Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
The Big Book of ACT Metaphors
A Practitioner's Guide to Experiential Exercises and Metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Metaphors and exercises play an incredibly important part in the successful delivery of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). These powerful tools go far in helping clients connect with their values and give them the motivation needed to make a real, conscious commitment to change. Unfortunately,...
UnTherapy
A Positive Psychology for Enlightened Living
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
UnTherapy will speak to the heart of anyone who realizes that traditional therapy does not (or never did) help them to evolve. If you feel like therapy has stunted your growth or "working on yourself" has resulted in self-judgment, this book is for you. It is a practical guide that will...
Radical Compassion
Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2019
One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart
Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and...
Self Psychology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
This comprehensive, introductory text makes the concepts of self psychology accessible for students and clinicians. It begins with an overview of the development of Kohut's ideas, particularly those on narcissism and narcissistic development and explains the self object concept that is at the core...
Making a Difference in Patients' Lives
Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2008
Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication!
Within the title of her book, Making a Difference in Patients' Lives, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. But, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its own, is often not...
Intensive Family Therapy
Theoretical And Practical Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Published in the year 1985, Intensive Family Therapy is a valuable contribution to the field of Family Therapy.
Self and Motivational Systems
Towards A Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
In this sequel to Lichtenberg's Psychoanalysis and Motivation (TAP, 1989), the authors show how their revised theory of motivation provides the foundation for a new approach to psychoanalytic technique. The approach in Self and Motivational Systemsemphasizes a finely honed sensitivity to moment-to-moment...
by Marvin Margolis, MD, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
The problem of how to understand and to treat masochism has plagued the vast majority of clinicians. The Clinical Problem of Masochism, edited by Deanna Holtzman, PhD, and Nancy Kulish, PhD, focuses on the common and difficult clinical problems posed by masochistic patients who are spread throughout...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 4
Learning from Kohut
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The fourth volume in the Progress in Self Psychology series continues to explore the theoretical yield and clinical implications of the wok of the late Heinz Kohut. Learning from Kohut features sections on "supervision with Kohut" and on the integration of self psychology with classical...
Self In The System
Expanding The Limits Of Family Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Althea J. Horner PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
"Perhaps the acid test for any book on psychoanalytic theory is the light it sheds on the complex problems that a therapist faces. This book passes that test with flying colors. I now see my patients in a different light and I have changed my approach with beneficial results."
—Samuel L. Bradshaw, Jr. The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
A Jason Aronson Book
by Susan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In this enlightening and gracefully written study, Susan Miller examines shame in a variety of clinical contexts en route to a richer understanding of shame dynamics. Miller attends especially to the role of shame in creating and maintaining character pathology and devotes separate sections of the...
The Power of Countertransference
Innovations in Analytic Technique
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
A signpost of the relational turn in contemporary psychoanalysis, Karen Maroda's The Power of Countertransference, published in 1991, is perhaps the first systematic effort to integrate the need for mutual emotional exchanges, which may include the analyst's own self-disclosures, into an interactive...
Awakening the Dreamer
Clinical Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys, Philip Bromberg continues the illuminating explorations into dissociation and clinical process begun in Standing in the Spaces (1998). Bromberg is among our most gifted clinical writers, especially in his unique ability to record peripheral variations in...