Karen Gibson

Donald Lathrop

E. Mark Stern

Originally published: Voices, the art and science of psychotherapy. American Academy of Psychotherapists. 1986.

Carl Jung and Soul Psychology

Robert B. Marchesani

Awe and Trembling: Psychotherapy of Unusual States provides psychologists, psychotherapists, and clinical social workers with an overview of the symptoms and causes of panic. The book gives insight into how patients cope with anxiety to help you provide more sympathetic services to your clients. You will discover how to deal with panic in an integrative way rather than relying on medication or cognitively coping by rationalization. Awe and Trembling offers effective techniques that will help you give better care to clients suffering from these difficult disorders.

Psychotherapy of Unusual States

Awe and Trembling

This book explores numerous ways in which vulgar language, grotesque appearances, and horrific experiences affect us in our relationships with others and with ourselves. Its compelling case studies and revealing interviews bring together ideas and issues that are a lingering, but unexplored, focus in psychotherapy literature. The grotesque and the vulgar are major inhabitants of the vast unconscious. Their variations and haunting presence are anticipated and reflected in the transactions of everyday life. So too do they manifest themselves in our social institutions, maintaining their presence in the seven lively arts as much as in mental hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, and psychotherapy practices. Most of all, the grotesque and vulgar challenge the contemporary search for meaning and sanity. This book will help the psychotherapist better deal with the rich soil of grotesqueness and vulgarity in the interplay between the psychotherapy patient and the experiential world. Reading it will open new vistas of treatment possibilities. As each contributing author explores the potentialities and obstacles inherent in the competing and complementing forces of the grotesque and socially condoned sensibilities, you will learn about the value of the grotesque in the consultation room. You will further learn how the flaunted and unconscious vulgarities of everyday life enrich the creative vision inherent in therapeutic conversations. Most important, you will be challenged by what it means to abide with the sometimes pesky vulgar and grotesque guises in each of your client's lives. Here's a sample of what you'll find in Inhabitants of the Unconscious: The Grotesque and the Vulgar in Everyday Life: Louis Fierman's recollection of his treatment of a Nazi soldier, which offers fascinating therapeutic possibilities when issues of the grotesqueare at hand an extraordinary analysis of the role of the grotesque in artwork, with special attention paid to the work of Hieronymus Bosch a fascinating look at Sigmund Freud's perspective on the grotesque-- and what it says about Freud himself the remarkable formative experiences of children with craniofacial difference (facial deformities)--an exposition that will enrich your therapeutic interventions with children and adolescents who face atypical challenges extraordinary case studies--by Robert Marchesani about his therapeutic endeavors with a Vietnam veteran caught in the aftermath of his incestuous past and by E. Mark Stern about a dying woman who was unable to detach from, but ultimately vivified by an unyielding masochistic fixation

The Grotesque and the Vulgar in Everyday Life

Inhabitants of the Unconscious

Leading therapists illustrate how they help clients cope with the many facets of the grieving process in this compassionate book. They clarify many aspects of how we can all suffer grief and how grief is a compendium of rage, guilt, self-accusation, and other negative emotions. The experts explore the grieving process as it relates to persons suffering from a great loss, as well as to dying patients, children of alcoholics, adult incest survivors, Vietnam veterans, and elders dealing with retirement and chronic physical disabilities.

Psychotherapy and the Grieving Patient

Illustrates the necessity and value of remorse as a psychological experience. With case studies and explanations, psychotherapists provide clinical approaches to treating remorse--an ever present challenge and a potent instrument for all emotional social recovery. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Psychotherapy and the Remorseful Patient

Jerome A. Travers

Self-righteous patients can pose special problems in psychotherapy treatment. They often feel wronged or misunderstood and do not seem to respond to sensible suggestions or interpersonal genuineness. Psychotherapy and the Self-Righteous Patient examines self-righteousness from a variety of clinical and theoretical orientations to show how therapists think, feel, and work with these patients. Seasoned professionals discuss challenges they have faced and the difficulties and successes they have had working with self-righteous patients. They share their clinical expertise to help other therapists better treat their own patients. Filled with many illuminating case examples, this important book focuses on topics such as causes of self-righteousness, self-righteousness as a process, and self-righteous behaviors and patterns of behavior. All psychotherapists will find much useful and interesting information on understanding and treating self-righteous patients in this fascinating book.

Psychotherapy and the Self-righteous Patient

Contributors offer an enlightening array of approaches to the obsessed personality. A wealth of theoretical insights and suggestions for therapy with obsessed patients--those suffering from bulimia, monomania, love obsessions, and more.

E. Mark Stern

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