"Stunning in its scope, powerfully reasoned, clinically rich in telling cases, and historically sophisticated?. What an intellectual delight to have a book that stays in your mind, continues to challenge, and offers new directions for understanding." -Ed Tronick, Chief of the Child Development Unit, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, ...
Pioneering research has been carried out over the last decade on mentalization and the promotion of mentalizing capacity the ability to interpret the behavior of oneself and others as based on intentional mental states, such as needs, desires, feelings, and beliefs. This book is a consolidation of current knowledge and clinical applications, ...
Meeting the growing demand for resources on evidence-based practice, this acclaimed work has now been fully revised and expanded with the latest treatment data. Like its predecessor, the second edition provides a systematic, comprehensive, and balanced evaluation of the current status of all major psychotherapeutic approaches. Detailed evidence is ...
The contributors to this volume place in context Freuds evolving thinking; focus on what it tells us about love, female sexuality and conventional morality; discuss the role of the therapist in the genesis of the patients transference love; explore the differences between revering, reliving and enacting; and examine Freuds theory in the light of ...
Mentalizing - the ability to understand oneself and others by inferring the mental states that lie behind overt behavior - develops during childhood within the context of a secure attachment relationship. It is crucial to self-regulation and constructive, intimate relationships. Failure to retain mentalizing, particularly in the midst of emotional ...
This comprehensive book evaluates the evidence for the full range of widely used child and adolescent mental health treatments, providing vital knowledge to inform clinical decision making. Organized around the major presenting problems in child and adolescent practice, the book synthesizes findings from hundreds of carefully selected studies on ...
This volume synthesizes information on the efficacy of the major models of psychotherapy for commonly encountered mental health problems. Maintaining a balance between empirical considerations and the role of clinical judgement, the authors examine how research evidence can be used to improve the structure and planning of services to specific ...
Borderline Personality disorder is a severe personality dysfunction characterized by behavioural features such as impulsivity, identity disturbance, suicidal behaviour, emptiness, and intense and unstable relationships. Approximately 2 per cent of the population are thought to meet the criteria for BPD. The authors of this volume - Anthony Bateman ...
In this groundbreaking book, Sidney J. Blatt proposes that psychological development is a lifelong personal negotiation between the two fundamental dimensions of relatedness and self-definition. Psychological development, from youth to old age, is a synergistic balancing act between these two polarities, with most individuals favoring to varying ...
Social cognition refers to the capacity to think about others' thoughts, intentions, feelings, attitudes and perspectives and enables us to engage in the activities that humans value most, such as family, friendship, love, cooperation, play, and community. These processes form such an essential and natural part of our functioning as human beings ...
Social inequality and social disadvantage provide an all too fertile soil that sustains the majority of the serious mental health problems suffered by children in our society. The complexity of the issues clinicians routinely encounter in working with children with mental health problems is widely acknowledged. However, few books concern ...
This book undertakes to demonstrate that the relationship between attachment theory and psychoanalysis is more complex than adherents of either community generally recognize. Beginning with a brief overview of attachment theory and some key findings of attachment research, and continuing through psychoanalytic approaches from Freud to Daniel Stern ...
This volume marks the establishment of a joint program of research, training and clinical service, between two institutions historically dedicated to the well-being of children and their families: the Anna Freud Centre in London and the Child Study Center. The joint program brings a new model of interdisciplinary empirical research to ...
What, from a psychoanalytic point of view, constitute the 'facts of life'? What are the stories that our professional mentors tell us about the psychological equivalents of the 'birds and the bees'? How useful are these stories, and in what ways do they help those of us who work with couples understand and change the sexual difficulties that they ...
Joseph Sandler has been an important influence in psychoanalysis throughout the world during the latter part of the 20th Century, contributing to changing views on both psychoanalytic theory and technique. He has also been a bridging force in psychoanalysis, helping to close the gap between American ego psychologists, and British Kleinian and ...
Psychoanalytic theory influenced many facets of 20th century culture, and shows every sign of continuing to have an impact in the 21st. However, in order to sustain this influence it has to adapt to the challenges of out current intellectual environment. This book attempts to build a bridge between psychoanalysis and a dominant perspective in ...
Mentalizing - the fundamental human capacity to understand behavior in relation to mental states such as thoughts and feelings - is the basis of healthy relationships and self-awareness. "Mentalizing in Clinical Practice" distills the burgeoning literature on mentalizing for clinicians of diverse professional backgrounds. As growing evidence ...
Each volume of this series presents a classic essay by Freud and discussions of the essay by psychoanalytic teachers and analysts who differ in emphasis and theoretical backgrounds. In this paper, Freud discusses the inevitability of "transference-love", and of its function and hazards.
Each book in this series presents a classic essay by Freud and discussions of the essay by psychoanalytic teachers and clinicians differing in emphases and in geographical background. "On Narcissim: An Introduction" is an essay dealing with ideas that are still being debated today - from the role of narcissim in normal and pathological development ...
These papers from a conference with the same title includes work by Lawrence Weiskrant (highlighting the concerns around false memories), John Morton (outling contemporary models of memory), and Valerie Sinason (on detecting abuse in child psychotherapy). The second half presents a psychoanalytic theory of false memory syndrome, by Joseph Sandler. ...
Commenting on Widlocher's paper on the debate between those who see asexual attachment as the earliest bond and those who see infantile sexuality as primary, eight major contributors to psychoanalytic child studies set forth the current thinking in both camps.
The proceedings of a very remarkable conference held at University College, London which brought together psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, lawyers and parents currently involved in accusations of abuse on the basis of recovered memories. General discussions of the papers presented, along with discussions ...
"On Narcissism: An Introduction" is a densely packed essay dealing with ideas that are still being debated todayfrom the role of narcissism in normal and pathological development and the relationship of narcissism to homosexuality, libido, romantic love, and self-esteem, to issues of therapeutic intervention. The contributors place the work in the ...
Contributors: Susan Coates, Cludio Laks Eizirik, Peter Fonagy, Richard C. Friedman, Andr E. Haynal, Rainer Krause, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Linda C. Mayes, Friedemann Pffin, Anne-Marie Sandler, Sheila Spensley, Sverre Varvin, and Rudi Vermote.
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