< P> Susan Miller, author of two foundational works on shame (< i> The Shame Experience< /i> [TAP, 1985/1993pbk]; < i> Shame in Context< /i> [TAP, 1996]), now turns to disgust, an intriguing emotion that has received little attention in the professional literature.& nbsp; For Miller, the psychological study of disgust revolves around boundary issues: We tend to feel disgusted about things (from bodily processes to decaying organic matter to ethnic attributes of "foreign" people) that lie on the border between our sense of self and nonself or between our sense...
< P> Susan Miller, author of two foundational works on shame (< i> The Shame Experience< /i> [TAP, 1985/1993pbk]; < i> Shame in Context< /i> [TAP, 199...
Drawing on the experience of evaluating over 2000 emergency room patients, Rene Muller explores the important role of psychiatry in emergency room medicine. He discusses some of his most challenging cases, showing how psychiatry comes to the aid of medicine in managing the crises - real, imagined, and contrived - that are the everyday fare of clinicians who work in the ER. We are introduced to a world in which lies are exposed, manipulations revealed, diagnoses made, medications adjusted, and even very brief psychotherapy attempted. Muller begins with patient narratives rooted in the...
Drawing on the experience of evaluating over 2000 emergency room patients, Rene Muller explores the important role of psychiatry in emergency room med...
The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field. Author René Muller presents a revealing look into how psychiatry has failed a great majority of patients, all the while recognizing the valiant efforts made by psychiatrists who maintain their integrity and serve their patients well. The result is an enlightening critique of the profession—one that pits criticism of psychiatry’s current...
The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses...
In "The Marginal Self" (1987), Ren DEGREESD'e J. Muller characterized what he saw as the phenomenon of marginality. Using existential anthropology, he argued that the Judeo-Christian tradition and the tradition of rationality, the bedrock of Western culture for over 2,000 years, no longer provided a satisfactory context for living. He showed how maginalizing choices made in an attenuated Western culture inevitably lead to pathological living and disillusion.
In "Beyond Marginality," a sequel, Muller changes his perspective and ground and reinterrogates the phenomenon of the marginal...
In "The Marginal Self" (1987), Ren DEGREESD'e J. Muller characterized what he saw as the phenomenon of marginality. Using existential anthropology,...
Borderline personality disorder is a diagnosis often given to those who have serious problems with self-image and mood, as well as with interpersonal relations. This text presents a journal of a 15-month course of therapy with a classic splitting borderline patient, followed by an in-depth analysis of the case from three very different, but ultimately converging, perspectives. While there is a large and growing literature on borderline personality disorder, Anatomy of a Splitting Borderline is the first book-length study of a borderline patient, expressly revealing facets of this mental...
Borderline personality disorder is a diagnosis often given to those who have serious problems with self-image and mood, as well as with interperson...
