The idea that men too are a 'gender,' and that their addiction patterns and treatment needs must be reexamined in the light of postfeminist and men's movement consciousness as well as the rapid recent
Why do people lie? Is dishonesty ubiquitous in human experience? And what should be done with individuals who seek pschotherapeutic help and yet can not reveal important aspects of their lives and eve
This book reviews and discusses four theories about what makes psychotherapy effective across forms of treatment, treatment settings, and diagnostic categories: mindfulness, mentalization, psychologic
Erik Erikson and the American Psyche is an intellectual biography which explores Erikson's contributions to the study of infancy, childhood and ethical development in light of ego psychology, object-r
This book is a lexical ambassador with the dual responsibility of bridging the West and East and enhancing psychoanalytic conceptualization in the course of such an encounter. Distinguished psychoanal
Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is un
Attempting to advance knowledge about Islam and to create the possibility of a dialogue between Islam and psychoanalysis, The Crescent and the Couch brings together a distinguished panel of Muslim and
The widow of J.L. Moreno, a pioneer of psychodrama, introduces this book by noting that drama therapy helps bring about client change and wholeness. Landy (educational theatre and applied psychology,
Interest in eye movement desensitization response (EMDR) is growing rapidly. It isn't a substitute for therapy; it's a useful tool for the psychotherapist. Since incompletely processed, upsetting expe
Mental health clinicians in a variety of settings offer advice on clinical interviewing to students and new practitioners. They cover basic elements, philosophical approaches to interviewing, patients
In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on improving our understanding of factors that contribute to the development of child and adolescent mental health problems. This is important in o
In The Written and Oral Torah: A Comprehensive Introduction, Rabbi Nathan T. Lopes Cardozo offers those interested in Jewish tradition an explanation of and basic insight into Judaism's classical sour
Family-Focused Trauma Intervention: Using Metaphor and Play with Victims of Abuse and Neglect translates issues central to abuse and neglect recovery into metaphorical stories and family-based interve
Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy and Recovery elucidates a diversity of self-disclosure topics that pertain to a wide range of issues impacting every facet of the process and outcome of psychotherapy
This book is rich in content and practical ideas guided by current attachment and neurobiological research. Chapters contain family and group Theraplay case studies including agendas from beginning, m
Fantasies of omnipotence grow out of feelings of helplessness. We are all born helpless, completely dependent on others for nurturance and survival, and we all must face the ultimate annihilation of t
The pervasive effects of maltreatment on child development can be repaired when professionals use effective, empirically validated, and evidence-based methods. This book describes a comprehensive appr
"This is a very readable, easily digestible book offering a diverse smorgasbord of intervention strategies for parents of children struggling with attachment/trauma issues. Devoid of psychobabble, car
Researchers have discovered that the mental health workforce lacks adequate training and sufficient number of staff to meet the needs of a growing multicultural population. Building Multicultural Comp
In 10 papers from a March 1998 conference in New York City sponsored by the Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, mental health professionals find within their diverging and conflicting pers
Bishop (psychology, State U. of New York, College at Old Westbury) presents therapists and counselors with methods to help clients manage addictive behaviors, based on what has come to be called cogni
The capacity to discriminate the different personalities of youths who commit antisocial acts has become so sophisticated that clinicians can now identify subtypes, predict who will behave violently,
Can hope be pathological? What is love? How are envy and arrogance related to hatred? What is the optimal distance between the self and others? Why are some individuals excessively vulnerable to nosta
In a world that is forever fragmenting into divisions of ethnicity and class, this groundbreaking book offers an approach to therapy that reaches across the boundaries that usually divide us. Reaffirm
M. Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to increase awareness of child and adolescent mental health within an international framework that gives special consideration to problems arising in di
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment reviews and discusses four theories about what makes psychotherapy effective across forms of treatment, treatment settings, and diagnostic categories: mi
Injured Men is a unique casebook of clinical material pertaining to men who have sustained trauma. Richly illustrated with both brief and extensively detailed analytic case reports, Injured Men descri
This comprehensive and tightly argued book deals with the process through which a coherent self evolves, the various ways such development fails to occur, and the therapeutic measures to put things ba
The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insufficiently informed or cognizant of human resilienc
This book addresses training, supervisory, and therapeutic issues related to the consequences from sexual boundary violations among mental health professionals and clergy. These problems are discussed
The lived relation between Buddhism and psychotherapy finds expression in the Buddhist's practice, the therapist's stance and response to those who seek help. Paul C. Cooper has gathered papers that d
Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives provides a philosophical and psychological interpretation of the major symbols of the theosophical Kabbalah. It shows that the Kab
Metaphorical Stories for Child Therapy: Of Magic and Miracles is a book of creative, memorable metaphorical stories for use in a variety of child treatments, including play therapy, cognitive behavior
Hypocrisy Unmasked aims more broadly to situate the phenomenon of hypocrisy within a postmodern framework, explaining it as a compromise fashioned by an embodied agent struggling to adapt and flourish
The underlying theme in Loving Psychoanalysis is that the analyst can love doing psychoanalysis and that appropriate love and respect for the patient are essential to clinical effectiveness. This book
