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Meissner, William Walter was born on February 13, 1931 in Buffalo. Son of William Walter and Mary Emma (Glauber) Meissner.
( One point on which the various helping professions agre...)
One point on which the various helping professions agree is that the crucial factor in the success of therapy is the therapeutic alliance—the collaborative relationship a particular therapist is able to form with a particular patient. W. W. Meissner, a highly regarded teacher and practitioner of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, examines all the prevailing ideas about the therapeutic alliance in this useful book, which is intended for both clinicians and theoreticians. Dr. Meissner explains that in addition to the more familiar aspects of transference and countertransference, the therapeutic alliance encompasses aspects of the therapeutic relation that make it possible for therapist and patient to work together to accomplish therapeutic goals. Dr. Meissner draws a clear distinction not only between alliance and transference but also between alliance and the real relationship. Aspects of the alliance include arrangements and negotiations governing the therapeutic frame and necessary boundaries, neutrality and abstinence, and also personal qualities and capacities that therapist and patient bring to the analytic situation: empathetic attunement, trust, autonomy, authority, responsibility, freedom, and initiative, among others. To the extent that these qualities become operative in the therapeutic relation, they provide the effective basis for a strong therapeutic alliance, which plays an essential structuring role at every step of the analytic process.
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( Ignatius of Loyola―knight and saint, mystic and ascetic...)
Ignatius of Loyola―knight and saint, mystic and ascetic, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)―was one of the greatest figures in Western Christianity. This book, written by a psychiatrist-psychoanalyst who is also a Jesuit, is the first work to look behind the events, accounts, and documents of Ignatius' life and religious experience in order to enter and understand his inner world. W. W. Meissner writes compassionately about Ignatius' origins, early development, conversion, years of prayer and penance, mystical teaching and career, and finally his efforts to found and direct the Society of Jesus. Dr. Meissner not only places Ignatius' life against the background of the radical religious, social, and political upheaval of the sixteenth century but goes beyond this to explore the psychic and psychodynamic inner processes that transformed the man into the saint. Dr. Meissner discusses, for example, Ignatius' ordeals of body and spirit during his career as a soldier, his conversion experience, the evolution of his personality after conversion, his relationships with women, his lifelong struggles to overcome his aggressive, narcissistic, and libidinal impulses, and the psychology and pathology of his mysticism. The complex personality of this great saint and the profundity of his personal and spiritual struggles bring into focus significant questions about the complex interplay between human motivations and needs on the one hand and religious experience and spiritual motivation on the other. The book is not only a biography of a much-revered figure of the Roman Catholic Church but a unique contribution to both psychoanalysis and religious history.
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(This book begins with Strachey's statement of the therape...)
This book begins with Strachey's statement of the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis representing the classical psychoanalytical technique that prevailed in the 1930s. Then Meissner takes up the shifts in thinking that have subsequently evolved. Today we hold a more relational concept of the therapeutic action based on a developmentally rooted, parent-child model. This places greater emphasis on the vicissitudes of relational involvements than on specific interpretive techniques. Emphasis is given to collaborative efforts between patient and analyist as central to the working of the analytic process. Factors such as empathy, interpretation and positive and negative transference to the therapeutic alliance are explored.
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(Demonstrates the workings of the paranoid process and the...)
Demonstrates the workings of the paranoid process and therapeutic approaches to it for a wide variety of clinical syndromes, particularly the psychoses, borderline states and narcissistic disorders. Meissner also discusses clinical problems concerning adolescence, ageing, suicide and addiction.
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Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Foundations For A Psychology Of Grace, paperback, The spine is slightly creased.The soft cover is slightly age tanned and grubby.There are some pale sepia coloured stains inside the front cover and on the front free end paper.There is a line in blue ink on the top right corner of the front free end paper.The page block is foxed.Binding tight and square, contents clean and unmarked.
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(In this volume, Dr William Meissner offers a concrete app...)
In this volume, Dr William Meissner offers a concrete approach to the therapy of borderline patients. For Meissner, the term borderline does not refer to one diagnostic entity, but rather to a series of entities of varying degrees of pathological organization, reflecting a range of structural and functional levels. This shift in viewpoint has crucial implications for clinical treatment. It calls for a variety of psychotherapeutic strategies and a more flexible, more responsive therapeutic schema correlated to the patient's level of pathology.
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( There has been for a long time a powerful opposition be...)
There has been for a long time a powerful opposition between psychoanalysis and religious thinking, both because of the anti-religious attitudes and writings of Sigmund Freud and because of the hostility of theologians to Freud. In this provocative book, W.W. Meissner attempts to bring about a rapprochement between the two fields, by examining Freud’s views on religion in close detail, exploring the dialectical relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, and applying more contemporary concepts in psychoanalysis to the understanding of religious experience. Meissner, a Jesuit and a psychoanalyst, contends that Freud’s views on religion reflect important psychodynamic influences and unresolved conflicts in his own life, and he analyzes Freud’s religious arguments with an eye not only to their inherent limitations and erroneous assumptions but also to their latent potentialities for deeper and broader-ranging understanding. Meissner discusses Freud’s The Future of an Illusion as well as the progression of Freud’s debate with Oskar Pfister, a pastor whose response to Freud’s argument was published as The Illusion of the Future. After clarifying the areas where psychoanalysis and religion must remain independent of one another and where they can converge, Meissner demonstrates how the reconciliation of the two fields can be mutually beneficial. He utilizes the resources of a broader developmental perspective and the modern psychoanalytic understanding of transitional phenomena in order to achieve a more insightful and productive view of religious experience. Dr. Meissner has written a book which is consistently interesting, often challenging, and impressive for its wide range of scholarship in two fields not often combined in the same work . Dr. Meissner has done us a service in this scholarly work by demonstrating how two perspectives of the human condition have over the course of the last several decades come to similar conclusions.” Otto F. Thaler, M.D., Journal of the American Academy of Religion A rich and stimulating book addressing important issues that lie at the intersection of psychoanalysis and religion.” Paul C. Vitz, Contemporary Psychology Meissner has made a challenging, useful contribution that will be pondered, applied, and debated. It will undoubtedly also achieve the goal of bringing about more understanding between analysts and theologians.” Lowell Rubin, M.D., Newsletter, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
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(Paranoid forms of thinking play a significant role in a w...)
Paranoid forms of thinking play a significant role in a wide variety of human experiences. The Paranoid Process is an attempt to define the nature of the intrapsychic mechanisms at work in such a process, specifically the complex interactions of interjections, projections, and "the paranoid construction." A number of clinical cases of differing levels of pathology are presented, each offering an example of the paranoid process at work. This book covers a broad range of approaches to the paranoid process as a clinical and social phenomenon. Beginning with Freud and a detailed historical survey of the concept of the paranoid syndromes, Meissner extends his investigation into the most recent analytic and more general psychological findings. While the basic framework is classically psychoanalytic, he utilizes material from clinical psychology, cognition, family dynamics, and sociology. Such diverse categories as phobias, cognitive style, narcissism, parent-child interaction, and student revolution become meaningfully linked in their relation to the paranoid process. A major contribution to the volume is its emphasis on human personality as influenced by the constantly interacting social and environmental matrix of the individual, as opposed to a more limited instinct-based approach. On a psychological plane, the primary process is seen as making a contribution to identity formation in the normal development process. While the exploration of paranoia does not include descriptions of clinical manifestations, the emphasis is on the process itself in both pathological and socially adaptive realms.
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Meissner, William Walter was born on February 13, 1931 in Buffalo. Son of William Walter and Mary Emma (Glauber) Meissner.
Bachelor, St. Saint Louis University, 1956; Philosophy, St. Saint Louis University, 1957; Master of Arts, St. Saint Louis University, 1957; Licentiate of Sacred Theology, Woodstock College, 1962; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1967.
Entered, Society of Jesus (Jesuit), 1951; intern, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967-1968; resident, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, 1968-1971; member, instructor, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, since 1971; training and supervising analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, since 1980; staff psychiatrist, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 1971-1987; staff psychiatrist, Cambridge (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1971-1978; assistant clinical professor psychiatry, Harvard University Medical School, 1973-1976; associate clinical professor, Harvard University Medical School, 1976-1981; clinical professor psychiatry, Harvard University Medical School, 1981-1987; professor psychoanalysis, Boston College, since 1987.
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Fellow American Psychiatric Association (task force on treatments of psychiatric disorders 1989, Oskar Pfister award 1989), Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, Center for Advancement Psychoanalytic Studies. Member American Psychoanalytic Association (councilor-at-large 1980-1984), International Psycho-Analytical Association, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, American Psychotherapy Seminar Center (member professor advising committee since 1991), Sigma Chi, Psi Chi.