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This book explores the unique issues involved in assessing, diagnosing, intervening, and treating intimate partner violence (IPV) in the LGBTQ+ population.Currently, there is little to no instruction regarding this topic in training programs, and this...

Bion’s unfashionable thought is a challenge for our times in which anaesthesiaand mass thinking prevail. The themes this book addresses are timeand the unconscious.In the present/past, the here and now reveals its relationship with theunredeemable time,...

Officially, Western societies are waging a war on obesity. Unofficially, we are waging a war on fat people. Anti-fat sentiment is pervasive, and fat people suffer a host of harms as a result: workforce discrimination, inferior medical care, relentless...

Reading Bion´s Transformations is an in-depth reading of Bion’s 1965 work, Transformations, and investigates the epitemiological concept of "O" introduced by Bion.Throughout the book, Bion’s conceptual and unconventional text is discussed step-by-step,...

This book is a comprehensive guide to setting up, running and growing a successful private therapy practice that resonates with your values and professional goals.Guiding you through every detail, from making the initial decision to set up your own...

The Relational Dimensions of Weight Management is a book for nonspecialist psychotherapists of any theoretical orientation to help patients concerned with weight management. Psychotherapy patients use their therapists as sounding boards to help them...

In this approachable book, Mark Kinet offers a unique methodology for integrating psychoanalytic work in the psychiatric setting.Acknowledging the systemic rupture between psychoanalysis and psychiatric treatment, Kinet seeks to bridge the gap and offer...

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions aims to answer the 50 most frequently asked questions on REBT by trainees, novice practitioners, and clients themselves.This concise and readable book is divided into five parts,...

Dieses verhaltenstherapeutische Therapiemanual hat zum Ziel, depressive Jugendliche aus ihrer Passivität und Hoffnungslosigkeit herauszureißen und in eine aktivere Haltung zu bringen, aus der heraus Lösungen und Handlungsalternativen möglich werden...

Good Practice in REBT does exactly what it promises. It helps the Rational Emotive Behaviour therapist to pinpoint areas of good practice helping them to make progress towards becoming competent REBT practitioners. Instead of focusing on what not to do...

This book provides a practise-based introductory guide for practitioners wishing to integrate Hypnosystemic therapy into their services, examining its roots, principles, and methods.Hypnosystemic Therapy combines aspects of Ericksonian hypnosis, Systemic...

Productive therapeutic change is facilitated when the therapist and client have a good therapeutic relationship, share views on salient therapeutic matters, agree on goals to enhance client well-being, and understand what they each have to do to achieve...

This important book explores the way athletes use defense mechanisms and coping skills to manage both the internal and external stress faced in competitive sport. Covering a range of case studies across various sports, the text showcases a taxonomy of...

This important book explores the way athletes use defense mechanisms and coping skills to manage both the internal and external stress faced in competitive sport. Covering a range of case studies across various sports, the text showcases a taxonomy of...

This book provides a practise-based introductory guide for practitioners wishing to integrate Hypnosystemic therapy into their services, examining its roots, principles, and methods.Hypnosystemic Therapy combines aspects of Ericksonian hypnosis, Systemic...

An Integrative Approach to Treating Eating Disorders walks therapists through how to effectively resolve the most common yet nuanced struggles that clients with disordered eating face on a daily basis.This straightforward workbook begins by demystifying...

Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Trauma, 2nd edition, lays out a unified framework of neural plasticity and resilience and places it within a broader social context. Using a lens grounded in multicultural humility, renowned figures in art therapy have...

Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Trauma, 2nd edition, lays out a unified framework of neural plasticity and resilience and places it within a broader social context. Using a lens grounded in multicultural humility, renowned figures in art therapy have...

This book is your essential introduction to relational counselling and psychotherapy. It maps out relational concepts and approaches by drawing on humanistic, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural and systemic modalities, using case material to...

This book helps hypnotherapists to focus on the subject of regrets and associated emotions when working with clients.Promoting the concept of “the road of regrets”, this book presents a five-stage process for the hypnotherapist to work through with...

This book explores how schema theory and therapy might be used in work with clients who suffer from psychosis, bipolarity and related symptoms.The first part of the book features in-depth qualitative research fortified with first-person testimonies...

In this book, Frank E. Yeomans, Diana Diamond, and Eve Caligor provide a systemic review of Otto Kernberg’s multiple contributions to psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychology, and our understanding of the mind and group behavior.The book spans the full...

In a series of overlapping clinical essays—sometimes highly personal, sometimes bristling with theory, sometimes employing experimental writing—Jade McGleughlin upends the ways we tell a psychoanalytic story.Tracing the evolution of her thinking, the...

Reading Bion´s Transformations is an in-depth reading of Bion’s 1965 work, Transformations, and investigates the epitemiological concept of "O" introduced by Bion.Throughout the book, Bion’s conceptual and unconventional text is discussed step-by-step,...

The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis considers the different conceptions of the individual that are found in psychoanalysis according to the culture in which it operates, and its political structure.Considering the origins and use of concepts...

Shame silences our stories, crushes our spirits, and cuts us off from our hearts. How can we give voice to what has happened? Might we fall apart into suffering that would heal us? Could we honour desires we’ve disowned for a lifetime? How do we gather...

On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis” explores these two key papers on the topics of psychosis and neurosis and their relationship to the unconscious and to reality.The contributors to this book approach...

This book instructs readers on how to teach mindfulness skills that can be incorporated into everyday life, addressing the specific challenges of effectively passing these skills on to clients in a user-friendly way. Designed to help professionals...

Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm explores the relations between Erich Fromm’s theory and practice in politics and the psychoanalytic clinic – their points of continuity and contradiction.Drawing on a systematic reading of Fromm's published output,...

This book integrates Ego State Therapy with body-based therapies to present a multidimensional approach to working with clients who have experienced trauma.Drawing upon a range of important modalities, including Somatic Experiencing®, Polyvagal theory,...

This book revisits the 1970 Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, using a new approach of currere and psychoanalytic guided regression. Drawing on a variety of interviews with those who were present at the...

Grounded in systemic family therapy and drawing on a variety of other models to enhance skills development, this book is a comprehensive, practical guide to working with families.This second edition is thoroughly updated and includes new chapters which...

This highly accessible therapy workbook is designed to help individuals who are engaged in weight management and obesity treatments improve their relationship with food and manage their emotional eating.Emotional eating is a very common and distressing...

A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo proposes a new perspective on narcissism, focusing on its destructive impact within relationships.Hila Yahalom discusses the patterns and ramifications of...

Shame silences our stories, crushes our spirits, and cuts us off from our hearts. How can we give voice to what has happened? Might we fall apart into suffering that would heal us? Could we honour desires we’ve disowned for a lifetime? How do we gather...

This book explores an extensive range of questions and challenges within the training, theory, and practice of play therapy, with the aim of providing a stimulating and thought-provoking debate around many of the issues and dilemmas therapists experience...

Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children presents a simple, accessible, and preventative approach to psychotherapeutic interventions.The authors explore how this form of group work can strengthen resilience and prevent an increase in antisocial...

Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children presents a simple, accessible, and preventative approach to psychotherapeutic interventions.The authors explore how this form of group work can strengthen resilience and prevent an increase in antisocial...

This book develops a care justice framework to critique and disrupt current policies and reframe a policy blueprint for a just organization of care for unpaid family caregivers and underpaid home care workers assisting older adults. In doing so, Hooyman...

Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm explores the relations between Erich Fromm’s theory and practice in politics and the psychoanalytic clinic – their points of continuity and contradiction.Drawing on a systematic reading of Fromm's published output,...