Many clinicians dread working with individuals diagnosed as borderline, bipolar, schizophrenic, psychotic, and character disordered. Often labeled as “high risk” or “difficult,” these relational problems and their interpersonal manifestations often require long and intense transformative therapy. In this book Dr. Hedges explains how to address the nature of personality organization in order to flow with -- and eventually to enjoy -- working at early developmental levels. Dr. Hedges speaks to the client’s engagement/disengagement needs, using a relational process-oriented approach, so the therapist can gauge how much and what kind of therapy can be achieved at any point and time.

Relational Interventions: Treating Borderline, Bipolar, Schizophrenic, Psychotic, and Characterolgical Personality Organization

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hedges, Lawrence E.

Mental Health

Listening Perspectives

It has now become clear that Cumulative Developmental Trauma is universal. That is to say, there is no way to grow up and walk the planet without being repeatedly swallowed up by emotional and relational demands from other people. When we become confused, frightened, and overwhelmed our conscious and unconscious minds seek remedies to deal with the situation. Unfortunately, many of the solutions developed in response to intrusive events turn into habitual fear reflexes that get in our way later in life, giving rise to post-traumatic stress and relational inhibitions. This book is about freeing ourselves from the cumulative effects of our life's many relational traumas and the after-effects of those traumas that continue to constrict our capacities for creative, spontaneous, and passionate living.

Facing Our Cumulative Developmental Trauma: An Interpersonal/Relational Approach

Freud's singular stroke of genius can be simply stated: When we engage with someone in an emotionally intimate relationship, the deep unconscious emotional/relational habits of both participants become interpersonally engaged and enacted thereby making them potentially available for notice, discussion, transformation, and expansion. This is the 20th book in a series authored and edited by Dr. Lawrence Hedges establishing and expanding Relational Listening Perspectives. This Handbook surveys a massive clinical research project extending over 45 years and participated in by more than 400 psychotherapists in case conferences, reading groups and seminars at the Listening Perspectives Study Center and the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in the Southern California area.

Relational Listening: A Handbook: Cross-Culturally Resonant Gateways into Human Relational Experience

Psychology & Counseling

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Relational Interventions: Treating Borderline, Bipolar, Schizophrenic, Psychotic, and Characterolgical Personality Organization

Facing Our Cumulative Developmental Trauma: An Interpersonal/Relational Approach

Relational Listening: A Handbook: Cross-Culturally Resonant Gateways into Human Relational Experience