Isaac Mickle was no ordinary youth, and it follows that his diary is no ordinary scribbling. A Gentleman of Much Promise is the eloquent and insightful account of a young man entering the prime of his life.
Born of a wealthy New Jersey family, Mickle was in his short lifetime (1822-1855) a Camden and Philadelphia lawyer, the editor of two weekly newspapers, an historian, an accomplished violinist and avid book collector, a local political lead...
This manual was prepared in close cooperation with British Leyland Motors in order to provide complete, authentic and up-to-date maintenance and repair information to owners, dealership service departments, and other professional mechanics. The Workshop Manual is the official factory manual and includes information from the Driver's Handbook, which is the handbook provided with every new Austin-Healey. This manual contains emission control inf...
Since the Second World War, Toronto's image as a rather staid, predominantly British community, has been transformed through massive immigration into what has been aptly described as a "salad bowl" of identifiable ethnic communities with their characteristic languages, neighbourhoods, shops, newspapers, radio programs and sporting events.
No gold rush in history could match the Klondike Rush of 1896-99 in the almost insane drive of people to conquer distance and weather conditions to reach the rich deposits of placer gold in the frozen, barren area of the Klondike River in the Yukon Territory of northern Canada.
This work addresses the questions of who becomes a therapist and who seeks his/her counsel. The author also analyses a variety of therapeutic approaches, many of which he sees as misguided efforts based on unproven developmental theories.
This history of psychoanalysis has been revised and expanded. The book traces the growth of an idea that became a movement and one of the most significant intellectual developments of the 20th century.
This text confronts the disturbing reality of patients getting worse while in treatment. With an awareness of society's legitimate right to question what psychotherapy does and how it does it, this book discusses the complex problems of when psychotherapy fails at its intent.
This is an analysis of the psychoanalytic concepts of depression, which highlights the contributions of important investigators in the field, and delineates the similarities, differences and contradictions in their points of view.
This text examines the psychological effects of bereavement, emphasising the progression of the author's thought and its culmination in his concept of crisis intervention.
Professionals are as human as those they serve. Sexual relationships and other improprieties occur between doctors, ministers, or therapists and their patients, parishioners, or clients. Virtually all such _romances_ are destructive, not only for the protagonists but for their families. This book helps clinicians understand and treat the professional who has had sexual contact with a patient or client. Over half of these wounded healers have s...
A collection of articles which discuss children of all ages, from the very young to the adolescent. This volume also explores the Kleinian approach and a Horneyian orientation along with issues of prevention and research.
This text discusses different therapies, subjecting them to a critical analysis from the standpoint of psychoanalytic theory. It should appeal to anyone interested in learning something about the spectrum of therapies available today.
Treatment can be a liberating experience. This book aims to show that its ultimate purpose is to help the patient achieve maximum individuation, to free him from the shackles that he has acquired during painful and frustrating experiences in infancy.
Dr. Judith Mishne's book shows how to raise self-reliant children who thrive at school. Written for parents and for professionals working with children and their parents, this book demonstrates that children's social development must be given paramount importance in order for them to achieve long-term school success. Particularly in the early years a child's sense of self and his or her ability to trust the environment are the qualities that n...
Is this relationship real?" is a question therapists often hear from their patients. We know it is real, but certainly different from other relationships. Other authors have described it as an analog of the parent-child relationship. In this ambitiously integrative work, the distinguished analyst and respected teacher, Dr. Irving Steingart, offers a new model of the analytic relationship, one that has no analog in ordinary life. In this model ...
