Books
Books by: Robert W. Firestone, Ph.D., Lisa Firestone, Ph.D., & Joyce Catlett, M.A.
Beyond Death Anxiety: Achieving Life-Affirming Death Awareness assists mental health practitioners in helping their clients learn to accept and face their mortality. They describe the many defenses of death anxiety, and suggest methods to cope directly with fears of death; an approach that, ironically, can lead to a greater appreciation of life. Click to order from amazon.com
The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships: This work is an attempt to explain the source of destructive behavior and how it manifests itself in personal relationships between couples, families and in the social arena. It presents a position that offers a hope of altering the destiny of humankind's unethical behavior. Click to order from amazon.com
Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships proposes that sexual problems are largely related to defenses acquired through painful childhood experiences, and that individuals can be helped to overcome these challenges and become physically and emotionally closer to their partners. Click to order from amazon.com
Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Wisdom of Psychotherapy - is a comprehensive guide for helping professionals and other people who are interested in personal development, deepening friendships and sustaining intimacy in couple relationships. Click to order from amazon.com
Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice This book offers means for dealing effectively with negative thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs that are barriers to one's personal development, sabotage relationships, and interfere with career success. Click to order from amazon.com
Fear of Intimacy Relationships fail not for the commonly cited reasons, but because psychological defenses formed in childhood. Fear of Intimacy shows how therapists can help couples identify and overcome the messages of the "critical inner voice" that foster distortion. Click to order from amazon.com
Suicide and the Inner Voice helps develop an understanding of how one begins a downward spiral of negative internal conversations; professionals can better assess risk and design treatment for depressed and suicidal patients. Click to order from amazon.com
Combating Destructive Thought Processes From childhood, humans are prevented from experiencing an individuated life by the pressures of society and destructive interactions within the family. Click to order from amazon.com
Compassionate Child-Rearing develops the theory and underlying dynamics involved in disturbed family relationships and the "poisonous pedagogy" that characterizes generally accepted patterns of child-rearing. Click to order from amazon.com
The Fantasy Bond offers a consistently developed set of hypotheses centering around the concept of the "fantasy bond," an illusion of connection originally formed with the mother/ primary caretaker and later with significant others in the individual's environment. Click to order from amazon.com
Voice Therapy This thought-provoking work provides clinicians with a detailed description of Voice Therapy, an innovative therapeutic method that is developed to elicit and bring to the foreground negative thought patterns antithetical to the self and cynical toward others. Click to order from amazon.com
Psychological Defenses in Everyday Life is a rich resource that broadens personal understanding by examining the origins of childhood pain, subsequent defense formation, and the pervasiveness and destructiveness of resulting maladaptive, addictive behaviors in adults. Click to order from amazon.com- Click here to view contributed chapters by Glendon authors