Böcker av E Mark Stern

Here are important theories and therapies that shed light on boredomwhy it is a necessity and an obstacle in a person's development.

Coming at a time of renewed interest in the developmental changes of the life cycle, Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient is a rich resource that examines the impact of a spouse's death on an individual's mental health. Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts address a wide range of issues concerning loss, grief, and bereavement, and provide practical and creative approaches for both widowed persons and the helping professionals charged with treating their grief. A review of the psychological literature regarding widowhood completes this comprehensive new book.

At a time when biological psychiatry claims that drugs and electroshock are the best methods for helping deeply disturbed persons, mental health professionals need to be reminded that psychological and social approaches to mental illnesses remain more effective, less harmful, and much more able to address the real needs of recovery, growth, and development for affected persons. Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons empowers counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers to trust their intuitive and clinical understanding of how to help seriously disturbed people through humane, caring approaches.

An examination of the impact of a spouse's death on an individual's mental health. This collection of essays addresses a range of issues concerning loss, grief and bereavement and provides practical approaches for widowed persons and the helping professionals.

Two extremes of human behaviour and thought are examined in this text, which looks at personalities where the line between conformity and divergence has been blurred. Experts focus on school bullies, racial stereotypes, therapists and more.

Challenges therapists to understand the violations of trust that can occur within the therapeutic relationship. The authors define betrayal as experienced with specific case studies, presenting the various faces of betrayal that may be encountered by therapists.

A study of patients who cannot bear commitment to any one person, or who jeopardise their commitments with a need to spark their lives with promiscuity. This text teaches psychotherapists to respond to their patients' promiscuous behaviour as a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself.