"This book sheds light on how underlying patterns of societal power relations affect the patient-therapist dyad in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It is an effort to understand, and ideally to reduce, clinical blindness in psychotherapy. The book systematically addresses uniqu…
The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst's office for an analytic session seems inexplicable. The analyst sits in a chair out of sight while the patient lies on a couch facing away. It has been this way since Freud, although, as Nathan Kravis points out in On the Couch, thi…
How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing. The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst's office for an analytic session seems inexplicable. The analyst sits in a chair out of sight while the pa…
Anatomy of Regret has a highly clinical focus, with cases that illustrate how critical psychic change can emerge from the mourning of the grief of ""psychic regret"". This book highlights the developmental achievement of owning the guilt of aggression, and of tolerating insight …
This book presents the enacted dimension of psychoanalytic process. He clarifies that enactment is not simply an overt event but an unconscious, continuously evolving, dynamically meaningful process. Using clinical examples, including several extended case reports, Gil Katz demo…
"Extending the themes of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations , The Therapeutic Situation in the 21<SUP>st</SUP> Century is a systematic reformulation of fundamental psychoanalytic concepts, such as transference, therapeutic action, and the uses of psychotropic drugs, in the …
"Extending the themes of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations, The Therapeutic Situation in the 21<SUP>st</SUP> Century is a systematic reformulation of fundamental psychoanalytic concepts, such as transference, therapeutic action, and the uses of psychotropic drugs, in the l…
"Patients with personality disorders need targeted treatments which are able to deal with the specific aspects of the core pathology and to tackle the challenges they present to the treatment clinicians. Such patients, however, are often difficult to engage, are prone to rupture…
"Patients with personality disorders need targeted treatments which are able to deal with the specific aspects of the core pathology and to tackle the challenges they present to the treatment clinicians. Such patients, however, are often difficult to engage, are prone to rupture…
"Patients with personality disorders need targeted treatments which are able to deal with the specific aspects of the core pathology and to tackle the challenges they present to the treatment clinicians. Such patients, however, are often difficult to engage, are prone to rupture…
"The goal of this book is to help psychotherapists better understand, manage, and transform the wide range of emotions they experience while conducting psychotherapy and to help them use these experiences to facilitate an understanding of their clients and a strengthening of the…
"The goal of this book is to help psychotherapists better understand, manage, and transform the wide range of emotions they experience while conducting psychotherapy and to help them use these experiences to facilitate an understanding of their clients and a strengthening of the…
