Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
Contextual Schema Therapy
An Integrative Approach to Personality Disorders, Emotional Dysregulation, and Interpersonal Functioning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In this groundbreaking book, three internationally recognized psychologists present a step-by-step guide outlining the most up-to-date innovations in schema therapy (ST). This important book offers a clear and practical road map for putting the schema mode model into practice, improving clients' interpersonal...
by Andrew Wilkinson, Kevin Meares, Mark Freeston
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
This practical introduction helps trainees use cognitive behavioural therapy to assess and treat generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), one of the most commonly presented client issues. Taking the reader step-by-step through each stage of CBT with anxiety and worry, the authors illustrate the whole range...
by Richard Bromfield
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Praise for Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome
"Providing an explanation of Asperger's based on a review of scientific research, Richard Bromfield describes how the characteristics of the syndrome affect the person's thoughts and experiences throughout childhood....
Not Trauma Alone
Therapy for Child Abuse Survivors in Family and Social Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
How is an individual to lead a comfortable, productive existence when he or she was never taught the skills necessary for effective living? Adult survivors of child abuse often face this dilemma. Instead of being nurtured as children and taught life-skills by their caregivers, child abuse survivors...
Systems Theory in Action
Applications to Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
"Smith-Acuña illuminates the structural hierarchy, roles, and boundaries that give a system structure. The relationship between parts and wholes is both simple and profound, and particularly important in looking at systems structure. These morsels of wisdom are good examples of Smith-Acuña's...
Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts
Romanticism and the analytic attitude
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?
'This book is about what Freud called "freely" or "evenly suspended attention", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the...
Hope and Mortality
Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
AIDS has humbled us. Thus observes editor Mark Blechner in introducing readers to this powerful collection of essays on psychodynamic approaches to AIDS. It is the disease, Blechner tells us, that "has forced us to rethink our relation to sickness and health, mortality, sexuality, drug use, and...
Were All Insane! Second Edition
Six Reasons Why Youre Insane
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Insanity is being out of touch with reality. Active insanity is clinging to illusions and delusions. Illusions are misperceptions, misconceptions, and mistakes about reality. Delusions are misperceptions, misconceptions, and mistakes about reality that we have evidence against but cling to anyway.Albert...
Building on Bion: Roots
Origins and Context of Bion's Contributions to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Two volumes of original papers by leading thinkers and practitioners of group therapy... The diverse collection that has informed and stimulated my thinking.'
- International Journal of Group Psychotherapy
'The concepts that I liked were about the truth, the unknowable and unknown, and...
Promises, Oaths, and Vows
On the Psychology of Promising
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Considering that getting along in civil society is based on the expectation that (most) people will do what they say they will do, i.e., essentially live up to their explicit or implicit promises, it is amazing that so little scientific attention has been given to the act of promising. A great deal...
The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression
Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Otto Kernberg is a towering figure in the field of psychoanalysis and has accomplished seminal work in object relations and the treatment of borderline and narcissistic patients. This volume collects his recent work in several areas: severe personality disorders, couples in conflict, and religious...
by Margaret Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Addresses the flurry of questions about the practical application of neuroscience in clinical treatment.
Recent advances in research in the fields of attachment, trauma, and the neurobiology of emotion have shown that mind, brain, and body are inextricably linked. This new research has revolutionized...
The Many Faces of Deceit
Omissions, Lies, and Disguise in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
This work examines the concept of deceit and its ubiquity both in everyday life and in various forms of psychopathology. It offers examples of clinical work with true impostors, those with imposturous tendencies, and those who fear they are impostors when in fact they are not.
Imagination, Illness and Injury
Jungian Psychology and the Somatic Dimensions of Perception
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
How does the body influence the way we see the world?
Imagination, Illness and Injury examines the psychological factors behind perceptual limitations and distortions and links a broad range of somatic manifestations with their resolution.
Melanie Starr Costello applies Jungian theory...