This book shows clinicians how to identify a given emotion, discern its role in a client's self-understanding, and understand how its expression is furthering or inhibiting a client's progress. 303... (more)
This book is devoted to the presentation and assessment of actual demonstration sessions of REBT. (more)
This text examines the role and significance of stories in psychotherapy, within a broad-based cultural and theoretical framework. It draws on research from psychology, anthropology and... (more)
Based on a conference held in 1994, this collection of essays looks at current issues challenging the newly emerging discipline of forensic psychotherapy. The contributors are leading members of the... (more)
The first part of this book looks at major life issues that people have difficulties with, such as self-confidence, intimacy, power, death and change. The second part considers what existential... (more)
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Many counselling and psychotherapy researchers are suspicious of the pronouncements of practitioners because they are not backed up by research. Similarly, practitioners tend to ignore research... (more)
This comprehensive and accessible book charts the origins and development of the major non-psychoanalytic fields in counselling and psychotherapy. Leading British and North American psychotherapists... (more)
Assessment and referral skills are essential for counsellors and psychotherapists. Practitioners need to have an understanding of the clinical manifestations of severe emotional distress. They must,... (more)
This text suggests that psychodynamic approaches can aid both psycopharmacological and cognitive-behavioural treatments. It catalogues psychological factors commonly present in panic disorder... (more)
A must-read for anyone interested in the body-centered movement in psychotherapy. The Hakomi Method integrates the use of mindfulness, nonviolence, meditation, and holism into a highly original... (more)
Examining the moment-to-moment process of therapy, this text offers ways to engender effective movement. It concentrates on the ongoing client therapist relationship and ways in which the therapist's... (more)
Aiming to set significant yet attainable goals, this text presents an approach to the treatment of patients with personality disorders. These disorders are viewed as pathological amplifications of... (more)
Psychotherapy evolved as a way of liberating the human spirit from the constraints of neurosis - it was never meant to be a means of alleviating symptoms and improving social adjustment. This book... (more)
Asthma, arthritis, eating and gastrointestinal disorders, are only a few of the many serious somatic problems that may be initiated or exacerbated by psychological stress. This book explores the... (more)
This work demonstrates how it is not always necessary to return to therapy when old symptoms return. Dealing with a variety of problems such as depression, anxiety, and excessive concerns with... (more)
A guide to the Internet, written specifically for psychotherapists and other mental health professionals, which provides chapters on the essential features of the Internet, and includes an extensive... (more)
Teaching the therapeutic principles of 'narrative reconstruction', this book shows how to do better what most therapists do automatically - that is, characterize, construct plots, develop themes, and... (more)
Offers a unique method of evaluating psychotherapy which focuses not on a particular school or theory, but on the relationship between therapist and patient. The authors base their coding on patterns... (more)
What keeps people from living in ways that satisfy their individual needs and priorities? This book explores psychotherapist Robert W Firestone's voice therapy technique, the goal of which is to... (more)
Brings together the major developments in the field of transpersonal psychotherapy. It reviews the major transpersonal models of psychotherapy, including Wilber, Jung, Grof, Ali and existential,... (more)
Therapists are struggling to adapt both to the changing landscape of their profession, and to the demands on their profssional and personal success. This book explores many issues which are rarely... (more)
To anyone interested in psychology or sociology or politics or morality, Rogers will give a new dimension of awareness. The Month (more)
This volume stands as a splendid introduction to the life and work of a pioneering psychotherapist. Selections ranging from 1942 to 1987 provide a personal look at his early influences and marriage,... (more)