Psychoanalytic Listening: Methods, Limits, and Innovations

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Akhtar, Salman

Mental Health

Routledge

Unusual Interventions: Alterations of the Frame, Method, and Relationship in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Matters of Life and Death: Psychoanalytic Reflections

Sources of Suffering: Fear, Greed, Guilt, Deception, Betrayal, and Revenge

Presents profiles of a variety of personality disorders and describes treatment methods.

Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Mourning and the importance of the capacity to bear some helplessness, while still finding pleasure in life, are central to this tightly organized volume. The multi-faceted processes involved in mourning and adaptation are addressed.

Three Faces of Mourning: Melancholia, Manic Defense, and Moving on

Parenting & Relationships

The face of Islam currently visible to the West bears the features of orthodoxy, fundamentalism, the so-called "new anti-Semitism," and political terrorism. Images of inter-ethnic bloodshed in Iraq, bellicose Iranian posturing, Al-Qaeda training camps, and zealot suicide bombers are the basic grammar of such perception. While not entirely untrue, this portrayal of Islam also emanates from the 'villain hunger' of the West, a hunger that has increased since the fall of the USSR. The false equation of 'Muslim' with 'Arab' has also created stereotypes and ambiguities. The fact is that most Muslims of the world are not Arab and many Arabs are not Muslims. Indeed the people, culture, traditions, and even religious practices of Islam are highly varied and complex. Its belief systems range from the austere Wahabbi rigidity to lyrical Sufi mysticism. Its cultural fabric includes the dark spots of suppression of women on the one hand and breathtakingly beautiful fibers of calligraphy, architecture, rug weaving, and romantic poetry on the other hand. Attempting to advance knowledge about Islam and to create the possibility of a dialogue between Islam and psychoanalysis, The Crescent and the Couch brings together a distinguished panel of Muslim and non-Muslim contributors from the fields of history, religion, anthropology, politics, and psychoanalysis. Together these authors highlight the world-changing contributions of prominent Muslim figures, and elucidate the encounter of Islam with Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. Moving on to matters of family, individual personality formation, human sexuality, and religious identity, they also address clinical issues that arise in the treatment of Muslim patients as well as the technical work of Muslim psychoanalysts. The book thus becomes a literary ambassador of sorts, bridging the conceptual gap between psychoanalytic theory on the one hand and Islamic conceptualizations of life on the other. It is a work of synthesis at its best and since bringing diverse thin

The Crescent and the Couch: Cross-Currents Between Islam and Psychoanalysis

Psychology & Counseling

The hidden knot

Adams Press

Turned to light

In this collection of psychoanalytic writings, acclaimed clinician and theoretician Salman Akhtar reviews and reflects on the work of others, covering a broad range of topics in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Author's most recent book, Objects of Our Desire, was published by Random House. Joseph Reppen, editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, says about the book, 'To hear Salman Akhtar deliver a paper or recite poetry is a rare treat and in this lovely collection of book reviews, discussions, and miscellanea one hears his sensitive, respectful, and illuminating voice once more. He is truly a man for all seasons and the topics in this volume range over the broadest spectrum of subjects.' Solid scholarship written in a lyrical, accessible style

Regarding Others: Reviews, Responses, and Reflections

Pitchstone Publishing

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