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Psychotherapy and Personal Change

Two Minds in a Mirror

By: Ahron Friedberg,Sandra Sherman

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Psychotherapy and Personal Change

Two Minds in a Mirror

By: Ahron Friedberg,Sandra Sherman

Psychotherapy and Personal Change: Two Minds in a Mirror offers unique day-to-day accounts of patients undergoing psychotherapy and what happens during "talk therapy" to startle the complacent, conscious mind and expose the unconscious. It is a candid, moment-by-moment revelation of how the therapist’s own memories, feelings, and doubts are often as much a factor in the process as those of the patient. In the process of healing, both the therapist and the patient reflect on each other and on themselves. As the therapist develops empathy for the patient, and the patient develops trust in the therapist, their shared memories, feelings, and associations interact and entwine – almost kaleidoscopically – causing each to ask questions of the other and themselves. In this book, Dr. Friedberg reveals personal insights that arose as he recalled memories to share with patients. These insights might not have arisen but for the therapy, which operates in multiple directions as patient and therapist explore the present, the past, and the unknown. Readers will see the therapist – like the patient – as a complex, vulnerable human being influenced by parents, colleagues, and friends, whose conscious and unconscious minds ramify through each other. It is a truism of psychotherapy that in order to commit to the process, whatever the reservations or misconceptions, one must understand that therapy is not passive. The patient must expect to become personally involved with the therapist. The patient learns about the therapist even as the therapist helps the patient to gain insight into him- or herself. Psychotherapy and Personal Change shows how this exchange develops and how each actor is affected. Through specific examples, the book raises the reader’s understanding of what to expect from psychotherapy and enhances his/her insight into therapy that he or she may have had already.

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Routledge

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1000299295

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9781000299298

Through a Screen Darkly

Psychoanalytic Reflections During the Pandemic

By: Ahron Friedberg

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Through a Screen Darkly

Psychoanalytic Reflections During the Pandemic

By: Ahron Friedberg

Winner of the 2022 Gradiva® Award for Best Book – Historic Moment for Reflection! This book offers real-time, intimate reflections on Dr. Friedberg’s patients as they struggle with COVID-19 and its disruptive, dispiriting fallout. Through a Screen Darkly identifies the psychological distress caused by the pandemic, examining how the particular elements of COVID-19 – its ability to be spread by those who seem not to have it, its intractability, the long-term uncertainty that it engenders – leave even relatively stable people shaken and unsure of the future. The book examines how, amidst radical uncertainty and the prospect of massive social change, such people learn to become resilient. The main theme of the book is that, of necessity, we learn to adapt. Though we still can only see "darkly," we can call on the resources that we have, as well as those we can reasonably acquire, so as to retain a sense of our dignity and purpose. Through a Screen Darkly examines what is possible now as the pandemic runs its course. It makes no predictions of how all this will ultimately play out, but offers a time capsule of how people have coped with a disease that landed suddenly and that we still do not fully understand. Offering a series of intense encounters with worried, traumatized people, this book will be invaluable to in-training and practicing psychiatrists, as it points to the several possible directions for our national, psychological recovery from the pandemic.

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299

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1000383644

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9781000383645

Everyday Leadership

Taking Charge in the Real World

By: Ahron Friedberg, M.D.,Sandra Sherman

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Everyday Leadership

Taking Charge in the Real World

By: Ahron Friedberg, M.D.,Sandra Sherman

Everyday Leadership examines how individuals in everyday, relatively small settings can succeed in leadership positions. The book provides tools for tackling the unique psychological and external challenges that everyday leaders face, and offers principles that they can adapt to their own situations. Dr. Ahron Friedberg, who regularly advises leaders and would-be leaders, emphasizes the social aspect of leadership, and explores how those who are new to leadership – and those in established positions – can leverage their support networks and thrive in their roles. The book follows the experience of real people who have faced leadership challenges and learned from them, demonstrating how readers can learn from these examples and apply them to their own circumstances. Guided by a practical leadership roadmap, chapters examine concepts such as vision, determination, flexibility, planning, organization, and responsibility using extensive case studies, with reflective questions and key takeaways that help the reader consider how to apply these principles to their own leadership challenges. This book is an essential read for HR professionals, executive coaches, management consultants, leadership trainers, and organizational psychologists as well as those facing leadership challenges in their profession.

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176

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Taylor & Francis

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1040024556

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9781040024553

Towards Happiness — A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding Your Way

By: Ahron Friedberg,Sandra Sherman

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Towards Happiness — A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding Your Way

By: Ahron Friedberg,Sandra Sherman

Drawing on a range of clinical cases, Towards Happiness presents an engaging, insightful look at how we define and achieve happiness in core aspects of our lives: work and money, wellness and personal growth, sex and love, family and friendship, and aging. The book includes a series of essays by Dr. Ahron Friedberg, a prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, concerning how his patients sought to achieve greater happiness during challenging periods of their lives, and how as a consequence they grew personally and professionally. Each chapter considers a core topic through the lens of Dr. Friedberg’s practice, demonstrating how patients worked through difficult, sometimes chronic personal issues. Throughout, there are useful summaries of key points. While candidly acknowledging that each life is different, Towards Happiness offers practical examples that can enhance readers’ efforts to achieve greater levels of happiness and reorient their lives towards a deeper capacity for happiness. Towards Happiness offers honest insights into the compromises, sacrifices, and resulting degrees of success that characterize pursuing happiness, and will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists, and other mental health professionals. It will also be useful reading for anyone seeking to understand the achievement of happiness in their own lives.

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190

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1000624188

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Psychotherapy and Personal Change

Two Minds in a Mirror

By: Ahron Friedberg,Sandra Sherman

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Between Us

A Father and Son Speak

By: Ahron Friedberg,Eugene Friedberg

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Between Us

A Father and Son Speak

By: Ahron Friedberg,Eugene Friedberg

Between Us is on the shortlist of essentials to take along the trails of life's journey. It is both an exhilarating and profound work, based on a remarkable series of conversations between a wise and loving father and an inquisitive and witty son. Together they speak to each of us as individuals relating to one another-parent and child, teacher and student, peers learning mutually. Their discussions embody a deep humanity and understanding. In searching out ways of leading a happier life, Between Us helps each of us to learn and grow. It heartens as it teaches, reaffirming how through a commitment to self-awareness and applying that knowledge, a person can clearly improve his or her life. Its emphasis on the basics-work, love, marriage, family and the like-provides an approach for living richly and fully here and now. This unique dialogue shows and tells how loving relationships sustain us and make for a more meaningful life. Its lessons are invaluable.

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107

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iUniverse

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0595371884

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9780595371884

Through a Screen Darkly

Psychoanalytic Reflections During the Pandemic

By: Ahron Friedberg

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Psychoanalytic Reflections During the Pandemic

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Towards Happiness — A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding Your Way

By: Ahron Friedberg,Sandra Sherman

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Love's Way

A Central Park Tale

By: Ahron Friedberg

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Love's Way

A Central Park Tale

By: Ahron Friedberg

Loves Way is a timeless and endearing tale about finding love. It takes place along a walk in Central Park of New York City one fall day. The storys message is for anyone who has searched--or is searching--for that precious gift called "love": Sometimes the love we think weve lost is found right in front of us.

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Xlibris Corp

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1425733646

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Psychotherapy and Personal Change

Psychotherapy and Personal Change

Through a Screen Darkly

Through a Screen Darkly

Everyday Leadership

Everyday Leadership

Towards Happiness — A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding Your Way

Towards Happiness — A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding Your Way

Psychotherapy and Personal Change

Psychotherapy and Personal Change

Between Us

Between Us

Through a Screen Darkly

Through a Screen Darkly

Towards Happiness — A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding Your Way

Towards Happiness — A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding Your Way

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Love's Way

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