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Exposure Therapy -- What Is It That We Are Selling?
This discussion is a response to Muller and Schultz’s (2012) thoughtful commentary on our case series on treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) in this issue of the Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. We join Muller and Schultz in their dedication to exposure treatment. We elaborate on their perceptive comments on what exposure is, and how it is presented, applied, and implemented most effectively, in the context of BDD specifically. We conclude by briefly exploring some of the complexities of the theory underlying exposure therapy.
"Will I Ever be Fit for Civil Society Again?" The Challenges of Readjustment Through the Prism of the New Jersey Soldier's Home at Newark
Abstract: The New Jersey Soldier's Home was founded to assist Civil War veterans who returned home scarred by the conflict's frightful scenes of carnage. The Home's records, indeed, its very existence, show that the transition from military to civilian life was no easier 150 years ago than it is today
Gifts and Acquisitions in Volume 19:2
Sinclair speaks about the New Jersey Room in the new library (Alexander Library). It is for rare books and newspapers, old maps, manuscripts, Rutgersensia, and other categories of out-of-the-way research and display material—will occupy what is called the New Jersey Room on the main floor, together with a similar space directly below it
A Biliographic Footnote on Frelinghuysen's "Spiegel"
Tanis sheds some light on Frelinghuysen's long-lost "Spiegel die met vlyt." He notes that a book, Jodocus van Lodenstein's "Geestelyke opwekker" (Amsterdam, Johannes Douci, 1740) makes note of the book's existance
"Ever Devotedly Yours:" The Whitlock-Howells Correspondence
W. D. Howells is known for his encouragement of other authors. This article, largely based upon fifteen manuscript letters in the Rutgers Library, tells us about the relationship between Howells and the American author, Brand Whitlock (1869-1937)
Notes from the Library in Volume 7:2
"Whittier and Mrs. Piatt" by Rudolf Kirk; "Mr. Mettler's Gift" by Rudolf Kirk