Psychotherapy Books

Are you moving through emotional pain such as grief, anger, shame and fear in healthy ways? Or are you repressing internal emotional issues by numbing out externally with food, alcohol, drugs (prescription or illegal), overworking, television, gambling,...

Psychoanalytic Geographies is a unique, path-breaking volume and a core text for anyone seeking to grasp how psychoanalysis helps us understand fundamental geographical questions, and how geographical understandings can offer new ways of thinking...

Hospital Social Work introduces the reader to the world of medicine and social work as seen through the eyes of actual social workers. An essential reference for both students and professionals. Over 100 social workers in dozens of hospitals were...

In this powerful and wonderfully accessible meditation on psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and social constructivism, Donnel Stern explores the relationship between two fundamental kinds of experience: explicit verbal reflection and "unformulated...

This book presents an integrative, growth-oriented approach to therapy with couples that demonstrates the dynamic interplay between partners' emotional issues and their sexual difficulties. It offers a model for relational and sexual enhancement that...

"I'm broken." When a boy or man says this, he is expressing deep alienation from himself and the world. Something's wrong, and he usually cannot begin to explain why. What brings boys and men into psychotherapy or analysis? Many of them struggle with...

While empirical, scientific research has much to offer to the practice-oriented therapist in training, it is often difficult to effectively engage the trainee, beginning practitioner, or graduate student in the subject of research.　This fully revised and...

Promoting Behavioral Health and Reducing Risk Among College Students synthesizes the large body of research on college students' behavioral health and offers guidance on applying evidence-based prevention and early intervention strategies using a...

Over the past two decades, the use of medication combined with psychotherapy or psychoanalysis has shifted from an infrequent occurrence to common practice. Concurrently, attitudes toward medication have changed from viewing this intervention as...

Can your life be so functional that it ends up making you crazy?I guess that depends on how you define the term functional and how you define the term crazy. If functional can be defined as the conventional ideal … and crazy can be defined as...

In Gestalt therapy, sociological, political, and economic research is often neglected or ignored. Drawing on analyses about current societal conditions, this book considers that there is no such thing as a 'postmodern' therapy and offers a new approach...

This book explores the experience of time in psychoanalysis and Andean shamanism. It plots ways to work through unresolved trauma by expanding how we conceptualize both implicit and nonverbal atemporal experience, drawing from the rituals, narratives,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Integrating humanistic interpretation with computational approaches, this book examines the 1958-1960 Taiwan fieldnotes of two renowned anthropologists. As the world's first ethnographic study on Han children, it sheds light on children's moral...

At just the moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to the ash-heap of intellectual history, Sex on the Couch rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and gender. Richard Boothby...

Commended in the Mental Health category of the 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition.This book offers an insight into the experience of psychiatric in-patient care, from both a professional and a user perspective. The editors highlight the problems in...

Containment and Reciprocity shows how the psychoanalytic concept of containment and the child development concept of reciprocity can be used together to inform clinical work with young children and their families. Using extracts of mother/child and...

It is vital that coaches have the ability to recognise mental health problems in their clients, enabling them to make an informed decision about whether coaching is appropriate. A Guide to Coaching and Mental Health provides an indispensable...

Do political concerns belong in psychodynamic treatment?How do class and politics shape the unconscious?The effects of an increasingly polarized, insecure and threatening world mean that the ideologically enforced split between the political order and...

How does our body reveal us to ourselves? The body can inform the work we do in mental health. This unique collection invites the reader to consider the way we think about the embodied mind, and how it can inform both our lives and our work in...

Using the Socratic Method in Counseling shows counselors how to use the Socratic method to help clients solve life problems using knowledge they may not realize they have. Coauthored by two experts from the fields of philosophy and counseling, the book...

Published in English for the first time, this is a seminal work by an original and creative analytical thinker.Piera Aulagnier's The Violence of Interpretation bridges the work of Winnicott and Lacan, putting forward a theory of psychosis based on...

Buddhism first came to the West many centuries ago through the Greeks, who also influenced some of the culture and practices of Indian Buddhism. As Buddhism has spread beyond India, it has always been affected by the indigenous traditions of its new...

Compulsive Sexual Behaviours offers a unique approach to the struggles people face with their out-of-control sexual behaviours.This comprehensive guide is deeply rooted in the science of sexology and psychotherapy, demonstrating why it is time to...

This fascinating book assesses Sándor Ferenczi's role in the history of psychoanalysis, examining his personal analysis with Freud, the father of the discipline.The book delves into archival material to shed light on issues around transference between...

Role playing is the most naturalistic form of psychotherapy. In the safety and privacy of an office, psychiatrists and psychologists guide patients in more competent ways of living, and help patients see how they behave. Role playing, which is also used...

Inspired by the increasing need to consider developmental factors in understanding the etiology and treatment of mental diseases, The Oxford Handbook of Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders: Developmental Perspectives takes an innovative approach to...

Earlier the explanation of therapeutic results with hypnosis was seen as the effect of suggestion. In CBT thoughts and behaviours are regarded as learned and thus considered to be changeable by relearning and new learning. Over the course of time the...

This is volume 1, part 4 of the Performing Arts International forum. This collection of essays covers a breadth of topics on the theme of consciousness; addressing the trend of studies trying to put human experience into more concrete, cogent, less...

Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl.-Psych. (emerit.) Robert J. Feinbier widmet sich in seinem neuen Buch "Counseling - Die Entdeckung der Sprache. Psycholinguistische Sprechaktanalyse (PSA) eines Beratungsgesprächs" erneut aus psycholinguistischer Sicht der...

The first volume of its kind, this provocative book evaluates the construct of cultural competence from multiple perspectives. At the intersection of diverse disciplines and domains, contributors argue for greater clarity in understanding the cultural...

This Handbook represents the first concerted effort to understand male mental health in a way that facilitates a positive step forward in both theory and treatment. An alarming number of men experience serious mental health issues, as demonstrated by...

This handbook offers a theoretical foundation for the adaptation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families. The volume examines current treatments for children with ASD and provides a...

The truth is, if you are suffering from alcoholism and looking for that alcohol addiction cure and you haven't been able to change, it's because you are lacking an effective strategy and haven't yet changed your associations to your alcoholism addiction...

A Life-Cycle Approach to Treating Couples draws on 30 years of clinical work and a rich body of research about lifecycle theory to offer couple therapists a guide to helping couples traverse six developmental stages-dating and commitment; transition to...

Relationships are hard and require work. Based on her thirty years of experience in counseling, Denise Schonwald tells stories that explore a variety of relationship challenges - communication issues, age differences, blended families, dysfunction, and...

Practical Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model of Mental Illness is the fifth Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series.Understanding the current systems of psychology and psychiatry is...

Embark on a transformative journey together with "Harmony in Love: A 100-Day Relationship Growth Guided Book for Couples." This meticulously crafted guide is designed to deepen your connection, enhance understanding, and foster mutual growth through a...

Narrative theory goes back to Plato. It is an approach that tries to understand the abstract mechanism behind the story. This theory has evolved throughout the years and has been adopted by numerous domains and disciplines. Narrative therapy is one of...

Currently, there is a lack of resources and information regarding how to best understand and support those impacted by incarceration. As the number of people impacted by incarceration rises, it is important that we acknowledge the issues and address the...

Globally, children are highly vulnerable and unjustifiably affected by the difficulties afflicting society. They face social, physical, psychological, and emotional turmoil that stems from varying degrees of violence, abuse, neglect, abandonment,...