Psychoanalytic Social Work

Article

• Culturally Based Spiritual Phenomena: Eastern and Western Theories and Practices

  Chikako Nagai

  pp. 1-22

• Clinical Writing about Patients: Negotiating the Impact on Patients and Their Treatment

  Nancy A. Bridges

  pp. 23-41

• Assessing the Impact of Father-Absence from a Psychoanalytic Perspective

  Kim A. Jones

  pp. 43-58

• Bion's Model of the Mind

  Karen Fraley

  pp. 59-76

• When the Bubble Bursts: Clinical Perspectives on Midlife Issues, by Eda Goldstein. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2005, 239 pages, $49.95

  Kathleen Holtz Deal

  pp. 101-104

Featured Review

• The Remarkable Explanatory Power of Neurobiology: A Validation and Synthesis of Psychoanalytic Theory, Infant Observation, and Clinical Social Work Practice: Neurobiology for Clinical Social Work: Theory and Practice, by Jeffrey S. Applegate and Janet R. Shapiro. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005, $29.95, 248 pp.

  Linda A. Chernus

  pp. 77-93

Book Review

• Moving Beyond the Comfort Zone in Psychotherapy, by Nancy Bridges. Lanham, PA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, 210 pages, $40.

  Regina McNamee

  pp. 95-100

• Introduction

  Jerrold R. Brandell

  pp. 1-2

• When Midlife Therapists Treat Midlife Patients: Challenges to Empathic Attunement

  Eda G. Goldstein

  pp. 3-14

• Meeting Them “Where They're At”: Intensive School-Based Psychotherapy for Children Who Have Been Maltreated

  Faye Mishna

  pp. 15-42

• Complications in Gay Men's Intimacy: Unconscious Derivatives

  Scott Harms Rose

  pp. 65-88

Article

• Projective Identification as an Inescapable Aspect of the Therapeutic Relationship

  Robert Waska

  pp. 43-64

Featured Review

• The (Dynamic) World of Adoption: Understanding Adoption: Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents. Kathleen Hushion, Susan B. Sherman & Diana Siskind (Eds.). Philadelphia: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, 268 pages, $70 (cloth)/26.95 (paper).

  Yvonne Young

  pp. 89-95

Book Review

• The Healer's Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter, by James T. McLaughlin. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2005, 247 pages, $49.95.

  Linda A. Chernus

  pp. 97-102