Jason Aronson Inc imprint: 443 books
Family-Focused Trauma Intervention
Using Metaphor and Play with Victims of Abuse and Neglect
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Treatment of abuse and neglect needs to be family-focused in order to reduce troubling symptoms, address family risk and relapse potential, treat cross-generational patterns, and remediate attachment deficits. Evidence-based practices are available for child and family abuse treatment, including Trauma...
Transforming Aggression
Psychotherapy with the Difficult-to-Treat Patient
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Resources of empathy, humor, and creativity are needed by both the therapist and the patient to transform chronic, eruptive expressions of anger and transcend the tendency to violence. The task of therapy is to develop these resources. Dr. Frank M. Lachmann, eminent clinician, teacher, and researcher,...
by Helene Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
Self psychology offers a new perception of how pathology develops. It emerges, not from intrapsychic conflict, but from the pervasive absence of empathically responsive selfobject in the child's inner and outer world. The goal of this book is to familiarize mental health professionals with this new...
Beyond Yahweh and Jesus
Bringing Death's Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
The first in-depth psychoanalytic study of the Old and New Testaments, Beyond Yahweh and Jesus centers on God's role in enabling humans to cope with death and the anxieties it evokes. Yahweh is seen as tending to increase rather than diminish these death anxieties, while Christ offers near-perfect...
Doing More With Less
Using Long-Term Skills in Short-Term Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Confronting the challenge to provide sound clinical treatment in brief therapy, this timely book will enrich the practices of all psychotherapists. Designed and arranged according to the DSM-IV diagnostic categories, each chapter addresses the short-term treatment of a specific condition or patient...
Language and Connection in Psychotherapy
Words Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language plays a major role in our daily lives. Humans are specialized to live in a social environment, and our brains are “designed” to manage interactions with others which are, for the most part, accomplished through words. Language allows us to function both cognitively and interpersonally,...
by Althea J. Horner PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
Resistance is an unfortunate term for the manifestation of defense mechanisms in the treatment situation. Use of the word to a psychoanalytically unsophisticated patient may evoke undesired consequences because to a patient, it implies deliberate intent and thus, blame. From the patient's unconscious,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
This book examines the use of brief psychotherapy with the neurotic patient, using clinical examples throughout. While treatment is shorter in brief psychotherapy, it is not easier or less demanding on the therapist. It demands a clarity of thinking and precision of purpose that takes time and motivation...
Intricate Engagements
The Collaborative Basis of Therapeutic Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
In this fine book, Dr. Steven A. Frankel paints the portraits of his collaborating patients vividly, graphically and with consummate compassion. Treatment for Frankel is never a discussion and surely not one filled with the therapist's abstinence; it is a vital, interactive and changing experience...
Understanding Adoption
Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told in the offices of psychotherapists...
Emotional Transformation Therapy
An Interactive Ecological Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Emotional Transformation Therapy: An Interactive Ecological Psychotherapy describes an entirely original approach to psychotherapy that drastically accelerates therapeutic outcomes in terms of speed and long-term effects. It includes an attachment-based interpersonal approach that increases the impact...
Freud's Other Theory of Psychoanalysis
The Replacement for the Indelible Theory of Catharsis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Freud’s Other Theory of Psychoanalysis: The Replacement for the Indelible Theory of Catharsis argues that Freud’s familiar theory of psychoanalysis is an elaboration of his catharsis theory. Although it changed from repression of painful memories to the repression sexuality, to repression of infantile...
Using Early Memories in Psychotherapy
Roadmaps to Presenting Problems and Treatment Impasses
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Certain intrinsic features of early memories make them analogous to life problems and to the therapy relationship: childhood tends to imply situations that are confusing, disempowered, or impulsive, and relationships that are parental, intimate, or defining. When early memories are examined, the results...
Psychodynamic Supervision
Perspectives for the Supervisor and the Supervisee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
For therapists working in clinics and hospitals, as well as those who conduct private practices, supervision is a crucial resource long past formal training. Martin Rock offers anyone who has been supervised, is in supervision, or does supervision, a thought provoking and challenging perspective on the supervisor and supervisee.