Psychotherapy Books

This account of the practice of traditional Maya medicine examines the work of curers in Pisté, Mexico, a small town in the Yucatán Peninsula near the ruins of Chichén Itzá. The traditions of plant use and ethnomedicine applied by these healers have been...

A growing number of art therapists are also trained in group analytic psychotherapy. This book explores the new theories and models for practice arising from the merging of these two disciplines.Contributors ask whether a model can be applied universally...

The Peper Harow residential community was founded in 1970 and gained international repute for its pioneering work with disturbed adolescents. For over 20 years, this remarkable establishment provided a therapeutic environment for teenagers who had often...

Dramatherapy is being increasingly practised in a range of therapeutic settings and is of growing interest to theatre practitioners and teachers. The Handbook of Dramatherapy brings together five authors who have considerable experience of clinical,...

Roles and Contexts in Counselling Psychology looks at the different contexts that counselling psychologists typically work within, offering a snapshot of the 'day job'. 　The book provides insights into roles that reflect the human lifespan from birth to...

Jung's Technique of Active Imagination and Desoille's Directed Waking Dream Method brings together Carl Jung's active imagination and Robert Desoille's "rêve éveillé dirigé/directed waking dream" method (RED). It studies the historical development of...

Changing Habits of Mind presents a theory of personality that integrates homeostatic dynamics of the brain with self-processes, emotionality, cultural adaptation, and personal reality.Informed by the author's brain-based, relational psychotherapeutic...

Understanding Your 7 Emotions explains how emotions help us to respond to the world around us and are fundamental to our existence.

Ten years ago, the first edition of this book asked why there was such a low number of women filling leadership roles and outlined what it took for women to succeed in their careers. Since then, headline numbers have gone up but has there been real...

In an era where instant gratification has filtered into training programs geared toward technique-driven solutions, Embracing Therapeutic Complexity takes a step back and re-introduces fundamental touchstones that enable clinicians to apply an...

Help Yourself with Single-Session Therapy provides an outlook on how you can help yourself with your emotional problems by using insights from single-session therapy. Single-session therapy draws upon the skills and strengths of both the therapist and...

Psychotherapy and Personal Change: Two Minds in a Mirror offers unique day-to-day accounts of patients undergoing psychotherapy and what happens during "talk therapy" to startle the complacent, conscious mind and expose the unconscious. It is a...

Implementing Play Therapy with Groups is a new and innovative edited book bringing together experts from across the field of play therapy to explore how to facilitate group play therapy across challenging settings, diagnoses, and practice environments...

This book is of and about psychoanalytic stories. It describes the personal, theoretical, and cultural stories that patients and analysts bring, create, and modify in analytic work. It shows how the joint creation of new life narratives over time results...

In Practicing Prodependence: The Clinical Alternative to Codependency Treatment, Drs. Weiss and Buck present a new social and psychological model of human interdependence-focused treatment for families and loved ones of addicts. Unlike Codependence,...

This book examines the institutionalization of self-help in the United States using organizational and social movement theories. Looking at a fifty-year period, Archibald charts the formation and dissolution of over 500 medical, academic, and popular...

This book presents stories of adult only-childrens' experience and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face particularly in interpersonal relationships and self-image. The focus is on revealing and making sense of adult...

A clinical supervisor plays a key role in the development of an individual who aspires to become an autonomous and independent practicing psychotherapist. Having a graduate degree in psychotherapy or psychology does not necessarily provide the...

Multicultural and feminist perspectives are characterized by a variety of similarities, and the integration of multicultural and feminist perspectives in counseling psychology has been a key aim of those in these fields for decades. However, the...

Counseling Psychology, one of the original specialties recognized in the profession of psychology, centers on and promotes clients' personal strengths during times of developmental transition or personal challenge and crisis. This tradition has led...

Crises todos vivemos. Forças para enfrentá-las nem todos temos. Se um dos objetivos principais da Gestalt-terapia é a ampliação da awareness, sobretudo daquilo que impede o fluxo contínuo e dificulta a fluidez do viver, é fundamental refletir sobre as...

Somos quienes somos debido a nuestras experiencias y pasados, y esto influye en nuestros hábitos y acciones más que cualquier otra cosa. Partes de este libro se leen como el libro de texto de psicología más interesante y relevante que hayas leído...

Verstehen und Heilen - ein Weg zur Versöhnung mit der Vergangenheit und zu innerem Frieden.Für viele Kriegsenkel ist es erleichternd, wenn sie die Ursache ihrer Probleme in den unverarbeiteten Traumata ihrer Eltern entdecken. Diese Erkenntnis war für...

Le Rêve du Cosmos est l'histoire d'une quête à plusieurs niveaux pour comprendre les causes de la souffrance humaine et renouer avec une réalité plus profonde que celle que nous habitons dans cette dimension physique de l'expérience. Il cherche à...

“Just as the earth is moved by the universe, you, me, every human, every life form, and every thing is moved by the universe as well. This movement feeling, the sense of the universe’s gravity field or what Einstein called space–time, is not just felt by...

I find another advantage of religious doctrine in one of its peculiarities, to which you seem to take particular exception. It admits of an ideatiorial refinement and sublimation, by which it can be divested of most of those traces of a primitive and...

In this seminal work by Therapist and Educator Dr. Stan DeKoven, the full ramifications of family violence are exposed and dismantled. From a proper understanding of the dynamics leading to abuse, rooted in family dysfunction, to the treatment of victim...

Contemporary psychiatry has fallen under the sway of biological reductionism, where our patients do not receive proper care. They are treated primarily or exclusively with psychoactive drugs. The result has been a pharmaceutical epidemic, with...

This biographical story is a journey through the 52 years of a successful marriage which ended under tragic circumstances. The reader will be confronted in the final chapter with the decision faced by the author. WAS negligence involved with the demise...

Improve counseling techniques and communication with students through the use of storytelling. An educational guidebook for counselors, teachers and anyone in helping professions.

This book highlights the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings on psychology and psychological phenomena for the historical development of contemporary psychology. It presents an insightful assessment of the philosopher's work, particularly his...

""Apuntes sobre la Terap�����utica General: Resumen de las Lecciones (1858)"" es un libro escrito por Juan Bautista Foix y Gual que ofrece un resumen de las lecciones sobre terap�����utica general impartidas en la Facultad de Medicina de Barcelona en el...

Le livre ""Trois Stations de Psychoth�����rapie"" (1891) de Maurice Barr�����s est un ouvrage de psychologie qui explore les diff�����rentes m�����thodes de psychoth�����rapie disponibles ������ l'�����poque. L'auteur d�����crit trois stations de...

The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking: Material, Methods, and Applications provides a comprehensive collection about the contemporary practices, media, and value of hand papermaking as social engagement, art therapy, and personal voice.  

This book provides further developments of ideas like Freud's uncanny, Jung's synchronicity, Daniels' transpersonal, Clarke's mindfulness and Sollod's anomalous experiences.

This edited book highlights the identities and practices of ethnically diverse families and schools in contexts where multicultural policies are not always a priority. In an era of globalization and ensuing population mobility, it places a focus on...

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...

Publisher's note on this book: This book is a radical leap into the apex of philosophy, psychology, and the science of seeing what's real for oneself. Written in a dense and penetrating style that is designed to induce deep thinking and...

Astrological psychosynthesis is a holistic approach to astrology, bringing not only greater self-understanding but also growth in consciousness. Based on the work of Roberto Assagioli, the founder of psychosynthesis, it follows the premise that every...

Servants of the Sacred Dream explores the rebirth of the feminine into individual and collective consciousness, and its importance to women at a time when the unquestionable power and authority of the patriarchy is on the wane.Re-emergence of the deep...

It is now 25 years since the Personal Totem Pole was first published in 1987. It has never been out of print in that time. The book remains a steady seller as it serves still as one of the clearest and most accessible descriptions of how a person can...