"DESCRIPTION Although attachment theory was originally rooted in psychoanalysis, theory and research in each area have developed quite independently. This incisive book explores ways in which attachment theory and psychoanalysis have each contributed to understanding key aspects…
In Building Bridges, Stuart A. Pizer gives much-needed recognition to the central role of negotiation in the analytic relationship and in the therapeutic process. Building on a Winnicottian perspective that comprehends paradox as the condition for preserving an intrapsychic and …
"Equally informed by existing psychoanalytic theories, such as those by Winnicott, Bion and Mitchell, and rich clinical material, this book defines the concept of play from the perspective of clinical practice to elaborate on its application to clinical problems. Although Winnic…
"Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflecting look in the mother's eyes, and that this shame is internalized by the infant and reverberates through its later life. Mary Ayers further expands…
Winner of the 2004 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. The issue of shame has become a central topic for many writers and therapists in recent years, but it is debatable how much real understanding of this powerful and pervasive emo…
"Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflecting look in the mother's eyes, and that this shame is internalized by the infant and reverberates through its later life. Mary Ayers further expands…
The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of transference and countertransference interactions in the psychoanalytic situation.'A signifi…