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Given the complexity of scientific developments inside and outside the psychoanalytic field, traditional definitions of basic psychoanalytic notions are no longer sufficiently comprehensive. We need conceptualizations that encompass new clinical...

Offers practical guidance to working with patients who have engaged in terrorism. Draws on the author's extraordinary personal and clinical experience. Terrorism is a hot topic but there's almost no coverage in the literature.Book InformationISBN...

Dreaming the Social uses social dreaming as a tool to explore aspects of contemporary life and examine how we can reverse social fragmentation and large-scale trauma.Since the attack on New York on 9/11, the world has been balanced on the edge of...

Negativity in Psychoanalysis examines the role of negativity in psychoanalytic theory and its application in clinical settings.While theories around negativity and death drive have become routinized within philosophical interpretations of Freudian and...

This book investigates the therapeutic potential and efficacy of audiovisual languages, deepening the integration of film studies into neuropsychiatry and strategic psychotherapy.Within a theoretical framework including documentary studies,...

This highly accessible book presents a new approach to treating men who use violence against their partners and/or children. The Fathers for Change (F4C) program has a unique focus on fostering fathers' accountability and reflective functioning, and...

An important book for all clinicians working with traumatized patients. It draws upon the major psychotherapeutic and hypnotic traditions to present an integrative approach to ego-strengthening treatment that is grounded in both respect and compassion...

This book provides practical information about depression and anxiety in primary care, with a focus on the approach in different countries and incorporating global ranges/prevalence, risk factors and health burden including that associated with COVID-19...

This book provides practical information about depression and anxiety in primary care, with a focus on the approach in different countries and incorporating global ranges/prevalence, risk factors and health burden including that associated with COVID-19...

*Introduces exciting new models for thinking about children’s needs, self-esteem, and resilience that will invigorate counselling. *Offers a coherent blend of theories and practices, accessible to any mental health professional working with children...

*Introduces exciting new models for thinking about children’s needs, self-esteem, and resilience that will invigorate counselling. *Offers a coherent blend of theories and practices, accessible to any mental health professional working with children...

Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision addresses some of the challenges associated with sexual attraction in psychotherapy practice and supervision, as well as within services, and helps therapists, supervisors, and...

This book provides group therapists and counselors with the necessary knowledge and help to develop their skills in effectively conducting online groups.Group therapy represents the most efficient utilization of the scarce resource of mental health...

This book describes how group treatment offers a unique opportunity for group members to learn and to change as they interact with other group members.The group structure presents a social microcosm of relationships that people who seek psychotherapeutic...

Satisfying, secure connection with others depends heavily on how well we listen to each other and respond to what we’ve heard. The Listening Book lays bare the key elements of both deeply attuned and badly misattuned listening in vivid scenes of...

Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy is a personal exploration of Erving Polster’s remarkable career, the value of the Gestalt approach, and the power of enchantment in psychotherapy.Polster points ahead to a vision of a psychotherapy that includes the...

Bringing together clinical expertise with the latest findings from social, affective, and cognitive neuroscience, this accessible guide outlines how basic concepts of neuroscience and family therapy can be highly relevant to all mental health treatment...

The first peer-reviewed book of its kind, this important volume addresses a current gap in the field of gestalt therapy: that the practice—and psychotherapy more broadly—still suffers from pervasive hetero- and cis-normativity. This book offers...

• The first written narrative that accounts for the jobs and careers that sexuality professionals take on or create, and how the convergence of sexuality and business continues to evolve • Edited collection that brings together experts from the field of...

• The first written narrative that accounts for the jobs and careers that sexuality professionals take on or create, and how the convergence of sexuality and business continues to evolve • Edited collection that brings together experts from the field of...

LoveSex and Relationships introduces a pleasure-focused rather than reproductive model of sex, exploring how our brains, minds, bodies and emotions interact to create our experience of sexuality.This book challenges the cultural commodification of sex...

Behavioural Addiction in Women gives insight into ongoing research efforts and clinical developments across the globe, focusing specifically on women with behavioural addictions.The book brings together an international network of clinicians and...

Following tenets set out by Milton Erickson, Therapeutic Interventions in Three Sentences: Reshaping Ericksonian Hypnotherapy by Talking to the Brain and Body presents an array of short, effective commands which have been developed for use in connection...

● Each chapter opens with a "Potential for Practice," illustrating a research-related challenge in the practice of counseling. ● Online resources—including videos of group interviews, role-play counseling sessions, and counseling staff meetings—present...

Gendered Violence, Abuse and Mental Health in Everyday Lives: Beyond Trauma offers new insights into the social dimensions of emotional distress in abuse-related mental health problems, and explores the many interconnections between gendered violence,...

Marcuse's first major work Hugely important book in the 1960s counterculture and New Left movements that inspired student radical and liberation movements, especially in the US Marcuse is being rediscovered for his trenchant critiques of capitalism and...

• Covers the range of the written word, from progress notes and assessment documentation, to journaling and therapeutic letters, as well as contacting larger systems such as report writing and grant applications. • Aims to help all mental health...

Extensively updated second edition, with new content on napping, COVID, sleep apps and monitors, supplements and neurodiversity. Accessibly written. Includes a new chapter on the medico-legal aspects of sleep.Book InformationISBN 9781032435152Author...

Participation in Children and Young People's Mental Health: An Essential Guide aims to break down the historical challenges surrounding children and young people's mental health (CYPMH) participation.It explores topics from how to conceptualise...

Fills a substantive gap in the literature surrounding psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy Evidence supporting psychedelic medicines with contemporary psychotherapeutic theory and technique. Features the work of a diverse set of practicing...

1. Takes a psychoanalytic and phenomenological approach to Freud's 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and Maimonides' 'Guide of the Perplexed' 2. Shows how the literary structure of both the Torah and Guide is similar to Freud’s account of the structure of...

This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the twentieth century until today. Having originated with a conference called "Émigré Analysts," developed...

Provides a comprehensive theoretical and clinical roadmap to using integrative interventions with psychotherapeutic post trauma therapy. Deconstructs the failures of diagnostic categories related to complex trauma.Identifies comprehensively the art and...

LEGO® bricks are a staple in many child and play therapists’ offices, and Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® shows therapists and counselors how to integrate LEGO® in a therapeutically valuable way. This book presents a therapeutic approach based in...

Offers practical guidance to working with patients who have engaged in terrorism. Draws on the author's extraordinary personal and clinical experience. Terrorism is a hot topic but there's almost no coverage in the literature.Book InformationISBN...

The book offers a groundbreaking approach of linking the foundation of Greek thought in psychology with its concurrent developments during the Axial Age (800 BCE-200 BCE). The book provides extensive symbolic artwork which illustrates how symbol...

1. This book focuses on the theory and history of aggression, from self-inflicted violence, aggression projected by an individual onto others and geo-political aggression such as war and segregation; 2. Adrian Perkel considers Freud's incomplete theory...

• Applies an attachment framework to grief therapy and addresses developments in neuroscience that help to explain variations in how people respond to loss.• A substantial body of new research supports the value of an attachment-informed approach to our...

• Illustrates domain-specific and holistic wellness as a significant variable in addiction and recovery outcomes, presents a wellness-based model of addiction and recovery, and highlights the skills for unlocking the motivational, relapse prevention, and...

• Illustrates domain-specific and holistic wellness as a significant variable in addiction and recovery outcomes, presents a wellness-based model of addiction and recovery, and highlights the skills for unlocking the motivational, relapse prevention, and...