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The Mother and Her Child: Clinical Aspects of Attachment,
Separation, and Loss, edited by Salman Akhtar, focuses upon the
formation of an individual's self in the crucible of the early
mother-child relationship. Bringing together contributions from
distinguished psychoanalysts and child observational researchers,
it elucidates the nuances of mothering, the child's tie to the
mother, the mysteries of secure attachment, and the hazards of
insecure attachment. These experts also discuss issues of
separation, loss, and alternate sources of love when the mother is
absent or emotionally unavailable, while highlighting the relevance
of such ideas to the treatment of children and adults.
Psychoanalytic Trends in Theory and Practice serves as a guide for
the novice, and a refresher for the expert, into the history and
current status of major psychoanalytic concepts. Each chapter
author, reviews the development of a concept over the history of
psychoanalysis, includes clinical examples to illustrate the
concept, and identifies current questions about the topic. Further,
many chapters embody a developmental perspective, not just in terms
of an idea or concept, but also in terms of the individual; these
sections explore how the experiences of the child inform that of
the adult. M. Hossein Etezady, Inga Blom, and Mary Davis honor core
concepts that continue to inform contemporary psychoanalytic
practice, demonstrate the ongoing relevance and utility of the
psychoanalytic perspective, and provide a solid and integrative
foundation for further exploration into the next generation of
theory and clinical work.
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child's
Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and
techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able
to understand and reflect on their children's emotional states, as
a way of helping them to be more effective parents. Discussion of
neurobiological correlates of "reflective parenting," and of
similar techniques used at the Pacella Child Center and in other
settings, places the clinical technique in the context of other
work directed at helping parents help their children to grow up
emotionally healthy.
While the psychodynamic understanding of play and play's
therapeutic potential was long restricted to the realm of children,
Winnicott's work demonstrated the profound significance of the
capacity to play for healthy mental functioning during adult life.
Scattered writings of Erikson, Glenn, and Shopper notwithstanding,
the early spark of understanding remained largely ill developed. In
Play and Playfulness, the reader is offered an exciting and highly
informative set of essays about the psychic area that lies between
reality and unreality and between veracity and imagination. It is
the area of paradox and creativity. It sustains the self, allows
for ego-replenishing regressions, and adds to the joy of the vital
and lived experience. This book provides an easy and readable
passage to the valley of the transitional experience in which
creative synthesis of reality and unreality leads to a world of
vigor, enthusiasm, and liveliness. The cultural variations and the
clinical implications of such an experience are thoroughly
elucidated. The result is a volume replete with technical
virtuosity, clinical relevance, and the basic and nearly self
evident humane music of the day-to-day experience of life.
Mourning and the importance of the capacity to bear some
helplessness, while still finding pleasure in life, are central to
this tightly organized volume. The multi-faceted processes involved
in mourning and adaptation are addressed.
This book is about affect--its origins, development, and uses--and
how it is viewed in a clinical setting. The authors track and
further develop the recent major changes in the understanding of
affect. From its roots in childhood development to its
cross-cultural aspects, affect remains clinically relevant in
issues such as aggression and forgiveness.
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