Focusing on various clinical cases, the book explores the multifaceted nature of happiness across essential life domains such as work, wellness, relationships, and aging. It offers insightful perspectives on how individuals can define and pursue happiness, emphasizing personal growth and the importance of connections with others.
The book features a series of enlightening conversations between a wise father and his curious son, exploring the dynamics of relationships across generations. Their dialogues reflect profound insights into human connections, emphasizing the roles of parent and child, teacher and student, and the mutual learning that occurs in these relationships. This work offers both exhilaration and depth, making it an essential companion for navigating life's journey.
Focusing on the transformative journey of patients in psychotherapy, this book provides insightful day-to-day accounts that reveal the dynamics of "talk therapy." It explores how therapeutic conversations challenge the conscious mind, uncovering deeper unconscious thoughts and feelings. Through these narratives, readers gain a profound understanding of personal change and the intricate processes involved in psychological healing.
"This book offers real-time, intimate reflections on Dr. Friedberg's patients as they struggle with COVID-19 and its disruptive, dispiriting fallout. Through a Screen Darkly identifies the psychological distress caused by the pandemic, examining how the particular elements of COVID-19 - its ability to be spread by those who seem not to have it, its intractability, the long-term uncertainty that it engenders - leave even relatively stable people shaken and unsure of the future. The book examines how, amidst radical uncertainty and the prospect of massive social change, such people learn to become resilient. The main theme of the book is that of necessity: we learn to adapt. Though we still can only see "darkly," we can call on the resources that we have, as well as those we can reasonably acquire, so as to retain a sense of our dignity and purpose. Through a Screen Darkly examines what is possible now as the pandemic runs its course. It makes no predictions of how all this will ultimately play out, but offers a time capsule of how people have coped with a disease that landed suddenly and that we still do not fully understand. Offering a series of intense encounters with worried, traumatized people, this book will be invaluable to training and practicing psychiatrists, as it points to the several possible directions for our national, psychological recovery from the pandemic"--
Life Studies in Psychoanalysis consists of four psychoanalytic studies each representing a patient’s course of treatment over several years. These studies demonstrate how love, in an array of forms, is refracted through the process of psychoanalysis, which unfolds over time and reveals the complexities of human desire.
Everyday Leadership examines how individuals in everyday, relatively small settings can succeed in leadership positions.