Author: Donald W. Schafer, M.D. Publisher: Jason Aronson, New Jersey, 1995 Reviewed by: Lawrence E. Hedges An essential addition to every clinician’s ready reference shelf, Shafer’s clarifying and enlightened Understanding and Relieving Pain boldly asserts, “Once a pain is understood, no one should have to hurt.” A senior psychiatrist and hypnotherapist now retired in Laguna […]

Lawrence E. Hedges Remembering, Repeating and Working Through Childhood Trauma:: The Psychodynamics of Recovered Memories, Multiple Personality, Abuse, Incest, Molest, and Abduction Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1994 ISBN 1-56821-228-3 pp 336 Reviewed by John D. Carter The therapeutic community has become divided, the lines drawn, and opinions strongly held about the reality of recovered memories, […]

Book Review Therapists At Risk Hedges, L. E., Hilton, R., Hilton,V.W., and Caudill, 0. B. Considerations Lawrence E. Hedges, Robert Hilton, Review by Virginia Wink Hilton, and 0. Brandt Mary D. Laney Caudill, Jr. Therapists at Risk: Perils of the Intimacy of the Therapeutic Relationship Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1997. 328 pp. ISBN 1-56821-827-3. $40.00 […]

Increasingly many people who are archaically organized are presenting themselves to us for treatment. This poses a big challenge for many reasons–not the least of which is that we are no longer residing (if we ever really were!) in the comfortable, familiar land of the neurotic, replete with the capacity for symbol formation, verbalization, ambivalence, […]

Book Review by Kreg Zimmerman, MFCC This text represents at least 10 years of the author’s development as an analyst and therapist. Using classical psychoanalytic theory, ego psychology and object relations theory he develops four Listening Perspectives to treat early developmental and personality derailments that are common in the patients and couples we treat today. […]