Product Description: A collection of 12 essays by American and European analysts that describe the methods and techniques they use in their clinical work. This book includes descriptions of specific treatment situations and an examination of the nature of patient-therapist interaction.

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Product Description: These essays use psychoanalytic concepts and methods to explore four Shakespearean plays; Brecht's dramas; the films Alien and Fanny and Alexander; and the works of such writers as Bergson, Proust, Schreber, Stendhal, Dickens, Marvell, and Baudelaire.

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Product Description: Fantasies of omnipotence grow out of feelings of helplessness. We are all born helpless, completely dependent on others for nurturance and survival, and we all must face the ultimate annihilation of the self at the end of life. While fantasies of omnipotence help us to cope with these painful acts, they may also interfere with our ability to engage reality and deal with life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mentoring intersects with memoir in this volume, as 31 psychotherapists share the origins of their professional ambitions and, mixing authority with levity, describe their professional odysseys. The psychotherapists include Martin A. Schulman, Jeffrey Seinfeld and Martha Stark.

Product Description: Advocates and critics share their views about the postmodern turn in psychoanalysis in this book of intriguing dialogue. Matters of culture, gender, neurobiology, self-states, and the profound complexities of relationships that have riveted the attention of theorists and practitioners are explored, and new models of treatment and additional theories of pathogenesis that have emerged are examined...read more