Authors:Manfred Kets de Vries, Elisabet Engellau,
Publisher: Karnac Book
Keywords: alexander, case, made, leaders
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1855753154
ISBN-13: 9781855753150

What makes a great leader? Can leadership be learned or are great leaders born and not made?Manfred Kets de Vries answers these questions, and many more, in his innovative and fresh look at the timeless theme of effective leadership. His engaging study of the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader who created an empire that spanned most of the ancient world, provides an in-depth look at the psychodynamics of leadership that will be of use to contemporary leaders in business and politics, and to consulting and training organizations.In the first part of the book, the author weaves

Author: Mortimer Ostow
Publisher: Karnac Book
Keywords: library, maresfield, psychoanalysis, judaism
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1855751801
ISBN-13: 9781855751804

Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish sceince"? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth century Europe, Freud’s Jewishness and the Jewishness of his early colleagues. They also exemplify what the psychoanalytic approach can contribute to the study of Judaism. Clinical studies iulluminate the issue of Jewish identity and psychologic significance of the bar mitzvah experience. Theoretical essays throw light on Jewish history, Jewish social and communal behaviour, Jewish myths and

Author: James S. Grotstei
Publisher: Karnac Book
Keywords: legacy, psychoanalysis, bions, wilfred, intense, darkness, beam
Number of Pages: 395
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $58.50
ISBN-10: 1855754487
ISBN-13: 9781855754485

The scope of this work is to synopsize, synthesize, extend, and to challenge Bion in a reader-friendly manner. Presenting the most important legacy-ideas for psychoanalysis—the ideas that are on the cutting edge of the field that need to be known by the mental health profession at large—it highlights and defines the broader and deeper implications of his works.A Beam of Intense Darkness presents Bion’s ideas faithfully and also uses his ideas as launching pads for the author’s conjectures about where Bion’s ideas point. This includes such ideas as “the Language of Achievement�

Author: Penny Rawso
Publisher: Karnac Book
Keywords: bereaved, guide, grief, grappling
Number of Pages: 90
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1855753219
ISBN-13: 9781855753211

Grief touches everyone of us during our lives and we all struggle to find ways to deal with it. "Grappling with Grief" looks at different ways of going through a loss of any kind -- the death of a partner, parent, friend, the loss of a job, the loss of an unborn baby. The author draws examples from her experience as a psychotherapist and counsellor and offers the readers the chance to learn about different ways of grieving, as well as make them see that they are not alone in their grief. The language is free of jargon and the book manages to tackle this difficult subject with the dignity it de

Author: Roy Ridgway
Publisher: Karnac Book
Keywords: overcoming, problems, origin, life, whole, child, beginning, unborn
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1855754207
ISBN-13: 9781855754201

All psychotherapists work on the basis of a person’s early experience, even if many yet give surprisingly little weight to the primal stage--from before conception to infancy--yet primal awareness is growing. In the last fifteen years biochemical understanding of emotions / hormones and of nutrition has burgeoned. Many of these research studies are on Medline, particularly in relation to the brain and mental health or disorder. Meanwhile brain scans have rapidly advanced our understanding of feelings, behavior, and performance. The Unborn Child describes development from before conception an

Author: Ann Casement
Publisher: Karnac Book
Keywords: psychoanalysis, owns
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1855753707
ISBN-13: 9781855753709

The idea for the book, "Who Owns Psychoanalysis", was sparked by the controversy that erupted two to three years ago while the editor, Ann Casement, was Chair of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). The controversy revolved around the fact that some of UKCP registrants who had previously been registered as “psychoanalytic psychotherapists” now wished to change their title to that of “psycho-analyst”. This caused a tremendous furore in the psychoanalytic world with individuals, as well as organizations, arguing for and against this proposed change. This event was only th

Author: Wilfred R. Bio
Publisher: Karnac Book
Keywords: seminars, italian
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1855753391
ISBN-13: 9781855753396

The Italian Seminars, previously unpublished in English, comprises lectures W.R. Bion gave in Rome in 1977. The volume consists of questions from the floor and Bion’s fascinating, and sometimes controversial, answers. The lectures are divided in two; the first part was organized by the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and the second by the Group Research of Via Polliolo. Bion’s replies examine subjects as diverse as difficulties in the interaction between the therapist and the patient; music and psychoanalysis; non-verbal communication in the consulting room; and methodology in psychoanaly