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Author:   Israel W. Charny ,  Douglas Sprenkle
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.753kg
ISBN:  

9781498566971

ISBN 10:   1498566979
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   19 January 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword, by Douglas Sprenkle Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Some Old-Fashioned Plus Some Newly Fashionable Psychiatric Syndromes and Relationship Disorders Chapter 1: Some Old and New Psychiatric Disorders Chapter 2: Intimacy and Relationship Disorders Democratic Mind Versus Fascist Mind in Intimacy and Relationship Disorders in Marriage, Parenting and Family Life What’s It All About: Being Real along with a Discipline of Decency Family Enmeshment and Disengagement: Reasonable Ideas for Family Life Taken Too Far The Inevitable Imperfection of ‘Perfect Marriages,’ Victimization in Families in Everyday Life: Violence and Sexual Abuse, Abandoning, Exploiting, Scapegoating and Sacrificing Members of One’s Family 'I'm Alright Jack Personalities': People Who Seemingly Don’t Have Any Problems and Assign All the Burden to Someone Else in the Family A Need to Give to Others but Not to Receive for Oneself: Big Givers who Take Away the Others’ Strength Unquestioning Loyalty to One’s Family as a Basis for being Abused Sexual Dysfunctions: How Certainties Can Get in the Way of Making Love Well Genuine Communication for Genuine Relationships: The Give-and-Take of Real Clarification of Needs, Criticism, Anger and Love Chapter 3: Disorders of Neurosis, Depression and Suicide Revisited Chapter 4: Personality and Character Disorders of Self-Entitlement Chapter 5: Old-Fashioned Plus Newly Fashionable Disorders Old-Fashioned Psychotic Abdications of Reality Affective Psychoses—Mania and Depression Paranoid Psychoses—Paranoid Schizophrenia and Paranoia, including Paranoid Thinking in a Political Context Paranoid Thinking in a Political Context A Newer ‘Hit’ Disorder of Our Time: Anorexia Some Miscellaneous Unrecognized Bedeviling Syndromes The ‘Orphan Syndrome’ or Self-Made Person A New Syndrome of Grown Kids Who Live at Home Forever and Often Rule their Parents Absolutely Strange, Crazy Criminal Behaviors including ‘for the Thrill of it All,’ Cases of ‘Perfect’ and ‘Normal’ Kids Who Murder Someone—Sometimes Their Parents—Unexpectedly The Unsavory Suicide-Killers of Our Era, Including Some Cases of Nice and Quiet ‘Good Guys’—or Women—Who Become Suicide-Killer Terrorists Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome (SUNDS) The New ‘American Way’ of Mass Killing at Columbines, Shopping Centers and Other Public Places People of the Lie—Invisible Destroyers of Others’ Lives Part II: Developing New Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind: Including Overcoming and Treating Some Conditions of Violence and Evil Chapter 6: Ultimate Choices: To Be For Life or Not To Be Chapter 7: Treating Violence and Evil Chapter 8: Author’s Voice: What is Going to Happen to All of Us? What Can I Do with My Time? Appendix Bibliography About the Author

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Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind presents a creative focusing of Israel W. Charny's general concept of democratic and fascistic minds to a crucial field of application. An unusual blend of material from clinical psychology, personality theory, and political psychology, its core terms symbolize broad personality types. The result is a set of novel and thought-provoking ideas for clinical theory, diagnosis, and treatment.--Peter Suedfeld, University of British Columbia Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind concludes with a brilliant summation of an extraordinary life spent grappling with the human condition. Truth is in essence dialectical, and this book is a twenty-first century embodiment of the rabbinic concept of yetzer hara/yetzer tov, the good impulse and the bad impulse. Israel W. Charny offers a profound understanding of the human story. There is so much substance, depth, and truth in Charny's life perspective.--Samuel Karff, University of Texas Medical School Israel W. Charny provides a captivating journey exploring a framework for therapy that charts a course for today's and tomorrow's mental health professionals. Charny's therapeutic wisdom and existential insight into the human condition, combined with his pioneering work on the Holocaust and genocide studies, informs his courageous approach to perplexing issues. He provides essential truths, including a prescription for therapists and patients alike, to achieve a 'free mind' that does no harm to one's own life or that of others. This book provides approaches to diagnosis and therapy that must be studied, savored, and implemented.--Robert Krell, MD, University of British Columbia This is one of the most original psychotherapy books I have ever read. Israel W. Charny does not flinch when describing evil in the human experience. He calls on therapists to see psychological health as inclusive of how personal behavior affects the well-being of others, and to make the connection between political democracy and democracy in the mind and heart. There is an ethical consciousness at work on every page, which is much needed in today's world.--Bill Doherty, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind presents a creative focusing of Israel W. Charny's general concept of democratic and fascistic minds to a crucial field of application. An unusual blend of material from clinical psychology, personality theory, and political psychology, its core terms symbolize broad personality types. The result is a set of novel and thought-provoking ideas for clinical theory, diagnosis, and treatment. -- Peter Suedfeld, University of British Columbia Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind concludes with a brilliant summation of an extraordinary life spent grappling with the human condition. Truth is in essence dialectical, and this book is a twenty-first century embodiment of the rabbinic concept of yetzer hara/yetzer tov, the good impulse and the bad impulse. Israel W. Charny offers a profound understanding of the human story. There is so much substance, depth, and truth in Charny's life perspective. -- Samuel Karff, University of Texas Medical School Israel W. Charny provides a captivating journey exploring a framework for therapy that charts a course for today's and tomorrow's mental health professionals. Charny's therapeutic wisdom and existential insight into the human condition, combined with his pioneering work on the Holocaust and genocide studies, informs his courageous approach to perplexing issues. He provides essential truths, including a prescription for therapists and patients alike, to achieve a 'free mind' that does no harm to one's own life or that of others. This book provides approaches to diagnosis and therapy that must be studied, savored, and implemented. -- Robert Krell, MD, University of British Columbia This is one of the most original psychotherapy books I have ever read. Israel W. Charny does not flinch when describing evil in the human experience. He calls on therapists to see psychological health as inclusive of how personal behavior affects the well-being of others, and to make the connection between political democracy and democracy in the mind and heart. There is an ethical consciousness at work on every page, which is much needed in today's world. -- William J. Doherty, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind presents a creative focusing of Israel W. Charny's general concept of democratic and fascistic minds to a crucial field of application. An unusual blend of material from clinical psychology, personality theory, and political psychology, its core terms symbolize broad personality types. The result is a set of novel and thought-provoking ideas for clinical theory, diagnosis, and treatment. -- Peter Suedfeld, University of British Columbia Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind concludes with a brilliant summation of an extraordinary life spent grappling with the human condition. Truth is in essence dialectical, and this book is a twenty-first century embodiment of the rabbinic concept of yetzer hara/yetzer tov, the good impulse and the bad impulse. Israel W. Charny offers a profound understanding of the human story. There is so much substance, depth, and truth in Charny's life perspective. -- Samuel Karff, University of Texas Medical School Israel W. Charny provides a captivating journey exploring a framework for therapy that charts a course for today's and tomorrow's mental health professionals. Charny's therapeutic wisdom and existential insight into the human condition, combined with his pioneering work on the Holocaust and genocide studies, informs his courageous approach to perplexing issues. He provides essential truths, including a prescription for therapists and patients alike, to achieve a `free mind' that does no harm to one's own life or that of others. This book provides approaches to diagnosis and therapy that must be studied, savored, and implemented. -- Robert Krell, MD, University of British Columbia This is one of the most original psychotherapy books I have ever read. Israel W. Charny does not flinch when describing evil in the human experience. He calls on therapists to see psychological health as inclusive of how personal behavior affects the well-being of others, and to make the connection between political democracy and democracy in the mind and heart. There is an ethical consciousness at work on every page, which is much needed in today's world. -- Bill Doherty, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

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I.W. Charny is retired professor of psychology and family therapy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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