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Common complaints in couple therapy : new approaches to treating marital conflict
\"Marriage and couple therapists see clients with broken relationships and bonds all the time; those who were once madly in love can grow indifferent, people change, and couples go into sessions feeling depressed, traumatized, and sometimes abused by their partners. Joan Lachkar examines the vicissitudes of love relations by taking into account aspects of aggression, cruelty, sadism, envy, and other primitive defenses lurking in the shadows of love and intimacy. Each chapter revolves around a specific situational conflict, with guidelines and treatment suggestions offered to the therapist. Numerous vignettes and detailed descriptions of theoretical technique, methodology, and diagnostic distinctions are included throughout the book to help readers see theory in action. The theoretical concepts drawn on include psychoanalysis, object relations, self-psychology, attachment theory, DBT, mindfulness, and others, with a heavy emphasis on listening and non-verbal and verbal communication throughout\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The disappearing male
The Disappearing Male by Joan Lachkar, PhD, provides a psychoanalytic/psychodynamic description of eight different kinds of men who “disappear” from relationships without warning or explanation. The term is not restricted to merely a “physical” disappearance but also to ones who emotionally disappear such as the “Robotic Man” described in the chapter of the OCD. Lachkar’s personal, clinical, and professional experience have shown a number of women who have been vastly confused and hurt by the disappearing male. These men appear to be madly in love at the onset and then suddenly vanish without an explanation. Many of these women come into therapy sessions depressed, feeling traumatized, and abused by men who promise them the world, act as though they are the love of their lives, and then suddenly vanish without a call. By acknowledging the diagnostic distinctions of eight different types of disappearing men, this book can help to assist these women in recognizing the red flags and danger signs to prevent them from faltering in their relationship efforts. The Disappearing Male describes the symptoms of eight different diagnostic types of men that women frequently encounter. The symptoms and dynamics that are outlined in this book will vastly enhance an individual’s capacity to become aware of the disappearing male “syndrome.” This book is significant to the awareness and self-esteem of women in relationships, the dating world, and to the therapists that treat them.
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The Narcissistic / Borderline Couple
In this second edition of her groundbreaking book, Dr. Joan Lachkar addresses the ever-changing faces and phases of narcissism within the context of marital therapy and discusses the new developments in the treatment of marital conflict. Drawing from many different theoretical frameworks, mainly self-psychology (Kohut) and object relations (Klein), the works of D.W, Winnicott, and Kernberg are expanded to further explain why couples stay in painful, conflictual, never-ending relationships (traumatic bonding). The new chapters, case illustrations, and updated treatment sequences are invaluable to both beginning and experienced clinicians. The Narcissistic / Borderline Couple is an essential text for every marital therapist, offering an improved understanding of marital pathology within the framework of our changing world.
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The Narcissist and the Borderline Chapter 2. Theoretical Implications Chapter 3. The Couple: The Dance, The Drama, and The Bond Chapter 4. Marital Theatrics: The Psychodynamics of the Narcissistic/Borderline Couple Chapter 5. Dynamic Positions and Transference Formation Chapter 6. Group Psychology and the Narcissistic/Borderline Couple Chapter 7. Cross-cultural Couples Chapter 8. Model of Treatment Chapter 9. Cases Glossary References
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How to Talk to a Borderline
In How to Talk to a Borderline , Joan Lachkar introduces Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and outlines the challenges and difficulties it presents to clinicians. She expands current understanding of BPD by outlining eight different kinds of borderline personality disorders and how each of these requires specific communication techniques and methods. Case examples are offered throughout the text and in some cases describe the kinds of partners borderlines attract. This book offers new approaches to communicating, working with, and treating borderline personality disorders while integrating more contemporary treatment methods.
Living in Borderland. Overview of the Borderline Personality. The Pathological Borderline. The Malignant Borderline. The Depressive Borderline. The Obsessive-Compulsive Borderline. The Antisocial Borderline. The Passive-Aggressive Borderline. The Histrionic Borderline. The Cross-cultural Borderline. Closing Thoughts.
Joan Lachkar, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and psychohistorian in private practice in Tarzana, California. She is the author of numerous publications on marital and political conflict, as well as the author of the successful book, How to Talk to a Narcissist . Joan Lachkar is an affiliate member and instructor at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, and is a contributing writer for The Journal of Psychohistory , FrontPage Magazine , and Family Security Matters .
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The Rising Power of Japanese Women: A Pop Culture Revolution
According to Kenneth Adams (2112), nothing has changed in Japanese society. According to Veronica Chambers, author of Kickboxing Geishas (2007), these elderly men offer money, expensive items such as Rolex watches, Channel, and Luis Vuitton designed purses as a reward for sexual favors. Under the guise of \"closeness,\" the mother will co-sleep, co-bathe, and in some instances engage in incest by masturbating baby boys to relieve their erections (Adams & Hill, 1997). Tire V-spot: Healing the \"Vulnerable spot from emotional abuse.
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The Narcissistic/borderline Couple: New Approaches to Marital Treatment
In this second edition of her groundbreaking book, Dr. Joan Lachkar addresses the ever-changing faces and phases of narcissism within the context of marital therapy and discusses the new developments in the treatment of marital conflict. Drawing from many different theoretical frameworks, mainly self-psychology (Kohut) and object relations (Klein), the works of D.W, Winnicott, and Kernberg are expanded to further explain why couples stay in painful, conflictual, never-ending relationships (traumatic bonding). The new chapters, case illustrations, and updated treatment sequences are invaluable to both beginning and experienced clinicians. The Narcissistic / Borderline Couple is an essential text for every marital therapist, offering an improved understanding of marital pathology within the framework of our changing world.
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The Psychopathology and Profiles of Terrorism: A Cultural V-Spot
[...]the Ich or moi is the seat of consciousness, the superior agent responsible for memory, perception, and judgment, reality testing and thinking. Envy and omnipotence are the most salient features, as they create their own magical world, flying high on the wings of some ideal, like Nietzsche's bermensch or Marx's Proletarian Paradise or Allah's Virginal Heaven. Since many Arab leaders are a product of very traumatic childhoods with severe deprivation, it is likely that they defend against shame by projecting their shameful \"dirty\" immoral or \"bad boy\" parts into their external objects to rid themselves of their internal \"badness.\" According to deMause, the roots of terrorism are inextricably linked to childrearing practices, and are a result of an abundance of screaming, neglected, abandoned orphans.7 He offers a chilling account of life in Islamic fundamentalist societies filled with violence, cruelty, and routine sexual exploitation of children. [...]it is the title of my recent book, The V-Spot: Healing Your Vulnerable Spot from the Trauma of Emotional Abuse: (Lanham, Boulder etc.:
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The Psychopathology of Terrorism: A Cultural V-Spot
[...]it is the title of my new book, The V-Spot: Healing Your Vulnerable Spot from the Trauma of Emotional Abuse. In the final analysis, Jews got the good breast, the fertile land, the land of Milk and Honey, while the Arabs got the dry barren breast. Because Israel represents democracy, freedom, economic expansion, music and fun \"Mitzvahs,\" this evokes profound states of envy, hatred, and paranoia, fueling sadistic attacks upon the object of desire Israel. [...]the projected \"Motherland\"-the provider of all nurturing capacities-is the poison/toxic breast that must be destroyed. [...]Islamic fundamental terrorists are getting some mileage usurping Israel's entitlement, making Islam into their own creation, a magical world flying high on the wings of Allah. Since many Arab leaders are a product of very traumatic childhoods with severe deprivation, it likely that they defend against shame by projecting their shameful \"dirty\" immoral or \"bad boy\" parts into their external objects to rid themselves of their internal \"badness.\"
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A Global War or a Psychic War?
The author does not get to the underpinnings of the meaning of a war between good an evil with all its projections and introjections, how \"Arab grievances\" are not merely grievances as he puts it, but of extreme deprivation and suppression of fundamental human needs opening the pathway to violence and terrorism. [...]we are one all together in synchronicity, harmony and peace!\" Shelley Ventura, Ph.D. is a social worker, private practitioner in Beverly Hills, is a participant in many Foreign Affairs Committees, Coalition with the American Friends of Israel and Turkey (AFIT), the Hispanic/Jewish Coalition (worked vigorously in the Civil Rights Movement, Parents Of Watts, Fund-raiser for Political Candidates. Joan Lachkar, Ph.D. is an affiliate member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, author of numerous books and publications on political and marital therapy including The Psychopathology of Terrorism, The Psychological Make-up of a Suicide Bomber.
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Terrorism and the Borderline Personality
First is the role psychohistory plays in helping us understand cultural patterns handed down from generation to generation, embedded in the very core of the group's identity as expressed through mythology, ideology, religion, childrearing practices, the treatment of women-ongoing behaviors and characteristics strikingly similar to borderline organization. Because borderlines are so far removed from their real needs, they lack the impulse control and self-regulatory mechanisms to observe situations and make rational judgments. Because they have never separated from mother's body, they remain forever attached to the allegorical world of lost mothers, lost fathers, and abandoned babies. First is the tendency for impoverished groups to identify with aggressive/dangerous leaders who playact the role of the fanaticized daddy/leader offering false promises of hope and security. second, when one is vulnerable, one is more inclined to identify and fuse with those who offer a semblance of bonding (Lachkar, 1993; Mayer, 1993, pp. 332-348).
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