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Product Description: Has there been an actual increase in the occurrence of incest? Or is the seemingly, greater frequency due to our increased awareness of incest and more careful listening to our patients? The psychoanalysts contributing to this volume take the latter position...read more
By Salman Akhtar (editor) and Selma Kramer

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9780876685549 | Jason Aronson Inc, August 1, 1991, cover price $36.99 | About this edition: Has there been an actual increase in the occurrence of incest?

Product Description: Offers an exploration of the nonverbal elements in psychotherapy. This book argues that decoding nonverbal communication can lead to a deeper understanding of patients' problems.
By Salman Akhtar (editor) and Selma Kramer

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9780876684610 | Jason Aronson Inc, July 1, 1992, cover price $41.99 | About this edition: Offers an exploration of the nonverbal elements in psychotherapy.

Presents profiles of a variety of personality disorders and describes treatment methods.

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9780876685389 | Jason Aronson Inc, October 1, 1992, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book integrates psychiatry and psychoanalysis to present deeper and sounder clinical profiles of the personality disorders than have been hitherto available.

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9780765703453 | Revised edition (Jason Aronson Inc, June 30, 2017), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Presents profiles of a variety of personality disorders and describes treatment methods.
9780765702555 | Jason Aronson Inc, October 1, 1992, cover price $70.99

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Product Description: Q & A format/discusses the 'as-if' personality/malignant narcissism/projective identification/cumulative trauma/etc.

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9781568213644 | Jason Aronson Inc, December 1, 1994, cover price $56.99 | About this edition: Q & A format/discusses the 'as-if' personality/malignant narcissism/projective identification/cumulative trauma/etc.

This work describes the problem of hatred, intense aggression, often directed against someone who is also loved. Analysts and developmental theorists discuss the development of hatred both in individuals and groups. Hatred of children by their parents, and hatred in women is included.
By Salman Akhtar (editor), Selma Kramer (editor) and Henri Parens (editor)

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9781568214283 | Jason Aronson Inc, May 1, 1995, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This work describes the problem of hatred, intense aggression, often directed against someone who is also loved.

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9781568217925 | Jason Aronson Inc, May 1, 1995, cover price $51.99

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Product Description: This work analyses the concept of object constancy in the light of developmental research and clinical practice. The clinical implications of disturbances in object constancy are discussed with reference to therapeutic work with both children and adults. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Salman Akhtar (editor), Selma Kramer (editor) and Henri Parens (editor)

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9781568216515 | Jason Aronson Inc, February 1, 1996, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This work analyses the concept of object constancy in the light of developmental research and clinical practice.

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Product Description: More and more individuals with ego defects, severe object relations conflicts, affective turbulence, and unassimilated contradictions are seeking help from psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Contributors to this book explore hereditary and constitutional factors, environmental influences and unconscious fantasies in the development of the psychotic core in such patients and provide guidance for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to hear and therapeutically respond to these patients’ uncanny ways of describing their internal worlds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Salman Akhtar (editor) and Vamik D. Volkan (editor)

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9780823660230 | Intl Universities Pr Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: More and more individuals with ego defects, severe object relations conflicts, affective turbulence, and unassimilated contradictions are seeking help from psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

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Product Description: Margaret Mahler stressed that while the separation-individuation phase comes to an end during the third year of life, the separation-individuation process continues throughout life. Indeed, she viewed the rapprochement subphase of separation-individuation as 'the mainspring of man's eternal struggle against both fusion and isolation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Salman Akhtar (editor) and Selma Kramer (editor)

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9780765700551 | Jason Aronson Inc, April 1, 1997, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Margaret Mahler stressed that while the separation-individuation phase comes to an end during the third year of life, the separation-individuation process continues throughout life.

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Product Description: Can hope be pathological? What is love? How are envy and arrogance related to hatred? What is the optimal distance between the self and others? Why are some individuals excessively vulnerable to nostalgia? What are the distinctions between a need and a wish? Such questions frequently arise as one encounters individuals whose difficulties originate from an area between psychotic and neurotic organizations and yet who are not overtly borderline...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780765701596 | Jason Aronson Inc, January 1, 1999, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Can hope be pathological?

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Product Description: Why do people migrate from one country to another? What is the difference between an immigrant and an exile? What determines the psychological outcome of immigration? Can one ever mourn the loss of one's country? What are the defensive functions of nostalgia? Are there specific guidelines for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for immigrant patients? How can the therapist disentangle the patient's cultural rationalizations from underlying intrapsychic conflicts? In this unique book, psychoanalyst and poet Salman Akhtar provides answers to such questions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780765702326 | Jason Aronson Inc, November 1, 1999, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Why do people migrate from one country to another?

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Product Description: 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.
By Salman Akhtar (editor)

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9780765703576 | Jason Aronson Inc, October 1, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Mourning and the importance of the capacity to bear some helplessness, while still finding pleasure in life, are central to this tightly organized volume.

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9780765705167 | 1 edition (Jason Aronson Inc, December 1, 2006), cover price $41.99 | About this edition: Mourning and the importance of the capacity to bear some helplessness, while still finding pleasure in life, are central to this tightly organized volume.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780765703286 | Jason Aronson Inc, January 28, 2005, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: This book is about affect―its origins, development and uses―and how it is viewed in a clinical setting.

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Product Description: green paperback
By Salman Akhtar (editor) and Vamuk Volkan (editor)

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9780823610938 | Intl Universities Pr Inc, January 31, 2005, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: green paperback

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A poet and psychiatrist draws on the multiple fields of psychology, history, literature, sociology, and philosophy to shed new light on how and why humans invest objects with meaning. 25,000 first printing.

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9781400054442 | Harmony Books, August 2, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A poet and psychiatrist examines how humans acquire objects and explores the psychological reasons why they invest them with significance and meaning.

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Product Description: A collection of new and previously-published essays that sheds light on the intersections between psychoanalysis and Indic Studies. While Indian academics and clinicians have been familiar with psychoanalysis for many decades, they have kept this Western model of the mind separate from the spiritual and philosophical traditions of their own country...read more
By Salman Akhtar (editor)

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9781590510902 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 2005, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A collection of new and previously-published essays that sheds light on the intersections between psychoanalysis and Indic Studies.

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Product Description: Across the lifespan we may experience moments of sublime intimacy, suffocating closeness, comfortable solitude, and intolerable distance or closeness. In Interpersonal Boundaries: Variations and Violations Salman Akhtar and the other contributors demonstrate how boundaries, by delineating and containing the self, secure one's conscious and unconscious experience of entity and of self-governance...read more
By Salman Akhtar (editor)

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9780765704023 | Jason Aronson Inc, February 28, 2006, cover price $41.99 | About this edition: Across the lifespan we may experience moments of sublime intimacy, suffocating closeness, comfortable solitude, and intolerable distance or closeness.

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