Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
The Digital Age on the Couch
Psychoanalytic Practice and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The Digital Age is on the couch. Working today, it is essential that clinicians understand the world we live in. The transition from an industrial economy to an information economy impacts not just the external structure of society and commerce, but also the internal psychic economies of our brains...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Since its inception, and throughout its history, psychoanalysis has been defined as a psychology of conflict. Freud’s tripartite structure of id, ego and superego, and then modern conflict theory, placed conflict at the center of mental life and its understanding at the heart of therapeutic action.As...
Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology
Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Deftly combining contemporary theory with clinical practice, Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning is an invaluable resource for any clinician seeking a coherent model of personality functioning and pathology, classification, assessment, and treatment....
The Helping Professional's Guide to End-of-Life Care
Practical Tools for Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Support for the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Nearly half of people at the end of life will receive hospice care, but few psychologists, nurses, physicians, chaplains, and hospice workers have been trained specifically to recognize and address the psychological, social, and emotional issues that may arise in patients who are dying. Patients in...
by Martha Stark
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
"Martha Stark's primer on resistance is a unique book. It takes as the heart of the clinical problem the patient's reluctance to change, that ubiquitous and paradoxical phenomenon of our work in which people come to us asking for help in changing, and then do their level best to keep change from...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 7
The Evolution of Self Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
A special section of papers on the evolution, current status, and future development of self psychology highlights The Evolution of Self Psychology, volume 7 of the Progress in Self Psychology series. A critical review of recent books by Basch, Goldberg, and Stolorow et al. is part of this endeavor....
by Dr Andrea Gilroy
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
`This is an important and topical book coming at a time when there is growing pressure to show evidence of good practice, in order to reassure the prospective client, and to demonstrate financial accountability. It gives valuable guidelines and examples for art therapists. The book is innovative and...
Women Psychotherapists' Reflections on Female Friendships
Sisters of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Psychologists, as well as the general public, have recognized the importance of female friendships. Scientists call this bond the tending instinct- a kind of female relaxation response that has salutary effects. Such special attachment shields women from isolation and provides an enhanced sense of...
Transition and Change in Collectivist Family Life
Strategies for Clinical Practice with Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This research-to-practice volume grounds clinicians in a robust, culturally-informed framework for conducting effective therapy with Asian-American couples, families, and individuals. Family, cultural, social, and spiritual dynamics are explored across ethnicities, generations, relationships, and...
Premature Ejaculation
From Etiology to Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Premature ejaculation (PE) is a common male sexual complaint, with a self-reported prevalence of 20–30% in observational studies. Over the past 10–20 years, our understanding of PE has evolved from the initial premise that it is a psychological disorder to the current recognition of an underlying...
Incest Fantasies and Self-Destructive Acts
Jungian and Post-Jungian Psychotherapy in Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Mainstream analysts working in the Jungian tradition have largely neglected adolescents. Mara Sidoli and Gustav Bovensiepen remedy that omission by showing how and why psychological and physical abuse suffered by young children erupts in violent and destructive behavior against the self and others....
Music in Therapeutic Practice
Using Rhythm to Bridge Communication Barriers
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Music in Therapeutic Practice: Using Rhythm to Bridge Communication Barriers builds upon an emerging awareness in psychotherapy that music can create therapeutic rapport with patients. Music has been described as our first language, beginning with our mother’s heartbeat. Early rhythms echo and elaborate...
Gestalt Therapy
Living Creatively Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
How can we reconcile our desire for freedom with the limits or routines that orgainize our existence? How do we affirm our personality while adjusting to the world? How can we be nourished by exchanges with others without losing our autonomy? Gestalt Therapy responds to these essential questions...
Trauma-Sensitive Theology
Thinking Theologically in the Era of Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
The intention of Trauma Sensitive Theology is to help theologians, professors, clergy, spiritual care givers, and therapists speak well of God and faith without further wounding survivors of trauma. It explores the nature of traumatic exposure, response, processing, and recovery and its impact on...