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North Atlantic Books,U.S. Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga: A Practical Guide
Book SynopsisA practical, hands-on, experienced-based guide from a military veteran turned yoga teacherBrendon Abram combines his first-hand experience with PTSD in the field and years of teaching to offer this practical guide to bringing trauma-sensitive yoga to both clinical and studio settings. Drawing on his work with military veterans, first responders, and survivors of domestic and sexual abuse, he emphasizes the importance of respecting the uniqueness of every individual and demonstrates how to use the foundational principles of yoga to create a safe experience. Abram explains that basic principles of yoga bring power to the practice and that breath, mindful movement, focused awareness, and acceptance of present-moment experience form the foundation of any yoga offering.
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New Harbinger Publications The Mental Compulsions Workbook for Ocd
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New Harbinger Publications Ocd Outside the Box
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ABA Espana Principios ABA para Técnicos de Conducta
Book SynopsisEste libro está dirigido a terapeutas de primera línea o técnicos de conducta que desean prepararse para obtener la credencial RBT, ABAT, IBTTM o BCAT. El técnico de conducta es un educador que trabaja directamente con clientes y estudiantes con trastorno del espectro autista, discapacidad intelectual, u otras necesidades educativas especiales, y recibe supervisión de un especialista en análisis aplicado de conducta. Pero, qué es el análisis aplicado de conducta (ABA)?Esencialmente, ABA estudia lo que las personas dicen o hacen y modifica el entorno a través de procedimientos específicos a fin de alcanzar un cambio medible y duradero en la conducta. Al hacerlo, se descartan nociones imprecisas sobre el comportamiento (descripciones tales como ser caprichoso o ser malo) y, en su lugar, se enfatizan las acciones observables. Por ejemplo, si estoy intentando bajar de peso modificando mi dieta, un planteamiento ABA consistiría en evaluar mi ambiente (p.ej., hay comida basura en mi despensa?), aplicar un procedimiento específico (p.ej., eliminar los alimentos excesivamente calóricos de la casa) y medir objetivamente mis avances (p.ej., calorías consumidas, tiempo de ejercicio físico) a fin de monitorizar el éxito de la intervención. Además, se evitarán explicaciones circulares tales como: Necesitas fuerza de voluntad para hacer ejercicio. Las características de ABA como campo científico y profesional pueden resumirse en las siguientes siete facetas o dimensiones: Aplicada: énfasis en conductas de importancia social. Conductual: énfasis en aspectos objetivos de la conducta. Analítica: demostración de relaciones funcionales causa-efecto. Tecnológica: descripción completa y detallada de los procedimientos. Conceptualmente sistemática: base en los principios de conducta. Efectiva: verificación del cambio de conducta con medidas objetivas. General: mantenimiento del cambio de conducta en otros momentos del día, con otras personas y en diferentes contextos.Este libro te ayudará a comprender en profundidad lo que significan estas dimensiones. Aprenderás a elegir, definir y medir la conducta siguiendo las dimensiones aplicada y conductual de ABA. Aprenderás también sobre procedimientos basados en los principios de ABA que incorporan las dimensiones tecnológica, conceptualmente sistemática, efectiva y general. Por ultimo, llegarás a presentar resultados de acuerdo con las dimensiones analítica y efectiva. En resumen, este libro aporta las bases fundamentales para llegar a ser un técnico de conducta eficaz.
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W. W. Norton & Company Treating TraumaRelated Dissociation A Practical
Book SynopsisEstablishing safety and working with dissociative parts in complex trauma therapy.Trade Review"This comprehensive textbook by three master clinicians is a welcome addition to the growing literature on treatment of patients who have suffered the most extreme early life trauma. A calm and steady emphasis on basic principles, illustrated with numerous case vignettes, offers wise guidance to clinicians facing the challenges of this difficult but rewarding work." -- Judith Lewis Herman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School "Three expert, experienced clinicians and researchers who are leaders in the field have combined their vast experience and knowledge to write one of the most informative, comprehensive books on the treatment of complex trauma and trauma-generated dissociation I have ever read. This book is clearly written and presents a thorough framework for understanding trauma-generated dissociation and addresses such important issues as the collaborative therapeutic relationship, case conceptualization and treatment planning, phase-oriented treatment, and working with dissociative parts in a safe way that promotes integration. This is necessary reading for all clinicians not only for understanding and treating trauma-generated dissociation but also as a great text for therapy in general." -- Roger M. Solomon, PhD, Senior Faculty, EMDR Institute
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Sounds True Inc The Healing Anxiety Workbook
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WW Norton & Co PolyvagalExercises for Safety and Connection
Book SynopsisA practical guide to working with the principles of polyvagal theory beyond the therapy session.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Fear Factor
Book Synopsis''A riveting ride through your own brain'' - Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of OriginalsWINNER of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology''s book prize for ''The Promotion of Social and Personality Science''If humans are fundamentally good, why do we engage in acts of great cruelty? If we are evil, why do we sometimes help others at a cost to ourselves? Whether humans are good or evil is a question that has plagued philosophers and scientists for as long as there have been philosophers and scientists.Many argue that we are fundamentally selfish, and only the rules and laws of our societies and our own relentless efforts of will can save us from ourselves. But is this really true? Abigail Marsh is a social neuroscientist who has closely studied the brains of both the worst and the best among us-from children with psychopathic traits whose families live in fear of them, to adult Trade ReviewA brilliant, beautiful, and important book about the things that make some of us angels, some of us devils, and all of us human. You won't be able to put it down - Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University[Marsh's] book is deft enough to be chilling at times, infectiously optimistic at others - The Daily TelegraphReads like a thriller. Abigail Marsh takes us through the groundbreaking research that has thrown light on two of the most fundamental traits of human beings: extreme selfishness and extreme altruism. Page after page, she shows convincingly that the capacity to perceive and identify fear and, consequently, to feel empathy as one would for a child in danger, is the key factor that makes us behave as a psychopath or as someone who joyfully gives a kidney to a stranger. One of the most mind-opening books I have read in years - Matthieu Ricard, Author of Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the WorldBeautifully and engagingly written, yet not compromising on science. Abigail Marsh has written a page-turner that takes you meticulously through the scientific evidence for why altruism exists, while fooling you into thinking that you are reading a detective novel. This is essential reading for anyone interested in why people vary in their capacity for empathy and love - Essi Viding PhD, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at UCLLet Abigail Marsh guide you on a riveting ride through your own brain. With lively writing and an impressive command of science, she shows how sensitivity to fear can be both a weapon of evil and a force for good - Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals, Give and Take, and Option B (with Sheryl Sandberg)The combination of thorough investigation and personal research experiences creates a volume far more engaging than those typically written by academics...Those who seek to comprehend the origin of fear, altruism, and elements of human nature will find this book a key factor in their increased understanding - ScienceThe book is overall a model of careful popular science writing, rebutting common oversimplifications... Best of all, her writing style is vivid and personable... And despite the book's optimistic message, there are moments-as when she describes a psychopathic teenage girl she tested as someone "with whom I would have been unwilling to spend a night alone in a house"-that send a chill down the spine. - The Wall Street JournalRecommend this fascinating text to readers of pop psychology and true crime fans who wish to better understand the minds of potential criminals - BooklistA fascinating tour of altruism research, all the better for being sprinkled with anecdotes about Marsh's life, career and unforgettable research subjects. As well as the extremes of human nature, Marsh says plenty that is of relevance to those of us in the middle of the bell curve, including how we can strive to be more altruistic in our everyday lives * New Scientist *Provides an illuminating dive into the science behind both altruism and psychopathy, promising an entertaining read for scientists and laypeople alike * Paste *A fine example of a book that looks deeper, showing how an ancient part of the brain--central to our emotional lives--plays a pivotal role in who we are and what we do. It's a sharp analysis sprinkled with relatable examples, and an excellent brain book * Forbes *
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Not Stated Unhooked
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER Learn to identify the 'hooks' that trigger your addictive behavior and replace compulsive habits with constructive ones using this helpful guide from a mental health expert. As a young man, Dr. Adi Jaffe’s own battle with addiction nearly landed him a decades-long prison sentence. Now, his revelatory addiction treatment protocol has helped thousands to free themselves from the addictive habits that cause negative consequences. Dr. Jaffe’s shame-free, step-by-step program helps you address what's driving your addiction by: ·Identifying the “hooks” that drive your behavior ·Building awareness of when these hooks are activated ·Unpacking your go-to habitual responses ·Creating new, healthier patterns and ways of reactingThe Unhooked Method destigmatizes addiction and uses habit change knowledge and tools to help you to unhook for an addiction-free life.
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Penguin Books Ltd A FirstRate Madness Uncovering the Links Between
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestseller“A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . .” —The Boston Globe“A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi’s book deserves high marks for original thinking.” —The Washington Post“Provocative, fascinating.” —Salon.comHistorians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: The very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. From the importance of Lincoln'sTrade ReviewGhaemi isn't the first to claim that madness is a close relative of genius, or even the first to extend the idea into politics. But he does go further than others...His explanations are elegant, too - intuitively accurate and banked off the latest psychiatric research. * Newsweek *A First-Rate Madness is a sophisticated work of psychology, but it is also a gossipy work of celebrity history, a who's who of the eminently unhinged. * The New York Observer *
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Oxford University Press Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions is the first ever comprehensive guide to Low Intensity CBT. It brings together researchers and clinicians who have led the way in developing evidence-based low intensity CBT treatments - treatments for those who have hitherto had no access to mental health services.Trade ReviewThis excellent book addresses an important new topic in a comprehensive manner...This is must reading for CBT practitioners. * Doody's Notes *Table of ContentsSECTION 1 LOW INTENSITY CBT MODELS AND CONCEPTUAL UNDERPINNINGS; SECTION 2A: INTRODUCING AND SUPPORTING GUIDED CBT; SECTION 2B KEY LOW INTENSITY CBT INTERVENTIONS IN DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY; SECTION 2C: GUIDED CBT INTERVENTIONS USING WRITTEN MATERIALS; SECTION 2D: GUIDED CBT INTERVENTIONS USING THE INTERNET; SECTION 2E NOVEL USES OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: SUPPORTING LOW INTENSITY CBT IN NEW ENVIRONMENTS; SECTION 2F STEPPING FURTHER OUTSIDE THE BOX: EXTENDING THE ENVIRONMENTS FOR LOW INTENSITY CBT; SECTION 2G: GOING UPSTREAM: USING LOW INTENSITY CBT INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS; SECTION 3 TRAINING LOW INTENSITY CBT PRACTITIONERS; SECTION 4A: FACILITATING THE UPTAKE OF LOW INTENSITY CBT INTERVENTIONS: CHANGING SYSTEMS AND ROUTINE PRACTICE; SECTION 4B: FACILITATING THE UPTAKE OF LOW INTENSITY CBT INTERVENTIONS: ADAPTING INTERVENTIONS TO DIFFERENT COMMUNITY CONTEXTS
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Beacon Press Mother of Methadone
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Taylor & Francis Adolescents in Crisis
Book SynopsisAdolescents in Crisis offers a psychoanalytic perspective on the complex that can arise when young people renegotiate their relationship with the world and their own bodies as they experience puberty.This edited collection explores the tension adolescents often experience between their wish to change and develop and their desire to lean into stasis to maintain their pre-pubescent way of relating to their own self and others. Covering the period from pre-teen years to the dawn of adulthood, and including clinical vignettes throughout, the contributors look at issues such as isolation, self-harm, eating disorders, gender identity and delinquent behaviors which are often used as defense strategies against the feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy that puberty can invoke. Each chapter draws on traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic thought to help the reader understand these anxieties and provide guidance on how the therapist, parent and adolescent can work through them together, allowing the young person to explore new ways of managing their anxieties.Part of the 101 Kids books series, this book is an invaluable resource for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with young people, as well as teachers, social workers and parents dealing with adolescents in difficulty.
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Taylor & Francis Neuroaesthetics and the Art of Transformation
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WW Norton & Co PolyvagalInformed EMDR
Book SynopsisLinking two cutting-edge approaches to form a robust healing model
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University of Pennsylvania Press Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in
Book SynopsisIn her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography. Daughters of Parvati centers on the lives of women in different settings of psychiatric care in northern India, particularly the contrasting environments of a private mental health clinic and a wing of a government hospital. Through an anthropological consideration of modern medicine in a nonwestern setting, Pinto challenges the dominant framework for addressing crises such as long-term involuntary commitment, poor treatment in homes, scarcity of licensed practitioners, heavy use of pharmaceuticals, and the ways psychiatry may reproduce constraining social conditions. Inflected by the author's own experience of separation and single motherhood during her fieldwork, Daughters of Parvati urges us to think about the ways women bear the consequences of the vulnerabilities of love and family in their minds, bodies, and social worlds.Trade Review"Pinto’s complex and moving ethnography explores women’s lives in the context of different psychiatric care settings in a North Indian city. Woven together with Pinto’s own experiences of love’s breakdowns between India and Boston, Daughters of Parvati centres on the ways women take on the vulnerabilities and dependencies of marriage and family, and how psychiatric care, pharmaceuticals, and institutions mediate when relationships fall apart. [A]n illuminating ethnography [and] a complex and intimate example of feminist ethnography at its most vulnerable and powerful….[A] magisterial contribution to anthropological studies of global psychiatry and of kinship and care. It is also a moving and intimately reflexive book suggesting the power of ethnographic writing in its limits and possibilities." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"“[A] compelling ethnography about women’s engagement with Western psychiatric care in North India. In bearing witness to the difficult lives of women on the verge of mental and relational breakdowns, Pinto offers a nuanced account of the gendered particularities of everyday psychiatric practice in India. Her observations of the Indian context open windows onto global anthropological debates about the ethics of institutional care and medical therapeutics, the vicissitudes of biopolitical power and subject making, and the challenges of reflexive research in conditions of human crises and abuses.…[S]ome of the most sophisticated anthropological writings on the subject." * American Anthropologist *"Daughters of Parvati is critical reading for scholars of medical anthropology, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and feminist methodologies...Pinto’s work reveals not only the limits and constraints of our ethnographic methodologies (and, in turn, clinical and diagnostic settings) but also, crucially, their possibilities. " * Isis *"One of the most compelling ethnographies I have read in recent years." * Veena Das, Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"A poignant, compelling, complex, and provocative example of anthropological storytelling. Based on original and evidently difficult fieldwork focused on the treatment of women's mental illnesses in north India, the book offers a gendered reading of psychiatry. It is also very much an intimate and intensely reflexive ethnography." * Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University *"An important book, making interventions in how we think about choreographies of clinical mental health work with families broken and repaired. Its ethnographic specificities have to do with India, but its accounts of medical, familial, and narrative crises are of broad theoretical import." * Michael M. J. Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Table of ContentsNote on Transliterations Introduction: Love and Affliction Chapter 1. Rehabilitating Ammi Chapter 2. On Dissolution Chapter 3. Moksha and Mishappenings Chapter 4. On Dissociation Chapter 5. Making a Case Chapter 6. Ethics of Dissolution Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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Basic Books Mad In America (Revised): Bad Science, Bad
Book SynopsisSchizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, Mad in America examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects. A haunting, deeply compassionate book-updated with a new introduction and prologue bringing in the latest medical treatments and trends-Mad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of "insanity," and what we value most about the human mind.
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Workman Publishing ADHD Alternatives: A Natural Approach to Treating
Book SynopsisAttention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most commonly diagnosed, and misdiagnosed, disorders in children. This guide focuses on the root causes of ADHD and offers a natural and holistic approach to combat the disorder, encouraging families to find solutions that don’t rely on psychostimulant drugs like Ritalin. Discover the many benefits of treating ADHD with a mixture of nutritional supplements, herbal medicines, and parenting techniques that foster self-esteem, creativity, self-discipline, and confidence.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis: A
Book SynopsisCognitive Therapy for Psychosis provides clinicians with a comprehensive cognitive model that can be applied to all patients with schizophrenia and related disorders in order to aid the development of a formulation that will incorporate all relevant factors. It illustrates the process of assessment, formulation and intervention and highlights potential difficulties arising from work with patients and how they can be overcome.Experienced clinicians write assuming no prior knowledge of the area, covering all of the topics of necessary importance including:* an introduction to cognitive theory and therapy* difficulties in engagement and the therapeutic relationship* how best to utilise homework with people who experience psychosis* relapse prevention and management.Illustrated by excerpts from therapy sessions, this book digests scientific evidence and theory but moreover provides clinicians with essential practical advice about how to best aid people with psychoses.Trade Review"Erudite and well written, this book is a general 'how-to' use cognitive therapy techniques with people diagnosed as psychotic... This text's emphasis on the 'C' rather than 'B' aspect of CBT and its diagrammatic use of formulations set it apart." - Guy Holmes, Mental Health Today, June 2004"Morrison et al.'s book clearly presents the development of cognitive theory and therapy for psychosis in an engaging and accessible way. Suitable for newcomers to cognitive therapy, it will appeal to students and seasoned therapists, as well as those wishing to brush up on their cognitive therapy skills." - Kelly Vincent, European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction. Preface. An Overview of Psychosis. An Introduction to Cognitive Theory and Therapy. Cognitive Model of Psychosis. Cognitive Assessment of Psychotic Patients. Formulation of the Case. Structure of Therapy. Difficulties in Engagement and the Therapeutic Relationship. Cognitive Techniques. Behavioural Techniques. Schema Change Processes. Negative Symptoms. Problems Associated with Psychosis. Relapse Prevention and Management. Integration of Homework into Therapy. Problems Related to Service Delivery and Context. Appendices.
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New Harbinger Publications Transdiagnostic Road Map to Case Formulation and
Book SynopsisTransdiagnostic treatment is the future of psychology. For the last twenty years, clinicians and mental health professionals have relied on the DSM manual to diagnose and treat patients. However, evidence now shows that treating individual symptoms, rather than relying on a single diagnosis, is much more effective. If you are frustrated with single symptom protocols when treating your clients, this book offers a powerful alternative to the DSM-V. The Transdiagnostic Road Map to Case Formulation and Treatment Planning is the first book to offer the psychology community a breakthrough, evidence-based road map for treating patients with symptoms that span across different diagnostic categories. The transdiagnostic approach outlined in this book signals a revolutionary break from traditional DSM categorization and gives mental health professionals a reliable resource for treating clients' individual symptoms, rather than relying on rigid pathology. If you are interested in a new approach to treating patients, this book is an extremely important addition to your professional library. It will serve as your guide for a more effective type of treatment planning-one that is tailored to your client's specific needs. For more than forty years, New Harbinger has published powerful, evidence-based psychology resources for mental health professionals and self-help books for clients. As the landscape of psychology evolves, New Harbinger will remain at the forefront, offering clinicians real tools for real change.
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Crecimiento de Autoayuda Recuperándose del abuso narcisista: Una guía
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Double 9 Books Personal Power Your Master Self Vol. 1
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Double 9 Books Personal Power Subconscious Power Your Secret
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Skyhorse Publishing Total Load Theory
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Harvard University Press Why People Die by Suicide
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well as personal experience, Thomas Joiner provides the most coherent and persuasive explanation ever given of why and how people overcome life's strongest instinct, self-preservation.Trade ReviewIn a book both personal and scientific, Thomas Joiner gives us the deepest understanding of suicide that has yet been written. He reminds us that to go on living we need to feel that we belong to someone and that we are effective. But he adds a surprising third factor—we must not break down our fear of death. Joiner offers wise guidance not only to professionals, but to those who must live on after this kind of death in the family. -- Pauline Boss, author of Ambiguous LossAs a survivor, I find this book to be illuminating, informative, and, most of all, healing. Joiner searches for the "why" of suicide as both a scientist and a survivor himself, and his research and insights help us to make sense of the pain and confusion that led our loved ones to end their lives. -- Carla Fine, author of No Time To Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved OneJoiner provides an elegant description of what leads people to commit suicide and what professionals, families, and friends can do to prevent the crisis that this tragedy creates for everyone involved. -- Aaron T. Beck, M.D., University Professor of Psychiatry, University of PennsylvaniaJoiner provides a fascinating contribution to psychological literature that is certain to join the ranks of Émile Durkheim's Suicide and Karl Menninger's Man Against Himself. Not only has Joiner established professional prominence in suicidology, but he also has a profound personal relationship with the subject: his own father died by suicide. Drawing on the pain of this experience as well as on clinical and epidemiological evidence, Joiner has managed to conduct significant research into why some people die by suicide, while others survive their attempts at self-annihilation. His persuasive thesis is that practice, mental and physical, is what separates the completers from the attempters. In particular, those who have become desensitized to physical pain are most likely to orchestrate their own deaths successfully. Joiner also identifies perceived burdensomeness, little sense of belonging, genetics, neurobiology, and mental disorders as contributors to suicidality and completion. -- Lynne F. Maxwell * Library Journal *Taking one's own life goes against one of our strongest urges—the instinct of self-preservation. The deterioration of this instinct, says Thomas Joiner, should be regarded as a symptom of disease...His theory, outlined in Why People Die by Suicide is that it happens when severely depressed people acquire fearlessness. How do people become fearless? Through practice and learning, he says. This explains the bouts of self-harm or failed suicide attempts that are not cries for help so much as rehearsals for a deadly finale. -- Anjana Ahuja * The Times *[Joiner's] theory is the most comprehensive yet put forth to explain why some people end their lives. Joiner offers a dizzying array of studies to shore up his argument, and some of the evidence he offers is quite novel for the lay reader. -- Philip Connors * Newsday *Mr. Joiner's book is a useful guide to suicidal behavior...Mr. Joiner draws on many scientific fields—genetics, neuroscience, psychiatry, evolutionary psychology—all of which, he thinks, have something to offer the study of suicide. The major lesson of his book is the necessity of keeping the ability to commit suicide from coinciding with the desire for death...His book is a practical study, full of up-to-the-minute research. -- Thomas Meaney * Wall Street Journal *It is the synergy and tension between Joiner's dual identity as suicide survivor and academic that imbues this book with both its power and a certain logical grandiosity...Joiner is to be commended for a powerful effort to integrate science and personal tragedy. In an easily digestible style, he reviews the breadth of modern suicide scholarship—biological, psychological, and social, and presents his integration clearly and forcefully. -- J. Michael Bostwick * Boston Globe *The Florida State University psych professor, who grew up here and endured the suicide of his father not far from their Atlanta home, asserts that suicide is not simply an act but a process. Joiner describes how a person works up to suicide by overcoming the fear of death and the instinct for self-preservation. In accessible, somber prose, he also explains the conditions under which a person becomes suicidal. -- Lawrence Wright * Atlanta Journal-Constitution *Many researchers and clinicians have tried to explain why people commit suicide. The majority of studies that have been conducted to date have examined correlates and risk factors for suicidal behavior. However, many of these risk factors are found throughout the general population, and the vast majority of people do not engage in suicidal behavior. Dr. Joiner's theory is one of the first that integrates many of these risk factors into an explanatory model. His model makes sense both intuitively and empirically. What makes Dr. Joiner's theory particularly credible is the research that he and his students have done to support his model. Additionally, he is able to use his theory to explain such diverse behaviors as the suicide attacks on 9/11 and Kurt Cobain's suicide. What makes this book particularly interesting is that it begins with a prologue detailing Dr. Joiner's personal account of loss by suicide...This book is a must-read for clinicians and researchers who are involved with suicidal patients. Dr. Joiner's model highlights the acute risk factors for serious suicidal behavior thus providing tangible targets for assessment and treatment. Additionally this volume is an excellent resource for family members who have lost a loved one to suicide...Based upon the book's combination of sound scientific research with thoughtful personal reflections and examples it is given a strong recommendation. -- Elizabeth L. Jeglic * Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Book Reviews *The change in the way I now look at my dad's death comes because of [this] compelling book. -- Steve Martin * The Times *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: Losing My Dad 1. What We Know and Don't Know About Suicide 2. The Acquired Ability to Enact Lethal Self-Injury 3. The Desire for Death 4. What Do We Mean By Suicide and How Is It Distributed in People? 5. Genetics and Neurobiology of Suicidal Behavior, and the Roles of Impulsivity, Childhood Adversity, and Mental Disorders 6. Risk Assessment, Crisis Intervention, Treatment, and Prevention 7. Summary and Conclusion Epilogue
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. Transforming Trauma in Children and Adolescents:
Book SynopsisAn innovative somatic and attachment-based treatment for working with children and adolescents who suffer from complex trauma and neglect"[This] is a ground-breaking new approach to treating traumatized children, based on the combination of keen clinical observation, sensory integration, and a deep understanding of the latest advances in the neuroscience of trauma."—Bessel van der Kolk, MD, best-selling author of The Body Keeps the ScoreThe SMART (Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment) program addresses three key processes that can be derailed by developmental trauma--somatic regulation, trauma processing, and attachment-building--and uses movement and sensation to target the neurological structures that support emotional and behavioral regulation. Transforming Trauma in Children and Adolescents teaches therapists the eight key skills required for SMART mastery and provides seven regulation tools for clients, helping children and adolescents manage their feelings and attend to developmental tasks like making friends, participating at school, learning to play with others, and developing a sense of self that includes--but isn''t defined by--the trauma they''ve experienced. Enriched with case studies and recommended adaptations, the book includes resources for parents and other caregivers who want to provide ongoing supportive care outside the clinical setting.
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HCI Press The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder
Book SynopsisContrary to popular belief, borderline personality disorder is NOT a life sentence!If you live with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you already know how painful it can be. But take heart recovery is possible! The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder offers advice from someone who's been there and speaks from inside BPD, with empathy, care and insight.Author Shehrina Rooney shrugs off the stigma, busts myths, and translates the diagnostic criteria into everyday language. She explains the brain science of emotion dysregulation and shares her favorite strategies and skills for weathering the storm.The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder includes special chapters for family and loved ones, men with BPD, and anyone newly diagnosed. The author gives readers strategies for coping with BPD in the workplace and as a parent. In short, this book covers everything you (or your parents or therapist) could possibly want to know about BPD.This book gives you the information and tools to reclaim your life. With warmth and humor, Shehrina Rooney shows you how you can find contentment, stability, and the freedom to enjoy each day as it comes.
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Springer Publishing Company EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room An
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Can I tell you about Anxiety?: A guide for
Book SynopsisMeet Megan - a young girl who has an anxiety disorder. Megan invites readers to learn about anxiety from her perspective, helping them to understand why she sometimes feels anxious and how this affects her thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Megan talks about techniques she has learnt to help manage her anxiety, and how people around her can help.With illustrations throughout, this will be an ideal way to explore anxiety difficulties. It shows family, friends and teachers how they can support someone who experiences anxiety and will be an excellent way to start a conversation about anxiety, in the classroom or at home. Suitable for readers aged 7-12.Trade ReviewThis clearly-written, short book provides valuable information for family members, friends and teachers of children who are experiencing anxiety problems. It includes excellent and helpful summaries about different types of anxiety and suggestions about why some children develop anxiety problems and the type of treatment that might help. -- Susan H Spence, Professor, School of Applied Psychology and Australian Institute of Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith UniversityMegan, who is ten, has serious anxiety problems... She explains about other kind of anxieties... There is advice for parents, friends and teachers on how they can help, a reading list (mostly american books) and a list of websites in the UK, the US, and Australia. This is one of a series of excellent information books on various health problems and disabilities, and should be of great help to children, their families and friends. -- Healthy Books blogWith illustrations throughout, this will be an ideal way to explore anxiety difficulties. It shows family, friends and teachers how they can support someone who experiences anxiety and will be an excellent way to start a conversation about anxiety, in the classroom or at home. -- In Our Hands blogTable of Contents1. Introducing Megan who has anxiety problems. 2. What is anxiety?. 3. What is generalised anxiety?. 4. What is separation anxiety?.5. What is social anxiety or social phobia?. 6. Other types of anxiety?. 7. What I do when I get anxious. 8. How my body feels when I get anxious and how the anxiety affects my life at home. 9. How the anxiety affects me at school. 10. How the anxiety affects my friendships. 11. Why have I got anxiety?. 12. How I got help. 13. Treatments for anxiety: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). 14. Other treatments for anxiety: Medication. 15. How family and friends can help. 16. How my teachers can help me at school. 17. Other problems related to anxiety. Recommended reading, organisations and websites.
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Oxford University Press Schizophrenia
Book SynopsisSchizophrenia is the archetypal form of madness. Schizophrenia is a common disorder and has a devastating effect on sufferers and their families-patients typically hear voices in their heads and hold bizarre beliefs. The schizophrenic patient presented to the public in sensational press reports and lurid films bears little resemblance to reality of the illness. This book describes what schizophrenia is really like, how the illness progresses, and the treatments that have been applied. It also summarizes the most up-to-date knowledge available about the biological bases of this disorder. Finally it attempts to give some idea of what it is like to have schizophrenia and what this disorder tells us about the relationship between mind and brain.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade Reviewa short but mind-expanding book * Philip Graetzel, Focus *Table of Contents1. CASE STUDIES PAST AND PRESENT; 4. SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DRUGS; 7. UNDERSTANDING THE SYMPTOMS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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Oneworld Publications Into the Abyss: A neuropsychiatrist's notes on
Book Synopsis‘Highly eloquent, fascinating and deeply compassionate’ Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common mental health problems, specialists argue over whether the answers lie in the person’s biology, their psychology or their circumstances. As a cognitive neuropsychiatrist, Anthony David brings together many fields of enquiry, from social and cognitive psychology to neurology. The key for each patient might be anything from a traumatic memory to a chemical imbalance, an unhealthy way of thinking or a hidden tumour. Patrick believes he is dead. Jennifer's schizophrenia medication helped with her voices but did it cause Parkinson’s? Emma is in a coma – or is she just refusing to respond? Drawing from Professor David’s career as a clinician and academic, these fascinating case studies reveal the unique complexity of the human mind, stretching the limits of our understanding.Trade Review‘David’s stories are fascinating, and he does something quite remarkable with his tone. Here the obvious comparison is to the neurologist and prolific writer Oliver Sacks... Rarely have I read a book whose title is so true. Reading it was like standing on the edge of a great chasm and seeing how easily an unforeseen mishap could send any one of us tumbling in.’ -- New York Times‘A deeply moving book.’ * BBC Science *‘The first thing that comes across from the stories is David’s obvious compassion for his patients. This is typified not just by his thoughtful medical interventions and the doctor-patient conversations he recounts in vivid detail, but also by his willingness to raise hell with the relevant bureaucrats when pointless rules get in the way… David’s case studies are illuminating and benefit considerably from his warm, self-deprecating style.’ -- Dr Stuart Ritchie, Sunday Times‘A highly eloquent, fascinating and deeply compassionate book about the continuing mystery of mental illness and the cruel fallacy of seeing it as somehow less real and deserving than so-called physical illness.’ -- Henry Marsh CBE, neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm'I was expecting this to make my brain hurt, but I was immediately hooked on it...A witty, humane and fascinating book.' -- Jo Brand‘The book leads the reader through each individual case with literary ease and clarity of explanation, generating understanding and a familiarity, as the reader becomes acquainted with each patient through his gentle, observant, often witty and always engaging narrative.’ -- Fortean Times‘Few are better suited to tell the story of our mental lives than Anthony David. He has written a beautiful, intimate book of the stories he's seen, one that probes at the nexus of the biological and societal...In his shoes, we get to step into the private realm of the psychiatrist's office, and often into the lingering questions left in the psychiatrist's mind.’ -- Dr David Eagleman, neuroscientist at Stanford University and author of Incognito and The Brain‘David writes interestingly and in detail (with the patients' permission) about the disorders which his seven patients suffer and the way these affect their lives. He tells of his own actions, the questions he asks, the responses of the patients to his investigations and treatments, and his difficulties in finding the causes of their disorders. He is honest, too, about his successes and failures […] David's interactions with his patients bring this book to life. He is interested in his patients as individuals and wants to work with them to find the cause of the problem and the most effective treatment […] In the end, looking at the functioning of the brain may be like looking into the abyss, but with this book David hopes to 'demystify psychiatry' and 'help us to change things for the better'.’ * Midwest Book Review *‘An illuminating, thoughtful and humane encounter with the human mind.’ -- Nathan Filer, author of This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health‘Some years ago I told the BMJ that the three biggest influences on me were Anthony Clare, Anthony Soprano and Anthony David. The first sadly is no longer with us, the second never existed, but I am delighted to say that the third has just produced the book we knew he alone could. It’s a classic – warm, erudite, and endlessly fascinating. It reminds me of Oliver Sacks in his prime, and there is no higher praise.’ -- Sir Simon Wessely, Professor of Psychological Medicine, King's College London‘What an insightful and heartfelt book. Professor David's seven in-depth cases expose both the rifts and junctures of the brain and the disordered mind. By emphasizing the subjective inner life of his patients, he provides a welcome antidote to the reductionist thinking of modern medicine while still adhering to sound principles of neuroscience.’ -- Dr Alan Ropper, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and author of Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain'Anthony David brings alive the specialist language of neuropsychiatry – the medical domain where the brain meets the mind – in a series of erudite, insightful and sympathetic accounts of individual patients and their families. This book is written on the basis of a lifetime’s clinical experience but readable by anyone who wants to know more about some of the most challenging and perplexing disorders of consciousness, thought and emotion.' -- Dr Edward Bullmore, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge‘This powerful book can help everyone understand our minds better.’ -- Dr Rahul Jandial, author of Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon'[R]eaders will be captivated... Fascinating stories from the practice of a skilled neuropsychiatrist.' -- Kirkus (Starred reviews)'Displaying intellectual curiosity and pragmatic compassion, David focuses on cases in which the physiological and the psychological converge… Readers will come away from this thoughtful work feeling a sense of connection to both the patients profiled and the practitioners who aim to understand them.' -- Publishers Weekly'Readers seeking a realistic approach to understanding the potential causes of mental illness will appreciate David’s thought-provoking reflections, as will mental health professionals and fans of Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.' -- Library Journal
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company Natural Remedies for Mental and Emotional Health
Book SynopsisA self-care guide to treating mental, emotional, and neurological conditions. Mental health and emotional well-being are just as important as physical health. And like physical health, there are many simple ways to improve and support mental wellness with the healing power of herbs and other holistic remedies and practices. In this comprehensive guide to natural methods to maintain a healthy mind, herbalist Brigitte Mars and natural health expert Chrystle Fiedler explore many common mental health concerns and stress-related issues—such as anxiety, depression, panic attacks, anger, insomnia, brain fog, and trauma—and share remedies and practices to address and heal their root causes. Citing recent medical studies, they examine the influence of diet and nutrition on mental health concerns and explore the benefits of specific foods, herbs, supplements, essential oils, and self-care techniques like acupressure, massage, and color therapy. The auth
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WW Norton & Co Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment
Book SynopsisChallenges the notion that clients with PTSD must revisit, review and process their memories to recover from trauma.Trade Review"This book belongs at the top of a therapist’s reference list... I hope you will find [it] as useful, provocative, therapeutically supportive, and enjoyable as I did." -- Antigone Oreopoulou, Volume 20(2) - International Body Psychotherapy Journal (IBPJ)
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WW Norton & Co Doing Psychotherapy
Book SynopsisHow to start, do and complete psychotherapy that is trauma-and attachment-based as well as culturally informed.
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Penguin Books Ltd Desperate Remedies
Book SynopsisCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPHSHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGHES PRIZE''A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the wellbeing of patients suffering from mental disorders. An eloquent, meticulously documented, clear-eyed call for change'' Dirk WittenbornIn this masterful work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry, sheds light on its troubled historyFor more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called ''madness'' - have been described and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, it is said, is an illness like any other - a disorder that can treated by doctors, whose suffering can be eased, and from which patients can return. And yet serious mental illness remains a profound mystery that is in some ways no closer to being solved than it was at the start of the twentieth century.In this clear-sighted and provocative exploration of psychiatry, acclaimed sociologist Andrew Scull traces the history of its attempts to understand and mitigate mental illness: from the age of the asylum and surgical and chemical interventions, through the rise and fall of Freud and the talking cure, and on to our own time of drug companies and antidepressants. Through it all, Scull argues, the often vain and rash attempts to come to terms with the enigma of mental disorder have frequently resulted in dire consequences for the patient.Deeply researched and lucidly conveyed, Desperate Remedies masterfully illustrates the assumptions and theory behind the therapy, providing a definitive new account of psychiatry''s and society''s battle with mental illness.Trade ReviewThis fascinating picture of psychiatry since 1900 is absolutely essential, deeply felt and absorbing -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *An erudite, precise and impassioned history of 200 years of psychiatry ... five stars -- Simon Ings * The Sunday Telegraph *The chilling truth about mental illness: opportunists, asylums and big pharma - there are few heroes in this enraging study of a great failing. Fascinating -- Sebastian Faulks * The Sunday Times *Desperate Remedies, which tells the story of mental illness over the past two centuries, is meticulously researched and beautifully written, and even funny at times, despite the serious content * Guardian *A vital rallying cry. Scull convincingly conveys the long search for a better take on mental disorder * TLS *A blistering critique. Scull's arguments are passionately delivered and while some might sound radical, they also have common sense * New Statesman *An indisputable masterpiece...a comprehensive, fascinating, and persuasive narrative of the past 200 years of psychiatry. Scull is unsparing in his critiques when motives of money, power, and fame have tempted psychiatrists to disregard the welfare of those under their care * Wall Street Journal *I would recommend this fascinating, alarming and alerting book to anybody. For anyone referred to a psychiatrist it is surely essential -- Horatio Clare * The Spectator *Brimming with wisdom and brio, this masterful work spans the history of modern psychiatric practice, from the abject horrors of Victorian asylums to the complexities surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness to this day. Exceedingly well-researched, wide-ranging, provocative in its conclusions, and magically compact, it is riveting from start to finish. Mark my words, Desperate Remedies will soon be a classic -- Susannah Cahalan, author of Brain on Fire and The Great PretenderDesperate Remedies is a harrowing, heart-pounding history that will leave you gasping. Andrew Scull vividly transports us to the dismal asylums and experimental operating rooms that haunt psychiatry's past and then links that tragic era with our prescription-happy present. Dryly witty, but always compassionate, he shines a light on a century of medical mayhem and the horror it inflicted on the innocent. This is a riveting, powerful and utterly astonishing read -- Simon Rich, author of Hits and MissesAndrew Scull weighs American psychiatry in the balance and finds it seriously wanting. So this may not be the best introductory text for an aspiring medical student. But it is required reading for anyone who appreciates great writing, insight and outstanding scholarship - just the kind of people we want doing psychiatry -- Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King’s College LondonA riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the wellbeing of patients suffering from mental disorders. An eloquent, meticulously documented, clear-eyed call for change -- Dirk Wittenborn, author of PharmakonAn immensely engaging - if often dismaying - account of American psychiatry. Scull impressively balances the social reality that constitutes 'mental illness' with the ever-shifting rationales used to explain such unsettling behaviors and emotions and justify the social function of those who manage these elusive ills. Desperate Remedies is an important contribution to our understanding of a fundamental and still-contested aspect of human experience -- Charles Rosenberg, author of The Care of StrangersAn important plea for psychiatrists not to be seduced into offering a cure that is worse than the disease...Scull's engaging account of the development of psychiatry and psychiatric treatments since the 19th century shows history repeating itself many times over...The grisly part of Scull's story is not gratuitous. It is the context from which modern drugs such as antidepressants and antipsychotics emerged...Desperate Remedies is a reminder of the tragic and barbarous measures that have often been inflicted on people in the name of curing mental disturbance * Literary Review *A provocative and often persuasive analysis of psychiatry...A must-read for those who have been - or fear they will be - touched by mental illness. If psychiatry is to survive, Scull concludes, psychiatrists must be more candid about the limits of their knowledge * Psychology Today *Scull is well aware that psychiatry has vacillated between treating 'the mind' with therapeutic dialogue and treating 'the body' with surgery and psychotropic drugs...The medical discipline has never known and still does not know what it is treating. Scull directs the reader's attention to the fact that after decades of research and billions of dollars spent, not a single biomarker for psychiatric sickness has been discovered * Washington Post *An intensely skeptical history and analysis of psychiatry. The gist of his argument is: although there have been undeniable advancements, mental illness remains baffling, and no discipline has done a great job of treating symptoms and understanding causes. Scull has written the best kind of 'feel-bad' book, lashing offenders left and right with his whip of evidence * New York Times *For me the greatest value of Desperate Remedies is the brilliant spotlight that Scull shines on historical and current truths about psychiatry. There is an implicit plea that is interwoven throughout the book for a measure of relief from the 'devastating tragedy' that envelops people with mental illness. Medical students intending to train in psychiatry would be well served by the masterful perspective Scull provides and the penetrating questions he raises for the profession * The Lancet *Scull delivers a remarkable history of psychiatry. The final section is a devastatingly effective chronicle of the rise of psychopharmacology and its tendency to regard all mental illnesses as potentially treatable with the right medication. This sweeping and comprehensive survey is an impressive feat * Publishers Weekly *A carefully researched history of psychiatry, it provides a critical assessment of the psychiatric enterprise. In the rush to find cures for psychiatric illnesses, Scull believes that there has been a disappointing lack of focus on patients * Psychiatric News *
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Oxford University Press Psychology of Mental Health
Book SynopsisA 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.Psychology of Mental Health will place our current understanding of mental health in context, both historically and culturally. It will discuss various models for understanding mental health, research on causes of mental health problems, and will introduce recent psychology-led alternatives to diagnosis.This edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats. The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks.
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Oxford University Press Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
Book SynopsisImagery is one of the new, exciting frontiers in cognitive therapy. From the outset of cognitive therapy, its founder Dr. Aaron T. Beck recognised the importance of imagery in the understanding and treatment of patient''s problems. However, despite Beck''s prescience, clinical research on imagery, and the integration of imagery interventions into clinical practice, developed slowly. It is only in the past 10 years that most writing and research on imagery in cognitive therapy has been conducted. The Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy is a landmark book, which will play an important role in the next phase of cognitive therapy''s development. Clinicians and researchers are starting to recognise the centrality of imagery in the development, maintenance and treatment of psychological disorders - for example, in social phobia, agoraphobia, depression, PTSD, eating disorders, childhood trauma, and personality disorder. In the fields of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, researchers are identifying the key role that imagery plays in emotion, cognition and psychopathology.The Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy has been written both for clinicians and researchers. For clinicians, it is a user-friendly, practical guide to imagery, which will enable therapists to understand imagery phenomenology, and to integrate imagery-based interventions into their cognitive therapy practice. For researchers, it provides a state-of-the-art summary of imagery research, and points the way to future studies. Written by three well-respected CBT researcher-clinicians, it is essential reading for all cognitive therapists, who have recognised the limitations of purely ''verbal'' CBT techniques, and want to find new ways to work with clients with psychological disorders.Trade ReviewThis volume is a timely addition to the cognitive therapy field and one which will be consulted for many years to come. * The Journal of Behaviour Change, 2012 *Table of ContentsPART ONE: IMAGERY IN CONTEXT; PART TWO: PREPARATION FOR IMAGERY INTERVENTIONS; PART THREE: IMAGERY INTERVENTIONS: REMOVING AND TRANSFORMING NEGATIVE IMAGERY; PART FOUR: IMAGERY INTERVENTIONS: CREATING POSITIVE IMAGERY; PART 5: CONCLUDING COMMENTS
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Hachette Books The Joy Reset
Book SynopsisFrom the 'Brené Brown of trauma' comes a groundbreaking, actionable guide to healing trauma through a reframing and adaptation of Positive Psychology. Joy can feel complicated, especially to someone who is struggling. Against the very real darkness that life offers up, a chorus of “but do you have a gratitude journal?” or “have you tried yoga?” can feel isolating and dismissive. And yet, the research on resilience, joy, gratitude, hope, and post-traumatic growth proves unequivocally that these emotions are healing. When it comes to deploying that research and adapting it into actionable tools for people with a history of trauma, psychology falls desperately short. To bridge this gap, Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald has reframed these concepts and created new interventions for anyone who struggles to feel at home with joy. In The Joy Reset, Dr. McDonald helps readers identify barriers that prevent them from accessing joy—hypervigilance, emotional numbing, fear of loss, conditioning, guilt, and shame—and then redefines positive emotions as those tenacious, gritty, often tiny experiences that appear within the darkest moments and form the very foundation of psychological resilience. Rooted in the neurobiology that explains how and why trauma and suffering can impede our path to hope and joy, Dr. McDonald shares exercises that make joy and gratitude both bite-sized and accessible, inviting readers to welcome these emotions back in. By emphasizing the very real ways that joy and hope show up even in our toughest moments, The Joy Reset empowers readers to find the light in the dark—no matter what.
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Hachette Books Brain Reboot New Treatments for Healing
Book SynopsisHEAL YOUR DEPRESSION AND REGAIN YOUR LIFE-WITH THREE NEW TOOLS ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF TREATMENTEveryone feels depressed sometimes. But a sustained lack of energy, a pro-found inability to enjoy life, or an overwhelming sadness that can render unbearable pain may be symptoms of something more. If you suffer from any of these symptoms, you may be one of 300 million people worldwide who have depression. While we often think of pharmaceutical treatments as the best way to treat depression, the truth is that for many people they either don''t work or lose their efficacy after a time. But there is hope in the form of three groundbreaking therapies: ketamine, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). In Brain Reboot, you''ll learn:* How to get an accurate diagnosis* How to determine what treatment(s) are best for you* The efficacy of ketamine, TMS, and ECT* A clear summary of benefits
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Thriving in College with ADHD
Book SynopsisThriving in College with ADHD uses cognitive-behavioral and psychoeducational techniques to address ADHD and related impairment in a way that is tailored to the needs of college students. This manual distills the expertise of four psychologists with extensive experience helping students with ADHD. The treatment is designed to be effective, flexible, and feasible. Modules address organization, time management, planning, and academic skills, adaptive thinking, healthy lifestyles, relationships, and other life skills. They can be used with individuals or groups and as an abbreviated or comprehensive treatment, tailored to client needs. The accompanying student workbook will increase the treatment's impact and keep college students engaged in learning new skills.Any mental health professional working with college students with ADHD can benefit their clients by adding this approach to their toolbox. Trade Review"A gap in therapy for ADHD has been beautifully addressed by this program for managing executive functioning deficits in the college student population. The authors, all experts in adult ADHD, have distilled their years of clinical research and expertise into a finely-honed program, a necessary resource for anyone working with this ADHD population."Russell A.Barkley, Ph.D. Clinical Neuropsychologist, Retired. Author, Taking Charge of ADHD and Taking Charge of Adult ADHD"A great resource! It takes foundational skills that have been validated in adults and in high school students and applies them to the unique needs of college students. Modules including "adulting," substance use, balancing independence with looping in parents, and next steps in the workplace make this highly relevant. I would highly recommend this program to any clinician working with college students coping with full-fledged ADHD or with related symptoms."Steven A. Safren, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, University of Miami. Author, Mastering Your Adult ADHD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program"Thriving in College with ADHD is the right program at the right time for the field. The therapist guide offers a modular structure grounded in rigorous science with flexibility to meet individual client needs. The accompanying student workbook for clients is inviting and user-friendly. The package helps clinicians transform science into action. Exactly what university counseling centers need right now."Julie S. Owens, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Center for Intervention Research in Schools, Ohio UniversityTable of Contents1. Educating Clients 2. Skill 1: Organization, Time Management & Planning Skills 3. Skill 2: Becoming a Professional Learner 4. Skill 3: Thinking and Responding Differently 5. Skill 4: Taking Good Care of Yourself 6. Skill 5: Being Successful in Relationships 7. Skill 6: Managing Tasks of Daily Living or "Adulting"
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Thriving in College with ADHD
Book SynopsisDeveloped by four professors who also happen to be ADHD experts, this interactive and customizable workbook provides coaching to students with ADHD to make skills like managing time, motivating and organizing oneself, and adulting a workable part of everyday college life. Other books for college students with ADHD only describe personal experiences or just give advice, but this workbook promotes learning through interactive exercises and behavioral practice. It will allow you to address issues most relevant to your needs at whatever pace feels right. Modules are designed to be engaging, digestible, and activity-oriented. With practice, you will come away with improved skills that will help you to succeed in college, and to live your best life. This workbook can be used on its own; however, an accompanying Thriving in College guide for therapists uses an approach that mirrors what you will be learning and doing. If you have this workbook and are getting support from a tTrade Review"A gap in therapy for ADHD has been beautifully addressed by this program for managing executive functioning deficits in the college student population. The authors, all experts in adult ADHD, have distilled their years of clinical research and expertise into a finely-honed program for this college population desperately in need of assistance with the high executive functioning demands of today’s college environment. This highly useful program will be a necessary resource for anyone working with this ADHD population."Russell A.Barkley, Ph.D. Clinical Neuropsychologist, Retired. Author, Taking Charge of ADHD and Taking Charge of Adult ADHD"This program is such a great resource! It takes the foundational skills that have been validated in adults and in high school students and applies them to the unique needs of college students where there are many life-transition milestones. Modules including "adulting", substance use, balancing independence with looping in parents, and setting the stage for next steps in the workplace make this set of skills unique and highly relevant. I would highly recommend this program to any clinician working with college students coping with a full-fledged diagnosis of ADHD or with related symptoms."Steven A. Safren, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, University of Miami. Author, Mastering Your Adult ADHD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program"Thriving in College with ADHD is exactly what clinicians are looking for. This is the right program at the right time for the field. The Therapist Guide offers a modular structure grounded in rigorous science with flexibility to meet individual client needs. The accompanying Student Workbook for clients is inviting and user-friendly with accessible language and relatable examples. The package helps clinicians transform science into action. Exactly what university counseling centers need right now."Julie S. Owens, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Center for Intervention Research in Schools, Ohio UniversityTable of Contents1. Skillset 1: Organization, Time Management, and Planning 2. Skillset 2: Professional Learner Skills 3. Skillset 3: Thinking (and Doing) Differently 4. Skillset 4: Taking Good Care of Yourself 5. Skillset 5: Building Strong Relationships 6. Skillset 6: Adulting
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WW Norton & Co TraumaSensitive Mindfulness
Book SynopsisTools for implementing trauma-sensitive mindfulness practice.Trade Review"Treleaven’s writing is engaging and accessible... [He] has written a timely book about how to modify and accommodate for trauma experiences when practicing mindfulness... Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness is practical, well-organized, and will undoubtedly help clinicians be more cautious and effective when using mindfulness approaches with clients who have trauma histories." -- Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy"This as an informative and readable book, which is evidence based, full of scholarly research as well as lively illustrative case stories and important, practical therapeutic wisdom." -- Human Givens
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Involuntary Dislocation Home Trauma Resilience
Book SynopsisRenos K. Papadopoulos clearly and sensitively explores the experiences of people who reluctantly abandon their homes, searching for safer lives elsewhere, and provides a detailed guide to the complex experiences of involuntary dislocation.Involuntary Dislocation: Home, Trauma, Resilience, and Adversity-Activated Development identifies involuntary dislocation as a distinct phenomenon, challenging existing assumptions and established positions, and explores its linguistic, historical, and cultural contexts. Papadopoulos elaborates on key themes including home, identity, nostalgic disorientation, the victim, and trauma, providing an in-depth understanding of each contributing factor whilst emphasising the human experience throughout. The book concludes by articulating an approach to conceptualising and working with people who have experienced adversities engendered by involuntary dislocation, and with a reflection on the language of repair and renewal. <Trade Review"A sensitive and innovative elaboration of the complex experiences of trauma and dislocation, showing faith in human dignity and resilience!" - Arvo Pärt"Climate change, global inequities, and continued political strife will force increasing numbers of people to flee their homes and struggle to rebuild their lives in new places. In this deeply insightful, critical and creative work, Renos Papadopoulos brings to bear his vast experience in working with refugees and others grappling with dislocation, migration and exile to illuminate their varied predicaments and paths to growth and well-being. In brilliant analyses, he lays bare the epistemological traps of current thinking about trauma and resilience and charts a radical new course. Rich with generative models and metaphors, the frameworks he develops offer powerful ways to understand and respond to the complexities of dislocation through a socially, culturally, and politically informed depth psychology that mobilizes our most human capacities for agency and poiesis." – Laurence J. Kirmayer, M.D., FRCPC, FCAHS. FRSC, James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University"Renos K. Papadopoulos in his new book has written a brilliant analysis of the suffering and the healing associated with the violent loss of home. He offers us a new way of thinking on a much-neglected area in the fields of medicine, mental health and humanitarian aid. He is a master craftsman, building upon philosophy and science to create a new healing approach called ‘Synergic Therapeutic Complexity’. His therapeutic model is based upon the lifetime experience of a gifted clinician. His book is praised for expanding the trauma story by deeply listening to the poetical 'other voice’ of human suffering and adversity. A most important contribution to a major topic!" - Reichard F. Mollica, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director: Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, USA"Papadopoulos unpacks the seductively simple terms of contemporary psychiatric discourse. He exposes the ethical and methodological problems of psychiatry’s pretense to expert knowledge, and unmasks the shallowness of procedures whose claim is to repair the damaged minds of patients. Based on a historically grounded understanding of human wellbeing and a synergic vision of therapy, he acknowledges those who suffer of adversity as partners in a joint endeavor. Thus, rather than sorting patients into fixed identities, his book provides a passionate and erudite plea for a therapeutic poetics that reveals the richness of possibilities inherent in all human experience, including involuntary dislocation." - Professor José Brunner, Tel Aviv University, Israel"A splendid achievement of decades of theoretical and clinical work on migration and involuntary dislocation. Renos Papadopoulos carefully expands our lexicon on this current problem, and his integrative multi-level approach gives innovative guidance to all psychosocial experts in this field." - Andreas Maercker, PhD, MD, Professor of Psychology and Chair, University of Zurich, Switzerland"Though the need to humanise the refugee protection discourse is increasingly understood, the rigid taxonomy that informs the design of refugee support services, in both the statutory and voluntary sectors, systematically fails to acknowledge the subjectivity of the refugee experience. In doing so, the need to personalise the help we offer is often overlooked and the quality of the protection we provide is diminished. In this welcome book, Professor Papadopoulos posits an approach that is rooted in the singularity of the enforced exile experience and questions the efficacy of our utilitarian, one-size-fits-all, asylum system." - Maurice Wren, Chief Executive, Refugee Council, UK"This is an important book. With a rare combination of unflinching academic rigour and great empathy, Renos Papadopoulos challenges the reader, and indeed, anyone interested in involuntary migration and its sequelae, to stop and think again. This rethinking helps to move us beyond old but unhelpful binaries such as victim/rescuer, and knower/known, leading in turn not just to a radical rethinking of the epistemic justice issues which trouble much work on forced migration but also, crucially, to a new way of caring through shared humanity and vulnerability. I encourage readers (including myself) to open themselves to the radical, and exceptionally generative critique that this book offers us." - Leslie Swartz, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa"This is a truly remarkable and timely book. We are in the middle of a pandemic, forced migration fuelling violence across the globe, and the rising suicide rate among youth is an alarming indicator of societal distress. Renos doesn’t avoid the places in human life where we meet tragedy and profound human suffering; on the contrary, he takes us right into the midst of it, but without being overwhelmed by the misery. His approach, deeply rooted in decades of working with those at the fringes of society, serves as a template for a creative and proactive response to dealing with traumatic experiences. This is exactly what we need in the helping professions, i.e. realistic hope driven by an evidence-based approach that goes well beyond empiricism." - Frank Röhricht, MD, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Director, East London NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, UK"In the plethora of ideas about these very important and topical subjects, this book provides an original, refreshing and welcome contribution! A scholarly and poetic work of immense applicable value." - Professor Angela Abela PhD, Department of Family Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, Malta"This book brings together threads of ancient philosophy together with the author's expertise in psychotherapeutic practice, challenging notions such as the trauma discourse, victimisation, the meaning of home and of well-being. A highly provocative and rewarding contribution." - Professor Renee Hirschon, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford, UK"This important volume is scholarly but accessible, situating ‘trauma’ in cultural, historical, and social context. Most importantly the volume addresses ‘trauma’ in a way highly focused on the therapeutic mission as a collaborative process, giving key insights to the nature of ‘being’ and its healing. It is a greatly enriching read, which is essential reading for those interested in these topics."- Devon E. Hinton, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, USA"In Involuntary Dislocation, Renos Papadopoulos offers readers an innovative framework for conceptualizing exile and involuntary dislocation from homelands. With a broad perspective that takes us back to Homer and Aristotle and forward to therapeutic interactions, Papadopoulos reimagines therapeutic work with displaced persons that neither pathologizes nor victimizes, but rather explores collaboratively what it is to long for a lost home and dare to build a new one." - Nancy Sherman, author, Afterwar and Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience; Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA"This is a much-anticipated book that addresses the complexity of migration, refugees and exile from a wide perspective that encompasses both the traumatic aftermath of the process as well as the resilience and positive development. It will broaden the empathetic understanding and help all practitioners working with trauma survivors to step out of the clichés of victimization and engage with empowering and resilience building. The book will assist NGO’s and others working with individuals on the move to design psychosocial support interventions within a highly effective framework." - Dr Shahla Eltayeb, associate professor of Mental Health, Director, Ahfad Trauma Center, Sudan"Finally, the book of a psychoanalyst that combines clinical work and systematic theoretical reflection with the commitment of a seasoned humanitarian worker. This is a well formulated rethinking of how to approach trauma. Connecting insights from psychoanalysis, philosophy and human sciences, the book explores the ability of affected individuals and groups to face suffering in order to reorient themselves and search for new meaning in a world frayed by political and psychic chaos, and where involuntary dislocation represents one of its most dramatic symptoms." - Professor Romano Màdera, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy'This book explores masterly the depths of the essence of dislocation and trauma experiences. An indispensable aid for all working in this field." - Dr Meri Avetisyan, Manager, Office for Migration and Integration, Freiburg"No one chooses to be a refugee. Professor Papadopoulos' book is a much-needed eye-opener on the involuntary condition of refugees and the spectrum of their adversity psychosocial responses. Understanding the different layers of their dislocation complexities is a must in a world that has largely dehumanized them." - Dalal Mawad, award-winning Lebanese journalist and senior producer with the Associated Press"Renos Papadopoulos' book is a landmark legacy from a world's leading scholar and clinician, who has devoted his life to the theoretical understanding and practical intervention on the very challenging phenomena of human forced displacement. Its personal, scientific and applicable character provides an invaluable source for understanding the complexity involved in involuntary displacement. Based on an original and convincing epistemological framework and rooted in a deeply human perspective, this book must be read, pondered and studied." - Professor Stefano Carta, University of Cagliari, Italy"I welcome this book that combines sound theorisation with high applicability!" - Rugiatu Turay. Former Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Sierra Leone"Involuntary Dislocation describes a complex and pervasive condition that is, today, typically identified with refugee populations and collective trauma. Papadopoulos wants to untangle the condition’s experiential meanings and transformations, and to avoid the ‘epistemological traps’ that often distort scholarly accounts. The most pernicious traps are ones embedded in the unexamined presuppositions of the researchers’ language. Papadopoulos’ solution is a language and perspective faithful to the ‘nostalgic disorientation’ of involuntary dislocation." - Allan Young, PhD, author, The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Canada"This volume draws inspiration from the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophy and mythology, contemporary science and the author's rich clinical experience. In a thoughtful way, it paves new avenues towards better and more comprehensive understanding of complexity of ‘refugeehood’, and of those being impacted by it. Highly innovative and very recommended."- Boris Drožđek, MD, PhD, psychiatrist/psychotherapist, De Hemisfeer, Den Bosch, The Netherlands"Renos’s book provides a unique framework to grasp and deal with the phenomena of trauma, resilience and 'involuntary dislocation'. Its breadth and scope, the variety of themes explored, and his courageous theorisation fundamentally provokes both thought and emotion. Any person working with refugees and trauma will treasure this book, as it provides an inspiring alternative to the traditional approaches, helping mental health workers become reflective, observant and introspective." - Ayten Zara, Assistant Professor, Bilgi University, Istanbul; Founding Director of World Human Relief"Drawing upon a wealth of experience, in the academy and the field, Renos Papadopoulos offers us an innovative and brilliant approach to trauma and involuntary dislocation. This book has the potential for transforming the field and the lives of an ever-increasing number of suffering human beings." - John Behr, PhD; Regius Professor of Humanity, University of Aberdeen, UK"This seminal work should be required reading for everyone working with displaced persons and adversity survivors. It develops our sensitivity to disentangle the narratives that we construct and within which we are defined, leading us to re-evaluate our understanding of what constitutes therapeutic support." - Assia Khashoggi, Psychotherapist and Counsellor, Co-founder of ACT Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia"The author proposes a fundamental shift in our understanding of involuntary dislocation: from the dominant approach of charitable and repairing help to victims, to relating with them through genuine empowering of their agency. This is congruent with spiritual perspectives that emphasise the healing of both the sufferers and those who help them." - Dr Boris S. Bratus, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Dean, Psychology Department, Russian Orthodox University of John the Evangelist, Russia"In the age of migration and trauma, Renos Papadopoulos reminds us that we need original concepts and innovative practical tools for understanding the world and for healing the wounds of million people that leave their homes seeking refuge and a better life. His voice is full of authoritative knowledge and humanity, and this makes this unique book absolutely essential." - Antonello d’Elia M.D., Psychiatrist, Family Therapist, President of Psichiatria Democratica, Italy"This book introduces a remarkable conceptual clarification of the key processes of involuntary dislocation and of suffering adversity that create new perspectives that can lead to formulating complex models of practical interventions not only for those who are displaced but also for all adversity survivors and with wider implications affecting our very understanding of what is psychotherapy." - Professor Emeritus Dr Ivan Ivić, University of Belgrade, Serbia"Scientific revolutions are predicated on the formation of new paradigms. In this work Renos Papadopoulos takes us with him, as he constructs a fundamentally new way to understanding the human dimensions of forced migration. In developing an essentially "eudaimonic" epistemology, he provides a practical framework for mental health and humanitarian workers, academics, and researchers. The book will provide new opportunities for practitioners and researchers to adopt innovative approaches addressing the needs of people facing adversities from forced displacement." - Robert Schweitzer, Professor of Psychology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia"This book explicates the very essence of psychotraumatology by providing bold and meaningful explorations, revisiting the ‘internal’ and ‘external’ manifestations of human experiences of adversity. It revises our mainstream concepts, reminding us of the archetypical trajectories of crucial phenomena such as those of trauma, home, victimisation and pathologization." - Dr Nino Makhashvili, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, Technology, and Education, Head of Mental Health Resource Center, Ilia State University Tbilisi, Georgia"The issue of involuntary dislocation is an extremely sensitive subject and it requires an extremely sensitive treatment, and this is what this book provides, most competently, in a scholarly and yet highly accessible manner." - Khachatur Gasparyan, PhD, Chair, Medical Psychology Department, Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia"Among the many contributions that Renos Papadopoulos makes in this book is providing a unique framework for understanding refugee trauma. He offers an approach to recognizing the therapeutic potential to working with displaced individuals and their families that lies beyond professional clinical interventions and is located in the myriad of interactions in the refugee’s social ecology and which can be described as ‘being therapeutic’." - Jack Saul, PhD, Licensed Psychologist; Director, International Trauma Studies Program; author, Collective Trauma, Collective Healing"A book full of inspiration, wisdom and practical guidance! So many new concepts that capture the subtleties of phenomena, revealing previously unknown landscapes of these fields. What a eudaemonic reading!" - Nikos Gionakis, Psychologist, Director, Babel Day Centre for the Mental Health of Refugees and Migrants, Athens, Greece"There is a Latin saying that translates to nothing about us without us. Involuntary Dislocation takes this saying to heart. Celebrating how people in adversity ‘articulate their own experiences using their own subtle expressions’, the book is a precious contribution for all those experiencing adversity. In the same vein as the classic Where There is No Doctor, this book speaks of how we can all engender and enjoy ‘therapeutic benefits’ in our ‘interactions and activities’. Filled with a toolbox worth of educational resources for mental health first aid, this is the book about and with people living through adversity. It teaches us how we all can appreciate the ‘public tragedy’ we and/or others may experience, while at the same time finding ourselves and our healing through respectful appreciation of the positive responses to adversity. In the same way that Frantz Fanon redefined our entire way of thinking about adversity and our experience of it, this book redefines our thinking around not only mental health but also forced migration, brilliantly re-conceptualised as ‘involuntary dislocation’. It turns our attention to the universal struggle to reconnect, renew, and seek enlightenment or radical transformation, and it offers concrete ways to support that struggle in the midst of the gravest of adversities. Many of this book’s readers will find solace in its pages, and in its widening of ‘perspectives and potentialities’. World-renowned psychoanalyst Renos Papadopoulos has given a gift in this book, parallel to his unflagging work around the world. And it comes, we may all agree, at a time when too often, ‘adversity strikes’.This book redefines our thinking around not only mental health but also forced migration, brilliantly re-conceptualised as "involuntary dislocation". It turns our attention to the universal struggle to reconnect, renew, and seek enlightenment or radical transformation, and it offers concrete ways to support that struggle in the midst of the gravest of adversities." - Nadia Abu-Zahra, DPhil (Oxon), Associate Professor, Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada"An impressive critical intellectual exploration of the experience of involuntary displacement and therapeutic responses to trauma. The book offers an innovative framework to comprehend the complexity of trauma and the importance of collaborative therapeutic strategies to help activate and actualise victims’ strengths and resilience." – Professor Emeritus Michael Humphrey, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney. "This book provides us with a new and highly sensitive compass to navigate through the adversity odysseys of modern life. Papadopoulos’ concept of Adversity-Activated Development in practice transforms suffering into opportunities for self-realization. I warmly commend this book to everyone looking for a safe home in our times of turbulence." – Kazuyuki Hirao, MD PhD, Professor/Psychiatrist/Clinical Psychologist, Kyoto Bunkyo University."Migrants are usually approached either from cold and impersonal or from methodical and structured perspectives. This brilliant book challenges our epistemological positions with which we usually tend to look at the human phenomenon of migration; it is simply enlightening, giving us new positions, invite us to rethink our imperceptible biases. This book transcends the interventionist approach of the professional in psychology or related disciplines, inviting us to explore new vistas, including the involuntarily dislocated persons’ potentialities and their natural modes of resilience. It places on the reader's retina elements of greater clarity, e.g. how the social contexts that generate migration are incongruous with what is our most intimate reality of wellbeing – being at home!" – Julio Aragón Durán, Institutional Social Responsibility Liaison Officer, Migration Authority, Costa Rica.'A sensitive and innovative elaboration of the complex experiences of trauma and dislocation, showing faith in human dignity and resilience!' - Arvo Pärt'Climate change, global inequities, and continued political strife will force increasing numbers of people to flee their homes and struggle to rebuild their lives in new places. In this deeply insightful, critical and creative work, Renos Papadopoulos brings to bear his vast experience in working with refugees and others grappling with dislocation, migration and exile to illuminate their varied predicaments and paths to growth and well-being. In brilliant analyses, he lays bare the epistemological traps of current thinking about trauma and resilience and charts a radical new course. Rich with generative models and metaphors, the frameworks he develops offer powerful ways to understand and respond to the complexities of dislocation through a socially, culturally, and politically informed depth psychology that mobilizes our most human capacities for agency and poiesis.' – Laurence J. Kirmayer, M.D., FRCPC, FCAHS. FRSC, James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University'Renos K. Papadopoulos in his new book has written a brilliant analysis of the suffering and the healing associated with the violent loss of home. He offers us a new way of thinking on a much-neglected area in the fields of medicine, mental health and humanitarian aid. He is a master craftsman, building upon philosophy and science to create a new healing approach called "Synergic Therapeutic Complexity". His therapeutic model is based upon the lifetime experience of a gifted clinician. His book is praised for expanding the trauma story by deeply listening to the poetical "other voice" of human suffering and adversity. A most important contribution to a major topic!' - Richard F. Mollica, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director: Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, USA'Papadopoulos unpacks the seductively simple terms of contemporary psychiatric discourse. He exposes the ethical and methodological problems of psychiatry’s pretense to expert knowledge, and unmasks the shallowness of procedures whose claim is to repair the damaged minds of patients. Based on a historically grounded understanding of human wellbeing and a synergic vision of therapy, he acknowledges those who suffer of adversity as partners in a joint endeavor. Thus, rather than sorting patients into fixed identities, his book provides a passionate and erudite plea for a therapeutic poetics that reveals the richness of possibilities inherent in all human experience, including involuntary dislocation.' - Professor José Brunner, Tel Aviv University, Israel'A splendid achievement of decades of theoretical and clinical work on migration and involuntary dislocation. Renos Papadopoulos carefully expands our lexicon on this current problem, and his integrative multi-level approach gives innovative guidance to all psychosocial experts in this field.' - Andreas Maercker, PhD, MD, Professor of Psychology and Chair, University of Zurich, Switzerland'Though the need to humanise the refugee protection discourse is increasingly understood, the rigid taxonomy that informs the design of refugee support services, in both the statutory and voluntary sectors, systematically fails to acknowledge the subjectivity of the refugee experience. In doing so, the need to personalise the help we offer is often overlooked and the quality of the protection we provide is diminished. In this welcome book, Professor Papadopoulos posits an approach that is rooted in the singularity of the enforced exile experience and questions the efficacy of our utilitarian, one-size-fits-all, asylum system.' - Maurice Wren, Chief Executive, Refugee Council, UK'This is an important book. With a rare combination of unflinching academic rigour and great empathy, Renos Papadopoulos challenges the reader, and indeed, anyone interested in involuntary migration and its sequelae, to stop and think again. This rethinking helps to move us beyond old but unhelpful binaries such as victim/rescuer, and knower/known, leading in turn not just to a radical rethinking of the epistemic justice issues which trouble much work on forced migration but also, crucially, to a new way of caring through shared humanity and vulnerability. I encourage readers (including myself) to open themselves to the radical, and exceptionally generative critique that this book offers us.' - Leslie Swartz, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa'This is a truly remarkable and timely book. We are in the middle of a pandemic, forced migration fuelling violence across the globe, and the rising suicide rate among youth is an alarming indicator of societal distress. Renos doesn’t avoid the places in human life where we meet tragedy and profound human suffering; on the contrary, he takes us right into the midst of it, but without being overwhelmed by the misery. His approach, deeply rooted in decades of working with those at the fringes of society, serves as a template for a creative and proactive response to dealing with traumatic experiences. This is exactly what we need in the helping professions, i.e. realistic hope driven by an evidence-based approach that goes well beyond empiricism.' - Frank Röhricht, MD, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Director, East London NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, UK'In the plethora of ideas about these very important and topical subjects, this book provides an original, refreshing and welcome contribution! A scholarly and poetic work of immense applicable value.' - Professor Angela Abela PhD, Department of Family Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, Malta"This book brings together threads of ancient philosophy together with the author's expertise in psychotherapeutic practice, challenging notions such as the trauma discourse, victimisation, the meaning of home and of well-being. A highly provocative and rewarding contribution." - Professor Renee Hirschon, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford, UK'This important volume is scholarly but accessible, situating "trauma" in cultural, historical, and social context. Most importantly the volume addresses "trauma" in a way highly focused on the therapeutic mission as a collaborative process, giving key insights to the nature of ‘being’ and its healing. It is a greatly enriching read, which is essential reading for those interested in these topics'E. Hinton, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, USA'In Involuntary Dislocation, Renos Papadopoulos offers readers an innovative framework for conceptualizing exile and involuntary dislocation from homelands. With a broad perspective that takes us back to Homer and Aristotle and forward to therapeutic interactions, Papadopoulos reimagines therapeutic work with displaced persons that neither pathologizes nor victimizes, but rather explores collaboratively what it is to long for a lost home and dare to build a new one.' - Nancy Sherman, author, Afterwar and Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience; Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA'This is a much-anticipated book that addresses the complexity of migration, refugees and exile from a wide perspective that encompasses both the traumatic aftermath of the process as well as the resilience and positive development. It will broaden the empathetic understanding and help all practitioners working with trauma survivors to step out of the clichés of victimization and engage with empowering and resilience building. The book will assist NGO’s and others working with individuals on the move to design psychosocial support interventions within a highly effective framework.' - Dr Shahla Eltayeb, associate professor of Mental Health, Director, Ahfad Trauma Center, Sudan'Finally, the book of a psychoanalyst that combines clinical work and systematic theoretical reflection with the commitment of a seasoned humanitarian worker. This is a well formulated rethinking of how to approach trauma. Connecting insights from psychoanalysis, philosophy and human sciences, the book explores the ability of affected individuals and groups to face suffering in order to reorient themselves and search for new meaning in a world frayed by political and psychic chaos, and where involuntary dislocation represents one of its most dramatic symptoms.' - Professor Romano Màdera, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy'This book explores masterly the depths of the essence of dislocation and trauma experiences. An indispensable aid for all working in this field.' - Dr Meri Avetisyan, Manager, Office for Migration and Integration, Freiburg'No one chooses to be a refugee. Professor Papadopoulos' book is a much-needed eye-opener on the involuntary condition of refugees and the spectrum of their adversity psychosocial responses. Understanding the different layers of their dislocation complexities is a must in a world that has largely dehumanized them.' - Dalal Mawad, award-winning Lebanese journalist and senior producer with the Associated Press'Renos Papadopoulos' book is a landmark legacy from a world's leading scholar and clinician, who has devoted his life to the theoretical understanding and practical intervention on the very challenging phenomena of human forced displacement. Its personal, scientific and applicable character provides an invaluable source for understanding the complexity involved in involuntary displacement. Based on an original and convincing epistemological framework and rooted in a deeply human perspective, this book must be read, pondered and studied.' - Professor Stefano Carta, University of Cagliari, Italy'I welcome this book that combines sound theorisation with high applicability!' - Rugiatu Turay. Former Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Sierra Leone'Involuntary Dislocation describes a complex and pervasive condition that is, today, typically identified with refugee populations and collective trauma. Papadopoulos wants to untangle the condition’s experiential meanings and transformations, and to avoid the "epistemological traps" that often distort scholarly accounts. The most pernicious traps are ones embedded in the unexamined presuppositions of the researchers’ language. Papadopoulos’ solution is a language and perspective faithful to the "nostalgic disorientation" of involuntary dislocation.' - Allan Young, PhD, author, The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Canada'This volume draws inspiration from the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophy and mythology, contemporary science and the author's rich clinical experience. In a thoughtful way, it paves new avenues towards better and more comprehensive understanding of complexity of "refugeehood", and of those being impacted by it. Highly innovative and very recommended.2' Boris Drožđek, MD, PhD, psychiatrist/psychotherapist, De Hemisfeer, Den Bosch, The Netherlands'Renos’s book provides a unique framework to grasp and deal with the phenomena of trauma, resilience and "involuntary dislocation". Its breadth and scope, the variety of themes explored, and his courageous theorisation fundamentally provokes both thought and emotion. Any person working with refugees and trauma will treasure this book, as it provides an inspiring alternative to the traditional approaches, helping mental health workers become reflective, observant and introspective.' - Ayten Zara, Assistant Professor, Bilgi University, Istanbul; Founding Director of World Human Relief'Drawing upon a wealth of experience, in the academy and the field, Renos Papadopoulos offers us an innovative and brilliant approach to trauma and involuntary dislocation. This book has the potential for transforming the field and the lives of an ever-increasing number of suffering human beings.' - John Behr, PhD; Regius Professor of Humanity, University of Aberdeen, UK'This seminal work should be required reading for everyone working with displaced persons and adversity survivors. It develops our sensitivity to disentangle the narratives that we construct and within which we are defined, leading us to re-evaluate our understanding of what constitutes therapeutic support.' - Assia Khashoggi, Psychotherapist and Counsellor, Co-founder of ACT Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia'The author proposes a fundamental shift in our understanding of involuntary dislocation: from the dominant approach of charitable and repairing help to victims, to relating with them through genuine empowering of their agency. This is congruent with spiritual perspectives that emphasise the healing of both the sufferers and those who help them.' - Dr Boris S. Bratus, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Dean, Psychology Department, Russian Orthodox University of John the Evangelist, Russia'In the age of migration and trauma, Renos Papadopoulos reminds us that we need original concepts and innovative practical tools for understanding the world and for healing the wounds of million people that leave their homes seeking refuge and a better life. His voice is full of authoritative knowledge and humanity, and this makes this unique book absolutely essential.' - Antonello d’Elia M.D., Psychiatrist, Family Therapist, President of Psichiatria Democratica, Italy'This book introduces a remarkable conceptual clarification of the key processes of involuntary dislocation and of suffering adversity that create new perspectives that can lead to formulating complex models of practical interventions not only for those who are displaced but also for all adversity survivors and with wider implications affecting our very understanding of what is psychotherapy.' - Professor Emeritus Dr Ivan Ivić, University of Belgrade, Serbia'Scientific revolutions are predicated on the formation of new paradigms. In this work Renos Papadopoulos takes us with him, as he constructs a fundamentally new way to understanding the human dimensions of forced migration. In developing an essentially "eudaimonic" epistemology, he provides a practical framework for mental health and humanitarian workers, academics, and researchers. The book will provide new opportunities for practitioners and researchers to adopt innovative approaches addressing the needs of people facing adversities from forced displacement.' - Robert Schweitzer, Professor of Psychology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'This book explicates the very essence of psychotraumatology by providing bold and meaningful explorations, revisiting the ‘internal’ and ‘external’ manifestations of human experiences of adversity. It revises our mainstream concepts, reminding us of the archetypical trajectories of crucial phenomena such as those of trauma, home, victimisation and pathologization.' - Dr Nino Makhashvili, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, Technology, and Education, Head of Mental Health Resource Center, Ilia State University Tbilisi, Georgia'The issue of involuntary dislocation is an extremely sensitive subject and it requires an extremely sensitive treatment, and this is what this book provides, most competently, in a scholarly and yet highly accessible manner.' - Khachatur Gasparyan, PhD, Chair, Medical Psychology Department, Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia'Among the many contributions that Renos Papadopoulos makes in this book is providing a unique framework for understanding refugee trauma. He offers an approach to recognizing the therapeutic potential to working with displaced individuals and their families that lies beyond professional clinical interventions and is located in the myriad of interactions in the refugee’s social ecology and which can be described as "being therapeutic".' - Jack Saul, PhD, Licensed Psychologist; Director, International Trauma Studies Program; author, Collective Trauma, Collective Healing'A book full of inspiration, wisdom and practical guidance! So many new concepts that capture the subtleties of phenomena, revealing previously unknown landscapes of these fields. What a eudaemonic reading!' - Nikos Gionakis, Psychologist, Director, Babel Day Centre for the Mental Health of Refugees and Migrants, Athens, Greece'There is a Latin saying that translates to nothing about us without us. Involuntary Dislocation takes this saying to heart. Celebrating how people in adversity "articulate their own experiences using their own subtle expressions", the book is a precious contribution for all those experiencing adversity. In the same vein as the classic Where There is No Doctor, this book speaks of how we can all engender and enjoy "therapeutic benefits" in our "interactions and activities". Filled with a toolbox worth of educational resources for mental health first aid, this is the book about and with people living through adversity. It teaches us how we all can appreciate the "public tragedy" we and/or others may experience, while at the same time finding ourselves and our healing through respectful appreciation of the positive responses to adversity. In the same way that Frantz Fanon redefined our entire way of thinking about adversity and our experience of it, this book redefines our thinking around not only mental health but also forced migration, brilliantly re-conceptualised as "involuntary dislocation". It turns our attention to the universal struggle to reconnect, renew, and seek enlightenment or radical transformation, and it offers concrete ways to support that struggle in the midst of the gravest of adversities. Many of this book’s readers will find solace in its pages, and in its widening of "perspectives and potentialities". World-renowned psychoanalyst Renos Papadopoulos has given a gift in this book, parallel to his unflagging work around the world. And it comes, we may all agree, at a time when too often, "adversity strikes".This book redefines our thinking around not only mental health but also forced migration, brilliantly re-conceptualised as "involuntary dislocation". It turns our attention to the universal struggle to reconnect, renew, and seek enlightenment or radical transformation, and it offers concrete ways to support that struggle in the midst of the gravest of adversities.' - Nadia Abu-Zahra, DPhil (Oxon), Associate Professor, Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada'An impressive critical intellectual exploration of the experience of involuntary displacement and therapeutic responses to trauma. The book offers an innovative framework to comprehend the complexity of trauma and the importance of collaborative therapeutic strategies to help activate and actualise victims’ strengths and resilience.' – Professor Emeritus Michael Humphrey, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney'This book provides us with a new and highly sensitive compass to navigate through the adversity odysseys of modern life. Papadopoulos’ concept of Adversity-Activated Development in practice transforms suffering into opportunities for self-realization. I warmly commend this book to everyone looking for a safe home in our times of turbulence.' – Kazuyuki Hirao, MD PhD, Professor/Psychiatrist/Clinical Psychologist, Kyoto Bunkyo University'Migrants are usually approached either from cold and impersonal or from methodical and structured perspectives. This brilliant book challenges our epistemological positions with which we usually tend to look at the human phenomenon of migration; it is simply enlightening, giving us new positions, invite us to rethink our imperceptible biases. This book transcends the interventionist approach of the professional in psychology or related disciplines, inviting us to explore new vistas, including the involuntarily dislocated persons’ potentialities and their natural modes of resilience. It places on the reader's retina elements of greater clarity, e.g. how the social contexts that generate migration are incongruous with what is our most intimate reality of wellbeing – being at home!' – Julio Aragón Durán, Institutional Social Responsibility Liaison Officer, Migration Authority, Costa RicaTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. 1. Epistemological Cycle 2. Involuntary Dislocation 3. Historical and Language Reflections 4. Public Tragedies and Polymorphous Helplessness Part II. 5. Home 6. Identity 7. Nostalgic Disorientation 8. The Victim 9. Trauma Part III. 10. Involuntary Dislocation Adversities Epilogue. Synergic Therapeutic Complexity and Being Therapeutic
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Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Modern CBT provides an easily accessible introduction to modern theoretical cognitive behavioral therapy models. The text outlines the different techniques, their success in improving specific psychiatric disorders, and important new developments in the field. Provides an easy-to-read introduction into modern Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approaches with specific case examples and hands-on treatment techniques Discusses the theoretical models of CBT, outlines the different techniques that have been shown to be successful in improving specific psychiatric disorders, and describes important new developments in the field Offers useful guidance for therapists in training and is an invaluable reference tool for experienced cliniciansTrade Review"Hofmann’s non-defensive and even-handed approach lends the book unprecedented breadth and depth, unbiased by allegiance to any proprietary model. His thoroughgoing commitment to science as the only legitimate guide to the growth of CBT makes this book the most powerful of its kind." (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Book Reviews, 2012) “Nevertheless, this book is a great read and will serve as a permanent reference resource for anyone searching for an engaging introduction to modern CBT.” (British Psychological Society, 2012) "This well-produced book is clearly written and nicely illustrated. It starts off by presenting the basic tenets of CBT, and then describes how the approach can be applied to some of the most common mental health issues... this book would make an excellent core text for introducing trainees to the fundamentals of a CBT approach to common mental health problems." (The Psychologist, April 2012)"This well-produced book is clearly written and nicely illustrated. It starts off by presenting the basic tenets of CBT, and then describes how the approach can be applied to some of the most common mental health issues... this book would make an excellent core text for introducing trainees to the fundamentals of a CBT approach to common mental health problems." (The Psychologist, April 2012)Table of ContentsAbout the Author ix Foreword xi Acknowledgment xiii Preface xv Chapter 1 The Basic Idea 1 Chapter 2 Empowering the Mind 23 Chapter 3 Confronting Phobias 47 Chapter 4 Fighting Panic and Agoraphobia 61 Chapter 5 Conquering Social Anxiety Disorder 79 Chapter 6 Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 93 Chapter 7 Beating Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Worry 105 Chapter 8 Dealing with Depression 121 Chapter 9 Overcoming Alcohol Problems 135 Chapter 10 Resolving Sexual Problems 151 Chapter 11 Managing Pain 165 Chapter 12 Mastering Sleep 177 References 191 Index 205
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Book SynopsisAnn Cvetkovich combines memoir and cultural critique in search of ways of writing about depression as a public cultural and political phenomenon rather than as a personal medical pathology.Trade Review"A provocative addition to Ann Cvetkovich's eloquent writings on the archives of public feelings, this book takes depression out of the space of the private into the complex politics of our time. Weaving together memoir, cultural and medical history, and literary and theoretical discussion, Cvetkovich experiments with and reflects on unconventional ways of writing about embodiment, cognition, and affect. Along the way, she offers myriad prescriptions, small and large, on how to cope with the daily effects of depression and how to heal the world."—Marianne Hirsch, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust"Combining cultural critique with nuanced readings of queer aesthetic practices, and mixing theoretical reflections on experience with experiments in memoir, Depression: A Public Feeling delivers not only critical insights but also wisdom. The book offers a model for something like collective or collaborative authorship; framed as a project conceived in concert with a far-flung community of academics, activists, and artists, Depression is a departure from academic business as usual. This is a profoundly inspiring book."—Heather Love, author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History“Aesthetics, anecdotes and evidence against the medical model.” -- Tyler Cowen * New York Times Magazine *“Depression: A Public Feeling… sets out to challenge ‘contemporary medical notions’ of depression ‘that simultaneously relieve one of responsibility (it’s just genes or chemicals) and provide agency (you can fix it by taking a pill)’. . . . In anatomising her ‘lived experience’ of writer’s block, Cvetkovich invites the reader to ask whether, despite the trade-specific terminology, this is still a symptom exclusive to writers. . . . [H]er perceptions are agile.” -- Talitha Stevenson * New Statesman *“Depression succeeds at opening up a public discussion on certain kinds of depression that are often dismissed as trivial, like the stress of academic labour. . . . [C]lear and helpful with a vision for overcoming melancholy through a transformation of everyday life.” -- William Burton * Lambda Literary Review *“[Cvetkovich] has taken some huge risks with Depression. Rather than building a traditional academic argument with research and theory, the book combines stylistically distinct and potentially disparate parts that add up to a highly readable, relatable, radical treatise that provides many points of entry and fresh thinking on one of the most overexamined subjects of the past few decades.” -- Cindy Widner * Austin Chronicle *“At one end, Depression is a call to expand how we frame and engage with depression, and at the other it’s an internal appeal to academia to accept personal experience as a valid source material for scholarship. By melding the personal and the academic, Cvetkovich is creating an important new forum for how we discuss depression. . . . The material is totally fascinating. . . .” -- Nina Lary * Bitch *“Cvetkovich offers us an introduction to thinking critically about depression's causes and its manifestations as well as, perhaps, the localised tactics that are necessary to enable recovery. At the end, she turns rather sweetly to crafting as one reparative habit, partly because of the aesthetic of connectivity that it can stimulate. Knitting yourself out of depression: it's kind of folksy, but I liked it.” -- Sally Munt * Times Higher Education *“The book’s merit is in jolting us out of our habit of thinking about depression as a personal, medical issue, reminding us of the ways in which the rules and roles of society influence our psyches and feelings about ourselves. By taking depression out of the exclusive domain of the therapeutic culture, [Cvetkovich] challenges us to make new connections between the individual’s experience of depression and life within a depressive culture.” -- Irene Javors * Gay & Lesbian Review *“[A]n experiment in connecting personal feelings with social conditions and critical analysis. . . . Cvetkovich finds a variety of ways to utilize the tools of academe to build a shelter from the traumas of academe. It's both funny and oddly endearing to see an academic response to depression that turns it into a field, organizes conferences and protests with special and entertaining dress requirements, recommends cures for writing blocks, and appropriates American anxiety in the interest of getting academic work published.” -- Elaine Showalter * Chronicle Review *“Although she is not the first to consider that institutionalized racism causes depression, Cvetkovich’s take on academia’s ills is unique. . . . Still, Depression is not a pity party. Cvetkovich offers hope to all who fight depression by suggesting that as she has emerged from despair, so can others.” -- Rachel Pepper * Curve *“Cvetkovich draws us into her own encounters with various obstacles and leaves us with the sense that all the insights she has gained have been unexpected gifts—earned through lots of hard work, but still contingent, provisional, uncertain. If you have ever been a struggling academic, you will relate, and you will feel grateful.” -- Aaron Sachs * American Quarterly *"It is important that Cvetkovich is able to balance the personal desire for feeling better alongside a questioning of the investment that exists in both medical and critical social models of depression. Importantly, while this approach never undermines the experience of depression by positioning it only as a construction, it still draws attention to commonplace assumptions about feeling sad, being political and getting better. Cvetkovich weaves her own journal through the critical reading that makes her work so compelling—simultaneously taking seriously, and asking us to question, the more familiar narrative she has just shared." -- Jacqueline Gibbs * Feminist Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Depression Journals (A Memoir) Going Down 29 Swimming 43 The Return 62 Reflections: Memoir as Public Feelings Research Method 74 Part II. A Public Feelings Project (A Speculative Essay) 1. Writing Depression: Acedia, History, and Medical Models 85 2. From Dispossession to Radical Self-Possession: Racism and Depression 115 3. The Utopia of Ordinary Habit: Crafting, Creativity, and Spiritual Practice 154 Epilogue 203 Notes 213 Bibliography 243 Illustration Credits 265 Index 267
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Anthroposophic Press Inc Lifting the Veil of Mental Illness
Book SynopsisMental illnesses are too often seen only in abstract terms. In keeping with this, mainstream psychology, which seldom acknowledges the psyche or soul, relies increasingly on pharmaceutical treatment. In his unique approach to anthroposophical psychology, or psychosophy, William Bento views imbalances of the human soul in an experiential and human way. Basing his views on the work of Rudolf Steiner, Bento looks not only at the human body, soul, and spirit, but also at the way the whole environment of physical phenomena, life forces, and spirit beings affects us as individuals. Going well beyond our immediate, earthly surroundings, the author considers the cosmic effects of sun, planets and stars, offering a holistic view of the human soul. This is a valuable addition to the field of anthroposophical psychology and to the study of spiritual science as a whole.
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