Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
Tales Of Enchantment
Goal-Oriented Metaphors For Adults And Children In Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Published in 1989, Tales of Enchantment is a valuable contribution to the field of Psychotherapy.
Art Therapy With Families In Crisis
Overcoming Resistance Through Nonverbal Expression
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This volume describes art therapy interventions for particularly dysfunctional families and explains the connections between the process of creating art and the curative process in meeting these families' needs. The first chapter examines distressed family systems, and psychotherapy in relation to...
Therapeutic Communication, Second Edition
Knowing What to Say When
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
A uniquely practical guide and widely adopted text, this book shows precisely what therapists can say at key moments to enhance the process of healing and change. Paul Wachtel explains why some communications in therapy are particularly effective, while others that address essentially the same content...
The Doctor and the Soul
From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In this classic work, internationally known Viennese psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl, founder of the school of logotherapy, sets forth the principles of existential psychiatry. He holds that man's search for meaning in existence is a primary facet of his being; if the search is unrequited, it leads...
Ecotherapy
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The idea of using nature to improve mental and emotional wellbeing has existed for many years, in many forms. However, growing levels of interest in holistic, reciprocal relationships with nature have led to the development of an explicit field, termed Ecotherapy. In this thought-provoking new book,...
Terror and Transformation
The Ambiguity of Religion in Psychoanalytic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Religion has been responsible for both horrific acts against humanity and some of humanity's most sublime teachings and experiences. How is this possible? From a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, this book seeks to answer that question in terms of the psychological dynamic of idealisation.
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by D. A. D. Hutschnecker
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The psychiatrist who broke into national prominence when it was revealed that Richard Nixon had consulted him, has written a book which history has demanded be written: an examination of the nature of the power drive and how it works in all men, whether they are vying for power in politics, in business,...
by Stephen V. Sobel
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
A guide for physicians and clinicians to understanding and choosing the proper psychiatric medications and for their patients who want to learn how this should be done.
This book teaches mental health professionals how to choose and use psychotropic medications to address the biological etiology...
Mindfulness and Mental Health
Therapy, Theory and Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Being mindful can help people feel calmer and more fully alive. Mindfulness and Mental Health examines other effects it can also have and presents a significant new model of how mindful awareness may influence different forms of mental suffering.
The book assesses current understandings of...
Unlocking the Emotional Brain
Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Psychotherapy that regularly yields liberating, lasting change was, in the last century, a futuristic vision, but it has now become reality, thanks to a convergence of remarkable advances in clinical knowledge and brain science. In Unlocking the Emotional Brain, authors Ecker, Ticic and Hulley equip...
Healing Tasks
Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This groundbreaking book presents a new model for working with survivors of abuse and other trauma. The Healing Tasks Model, based on developmental stages of healing with specific tasks for each stage, offers the clinician new support for threading through the sometimes overwhelming complexities...
Bodies In Treatment
The Unspoken Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Bodies in Treatment is a challenging volume that brings into conceptual focus an "unspoken dimension" of clinical work - the body and nonverbal communication - that has long occupied the shadowy realm of tacit knowledge. By bringing visceral, sensory, and imagistic modes of emotional processing...
Empowering Therapeutic Practice
Integrating Psychodrama into other Therapies
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book explores the exciting areas of overlap between psychodrama and other therapeutic schools and presents opportunities for their creative interaction and integration.
Psychodramatists, to varying degrees, integrate the ideas and philosophies of other forms of psychotherapy into their...
Developing Ericksonian Therapy
A State Of The Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Published in 1988, Developing Ericksonian Therapy is a valuable contribution to the field of Psychotherapy.