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Praise for Cognitive Psychodynamics . . .
"It is refreshing to encounter an integrative reframing of the current
status of psychodynamic theory and practice. . . . Professor Horowitz
lays out a [clear] approach to assessment and psychotherapy . . .
livened by brief, effective case studies." —Jerome L. Singer,
Professor of Psychology and Child Study Center, Yale University
And other titles by the same author . . .
Mardi Horowitz has gone where others fear to tread . . . [by]
blending traditional psychodynamic concepts with cognitive psychology
and neuroscience. The result is a relatively accessible and sensible
primer of mental structure and function. —Robert Waldinger, M.D., on
Introduction to Psychodynamics: A New Synthesis
Horowitz' revised volume must be considered the definitive work in
the area. The bibliography is comprehensive, and the scholarship is superb.
—Glen Gabbard, M.D., on Image Formation and Psychotherapy
Cognitive Psychodynamics offers an important new integration of
cognitive science and psychodynamic psychology that provides a common
language across disciplines while presenting an explicit theoretical
basis for understanding the processes that bring about change. Written
by Mardi J. Horowitz, one of the world's leading psychological
theoreticians, this trailblazing work provides an analysis of both
conscious and unconscious mental processes and the development of
identity and relationships.
The book is organized around three theoretical constructs: states of
mind; defensive control processes used to regulate emotion; and person
schemas, the cognitive maps that organize patterns of relationships and
identity. Initial chapters present the information processing of
emotional themes. The book then addresses how people form a meaningful
identity during development and how they deal with the conflict between
self-striving and responsibility to others.
Starting with smaller systems that represent ideas and feelings, the
material builds toward larger systems that tackle complex issues such
as the nature of identity, the basis of attachments to others, and why
maladaptive relationship cycles get repeated despite their destructive
nature. Bridging the gap between theory and clinical practice, the book
addresses crucial concepts of change — how people become self-aware,
how enhanced awareness can lead to insight, and how insight can lead to
new decisions that can alter fundamental attitudes and lead to adaptive
changes in behavioral patterns. Interesting case examples anchor theory
to observable human predicaments, and to concrete ways in which change
can occur.
Cognitive Psychodynamics offers an original perspective on issues of
emotional conflict and character development that will be welcomed by
psychologists, psychiatrists, researchers, and scholars, as well as
professors and students in the behavioral and social sciences.
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