Hope and Mortality : Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV

ISBN-13: 9780881632231 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 288 str.

Mark J. Blechner

Opis

This collection of essays on psychodynamic approaches to AIDS provides general principles involved in working with patients and explores the range of therapeutic issues that have arisen. Chapters cover working with children of AIDS patients, therapist's experiences, and support groups for gay men.

Spis treści

Blechner, Introduction. Part I: Principles of Treatment. Blechner, Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV. Schaffner, Modifying Psychotherapeutic Methods When Treating the HIV-Positive Patient. Aronson, Treatment of Children and Parents in Families with AIDS. Bodnar, "Gidget Goes to Sing-Sing": An Interpersonal Therapeutic Approach to HIV-Positive Substance Abusers. Part II: Case Studies. Shapiro, There But for the Grace of . . . : Countertransference During the Psychotherapy of a Young HIV-Positive Woman. Marisak, Psychotherapy of an AIDS Patient with Dementia. Petrucelli, "Playing with Fire": Transference-Countertransference Configurations in the Treatment of a Sexually Compulsive HIV-Positive Gay Man. Gartner, Managing Chronic Loss and Grief: Contrapuntal Needs of an AIDS Patient and His Therapist. Eisold, Disease, Death, and Group Process from a Psychodynamic Point of View. Mujica, When a Patient Becomes HIV-Positive During Psychotherapy. O'Leary, A Heterosexual Male Therapist's Journey of Self-Discovery: Wearing a "Straight"jacket in a Gay Men's Bereavement Group. Bodnar, Dances with Men: The Impact of Multiple Losses in My Practice of Psychoanalytically Informed Psychotherapy.

O autorze

Mark J. Blechner, Ph.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst and Teaching Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute and at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  A member of the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Dr. Blechner also participates in the study group on neuropsychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.  He has written numerous articles on dreams and is the author of The Dream Frontier (Analytic Press, 2001).