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Informationen zum Autor Mardi J. Horowitz is an expert in the areas of stress, loss, traumatic experiences, personality development, and change in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He developed and directed the UCSF Center on Stress and Personality and the Program on Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He has received the NIMH Research Scientist Development Award and directed the NIMH Center for the Study of Neuroses at UCSF. He developed and directed the Second Opinion Consultations on Psychotherapy Treatments Program and the Survivors Clinic at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. He has received Lifetime Achievement and Pioneer Awards from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies as well as the Foundations Fund Prize from the APA for outstanding research on the diagnosis and treatment of PTSD. Klappentext Describes a clinician-patient relationship for the achievement of a wider range of safe emotional expression and mastery of previous traumas. Zusammenfassung This book will expand your therapeutic repertoire. Once crises have been resolved! the clinician and patient explore what can change in order to increase the patient's capacities for balance! harmony and satisfaction. The outcome is the achievement of a wider range of safe emotional expression and mastery of previous traumas and losses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Advancing personality growth in psychotherapy; Part I. Self-Organization: 2. Self-organization; 3. Identity functioning and self-states; 4. Possibilities for change in self-narratives; Part II. Relationships: 5. Changing relationship patterns; 6. Advancing relationship capacities; 7. Improving maladaptive patterns in sexual relationships; Part III. Control and Emotional Regulation: 8. Control of unconscious emotional potentials; 9. Defensive styles; 10. Emotional avoidance maneuvers; References; Index.
