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Judaism is primarily a religion of actions rather than beliefs. When the Jewish people accepted God's covenant, they committed themselves first to obedience and practice, and then to striving to understand the message implicit in the Torah. This textbook presents a comprehensive explication of the Jewish faith.

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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.

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Certain intrinsic features of early memories make them analogous to life problems and to the therapy relationship: childhood tends to imply situations that are confusing, disempowered, or impulsive, and relationships that are parental, intimate, or defining. This book recommends strategies for using early memories to enhance the working alliance.

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This book will familiarize mental health professionals with Kohut's self-psychological approach to understanding human behavior, and demonstrate its implications for therapy in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and in the elderly.

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Offers a historical overview of transference, countertransference, and the therapeutic alliance. This book includes cases which graphically demonstrate how transference is addressed in psychotherapy and focuses on projective identification and enactment.

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In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr. Sharon K. Farber provides an invaluable resource for the mental health professional who is struggling to understand self-harm and its origins. Using attachment theory to explain how addictive connections to pain and suffering develop, she discusses various kinds and functions of self-harm behavior.

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In Why It Is Good to be Good, John H. Riker shows how modernity's reigning concept of the self undermines moral life and lays the basis for the epidemic of cheating that is devastating social and economic institutions. He argues that by accepting Kohut's brilliant and original...

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Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan by Marilyn Charles takes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates them into user-friendly language. Charles focuses on clinical work with more severely disturbed patients, for whom trauma has impeded their psyc...

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Addresses the issues borderline patients face in their daily lives and the attendant treatment dilemmas therapists confront. This book offers a stance for engaging this troubled and troublesome population, focusing on the first stage of therapy, during which a constant attachment must be formed between the borderline patient and the therapist.

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Ethical Practice in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Psychotherapy addresses core issues in ethical practice in working with children and their parents, with attention to unconscious motives and defenses that render the therapist most vulnerable to ethical lapses.

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Takes us on a journey guided by Freud's idea that our psychological complexes are sources of our weaknesses and our strengths.

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Ours, Yours, Mine: Mutuality and the Emergence of the Separate Self discusses theory and research issues; gender roles and development of girls; female identity; clinical applications, case studies.

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