Product Description: What is it about the challenges and stresses of midlife that disrupts equilibrium and promotes a sense of despair, even of crisis? Why does this stage of the life cycle give rise to new mental and physical symptoms that, for some, lead to chronic unhappiness to the point of dysfunction? Of course, there are common midlife events that account for the special narcissistic vulnerabilities of this period of life, and Eda Goldstein ably reviews these events and the theoretical perspectives commonly brought to bear on them...read more

Product Description: Recent contributions to the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature have moved beyond traditional views of lesbianism, but they have tended to address lesbian identity from one theoretical vantage point or another. Rarely have new ideas been linked to the process issues that arise in actual clinical situations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Short-Term Treatment and Social Work Practice: An Integrative Perspective, Eda G. Goldstein and Maryellen Noonan take the best of theories that social workers have relied on for decades, including ego psychology, other psychodynamic and psychosocial frameworks, and the cognitive-behavioral approach, to create a new short-term practice model for social workers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: While ego psychological theory still holds a pre-eminent position in clinical social work practice, the field has changed in many ways. This revised edition addresses these major changes, bringing the reader up to date.

Product Description: Designed as a resource and a guide, the volume translates complex concepts in ways that will be accessible to practitioners from a wide range of mental health disciplines. It is replete with case vignettes of therapist/patient interaction and of clinical concepts that illustrate the approaches of Otto Kernberg, James Masterson, Gertrude and Rubin Blanck, Heinz Kohut, and Gerald Adler...read more