Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
Emotions and Personhood
Exploring Fragility - Making Sense of Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
How does a person experience emotions? What is the relationship between the experiential and biological dimensions of emotions? How do emotions figure in a person's relation to the world and to other people? How do emotions feature in human vulnerability to mental illness? Do they play a significant...
by Hans Steiner, Rebecca E. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A unique guide to adolescent psychopathology, using a developmental approach
Treating Adolescents is a comprehensive guide to adolescent mental health care, synthesizing evidence-based practice and practice-based perspectives to give providers the best advice available. By limiting the discussion...
Art as Therapy
An Introduction to the Use of Art as a Therapeutic Technique
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
Art as Therapy introduces the theory and practice of art therapy in a concise, accessible and informative way. Tessa Dalley's introduction gives an overview of basic issues, research and development. Subsequent chapters, written by specialists, are chosen to demonstrate the ways in which art therapy...
Art Therapy in Palliative Care
The Creative Response
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the practice and results of art therapy in palliative care. It includes first-hand accounts from both therapists and clients in a variety of palliative care settings including:-
* hospices and hospitals
* patients own homes
* prisons...
Loss, Change and Grief
An Educational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Play Therapy in the Outdoors
Taking Play Therapy out of the Playroom and into Natural Environments
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Championing the therapeutic power of nature, this book explores why outdoor play therapy offers children more than being confined to a playroom and how practice can be moved into the natural environment in a safe and ethical way.
By using outdoor environments, the traditional dyadic relationship...
Crazy
My Seven Years at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Roberta Carly Redford, who grew up in Winnipeg, was sent to the Orthogenic School in Chicago when she was fifteen. The school was run by world-famous "child psychologist" Bruno Bettelheim, who, as it turned out, had no such credentials. She was kept there for seven years against her will....
The Annual of Psychoanalysis, V. 29
Sigmund Freud and His Impact on the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Sigmund Freud and His Impact on the Modern World, volume 29 of The Annual of Psychoanalysis, is a comprehensive reassessment of the influence of Sigmund Freud. Intended as an unofficial companion volume to the Library of Congress's exhibit, "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture," it ponders...
Community and Confluence
Undoing the Clinch of Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Bridging the gap between psychology and politics, Lichtenberg presents a powerful argument for applying the methods and insights of the Gestalt perspective to social and political problems. Focusing on the inner dynamics of power and abuse relationships, this thoughtful treatment of victim/oppressor...
by Joyce Mcdougall
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Paul Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
The Ego and Analysis of Defense, by Paul Gray, without a doubt represents a major advance in analytic technique. This book, together with the series of seminal journal articles he published over the past 30 years are a testament to Gray's pioneering intellect. They have stirred up enormous interest...
by Mark J. Blechner
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Dream Frontier is that rare book that makes available the cumulative wisdom of a century's worth of clinical examination of dreams and then reconfigured that wisdom on the basis of research in cognitive neuroscience. Drawing on psychodynamic theorists and neuroscientific researchers with equal...
Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body
Treatment Through Art Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
People with eating disorders often make desparate attempts to exert magical control over their bodies in response to the threats they experienced in relationships. Mary Levens takes the reader into the realm of magical thinking and its effect on ideas about eating and the body through a sensitive...
Raising Self-Esteem in Adults
An Eclectic Approach with Art Therapy, CBT and DBT Based Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Self-esteem is the building block of therapy and wellness and is crucial in overcoming depression and anxiety and in leading a fulfilling, functional life.
Filled with hundreds of practical activities to help clients build their self-esteem as they become increasingly mindful and self-aware,...