Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
Asperger Syndrome and Psychotherapy
Understanding Asperger Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003
People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) understand and respond to the world in a very different way from people without this condition. The challenge for psychotherapists working with Asperger clients lies in setting aside their own preconceptions and learning to understand their client's perspective....
Holographic Reprocessing
A Cognitive-Experiential Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Holographic Reprocessing (HR) is a cognitive-experiential psychotherapy based on Seymour Epstein's theory of personality, cognitive experiential self-theory (CEST). According to CEST, people have a natural adaptive system for processing information. If an emotionally distressing event is not fully...
Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy
From Paradox to Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Using the work of Wittgenstein, John Heaton challenges the notion of theoretical expertise on the mind, arguing for a new understanding of therapy as an attempt by patients to express themselves in an effort to see and say what has not been said or seen, and accept that the world is not as fixed as they are constituting it.
Boarding School Syndrome
The psychological trauma of the 'privileged' child
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Boarding School Syndrome is an analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age. Innovative and challenging, Joy Schaverien offers a psychological analysis of the long-established British and colonial preparatory and public boarding school tradition. Richly illustrated...
True and False Experience
Human Element in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Is psychotherapy first and foremost a technique that can be described, learned, and practices, or is it a relationship in which techniques play a part but ordinary human qualities are the crucial factors? True and False Experience discusses those factors that have made it difficult for therapists...
Flexibility-Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Insights from 40 Years of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
In this book, Windy Dryden brings together the four major strands that have shaped his idiosyncratic approach to clinical practice – (i) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; (ii) flexibility in practice; (iii) Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy; and (iv) pluralism – an approach he calls ‘Flexibility-Based...
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
On Intimate Ground
A Gestalt Approach to Working with Couples
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Couples therapy has long been regarded as one of the most demanding forms of psychotherapy because of the way it challenges therapists to combine the insights of dynamic psychology with the power and clarity of systems dynamics. In this exciting new volume, Gordon Wheeler and Stephanie Backman, couples...
by Tim LeBon
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2001
Independent on Sunday October 2nd
One of the country's leading philosophical counsellers, and chairman of the Society for Philosophy in Practice (SPP), Tim LeBon, said it typically took around six 50 minute sessions for a client to move from confusion to resolution.
Mr LeBon, who...
Toward the Validation of Dynamic Psychotherapy
A Replication
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The final judgment depends on how much emphasis is given to the residual difficulties. SCORES Team 1 3.5 2.5 Team 2 2.5 2.5 Mean 2.75 THE o,INICAL MATERIAL I THE COMPANY SECRETARY 59 The Company Secretary SUMMARY Category. Short, unfavorable (12 sessions, outcome 1.0). A married man of forty-three...
Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy
How to Talk with People about Their Spiritual Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Drawing on narrative, postmodern, and other therapeutic perspectives, this book guides therapists in exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories...
Person-Centred Therapy
A Clinical Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The person-centred approach is one of the most popular, enduring and respected approaches to psychotherapy and counselling. Person-Centred Therapy returns to its original formulations to define it as radically different from other self-oriented therapies.
Keith Tudor and Mike Worrall draw on...
Depressive Realism
Interdisciplinary perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Depressive Realism argues that people with mild-to-moderate depression have a more accurate perception of reality than non-depressives. Depressive realism is a worldview of human existence that is essentially negative, and which challenges assumptions about the value of life and the institutions claiming...
by Robin Steele
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The Psychophonetic approach to psychotherapy works with the whole human being in body, soul, and spirit. Founded by Yehuda Tagar and based on Rudolf Steiners Anthroposophy and Psychosophy, Psychophonetics is unique in its emphasis on a combination of conversation and action phases in counseling sessions....