The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice
Marion Solomon, PhD, Diana Fosha, PhD & Daniel Siegel, MD
Published by W.W. Norton

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience to better understand emotion. We are hardwired to connect with one another, and we connect through our emotions. Our brains, bodies, and minds are inseparable from the emotions that animate them.

Normal human development relies on the cultivation of relationships with others to form and nurture the self-regulatory circuits that enable emotion to enrich, rather than enslave, our lives. And just as emotionally traumatic events can tear apart the fabric of family and psyche, the emotions can become powerful catalysts for the transformations that are at the heart of the healing process.

Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and Brain
Edited by Marion F. Solomon and Daniel J. Siegel
Published by Norton

Healing Trauma provides readers with a broad, but detailed, framework in which to understand, evaluate, and treat trauma in the context of recent neurobiological understanding about trauma and traumatic attachments. In this book, Daniel Siegel and Marion Solomon have gathered together the work of the foremost researchers, clinicians, and theoreticians working within this new paradigm of trauma treatment to present a comprehensive discussion of trauma and healing, one that involves biological, developmental, and social components.

Countertransference in Couples Therapy
Edited by Marion F. Solomon & Judith P. Siegel
Published by Norton

This book recognizes that therapy is an intersubjective process between people and that everyone involved has multiple feelings in the course of treatment. Countertransference refers to the complex set of reactions therapists experience in their work with clients--in this case, couples.

Rather than viewing countertransference as an obstacle (something to et around or get rid) of the authors see it as both ineveitable and productive. In addition to the classical and totalist approaches to countertransference, they examine aspects of the therapist's self, including values and current life circumstances, that affect the treatment.

Lean on Me: The Power of Positive Dependency in Intimate Relationships
By Dr. Marion Solomon
Published by Simon & Schuster

In this explosive, ground-breaking book, noted psychotherapeutic marital therapist Dr. Marion Solomon shatters the culturally pervasive myth that dependency is an illness--and convincingly argues that dependency in a relationship is not only healthy but necessary in order to lead a satisfying life.

After thirty years of experience in helping couples, Marion F. Solomon believes the single most important lesson for strenghtening relationships is abandoning the misconception that dependency signifies a childlike neediness and that self-sufficiencey is the hallmark of psychological health. Loving too much is not the problem, insists Dr. Solomon. The problem arises from thinking our choices are restricted to solitary self-sufficiency or pathological co-dependence.

Narcissism and Intimacy: Love and Marriage in an Age of Confusion
By Marion F. Solomon
Published by Norton

In our culture we demand a great deal from our intimate relationships--and we are often disappointed. This book not only reveals the social and psychodynamic factors that lead to marital unhappiness, but also offers guidelines for change.

Dr. Solomon looks at relationships from many perspectives. She starts by uncovering certain pervasive narcissistic myths and exploring what it means to be intimate in a culture that values autonomy and self-fulfillment above all. Drawing upon both psychodynamic family systems and object relations theories, she shows that experiences in early childhood can lead to narcissistic vulnerability in later relationships. Case examples from her practice clarify how two individuals' feeling states and defenses mesh in the marital system and how the attempt to defend against emotional injury creates barriers to intimacy.

Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term Change
By Marion F. Solomon, Robert J. Neborsky, Leigh McCullough, Michael Alpert, Francine Shapiro, David
Published by Norton

In this time of rapidly changing expectations of psychological treatment, the authors of this book address these questions: is it possible to effect deep, lasting, meaningful psychological change in short period of time? Can the effects of early childhood traumas--traumas that may have seemed small at the time but that have affected personality development--be overcome in short-term therapy?

While they have approached these questions from different perspectives, grappling with them for years in their clinical research and therapy practices, here these renowned practitioners make a concerted effort to integrate their disparate perspectives and develop a unified theory of effective treatment. They note points of contact and overlap among their ideas about the underlying causes of depression, maladjustment, marital discord, character pathology, and posttraumatic stress disorders. Each outlines the precise methods he or she uses with patients to create emotional growth and reintegration, illustrating these with cases and transcripts.