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Containing Rage, Terror, and Despair presents Jeffrey Seinfeld's
object relations approach to treating various common and
debilitating mental disorders. Clinicians are often perplexed and
discouraged at seeing their patients suffer even more intensely as
they face the defenses, conflicts, and deficits that have impeded
their growth and development. Often at the center of this increased
suffering is an intense fear of giving up internalized bad objects.
When there has been a lack of good enough supportive relationships
throughout life, this letting go of bad objects threatens the
patient with an unraveling of his or her core psychic structure.The
process of internalizing the therapist as a good object is a long
and arduous one, during which these patients test to the limit the
therapist's capacity for survival and concern. Dr. Seinfeld
describes the specific internalized object relations configurations
of schizophrenic, schizoid, borderline, depressive, substance
abusing, and traumatized patients. Using abundant clinical
material, he offers individualized interventions that address each
disorder, describing how the therapist can contain the patient's
rage, despair, and terror that are evoked as the patient begins to
face and release his or her dreaded inner demons.
Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those
who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children
home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is
preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told
in the offices of psychotherapists we begin to understand the
impact of adoption in all its complexity. We learn from parents how
their quest to have and raise a child has played out in real life,
and what shadows might have fallen between the dream and the
reality. And we learn from the children the many ways that being
adopted shaped their development, their sense of identity; what
went wrong along the way and how we may help. Clinical work with
parents and children as well as with adults who were adopted is the
focus of Understanding Adoption. Because adoption has become widely
practiced, accepted, and accessible, and because it has greatly
changed the composition of families, it is a timely subject for
study. The authors of this book undertake exploration of this
important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and
resilience of human bonds.
Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those
who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children
home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is
preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told
in the offices of psychotherapists we begin to understand the
impact of adoption in all its complexity. We learn from parents how
their quest to have and raise a child has played out in real life,
and what shadows might have fallen between the dream and the
reality. And we learn from the children the many ways that being
adopted shaped their development, their sense of identity; what
went wrong along the way and how we may help. Clinical work with
parents and children as well as with adults who were adopted is the
focus of Understanding Adoption. Because adoption has become widely
practiced, accepted, and accessible, and because it has greatly
changed the composition of families, it is a timely subject for
study. The authors of this book undertake exploration of this
important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and
resilience of human bonds.
Containing Rage, Terror, and Despair presents Jeffrey Seinfeld's
object relations approach to treating various common and
debilitating mental disorders. Clinicians are often perplexed and
discouraged at seeing their patients suffer even more intensely as
they face the defenses, conflicts, and deficits that have impeded
their growth and development. Often at the center of this increased
suffering is an intense fear of giving up internalized bad objects.
When there has been a lack of good enough supportive relationships
throughout life, this letting go of bad objects threatens the
patient with an unraveling of his or her core psychic structure.The
process of internalizing the therapist as a good object is a long
and arduous one, during which these patients test to the limit the
therapist's capacity for survival and concern. Dr. Seinfeld
describes the specific internalized object relations configurations
of schizophrenic, schizoid, borderline, depressive, substance
abusing, and traumatized patients. Using abundant clinical
material, he offers individualized interventions that address each
disorder, describing how the therapist can contain the patient's
rage, despair, and terror that are evoked as the patient begins to
face and release his or her dreaded inner demons.
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