MCC Library Newsletter

NetLibrary: Great Events from History: The 20th Century, 1971-2000

Edited by Robert F. Gorman, Texas State
Salem Press, 2008

Salem Press’ monumental Great Events from History series spans human history from ancient times to the present, worldwide. NetLibrary is pleased to announce that the culminating set in this series, Great Events from History: The 20th Century, 1971-2000, will be available as the October eBook of the Month.
The ideal reference tool for students and general readers at all academic levels, Great Events from History: The 20th Century, 1971-2000 includes 1,083 individual essays covering topics ranging from personal computers to the rise of the Internet to groundbreaking advances in biotechnology. Events covered include the curriculum-oriented geopolitical events of the era—from the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in 1973 to the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. Essays also address important social and cultural developments in daily life: major literary movements, significant developments in the arts and motion pictures, trends in world population and immigration, and landmark social legislation.

To view the netLibrary eBook of the Month, go to the library home page, click on Quick Research Links and choose netLibrary from the list. The eBook will be accessible from the lower right corner of the netLibrary home page.

PsychiatryOnline: Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations

by John F. Clarkin, Ph.D., Frank E. Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D., and Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.

For therapists treating patients with borderline personality organization, transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) has proven to be a remarkably successful approach that effectively targets the pathology of character. The product of more than 25 years of development, it draws on advances in object relations theory and attachment theory with the goal of not merely treating symptoms but changing the patient’s underlying personality and quality of life.
Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations describes principles of intervention and contains a wealth of practical guidelines on how to apply TFP to individual patients on a session-by-session basis. This groundbreaking treatment manual focuses on the analysis of the transference, showing how to help patients relax their defenses and become active participants in the therapeutic process. The authors describe techniques for seeing past the wall of behavioral and cognitive dissonance typically thrown up by the borderline patient, identifying a patient’s conflicting self-conceptions and object representations, and immersing oneself in the turbulent currents of the borderline narrative stream while maintaining the clinical distance required to be a constructive force in patients’ lives.

To view the PsychiatryOnline eBook of the Month, go to the library home page, click on Articles, Research & More and choose PsychiatryOnlinefrom the list. The eBook will be accessible from the lower left of the PsychiatryOnline home page.