Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
The Resonance of Emptiness
A Buddhist Inspiration for Contemporary Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This work presents an exploration of Buddhist philosophy and practice as a potential resource for an approach to psychotherapy which is responsive to the needs of its time and context, and attempts to open up a three-way dialogue between Buddhism, psychotherapy and contemporary discourse to reveal a meaningful theory and practice for a contemporary psychotherapy.
Emphasizing the Interpersonal in Psychotherapy
Families and Groups in the Era of Cost Containment
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
With today's recent mental health care reforms many psychotherapists are being forced to reexamine the relevance of their practices. Economic pressures, managed care, and the discrepancy between what a therapist hopes to accomplish, and what the relative limitations of his or her treatments are, makes...
Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations
An Integration of Twelve-Step and Psychodynamic Theory, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Be more effective in group therapy with addicted clients
Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Integration of Twelve-Step and Psychodynamic Theory, Third Edition is the newly revised edition of the classic text, that provides you with proven strategies for defeating alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy. Phili
by Fay Short, Phil Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Core Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive guide to the four main psychological approaches (Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Behavioural and Cognitive) and introduces several of the most common therapies used today. This textbook contains sufficient coverage to explain all of the...
Beginnings
The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
How does the therapist begin psychotherapy? How, that is, does she conceptualize the needs of the patient while simultaneously enlisting him or her as an active partner in formulating an individualized working plan? And how should supervisors teach the skills needed to make the intake procedure...
Principles of Psychotherapy
Promoting Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Generations of clinicians have valued Principles of Psychotherapy for its breadth of coverage and accessibility and the author's ability to gather many elements into a unified presentation. The Third Edition presents the conceptual and empirical foundations of evidence-based practice perspectives...
Relational Group Psychotherapy
From Basic Assumptions to Passion
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2003
Integrating cutting-edge relational theory with technique, this volume reveals the deeply personal nature of the intersubjective process of group therapy as it affects the group therapist and other group members. By locating the group therapist's experience in the centre of the action, Richard M....
Group Analytic Psychotherapy
Working with affective, anxiety and personality disorders
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Group analytic theory is internationally recognised as an effective treatment for people suffering from mental distress, struggles with personal development and interpersonal problems. Integrating psychoanalytic and social psychological thinking and providing a group setting for self-discovery and...
by Nicholas A Cummings, Janet L Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Written by father-daughter psychologists Nick and Janet Cummings, this text provides proven patient-responsive interventions by practitioners who together have nearly a century of hands-on practice and innovation between them. Refocused Psychotherapy responds directly to the recent decline of psychosocial...
by Eric R. Kandel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these eight important and fascinating essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist Eric Kandel provide a breakthrough perspective on how biology has influenced modern psychiatric thought. Complete with commentaries by experts in the field, Psychiatry,...
Integrative Psychotherapy
A Feedback-Driven Dynamic Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Integrative psychotherapy: using the principles of dynamic complex systems to guide everyday clinical work. This book introduces a new, integrative, systemic approach to psychotherapy and counseling and shows how the principles of dynamic complex systems can guide everyday clinical work. Our mental,...
Psychodrama
Advances in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Psychodrama: Advances in Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the theory and practice of psychodrama, integrating different psychodramatic schools of thought.
Psychodrama is one of the pioneering approaches of psychotherapy and is practised by thousands of...
Positive Psychotherapy of Everyday Life
A Self-Help Guide for Individuals, Couples and Families with 250 Case Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
The authors model of positive psychotherapy is a synthesis of psychodynamics and behavior therapy that focuses on the positive aspects of conflicts and sufferings. He offers transcultural perspectives in the form of proverbs, myths, and fables in which the patient may recognize himself in allegorical...
Working with Traumatic Memories to Heal Adults with Unresolved Childhood Trauma
Neuroscience, Attachment Theory and Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
What potential does psychotherapy have for mediating the impact of childhood developmental trauma on adult life?
Combining knowledge from trauma-focused work, understandings of the developmental brain and the neurodynamics of psychotherapy, the authors explain how good care and poor care in...