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Explores the therapeutic effects of dramatic action. This book details the psychoanalysts and action psychotherapists who conceived of the continuity of mind and body, words and action, challenging Freud's purely verbal and rational route to the unconscious.

Dreaming: an Opportunity for Change is a practical guide for both therapist and dreamer that utilizes dream interpretation for the purpose of promoting clinical change. It is written in clear, understandable language with a minimum of psychological jargon.

The Ego and Analysis of Defense is an analytic technique.

This is a comprehensive statement about adolescent development, identity formation, and treatment.

Peer counseling is the process by which an individual gives nonjudgmental, nondirective support to a peer who is experiencing a personal crisis. It is short-term, often done by telephone, and provided by a lay person rather than a professional therapist.

Describes the strengths, the strategies, and the resilience that a therapist needs to work with alcoholics and addicts.

Masturbation, homosexuality, the unconventional paraphilias here dubbed 'cross-wirings,' and the dynamics of flirtations, jealousy, and extramarital affairs, all get a new look through Dr. Hastings' lens of shame as concomitant cause and effect of sexual behaviors.

Articulates a holistic model for cost-effective, outpatient treatment of clients whose multiple presenting problems include patterns of addiction following histories of abuse. Recognizing the interaction of intrapsychic, interpersonal, and societal dynamics, this work relies on both individual and group modalities to build self-esteem.

Many people seek treatment for life problems without knowing that the real problem is an addiction. If the patient does not report an addiction as part of the presenting problem, it is likely to remain unrecognized. This is the first book to address how to recognize and assess for undisclosed addictions in the context of health and mental health care settings.

Suitable for fathers who want to do a better job raising their children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, for mothers of ADHD children who want to understand the special needs that fathers have in parenting these children, and for professionals who have the challenging task of involving the fathers of ADHD children in their treatment.

Redecision therapy has roots in transactional analysis, and Gestalt therapy. This work presents a action-oriented treatment model created by the authors in the 1960s built around contracting for change, insisting on a language of self-responsibility, enacting change within the therapy session, and encouraging action outside the therapy session.

Focusing on the loss of virginity, this text looks at examples from myths, literature, and the clinical practice of the authors. It demonstrates the importance of this milestone in understanding the psychology of women as well as the ways in which men relate to women.

Delivers a complete cognitive-behaivoral treatment package for shyness.

Experiential Unity Theory and Model was devised to address the current concerns dominating the field of group therapy and individual counseling. It is vital that any healing modality address the root of the distress being presented. More and more clients are disconnected from their souls, and that is the principal cause of the levels of depression, anxiety, stress, eating disorders, anger, and other symptoms that are evident at disturbing levels in society today. Treatments from a cognitive behavioral perspective have a tendency to intellectualize clientsΓÇÖ experiences and therefore may present barriers to the necessary soul-based healing. The Experiential Unity Theory and Model is integrative, it includes the mind, body, spirit, and emotions in its treatment and therefore is able to provide a healing milieu whereby clients can address the core of their problems and heal fully.

This book explores how religion shaped and informed the life and work of D. W. Winnicott, the eminent British pediatrician and psychoanalyst. It highlights the influence of his Wesleyan Methodist upbringing upon his work as well as how his career in psychoanalysis changed his view of religion. It traces the nature of Winnicott's religious behavior and practice over his life and describes his contributions to the positive role of religion in life and culture.

Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, The Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties by Sharon Klayman Farber explores the hunger for ecstatic experience that can lead people down the road to self-destruction. In an attempt to help mental health professionals and concerned individuals understand and identify the phenomenon and ultimately intervene with patients, friends, and loved ones, Farber speaks both personally and professionally to the reader. She discusses the different paths taken on the road to ecstatic states. There are religious ecstasies, ecstasies of pain and near-death experiences, cult-induced ecstasies, creative ecstasies, and ecstasies from hell. Hungry for Ecstasy explores not only the neuroscientific processes involved but also the influence of the sixties in driving people to seek these states. Finally, Farber draws from her own personal and professional experience to advise others how to intervene on behalf of the person whose behavior puts his or her life at risk.

Gives voice to diverse perspectives that shape contemporary self psychology, from complexity and attachment theories to treatment of children, from developments in family and group therapies practices and supervisory process to examination of role of shame, enactments, and traumatic experience in self-object relatedness and subjective experience.

Despite the persistence of the theoretical model of the cathartic theory in psychoanalysis, it is not what we practice clinically. Freud's Other Theory of Psychoanalysis deals with eliciting that other unarticulated theory from the Freudian text to replace the catharsis theory and open the theoretical impasse it created.

Brain, Mind, and Developmental Psychopathology in Childhood, part of the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions' book series "Working with Children & Adolescents" edited by Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud updates the knowledge about connections between brain, mind, and developmental psychopathology. The volume illuminates our understanding of different types of psychiatric disorders in children-including autism, hyperkinetic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and childhood schizophrenia-and the effects of child maltreatment and deliberate self harm. This book describes how to integrate physical and psychological treatments for child and adolescent mental health problems and advocacy for the treatment of children and adolescents with mental health problems.

The Disappearing Male by Joan Lachkar, PhD, provides psychoanalytic/psychodynamic descriptions of eight different kinds of men who "disappear" from relationships seemingly without warning or explanation. This book can help to assist the women affected in recognizing the danger signs to prevent them from faltering in their relationship efforts. This book is significant to the awareness and self-esteem of women in relationships, the dating world, and to the therapists that treat them.

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 back together.

Forgiving, Forgetting, and Moving On delineates therapeutic pathways to conflict resolution. The author highlights how conflict develops out of personality configurations, describes paths to resolving conflicts therapeutically, and explains how conflict that could create dysphoric affects can be more comfortably accommodated into one's personality structure.

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 explores the art and craft of psychotherapeutic work through an examination of overlapping interdisciplinary themes: fantasies of creation, courage, having another, the aesthetics of psychoanalysis, self-disclosure, and chaos theory.

This book aims to help therapists enhance their empathy with patients who are compelled to lie and to provide them with better therapeutic strategies to deal with the clinical dilemmas that arise in working with such children and adults.

Proposes a model of psychological and psychiatric assessment and treatment. The book is intended for an office-based mental health clinician who wants to maximize his or her therapy.

Examines author's patients' internal worlds, revealing vulnerabilities while uncovering resiliency and strength. This book provides a depth of understanding of substance use disorders and an increased hope for recovery.

Deals with obstacles in the mourning process as experienced in individual cases and in large groups, in life-threatening situations. This book describes the therapeutic tools that the author employed to achieve healthy outcomes. It focuses on various defenses, their function and importance, and on the difficulty of relinquishing them.

Weiner and Simmons show us how to rely on the natural, spontaneous images that emerge from our dreams, daily life, relationship problems, and symptoms as the seeds of our own healing. We must recognize that our problems have not been randomly inflicted on us; they have a purpose, to act as guideposts pointing the way toward healing and wholeness.