Clinical psychology Books

This book explores the historical background to, and present-day understanding of, a number of unusual psychiatric disorders. This fully revised new edition contains a new chapter on a range of recently emerging conditions as well as updated literature...

John Hunt is a kind and gregarious man. His eyes twinkle and his face beams. He is a retired businessman and still retains that drive. I met John the summer of 2000. He came for the graduation ceremony of the crew of students that Jason had led, and we...

Childhood Memory Spaces explores the places adults remember from their childhood.

""Neue Fortschritte in den Verbrecherstudien"" ist ein Buch des italienischen Kriminologen Cesare Lombroso aus dem Jahr 1899. In diesem Werk pr�����sentiert Lombroso seine neuesten Erkenntnisse und Forschungsergebnisse im Bereich der Kriminalit�����t und...

The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis explores the social unconscious in persons, groups and societies in terms of the "un-acknowledged" restraints and constraints of our social and cultural groupings. In...

Originally published in 1993, Managing Stress in Families deals with the use of well-researched psychosocial strategies in working with families under stress. This includes households where one or more members experience major mental or physical health...

Exploring what it means to be an authentic therapist in the present day, Sara London playfully melds together the tenets of performance art and psychoanalytic theory to advance the hopeful new notion of the performance therapist. In an era where the...

Puppet-Assisted Play Therapy is an innovative and comprehensive approach that significantly advances the field of play therapy. This easy to read, user-friendly book includes history, creative interventions, case studies, the art of puppetry, and the...

This volume is a compilation of articles that shed light on psychopathology, how the one struggling with it experiences its implications, and how it affects everyday life. For one to be categorized as exhibiting positive mental health, an individual...

This clinically focused book explores W. R. Bion's thinking on primitive and unrepresented mental states and shows how therapists can work effectively with traumatized patients who are difficult to reach.The author illuminates how trauma survivors suffer...

This innovative text addresses the lack of literature regarding intersectional approaches to psychoanalysis, underscoring the importance of thinking through race, class, and gender within psychoanalytic theory and practice.The book tackles the widespread...

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Creative Arts Therapies uses a case-based approach to provide practical guidance for practitioners on the skillful application of ethical decision-making in art therapy.The book introduces the DO ART model, an ethical...

A groundbreaking approach to self-therapy using a resource available anywhere, anytime, and to anyone seeking happiness and meaning. Psychotherapist Mirek Kanik dynamically demonstrates how readers can learn to harness the power of the mystical...

Your circle of life is your individual roadmap to inner peace, personal satisfaction, and authentic happiness. This book shows you how to: Balance your life Enrich your relationships Fulfill your deepest goals and dreams Use small steps to...

TRAUMA HEALING is designed for Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) volunteer facilitators and includes complete descriptions for: Workshop Routines-schedule, agenda, methods, evaluations and closings. Workshop Sessions-safety, remembering, mourning...

The pain and rewards of depth therapy revealed in two case studies.Michael Eigen, Ph.D., author of The Psychotic Core and The Electrical Tightrope, is a senior member, Board of Directors, and control/training analyst at the National Psychological...

This groundbreaking book offers an exciting proposal for approaching therapeutic work from a perspective that emphasizes the feminine principle of holding and containment, while also recognizing a necessary place for the masculine. Sullivan demonstrates...

This unique account by a dance and drama therapist is the first of its kind to integrate Jungian theory, creative arts therapy, and developmental object relations theory successfully. Using the arts as a psycho-therapeutic tool, trauma and addiction are...

CHIRON DESCRIPTION:Chiron Clinical Series title looking at “madness” within analysis and the transformative elements within. Contents:Nathan Schwartz-Salant - Jung, Madness, and Sexuality:  Reflections on Psychotic Transference and...

Margritte is a poet of dreams. His painting present to the eye of the observer an enigma having the same coded density as the oneiric world.In a frenetic society that has given up dreams and fantasy, that is characterized by people rushing vertiginously...

Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Murray Stein and several other Jungian analysts review Liminality and Transitional Phenomena in psychoanalysis.Volume Includes:Murray Stein, The Muddle in Analysis       Robert L. Moore,  Ritual,...

Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Murray Stein, Joan Chodorow, Mario Jacoby, and several other Jungian analysts review the role of the body in psychoanalysis.Contents:Donald F. Sandner - The Subjective Body in Clinical Practice Nathan Schwartz-Salant -  On...

This work shows Judith Hubback to have been able to unify her clinical and theoretic observations to a high degree of excellence. Less apparent but deeply felt, is her presence as a warm and experienced observer of all that came her way. The writing is...

This issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry follows a design that has achieved increasing popularity in today's pluralistic world of psychoanalytic theory and practice.  Providing a case presentation that incorporates detailed process noted along with a...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In the real world, caseloads include clients with substance abuse, psychiatric, and co-occurring disorders. Here you'll find reliable information and informative case examples to help you manage your caseload more effectively! Caseloads that include...

Founder of the National Society for Graphology, Felix Klein began his study of graphology in his birthplace, Vienna, Austria, at the age of thirteen. He was a practicing graphologist all of his life and lectured and gave seminars throughout the United...

The overarching theme of this book is that spiritually-oriented psychotherapy is entirely consistent with brief psychotherapeutic relationships.In advancing this claim, I first present an overview of contemporary spirituality and the brief psychotherapy...

This book reveals one theory why dramatic increases in crime, violence, teen pregnancies, and many other inhibitors plague our inner cities. It addresses the problems of absentee fathers in urban communities, and the effects it has on a large population...

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was a leading critic of human behavioral genetics, human sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and the modern evolutionary synthesis. Why Gould Was Wrong explains why Gould's claims were horribly wrong.

This book is a developmental guide created to help those who have trouble lying overcome their mental illnesses. Why they lie, why they can't stop lying and why they wish they could. If you are a liar, or if you have a friend, or a family member who is...

Miracle moments are the "cracks of light" pouring into the ego's dark system. It is the ego which makes you a slave of time, dreaming a dream of violence, pain, fear, guilt, and despair. Discover how to make of every meeting an opportunity for miracle...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

An excellent guide to surviving and flourishing in a highly challenging field, this book is written by practitioners with extensive experience of the practical and emotional aspects of working independently.

In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and philosophy look at the central issues of commonality and difference between phenomenology and analytical psychology. The major theme of the book is how...

Counselors and psychotherapists are divided about the morality and efficacy of short-term psychotherapy and counseling. The model of therapy described Time-Conscious Psychological Therapy is based on flexible adjustment to the life pattern of the...

Sandplay is one of the fastest growing therapies. What are its origins, who were it pioneers, and how have they influenced the current practice of sandplay? What does the future hold? Rie Rogers Mitchell and Harriet S. Friedman have written a unique...

Loneliness can be a terrible experience. Yet, surprisingly counsellors, therapists and professional helpers are rearely taught how to help their clients manage loneliness. Written specially for professional helpers, Loneliness, Stress and Well-Being...

This book brings together the historically separate domains of mental health and spiritual awareness in a holistic framework called InnerView Guidance. Building on strength-based and solution-oriented approaches to therapy, the InnerView model offers a...

This workbook elucidates the techniques clinicians will encounter using the cognitive experiential (psychodrama) group therapy (CEGT) model. This model incorporates cognitive behavioral and psychodramatic interventions to help identify and modify...

The newly updated Digital Play Therapy focuses on the responsible integration of technology into play therapy during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. With respect for the many different modalities and approaches under the play therapy umbrella, this book...