Death Anxiety and Clinical Practice

Self-Help

Langs, Robert

Death & Grief

Routledge

A Clinical Workbook for Psychotherapists

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Doing Supervision and Being Supervised

Empowered Psychotherapy: Teaching Self-Processing

Empowered Psychotherapy

Science, Systems and Psychoanalysis

Managing Managed Care is the first comprehensive exploration of the many issues and challenges faced by both providers and patients who work under the auspices of managed care insurers. The distinctive conditions of managed care treatment are scrutinized in detail and their effects and optimal management are carefully presented. The book makes extensive use of the author's unique, in-depth understanding of the human mind and pays attention to both the consciously mediated effects of the conditions of managed care treatment and to the especially powerful, largely unappreciated effects that are mediated unconsciously. The result is a well grounded, extensive, practical guide to dealing effectively with the inevitable intrusions into the therapeutic relationship and with other common issues that are characteristic of managed care therapy. The recommendations proposed by the author can turn a failing treatment experience into one that brings symptom relief to the patient and satisfaction to the therapist. While the author is critical of many practices endorsed by managed care insurers and in use by their providers, he takes pains to propose basic improvements in these areas. In addition, the positive features of this treatment modality are given full consideration, including ways to enhance their favorable effects. The book uniquely provides critical insights for therapists and psychiatrists of all backgrounds and all levels of clinical experience in ways that will greatly enhance their work with managed care patients.

Managing Managed Care: Psychotherapy and Medication Management in the Modern Era

Jason Aronson, Inc.

This book is a psychoanalytic detective story that takes the reader back to the late 1890's and to the generally unappreciated, yet single most important, turning point in the history of psychoanalysis. The context is the death of Freud's father and the decision Freud made to abandon his first, reality-centered theory of the mind in favor of a theory focused on inner fantasies and needs. Marshalling a large body of evidence, Langs views this change of heart as a regressive paradigm shift driven by unconsciously influential archetypes that were, in turn, linked to a series of early-life traumas in Freud's life, possibly eight in all, several of them preceding Freud's birth and all but one outside of Freud's conscious awareness. The ramifications of these incidents placed Freud on a later-day precipice from which his fall into equivalents of homicide and suicide were at risk; Freud shifted focus to save his life! Langs' detective work brings him to new insights into such matters as the psychological archetypes that affect the creation and modifications of paradigms, physical and mental; a new, utilitarian view of the design of the emotion-processing mind; recognition of the complex unconscious impact of reality and of death-related traumas on the human psyche and emotionally-charged choices; the vast superiority of Freud's first paradigm over his second theory of the mind; and the unconscious reasons, despite its many flaws, that Freud's second paradigm remains in favor to this very day. Freud saved his life by shifting course, but at the same time he created a theory that must be held partly accountable for the compromised forms of dynamic therapy and broad psychological harm that has followed in its wake. Using an updated version of Freud's first paradigm, Langs shows us a better way to live and work, as a psychotherapist or any other career.

Freud on a Precipice: How Freud's Fate Pushed Psychoanalysis Over the Edge

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Using the "trigger-decoding" technique, the author illustrates how dreams can be utilized to gain insight into psychological wounds and problems, better understand one's challenges and choices, and use this knowledge to make necessary changes

Decoding Your Dreams

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Henry Holt Co.

Discusses the therapy situation, with explanations of conditions, and a check list of plus and negative statements at the end of each chapter

Rating Your Psychotherapist

Medical Books

Medicine

Argues that the superficiality of the rational, conscious mind causes humans to miss the truth about themselves, work, and friends, and frightens them away from discovering what they really want

Take Charge of Your Emotional Life: Self-Analysis Day by Day

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