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Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective offers a clinically based framework through which adult survivors of early childhood trauma can re-engage with painful past events to create meaningful futures for themselves. The book...

Drawing on over a century of international Nietzschean scholarship, this groundbreaking book discusses some of the unexplored psychological reaches of Nietzsche's thought, as well as their implications for psychotherapeutic practice.Nietzsche's...

Environmental Arts Therapy: The Wild Frontiers of the Heart describes what happens when we take the creative arts therapies and the people whom we work with out of doors in order to provide safe, structured and accompanied creative therapeutic healing...

It is only in recent years that there has been development in the awareness of the father's mental health. Yet, the father's mental health can influence the mother, the infant, the family and society. This book seeks to address the reasons why the father...

A hands-on homework toolkit for mental health practitioners treating clients with substance use disorders In the newly revised sixth edition of the Addiction Treatment Homework Planner, a team of distinguished clinicians delivers a practical and...

The incidence of sexual assault and harassment experienced by members of the US Armed forces has reached epidemic proportions. Its victims often suffer from devastating, life-long consequences to their careers, health, relationships, and psychological...

This book addresses the unique challenges therapists face when documenting their clinical work with children, providing insight into what ethical, appropriate, and culturally competent practice looks like. Clinical documentation is vital for ethical and...

This book provides mental health researchers and clinicians with valuable insight into the pathway that leads from developmental trauma to dysregulation and psychopathology.Incorporating science that explains the impact of early trauma, this book details...

In this needed practice and training guide for all mental health professionals, Froma Walsh presents a research-informed, resilience-oriented approach to help individuals, couples, and families who experience profound loss. Walsh guides therapists to...

*Unique, hands-on program to treat depression in kids (ages seven and up), a growing concern. *Focuses on teaching skills for modulating sadness and distress to reduce depressive symptoms and prevent relapse. *Designed specifically for use with children,...

*Unique, hands-on program to treat depression in kids (ages seven and up), a growing concern. *Focuses on teaching skills for modulating sadness and distress to reduce depressive symptoms and prevent relapse. *Designed specifically for use with children,...

• Presents the 100 main features of this way of working, providing an accessible, succinct overview of SST. • Single Session Therapy continues to be a globally expanding trend • Windy Dryden is a key leader in the field of Single Session Therapy and has...

- Written specifically for distance-based learning by the faculty at NCU, the first institution to receive COAMFTE accreditation for both master’s and doctoral programs. - It provides an overview of modern and post-modern models of therapy, as well as...

Across the globe, both in developed and developing countries, the population is rapidly ageing. In the fields of sexual and relationship therapy and sexual health, ageing has not been an issue of priority. Too often, ageing is thought of as a process...

Regulating Emotion the DBT Way is a practical guide to the DBT skill of 'Opposite Action', which helps clients develop the skill of up- or down-regulating their emotions when necessary. It is the skill that fosters emotional literacy in clients who have...

Drawing on the leading voices of international researchers and practitioners, Outdoor Therapies provides readers with an overview of practices for the helping professions.Sharing outdoor approaches ranging from garden therapy to wilderness therapy and...

This book provides a unique phenomenological dialogue between psychology and philosophy on the origin of bioethics that shows the importance of bringing emotions into bioethical discourse.Divided into two parts, the book begins by defining bioethics and...

Re-Visioning Existential Therapy is a collection of essays from leading practitioners and theorists around the globe which questions some of the key tenets of traditional existential therapy. The book enlightens, stimulates, and provokes the reader out...

The first overarching work on dramatherapy intercultural practice and research, this book explores the therapeutic encounter between therapists and participants as an intercultural space, highlighting how attending to cultural differences informs care...

Explains practical applications of object relations theory and self psychology to very difficult group situationsIncludes new contributions to practice by applying and extending Bions theory of thinking; systems theory; theories of grief; theories of...

Social workers and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) helpers need practical, relationship-based clinical tools to support families experiencing stress, separation, and loss. Research reveals key parenting behaviors occur during hair...

Reflecting on and exploring the connection between the environments in which we live and our moods, motivations and dreams, this insightful volume takes the growing field of terrapsychology into new and exciting directions. This book draws together a...

Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen examines the impact of cinema closures and the shift to small-screen consumption on our aesthetic and subjective desires during the COVID-19 pandemic from a Lacanian perspective. The chapters in this text hold a unique...

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...

*"What they don't teach in school"--encouraging guidance for newly minted therapists and counselors from all mental health disciplines. *Answers from an expert with 50 years’ experience to questions potentially too awkward or personal to broach in a...

In Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis, Pablo Lerner questions, and takes a step beyond, the prevailing paradigm of Lacanian psychoanalysis and its emphasis on the sovereignty of language and jouissance. Arguing for the existence of a primordial...

1. The prevalence of depression (and unhealthy moods) in the pre-Covid, Covid, and post-Covid ages 2. Integrated psychotherapy approaches are custom-tailored to the individual and may replace manualized monotherapy approaches. 3. Telepsychology and...

This book offers a unique combination of an in-depth examination of attachment, a refined and tested model of Needs Assessment and Therapeutic Treatment plans and applies it to specific contexts including those of children in residential/foster care,...

This book explores developments in psychoanalytic field theory internationally, and their relevance for therapeutic theory and practice.The roots of psychoanalytic field theory can be traced back to the work of Kurt Lewin, and it has taken particular...

This important book examines how the growing field of cybernetic psychology - the study of the creative complexity of the mind - can be applied to a range of different realms, tapping into the unconscious potential within us all. Cybernetic psychology...

This book provides mental health researchers and clinicians with valuable insight into the pathway that leads from developmental trauma to dysregulation and psychopathology.Incorporating science that explains the impact of early trauma, this book details...

• Presents a model for using sandtray therapy with patients suffering from trauma • Sandtray therapy has been a quickly growing field internationally in the past 10 years • Features a foreword by the theorists behind the traumatherapy model the book is...

- uses an interdisciplinary approach to compare different academic and clinical interpretations of symbols. - appeals to a broad market inclusive of both Jungian analysis, psychoanalysis, anthropology and philosophy.Book InformationISBN...

• Provides a definition of community art therapy and provides a model for conducting art therapy in the community • Covers a review of community art therapy literature and distinguishes it from group art therapy, public art, community art and artmaking •...

This book provides a research-based, user-friendly, practical guide on how to reintroduce movement into our daily lives.Presenting a rationale for the value of movement to all humans, the book explains why and where movement-based approaches and...

Presents a new approach to case formulation, making meaning from each clinical case and using every piece of data available. Contains vignettes throughout to illustrate the process. Suitable for both established clinicians and for those in training and...

Systemic Diagnosis: An Application of Family Systems Theory helps marriage and family therapists incorporate theory-driven assessment and diagnosis into their practice, demonstrating how they can diagnose systems, not just individuals.This introductory...

The personal development group plays a key part in counselling and psychotherapy training, and this book offers an insight into how it works and how to make best use of it. Taking the perspective of the student, it charts the course of the group through...

* Ferenczi's work generally is very influential in psychoanalysis, but this part of his work has been neglected * Trauma remains a very hot topic in psychoanalysis and all mental health * Offers a comprehensive guide to Ferenczi's original work, and the...

A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse. Presented in two parts, the book first uses a psychoanalytic approach to...