Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
Working With Adolescents and Young Adults
A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The first edition of this popular book won praise for successfully exploring the inner world of contemporary adolescence. The new edition now also examines issues including self-harm, depression and body image disturbance. Drawing on a flexible psychodynamic approach, it gives evidence-based guidance for both experienced practitioners and students.
Beyond the DSM Story
Ethical Quandaries, Challenges, and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Beyond the DSM Story presents challenges to the Diagnostic Statistical Model (DSM) system from ethical and cultural perspectives, critically evaluating its fit with other professional and theoretical orientations. It offers possible solutions or best practices for addressing ethical, theoretical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Multicultural counseling and psychology evolved as a response to the Eurocentrism prevalent in the Western healing professions and has been used to challenge the Eurocentric, patriarchal, and heteronormative constructs commonly embedded in counseling and psychology. Ironically, some of the practices...
ACT Questions and Answers
A Practitioner's Guide to 150 Common Sticking Points in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Renowned ACT expert Russ Harris presents easy-to-read Q&A sessions to uncover the most common ways clients and practitioners get stuck when using ACT, how to get unstuck, and how to transform that “stuckness” into powerful personal growth.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Drawing on new paradigms and evidence-based discoveries in neuroscience, narrative psychology, and creativity theory, Creative Arts in Counseling and Mental Health by Philip Neilsen, Robert King, and Felicity Baker explores the beneficial role of expressive arts within a recovery perspective. A framework...
by Susan Buchalter
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Art and the therapeutic uses of art provide older adults with valuable ways in which to express and share their feelings, needs and fears, and with a resource for coping with life's major changes. This practical book is filled with step-by-step exercises for art therapists and other professionals...
Of Two Minds
An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
In this groundbreaking book, Tanya Luhrmann -- among the most admired of young American anthropologists -- brings her acute intelligence and her sophisticated powers of observation to bear on the world of psychiatry. On the basis of extensive interviews with patients and doctors, as well as day-to-day...
Who Is the Dreamer, Who Dreams the Dream?
A Study of Psychic Presences
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In Who Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream? A Study of Psychic Presences, James Grotstein integrates some of his most important work of recent years in addressing fundamental questions of human psychology and spirituality. He explores two quintessential and interrelated psychoanalytic problems: the...
by Edward C. Whitmont, Sylvia Brinton Perera
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
DIONYSOS
ARCHETYPE OF INDIVIDUATION EPIPHANOUS
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Reverse engineering as complex a psychic projection as the Dionysian mythologem back into the psyche is a complicated operation. In the first chapter we laid the foundations and created the context for our effort before outlining the basic Dionysian developmental paradigm. In this second chapter we...
Gods and Diseases
Making sense of our physical and mental wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Today's society faces many problems that cannot be solved by the application of reason, logic or medicine. Some of these include alcoholism, suicide, drug addiction and child abuse to name but a few. Many mental health problems are on the increase such as depression, phobias and anxiety with no obvious...
Authentic Movement: Moving the Body, Moving the Self, Being Moved
A Collection of Essays - Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Praise for the first volume:
`It is very valuable to have [this collection of articles] all together in one place…a rich repository of insights and experiences for all the somatic disciplines. It is a wonderful collection of articles.' - Somatics 1999/2000
This second volume on Authentic...
The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist
Private life, professional practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Therapists are often expected to be immune to the kind of problems that they help clients through. This book serves to demonstrate that this is certainly not the case: they are no more resistant to difficult and unexpected personal circumstances than anyone else.In this book Marie Adams looks into...
Touched
A Painter's Insights into the Work of Liane Collot d'Herbois: A New Mystery School Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is the result the of the authors adventure in painting and work with Liane Collot dHerbois (1907-1999), the well-known artist and therapist who worked in the tradition of Rudolf Steiners spiritual research. The author learned to surrender to the beings of color, to remove ones self from the...