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The History of the Peloponnesian War

Robin Waterfield

A definitive and refreshingly readable new translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War, paired with a brilliant introduction on how to read and understand Thucydides.Thucydides called his work a "possession for all time," and his History of the...

Justinian

Peter Sarris

Assessing And Treating Late-life Depression: A Casebook And Resource Guide

Margaret Gatz , Michele J Karel , Suzanne Ogland-Hand

Not only is depression among the elderly treatable but, given its increase in incidence and a rapidly aging population, it is a critical issue for the mental-health and medical communities. The authors review the range of late-life depressive syndromes and the...

Worlds Of Experience

George Atwood , Donna Orange , Robert Stolorow

The intersubjective perspective regards all psychological processes as emanating from personal interrelatedness. First presented by Robert D. Stolorow in his classic work Faces in a Cloud (1978), it is one of the most powerful concepts to be introduced into the...

Personality Disorders In Children And Adolescents

Karen Bardenstein , Paulina F. Kernberg , Alan S Weiner

In the first book to argue that neurotic, psychotic, and borderline personality disorders can be identified, diagnosed, and treated even in the young, a renowned child psychiatrist marshalls her developmental perspective and adduces clinical evidence to support it....

Drive, Ego, Object, And Self

Fred Pine

In this important new book, the noted theoretician Fred Pine provides a synthesis of the four conceptual domains of psychoanalysis: drives, ego functioning, object relations, and self experience. He argues that a focus on the clinical phenomena themselves, and not on...

Beyond The Learning Organization

Jerry W Gilley , Ann Maycunich Gilley

Beyond the Learning Organization will help executives, managers, and human resource professionals put the concepts of the "developmental organization" into practice. Experts in the field of human resource and organizational development, Jerry W. Gilley and Ann Maycunich...

Group Therapy For Cancer Patients: A Research-based Handbook Of Psychosocial Care

Catherine Classen , David Spiegel

This extraordinary resource celebrates and expands on Dr. David Spiegel's discovery that a shared intimacy with mortality creates very different concerns in the patient from those that apply in conventional settings. Spiegel and Classen introduce mental health...