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Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the SelfAllan N. Schore
Published by Norton
Here is a new book by Alan Shore, (Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, that suggests that although someone might not seem to be in a traumatized state, on the left brain level, the right brain may actually be flooded with cortisol and all the stress hormones that are released in situations of grave danger. For this part of the brain, the only possible responses are "flight, freeze or fight." This theory would suggest that the virulence of trauma’s impact is that it causes this dis-regulation between the different parts of the brain. The brain is split.
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Affect Regulation and Repair of the SelfAllan N. Schore
Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
An important theme of the book is that many aspects of Freud's original theoretical and clinical models have been substantially updated and, in some cases, even radically altered. Schore places great emphasis on Attachment Theory (as set forth and developed by Bowlby) and its use of the concept of nonconscious internal working models. Schore seems to believe that any biases held by his readers must be measured against the ever-growing neurobiological evidence that Freudian theory and our understanding of brain function are no longer incompatible.
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Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional DevelopmentAllan N. Schore
Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
This book brings together and presents the latest findings of socioemotional studies emerging from the developmental branches of various disciplines. It supplies psychological researchers and clinicians with relevant, up-to-date developmental neurobiological findings and insights, and exposes neuroscientists to recent developmental psychological and psychoanalytic studies of infants. The methodology of this theoretical research involves the integration of information that is being generated by the different fields that are studying the problem of socioaffective development--neurobiology, behavioral neurology, behavioral biology, sociobiology, social psychology, developmental psychology, developmental psychoanalysis, and infant psychiatry. A special emphasis is placed upon the application and incorporation of current developmental data from neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, neuropsychology, and neuroendocrinology into the main body of developmental theory.
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Countertransference in Couples TherapyEdited by Marion F. Solomon & Judith P. Siegel
Published by Norton
This book recognizes that therapy is an intersubjective process between people and that everyone involved has multiple feelings in the course of treatment. Countertransference refers to the complex set of reactions therapists experience in their work with clients--in this case, couples.
Rather than vieweing countertransference as an obstacle--something to et around or get rid of--the authors see it as both ineveitable and productive. In addition to the classical and totalist approaches to countertransference, they examine aspects of the therapist's self, including values and current life circumstances, that affect the treatment.
In a remarkably honest manner, the contributing authors present cases in which their countertransference informed the therapy (and sometimes tripped them up). Topics include reactions to borderline couples; countertransference around infertility, pregnancy, and childbirth; reaction to illness and death of a spouse; reverberations of a suicide; envy; love, lust, and attraction beetween therapist and client; sex and violence in gay couples; reactions to abusive couples; reactions to parenting issues; and more. These gripping cases are marked by an emotional frankness that is rarely seen in professional writings.
All therapists need to understand and deal with their own feelings in order to understand and deal with their patients. This thoughtful and stimulating book demonstrates the personal and professional gains that result from attending to countertransference in couples therapy.
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Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and BrainEdited by Marion F. Solomon and Daniel J. Siegel
Published by Norton
Healing Trauma provides readers with a broad, but detailed, framework in which to understand, evaluate, and treat trauma in the context of recent neurobiological understanding about trauma and traumatic attachments. In this book, Daniel Siegel and Marion Solomon have gathered together the work of the foremost researchers, clinicians, and theoreticians working within this new paradigm of trauma treatment to present a comprehensive discussion of trauma and healing, one that involves biological, developmental, and social components.
Each of the eight chapters in this book provides up-to-date information on the research, clinical practice, and theory of trauma. The first four chapters form a conceptual unit with a focus on the developmental origins of the factors that have been determined to place individuals at risk for suffering long-term sequalae of trauma. Beginning with Daniel Siegel's chapter describing the implications of interpersonal nurobiology for develpomental theory, these chapters pay particular attention to the attachment relationship and propose how the nature of that critical bond forms the basis for resilience or vulnerabilty. In this vein, Erik Hesse, Mary Main, Kelly Yost Abrams, and Anne Rifkin explore the \"second generation\" effects of trauma while Allan Schore considers the connection between early relational trauma in children and the formation of disorganized attachments. Bessel van der Kolk's chapter considering the current implications of research and theory of PTSD concludes this conceptual unit.
The second four chapters draw upon the resources from develpomental research and theory outlined in Chapters 1 through 4, and go on to consider various and complementary approaches to treatment. Francine Shapiro and Louise Maxfield develop the effective EMDR model of treatment with a specific emphasis on its application to patients with suboptimal attachment relations. In subsequent chapters, Diana Fosha outlines and provides rich case examples of accelerated experimental-dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP) and Robert Neborsky describes his work with short-term intensive dynamic psychotherapy in which defense mechanisms (often arising from suboptimal attachment) are revealed and reprocessed. Marion Solomon provides the final chapter in which she exhibits a model for couples therapy premised on the repair of disrupted attachment relations at both a neurobiological and social level.
Emerging from the integration of developmental, neurobiological, and social perspectives, Healing Trauma provides a collection of esays that will be accessible and valuable to a wide variety of practitioners in the medical and psychological healing professions.
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Lean on Me: The Power of Positive Dependency in Intimate RelationshipsBy Dr. Marion Solomon
Published by Simon & Schuster
In this explosive, ground-breaking book, noted psychotherapeutic marital therapist Dr. Marion Solomon shatters the culturally pervasive myth that dependency is an illness--and convincingly argues that dependency in a relationship is not only healthy but necessary in order to lead a satisfying life.
After thirty years of experience in helping couples, Marion F. Solomon believes the single most important lesson for strenghtening relationships is abandoning the misconception that dependency signifies a childlike neediness and that self-sufficiencey is the hallmark of psychological health. Loving too much is not the problem, insists Dr. Solomon. The problem arises from thinking our choices are restricted to solitary self-sufficiency or pathological co-dependence.
Introducing a hopeful and uplifting new approach, Lean on Me offers couples a novel and unexpected route to love--one that works. The first step is to stop denying the need for dependency and then, with the aird of her \"Ten Rules for Positive Dependency,\" Dr. Solomon helps steer readers along the pathway to better communication, strengthening trust, and deepening capacity for sharing and intimacy.
Everyone wants to be allowed at times to be taken care of, to feel small and vulnerable yet secure in the protective embrace of a partner. By recognizing these needs as universal, and understanding that both men and women want to be touched, held, nurtured, and affirmed by someone they can depend on, Lean on Me helps couples to discover how \"positive dependency\" can--and will--forever change their relationship and their lives.
Lean on Me presents a persuasive case for interdependence over independence and is a book that will not only educate but liberate as well.
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Narcissism and Intimacy: Love and Marriage in an Age of ConfusionBy Marion F. Solomon
Published by Norton
In our culture we demand a great deal from our intimate relationships--and we are often disappointed. This book not only reveals the social and psychodynamic factors that lead to marital unhappiness, but also offers guidelines for change.
Dr. Solomon looks at relationships from many perspectives. She starts by uncovering certain pervasive narcissistic myths and exploring what it means to be intimate in a culture that values autonomy and self-fulfillment above all. Drawing upon both psychodynamic family systems and object relations theories, she shows that experiences in early childhood can lead to narcissistic vulnerability in later relationships. Case examples from her practice clarify how two individuals' feeling states and defenses mesh in the marital system and how the attempt to defend against emotional injury creates barriers to intimacy.
The second part of the book focuses on marital treatment. The therapy room becomes a safe haven where both marital partners can experience the therapist's empathic understanding. In this context the fragile self of each partner is enhanced and dangerous emotions are contained and etoxified. As partners learn to listen to one another, rather than jumping in to assign blame, they gradually come to serve important functions for one another. in a particularly interesting chapter Solomon interprets rages, affairs, and addictions as expressions of overwhelming narcissistic vulnerability and offers guidance in managing such threatening acting-out behaviors.
The book is sprinkled with case vignettes from the author's practice. Since narcissism exists on a continuum and affects all of us, readers are likely to recognize their patients, their friends--and themselves in these cases.
The author, clearly in favor of supporting and treating the marriage when couples seek marital therapy, promotes individual growth and development within the security of an ongoing relationship. Weaving together threads from many sources, she offers a societal critique, a theory, and a method of intervention that will help both therapists and couples deepen the bonds of intimacy.
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Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term ChangeBy Marion F. Solomon, Robert J. Neborsky, Leigh McCullough, Michael Alpert, Francine Shapiro, David
Published by Norton
In this time of rapidly changing expectations of psychological treatment, the authors of this book address these questions: is it possible to effect deep, lasting, meaningful psychological change in short period of time? Can the effects of early childhood traumas--traumas that may have seemed small at the time but that have affected personality development--be overcome in short-term therapy?
While they have approached these questions from different perspectives, grappling with them for years in their clinical research and therapy practices, here these renowned practitioners make a concerted effort to integrate their disparate perspectives and develop a unified theory of effective treatment. They note points of contact and overlap among their ideas about the underlying causes of depression, maladjustment, marital discord, character pathology, and posttraumatic stress disorders. Each outlines the precise methods he or she uses with patients to create emotional growth and reintegration, illustrating these with cases and transcripts.
Readers will find here variations on the theme of short-term therapy for long-term change. Habib Davanloo was a colleague of Malan's and has influenced Neborsky, Alpert, and McCullough. While Neborsky has devoted himself to refining and presenting clearly Davanloo's theory and method, Alpert has developed a method of accelerated empathic treatment and McCullough has designed an anxiety-regulating therapy that is the subject of several research studies. Solomon has applied dynamic theories to treatment of intimate relationships. Shapiro, using EMDR, approaches Big-T and small-t traumas in what seems initially a quite different way but is shown ultimately to have many similarities to short-term dynamic psychotherapy. Despite their differences, all the authors have found relatively quick ways to ameliorate the persistent effects of early, repeated traumas and failures in attachment. Their methods can be proven scientifically valid, taught to others, and reliably reproduced by effectively trained psychotherapists with a wide variety of patients.
With this basis in research and clinical practice, the theories and methods presented here have the potential to revolutionize psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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