Bøger af Gerald Alper

Gerald Alper is the author of eleven books including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Patient: Psychodynamic Studies of the Creative Personality, The Puppeteers: Studies of Obsessive Control, Narcissistic Giving: A Study of People Who Cheat in Relationships, and Control Games: Avoiding Intimacy on the Singles Scene. He is a psychotherapist who has been in private practice in Manhattan the past twenty years. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Contemporary Psychology and a Fellow of The American Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis." New York City based psychotherapist Gerald Alper adeptly filters materials glean from clinical vignettes through a discerning screen of psychoanalysis. In this manner ,Alper's sharp blade of psychoanalytic acumen cuts deeply into the core of a self help ethos which strives futilely to force the square of complexity into a circle of simplicity. The self help industry's flawed attempt to "dumb down" human complexity is examined in the context of the medium of film and with a regard to a multitude of power transactions. Cinema is only one of a number of media that Alper uses as he adroitly discuses contemporary psycho dynamics. Practitioners,students and general readers will be fascinated and informed by this psychologically insightful and thought provoking book"Leo Uzych,JD,MPH

"Why, in over thirty years of private practice, after listening to hundreds and hundreds of patients'' dreams, had I not once encountered the presence of God, the joyful fantasy of an afterlife, the radiant appearance of an angel?  Why in the outpouring and welter of wishes, secrets and hopes to which a therapist regularly attends, was heaven never mentioned?"  -from the Preface "Gerald Alper dares to enter the difficult area of spiritual, religious, non-material existence. Afterlife, death and dying, relationship with God and other similar topics are presented carefully and scientifically. The book is a pleasure to read. As a former Jesuit priest (ordained in 1960), with a Magna Cum Laude and a Masters of Theology, I struggled with this issue for many years before assuming full responsibility for my beliefs. With that background I found the book refreshing, courageous, instructive and compassionate. I recommend it highly to anyone wishing to add the perspective of humanism to their religious upbringing."  -Daniel L. Araoz, Ed. D., former professor, Long Island University "ALPER never writes dull books.  He has one of the most creative analytic minds of his generation."   -Dr. Jerome David Levin, author of The Clinton Syndrome This is a book about what people in their heart of hearts, when no one is looking, believe or don''t believe before organized religion, political correctness, and group pressure gathers them up in its collective grasp. It is a psychodynamic axiom that death does not exist in the unconscious. If that is true, then neither does the afterlife. Neither do angels, the pearly gates or heaven. There is, however, in addition to hope and belief, a very profound desire to be paid attention to, to be cared for, to be reassured. GERALD ALPER is an internationally recognized psychotherapist, fellow of the American Institute for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and author of twenty books. These include, besides his celebrated Portrait of the Artist as a Young Patient, The Paranoia of Everyday Life and The Dark Side of the Analytic Moon.

Self Defense in a Narcissistic World explores in depth a new, basically unrecognized and highly prevalent everyday addiction: power trips. The disastrous consequences of this simple, but insidious, largely unconscious cultural and psychological phenomenon are candidly revealed by author Gerald Alper.

Exploration of psychodynamic strategies unconsciously enacted to spare imagined pain and frustration of authentic encounters. Everyone is forced at moments of frailty or interpersonal indecisiveness to play power games, and certainly culture at large pervasively sponsors enactment.

In Narcissistic Giving, Gerald Alper chronicles the unconscious defenses, gambits and strategies by which fightened people seek to escape the imagined terrors of relating to one another and to themselves.