Since earliest history, storytelling has been the primary vehicle for teaching and for exchanging human knowledge and experience. Here stories become a means of healing, of reparenting, and of conveying to the unconscious mind the peace and comfort of an idealized childhood-often with almost magical effects.
Demonstrates that a minor variation of Freud's trauma theory, known as brief therapy, can be seen as the core of all major modern therapies, from behaviour therapy to psychoanalysis.
A guide to the evaluation and treatment of sexually abused children.
This study focuses on the developmental and therapeutic needs of these traumatized children.
The first section covers Sibling Dynamics: General Issues: here contributors look at intense sibling relationships, effects of birth order and family structure, and ethnic issues.Section II, entitled When Siblings Are Close: The Early Years, covers such issues as the sibling dynamics in large families, divorcing and remarried families, and alcoholic families, as well as treatment of brother-sister incest and with siblings of disabled children.Moving into adolescence and young adulthood in Section III, Balancing Closeness and Separateness, clinicians share their experiences of working with symptoms as sibling messages, recognizing the special dynamics in families where the siblings are all of one gender, and supporting the sibling relationship in eating-disordered families and in families where one sibling has a chronic mental illness.In Section IV, Settling Old Scores: The Middle Years, we are reminded that childhood siblings conflicts can haunt adult relationships. In addition, chapters examine sibling dynamics in family businesses and :sibling" issues among cotherapists and coauthors.A sibling is often an individual's most enduring intimate contact, as the sibling relationship may last longer than those with parents, spouses, and children. Section V, Facing the Problems of Aging: The Late Years, explores relationships among adult siblings who care for their aged parents and among elderly siblings.
Can patients create new meanings?
Borderline personality is one of the most confusing and controversial psychiatric disorders.
"Turning Points is filled with the profundity of common sense. ... Pittman captures the absurdity of family life and reminds us that therapy can be fun."-Peggy Papp, ACSW, Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy.
"This is an essential primer of Ericksonian hypnotherapy and strategic psychotherapy. [...] O'Hanlon provides threads that crystallize practical patterns useful to clinicians at all levels of expertise." - Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D., Director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation
This book includes a step-by-step preparation for clients' receptivity to the stories, describing how rapport can be established and resistance lowered during the initial sessions of hypnotherapy. Then the stories are set within their original clinical context, so that we can comprehend their powerful impact on the course of therapy.
Fishing For Barracuda? Is this a book about therapy? Most certainly!
"A feast for the eyes...bringing alive a long vanished world that's still eerily present."--Daniel Czitrom, New York Post
Lush reflections on ordinary lives, displaying "formal talents and [Jackson's] capacity for expanding the lyric potential of narrative" (Rain Taxi).
Narrative nonfiction at its cutting-edge best from writers at the cusp of recognition and fame.
"The most expansive and moving poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright."-Marilyn Hacker
One hundred political cartoons you wanted to see, but weren't allowed to: all were banned for being too hot to handle.
"Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."-Ploughshares, Editor's Choice
Winner of the 2004 Barnard Women Poets Prize, judged by Jorie Graham, this collection explores loss and regeneration.
"No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."-Harold Bloom
The first easy-to-navigate illustrated guidebook to the wonderful sculptures, murals, bas-reliefs, and mosaics of this Art Deco showplace.
"Measured but warm, this work draws you in; it is another success among her many titles."--Library Journal
Daring and witty, erotic and searching, these poems explore the ways we suffer and are changed by our losses.
Intent upon letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading these classic authors, the How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon.
This powerful graphic novel confirms Will Eisner as a master of the genre.
"Auletta puts the most human of faces on Turner yet . . . [as] a tycoon who has lost his power." -BusinessWeek
The flavor, the savor, and the sense of Buddhism as revealed through personal stories of Westerners who lived it.
"Nail-biting true adventure."--Kirkus Reviews
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