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Towards a Transtheoretical Definition of Countertransference: Re-visioning the Clinician’s Intersubjective Experience
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This book explores the analyst’s countertransference experience in clinical settings from a number of theoretical perspectives in order to develop a transtheoretical definition of countertransference.
The Modern Psychiatrist’s Guide to Contemporary Practice: Discussion, Dissent, and Debate in Mental Health Care
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This book is essential for mental health workers and trainees, academics, and those interested in what psychiatry is, why it exists, and its future potential.
Psychology of Mental Health
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A clear and engaging introduction to the psychology of mental health, which takes account of a range of perspectives and illustrates how psychologists work in the field today.
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Outrageous Reason: Madness and race in Britain and Empire, 1780–2020
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This powerful and disturbing book draws direct comparisons between the plight and fates of African slaves, dehumanised and discarded to sanitise Britain’s trade in human lives and imperial ambitions, and the systemic ‘othering’ of people designated ‘mad’ throughout Western history.
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice
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A call to action for therapists to politicise their practice through an emotional de-colonial lens
The Handbook of Social Justice in Psychological Therapies: Power, Politics, Change
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Are you looking for a psychological therapy textbook with social justice at its centre? Just can′t seem to find a comprehensive textbook that aligns with your attitudes toward positive changes in psychological professions? This three-part book sets out the core principles for social justice in the psychological therapies.
I Heard What You Said
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In the groundbreaking I Heard What You Said, he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system. As a black, male teacher – an English teacher who has had to teach problematic texts – his very existence is a provocation to the status quo, giving him a unique perspective on the UK’s classrooms.
Pseudoscience in Therapy: A Skeptical Field Guide
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When experiencing mental health challenges, we all deserve treatments that actually work. Whether you are a healthcare consumer, student, or mental health professional, this book will help you recognize implausible, ineffective, and even harmful therapy practices while also considering recent controversies.
Meaning-Fullness: Developmental Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mental Health
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Jan Resnick begins by taking a critical look at psychiatry and psychology, especially the misuse and corruption of research that undergirds these practices. He goes on to offer an alternative perspective, understanding, and approach to issues of mental disorders. Resnik focuses upon the existential vacuum, a term originating in Viktor Frankl’s classic text Man’s Search for Meaning, which refers to feelings of emptiness, purposelessness, and meaninglessness. Feelings that are increasingly prevalent in our contemporary world. The existential vacuum points to a domain of experience not well described by the DSM or treated with a bio-medical approach.
A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems (2nd edition)
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An essential addition to the Straight Talking Introduction series, the book supports the call for more understanding of the social determinants of mental wellbeing. It adds to the arguments for treatments that do not rely on the busted hypothesis of neurochemical imbalances.
Chemical Khichdi: How I Hacked My Mental Health
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Chemical Khichdi seeks to remove some of the stigma associated with a serious mental illness in an empathetic, accessible and candid way. Its ‘seven therapies’ present a hopeful and helpful pathway for all those with a mental health condition, their loved ones and their mental health practitioners, with the message that they can live with a vulnerability and thrive.
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Outsight: Psychology, politics and social justice
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For too long psychology has served the interests of the exploitative economic systems that dictate the lives of so many people in the industrialised world. Instead, it should be placing the values of compassionate solidarity at the heart of all that it does. This book seeks to inspire that shift and equip the profession to question, challenge and even change what it does.
Coproduction: Towards equality in mental healthcare
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This collection of chapters casts a critical eye on the concept of coproduction in our national mental health and learning disability services.
Care We Dream Of, The: Liberatory & Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health
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Through a series of essays (by the author and others) and interviews, this book by the editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology The Remedy offers possibilities – grounded in historical examples, present-day experiments, and dreams of the future – for more liberatory and transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health and healing.
From Survive to Thrive: Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness
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Are you struggling with personal problems, a mental health condition, or addiction? Are you looking to permanently improve your well-being and happiness? If you’d like to lead a fuller, more satisfying life–or help a mentally ill loved one–this book is for you.
Meeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully: How to Help the Comprehend, Cope and Connect Way
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Meeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully introduces the Comprehend, Cope and Connect (CCC) approach, developed and evaluated within mental health services, to a wider audience who need to understand mental health issues, whether for themselves or to support others.
The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World
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In a powerful combination of contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis and brilliant storytelling, The Well Gardened Mind investigates the magic that many gardeners have known for years – working with nature can radically transform our health, wellbeing and confidence.
Skewed to the Right: Sport, Mental Health and Vulnerability
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Understanding the psychology of the successful athlete through interviews with elite sportspeople by clinical psychologist Dr Amy Izycky.
The Psychology of Covid-19: Building Resilience for Future Pandemics
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The Psychology of Covid-19 explores how the coronavirus is giving rise to a new order in our personal lives, societies and politics. Rooted in systematic research on Covid-19 and previous pandemics, including SARS, Ebola, HIV and the Spanish Flu, this book describes how Covid-19 has impacted a broad range of domains, including self-perception, lifestyle, politics, mental health, media, and meaning in life.
This Naked Mind: Transform your life and empower yourself to drink less or even quit alcohol with this practical how-to guide rooted in science to boost your well-being
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This book, without scare tactics, pain or rules, gives you freedom from alcohol. By addressing causes rather than symptoms it is a permanent solution rather than lifetime struggle. It removes the psychological dependence allowing you to easily drink less (or stop drinking). Annie’s clarity, humor and unique ability to blend original research with riveting storytelling ensures you will thoroughly enjoy the process.
Youth Mental Health: Approaches to Emerging Mental Ill-Health in Young People
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This book highlights the field of youth mental health and why it is a specialty distinct from both child and adolescent and adult mental health.
Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders: A New Conceptualization of Development, Reinforcement, Expression, and Treatment
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This book provides a framework for scholars and clinicians to develop a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders, by seeing personality as a dual, as opposed to a singular, construct.
Psychiatry and Mental Health: A guide for counsellors and psychotherapists
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Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice
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Acclaimed for its wisdom and no-nonsense style, this authoritative guide has now been revised and expanded with 50% new content reflecting a decade of advances in the field. Distinguished psychiatrist Joel Paris distills current knowledge about borderline personality disorder (BPD) and reviews what works in diagnosis and treatment.