Counselling category: 1931 books
Working from the Heart
A Therapist's Guide to Heart-Centered Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
When therapists work in a heart-centered way, they feel freer to be both professionals and loving human beings. Working from the Heart advocates for a deeper understanding that the therapist's expressions of non-sexual, non-romantic love are a core ingredient in effective psychotherapy. Each chapter...
by Richard A. Chefetz
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
**Winner of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's (ISSTD) Pierre Janet Writing Award, 2015.
What really happens in dissociation.**
**Winner of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's (ISSTD) Pierre Janet Writing Award, 2015.
What...
Sandplay in Three Voices
Images, Relationships, the Numinous
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Sandplay in Three Voices provides a unique and engaging understanding of sandplay - a growing modality of psychotherapy. Emerging out of informal conversations among three senior therapists, it examines the essential aspects of sandplay therapy as well as the depth and breadth of the human psyche.
The...
Introduction to Jungian Psychotherapy
The Therapeutic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The unique relationship between patient and therapist is the main healing factor in psychotherapy. This book explains the Jungian approach to the therapeutic relationship and the treatment process. David Sedgwick outlines a modern Jungian approach to psychotherapy. He introduces, considers and criticizes...
Gods and Diseases
Making sense of our physical and mental wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Today's society faces many problems that cannot be solved by the application of reason, logic or medicine. Some of these include alcoholism, suicide, drug addiction and child abuse to name but a few. Many mental health problems are on the increase such as depression, phobias and anxiety with no obvious...
The Happiness Illusion
How the media sold us a fairytale
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The West has never been more affluent yet the use of anti-depressants is on the increase to the extent that the World Health Organisation has declared it a major source of concern. How has this state of affairs come about and what can be done? Television and advertising media seem to know. Wherever...
The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist
Private life, professional practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Therapists are often expected to be immune to the kind of problems that they help clients through. This book serves to demonstrate that this is certainly not the case: they are no more resistant to difficult and unexpected personal circumstances than anyone else.In this book Marie Adams looks into...
by Ruth Bolletino, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Cancer affects not only the patient, but all their loved ones as well.
This book will guide professionals on issues critical to effectively and compassionately counseling caregivers and other family members, from dealing with their feelings of grief and despair and realistically fostering hope,...
Hospice and Palliative Care
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The third edition of Hospice and Palliative Care is the essential guide to the hospice and palliative care movement both within the United States and around the world. Chapters provide mental-health and medical professionals with a comprehensive overview of the hospice practice as well as discussions...
Breaking the Silence
A Guide to Helping Children with Complicated Grief - Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence and Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The second edition of this bestselling book is designed for mental health professionals, educators, and the parent/caregiver, this book provides specific ideas and techniques to work with children in various areas of complicated grief. It presents words and methods to help initiate discussions of...
Raising Our Children to Be Resilient
A Guide to Helping Children Cope with Trauma in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
In this timely and much-needed book, Linda Goldman addresses the many frightening events that impact our children by providing the reader with a seamless mixture of theory and practice garnered from her extensive experience in the field. Raising Our Children to Be Resilient includes trauma resolution...
The Mind's Affective Life
A Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The Mind's Affective Life is a refreshing and innovative examination of the relationship between feeling and thinking. Our thoughts and behaviour are shaped by both our emotions and reason; yet until recently most of the literature analysing thought has concentrated largely on philosophical reasoning...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Psychotherapy, like most other areas of health care, is a synthesis of scientific technique and artistic expression. The practice, like any other, is grounded in a series of standardized principles, theories, and techniques. Individual practitioners define themselves within the field by using these...
by Glen O. Gabbard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Passionate feelings of love and hate are stirred in psychotherapy. Paradoxically, these passions may either undermine the therapist catastrophically or serve as the crucible in which profound understanding is forged.
Transferences and countertransferences of love and hate occur on a spectrum...