In this innovative text, Carol Holmes provides students and professional psychotherapists with an historical account leading to the most up-to-date information on the core psychoanalytic concept of counter-transference and the subsequent changes that have occurred in its clinical application. This book uniquely examines the fundamental principles and practice that underpin some of the major schools of psychotherapy including psychoanalysis, existential, humanistic, integrative, systemic and communicative therapy. The author compares the philosophies that underline these diverse schools and explores their precepts in relation to the notion of counter-transference. In contrast to traditional psychoanalytic texts, the counter-transference theme of the book is examined in relation to the biased and contradictory aspect of the concept, and highlights some of the more radical and interpersonal ideas that endorse the relational and complementary qualities between therapist and client. The text offers concise and engaging introductions to the main schools of psychotherapy, and includes interviews and case study analyses from notable practitioners and trainers from these competing approaches. This book will be invaluable for those interested in understanding the importance of the hidden messages that are concealed in our communications.

This book deals with the link between the purpose of therapy and the boundaries of the therapeutic situation, which - the author argues - derive from the omnipresence of the anxiety surrounding separations and death. The theoretical framework of this book is part of a developmental line from Freud, Klein and Winnicott to Langs, via Sartre and Buber.

Porshia's Revenge is the second installment and conclusion to the fiction story entitled, Clean Slate. The saga is continued in this sequel as Porshia's revengeful personality is revealed as she regrettably, agreed to a divorce that she once vowed to never accept. Porshia followed the advice of the enemy who convinced her to wreak havoc upon a marriage that was ordained by God. While peer pressure in the form of adversity and confusion kept Porshia's heart filled with negativity and strife, she allowed herself to be tricked into participating in an evil plot. But she later learned that the enemy always had its own agenda. Will Porshia continue being played by the master game planner, or will she give up the game? "Porshia's Revenge" Is an Enjoyable, Unfolding Contemporary Story of Love And Revenge Challenged by Traditional Christian Values. "Once picked up, it is hard to put down." Cleveland S. Thornhill Protestant Chaplain Bedford Hills Correctional Facility

"Clean Slate" is the account of one woman's plight after a miraculous rescue from death, which saves her life in more ways than one.

This story portrays a preacher's kid who went astray and started living her life contrary to all she learned from her parents. She ran away from home at the age of sixteen, in pursuit of immoral living and unnatural desires. Twenty years later, her memories were erased after an accident, and her life began again with a clean slate.

She lived with amnesia for two years, unaware of the sins from her past that she must face one day. When her memory returns, will she continue her new life with her slate wiped clean of her past, or will she revert to her former life and resume a marriage spawned by the Devil himself?