of patients, Léon Wurmser demonstrates his flexible and...
Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy
Right versus Left
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
This book examines ten key issues—poverty, housing, taxation and the economy, child welfare, education, health, criminal justice, civil rights, and global issues—confronting social work professionals and places them in their larger context. The introduction to each issue identifies its genesis...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Brain, Mind, and Developmental Psychopathology in Childhood, part of the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions' book series "Working with Children & Adolescents" edited by Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud, aims to help advance knowledge on the...
Hypocrisy Unmasked
Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Hypocrisy Unmasked explores the motives, meanings, and mechanisms of hypocrisy, challenging two principal psychoanalytic assumptions: First, that hypocrisy expresses deviant, uncontrollable impulses or follows exclusively from superego weakness; and second, that it can be understood solely in terms...
by Cheryl Arnold, Ralph Fisch
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development describes what happens cognitively and emotionally, behaviorally and relationally, to people who are repeatedly traumatized in childhood. Part One brings together trauma theory with a number of theories of human development. It directly addresses and describes...
Revenge
Narcissistic Injury, Rage, and Retaliation
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Revenge: Narcissistic Injury, Rage, and Retaliation addresses the ubiquitous human wish to take revenge and settle scores. Featuring the contributions of eleven distinguished mental health professionals, it offers a panoramic and yet deep perspective on the real or imagined narcissistic injury that...
The Modern Freudians
Contempory Psychoanalytic Technique
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Explores the developments in technique in the practice of psychoanalysis today.
Managing Addictions
Cognitive, Emotive, and Behavioral Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
People who suffer from addictive disorders present an incredible challenge to therapists. This book offers hope and specific techniques designed to address the complexity of treatment. Dr. F. Michler Bishop stresses the need for therapists to be flexible, to recognize that different people have different...
The Mind Object
Precocity and Pathology of Self-Sufficiency
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
How to Help People Who Have Only Their Minds to Love
Can a person relate to his or her own mind as an object, depend upon it to the exclusion of other objects, idealize it, fear it, hate it? Can a person live out a life striving to attain the elusive power of the mind's perfection, yielding...
by of Marital Studies, Tavistock Institute
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
Christopher Clulow examines the connections between partnership and parenthood, focusing on the parents as partners, as well as parents, and on the child. He examines how children change the relationship between their parents, and what relevance the couple's relationship has for healthy child development.
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Explaining Conversations
A Developmental Social Exchange Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Explaining Conversations offers a different way of interpreting people’s social exchanges than has been available in the past. The book is replete with examples of people’s verbal interactions in the form of chats, arguments, debates, and negotiations, both within a culture and across cultures....
Messengers of God
A Jewish Prophets Who's Who
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
There were fifteen important prophets in Israel, whose lives covered nearly four centuries, beginning about 750 B.C.E. Known as the literary prophets because they wrote down their prophecies, they were chosen by God at a time of social and political crisis in the community. Their task was to warn,...
Outsmarting the Riptide of Domestic Violence
Metaphor and Mindfulness for Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
In Outsmarting the Riptide of Domestic Violence: Metaphor and Mindfulness for Change, Pat Pernicano translates issues central to domestic violence recovery into metaphorical stories and mindfulness narratives that will facilitate the change process. The stories are intended to be used in conjunction...