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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Addressing Challenging Behaviors and Mental Health Issues in Early Childhood
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Now in a fully updated second edition, this essential volume provides research-based strategies to help educators address challenging behaviors in early childhood and elementary years.
Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders and Citizens
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This book draws on psychodynamic systems thinking to offer a new understanding of the journey from being an individual to joining society as a citizen. With detailed stories, the steps – and the conscious and unconscious linkages – from being a family member, to entering outside groups, to taking up and making sense of institutional roles, illuminate the process of claiming the citizen role. With the help of leaders who recognise and utilise the dynamics of social systems, there may be hope for us as citizens to use our institutional experiences to discover a place to stand.
The Destroyed World and the Guilty Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Culture and Politics
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David Levine and Mathew Bowker explore cultural and political trends organized around the conviction that the world we live in is a dangerous place to be, that it is dominated by hate and destruction, and that in it our primary task is to survive by carrying on a life-long struggle against hostile forces.
Mental Health in Crisis
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At a time of huge pressures on mental health services, this highly topical, broad-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the mental health crisis examines the current challenges in mental health service delivery and access using a range of perspectives (political, economic, and cultural, organisational issues).
Ghosts in the Human Psyche: The Story of a “Muslim Armenian”
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Vamik Volkan examines the impact of past and present historical events, cultural elements, political movements and their mental images on the psyche of individuals.