e-Book The Embedded Self: An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couples and Family Therapy download

Download (pdf, . 8 Mb) Donate Read. Epub FB2 mobi txt RTF. Converted file can differ from the original. If possible, download the file in its original format.

Firmly grounded in detailed case presentations, her focus on family therapy examined its history, organizing concepts, and developmental approaches, and addressed practical questions of diagnosis, clinical interaction, and referrals.

The Embedded Self: An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systemic .

The Embedded Self: An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couples and Family Therapy by Mary-Joan Gerson. When it was first published, The Embedded Self was lauded as "a brilliant and long overdue rapprochement between psychoanalysis and family therapy conceived by a practitioner trained and experienced in both modalities of treatment.

First published in 1996, The Embedded Self was lauded as "a brilliant and long overdue rapprochement between psychoanalysis and family therapy conceived by a practitioner trained and experienced in both modalities of treatment.

Mary-Joan Gerson’s integrated presentation of psychodynamic and . This was a marvelously comprehensive and integrative book when it first came out.

This book highlights the dramatic differences in perspective, awareness, and focus when engaging in. .The psychoanalytic climate is changing, leaning more to pluralistic points of view and varied clinical activities.

This book highlights the dramatic differences in perspective, awareness, and focus when engaging in ted psychotherapy or family and couples psychotherapy. The author, growing up in a multi-ethnic environment, was deeply impressed by the degree to which the individual was invariably intricately embedded in his or her family and immediate environment. This outlook influenced her choice of professional training. The author engages our attention with a balance of precise, theoretical overviews and a rich flow of clinical illustrations.

Mary-Joan Gerson, P. ABPP, is Director of the Advanced Specialization in Couples and Family Therapy at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she is also Clinical Professor and Supervisor of Psychoanalysis. She is the Founding President of Section 8 (Couples and Family Therapy) of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association.