Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
by Janet Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
From the author of In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer comes an intensive look at the practice of psychoanalysis through interviews with “Aaron Green,” a Freudian analyst in New York City. Malcolm is accessible and lucid in describing the history of psychoanalysis and its...
Reading Freud
A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!
Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification.
Each...
by Christopher Bollas
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This reader brings together a selection of seminal papers by Christopher Bollas.
Essays such as "The Fascist State of Mind," "The Structure of Evil," and "The Functions of History" have established his position as one of the most significant cultural critics of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
A beautiful and thoughtful collection of essays on reading, writing and learning, Writing and Psychoanalysis grows out of a colloquium. The results are wondrous and impact on the reader at many different levels. In the act of writing, we all discover something about what we know previously unknown...
On the Lyricism of the Mind
Psychoanalysis and literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
On the Lyricism of the Mind: Psychoanalysis and Literature explores the lyrical dimension (or the lyricism) of the psychic space. It is not presented as an artistic disposition, but rather as a universal psychic quality which enables the recovery and recuperation of the self. The specific nature of...
Trauma and Memory
Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist...
Beating Combat Stress
101 Techniques for Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Beating Combat Stress is a one-stop handbook of field-tested techniques and strategies to help service personnel, veterans and professionals to deal with the psychological effects of combat.
Features 101 field-tested techniques and strategies for managing combat-related stress
Designed to be...
by Serge Prengel, Lynn Somerstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
If therapy is a relational process, it takes a person on the therapist’s end. The goal of this book is to capture the therapist’s evolving sense of self as it is shaped by our experiences as active participants in a creative interaction.
The essays in this book are first-person accounts, by eleven...
The Unsayable
The Hidden Language of Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
In her twenty years as a clinical psychologist, Annie Rogers has learned to understand the silent language of girls who will not–who cannot–speak about devastating sexual trauma. Abuse too painful to put into words does have a language, though, a language of coded signs and symptoms that conventional...
Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief
Exploring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief is a scholarly work of social criticism, richly grounded in personal experience, evocative case studies, and current multicultural and sociocultural theories and research. It is also consistently practical and reflective, challenging readers to think...
by Joseph H. Di Leo
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Outsider Art and Art Therapy
Shared Histories, Current Issues, and Future Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Outsider art, traditionally the work of psychiatric patients, offenders and minority groups, and art therapy have shared histories of art created in psychiatric care. As the two fields grow, this book reveals the current issues faced by both disciplines and traces their shared histories to help them...
Egan's Skilled Helper Model
Developments and Implications in Counselling
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2008
The skilled helper model of counselling is hugely influential in the helping professions. Egan's Skilled Helper Model brings a number of new and challenging perspectives to bear on Egan's work and makes a major contribution to the development of this problem-management and opportunity-development...
Psychoneuroplasticity Protocols for Addictions
A Clinical Companion for The Big Book
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
PsychoNeuroPlasticity Protocols for Addictions: A Clinical Companion for the Big Book is a book that represents a tipping point in the translation of addiction science into practical, real-world applications for practitioners. It translates brain research into patient deliverables by explaining how...