Martha J Stark

Transforming Wounds into Wisdom: Change Your Attitudes and Save Your Life

We cannot escape life’s wounds. They come with the normal wear and tear of human existence. In this engaging and eye-opening book, you will discover how you have been impacted by early experiences with primary caregivers who provided either Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right emotionally. Transfor...

A Primer on Working with Resistance

"Martha Stark's primer on resistance is a unique book. It takes as the heart of the clinical problem the patient's reluctance to change, that ubiquitous and paradoxical phenomenon of our work in which people come to us asking for help in changing, and then do their level best to keep change from hap...

Working with Resistance

"Working with Resistance" is about heartache, grieving, letting go and moving on - as the patient's resistances are worked through and her defences are overcome. It is, therefore, a book about hope that arises in the context of discovering that it is possible to survive the experience of heartbreak,...

Modes of Therapeutic Action

How do we position ourselves, moment by moment, in relation to our patients and how do these positions inform both what we come to know about our patients and how we intervene? Do we participate as neutral object, as empathic self-object, or as authentic subject? Do we strive to enhance the patient'...

A Primer on Working with Resistance 1st (first) Edition by Stark, Martha published by Jason Aronson, Inc. (1994)

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Reducing the Cost of New Housing Construction in New York City

A report to the NYC Partnership & Chamber of Commerce and NYC Dept of HOusing ,Preservation & Devt.

Modes of Therapeutic Action: Enhancement of Knowledge, Provision of Experience, and Engagement in Relationship

Modes Of Therapeutic Action

Working With Resistance

Martha Stark

Martha Stark was the Finance Commissioner of New York City. A tax attorney, she served as Finance Commissioner in the Cabinet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg ...