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This book presents a day long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes two brilliant essays that reveal what is at the heart of psychoanalysis – a practice that can enable both analyst and patient to live life more fully.
Franz Gabriel Alexander has been described on more than one occasion as the father of psychosomatic medicine. For almost 25 years, he was director of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis, where he trained many of the leading students of emotional disturbances and psychosomatic diseases.
In the first of a series introducing psychoanalysis by exploring its different facets, Dr. Aleksandar Dimitrijevic outlines the broad psychoanalytic terrain of treatment and briefly indicates the nature of its various strands.
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First published in 1946, Psychoanalytic Therapy stands as a classic presentation of "brief therapy".
To a believer in the impossible profession, the family memoirs of famous psychoanalysts constitute a troubling but delicious genre. There is a certain satisfaction in reading about the unhappy marriages and not good enough parenting skills of bad Freudian fathers.
A pioneer in the field of psychoanalysis and psychosomatic medicine describes the fundamental concepts on which the psychosomatic approach is based and presents the results of study concerning the influence of emotions on bodily processes in health and disease. Dr.
Aside from being one of the most important proponents of psychoanalysis during the 20th century, Franz Alexander helped lay the foundations for psychosomatic medicine.
Ilonka Venier Alexander is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with 30 years' experience in the field of mental health. She had the opportunity to testify before the United States Congress in the early days of the HIV epidemic about its impact on Boston area veterans.
Alexander was a rare psychoanalytic pioneer who, despite a thorough grounding in classical Freudian theory, had the courage, vision, and flexibility to modify his thinking in the light of newer knowledge.
This book presents new viewpoints on the application of psychoanalytic principles to psychotherapy. Important changes have taken place as a result of the growing acceptance of psychoanalysis by the medical community.
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