Category: Psychotherapy | Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives Ser.
This book examines a collaboration between traditional Māori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and ...Show more
Category: Psychotherapy
Katarina Broughton lived through the WWII years as a young woman. Her experiences under the Nazi occupation make interesting reading and give an insight into what life was like for refugees and the dangers they faced. Her father was imprisoned for taking part in the Resistance movement. The ...Show more
Category: Psychotherapy
A new path to fulfillment that combines lessons from meditation and psychotherapy to offer a radical alternative to the rigid Western prescription for happiness.
Category: Psychotherapy | Series: Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science Ser.
Mentalization--the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states--is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better we are at mentalizing, the more resilient and flexible we tend to be. This concise, engaging book offers ...Show more
Category: Psychotherapy
A hard-hitting critique of how managed care and the selective use of science to privilege quick-fix therapies have undermined in-depth psychotherapy-to the detriment of patients and practitionersIn recent decades there has been a decline in the quality and availability of psychotherapy in America that h ...Show more
Category: Psychotherapy
Cognitive Behavioural Chairwork: Distinctive Features provides a practical, accessible, and concise introduction to both the theory and practice of chairwork, one of the most powerful and exciting methods of intervention in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and is the first book to synthesise its man ...Show more
Category: Psychotherapy
Mutual Growth in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship: Reciprocal Resilienceis an essential, innovative guide for mental health professionals who listen repeatedly to stories of devastation and trauma. Moving beyond traditions that consider the clinician as existing only for the patient and not as an ind ...Show more
Category: Psychotherapy
With his concept of O, Wilfred Bion provided a new psychoanalytic space in which to explore the mind. "Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind" examines the similarities between this psychoanalytic space and the artist's creative sensibility, as well as mystical and religious states. This most my ...Show more
Category: Psychotherapy | Series: CBT Distinctive Features Ser.
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) encourages the client to focus on their emotional problems in order to understand and change the irrational beliefs that underpin these problems. Following on from the success of the first edition, this accessible guide introduces the reader to REBT whil ...Show more
Category: Psychotherapy | Series: Psychotherapy and Counselling Distinctive Features Ser.
Strengths-Based Therapy: Distinctive Features offers an introduction to what is distinctive about this innovative client-directed approach. Written by two experienced practitioners of strengths-based therapies, this book translates SBT principles and practices into concise, e ...Show more
Category: Psychotherapy
This book presents innovative tools for helping patients to understand their emotional schemas--such as the conviction that painful feelings are unbearable, shameful, or will last indefinitely--and develop new ways of accepting and coping with affective experience. Therapists can integrate emotional s ...Show more
Category: Psychotherapy
In his latest book Christopher Bollas uses detailed studies of real clinical practice to illuminate a theory of psychoanalysis which privileges the human impulse to question. From earliest childhood to the end of our lives, we are driven by this impulse in its varying forms, and "The Infinite Question" ...Show more
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