Defining the demands and expectations that parents place upon their offspring from the very beginning, this book explains how even the youngest can adapt to a role that is expected of them. It demonstrates how parents can transfer problems from their own childhood into this new relationship.

A timely, groundbreaking guide to enhancing the rituals in our lives, which helps people to enrich their relationships and reestablish their family ties. The coauthors of Rituals in Families and Family Therapy show how to create meaningful rituals adapted to individual lives and family structures, for new meaning in old and new traditions and celebrating life's milestones.

Dr. David Scharff explores the role of sexuality in human relationships by combining his extensive experience in individual, marital, family, and sex therapy with theoretical contributions from object relations theory and child development.

This work provides an account of the people, movements and events that have influenced the direction and character of psychiatry. The authors trace the various ways of dealing with mental illness that have emerged and developed, from prehistoric times to the modern day.

This work presents a method of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy based on matching treatment to personality style. A team of researchers shows how time-limited therapy deals with the distinctive problems of hysterical, compulsive, narcissistic, and borderline patients. Detailed transcripts and commentary take the reader through the process for each personality type, demonstrating how the therapeutic alliance is established and how conflicts and distress are worked through. Although developed for working with a patient's current and focal problems, this work may also effect more pervasive...