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Explores alternatives to psychiatry developed by people with direct experience of extreme crisis and psychiatric treatment. Describes the origins, development, challenges and politics that inspired these international survivor-led and survivor-run grassroots approaches.

A practical guide to harm-reduction for anyone who has a supporting role with someone who hurts themselves, in a professional or informal context. A useful resource for people who self-injure. It explores why people self-injure, debunks myths, considers a social model approach to distress and offers practical strategies for responding meaningfully.

It is surprising that there is very little in the client-centred literature about therapist limits in counselling and psychotherapy with adult clients.This provides the rationale for this book as it attempts to redress that omission, offers a review of the existing literature and provides a starting point for discussion.

Edited collection of socio-cultural and critical reviews of the place of children and children's services in society.Contributions provide perspectives on constructing childhood, parent-hood, sexuality, ADHD, children and austerity, the family court system, parental blame and responsibility, learning disabilities, and poverty.

A distinctive insider account of the shameful failings of the Western psychiatric system. Not only is the evidence for psychiatry's deficiencies comprehensively reviewed, but disturbing anecdotes are shared to illustrate how these failings are currently playing out within a psychiatric service near you.

Scientific research has helped us to understand how contexts of adversity, such as trauma, abuse, and experiences of racism can lead to psychosis, This book argues that if we are to prioritise the role of values and ethics in mental health care, we must engage actively with the contexts of patients' lives.

Queering Health will explore queer theory in the context of health and contemporary healthcare. From its original location as critique in the politics of sexuality, queer theory principles can usefully be extrapolated to inform contestations of other forms of normative and oppressive identity practices and the dynamics of exclusion.

This book presents accounts of the practice of the person-centred approach (PCA) with people suffering from a range of severe and enduring conditions by the world's top practioners. Comprehensively refuting the notion that person-centred therapy is suitable only for the 'worried well', it backs up contemporary practice with appropriate theory.

Great strides have been made in enriching our understanding of sexuality and it's variations of practice, identity, orientation and relationship forms across context and across culture. Here, the understandings that existential philosophy and psychotherapy can contribute are explicated by leading voices in the field.

A unique, innovative book providing support and practical solutions for the experience of hearing voices. It is in two parts, one part for voice-hearing young people, the other part for parents and adult carers. Pioneers Escher and Romme have over twenty-five years experience of working with voice-hearers.

Brian Thorne relays powerful insights into the passionate commitment of a bridge-builder between the worlds of counselling and psychotherapy and mystical theology.

A plethora of new material on critical debates in mental health. It brings together nurses, survivors, psychiatrists, psychologists and academics to critique the dominant bio-genetic model of madness used by psychiatry, and to promote alternative ways to understand, approach and nurture recovery from severe distress.

Distress can be thought of as 'psychopathology', a thing to be diagnosed, treated and cured. This mindset leads professionals to develop manualised forms of 'treatment' for specific 'disorders' which can leave clients feeling depersonalised and unheard. Authors explore human distress and consider ways in which therapy can create meaning and hope.

A collection of mental health service user, carer and survivor narratives. Unusually, the narratives are unmediated hence there are no biomedical or psychotherapeutic commentaries to cpature, tame or sanitise the words of these 'the experts by experience'.

Revised and updated edition of this body psychotherapy classic. Sets out to convey the essential features of Reichian Therapy in concrete and easily understandable language.

Explores the theory and practice of survivor research, provides practical examples of survivor research and offers guidance for people wishing to carry out such research themselves. This book is suitable for policy makers, researchers, educators, students, service users and practitioners in the mental health field and beyond.

Therapy is not a matter of technique but is rather an art or craft and has much to learn from other forms of art and craft, such as painting, fiction, music and poetry. Like artists, therapists need to feel free if they are to be truly creative. This book presents an argument for that therapeutic freedom.

Aims to move services away from responses based on fear and assumptions that we need to manage and control young people who self harm. This book discusses ways in which services can change the focus from managing or 'stopping' self harm to working with young people in more permissive, 'young person centred' and empowering ways.

Suitable for Diploma, Masters and Undergraduate level counselling students and practitioners of humanistic counselling and psychotherapy. This book demonstrates that person-centred theory has real depth in its ability to address.

For students, researchers or practitioners wanting a succinct guide to person-centred theory and practice.

Describes person-centred principles and their implementation in everyday care. This book highlights the themes that become relevant in the last chapters of life, and their impact on care for old people. It intends to demonstrate how the Person-Centred Approach can be transferred into practice.

A comprehensive person-centred look at the family as th essential element of society. Explores our human need to be inter-connected and its implications for both individual and family therapy.

Presents a series of papers outlining genuine theory and practice for various counsellors and therapists, not only those of a person-centred persuasion.

Leads the serious students to an appreciation of Unconditional Positive Regard. This title lets readers from various disciplines discover how contemporary person-centred therapists are thinking about, and working with, this 'core' condition.

Peggy Natiello's collection of work has become a favourite amongst students on Person-Centred courses throughout the UK. It is a scholarly, much referenced work on collaborative power and gender issues.

Genuineness, transparency, authenticity and realness are the terms used to convey the concept of congruence. This book focuses on, and collects critical explorations of, this therapeutic condition.

The book covers all the topics that prospective trainees could wish to know about from funding and course applications through to what happens when you finish the course. It is a compendium of unsentimental testimony from dozens of trainees with some contributions from trainers to complete the picture.

Andrea Koch develops both theory and practice in the first book on person-centred approaches to working therapeutically with dreams.

Pre-therapy is a method for anyone wanting to work with people whose ability to establish and maintain psychological contact is impaired temporarily or permanently, by illness or injury, whether of organic or psychological origin.