Psychotherapy


The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Man's Search for Meaning
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Existential Psychotherapy
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
Attachment in Psychotherapy
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
On Being a Therapist
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
Judith Viorst
Indeed, analyst Robert Bak calls orgasm "the perfect promise between love and death," the means by which we repatriate separation of mother and child through the momentary extinction of the self. It is true that few of us consciously climb into a lover's bed in the hope of finding our mommy between the sheets. But the sexual loss of our separateness (which may scare people so badly they cannot have orgasm) brings us pleasure, in part, because it unconsciously repeats our first connection. ...more
Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow

Wilhelm Reich
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.
Wilhelm Reich

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