Mental Health category: 18328 books
Through Helen's Eyes
With Some Reflections on Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
“A small percentage (10%?) of those in the "helping professions" often develop gifts beyond man's five senses. These "gifts" are restricted to those of pure intent, as light and darkness cannot occupy the same space. I first met Helen, a psychiatric nurse, several years ago at the hospital where...
by Harvey L. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and deconstructed. This book presents a synthesis of relational and archetypal psychology, trauma and dissociation...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Since its inception, and throughout its history, psychoanalysis has been defined as a psychology of conflict. Freud’s tripartite structure of id, ego and superego, and then modern conflict theory, placed conflict at the center of mental life and its understanding at the heart of therapeutic action.As...
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Joel Paris examines areas where analysis needs to develop a stronger scientific and clinical base, and to integrate its ideas with modern clinical psychology and psychiatry.
While...
Relatedness, Self-Definition and Mental Representation
Essays in honor of Sidney J. Blatt
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Over the course of a long and distinguished career, psychologist and psychoanalyst Sidney J. Blatt has made major contributions to cognitive-developmental theory, psychoanalytic object relations theory, applied psychoanalysis, and current research in the areas of psychopathology and psychotherapy....
3 Keys to Managing PTSD
The Warrior's Guide to Overcoming Combat Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book equips military veterans, active-duty military, and their families with a complete stress management program. The book guides you step-by-step, until you master the 3 Keys to Managing PTSD. The 3 keys are: (1) Learn how to stop a stress reaction, (2) Process the trauma, and (3) Meditate...
The Dream Channel
Tools of Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
The pursuit of happiness!
We have different perceptions of what that means among ourselves, and
within ourselves as we experience myriad events (joyous or otherwise)
such as - activities, relationships, activities, learning, challenges, contentions,
problems. Whether we automatically think of it or...
'Sleeping with the Enemy' (1991). Martin Burney as an example of Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder?
Analysis with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Abstract from the year 2016 in the subject Psychology - Clinic and Health Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, grade: 99.00/100.00, California State University, East Bay (CSUB), course: Abnormal Pshchology 315, language: English, abstract: This paper uses the 'Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
Body-Mind Dissociation in Psychoanalysis
Development after Bion
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The conflict and dissociation between the Body and the Mind have determinant implications in the context of our current clinical practice, and are an important source of internal and relational disturbances. Body-Mind Dissociation in Psychoanalysis proposes the concept as a new hypothesis, different...
Sex, Sexuality and Therapeutic Practice
A Manual for Therapists and Trainers
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Sexuality is an important area of clients’ lives yet it is often neglected, both in the consulting room and in training. This book examines issues of sexuality in a positive and affirming light and considers how sexuality-related issues can be introduced into therapy and training. Sex and sexuality...
by Arnold Ackerer
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject Psychology - Clinic and Health Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, grade: Good, Hendrix College (Department for Abnormal Psychology), course: Independent Study, 46 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1. Incidence This first part of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Perspectives in Caribbean Psychology attempts to record the unique psychological character of those who live in the Caribbean and more broadly people of African-Caribbean heritage. It considers the impact of colonialism, the struggle for domination by various European and North American countries...
by IngridBlaufarbHughes
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2017
In Losing Aaron, Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes has written a compelling tale of a mother's struggle with her son's mental illness and suicide. She makes us understand how, when one person in a family suffers from the cruelty of schizophrenia, it informs and defines the lives of all those who love...
Perspectives on Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Disease, Social and Cultural Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Individuals and families face challenges at the end of life that can vary significantly depending on social and cultural contexts, yet more than ever is now known about the needs that cut across the great diversity of experiences in the face of dying and death. A number of behavioural interventions...