This book explores how an individual can help themselves resolve a wide variety of ordinary, everyday life problems and improve their mental health. It is designed as a self-help aid for people with depression, anxiety, or with issues of low self-esteem.

"The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology" provides a comprehensive overview of body-centered psychotherapies, which stress the centrality of the body to overcoming psychological distress, trauma, and mental illness. Psychologists and therapists are increasingly incorporating these somatic or body-oriented therapies into their practices, making mind-body connections that enable them to provide better care for their clients. Designed as a standard text for somatic psychology courses, "The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology" contains 100 cutting-edge essays and studies by respected professionals from around the world on such topics as the historical roots of Body Psychotherapy; the role of the body in developmental psychology; EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and other specific techniques; the therapeutic relationship in Body Psychotherapy; and much more, as well as helpful case studies and essays on the use of Body Psychotherapy for specific disorders. This anthology will be indispensible for students of clinical and counseling psychology, somatic psychology, and various forms of body-based therapy (including dance and movement therapies), and is also an essential reference work for most practicing psychotherapists, regardless of their therapeutic orientation.

This is a practical handbook and guide for people who are experiencing various sorts of psychological, emotional & spiritual crises; spiritual emergence processes; or Spiritual Emergencies. It will also be of particular interest to their carers, family members & other therapists.

It is written in an open-minded, pragmatic, well-researched, and occasionally humorous manner, and is based on 30 years of personal and professional experience in the field. It is comprehensive and well-researched.

As a compilation of perspectives and strategies (both mainstream and alternative), written over a longish period and added to and adapted regularly, it covers many different aspects of the whole field of human growth and change: psychological, transpersonal, emotional, practical, and spiritual.

It is therefore an absolute 'must' for anyone working with people in these states, or anyone with friends or family going through one of these processes.