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  • Suffering and Sacrifice in the Clinical Encounter

    by Charles Ashbach, Karen Fraley, Paul Koehler, James Poulton ...
    In Suffering and Sacrifice in the Clinical Encounter, the authors identify the ways in which some patients seek to create what Freud termed a "private religion" and unconsciously substitute sacrificial enactments of scapegoat surrogates to protect them against the pain of separation, mourning, and loss of primary figures of attachment. They investigate the function of sacrifice and its ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Object Relations, The Self and the Group

    by Charles Ashbach, Victor L. Schermer ...
    Series series The International Library of Group Psychotherapy and Group Process
    This established text presents a framework for integrating group psychology with psychoanalytic theories of object relations, the ego and the self, through the perspective of general systems theory. It defines and discusses key constructs in each of the fields and illustrates them with practical examples. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

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  • Gestalt Counselling in Action

    by Simon Cavicchia, Petruska Clarkson ...
    Series series Counselling in Action series
    Simon Cavicchia has oriented Clarkson’s seminal work of Gestalt Counselling in Action within a more contemporary context, adding voices of significant and divergent thinkers as counter-point and extensions of the author’s work.Michael Clemmens, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, USAThis popular and well written book which is now in its 4th edition provides an accessible and thorough introduction to ... Read more

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  • Origins of Human Communication

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    Series series Jean Nicod Lectures
    A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view.Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the ... Read more

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  • The Restoration of the Self

    by Heinz Kohut ...
    A trailblazing book on the theory of self-psychology from the one-time president of the American Psychoanalytic Association.In his foundational work The Restoration of the Self, noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called "the limits of classical analytic theory" and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a "psychology of the self" as a theory in its own right—one that ... Read more

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  • Gestalt Therapy: A Brief Introduction

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  • Self Psychology

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    by Peter A. Lessem ...
    This comprehensive, introductory text makes the concepts of self psychology accessible for students and clinicians. It begins with an overview of the development of Kohut's ideas, particularly those on narcissism and narcissistic development and explains the self object concept that is at the core of the self psychological vision of human experience. It also includes brief overviews, of the allied ... Read more

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    by John Steiner ...
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