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| RUDNYTSKY, PETER L. Psychoanalytic Vocation , the - Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1991. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 x 1" 0300050674 1991 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked. Excellent Gift Giving quality. Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 220 pages with index ... Object relations, which emphasizes the importance of the preoedipal period and the infant-mother relationship, is considered by many analysts to be the major development in psychoanalytic theory since Freud. In this reinterpretation of its history, author Peter L. Rudnytsky focuses on two pivotal figures: Otto Rank, one of Freud's original and most brilliant desciples, who later broke away from psychoanalysis, and D.W. Winnicott, the leading representative of the Independant tradition in British psychoanalysis. Rudnytsky begins with an overview arguing that object relations theory can synthesize the scientific and hermeneutic dimensions of psychoanalysis. He then used the ideas of Rank and Winnicott to uncover the preoedipal aspects of Sophocles' 'Oedipus the King.' After an appraisal of the relationship between Rank and Freud, he turns to Rank's neglected writings between 1924 and 1927 and shows how thy anticipate contemporary object relations theory. Rudnytsky critically measures Winnicott's achievement against those of Heinz Kohut and Jacques Lacan, the founders of two competing school of psychoanalysis, and compares Winnicott's life and work with Freud's. Next, using both published and unpublished accounts by the psychotherapist Harry Guntrip of his analyses with W.R.D. Fairbairn and Winnicott, he probes the personal and intellectual interactions among these three British clinicians. Rudnytsky concludes by advancing a psychoanalytic theory of the self as a rejoinder to the postmodernism that is the dominant ideology in literary studies today. In two appendices he makes available for the first time an English translation of Rank's "Genesis of the Object Relation" and a 1983 interview with Clare Winnicott ... " The Psychoanalytic Vocation - Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud " by Peter L. Rudnytsky, published by Yale University Press, 1991 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ***. New/New . USD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 20 | £UK 18 | JP¥ 2643] Book number: 6010 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music. | ||
| SHABAD, PETER DR. Despair and the Return of Hope - Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy New Jersey / London: Jason Aronson Inc, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/2 x 9-1/4 x 1-1/4 " 0765703157 2001 HARDCOVER in DJ 1st Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... *please note, this last one in the box has some light scrumple bottom edges on a few pages ; does not affect any text ... and had been priced accordingly ... Still Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... 341 pages with index ... In this profound and literate work, Dr. Peter Shabad Ph.D. shows how people can move from disallusionment and despair, through the mourning of losses, to the ultimate return of hope. When unmourned experiences of helplessness and disavowed desires turn into a passive fatalism, people stop hoping for the best and begin to fear the worst, despairing that the real world has anything good to offer. This can lead individuals to memorialize past sufferings through psychological symptoms and compulsive repetitions ... Dr. Shabad discusses how patients, after many years of living a life limited by resentment, fear, and despair, can come to terms with their own childhood experiences - a mother who can never be satisfied, a father who consistently buries his head in a newspaper ... Dr. Shabad explains how people can overcome hardships endured and losses suffered ... provides the generosity and courage necessary to shed now obsolete defenses and to mourn what cannot be remedied and replaced ... Rich clinical material and authentic spontaneous dialogue between patients and therapists shows how mourning can bring about self-acceptance , and set people free to live out their own personal truths ... A deeply felt, beautifully written tribute to the redemptive power and regenerative capabilities of all human beings ... " Despair and the Return of Hope - Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy " ... by Peter Shabad, Ph.D... published by Aronson, New Jersey / London ... 2001 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... ***. New/New . USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 6479 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music. | ||
| WARD, JANE VICTORIA Parenting African American Teenagers - the Skin We're in - Teaching Our Children to Be Emotionally Strong, Socially Smart, Spiritually Connected New York: FP Pub, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0684859289 2000 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... 284 pages ... Psychologist Janie Ward has written an insightful and brave book about parenting African American teenagers. The Skin We're In addresses the gap between "black baby boomer parents" and their hip-hop children, offering sound strategies to help adolescents gain confidence about their racial identity and to recognize and resist racism. Ward's portrait of parenting in the post civil rights era is fair and unflinching. She suggests that the new racism ("being pulled over for driving black") demands a new approach. Resistance used to be in the street, but now it's in the mind, says Ward. As she explains, "The African American family can provide a safe and loving context--a home space--in which our adolescents can question the social inequities they see." Ward frames healthy resistance to racism in terms of four habits of mind (name it, read it, oppose it, replace it) that can be learned and practiced in the family circle. This model is illustrated with vivid, moving anecdotes and annotated parent-teen dialogues. Her approach urges parents to combine elements of the dominant culture and traditional black culture by drawing upon the rich legacies of social activism and spiritual and folk wisdom. Ward also addresses challenges on the street and at school for teens including coping with sex, friendship, materialism and low expectations at school. Two compelling chapters focus on gender issues, for example, how to steer boys away from the "tough guy" or "player" stereotypes and how to guide girls to discover their unique beauty in our "light, long, and lean" culture. In Ward's view, race defines the parenting process for African American families. An illuminating guide to creating a confident and vibrant racial identity, The Skin We're In offers parents and educators counsel that is both streetwise and spiritual... " The Skin We're In - Teaching Our Children to be Emotionally Strong , Socially Smart , and Spiritually Connected " ... by Jane Victoria Ward ... published by FP Publishing , New York 2000 ... Hardcover in Dustjacket ***. NEW/New . USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 1761] Book number: 3398 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music. | ||
| WITTELS , FRITZ / EDWARD TIMMS / REF : SIGMUND FREUD / REF : KARL KRAUS Freud and the Child Woman - the Memoirs of Fritz Wittels . . . By Edward Timms USA: Yale University Press, 1995. First Thus. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 x 1 " 0-300-06485-3 1995 Hardcover in DJ 1st .. BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 200 pages ... illustrated with B&W photographs ... The fascinating and vivid memoirs of Viennese psychoanalyst and Sigmund Freud 's biographer Fritz Wittels ... published here for the first time ... recall his early life and career as friend and rival of Freud ... and of the great critic of psychoanalysis, satirist Karl Kraus ... Wittel`s account of the erotic triangle in which he, Kraus, and the "child woman" became involved... and Freud`s crucial role in the controversy ... reveals much about the early years of psychoanalysis and about fin de sicle ... end of the 19th century ... life in Vienna ... " Freud and the Child Woman - The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels " ... edited by Edward Timms ... published by Yale University Press ... in English only ... 1995 Hardcover in Dustjacket First Edition ***. New/New . USD 39.95 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 | £UK 24.25 | JP¥ 3526] Book number: 3057 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music. |
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