Book Review by Samoan Barish, Ph.D. Author: Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D. Publisher: Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ 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 […]

Book Review by Lawrence E. Hedges Author: Donald W. Schafer, M.D. Publisher: Jason Aronson, New Jersey, 1995 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 […]

Book Review by Lawrence E. Hedges, Robert Hilton, Review by Virginia Wink Hilton, and O. 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 Lawrence E. Hedges is the founding director and supervising and training psychoanalyst of the […]

Book Review by John D. Carter on Remembering, Repeating and Working Through Childhood Trauma 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, pp 336 ISBN 1-56821-228-3 The therapeutic community has become divided, the lines drawn, and […]

Listening Perspectives In Psychotherapy. New York: Aronson,1983. by Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D. 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 […]