Toward a Theory of Child-Centered Psychodynamic Family Treatment: The Anna Ornstein Reader offers a clear introduction to Anna Ornstein’s ground-breaking work on psychoanalytic child orientated family therapy. Drawing on her writing from across her long career and including new material, the book sets out her important theoretical work on the mind, self, development, and parental influences, and the therapeutic consequences of these concepts.Anna Ornstein’s self-psychologi...

The problem of how to understand and to treat masochism has plagued the vast majority of clinicians. The Clinical Problem of Masochism, edited by Deanna Holtzman, PhD, and Nancy Kulish, PhD, focuses on the common and difficult clinical problems posed by masochistic patients who are spread throughout all diagnostic categories. Foremost psychoanalytic clinicians in the field from various theoretical backgrounds demonstrate their approaches to working clinically with these problems. Each expe...

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 issue...

Eva Rass beantwortet die hoch umstrittene Frage, was entscheidender ist,Umweltfaktoren oder Genetik, so: Die Struktur des entstehenden menschlichenGehirns ist eine Widerspiegelung der gelebten Erfahrung. Besonders die ersten 18Monate sind von größter Bedeutung; der Affektregulation und der Qualität derBindung kommen dabei eine Schlüsselrolle zu. Das Buch beginnt mit der Biologieder Schwangerschaft. Es stellt dann die folgenden Phasen des Lebens als ein