Published July, 2006
By Mary E. Connors
Publisher: Analytic Press,U.S.
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Argues that the deleterious impact of symptoms on the patient's physical and emotional well being often impedes psychodynamic engagement. This book offers a balanced perspective that attends to the relational embeddedness of symptoms without skirting the therapeutic obligation to alleviate symptomatic distress.

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Published March, 2006
By Sheldon Bach
Publisher: Analytic Press,U.S.
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Guided by the conviction that work with extremely challenging patients promotes the psychological growth and increased self-knowledge of patient and analyst alike. The author chronicles the movement of psychoanalysis itself from the dissection of love into component parts to a synthetic grasp of its role in psychoanalytically informed treatment.

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Published February, 2006
By Danielle Knafo and Kenneth Feiner
Publisher: Analytic Press,U.S.
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A study of broad and basic questions, this is a contemporary re-visioning of the grounds of fantasy formation, a guide to clinical techniques for dealing with unconscious fantasy, and an examination of the generative potential of unconscious fantasy in the arts. It also examines primal scene, family romance, and castration fantasies.

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Published January, 2006
By David Newman
Publisher: Analytic Press,U.S.
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Features a story of the author's efforts to wend his way through the thicket of medical consultations, in search of a physician and a treatment that offered the possibility of survival. It is the story of the harrowing process of assessing conflicting "expert" opinions and of making sense of the priorities and vulnerabilities of different doctors.

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Published January, 2006
By Lois T. Flaherty
Publisher: Analytic Press,U.S.
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Ranges from an examination of brain myelination in relation to onset of addictive disorders to the screening instruments used to detect substance use disorders, to practical aspects of psychiatric assessment and management of substance abusing adolescents. This book focuses on the patterns of use and health risks of the "designer drug" Ecstasy.

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Published January, 2006
By Edward S. Tauber and Maurice R. Green
Publisher: Analytic Press,U.S.
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First published in 1959, this title was one of the foundational texts of interpersonal psychoanalysis. It attempts to elaborate an interpersonal theory of personality that encompasses the non propositional, non-verbal dimension of human experience.

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