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Wedge's central argument, presented clearly and illustrated in engaging cases, is that all experience, even the experience of one's own self, is a construction of signs. Symbolic forms such as language, myth, ritual, and drama create and shape our realities and provide useful tools for encouraging therapeutic change.

This book is about autobiographical memory and personal history, with a special focus on the impact of trauma on several levels of information-processing and memory organization.

Many happy and productive adults grew up under difficult conditions that they couldn't change, no matter how hard they tried. Some struggled with learning and attention problems and yet found a way to succeed. What were the secrets of their resiliency?

Provides a model of family therapy for working with families across cultures.

Long before the age of reliable psychodiagnosis (the last 200 years), a primitive vocabulary sprung up to address odd and unconventional people within the body social.

Speaking from the trenches, Richard Kagan offers hope to all those who want to help high-risk children and their families.

Nathanson and his colleagues explore contemporary affect studies, focusing on the work of Silvan Tomkins, and examine their impact on the theory and practice of psychotherapy.

"A thorough and lucid exploration of what continues to be the therapist's main dilemma: how to facilitate insight and motivate the patient toward recovery in the face of ongoing resistance." --Joseph K. Nowinski, Ph.D.

A practical guide for counselors.

This book explains this deeply ethical approach of contextual therapy in practical terms and demonstrates its practice in extensive cases.

This book focuses on the difficulties and rewards of postintegration work with multiples.

"An immense number of people are going to be helped by this book. It is one of those rare occurrences when high scholarship is informed and guided by immense clinical experience. The result is a learned and wonderfully readable book that is both accurate and commonsensical. This is a seminal work." --Andrew Malcolm, M.D.

Reference for psychotherapists on the applications of improvisational theater to psychotherapy for groups, couples, family, and individuals.

Using an ecological framework, this book examines violence in the lives of adolescents and proposes that violence can be stopped on any one of four levels - individual, family, community or social policy. Topics covered include suicide, delinquency, juvenile sexual offending and physical abuse.

"This is not another how-to book, although it is practical and applied. Instead, it is a book that addresses the tough situations and quandries facing therapists working with clients who differ from them in culture, ethnicity, lifestyle, or beliefs." --Contemporary Psychology

In a society that oscillates wildly between extremes of moralizing and corruption, how do we define, much less foster, "goodness"?

In this abridged and revised edition of their 1989 text, the authors focus on the what and how of effective community mental health. Following the guidelines outlined here will enable clinicians to provide services that are cost-effective, humane, and growth-promoting.

For family therapy students and practitioners, this book offers stories, exercises, self-assessments, and evaluative techniques.

Integrating neuropsychodynamic and biopsychosocial factors, this book provides a guide for psychotherapists whose practices may include patients with traumatic brain injury and related neurobehavioural syndromes, such as strokes and brain tumours.

Taking into account ambiguities in the relationship between childhood abuse experiences, formation of self- destructive personality styles, and subsequent psychotherapy, the author presents a working model that is useful without limiting the practitioner.

Imagine being able to consult with Jay Haley about difficult therapy cases.

With humor and compassion, Durrant shows how this competence framework can make everyone--from kids and parents to therapists and staff--a winner.

A "sink or swim" philosophy frequently prevails in mental health settings today.

Many commonly prescribed drugs cause sexual problems, while a smaller number have the potential to improve sexual functioning. Highlighting the interaction between biology and emotion in sexual chemistry, this book evaluates the drugs that can affect sexual functioning.

The author presents his subject with a breadth not found in other texts, reaching from those individuals with mildly annoying traits to incurable psychopaths.

Intended primarily for counsellors working with alcoholics, addicts and their families, this text describes three treatment approaches to anger - ventilation, reduction and management - along with their advantages and disadvantages for different types of patients.

Provides clinical advice on the evaluation and treatment of sexual abuse cases, particularly in a difficult situation where the extent or actual occurrence of sexual abuse must be determined.

This book offers a new conceptual approach to the problem of post-traumatic stress disorder, in which the response to trauma is seen as a reaction to injury rather than as an illness.

This workbook has been designed to be used in conjunction with a treatment programme for troubled adolescents, described in The Adolescent Self. It covers such techniques as self-assertiveness, active listening, peer pressure, cue therapy and self-talk.

This anthology of case studies collects unique and recurring issues addressed by therapists in support of their gay and lesbian patients.