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The first section's chapters trace the influence of feminism on the development of feminist therapy, discuss a variety of professional issues and the goals of feminist therapy, discuss developmental issues, and examine the interface between feminist and psychotherapy systems, including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral and family systems.

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Using Ferenczi's insights, Robert W. Rentoul draws on and integrates the subsequent work of the British Independents and recent American writers in Ferenczi's Language of Tenderness. He sees the two languages as being reflected in the differing atmospheres of cooperation and ...

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As results from the present emphasis on short-term, technique-oriented psychotherapies or bio-therapy (medication) point to their valuable but limited roles in treating mental illness, this book emphasizes the need for extensive training in the treatment of self-disorders with...

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Hoffman provides a brilliant synthesis of family therapy. Starting with Gregory Batesons seminal ideas on social fields, the book examines the key concepts of general systems theory. The author then explores the major schools of family therapy and such figures as Minuchin, Bowen, Whitaker, Haley, Erickson, and Ackerman, as well as the revolutionary work of Selvini Palazzoli.

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From Sign to Symbol describes emerging approaches to the unconscious experience and the development of emotional meaning in intersubjective, implicit relationships. The book presents strategies that utilize symmetrical, impactful interventions in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychotherapy supervision.

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Dr. Joel Kotin gives numerous examples of common situations and problems that therapists regularly encounter and then tells the reader how to approach them.

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Good Goodbyes is a concise resource on therapy termination. Organized in a Q&A format, this book works through the phases of psychotherapy, identifying warning signs of premature endings and helpful techniques to support treatment.

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Good Goodbyes is a concise resource on therapy termination. Organized in a Q&A format, this book works through the phases of psychotherapy, identifying warning signs of premature endings and helpful techniques to support treatment.

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Grief and Romantic Relationship Dissolution analyzes divorce and romantic relationship breakups and how they can be experienced as grief. Dr. Blue provides a history of love models and attachment theory and makes observations of the process of grief that can be a part of the loss associated with the dissolution of romantic relationships.

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Focusing on theory and therapeutic factors and applications, this work will provide group leaders and counselors working with children with a conceptual basis and specific strategies for use in therapy, counseling, and therapeutic groups.

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Certain persons do not benefit from psychotherapy or drop out prematurely. In Guided Enactments in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Sebastiano Santostefano provides research- supported concepts that can help therapists identify these persons. Santostefano also offers techniques that promote an interpersonal alliance and resolve emotions related to traumatic experiences that interfere with therapy.

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The work is organized into five sections, which treat theories of addiction, the diagnosis and evaluation of addictive behavior, treatment approaches, addiction among special populations, and clinical and legal issues concerning substance abuse professionals.

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This handbook provides both a conceptual and practical framework for diagnosing, treating, and assessing post-traumatic stress in survivors of violence, abuse, war, ethnocultural problems, political torture, and disaster.

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This book is a practical guide for therapists wanting to integrate interactive games and challenges into their work. It provides current research supporting using ABC with trauma survivors and those recovering from addictions, as well as twelve activity-based chapters of various one-hour sessions of activities, complete with 50 photos.

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Late in life, Heidegger became involved in a project that led to one of the first schools of existential psychotherapy - daseinanalysis. Much of this work emerged in the Zollikon Seminare. Hans Cohn explores the role of Heidegger in providing an alternative basis for psychotherapeutic practice.

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Focuses on the development of self and intersubjectivity in infants, and the parent-child and family interactions that help facilitate it. This work presents an account of how these capacities developed in a child with atypical neurodevelopment, which is examined in the light of theory and research about these issues in normal children.

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The work includes interviews with parents of children with autism and will be of wide interest to professionals, teachers, parents, and family members who can use the approach to help a child move into the social world.

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Meth addiction also ravages life for spouses, children, and other family members, as well as communities.

In this work, two experts on methamphetamine addiction and recovery explain why this drug has such a physical, psychological, and social draw for addicts despite all the damage it causes.

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In this indictment of the therapy profession, the author exposes the misguided beliefs and shoddy practices used by most psychotherapists. He examines the "pop psych" beliefs and explores the debilitating effects they have on everyone.

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"One of the most searching and thought-provoking discussions about human change processes I have read. The author writes from the perspective of a psychologist, psychotherapist, philosopher, and reseracher, but above all he writes as a perceptive and sensitive human being."--Hans Strupp, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University.

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