The V-Spot: Healing the Vulnerable Spot from Emotional Abuse
Book Details
- Publisher : Jason Aronson
- Published : 2008
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 202
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 27423
- ISBN 13 : 9780765703927
- ISBN 10 : 0765703920
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Special Features
-presents an entirely new conceptual way of addressing what is in psychodynamic terms known as the "archaic injury".
-offers treatment procedures and techniques for couples who are in emotionally abusive relationships.
-extends beyond marital therapy to political and cross-cultural areas, beyond couples to relationships between businesses, siblings, neighbors, etc.
-illustrates how contact with a couple's V-spot emotionally empowers and enriches the therapeutic process.
-demontrates in clear language the elaborate and idiosyncratic process of healing from emotional abuse.
About the Author
Joan Lachkar, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst in private practice in California, is the author of "The Many Faces of Abuse: Treating the Emotional Abuse of High-Functioning Women", "The Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Marital Treatment", and numerous publications on marital and political conflict. She is an affiliate member of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, and adjunct professor at Mount Saint Mary's College, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Emotional Abuse.