W.W. Meissner's Books

In this comprehensive study of psychology, theology, and religious experience the author asserts that psychology and religion can faithfully complement one another, even when the psychology in question is primarily grounded in Freudian analysis.

This book seeks to resolve an issue that has divided psychoanalysts and other scholars of aggression for decades, namely the nature of aggression. The work expands and unifies the Freudian drive-based explanation of aggression into contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice and brings Freudian theory into the 21st Century.

Addressing the common ground between ethics and psychoanalysis, W. W. Meissner asks "Does psychoanalysis have anything to contribute to ethical understanding and reflection?" and conversely, "Does ethics have anything to offer analytic understanding of the complexities of human behavior and decision-making?" Both disciplines focus their interest and concern not only on the inner well-being of the individual, but also on questions of his or her adaptation to the outside world, including both intimate personal relations as well as broader societal and communal relations. This book explores and explicates areas of interaction and common interest between these two disciplines in the hope of opening the way to further exploration and dialogue in the understanding of the human phenomenon.

possibly neoplastic, some not. In essence, the Often enough, in diagnosing cancer the last word rests with the pathologist and his or her micro book is concerned with interpretation of the scope. Often enough, too, the pathologist is borderline or histologically equivocal case and thought to dispense absolute truth: he does his the clinical implications thereof. It is based on best, but the truth he dispenses is not absolute. so me 390 examples of which most are individu Rather, with a greater or lesser degree of con ally described in brief. No useful purpose is fidence, he is making aprediction or expressing served by giving in detail the clinical and patho a prob ability of a certain kind of biological logical circumstances of every patient with, say, behaviour, and the degree of confidence with a dubious lesion of endometrium or larynx, or which he operates is based on experience. This with a similarly borderline papilloma in bladder experience is, in turn, based on the recollection or rectum, for each of these lesions exemplifies of earlier events, counsel from his mentors, from a familiar and 'standard' problem. Problems of his studies, and from discussions with colleagues. this kind will be examined as such but not the It would be going too far to agree with those details of every patient who posed them.

Explores the contributions that psychoanalysis can make to the study of ethics, and vice versa.

In this exploration of the complexity of the therapeutic relationship, Dr William Meissner argues that in any therapy, the therapeutic alliance is the key factor for success. He differentiates this alliance from both the transference and the real relationships, and provides a set of principles to guide the therapist's interventions. These principles are discussed in relation to a variety of important issues: neutrality and abstinence, analytic listening, the use of humour, and the role of the therapist's values in the treatment process.

This volume offers an approach to the therapy of borderline patients. The author's spectrum view of borderline psychopathology provides a comprehensive understanding of the borderline syndrome. He calls for a variety of psychotherapeutic strategies and a flexible schema of pathology.

Book's by W.W. Meissner

Life and Faith

Life and Faith

The Dynamics of Human Aggression

The Dynamics of Human Aggression

The Ethical Dimension of Psychoanalysis

The Ethical Dimension of Psychoanalysis

The Histology of Borderline Cancer

The Histology of Borderline Cancer

The Dynamics of Human Aggression

The Dynamics of Human Aggression

The Ethical Dimension of Psychoanalysis

The Ethical Dimension of Psychoanalysis

Life and Faith

Life and Faith

The Therapeutic Alliance

The Therapeutic Alliance

The Dynamics of Human Aggression

The Dynamics of Human Aggression

Treatment of Patients in the Borderline Spectrum

Treatment of Patients in the Borderline Spectrum

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