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An Introduction to Groupwork: A Group-analytic Perspective
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This book can be used both as a text for courses and to lead the therapist or group worker through the stages of establishing and conducting a group appropriate to the needs of the particular clients, residents or patients.
Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop
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This title is edited by Anne Alvarez and Susan Reid.
This Is Madness: A Critical Look At Psychiatry And The Future Of Mental Health Services
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A comprehensive critique of the contemporary British psychiatric system, This is Madness is a breath of fresh air. In turn critical, strident, scholarly, personal, moving and ultimately hopeful, it brings together the views of professionals and users. It is an attempt to develop a more effective, respectful and humane mental health system.
The Shadow and the Counsellor: Working with the Darker Aspects of the Person, the Role and the Profession
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The Shadow and the Counsellor introduces the concept of shadow, the darker side to ourselves that we do not wish to acknowledge, or do not even recognise. It examines how it comes into being and explores its impact within counselling.
Introduction to Developmental Playtherapy: Playing and Health
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Developing the basic principles of her model of playtherapy, Sue Jennings has written a stimulating book that will provide inspiration for those new to the discipline, whilst providing a fresh and exciting approach for established practitioners.
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
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A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.
Creative Play and Drama with Adults at Risk
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This book is suitable for professionals working with adults who are vulnerable for a number of different reasons: those who have addictions such as eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse or a history of violent relationships; adults with mental ill health; individuals and families with behavioural difficulties; people in forensic settings; those with multiple disabilities; learning impaired adults; people with strokes and other physical impairment often as a result of accidental injury.
The Music Within You
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In this second and expanded edition, the authors examine the natural and vital role that music plays in everyone’s life, with discussions on the myriad effects of music on human beings, and the potentials of music for therapy and healing. Included are five ways to grow through music, with simple exercises for using one’s innate musical capacities to enhance creativity, communication, and self-confidence.
The Mind of Your Newborn
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This is the long-awaited tenth-anniversary edition of Dr. Chamberlain’s 1988 classic, Babies Remember Birth. In paperback format and enriched with a new last chapter, this book has the potential to revolutionize the way we look at babies, both before and after birth.
Experiences in Groups: and Other Papers
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A classic study which, by synthesizing the approaches of psychoanalysis and group dynamics, has added a new dimension to the understanding of group phenomena.
Transforming Trauma: EMDR
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The Handbook of Psychodrama
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This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of psychodrama for professional and trainee psychodramatists. Following an introduction to the history and philosophy of psychodrama the theory is then brought to life by detailed first-hand accounts of psychodrama sessions.
Arts Therapists, Refugees and Migrants: Reaching Across Borders
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Ditty Dokter is joined by contributors from a number of multicultural backgrounds, in a volume examining the issues surrounding intercultural arts therapies as a means of working with clients who are refugees and migrants.
Dictionary of Transactional Analysis
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This dictionary provides a key to concepts used by transactional analysts which is accessible to those new to the field but also has the depth required for advanced studies.
Adolescence: Psychotherapy and the Emergent Self
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Many therapists can attest to the fact that adolescents can be difficult and frustating clients-problems are seldom well defined, clearly delineated symptoms are more exception than the rule, and troubling situations often involve the entire family.
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Loss: Attachment and Loss Volume 3
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In this third and final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the ways in which young children respond to a temporary or permanent loss of a mother-figure and the expression of anxiety, grief and mourning which accompany such loss. The theories presented differ in many ways from those advanced by Freud and elaborated by his followers, so much so that the frame of reference now offered for understanding personality development and psychopathology amounts to a new paradigm.
Separation: Anxiety and anger: Attachment and loss Volume 2
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Separation, the second volume of Attachment and Loss, continues John Bowlby’s influential work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health.
Multiple Voices: Narrative in Systemic Family Psychotherapy
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Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series, this book focuses on narrative and stories in Family Systems Therapy – particularly on how stories develop within the domain of a therapist’s own theoretical, clinical and professional contexts.
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Shame and shame reactions are two of the most delicate and difficult issues of psychotherapy and are among the most likely to defy our usual dynamic, systemic, and behavioral theories. In this groundbreaking collection, The Voice of Shame, thirteen distinguished authors show how use of the Gestalt model of self and relationship can clarify the dynamics of shame and lead us to fresh approaches and methods in this challenging terrain.
Families in Context: Emerging Trends in Family Support and Early Intervention
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By examining the context of the family itself, and the role of key family members such as mothers, fathers, siblings and grandparents, this work seeks to share approaches to working with families.
Cognitive Analytic Therapy of Borderline: The Model and the Method
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This book offers a critical appraisal of current ideas and practices, contrasting with these the ways in which CAT mobilizes the patient s own resources.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma – The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
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Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events.
Developing Gestalt Counselling
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Describing contemporary integrative Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy, this book addresses 30 key issues which will help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve crucial areas of their work.