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Provides psychoanalysts with information on how to work with medication theoretically, clinically, and technically in the context of a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic treatment. This book also discusses evidence that a change in the use of medication has taken place and an examination of the factors that have led to this shift.

This text offers ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. They integrate the findings of self psychology with developmental research that has refined understanding of the self as a centre of experience and motivation.

This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then reconceptualizes the analytic situation, and forms an experiential account of the therapeutic action of analysis.

This volume focuses on treatment issues pertaining to patients with borderline psychopathology. It covers psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and explores alternative approaches. The concluding essay discusses the controversies and convergences among the different treatment approaches.

Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds - philosophical, developmental, biological, and neuroscientific - this title addresses the tension between individuality and the emergence of contextualism as a mode of psychoanalytic theory and practice, providing insights into the role and place of individuality in and out of the clinical setting.

The motivational systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of mental states and the process by which affects, intentions, and goals unfold. Placing motivational systems theory within a contemporary dynamic systems theory, this title offers responses to the critics of motivational systems theory.

Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds - philosophical, developmental, biological, and neuroscientific - this title addresses the tension between individuality and the emergence of contextualism as a mode of psychoanalytic theory and practice, providing insights into the role and place of individuality in and out of the clinical setting.

Making use of relational systems theory, this book shows that experiences of uncertainty are continually transformed by the regulatory processes of everyday life such as feeling, knowing, forming categories, making decisions, using language, creating narratives, sensing time, remembering, forgetting, and fantasizing.

Containing 10 chapters, this book expatiates on the craft of exploratory psychotherapy as it pertains to patients who typically bring to therapy backgrounds of insecure attachment and serious concerns about safety and retraumatization. Each chapter formulates a different guideline for technique.

Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes.