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Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

By: Alessandra Lemma

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Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

By: Alessandra Lemma

A clear and thorough introduction to techniques and practice issues, as well as basic theoretical frameworks, for beginners. Psychoanalysis is not so much skill-based, as dependent upon the development of the analytic attitude, guided by principles of technique that are used in the clinical situation. Alessandra Lemma's accessible guide has been based on her long experience of teaching trainee practitioners. It includes discussion of interventions and the possible dynamics associated with the different stages of therapy: assessment, beginnings, middle and end phases of therapy. It exposes the rationale underlying a range of interventions and discusses research evidence where relevant and available. Written by a well known author with plenty of practical experience Introductory and aimed at trainees Uniquely, it combines practical advice with theoretical explanation

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118687698

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First Principles

Applied Ethics for Psychoanalytic Practice

By: Alessandra Lemma

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First Principles

Applied Ethics for Psychoanalytic Practice

By: Alessandra Lemma

In First Principles, Alessandra Lemma examines the centrality of applied ethics to psychoanalytic practice, The book focuses on the articulation of an accessible framework for developing and exercising an identifiable method - an ethical self-discipline - to support critical reflection on therapists' psychoanalytic work with patients and to help them to approach the resolution of ethical dilemmas. Integrating key concepts from the field of applied ethics, and bioethics specifically, Lemma re-interprets them for use within a psychoanalytic framework, articulating how we can understand psychoanalytically the concepts of beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, and veracity and deploy these to guide clinical work. Using clinical examples, the book outlines a working model for how therapists can reflect on their practice, as well as devoting a chapter on how to teach ethics within psychoanalytic psychotherapy trainings and outlining a detailed curriculum for teaching ethics. This book is essential reading for psychoanalytic practitioners as well as clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychoanalysts who work in the psychoanalytic tradition.

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Oxford University Press

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0192858963

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9780192858962

Transgender Identities

A Contemporary Introduction

By: Alessandra Lemma

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Transgender Identities

A Contemporary Introduction

By: Alessandra Lemma

This important new book by Alessandra Lemma provides a succinct overview of psychoanalytic understandings, approaches and controversies around transgender identifications. Illustrated with case vignettes, Lemma provides an up-to-date synthesis of current research and a critical overview of psychoanalytic approaches to transgender identities, distilling some of the contemporary controversies about how to approach the topic in the consulting room. Lemma also outlines a psychoanalytically informed ethical framework to support clinicians working with individuals who request medical transitioning and distils the ethical challenges faced by clinicians in light of the current emphasis on gender affirmative care. Part of the Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series, this book is of great importance for psychoanalysts in practice, academics and all those with an interest in transgender identities and mental health.

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1000521184

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Functional Analytic Methods for Evolution Equations

By: Giuseppe Da Prato,Peer Christian Kunstmann,Irena Lasiecka,Alessandra Lunardi,Roland Schnaubelt,Lutz Weis

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Functional Analytic Methods for Evolution Equations

By: Giuseppe Da Prato,Peer Christian Kunstmann,Irena Lasiecka,Alessandra Lunardi,Roland Schnaubelt,Lutz Weis

This book consists of five introductory contributions by leading mathematicians on the functional analytic treatment of evolutions equations. In particular the contributions deal with Markov semigroups, maximal L^p-regularity, optimal control problems for boundary and point control systems, parabolic moving boundary problems and parabolic nonautonomous evolution equations. The book is addressed to PhD students, young researchers and mathematicians doing research in one of the above topics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540230300

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A Graphic Apology for Symmetry and Implicitness

By: Alessandra Carbone,Stephen Semmes

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A Graphic Apology for Symmetry and Implicitness

By: Alessandra Carbone,Stephen Semmes

This book brings into focus the contrast between explicit and implicit algorithmic descriptions of objects and presents a new geometric language for the study of combinatorial and logical problems in complexity theory. These themes are considered in a variety of settings, sometimes crossing traditional boundaries. Special emphasis is given to moderate complexity - exponential or polynomial - but objects with multi-exponential complexity also fit in. Among the items under consideration are graphs, formal proofs, languages, automata, groups, circuits, some connections with geometry of metric spaces, and complexity classes (P, NP, co-NP).

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Oxford Mathematical Monographs

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0198507291

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KAM Stability and Celestial Mechanics

By: Alessandra Celletti,Luigi Chierchia

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KAM Stability and Celestial Mechanics

By: Alessandra Celletti,Luigi Chierchia

KAM theory is a powerful tool apt to prove perpetual stability in Hamiltonian systems, which are a perturbation of integrable ones. The smallness requirements for its applicability are well known to be extremely stringent. A long standing problem, in this context, is the application of KAM theory to ``physical systems'' for ``observable'' values of the perturbation parameters. The authors consider the Restricted, Circular, Planar, Three-Body Problem (RCP3BP), i.e., the problem of studying the planar motions of a small body subject to the gravitational attraction of two primary bodies revolving on circular Keplerian orbits (which are assumed not to be influenced by the small body). When the mass ratio of the two primary bodies is small, the RCP3BP is described by a nearly-integrable Hamiltonian system with two degrees of freedom; in a region of phase space corresponding to nearly elliptical motions with non-small eccentricities, the system is well described by Delaunay variables. The Sun-Jupiter observed motion is nearly circular and an asteroid of the Asteroidal belt may be assumed not to influence the Sun-Jupiter motion. The Jupiter-Sun mass ratio is slightly less than 1/1000. The authors consider the motion of the asteroid 12 Victoria taking into account only the Sun-Jupiter gravitational attraction regarding such a system as a prototype of a RCP3BP. for values of mass ratios up to 1/1000, they prove the existence of two-dimensional KAM tori on a fixed three-dimensional energy level corresponding to the observed energy of the Sun-Jupiter-Victoria system. Such tori trap the evolution of phase points ``close'' to the observed physical data of the Sun-Jupiter-Victoria system. As a consequence, in the RCP3BP description, the motion of Victoria is proven to be forever close to an elliptical motion. The proof is based on: 1) a new iso-energetic KAM theory; 2) an algorithm for computing iso-energetic, approximate Lindstedt series; 3) a computer-aided application of 1)+2) to the Sun-Jupiter-Victoria system. The paper is self-contained but does not include the ($\sim$ 12000 lines) computer programs, which may be obtained by sending an e-mail to one of the authors.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821841696

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9780821841693

Adaptive Designs for Sequential Treatment Allocation

By: Alessandro Baldi Antognini,Alessandra Giovagnoli

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Adaptive Designs for Sequential Treatment Allocation

By: Alessandro Baldi Antognini,Alessandra Giovagnoli

Adaptive Designs for Sequential Treatment Allocation presents a rigorous theoretical treatment of the results and mathematical foundation of adaptive design theory. The book focuses on designing sequential randomized experiments to compare two or more treatments incorporating information accrued along the way. The authors first introduce the terminology and statistical models most commonly used in comparative experiments. They then illustrate biased coin and urn designs that only take into account past treatment allocations as well as designs that use past data, such as sequential maximum likelihood and various types of doubly adaptive designs. The book also covers multipurpose adaptive experiments involving utilitarian choices and ethical issues. It ends with adaptive methods that include covariates in the design. The appendices present basic tools of optimal design theory and address Bayesian adaptive designs. This book helps readers fully understand the theoretical properties behind various adaptive designs. Readers are then equipped to choose the best design for their experiment.

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CRC Press

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1466505761

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Stability and Chaos in Celestial Mechanics

By: Alessandra Celletti

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Stability and Chaos in Celestial Mechanics

By: Alessandra Celletti

This overview of classical celestial mechanics focuses the interplay with dynamical systems. Paradigmatic models introduce key concepts – order, chaos, invariant curves and cantori – followed by the investigation of dynamical systems with numerical methods.

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3540851461

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Storable Votes

Protecting the Minority Voice

By: Alessandra Casella

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Storable Votes

Protecting the Minority Voice

By: Alessandra Casella

Storable votes allow the minority to win occasionally while treating every voter equally and increasing the efficiency of decision-making, without the need for external knowledge of voters' preferences. This book complements the theoretical discussion with several experiments, showing that the promise of the idea is borne out by the data: the outcomes of the experiments and the payoffs realized match very closely the predictions of the theory.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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019530909X

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Revision, Acceptability and Context

Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects

By: Dov M. Gabbay,Odinaldo T. Rodrigues,Alessandra Russo

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Revision, Acceptability and Context

Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects

By: Dov M. Gabbay,Odinaldo T. Rodrigues,Alessandra Russo

An important aspect in the formalisation of common-sense reasoning is the construction of a model of what an agent believes the world to be like to help in her reasoning process. This model is often incomplete or inaccurate, but new information can be used to refine it. The study of techniques that achieve this in a rational way is the task of the discipline of belief revision, with which this book is concerned. There are three key elements to the book's approach. Firstly, the methodology of logic by translation. A specific instance of this is the idea of revision by translation. Revision for a foreign logic is done via its translation into a well-known logic, usually classic logic. Secondly, the technique of meta-level/object-level movement, where we bring some operation defined at the meta-level of a logic into its object level. In this book, we bring the operation of deletion to the object level. Finally, through Labelled Deductive Systems, we use the context of the revision to finetune its operation and illustrate the idea through the presentation of various algorithms. The book is suitable for researchers and postgraduates in the areas of artificial intelligence, database theory, and logic.

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3642141595

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Analytic Semigroups and Optimal Regularity in Parabolic Problems

By: Alessandra Lunardi

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Analytic Semigroups and Optimal Regularity in Parabolic Problems

By: Alessandra Lunardi

The book shows how the abstract methods of analytic semigroups and evolution equations in Banach spaces can be fruitfully applied to the study of parabolic problems. Particular attention is paid to optimal regularity results in linear equations. Furthermore, these results are used to study several other problems, especially fully nonlinear ones. Owing to the new unified approach chosen, known theorems are presented from a novel perspective and new results are derived. The book is self-contained. It is addressed to PhD students and researchers interested in abstract evolution equations and in parabolic partial differential equations and systems. It gives a comprehensive overview on the present state of the art in the field, teaching at the same time how to exploit its basic techniques. - - - This very interesting book provides a systematic treatment of the basic theory of analytic semigroups and abstract parabolic equations in general Banach spaces, and how this theory may be used in the study of parabolic partial differential equations; it takes into account the developments of the theory during the last fifteen years. (...) For instance, optimal regularity results are a typical feature of abstract parabolic equations; they are comprehensively studied in this book, and yield new and old regularity results for parabolic partial differential equations and systems. (Mathematical Reviews) Motivated by applications to fully nonlinear problems the approach is focused on classical solutions with continuous or Hölder continuous derivatives. (Zentralblatt MATH)

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3034805578

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DNA Computing

11th International Workshop on DNA Computing, DNA11, London, ON, Canada, June 6-9, 2005. Revised Selected Papers.

By: Alessandra Carbone

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DNA Computing

11th International Workshop on DNA Computing, DNA11, London, ON, Canada, June 6-9, 2005. Revised Selected Papers.

By: Alessandra Carbone

..., the 11th International Meeting on DNA Computing was held June 6–9, 2005 at the University ofWestern Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

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3540341617

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Interpolation Theory

By: Alessandra Lunardi

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Interpolation Theory

By: Alessandra Lunardi

This book is the third edition of the 1999 lecture notes of the courses on interpolation theory that the author delivered at the Scuola Normale in 1998 and 1999. In the mathematical literature there are many good books on the subject, but none of them is very elementary, and in many cases the basic principles are hidden below great generality. In this book the principles of interpolation theory are illustrated aiming at simplification rather than at generality. The abstract theory is reduced as far as possible, and many examples and applications are given, especially to operator theory and to regularity in partial differential equations. Moreover the treatment is self-contained, the only prerequisite being the knowledge of basic functional analysis.

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8876426388

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Under the Skin

A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification

By: Alessandra Lemma

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Under the Skin

A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification

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Under the Skin considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and help individuals for whom the manipulation of the body is felt to be psychically necessary, regardless of whether the process of modification causes pain.In this book, psychoanalyst Alessandra Lemma draws on her work in the consulting room, as well as films, fiction, art and clinical research to suggest that the motivation for extensively modifying the surface of th.

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Routledge

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1135160988

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Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy

A Clinician's Guide

By: Alessandra Lemma,Mary Target,Peter Fonagy

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Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy

A Clinician's Guide

By: Alessandra Lemma,Mary Target,Peter Fonagy

Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a brief psychodynamic psychotherapy developed for the treatment of mood disorders. It is being rolled out as part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative as the psychodynamic model for the treatment of depression. This book is a user-friendly, practical guide for the implementation of a brief psychodynamic intervention in routine clinical practice as well as in research protocols. It sets out clearly the theoretical framework, as well as the rationale and strategies for applying DIT with patients presenting with mood disorders (depression and anxiety). Throughout, it is illustrated with detailed examples that help the reader to implement the approach in their practice. The book will be required reading to support the national IAPT training initiative, as well as providing a resource for mental health professionals specialising in psychodynamic psychotherapy and wishing to work within a limited time frame.

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OUP Oxford

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019162120X

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9780191621208

The Perversion of Loss

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma

By: Susan Levy,Alessandra Lemma

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The Perversion of Loss

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma

By: Susan Levy,Alessandra Lemma

Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis! The Perversion of Loss is an edited collection of psychoanalytic papers written by clinicians in the field of trauma. The text offers a psychoanalytic perspective on trauma and its effects on psychic functioning. In particular, it draws on attachment theory to explain how trauma undermines psychic resilience both within individuals and also within broader communities and societies. This collection contextualizes external traumatic events and addresses both individual, internal responses as well as the impact of trauma on broader social relations.

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1135929335

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Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy 2e

By: Alessandra Lemma,Mary Hepworth,Peter Fonagy,Patrick Luyten,Deborah Abrahams

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Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy 2e

By: Alessandra Lemma,Mary Hepworth,Peter Fonagy,Patrick Luyten,Deborah Abrahams

Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a brief psychodynamic psychotherapy developed for the treatment of mood disorders. It is now offered in the UK in NHS for the treatment of depression and has been applied worldwide in public health care settings as well as private settings. This book is a user-friendly, practical guide for the implementation of a brief psychodynamic intervention in routine clinical practice as well as in research protocols. It has been substantially updated since the first edition in 2011 with the addition of 5 new chapters to reflect new applications of the model in complex care, for patients with functional and somatic disorders and for internet delivered DIT and it outlines the changes in the training of DIT practitioners . It sets out clearly the theoretical framework, as well as the rationale and strategies for applying DIT with patients presenting with mood disorders (depression and anxiety). Throughout, it is illustrated with detailed examples that help the reader to implement the approach in their practice. The book will be required reading to support training initiatives in DIT, as well as providing a resource for mental health professionals specialising in psychodynamic psychotherapy and wishing to work within a limited time frame.

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Oxford University Press

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0192637452

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9780192637451

Contemporary Developments in Adult and Young Adult Therapy

The Work of the Tavistock and Portman Clinics

By: Alessandra Lemma

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Contemporary Developments in Adult and Young Adult Therapy

The Work of the Tavistock and Portman Clinics

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‘This challenging and ambitious book captures the variety and richness of contemporary clinical developments in the Tavistock and Portman Clinics in relation to work with young adults. It sets these developments in lytic and systemic principles that are the centra up over their long and distinguished history. Th that face the Clinics from the evidence-based for resources with forms of practice that are outlines the adaptive and innovative ways to this competitive situation, for example by the context of the collective I underpinning of the Clinics’e book sets the scene for the practice approach and from validated by this approach. in which the Clinics have e development of an internet- based service for young adults, the application of mentalisation-based antisocial patients, and the use of dynamic interpersonal therapy as a br This book will be an inspiring guide and rallying call for practitioners in health field, who face the same inexorable competition for resources in therapy in the NHS and public services.’

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