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Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do mental health professionals get past the facade Play Therapy with Adolescents is the first book to offer a complete variety of play ...

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Analyzes how four pairs of people, central in each other's lives, create one another. This book demonstrates how each of us is like a theater director, casting others into roles on our stage, even as others are casting us into their dramas.

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Contemporary psychoanalysts are eclectic and believe they use the best ideas from each of our numerous competing theoretic models. However, there is confusion and controversy about what constitutes 'best.' Critical differences between these theories are about inferences conc...

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Amidst increasing awareness among clinicians of the impact that psychological factors and treatment of those factors have upon the progress of neurological disease, Psychotherapy for Neuropsychological Challenges offers clinicians mindfulness-based acceptance and intervention ...

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This book examines the transformation of selflessness into the Caretaker Personality Disorder, and how it is not always better to give than receive, that being good can go bad, and that the 'disease to please' can even be fatal.

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Presents principles of supportive-expressive psychotherapy and demonstrates how to combine it with other types of psychotherapies. This book is suitable for beginner and seasoned clinicians. It is also suitable for graduate level courses in psychology, especially suitable for those exploring personality disorders.

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A mixture of theory and practice, this study of individual and group resistance in psychotherapy is illustrated by numerous clinical vignettes. Offering techniques for handling and resolving resistance within the group setting, it should appeal to clinicians and group therapists.

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Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy and Recovery elucidates a diversity of self-disclosure topics that pertain to a wide range of issues impacting every facet of the process and outcome of psychotherapy relationships. This book represents a seminal contribution to the counseling ...

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Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems offers a contemporary perspective on the mind through a compilation of original chapters written by some of the leading researchers in the area of complexity theory. In each of the chapters, the authors attempt to use comple...

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Many people struggle to make wise and appropriate decisions about how to express their angry and violent feelings. This work presents Judaism's views on these controversial subjects in order to challenge readers to develop their own moral perspective and derive their own ethical guidance.

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'The purpose of this book is to elevate stories and storytelling in people's esteem, so they will understand their holiness and appreciate them at their full worth. There are those who enjoy stories and storytelling but in the back of their minds think, 'After all, they're only stories.'

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Is there a genetic predisposition to crime Should mental illness be taken into account Do family and social environments have a role Do people become abusers because they have been abused How can people who do terrible things consider themselves good people This book addresses policy issues facing individuals, institutions, and governments.

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The traditional Jew has always accepted the study of Torah as central to his or her way of life. But without the ability to effectively analyze and interpret the text, one misses the opportunity to gain appreciation of the Torah.

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Tales of Elijah the Prophet is a brilliant and multicolored portrait of Elijah and his role in Jewish life and tradition throughout the ages. It unlocks the world of Elijah, inviting readers to delve into the centuries-old treasure chest of Jewish wisdom.

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Criminal Personality, Volume two.

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

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Covers marital life after the wedding. This work is about psychological and biological difficulties between men and women that make marriage so challenging. It looks at why passion is in danger of fading within marriage, how hormones exacerbate behavior, and how the brain confounds us.

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Offers answers to questions about the nature of hatred. This book addresses the emergence of hatred in the clinical situation, including infant observation, gender differences, child abuse, severe character pathology, multiple personality, countertransference difficulties, literary characters, racial prejudice, ethnic hatred, and war.

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Presents the literature, from the Bible and the Talmud through contemporary sources, to discover the meaning and reasons behind common Jewish folkways that we often are familiar with but whose origins we may not know.

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A study of the criminal mind. It describes a therapeutic approach designed to change the criminals way of thinking. It rejects traditional treatment approaches as reinforcing of the criminals sense of being a victim of society.

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A comprehensive handbook for mental health professionals, therapists and counsellors dealing with the multitude of problems associated with divorce and remarriage. The book aims to provide an overview of contemporary thought and approaches to the therapeutic needs of adults and children.

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The Electrified Mind explores the positive and negative aspects of the internet and other communication technologies on the people who use them in order to help mental health care professionals understand, empathize with, and treat patients who rely on technology for socializing and expressing themselves.