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Describes in detail how to effectively treat severely ill but not psychotic patients, by careful psychotherapeutic work on the... Læs mere
Almost everyone who crosses the therapist's threshold is looking for a second chance - a shot at living a richer, less restricted life.
Sexually abused and traumatized patients need therapists to understand their pain. Therapists must be able to handle their own baggage (rescue fantasies, for instance) and to process their own feelings on a daily basis in order to contain and use them.
Teases out and examines the therapist's role in the divorce. The author challenges recommending appropriate interventions for... Læs mere
Mentoring intersects with memoir in this volume, as 31 psychotherapists share the origins of their professional ambitions and, mixing authority with levity, describe their professional odysseys. The psychotherapists include Martin A. Schulman, Jeffrey Seinfeld and Martha Stark.
Weaves together contemporary thinking about the individual into the family systems approach to therapy. This work... Læs mere
Explores the application of sandplay therapy as the author learned it from Dora Kalff, among others. The author shares her professional experience in a chapter on equipping the office with miniatures and also with cameras.
How does culture affect child-rearing practices? How do factors such as poverty, ethnic difference, racial minority status, and having immigrant parents alter the experience of a growing child? This book answers these questions.
This is a clear and thorough how-to book on short-term cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression. Following a complete assessment of the patient's suicidal risk, the authors outline an eight-session plan that includes both cognitive and behavioral components.
Describes the strengths, the strategies, and the resilience that a therapist needs to work with alcoholics and addicts.
Argues that attachment pathology is a disorder of the self based on developmental trauma that predisposes patients toward a future trajectory marked by structural deficits,... Læs mere