Category: Books

Book Announcement for Susan Kavaler-Adler
By Categories: Books, Psychoanalysis

Selected Papers by Susan Kavaler-AdlerVolume 1: Developmental Mourning, Erotic Transference, and Object Relations Psychoanalysis
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“In these thoughtfully curated volumes we have access to the work of one of the most influential and thought-provoking psychoanalytic writers today. In the creative hands of Dr. Kavaler-Adler, British and American Object Relations theories are fashioned into a vital, dynamic theory of Developmental Mourning, a developmental process that is central not only to healing trauma, but to the growth of separation-individuation processes, “self-evolution,” creativity, eroticism, and reparation: the core elements of what it is to be human and alive. Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s writing is so thoroughly infused with her enthusiasm and passion that we encounter the theory with visceral clarity and truly feel the pain and joy of her clinical work. Continue reading Book Announcement for Susan Kavaler-Adler

People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan
By Categories: Books, Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Purchase:  People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan from IPBooks.net

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Above are two clusters of chapters from a unique psychological novel, “people don’t drown in living rooms”. Written in two voices, in the form of epistolary exchanges between analyst and patient, this book is unique in its form as well as in its contextual content. Touching on the complexity of emotional and physical boundaries between therapist and client, through the tumultuous arena of erotic transference – as Danielle Knafo, professor, psychoanalyst and author, commented “This book teaches us more about the intensity of the love-hate dynamics that exist between patient and analyst than any journal article on the subject”.

This book was written by two authors; Dr. Orna Reuven, a psychoanalyst and lecturer from the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Dr. Yair Eldan, a lecturer of law from The Hebrew University, who together embarked on an adventure knowing how it would begin but with no view of where it would end. During the writing of this book, they took it upon themselves to restrict their Continue reading People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan

Development, Psychopathology, And Treatment Techniques Across The Life-Span by Ivan Sherick
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Click Here to Purchase: Development, Psychopathology, And Treatment Techniques Across The Life-Span by Ivan Sherick

Click Here to Read a Review  of Introduction to Child, Adolescent, and Adult Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Students and Professionals by Ivan Sherick; IPBooks (2012; 183 pages) (The first book of the three included in this volume)  Reviewed by Denia Barrett, LCSW. This review appeared in the AAPCSW Newsletter, Spring 2018 issue.

Development, Psychopathology, and Treatment Techniques Across the Life-Span: A Psychoanalytic Perspective is meant for students and professionals. It includes intact three former books, each devoted separately to the topics of development, psychopathology, and treatment techniques. It explains the psychoanalytic issues involved in language accessible and available to all. Clinical examples are provided. Recommended readings are included at the end.

IVAN SHERICK, PH.D. is a psychoanalyst trained to see people of all ages. He was in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was trained in child/adolescent psychoanalysis at The Hampstead Clinic in London, England, under Miss Anna Freud’s direction. He later completed adult psychoanalytic training at The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. He is Emeritus Supervisor of Child and Adolescent Analysis at MPI. He is a former supervisor of adult psychodynamic psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry, the University of Michigan. He formerly was the Child Development Director of the Allen Creek Preschool in Ann Arbor, MI, a founding member of the Alliance of Psychoanalytic Schools.