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Nonsuicidal Self-Injury moves beyond the basics to tackle the
clinical and conceptual complexity of NSSI, with an emphasis on
recent advances in both science and practice. Directed towards
clinicians, researchers, and others wishing to advance their
understanding of NSSI, this volume reviews and synthesizes recent
empirical findings that clarify NSSI as a theoretical and clinical
condition, as well as the latest efforts to assess, treat, and
prevent NSSI. With expertly written chapters by leaders in the
field, this is an essential guide to a disorder about which much is
still to be known.
Nonsuicidal Self-Injury moves beyond the basics to tackle the
clinical and conceptual complexity of NSSI, with an emphasis on
recent advances in both science and practice. Directed towards
clinicians, researchers, and others wishing to advance their
understanding of NSSI, this volume reviews and synthesizes recent
empirical findings that clarify NSSI as a theoretical and clinical
condition, as well as the latest efforts to assess, treat, and
prevent NSSI. With expertly written chapters by leaders in the
field, this is an essential guide to a disorder about which much is
still to be known.
In this book, a psychologist and a professor detail the history,
psychology, and effects of this little-studied condition that has
altered individuals and societies worldwide, arguing that the
disorder deserves its own classification. Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm
in 1964 developed the term "malignant narcissism," believing it to
be the worst form of psychopathology, a disorder that essentially
epitomized evil. Malignant narcissism, however, has never been
identified as a clinical condition in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; instead, it is seen as a
conglomeration of several other disorders. Yet researchers since
Fromm have described malignant narcissists as unique in their
callous nature and proclivity to extreme violence, with a component
of sadism bringing them pleasure when inflicting pain. The largest
concern about malignant narcissists is that "some have the ability
and wherewithal to rise to great positions of power and influence"
and to affect large numbers of people. Authors Smith and Hung
explain the differences between malignant narcissists, "everyday"
narcissists, and psychopaths, illustrating these conditions with
vignettes of historic public figures and people in popular culture,
among others. Illustrates concepts through case studies from
history and popular culture and of prison inmates Explains how
malignant narcissism differs from psychopathy and related disorders
Details the absolute characteristic that sets this disorder apart
from others: sadism Addresses theories and research on this
disorder as well as treatments and medications Includes a
bibliography
The problems of readjustment, for the individual and for the
business purse and for the state, which inevitably follow war are
most important at the present moment. Almost five years after the
end of the Great Conflict, many of these problems are still facing
us, and it will take many more years before they are settled. One
who is interested in the statistics of conditions will find many
places in which they can be found. Although statistics show what
exists or has existed, they seldom provide advice regarding the
solutions. The present work is entirely lacking in statistics It is
intended to be of assistance in the solution of some problems.
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living examines how
psychoanalysts can draw on their training, reading, and clinical
experience to help their patients address some of the recurrent
challenges of everyday life. Sandra Buechler offers clinicians
poetic, psychoanalytic, and experiential approaches to problems,
drawing on her personal and clinical experience, as well as ideas
from her reading, to confront challenges familiar to us all.
Buechler addresses issues including difficulties of mourning,
aging, living with uncertainty, finding meaningful work,
transcending pride, bearing helplessness, and forgiving life's
hardships. For those contemplating a clinical career, and those in
its beginning stages, she suggests ways to prepare to face these
quandaries in treatment sessions. More experienced practitioners
will find echoes of themes that have run through their own clinical
and personal life experiences. The chapters demonstrate that
insights from a poem can often guide the clinician as well as
concepts garnered from psychoanalytic theory and other sources.
Buechler puts her questions to T. S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke,
Elizabeth Bishop, W. S. Merwin, Stanley Kunitz and many other poets
and fiction writers. She "asks" Sharon Olds how to meet
emergencies, Erich Fromm how to live vigorously, and Edith Wharton
how to age gracefully, and brings their insights to bear as she
addresses challenges that make frequent appearances in clinical
sessions, and other walks of life. With a final section designed to
improve training in the light of her practical findings,
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living is an essential
book for all practicing psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic
psychotherapists.
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living examines how
psychoanalysts can draw on their training, reading, and clinical
experience to help their patients address some of the recurrent
challenges of everyday life. Sandra Buechler offers clinicians
poetic, psychoanalytic, and experiential approaches to problems,
drawing on her personal and clinical experience, as well as ideas
from her reading, to confront challenges familiar to us all.
Buechler addresses issues including difficulties of mourning,
aging, living with uncertainty, finding meaningful work,
transcending pride, bearing helplessness, and forgiving life's
hardships. For those contemplating a clinical career, and those in
its beginning stages, she suggests ways to prepare to face these
quandaries in treatment sessions. More experienced practitioners
will find echoes of themes that have run through their own clinical
and personal life experiences. The chapters demonstrate that
insights from a poem can often guide the clinician as well as
concepts garnered from psychoanalytic theory and other sources.
Buechler puts her questions to T. S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke,
Elizabeth Bishop, W. S. Merwin, Stanley Kunitz and many other poets
and fiction writers. She "asks" Sharon Olds how to meet
emergencies, Erich Fromm how to live vigorously, and Edith Wharton
how to age gracefully, and brings their insights to bear as she
addresses challenges that make frequent appearances in clinical
sessions, and other walks of life. With a final section designed to
improve training in the light of her practical findings,
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living is an essential
book for all practicing psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic
psychotherapists.
Insanity is no exception to the rule which requires a knowledge of
the normal as an indispensable preliminary to a knowledge of the
abnormal. This book, published in 1901, aimed to provide the first
systematic examination of the disorders of the mind as arranged and
correlated with the normal types from which they arringly depart.
Widely used by family therapists- and by health care professionals
in general-the genogram is a graphic way of organising the mass of
information gathered during a family assessment. This visual
representation allows the practitioner to find patterns in the
family system for more targeted treatment. Now in its fourth
edition, Genograms has been fully updated by renowned therapist
Monica McGoldrick. Expanded with four-colour images throughout,
additional material explaining the use of genograms with siblings
and couples, and a thorough updating to essential concepts, this
edition provides a fascinating view into the richness of family
dynamics. Informative, comprehensive, and beautifully written and
illustrated, this book helps bring to life principles of family
system theory and systemic interviewing, as well as walk readers
through the basics of constructing a genogram, doing a genogram
interview and interpreting the results.
Despite the fact that we have been studying posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) since at least the late 1800s, it remains prevalent
and, in many cases intractable. Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology
of PTSD: Hidden Ghosts of Traumatic Memory begins with the
assertion that we struggle to successfully treat PTSD because we
simply do not understand it well enough. Using the phenomenological
approach of Maurice Merleau-Ponty - which focuses on the
first-person, lived experience of the trauma victim - Merleau-Ponty
and a Phenomenology of PTSD: Hidden Ghosts of Traumatic Memory
focuses on reframing our understanding of combat trauma in two
fundamental ways. First, the concepts of embodiment and adaptation
give us an understanding of the human being as fundamentally
adaptive. This allows us to view traumatic responses as adaptive as
well. When the roots of traumatic injury become reframed in this
way, combat-related PTSD can be understood more accurately as a set
of symptoms borne of strength and survival rather than weakness or
disorder. Second, phenomenology reveals that a different ghost
haunts those who are afflicted by trauma. For the past century,
trauma studies across disciplines have all assumed that the ghost
of a singular traumatic event haunts the sufferer. While this is
likely a part of the problem, further study shows that those who
suffer from trauma are also haunted by the specter of a world
without meaning. In other words, phenomenology reveals that what is
injured in trauma is not just the mind or the body but the entire
worldview of the individual. It is this aspect of the injury - the
shattering loss of one's blueprint of the world - that is missing
from other accounts of trauma. Rather than aim to upend previous
research in the fields of psychology and neuroscience,
Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of PTSD: Hidden Ghosts of
Traumatic Memory uses the phenomenological approach to bring them
together and expand then. It is in this expansion that we are able
to consider what we may have previously missed - which stands to
improve our understanding and treatment of trauma in general.
After a discussion of current theory and research findings relating to rehabilitation of brain injury, this book presents 20 case studies of adults with severe brain injuries sustained several years earlier. The causes of their brain damage include traumatic head injuries, encephalitis, stroke and hypoxia. Problems that follow such injuries including loss of self-care skills, memory impairment, language, reading, visuoperceptual and behavioural difficulities, are analysed in detail. The book describes the premorbid lifestyle of each of the 20 individuals, the onset of their brain damage, subsequent symptoms, neuropsychological assessment, rehabilitation, and long-term outcome. Most chapters include a report by the patient and/or family member, thus providing an extra dimension that helps to increase the reader's understanding of the predicaments faced by brain-injured individuals as they learn to cope with traumatic changes in lifestyle. Although improvement for most brain-injured people is slow and limited, all those described in this book made some progress after their admission to rehabilitation services. The exhaustive analysis of each case and step-by-step description of treatment will encourage professionals and other care-givers that much can be done for this severely injured group. For students of neuropsychology and rehabilitation, the book should serve as an inspiring and informative supplementary text.
Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis is
written by practicing child psychoanalysts with extensive
experience treating children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD)
and uneven development. The authors bridge the gap between a
psychodynamic approach to ASD and burgeoning data from the fields
of neurobiology and neurofunction. Based on current research
showing neuroplasticity of the brain, the authors posit that
treating ASD through intensive engagement of caregiver and child
makes possible the successful psychoanalytic treatment of a
neurobiological disorder. To this end, the authors examine both the
clinical dynamics of their treatments and the possible impact of
the treatment on neurobiological processes. Detailed case studies
of children treated by the authors comprise the heart of the book.
The cases emphasize the importance of engaging these young children
intensively with the social world, first of their caregivers and
then their peers, while also helping child and caregiver make sense
of the child's "nonsense" behavior through insight into their inner
worlds. The authors explain how and why such treatment works
through examining the processes by which infant and caregiver learn
to know each other and how a baby comes to know the world. This
approach emphasizes the intimate connection between infant and
caregiver in forming the emotional, cognitive, attentional, and
interpersonal experiences that give a child the ability to make
meaning and grow. In addition, this volume presents a selective
summary of the neurobiological research in the area of ASD to
provide the reader with the related neurobiological and
psychological factors. This underscores the thesis that ASD is a
potentially reversible neurodevelopmental disorder with
experiential and psychological consequences, and lays groundwork
for an integrated treatment approach with psychoanalysis at its
core.
Insanity is no exception to the rule which requires a knowledge of
the normal as an indispensable preliminary to a knowledge of the
abnormal. This book, published in 1901, aimed to provide the first
systematic examination of the disorders of the mind as arranged and
correlated with the normal types from which they arringly depart.
Neurobiology of Abnormal Emotion and Motivated Behaviors:
Integrating Animal and Human Research pulls together world-renowned
leaders from both animal and human research, providing a conceptual
framework on how neuroscience can inform our understanding of
emotion and motivation, while also outlining methodological
commonalities between animal and human neuroscience research, with
an emphasis on experimental design, physiological recording
techniques and outcome measures. Typically, researchers
investigating the neurobiology of emotions focus on either animal
models or humans. This book brings the two disciplines together to
share information and collaborate on future experimental
techniques, physiological measures and clinical outcomes.
Migration Trauma, Culture, and Finding the Psychological Home
Within is an in-depth study of Eastern European migration to the
United States. In presenting the clinical case studies of Eastern
European migrants seeking long term psychoanalytic treatment, Grace
Conroy pays particular attention to pre-migration history, inner
culture, and early psychological development. Conroy details what
is happening in the psyche of migrants who are in the process of
integrating into new cultures-ultimately exploring the details and
nuances of psychological struggles and transformations of the
migratory process.
This book offers an accessibly written introduction to ADHD,
focusing on the topics that matter most to readers. The information
it provides makes it an indispensable resource for anyone whose
life is affected-directly or indirectly-by this disorder. Attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental
disorder that may lead to difficulties paying attention, problems
controlling behavior, and excessive activity. What You Need to Know
about ADHD conveys what individuals and families affected by ADHD
need to know about it in order to manage its symptoms and to help
their loved ones to grow. This book is a part of Greenwood's Inside
Diseases and Disorders series, which profiles a variety of physical
and psychological conditions, distilling and consolidating vast
collections of scientific knowledge into concise, readable volumes.
A list of "Top 10" essential questions begins each book, providing
quick-access answers to readers' most pressing concerns. The text
follows a standardized, easily navigable structure, with each
chapter exploring a particular facet of the topic. In addition to
covering basics such as causes, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and
treatment options, books in this series delve into issues that are
less commonly addressed but critical to understand, such as effects
on loved ones and caregivers. Case illustrations highlight key
themes discussed in the book and are accompanied by insightful
analyses and recommendations. Approaches the subject in a holistic
manner, covering often-overlooked areas such as societal
perceptions and impacts on family and friends Provides quick
answers to the questions that readers are most likely to have in an
Essential Questions section that also serves as a springboard for
understanding the content of the book in greater depth Provides
relatable, real-world examples of concepts discussed in Case
Illustrations Points readers toward useful books, organizations,
and websites in an annotated Directory of Resources guiding further
study and research
Accelerated Ecological Psychotherapy: ETT Applications for Sleep
Disorders, Pain, and Addiction describes a number of therapeutic
breakthroughs for a diverse array of conditions. The means for
accomplishing these advances are specific attachment-based
interpersonal processes that are radically amplified by using
precise elements of the client's visual ecology. Forms of visually
initiated brain stimulation include (1) an innovative form of eye
movement, (2) a specialized type of peripheral eye stimulation, (3)
Spectral Resonance Technique that uses intense color, and (4) a
tunable light device from which hundreds of precise wavelengths of
light can be selected to emit into the client's eyes. The method is
called Emotional Transformation Therapy (R) (ETT (R)). This
approach consistently relieves disturbing emotions in seconds,
alleviates physical pain in minutes, and frequently evokes states
of extreme wellbeing. This book offers a new process theory of
emotion focused on the nature and progression patterns of emotions.
The book describes an entirely different treatment for seasonal
affective disorder (SAD) that offers a radical new level of
treatment outcome. Since external light controls the brain's
biological clock that dictates sleep and waking patterns, ETT (R)
can be used to treat a variety of sleep disorders. One of the most
stunning applications of ETT (R) concerns its use for chronic
physical pain. Migraines, lower back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia,
and many other forms of pain are usually alleviated in the first
session and extinguished long-term after a brief series of
sessions. One of the most unique discoveries of the ETT (R) method
concerns the rapid, long-term elimination of substance addictive
craving. Revolutionary treatment outcomes for sex addiction and
other behavioral addictions offers a new advance. ETT (R) can be
applied to couple psychotherapy in such a way that it facilitates
radical changes in emotional dysfunctions in couple relationships.
Impasses in conflict and alleviation of severely distressed couples
can be resolved surprisingly fast. Of all of the breakthroughs
brought forth by ETT (R), its impact on spiritual phenomena may be
the most dramatic. ETT (R) includes processes to either alleviate a
religious/spiritual block or to facilitate states of extreme
wellbeing verified by brain scans.
Since the publication of the first edition of Help for the Helper
in 2006, the world has changed. Significantly. Due to existing and
growing threats of war, increasing areas of civil unrest, the
COVID-19 pandemic, financial collapse, natural disasters and more,
therapists and other helping professionals now often find
themselves in a particularly tricky position: They are struggling
to personally cope with traumas and massive stresses that are very
similar to those experienced by their clients and others they
serve. To address these unique challenges, this revised and
expanded edition now includes guidance for helping clients while
maintaining therapists' own safety and sanity in crisis situations,
managing the usual stresses and challenges during normal times, and
tips for dealing with trauma when that is not a therapist's
specialty. Topics include the neurophysiology and regulation of
arousal, self-care during shared community/world crises,
maintaining balance and strength, countertransference, somatic
empathy, mirroring and mimicry.
The problems of readjustment, for the individual and for the
business purse and for the state, which inevitably follow war are
most important at the present moment. Almost five years after the
end of the Great Conflict, many of these problems are still facing
us, and it will take many more years before they are settled. One
who is interested in the statistics of conditions will find many
places in which they can be found. Although statistics show what
exists or has existed, they seldom provide advice regarding the
solutions. The present work is entirely lacking in statistics It is
intended to be of assistance in the solution of some problems.
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