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Psychoanalysis has moved a long way from the techniques of
classical psychoanalysis, but these changes have not been
understood or disseminated to the wider community. Even university
scholars and students of psychology have an archetypal view of the
original form of psychoanalysis and do not appreciate that major
changes have occurred.This book commences with a detailed outline
of the origins of psychoanalysis and an explanation of key terms
which are often misinterpreted. The second chapter examines the
changes that have occurred in theorizing and practice over the past
120 years and explores key developments. The following chapters
contain an interview with a practitioner working in one of each of
the four major branches of modern psychoanalysis object relations,
attachment informed psychotherapy, intensive short-term dynamic
psychotherapy, and relational and intersubjective theory. There
follows textual, content, conceptual, and thematic analyses of the
transcripts of interviews and commentaries on a therapy excerpt
exploring commonalities and differences among these theoretical
approaches. The book closes with a consideration of how these
differences translate into clinical practice.This book aims to
appeal to a wide audience, including clinical practitioners,
students of psychology and psychotherapy, the informed lay public,
and those thinking about commencing an analysis."
In the past 20 years, the progressive uncovering of child sexual
abuse in institutional settings has reverberated across the globe
with simultaneous investigations across Europe and the
English-speaking world. However, most books on child sexual abuse
are narrowly focused and do not situate this most distressing of
human behaviours within a social or historical context. Children,
Sexuality, and Child Sexual Abuse examines child sexual abuse from
a broader perspective in order to understand how and why child
sexual abuse is perpetrated, by whom, under what circumstances, and
with what societal consequences for victims and perpetrators. This
book will be an essential reference for all those working in the
field of child sexual abuse. Beginning with histories of childhood
and sex, and their intersections, the book goes on to analyze
sexual development, sexuality, and sexualized behaviour in children
and adolescents. This is followed by an examination of the extent
of child sexual abuse in the English-speaking world, including its
prevalence in the Indigenous communities of Australia, New Zealand
and Canada, and in once-trusted societal institutions including the
Church, orphanages, and schools. The book focuses on issues of
concern to all those who encounter the problem of child sexual
abuse and addresses questions such as: How and when do children
disclose child sexual abuse? What are the characteristics of memory
that affect reporting? How are disclosure claims assessed? What are
the effects of having experienced child sexual abuse? Finally,
there is an examination of young people who offend sexually.
Choice Essential Read Did God create man or did man create God? In
this book, Dianna Kenny examines religious belief through a variety
of perspectives - psychoanalytic, cognitive, neuropsychological,
sociological, historical and psychiatric - to provide a coherent
account of why people might believe in God. She argues that
psychoanalytic theory provides a fertile and creative approach to
the study of religion that attempts to integrate religious belief
with our innate human nature and developmental histories that have
unfolded in the context of our socialization and cultural
experiences. Freud argued that religion is so compelling because it
solves the problems of our existence. It explains the origin of the
universe, offers solace and protection from evil, and provides a
blueprint about how we should live our lives, with just rewards for
the righteous and due punishments for sinners and transgressors.
Science, on the other hand, offers no such explanations about the
universe or the meaning of our lives and no comfort for the
unanswered longings of the human race. Is religion a form of
wish-fulfilment, a collective delusion to which we cling as we try
to fathom our place and purpose in the drama of cosmology? Can
there be morality without faith? Are science and religion radically
incompatible? What are the roots of fundamentalism and terror
theology? These are some of the questions addressed in God, Freud
and Religion, a book that will be of interest to psychoanalysts,
psychologists and psychotherapists, students of psychology,
psychoanalysis, philosophy and theology and all those with an
interest in religion and human behaviour. Dianna Kenny is Professor
of Psychology at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the
author of over 200 publications, including six books.
Psychoanalysis has moved a long way from the techniques of
classical psychoanalysis but these changes have not been understood
or disseminated to the wider community. Even university scholars
and students of psychology have an archetypal view of the original
form of psychoanalysis and do not appreciate that major changes
have occurred. This book commences with a detailed outline of the
origins of psychoanalysis and an explanation of key terms, which
are often misinterpreted. The second chapter examines the changes
that have occurred in theorising and practice over the past 120
years and explores key developments. The following chapters contain
an interview with a practitioner working in one of each of the four
major branches of modern psychoanalysis - object relations,
attachment informed psychotherapy, intensive short-term dynamic
psychotherapy, and relational and intersubjective theory. There
follows textual, content, conceptual, and thematic analyses of the
transcripts of interviews and commentaries on a therapy excerpt
exploring commonalities and differences among these theoretical
approaches.
Choice Essential Read Did God create man or did man create God? In
this book, Dianna Kenny examines religious belief through a variety
of perspectives - psychoanalytic, cognitive, neuropsychological,
sociological, historical and psychiatric - to provide a coherent
account of why people might believe in God. She argues that
psychoanalytic theory provides a fertile and creative approach to
the study of religion that attempts to integrate religious belief
with our innate human nature and developmental histories that have
unfolded in the context of our socialization and cultural
experiences. Freud argued that religion is so compelling because it
solves the problems of our existence. It explains the origin of the
universe, offers solace and protection from evil, and provides a
blueprint about how we should live our lives, with just rewards for
the righteous and due punishments for sinners and transgressors.
Science, on the other hand, offers no such explanations about the
universe or the meaning of our lives and no comfort for the
unanswered longings of the human race. Is religion a form of
wish-fulfilment, a collective delusion to which we cling as we try
to fathom our place and purpose in the drama of cosmology? Can
there be morality without faith? Are science and religion radically
incompatible? What are the roots of fundamentalism and terror
theology? These are some of the questions addressed in God, Freud
and Religion, a book that will be of interest to psychoanalysts,
psychologists and psychotherapists, students of psychology,
psychoanalysis, philosophy and theology and all those with an
interest in religion and human behaviour. Dianna Kenny is Professor
of Psychology at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the
author of over 200 publications, including six books.
This is an important text that synthesises diverse literatures and
theories on infant development into a coherent framework that
illuminates the essence of infancy for all those who have infants,
study infants, teach about infancy, make policy with respect to
infant welfare, and work medically or therapeutically with mothers
and their infants. It brings together in one volume the principal
theories of infant development, beginning with Freud's vision of
the Oedipal infant, moving through the post-Freudian
conceptualizations of the infant of Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and
the British Independents with Donald Winnicott as exemplar, then to
the attachment theorists, the intersubjective theories, the
cognitive developmental psychologists, examining the work of Jean
Piaget and the neo-Piagetian cognitive theorists concluding with
the modern infant of developmental neuroscience and an examination
of the neurobiology of attachment, stress, and care giving.
In the past 20 years, the progressive uncovering of child sexual
abuse in institutional settings has reverberated across the globe
with simultaneous investigations across Europe and the
English-speaking world. However, most books on child sexual abuse
are narrowly focused and do not situate this most distressing of
human behaviours within a social or historical context. Children,
Sexuality, and Child Sexual Abuse examines child sexual abuse from
a broader perspective in order to understand how and why child
sexual abuse is perpetrated, by whom, under what circumstances, and
with what societal consequences for victims and perpetrators. This
book will be an essential reference for all those working in the
field of child sexual abuse. Beginning with histories of childhood
and sex, and their intersections, the book goes on to analyze
sexual development, sexuality, and sexualized behaviour in children
and adolescents. This is followed by an examination of the extent
of child sexual abuse in the English-speaking world, including its
prevalence in the Indigenous communities of Australia, New Zealand
and Canada, and in once-trusted societal institutions including the
Church, orphanages, and schools. The book focuses on issues of
concern to all those who encounter the problem of child sexual
abuse and addresses questions such as: How and when do children
disclose child sexual abuse? What are the characteristics of memory
that affect reporting? How are disclosure claims assessed? What are
the effects of having experienced child sexual abuse? Finally,
there is an examination of young people who offend sexually.
This is an important text that synthesizes diverse literatures and
theories on infant development into a coherent framework that
illuminates the essence of infancy for all those who have infants,
study infants, teach about infancy, make policy with respect to
infant welfare, and work medically or therapeutically with mothers
and their infants. It brings together in one volume the principal
theories of infant development, beginning with Freud s vision of
the Oedipal infant, moving through the post-Freudian
conceptualizations of the infant of Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and
the British Independents with Donald Winnicott as exemplar, then to
the attachment theorists, the intersubjective theories, the
cognitive developmental psychologists, examining the work of Jean
Piaget and the neo-Piagetian cognitive theorists, and then
concluding with the modern infant of developmental neuroscience and
an examination of the neurobiology of attachment, stress, and care
giving. This is a book of depth and breadth that makes the infant
come alive in the minds of readers. It challenges cherished beliefs
about the nature, capacities and developmental pathways travelled
by infants into childhood and beyond and argues that our inner
infant is never far from our adult selves. It will be useful for
students of psychology, psychotherapy, child care and education;
psychologists; social workers and infant and child policy makers;
psychiatrists; and parents and anyone who has an interest in
finding out what infants think and feel and how they relate to
their world."
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