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Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology
This 20-volume set has titles originally published between 1939 and
1991. It looks at marriage in a broad context from a variety of
perspectives, including anthropological, health, historical,
psychological, and sociological. Individual titles cover mediation,
divorce and separation, marriage guidance, disability, sexual
health, along with wider issues such as kinship, wardship, marriage
in India and Africa and the subordination of women internationally.
This collection is an excellent resource for those interested in
the place of marriage in society.
Psychotherapy is one of the most valuable inventions of the last
hundred years, with an exceptional power to raise our levels of
emotional well-being, improve our relationships, redeem the
atmosphere in our families and assist us in mining our professional
potential. But it is also profoundly misunderstood and the subject
of a host of unhelpful fantasies, hopes and suspicions. Its logic
is rarely explained and its voice seldom heard with sufficient
directness. This is a book that attempts to explain psychotherapy:
what the needs are in all of us to which it caters; the methods by
which it addresses these needs - and what the outcome of a
therapeutic intervention could ideally be. The book reflects a
fundamental belief of the School of Life that psychotherapy is the
single greatest step any of us can take towards self-understanding
and fulfilment. A course of therapy stands to render us ever so
slightly less angry, self-defeating, unconfident, lost and sad.
This is a guide to the purpose and meaning of psychotherapy. What
people are saying about What is Psychotherapy?: "Love the book,
high quality product. I am very pleased with my purchase. It is a
small book but big enough to answer the question from the
headline." Srecka "Great read and being a hardback gives the book a
special feel, a kind if little treasure." Brian "A lovely little
book to help make psychotherapy more accessible." "Great book for
that first understanding of psychotherapy, easy and quick to read."
"This book is invaluable and makes so much sense. I will be
ordering more copies to give to friends." "Inspiring and
impressive. Bringing easy terms and daily encounters into deeper
understanding."
Is there some part of yourself that you wish would go away? Most of
us would say yes, whether we call it addiction, the inner critic,
"monkey mind," neurosis, sinfulness, bad habits, or some other
disparaging name. Yet what if there were a different way to
approach these aspects of yourself that leads to true healing
instead of constant inner struggle? With No Bad Parts, Dr. Richard
Schwartz teaches a revolutionary paradigm of understanding and
relating with ourselves - a method that brings us into inner
harmony, enhances self-compassion, and opens the doors to spiritual
awakening. Dr. Schwartz is the creator of Internal Family Systems
(IFS), a paradigm-changing model of consciousness that has been
transforming psychology for decades. Here, you'll learn why IFS has
been so effective in areas such as trauma recovery, addiction
therapy, depression, and more. IFS overturns the idea that we have
one "true" identity and recognizes that having multiple parts is
not a pathology, but a normal and healthy function of the human
mind. Dr. Schwartz shares insights and practices to help you
recognise your own "inner family" of parts, understand how each
part seeks to help and protect you even when it seems problematic,
engage in inner dialogue to restore balance and self-love - and
deepen your awareness of the higher Self that holds and encompasses
every facet of your diverse consciousness.
Are you a picky eater? Do you worry that food will make you vomit
or choke? Do you find eating to be a chore? If yes, this book is
for you! Your struggles could be caused by Avoidant Restrictive
Food Intake Disorder (ARFID); a disorder characterized by eating a
limited variety or volume of food. You may have been told that you
eat like a child, but ARFID affects people right across the
lifespan, and this book is the first specifically written to
support adults. Join Drs. Jennifer Thomas, Kendra Becker, and
Kamryn Eddy - three ARFID experts at Harvard Medical School - to
learn how to beat your ARFID at home and unlock a healthier
relationship with food. Real-life examples show that you are not
alone, while practical tips, quizzes, worksheets, and structured
activities, take you step-by-step through the latest evidence-based
treatment techniques to support your recovery.
The common, existing distance between children and adults is the
basis of this work, which has been addressed in many literary and
cultural works throughout history. Not being able to remember how
we, now adults, thought as children -like their spontaneity or
magic and omnipotent form of thinking- would leave children
completely isolated, like a helpless immigrant in a foreign land.
This book attempts to comprehend, how parents' misunderstanding,
can induce loneliness and helplessness in children, that with time
will become traumatic, and will remain unconsciously present in all
of us forever. It will continue to repeat using infantile emotions,
children form of thinking, and experiencing as well, loneliness,
anxiety, depression, fears and the chronic need of finding a
'rescuer', in the form of power, fame, drugs, money, religion, and
so on. This very innovative approach to the understanding of
children's segregation and its repercussion on adult's emotional
life, will be of invaluable interest to all practicing
psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and parents included.
Presents a wide range of outdoor play therapy approaches for
children and families presented by some of the most revered experts
in the field of play therapy. This book provides a unique
collection of practical and innovative ways to help clinicians know
how to bring nature into play therapy sessions both in the playroom
and outdoors. Child and family therapists will revel in the
richness of resources and practical therapeutic applications of
nature play that they can utilize with children and families. This
book will also provide practical worksheet guidelines for
practitioners to easily implement some of the interventions
presented into practice. Presents diverse clinical approaches and
applicable strategies from experienced play therapists. Chapters
also give the theoretical basis for each practical intervention.
"A warm, profound and cleareyed memoir. . . this wise and
sympathetic book's lingering effect is as a reminder that a deeper
and more companionable way of life lurks behind our self-serious
stories."-Oliver Burkeman, New York Times Book Review A remarkable
exploration of the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Mark Epstein
reflects on one year's worth of therapy sessions with his patients
to observe how his training in Western psychotherapy and his
equally long investigation into Buddhism, in tandem, led to greater
awareness-for his patients, and for himself For years, Dr. Mark
Epstein kept his beliefs as a Buddhist separate from his work as a
psychiatrist. Content to use his training in mindfulness as a
private resource, he trusted that the Buddhist influence could, and
should, remain invisible. But as he became more forthcoming with
his patients about his personal spiritual leanings, he was
surprised to learn how many were eager to learn more. The divisions
between the psychological, emotional, and the spiritual, he soon
realized, were not as distinct as one might think. In The Zen of
Therapy, Dr. Epstein reflects on a year's worth of selected
sessions with his patients and observes how, in the incidental
details of a given hour, his Buddhist background influences the way
he works. Meditation and psychotherapy each encourage a willingness
to face life's difficulties with courage that can be hard to
otherwise muster, and in this cross-section of life in his office,
he emphasizes how therapy, an element of Western medicine, can in
fact be considered a two-person meditation. Mindfulness, too, much
like a good therapist, can "hold" our awareness for us-and allow us
to come to our senses and find inner peace. Throughout this deeply
personal inquiry, one which weaves together the wisdom of two
worlds, Dr. Epstein illuminates the therapy relationship as
spiritual friendship, and reveals how a therapist can help patients
cultivate the sense that there is something magical, something
wonderful, and something to trust running through our lives, no
matter how fraught they have been or might become. For when we
realize how readily we have misinterpreted our selves, when we stop
clinging to our falsely conceived constructs, when we touch the
ground of being, we come home.
Chairwork is a therapeutic technique that allows clients to create
distance between themselves and problematic beliefs, events,
memories, individuals and patterns of responding. Although
chairwork has been used in various therapeutic frameworks for
decades, it is as part of schema therapy (ST) that it has recently
taken a big step forward. This new title in the Schema Therapy
Approaches and Resources series is a practical guide for therapists
who want to learn to apply chairwork in their own practice. It also
offers tools for those who already have some experience with this
technique, as well as advice on further techniques to make working
with chairs more effective in challenging situations. A final
chapter looks at pitfalls for therapists, with guidance for
recognizing and dealing with a wide range of challenging situations
that occur in clinical practice.
Incorporating the thinking, feeling, and behaving dimensions of
human experience, the tenth edition of Corey's best-selling text
helps you compare and contrast the therapeutic models expressed in
counseling theories. Corey introduces you to the major theories
(psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt,
reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems, feminist,
postmodern, and integrative approaches) and demonstrates how each
theory can be applied to two cases ("Stan" and "Gwen"). He shows
you how to apply theories in practice, and helps you learn to
integrate the theories into an individualized counseling style. New
learning objectives identify key aspects of each theory and focus
your study.
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Do you ever feel worried, miserable or
unfulfilled - yet put on a happy face and pretend everything's
fine? You are not alone. Stress, anxiety, depression and low
self-esteem are all around. Research suggests that many of us get
caught in a psychological trap, a vicious circle in which the more
we strive for happiness, the more it eludes us. Fortunately, there
is a way to escape from the 'Happiness Trap' in this updated and
expanded second edition which unlocks the secrets to a truly
fulfilling life. This empowering book presents the insights and
techniques of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), covering
more topics and providing more practical tools than ever before.
Learn how to clarify your values, develop self-compassion and find
true satisfaction with this bigger and better guide to: * Reducing
stress and worry * Handling painful thoughts and feelings more
effectively * Breaking self-defeating habits * Overcoming
insecurity and self-doubt * Building better relationships *
Improving performance and finding fulfilment at work The Happiness
Trap is for everyone. Whether you're lacking confidence, facing
illness, coping with loss, working in a high-stress job, or
suffering from anxiety or depression, this book will show you how
to build authentic happiness, from the inside out.
Mindfulness Skills Workbook: 121 Activities, Worksheets, Techniques
& Tools is specifically designed to meet the needs of mental
health practitioners, teachers, and other helping professionals who
want to add mindfulness skills to their work. It provides over 100
tools to be used with clients to help them incorporate mindfulness
into their lives and reap the proven benefits. Providing concise
theory behind each tool, step-bystep processes for implementation,
and guidance on processing the result, it provides everything you
need to add mindfulness into your practice with a hands-on,
practical, and highly-effective approach.
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