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Using innovative empirical data, this book presents a unique approach to looking at moments, exploring the deeper meanings of why memories stand out and how they influence an individual's sense of self. Forrest challenges the privileged position of narrative coherence as the basis for healthy identity and formations of selfhood.

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This text contains descriptions of how to work with borderline patients.

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This new edition of one of the books most closely identified with clinical psychology since 1965 will expose a new generation to Shapiro's stunningly defining conceptualizations of the Obsessive-Compulsive, Paranoid, Hysterical, and Impulsive ways of being.

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Gives voice to diverse perspectives that shape contemporary self psychology, from complexity and attachment theories to treatment of children, from developments in family and group therapies practices and supervisory process to examination of role of shame, enactments, and traumatic experience in self-object relatedness and subjective experience.

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A description of the therapist behaviours necessary for the effective application of progressive relaxation training. The guide was written to provide therapists in many disciplines, including psychology, nursing and social work, with the tools they need to train their clients in relaxation.

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A description of the therapist behaviours necessary for the effective application of progressive relaxation training. The guide was written to provide therapists in many disciplines, including psychology, nursing and social work, with the tools they need to train their clients in relaxation.

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According to the editors of New Ideas in Therapy, cognitive behaviorist theory is increasingly hampered by intrinsic theoretical limitations.

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Nietzschean Psychology and Psychotherapy describes Nietzsche as an unacknowledged critic of psychology and mental health, bringing out and integrating his teachings about wise living, coping with pain and suffering, and effecting self-change and self-cultivation.

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Offers an indepth and thoughtful exploration of the relevance of psychoanalysis to family therapy.

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Rising above the polemics surrounding sexual and physical abuse, David and Jill Savege Scharff bring a relational perspective to the integration of psychoanalytic and trauma theories in order to understand the effects of overwhelming physical and psychological trauma, includin...

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Grounded in research done by examining the clinical practices of five exemplary psychotherapists, On Holy Ground explores the relationship between psychotherapy and spirituality. This book addresses the religious and spiritual issues that mental health practitioners are not normally effectively trained to handle.

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Reports the therapeutic work carried out with fifteen families, five with children presenting serious psychotic disturbances, and ten with young adults diagnosed as schizophrenics in acute phase.

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Paraverbal Communication in Psychotherapy: Beyond the Words offers an innovative investigation into the nonverbal communication between client and therapist. By reviewing engaging case studies from their own practices, the authors step through how therapists and clinicians can...

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Parenting: Contemporary Clinical Perspectives offers fresh insights into treating parents and their children that highlight the evolving role of parents throughout the lifespan and amidst contemporary social pressure and change. By drawing from their own personal experiences a...

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This book provides a description of the change processes that occur in psychotherapy when it is viewed from a personal construct perspective. The reconstructive process is dealt with in some depth, including the goals of personal construct therapy, the process of reconstruing and the sharing of it between therapist and client.

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This volume presents current models of coping, describes the coping process, and relates that process to environmental factors, person variables, and desirable outcomes.

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Appearing nearly forty years after the last significant text on the topic, this book brings the psychoanalytic theory on play truly up to date and elucidates its significance for clinical work with the help of illustrative clinical vignettes.

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Play Therapy with Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing provides a unique approach for helping families, outlining an in-depth review of play and its relevancy to healing for children and families. Family therapy, family play therapy, filial and theraplay models, and a...

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This book presents integrative models of play therapy that incorporate expressive arts and evidence-informed interventions when working with preadolescents from a play-based context. It covers play therapy with preadolescents, integrating expressive arts like music, movement, play, sand, and poetry into treatment, along with familial involvement.

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This book presents integrative models of play therapy that incorporate expressive arts and evidence-informed interventions when working with preadolescents from a play-based context. It covers play therapy with preadolescents, integrating expressive arts like music, movement, play, sand, and poetry into treatment, along with familial involvement.

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Play Therapy with Vulnerable Populations: No Child Forgotten provides play therapists and child mental health clinicians a guide to incorporating research-supported practice with play therapy for children affected by natural disasters, complex trauma, chronic illness, and adolescents being bullied for identifying as LGBT.

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Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration. Ghosts are ubiquitous in contemporary critical theory and in literary and visual culture.

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This provocative book challenges two of psychologys primary assumptions: 1) clients get better due to the power of techniques and 2) psychotherapy is a scientific discipline that functions in fundamental reality.