Books (based upon Margaret S. Mahler Symposia)

Available from Jason Aronson publisher,
230 Livingston Street, Northvale, NJ, 07647.

Does God Help?: Developmental and Clinical Aspects of Religious Belief, ed. S. Akhtar and H. Parens (2001)
Brings the issue of religious belief into the consulting room. Topics of faith, mysticism, spirituality, and the human need for God are addressed head-on as experts on Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Islam refract the clinical process through the prisms of these religions.

Three Faces of Mourning: Melancholia, Manic Defense and Moving On, ed. S. Akhtar (2001)
Addresses the multifaceted processes involved in mourning and adaptation. Mourning and the importance of the capacity to bear some helplessness while still finding pleasure in life are central to this tightly organized volume.

The Trauma of Transgression: Psychotherapy of Incest Victims, ed. S. Kramer & S. Akhtar (1991)

When the Body Speaks: Psychological Meanings in Kinetic Clues, ed. S. Kramer & s. Akhtar (1992)

Prevention in Mental Health, ed. H. Parens & S. Kramer (1993)

Mahler and Kohut: Perspectives on Development, Psychopathology and Technique, ed. S. Kramer and S. Akhtar (1994)

The Birth of Hatred: Developmental, Clinical, and Technical Aspects of Intense Aggression, ed. S. Akhtar, S. Kramer, and H. Parens (1995)

The Internal Mother: Conceptual and Technical Aspects of Object Constancy, ed. S. Akhtar, S. Kramer, and H. Parens (1995)

Intimacy and Infidelity: Separation-Individuation Perspectives, ed. S. Akhtar and S. Kramer (1996)

The Seasons of Life: Separation-Individuation Perspectives, ed. S. Akhtar and S. Kramer (1997)

The Colors of Childhood: Separation-Individuation Across Cultural, Racial and Ethnic Differences, ed. S. Akhtar and S. Kramer (1998)

Brothers and Sisters: Developmental, Dynamic and Technical Aspects of the Sibling Relationship, ed. S. Akhtar and S. Kramer (1999)

Thicker than Blood: Bonds of Fantasy and Reality in Adoption, ed. S. Akhtar and S. Kramer (2000)

The Language of Emotions: Development, Psychopathology and Technique, eds. S. Akhtar and H. Blum (in press)

Selected Mahler Bibliography

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