From the start of life, all of us strive to achieve two goals: intimacy with another person and discovery and expression of our own identity. All too often, however, we experience these goals as conflicting. Being and Loving is an outgrowth of Dr. Horner's work as a teacher and psychotherapist. In this book, she focuses on the image of self and of others formed in the first three years of life and guides readers down a carefully chosen path that leads to a workable solution to their problems. To all those who have experienced frustration and despair born of conflict between being and loving,...
From the start of life, all of us strive to achieve two goals: intimacy with another person and discovery and expression of our own identity. All too ...
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, or at time conscious, point of view, these defenses protect the individual from a variety of intrapsychic or interpersonal dangers. As long as these defenses are in play, the process of exploration and discovery comes to a halt. They must be understood and carefully analyzed for they are at the...
Resistance is an unfortunate term for the manifestation of defense mechanisms in the treatment situation. Use of the word to a psychoanalytically unso...
A clinician's Rosetta Stone for understanding and treating presenting problems
-I highly recommend this book to therapists of all persuasions.---Allan N. Schore, department of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine
In this important book, noted author, teacher, and psychologist Althea J. Horner shows how to reveal, understand, and use the powerful core relationship problem -- which is formed from earliest childhood and creates an image of the self in relation to others -- so it can act as a Rosetta stone for...
A clinician's Rosetta Stone for understanding and treating presenting problems
-I highly recommend this book to therapists of all persua...
Written for the student and the beginning therapist, this book makes readily understandable the basic clinical concepts, practices and principles of psychoanalytic object relations therapy, without sacrificing breadth of scope or depth of insight. Basic concepts, technical considerations in therapy, the treatment process, and clinical case examples are discussed.
Written for the student and the beginning therapist, this book makes readily understandable the basic clinical concepts, practices and principles of p...
"Perhaps the acid test for any book on psychoanalytic theory is the light it sheds on the complex problems that a therapist faces. This book passes that test with flying colors. I now see my patients in a different light and I have changed my approach with beneficial results." --Samuel L. Bradshaw, Jr. The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic A Jason Aronson Book
"Perhaps the acid test for any book on psychoanalytic theory is the light it sheds on the complex problems that a therapist faces. This book passes th...
