Family Context Therapy
Family Context Therapy is based on the operational principle that families are modifiable through changing the environments within which they live. The environmental forces provide a complex dynamic for the functions of individuals and the total family. Creating changes in these forces to reduce pressures toward destructive functioning and to accentuate pressures toward family adjustment …
Family Crisis Therapy
Family Crisis Therapy is an active intervention technique to help a family (conjointly) resolve a crisis. The crisis is a state of increased tension, a suspension of long-term goals, and a revival of past conflicts. It is usually precipitated by stress and occurs in an individual or family that is especially susceptible. (11 pp.)
Multiple Conjoint Psychotherapy
Multiple Conjoint Psychotherapy can be best described as a treatment strategy rather than as a separate system of psychotherapy. It is used to alter a disturbed relationship between family members (husband and wife, or siblings) by focusing on the interaction between the participants. Typically, two therapists (multiple or co-therapists) meet with the family members in …
Chinese American Family Therapy: A New Model for Clinicians
Offers specific and effective guidelines for treating Chinese American individuals and families with respect, sensitivity and understanding. Jung examines these families within their culture of origin and offers an understanding of values, beliefs and customs that are rooted in Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. The book offers a comprehensive multidimensional clinical approach in clear and concise …
Self Hatred in Psychoanalysis
How can psychological therapies help to deal with persecutory states of mind? The persecutory object is the element of the personality which attacks your confidence, productivity, and acceptance of reality to the point of no return. Persecuted patients torture themselves, hurt their loved ones, and torment their therapists. In this book the authors integrate object …
From Instinct to Self: Vol II
Ronald Fairbairn’s theory of object relations, first published in the 1940s, revolutionized psychoanalysis. Countering Freud’s view that the developmental drive emerged almost solely from within an individual, Fairbairn argued that each person’s fundamental need for relationships organizes development and its vicissitudes. In the ensuing years, frequently without attribution to Fairbairn, object relations theory became central …
From Instinct to Self: Volume I
Ronald Fairbairn’s theory of object relations, first published in the 1940s, revolutionized psychoanalysis. Countering Freud’s view that the developmental drive emerged almost solely from within an individual, Fairbairn argued that each person’s fundamental need for relationships organizes development and its vicissitudes. In the ensuing years, frequently without attribution to Fairbairn, object relations theory became central …
Psychosynthesis
Psychosynthesis is a therapeutic process of combining individual elements of the mind to form a whole personality. The holistic definition of Psychosynthesis is a unified system of the eclectic elements of classical psychoanalysis based on traditional family medicine, psychotherapy, electrotherapy, behavior therapy, and group dynamics, with television technology (videology) as the natural instrumentation to realize …
Residential Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Children
Residential treatment is a form of therapy that involves the total life of a disturbed child in a planful organization that is built upon a defined theory of treatment. It requires the child to live in a special setting, where he is cared for by trained personnel who mold their everyday interactions and relationships with …
Editorial Staff
Jason Aronson, MD Founder Jason Aronson, M. D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was a research psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and then served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He founded and was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychiatry, and established Jason …
