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Psychotherapy evolved as a way of liberating the human spirit from the constraints of neurosis - it was never meant to be a means of alleviating symptoms and improving social adjustment. This book presents an orientation and approach to resist the threat of it becoming managed care .

This study looks at fantasies of omnipotence, and how they grow out of feelings of helplessness. It addresses various aspects, from the merger fantasies of babies who feel like an extension of their parent, to the soothing spiritual and religious feelings that ease acceptance of loss and mortality.

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This book, a veritable road map for DSM-IV explains the technical language and hierarchical classifications of DSM-IV while demonstrating how the system can be adapted to a clinical approach.

This volume consists of 18 contributions from prominent figures in psychoanalysis. In five sections, they examine the social, historical, and intellectual context within which Freud lived and worked, and the scientific, moral, and philosophical implications of his discoveries.

Dr. Levin outlines the treatment of chemical and other addictions such as compulsive gambling, compulsive sexuality, and codependency.

This book presents a cognitive styles framework that explores the relationship between traditionalism/modernism and cognitive styles and offers a method for multiculturalism assessment and psychotherapy that promotes the development of pluralistic perspectives and lifestyles.

This text encourages both patient and therapist in creating the solutions to difficult problems. Despite the proximity which therapy fosters, the practitioner is asked to retain the capacity for surprise and exploration and to use the relationship as a creative force for new beginnings.

A study which examines the unconscious from the perspective of developments in cognitive psychology. The author sorts out the merits and limitations of the classical Freudian view of the unconscious as the repository of narratives, specifically dreams and literary creativity.

Borderline is the most slippery of diagnostic categories - by definition something marginal, something in-between. This work offers support for practitioners by sharing a range of approaches - descriptive, biological, and psychodynamic - to the population of seriously disturbed children labeled borderline.

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