University Press of America
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978-0-7618-6404-2 • Paperback • September 2014 • $60.99 • (£47.00)
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Joseph Isaac Abrahams, MD, is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego. His 70-year career includes pioneering work in group therapy and psychoanalysis with the severe disorders, occurring in both forensic institutions and in a flourishing private practice. He has written books on grassroots politics, the psycho-spiritual phenomenon of messianism, as well as an autobiographical work conveyed in his dreams and poems.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Wartime Beginnings: A Riot on VJ Day—“I had to, captain!”
Chapter 2: Washington, D.C. Early Practice 1950–1960: Institutes and Institutions
Chapter 3: Later Practice 1960–1970: Dream Work, Conferences, and Couples
Chapter 4: Sabbatical and La Jolla 1971–1989: Midlife Career, Midlife Crisis
Chapter 5: Atascadero State Hospital 1990–1995: New Adventure, Unexpected Assault
Chapter 6: Post Retirement—1996 to present: Six Iconic Cases and a Revealing Colloquy
Summary
Glossary of Terms
Annotated Bibliography
Appendices
Index
Dr. Abrahams’ seminal pioneering work has promoted a treatment paradigm for administrators of incarcerated populations by providing a less labor-expensive, psychotherapeutic approach to rehabilitation efforts for groups previously thought to be hopelessly fixated in durable psychotic and psychopathic psychopathology.
— Clarence G. Schultz, MD