Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
by Andrew Samuels
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
What can depth psychology and politics offer each other?
In The Political Psyche Andrew Samuels shows how the inner journey of analysis and psychotherapy and the passionate political convictions of the outer world are linked. He brings an acute psychological perspective to bear on public themes...
by Charles O'Leary
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In The Practice of Person Centred Couple and Family Therapy, Charles O'Leary offers a rich description of relationship therapy that draws on the resources of both person-centred psychotherapy and systemic and family therapy to present a skilful, respectful and empathic approach to working with couples...
The Paradox of Countertransference
You and Me, Here and Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
In this innovative text, Carol Holmes provides students and professional psychotherapists with an historical account leading to the most up-to-date information on the core psychoanalytic concept of counter-transference and the subsequent changes that have occurred in its clinical application.
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A Minyan of Women
Family Dynamics, Jewish Identity and Psychotherapy Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book explores the diverse manner in which family dynamics shaped Jewish identities in ways that were unique and directly connected to their experiences within their families of origin. Highlighted is the diversity of experience of ethnic identity within members of a group of women who are similar...
Already Free
Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Why are more and more psychotherapists embracing meditation practice, while so many Buddhists are exploring psychology? “Both psychology and Buddhism seek to provide freedom from suffering,” explains Bruce Tift, “yet each offers a completely different approach for reaching this goal.” In Already...
by Phil Joyce, Charlotte Sills
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This practical guide to the Gestalt approach has successfully introduced thousands of trainee therapists to the essential skills needed in Gestalt practice. Now in its third edition, the book includes: · New chapters on working with trauma, and building client resources...
by Phil Joyce, Charlotte Sills
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
This practical guide to the gestalt approach has successfully introduced thousands of trainee therapists to the essential skills needed in gestalt practice. The authors offer practical guidance on the entire process of therapy including setting up the therapeutic session, creating a working alliance,...
Working from the Heart
A Therapist's Guide to Heart-Centered Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
When therapists work in a heart-centered way, they feel freer to be both professionals and loving human beings. Working from the Heart advocates for a deeper understanding that the therapist's expressions of non-sexual, non-romantic love are a core ingredient in effective psychotherapy. Each chapter...
The Plural Psyche
Personality, Morality and the Father
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Pluralism can bridge the gaps that have opened up between personal experience, psychotherapy, and cultural criticism. In The Plural Psyche: Personality, Morality and the Father, a provocative, much praised and widely discussed book, Andrew Samuels lays bare the political implications of the personal...
by Jon G. Allen, PhD, Peter Fonagy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Mentalizing, the fundamental human capacity to understand behavior in relation to mental states such as thoughts and feelings, is the basis of healthy relationships and self-awareness. A growing evidence base supports the effectiveness of mentalizing-focused interventions in the treatment of borderline...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
This indispensable practitioner guide and text serves as a comprehensive primer on case formulation within all of the major therapeutic approaches. Prominent experts offer step-by-step guidelines for developing strong formulations and putting them to use in day-to-day practice. The chapters follow...
Sitting Together
Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This practical guide helps therapists from virtually any specialty or theoretical orientation choose and adapt mindfulness practices most likely to be effective with particular patients, while avoiding those that are contraindicated. The authors provide a wide range of meditations that build the core...
by Robert Lindner
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
“A fascinating mixture of traditional psychoanalytic thinking with clinical strategies that even today would be considered creative and controversial, The Fifty-Minute Hour has never failed to capture the imagination. . . . No student’s education in psychotherapy is complete without reading this...
Psychotherapy & Spirituality
Crossing the Line between Therapy and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
`There have been many books written about counselling with respect to class, politics, gender, culture and similar issues but, as far as I am aware , this is the first major work to be presented in this country about working with a client's spirituality and the importance this may have.... Is a must...