This book provides a systematic approach to managing countertransference when treating borderline patients. Using detailed accounts of clinical experiences, the authors demonstrate how their own thoughts, feelings, and fantasies enable them to understand their patients' internal worlds.
This book provides a systematic approach to managing countertransference when treating borderline patients. Using detailed accounts of clinical experi...
A variety of authors examine the inner workings of the physician's marriage--the psychological issues and sources of conflict that emerge in the various stages of marriage and family. The authors include notable experts who share their years of clinical experience in helping physicians and their families learn new ways to improve communication, balance the demands of work and family, and grow and change together constructively.
A variety of authors examine the inner workings of the physician's marriage--the psychological issues and sources of conflict that emerge in the va...
This volume of the Review of Psychiatry looks at the use of psychotherapy in the treatment of personality disorders. Individual topics covered include: cognitive therapy; combining medication and psychotherapy; and responsivity to psychosocial therapies in relation to antisociality gradations.
This volume of the Review of Psychiatry looks at the use of psychotherapy in the treatment of personality disorders. Individual topics covered include...
This book presents the latest data on--and clinical, ethical, and medicolegal issues pertaining to--sexual intimacy in the professional relationship. Contributors (including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, clergy, and attorneys) explore the issue of professional incest across the broad spectrum of the helping professions.
This book presents the latest data on--and clinical, ethical, and medicolegal issues pertaining to--sexual intimacy in the professional relationshi...
In psychiatry, clinicians recognize the influence of their own personal characteristics on the assessment and treatment of their patients. No interactions in psychiatry are entirely free of countertransference dynamics. Most major theories point to countertransference as a jointly created phenomenon involving feelings induced by the patient combined with the conflicts and preexisting self and object representations that the clinician brings to the encounter.
Countertransference Issues in Psychiatric Treatment provides an overview of theory and technique that gives the reader a...
In psychiatry, clinicians recognize the influence of their own personal characteristics on the assessment and treatment of their patients. No inter...
Early in the history of cinema, psychiatrists studied the movies to understand their appeal and power. Meanwhile, filmmakers have long been intrigued by psychiatry and frequently portray this mysterious world in film. Both movies and psychiatry focus on human thought, emotions, behavior, and motivation -- making a link between the two subjects inevitable.
Psychiatry and the Cinema explores this complementary relationship from two angles, psychiatrists who have studied the movies and movies that have depicted psychiatry. This second edition looks at: - Over 400 theatrically-released...
Early in the history of cinema, psychiatrists studied the movies to understand their appeal and power. Meanwhile, filmmakers have long been intrigu...
In full acknowledgment of the important cultural significance of film, this outstanding collection of psychoanalytic essays brings a methodological and theoretical sophistication to an absorbing range of film material. From Wild Strawberries and Vertigo to Titanic and Being John Malkovich, this intelligent and enjoyable collection succeedes in combining clarity and accessibility with a deeply informed scholarship.
In full acknowledgment of the important cultural significance of film, this outstanding collection of psychoanalytic essays brings a methodological an...
Since Freud invoked the Oedipus story to exemplify and verify his findings with patients and in analyzing his own dreams, psychoanalysis and literature have had a fruitful if often distrusting relationship. Literature and theory have increased enormously in range. Education no longer insists upon classics of Western literature as building blocks for understanding. Yet the tie between psychoanalysis and imaginative literature remains vital, and the two disciplines can interact vibrantly, as these selected essays of recent years from the International Journal of Psychoanalysis handsomely show....
Since Freud invoked the Oedipus story to exemplify and verify his findings with patients and in analyzing his own dreams, psychoanalysis and literatur...
