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Dictionary of Transactional Analysis
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This dictionary provides a key to concepts used by transactional analysts which is accessible to those new to the field but also has the depth required for advanced studies.
Adolescence: Psychotherapy and the Emergent Self
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Many therapists can attest to the fact that adolescents can be difficult and frustating clients-problems are seldom well defined, clearly delineated symptoms are more exception than the rule, and troubling situations often involve the entire family.
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Loss: Attachment and Loss Volume 3
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In this third and final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the ways in which young children respond to a temporary or permanent loss of a mother-figure and the expression of anxiety, grief and mourning which accompany such loss. The theories presented differ in many ways from those advanced by Freud and elaborated by his followers, so much so that the frame of reference now offered for understanding personality development and psychopathology amounts to a new paradigm.
Separation: Anxiety and anger: Attachment and loss Volume 2
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Separation, the second volume of Attachment and Loss, continues John Bowlby’s influential work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health.
Multiple Voices: Narrative in Systemic Family Psychotherapy
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Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series, this book focuses on narrative and stories in Family Systems Therapy – particularly on how stories develop within the domain of a therapist’s own theoretical, clinical and professional contexts.
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Shame and shame reactions are two of the most delicate and difficult issues of psychotherapy and are among the most likely to defy our usual dynamic, systemic, and behavioral theories. In this groundbreaking collection, The Voice of Shame, thirteen distinguished authors show how use of the Gestalt model of self and relationship can clarify the dynamics of shame and lead us to fresh approaches and methods in this challenging terrain.
Families in Context: Emerging Trends in Family Support and Early Intervention
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By examining the context of the family itself, and the role of key family members such as mothers, fathers, siblings and grandparents, this work seeks to share approaches to working with families.
Cognitive Analytic Therapy of Borderline: The Model and the Method
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This book offers a critical appraisal of current ideas and practices, contrasting with these the ways in which CAT mobilizes the patient s own resources.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma – The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
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Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events.
Developing Gestalt Counselling
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Describing contemporary integrative Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy, this book addresses 30 key issues which will help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve crucial areas of their work.
Attachment: Volume One of the Attachment and Loss Trilogy
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In this classic work of psychology John Bowlby examines the processes that take place in attachment and separation and shows how experimental studies of children provide us with a recognizable behaviour pattern which is confirmed by discoveries in the biological sciences. He makes clear that human attachment is an instinctive response to the need for protection against predators, and one as important for survival as nutrition and reproduction.
The Prenatal Person: Frank Lake’s Maternal-Fetal Distress Syndrome
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Frank Lake was a British psychiatrist and lay theologian who substantially influenced the interplay of psychology and theology in the United Kingdom over the last several decades. Even though he died in 1983, his ideas continue to be debated through his books and the organization he founded, the Clinical Theology Association. Lake called his discovery and formulation of ‘a new paradigm for psychodynamics with revolutionary implications’ the ‘Maternal-Fetal Distress Syndrome.’
Who Calls the Tune: A Psychodramatic Approach to Child Therapy
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A Psychodramatic approach to child therapy
The Healing Drama: Psychodrama and Dramatherapy with Abused Children
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This text sets out the main theoretical and practical approaches of dramatherapy. Beginning with the notion of play and its importance for children, the author discusses how children use play as a method of investigation and rehearsing for reality.
The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit
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Trauma is about the rupture of those developmental transitions that make life worth living. Donald Kalsched sees this as a spiritual problem as well as a psychological one and in The Inner World of Trauma he provides a compelling insight into how an inner self-care system tries to save the personal spirit.
The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns to Her Abuser
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The Illusion of Love challenges the prevailing model, which views the victim of abuse as a normal woman who is unable to escape from her batterer due to the effects of terror and psychological collapse. Instead, David Celani offers a new answer-that women who are battered have a fundamental attraction to partners who are abusive.
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Discovering the Self Through Drama and Movement: Sesame Approach
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This is the first detailed account of the theory and practice of the Sesame method, which was created by Marian Lindkvist 30 years ago, as it has evolved and been handed down experientially.
Pink Therapy: A Guide for Counsellors and Therapists Working With Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Clients
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A comprehensive British volume on lesbian and gay affirmative psychotherapy has been a while coming. Pink Therapy, however, has arrived, amply fills this gap, and is well worth the wait. The literature reviews are masterful for scholars, and the book offers a comprehensive, thoughtful approach for clinicians. A deft editorial hand is evident in the unusual consistency across chapters, the uniformly crisp, helpful chapter summaries, and the practical appendices, generous resources lists and well organized bibliographies.
Developing Transactional Analysis Counselling
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This concise workbook provides 30 practical suggestions to help practising counsellors develop and enhance their Transactional Analysis (TA) counselling skills.
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Intrusiveness and Intimacy in the Couple
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A collection of papers, largely based on clinical work, which covers a range of concepts and mechanisms which are central to any psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, or adults. It addresses an issue which lies at the heart of human relationships, that of intimacy.
The Art of Loving
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Since it was first published ” The Art of Loving” has become a classic, inspiring thousands of people with its clarity and power. Erich Fromm, the renowned psychoanalyst, sees love as the ultimate need and desire of all human beings. In this book, he discusses every aspect of the subject: romantic love, the love of parents for children, brotherly love, erotic love, self-love and the love of God or the divine.
Desire and the Female Therapist: Engendered Gazes in Psychotherapy and Art Therapy
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Desire and the Female Therapist is one of the first full-length explorations of erotic transference and countertransference from the point of view of the female therapist. Particular attention is given to the female therapist/male client relationship and to the effects of desire made visible in art objects in analytical forms of psychotherapy.
Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Developments in Theory and Practice
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This book reviews the history and essential features of CAT, offers a state–of–the–art detailed description of practice, and continues the conceptual development of the field with discussion of the relationship of the CAT model to cognitive and analytical therapies, and to recent research in early child development.