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This book analyses the conceptualization of psychopathic
personality disorder for criminal/forensic populations and examines
in depth the emerging phenomenon of the 'corporate psychopath'. In
doing so its authors expose the paradoxical nature of the disorder:
while it is frequently associated with antisocial, criminal and
predatory behaviour, more recent studies have highlighted examples
of creative, visionary and inspiring leaders who are also found to
present a high degree of psychopathy. They focus on the nature,
behaviours and consequences of psychopathy in executives and across
the organization, offering an important contribution to the
emerging body of research on psychopathy and other problematic
personality constructs in the workplace. The book will appeal to
scholars, students and professionals across the discipline, and
particularly to those working in workplace, forensic and
personality psychology.
This volume adopts a context-informed framework exploring risk,
maltreatment, well-being and protection of children in diverse
groups in Israel. It incorporates the findings of seven case
studies conducted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's NEVET
Greenhouse of Context-Informed Research and Training for Children
in Need. Each case study applies a context-informed approach to the
study of perspectives of risk and protection among parents,
children and professionals from different communities in Israel,
utilizing varied qualitative methodologies. The volume analyses the
importance of studying children and parents's perspectives in
diverse societies and stresses the need for a context-informed
perspective in designing prevention and intervention programs for
children at risk and their families living in diverse societies. It
further explores potential contribution to theory, research,
practice, policy and training in the area of child maltreatment.
* The main themes look at describing AutPlay Therapy, the phases of
therapy, the primary target areas, assessment procedures, intake
and other therapy forms, and play therapy interventions to address
therapy goals * Describes how to work with children across the
spectrum with various presentations. The AutPlay Therapy Follow Me
Approach (FMA) is described which explains how to work with
children who have limited or no engagement ability. Additional
issues are also coved such as using AutPlay Therapy to address
regulation and trauma issues, and the use of technology in AutPlay
Therapy * Empowers the therapist to confidence and effectiveness in
working with the autistic and neurodiverse populations
Milton H. Erickson is recognised as one of the most innovative
clinicians of our time. Known as the father of modern hypnosis and
the source of inspiration for many forms of family therapy and
brief therapy (including the increasingly popular solution-focused
therapy) Erickson's influence has reached far beyond the perimeters
of any one country or culture. Much of the scientific and popular
literature is beginning to focus on the themes of hope and
resiliency - Erickson worked from a philosophical position that is
best explained using these two concepts. Although Erickson is most
commonly examined through the lens of hypnosis, this book takes a
much broader approach and defines several key components that made
him successful as a therapist. The book is written by leaders and
experts in the field of Ericksonian therapy
Includes discussion of virtual analytic sessions. Addresses new and
different social and technological realities, the internet, the new
sexual discourse. Leading psychoanalytic contributors.
In his extensive description of the heuristic approach to
psychoanalytic therapy, Peterfreund discusses the strategies used
by both patient and therapist as they move toward discovery and
deeper understanding.
Mutual Growth in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship: Reciprocal
Resilience is an essential, innovative guide for mental health
professionals who listen repeatedly to stories of devastation and
trauma. Moving beyond traditions that consider the clinician as
existing only for the patient and not as an individual, this
breakthrough model explores the possibility of mutual
resilience-building and personal benefit developing between
therapists and their patients. The first section of the book
situates Reciprocal Resilience in the context of evolving
resilience studies. The second section provides lively,
demonstrative clinical anecdotes from therapists themselves,
organized into chapters focused on enhancing their positive
strategies for coping and growth while functioning under duress.
This book presents a framework for teaching and supervising
psychotherapists that can enrich clinician well-being, while
recognizing the therapeutic relationship as the key for enabling
patients' emotional growth. It challenges mental health
practitioners to share their own experiences, presenting a research
model syntonic with how clinicians think and work daily in their
professional practice. It offers a pioneering approach, finding
inspiration in even the darkest moments for therapists and patients
alike.
Robi Friedman is an experienced group analyst and clinician
specializing in conflict resolution, and in this important
collection of his work, he presents his most innovative concepts.
Dreamtelling is an original approach to the sharing of dreams with
partners or within families, exploring how the dreamer's
unconscious messages can be communicated, and helping to contain
emotional difficulties. The book also explains Friedman's concept
relation disorders, which locates dysfunctional behavioural
patterns not within intrapsychic issues, but rather as a function
of dynamics in group relations. And finally, the book presents the
soldier's matrix, a method for conceptualizing processes in highly
stressed organizations and societies which are either under
existential threat or pursuing glory. In the process of becoming a
soldier's matrix, subgroups and nations progressively lose shame,
guilt and empathy towards perceived enemies and the Other, and
every society member embraces a selfless role. Applying this method
to training in groups provides an optimal way out of organizational
and national crisis. The book will be of great interest to group
analysts. It will also appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists
and clinical psychologists with an interest in conflict resolution.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques
offers a comprehensive, yet concise, overview of the central
features of the philosophy, theory, and practical application of
ACT. It explains and demonstrates the range of acceptance,
mindfulness, and behaviour change strategies that can be used in
the service of helping people increase their psychological
flexibility and wellbeing. Divided into three main parts, the book
covers the 'Head, Hands, and Heart' of the approach, moving from
the basics of behavioural psychology, via the key principles of
Relational Frame Theory and the Psychological Flexibility model, to
a detailed description of how ACT is practiced, providing the
reader with a solid grounding from which to develop their delivery
of ACT-consistent interventions. It concludes by addressing key
decisions to make in practice and how best to attend to the
therapeutic process. The authors of Acceptance and Commitment
Therapy bring a wealth of experience of using ACT in their own
therapy practice and of training and supervising others in
developing knowledge and skills in the approach. This book will
appeal to practitioners looking to further their theoretical
knowledge and hands-on skills and those seeking a useful reference
for all aspects of their ACT practice.
The author of "Personality Disorders: A Gestalt Therapy
Perspective" proposes a revision of Perls, Hefferline and Goodman's
Theory of the Self in a way that brings it closer to contemporary
issues in in the area of Personality Disorders. Understanding
splitting and projective identification that chronically lead to
experiential impasses is an essential feature of the psychotherapy
of the more severe personality disorders. In order to do so within
the Gestalt framework, the author integrates certain developmental
concepts from object relations theory, especially those put forth
by W.R.D. Fairbairn (1954).This revised developmental perspective
leads to an Object Relational Gestalt Therapy, in which the
here-and-now therapeutic relationship is related to the
there-and-then of the developmental past, as well as to the
there-and-now of the client's current life situation.
This book moves the issues of culture, race and equity into the
centre of psychotherapeutic practice, including that which involves
therapeutic encounters across culture, racial and ethnic divides.
It develops an approach to cultural transference and demonstrates
that thinking about culture, race and ethnicity does not belong at
the margin. A number of well-known thinkers and practitioners in
the systemic field engage with these issues in the therapeutic
relationship. The therapeutic relationship is increasingly becoming
a central topic in systemic psychotherapy and cross-cultural
thinking. By asking experienced systemic psychotherapist to offer
their reflections and thoughts on this topic, the book has four
aims: 1) to develop this area of systemic practice; 2) to place
culture squarely at the centre of all systemic psychotherapy
practice as a model for all psychotherapy practice; 3) to encourage
both trainees and experienced systemic psychotherapists to pay
attention to race, culture and ethnicity as issues in their own and
their clients' identities and 4) to inform researchers who use
qualitative research techniques such as ethnography.
Despite the negative impact of anxiety in children, theories and
research have lagged behind their adult counterparts. This special
issue arose from an Economic and Social Research Council funded
seminar series (Child Anxiety Theory and Treatment, CATTS). It
highlights four themes in theories and research into child anxiety:
the appropriateness of applying adult models to children, the need
to isolate causal variables, the need to take a developmental
perspective, and the importance of parents. This issue aims to
stimulate debate about theoretical issues that will inform future
child anxiety research.
"The Sacred Cauldron is truly a book to be read by both therapists
and non-therapists, for it offers a thoughtful, intelligent,
sensitive passage through the spiritual quarrels and complexities
of our time and addresses our common summons, which is to treat the
life of the spirit with the respect, the gravity, and the
centrality it deserves. This book is instructive to all, for
Corbett not only marshals a wealth of scholarship and clinical
experience, but also expresses challenging insights through a calm,
reasonable, and commonsense appeal. After this book, the reader
will be more thoughtful, more considered, more sophisticated, more
appreciative of the importance of therapy as a vehicle for healing
and for engaging the numinous." -James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian
analyst and author of What Matters Most: Living a More Considered
Life At a time when psychotherapy seems to be a purely secular
pursuit with no connection to the sacred, The Sacred Cauldron makes
the startling claim that, for both participants, psychotherapeutic
work is actually a spiritual discipline in its own right. The
psyche manifests the sacred and provides the transpersonal field
within which the work of therapy is carried out. This book
demonstrates some of the ways in which a spiritual sensibility can
inform the technical aspects of psychotherapy. Dr. Lionel Corbett
trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian
analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is currently on
the core faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara,
California, and the author of The Religious Function of the Psyche
and Psyche and the Sacred, as well as various professional
articles. His main interest is in the religious function of the
psyche and the ways in which this function expresses itself through
the structures of personality.
As psychologists, we are highly trained mental health
professionals. In the consulting room we are generally 'in control'
and have a good feel for what is happening. However, in a court of
law, it can be quite frightening as anything can happen. The
vulnerability we feel in a courtroom is a professional
vulnerability. This is because a psychologist can be made to think
that his or her competence is on the line. This is not usually the
case, but it is what it feels like. It is important for us to
realise that in court it is our opinion that matters. But the
process feels personal. This book is written to help you develop
understanding and skills so that you can feel confident in
presenting expert evidence. The format of the book is not simply to
give you information, instead it is also structured to reflect the
way psychologists can develop professional competence through
supervision. You, the reader, will listen in on supervision
sessions with Jason and Mary. The book includes practical
suggestions and a focus on skills, as well as structured exercises
to practise with peers. While it is not intended to be
comprehensive, Crossfire!'s approach will touch on many of the
issues that are important in the legal process. Its particular
focus is enabling psychologists in Australia to feel confident in
court.
Do you feel that there’s room for a bit more happiness in your
life? A lot more even? Then here’s the good news: you have much
more control over your happiness than you probably think. And in
this book, you’ll discover the often simple, but easily
overlooked, steps you can take to reclaim more of those good
feelings. What’s more, every single suggested action in this book
has been scientifically proven to have a positive and lasting
effect on happiness. There’s no hype here, just plenty of real
hope. Better still, there’s no need for radical life change and
no complicated programme to follow. Instead you’ll find a raft of
small and simple steps that will, over time, add up to a life with
more pleasure and meaning - and with fewer negative emotions
dragging you down. Nobody else can make you happy. But you can.
Here’s all the help you need. Daniel Freeman is Professor of
Clinical Psychology at Oxford University. Jason Freeman is a writer
and editor.
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