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<p> From the very beginning of his career, George Atwood has immersed himself in the world of madness, doing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with the most difficult patients those suffering from psychoses, deep depressions, suicidality, and multiple self-states. He has a unique gift for both understanding and working effectively with such individuals, and this book primarily a series of case stories brings them alive as individual personalities, as well as showing his special talents as a therapist. Written in jargon-free, poetic, and highly accessible style, one feels as though one is in a comfortable room, talking with George as psychological difficulties are unraveled, meaning revealed, and terrible and painful histories lived through. There is profound knowledge in this book. - Louis Breger, Ph.D., author, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision (2000)

<p> From the very beginning of his career, George Atwood has immersed himself in the world of madness, doing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with the most difficult patients those suffering from psychoses, deep depressions, suicidality, and multiple self-states. He has a unique gift for both understanding and working effectively with such individuals, and this book primarily a series of case stories brings them alive as individual personalities, as well as showing his special talents as a therapist. Written in jargon-free, poetic, and highly accessible style, one feels as though one is in a comfortable room, talking with George as psychological difficulties are unraveled, meaning revealed, and terrible and painful histories lived through. There is profound knowledge in this book. - Louis Breger, Ph.D., author, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision (2000)<p> At the heart of what is healing in psychotherapy lays a kind of humaneness, understanding, and compassion one that dissolves th

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George E. Atwood, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. He is the author and co-author of numerous books, including Contexts of Being (Analytic Press, 1992), Faces in a Cloud (Jason Aronson, 1993), The Intersubjective Perspective (Jason Aronson, 1994), Working Intersubjectively (Analytic Press, 1997), and Worlds of Experience (Basic Books, 2002).

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