Psychotherapy

Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis.

A special section on adolescent substance abuse highlights Volume 29 of Adolescent Psychiatry.

Progress in Behavior Modification, Volume 1 reviews advances in the understanding of behavior modification, with emphasis on theoretical underpinnings, research findings and methodologies, and assessment techniques.

This book explores the various applications of systemic understanding in practice.

The Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling is a comprehensive lexicon of existential terms, their meaning and application.

The popularity of amateur genealogy and family history has soared in recent times.

Demonstrating that it is essential to be sensitive to the cultural backgrounds of people with dementia in order to provide truly person-centred care, this book shows that it is possible to create culturally appropriate outdoor spaces and experiences that resonate with people with dementia on a fundamental level and are a source of comfort and wellbeing.

By exploring various ways to assimilate recent progressive developments and to renew its vital links with its radical roots, Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy: Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm takes a fresh look at this revolutionary therapeutic approach.

In Jungian Perspectives on Indeterminate States: Betwixt and Between Borders, Elizabeth Brodersen and Pilar Amezaga bring together leading international contributors to analyse and interpret the psychological impact of contemporary border crossing - both literally and figuratively.

How do we define compassion?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Preventing Suicide Attempts consolidates the accumulated knowledge and efforts of leading suicide researchers, and describes how a common, cognitive behavioral model of suicide has resulted in 50% or greater reductions in suicide attempts across clinical settings.

Safeguarding Children and Schools explains how schools are able to contribute to keeping children safe from harm and promoting their welfare, in line with Government Every Child Matters guidelines.

This book discusses a newly developed concept of adaptability capacity and development as an extension of Charles Darwin's work on adaptability.

This book offers an innovative, trans-diagnostic approach to enhancing self-control in adolescents based directly on personality and social psychological science.

Bodies in Treatment is a challenging volume that brings into conceptual focus an "e;unspoken dimension"e; of clinical work - the body and nonverbal communication - that has long occupied the shadowy realm of tacit knowledge.

This book provides therapists with an understanding of displacement-related issues to help them better serve potential clients such as emigrants, expats, migrants, digital nomads - all those who have left their original home country behind and moved to a different culture and place.

In this edited volume, Jean Petrucelli brings together the work of talented clinicians and researchers steeped in working with eating disordered patients for the past 10 to 35 years.

Volume 4 of Care-Giving in Dementia builds on previous volumes to continue to make a significant contribution to establishing a knowledge base for the developing field of care-giving in dementia.

All settings where disturbed children spend time, such as camps or residential schools, are periodically faced with crisis situations.

What are the key skills needed to be a successful coach, mentor or supervisor?

A practical book for practical people,Care-Giving in Dementia integrates neurobiological information about dementia with specific developments in care-giving.

Stigma is one of the major barriers to care for people with mental health and related disorders.

Despite a half-century of literature documenting the experience and meanings of countertransference in analytic practice, the concept remains a source of controversy.

Perspectives on a Young Woman's Suicide is a unique and updated analysis of a diary left behind by "e;Katie,"e; a young woman who took her own life.

This book presents new interdisciplinary and intersectional research about women as mothers, highlighting that alternative accounts of mothering can challenge normative societal assumptions and broaden understandings of women as mothers, mothering and motherhoods.

This book, the third in a series based on the Belgirate conferences, deals with the personal as well as the organisational journeys of Group Relations practitioners and examines these through the lens of tradition, succession and creative application.

Goldberg uses the questions posed by self psychology as point of entry to a thoughtful consideration of issues with which every clinician wrestles: the scientific status analysis, the relationships among its competing theories, the role of empathy in analytic method, and the place of the "e;self"e; in the analyst's explanatory strategies.

Knowledge under Construction investigates how young children develop spatial, geometric, and scientific thinking skills-particularly those associated with architecture.

The aim of this volume is to revitalise the debate about the concepts of time implicit in the study of aging.

For the first time in one volume self-harm, substance abuse, eating-disordered behavior, gambling, and Internet and cyber sex abuse-five crippling, self-destructive behaviors-are given a common conceptual framework to help with therapeutic intervention.

Why are jokes funny?

This book provides a clear introduction to the main contemporary psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives.

Depressive illness often becomes chronic or recurrent, and patients may recover only partially.

In this highly practical volume, the contributing authors explore some of the dimensions associated with aging in place.

This comprehensive text is one of the first to tackle the grave matter of the sexual abuse of boys, in all its complexity, within a biopsychosocial context and from different vantage points.

This comprehensive volume is widely regarded as the definitive practitioner resource and text in the field of biofeedback and applied psychophysiology.

Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical, cultural, and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical practice.

In this intimate study Juliet Miller maps the artworks that have influenced her throughout her life and examines how she has integrated them into her development as a psychotherapist.

Very few families are perfect.

Born in Vienna in 1864, Bernard Hollander was a London-based psychiatrist.

As culture changes, so do notions of the feminine.

Transformational experiences are as unique as they are profound, yet each portrays universal truths of human nature.

Recent advances in evidence-based treatment of pediatric bipolar disorder are comprehensively reviewed in this authoritative volume.

Traditional concepts of God are no longer tenable for many people who nevertheless experience a strong sense of the sacred in their lives.

This book describes many different and useful ways of understanding personal relationships from a dialectical perspective.

Originally published in 1953, this third edition was first published in 1970.

Learn what children living in group homes need most!

This book offers a psychoanalytic perspective on learning and teaching and on many of the issues which preoccupy those who work in educational the origins of learning in children's early relationships and at factors which help and hinder the educational process in later childhood and adolescence.