Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
by Brett Kahr
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
How do you develop a truly rich and rewarding career in psychotherapy? How can you find joy in such painful work? How do you develop your skills in the field? How can you conquer your creative inhibitions? In short, how do you flourish as a psychotherapist? Brett Kahr answers these questions, and...
In Search of Meaning
A Psychotherapy of Small Steps
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Many authors shy away from religious definitions of human purpose. But Nossrat Peseschkian, who shares with me the Baha'i perspective of purpose, clearly shows how the quest to unite a soul with its God serves and is served by scientific and cultural perspectives of meaning. Spiritual verities become...
The Therapeutic Imagination
Using literature to deepen psychodynamic understanding and enhance empathy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Use of the imagination is a key aspect of successful psychotherapeutic treatments. Psychotherapy helps clients get in touch with, awaken, and learn to trust their creative inner life, while therapists use their imaginations to mentalise the suffering other and to trace the unconscious stirrings evoked...
Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis
Interaction and Change in the Therapeutic Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
There are moments of connection between analysts and patients during any therapeutic encounter upon which the therapy can turn. Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis explores how analysts and therapists can experience these moments of meeting, shows how this interaction can become an enlivening and...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 19
Explorations in Self Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The contributors to Explorations in Self Psychology, volume 19 of the Progress in Self Psychology series, wrestle with two interrelated questions at the nexus of contemporary discussions of technique: How "authentic" and relationally invested should the self psychologically informed analyst...
by Paul Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, Richard Fisch
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Why some problems persist while others are resolved.
This classic book, available in paperback for the very first time, explores why some people can successfully change their lives and others cannot. Here famed psychologist Paul Watzlawick presents what is still often perceived as a radical...
by Elizabeth Nicholls, Brian P. Daly, Ronald T. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that emerges during childhood. However, it is now well recognized that ADHD frequently persists over the lifespan and well into adulthood. Although ADHD is typically first identified during the childhood years, the presentation...
The Unconscious
A bridge between psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The Unconscious explores the critical interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and contemporary cognitive neuroscience. Characterised by Freud as ‘the science of the unconscious mind’, psychoanalysis has traditionally been viewed as a solely psychological discipline. However recent developments...
Art, Play, and Narrative Therapy
Using Metaphor to Enrich Your Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Art, Play, and Narrative Therapy shows mental health professionals how the blending of expressive arts, psychotherapy, and metaphorical communication can both support and enhance clinical practice. This book illuminates the ways in which metaphorical representations form who we are, how we interact,...
Child Therapy: Concepts, Strategies,And Decision Making
Concepts Strategies & Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Published in 1997, Child Therapy: Concepts, Strategies, And Decision Making is a valuable contribution to the field of Psychotherapy.
by Mitch Abblett
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
How to warm up to the clients that stop you cold.
Have you experienced the anger, fear, doubt, and frustration that most clinicians feel but rarely put words to? Have you ever overreacted to a client in session or found yourself overwhelmed by the work with that client in your caseload? Are...
Saying Goodbye
A Casebook of Termination in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Termination of psychoanalysis or psychotherapy is centrally important both to the process of treatment and to the patient's experience of treatment. It is surprising, then, that there has heretofore been no comprehensive study of the subject. This book begins to bridge the gap in this area. It is...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Feminist therapy was created in the late 1960s, concurrent with the founding of The Association for Women in Psychology. Its early practitioners had diverse lifestyles, backgrounds, and often unconventional training, but all had a common and radical goal of providing an alternative therapy for women...
The Clinical Exchange
Techniques Derived from Self and Motivational Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this practical sequel to the same authors' Self and Motivational Systems (TAP, 1992), Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage offer ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. These principles, which pertain equally to exploratory psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, integrate the findings...