Psychotherapy: therapies or techniques Books

Book SynopsisBased on the best-selling The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, this powerful and portable card deck presents 52 practices to help you balance your emotions and improve your life!First developed for treating borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has proven effective as treatment for a range of other mental health problems, especially for those characterized by overwhelming emotions. Now, you can easily and quickly access this powerful therapy method in bite-sized pieces.On each card, you'll find:Highly effective mindfulness strategies to help you stay groundedTips to help you improve relationshipsSkills for emotion regulation and distress toleranceWhether you're a therapist looking for unique client resources, a teacher, a parent, or simply seeking to balance your own emotions, this card deck offers daily wisdom and evidence-based skills for lasting peace, happiness, and well-being.

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Book SynopsisOpen your eyes to the meaning of your dreams and take advantage of their incredible power for self-improvement.Find out how to decode and interpret your dreams to reveal how the images, stories and emotions you experience in sleep are deeply connected to your waking life. Learn dream skills that will enable you to train your mind to access your unconscious and open the gateway to self-discovery. Explore hundreds of dream meanings, shine a light on the unique associations you bring to your dream world, and follow expert psychotherapeutic advice to act on the messages your unconscious mind is sending you. Use your dreams to identify and overcome obstacles, realise latent talent, get to the root of how you really feel about the people in your life, and much more.

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Book SynopsisWorldwide, increasingly large numbers of people are seeing therapists on a regular basis. In the UK alone, 1.5 million people are in therapy. We go to address past traumas, to break patterns of behaviour, to confront eating disorders or addiction, to talk about relationships, or simply because we want to find out more about what makes us tick. Susie Orbach, the bestselling author of Fat is a Feminist Issue and Bodies, has been a psychotherapist for over forty years. Here, she explores what goes on in the process of therapy - what she thinks, feels and believes about the people who seek her help - through five dramatised case studies. Originally broadcast as a Radio 4 series, here the improvised dialogue is replicated as a playscript, and Orbach offers us the experience of reading along with a session, while revealing what is going on behind each exchange between analyst and client. Insightful and honest about a process often necessarily shrouded in secrecy, In Therapy is an essential read for those curious about, or considering entering, therapy.Trade ReviewInvaluable * Financial Times *Susie Orbach's stories from the couch are warm, revealing and irresistible * Guardian *Brings a new meaning to the term psychodrama. Compulsive. * The Times *Read and re-read the exchanges; it's worth it. * The i *Praise for the In Therapy radio show: 'The episodes bring a new meaning to the term psychodrama and are a compulsive listen. ... There is no denying ... how gripping her radio programme is.' * The Times *These 15-minute short stories from the couch proved strangely addictive ... thought provoking. * Irish News *Praise for Bodies: Original in her diagnoses and sympathetic in her treatment, she comes across as the intellectual lovechild of Freud and Trisha. How could this not be compulsive reading? * Daily Mail *Praise for Fat is a Feminist Issue: 'Virtually all feminist debate on body image and beauty imagery owes its existence to Susie Orbach. -- Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth

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Book SynopsisLife throws a lot of unexpected and unpleasant things at us. Many people just struggle on, but others find someone to talk to, someone like Stephen Joseph, who, as a therapist, is trained to listen to their concerns. They turn up with problems - failing relationships, stalled careers, conflicts, feelings of upset - that all seem very real to them in the moment. They may say they just want to ''get back to normal'' or ''get back on track''. But sometimes the truth is that things have changed too much to go back. More than that, they come to realise that their life wasn''t really on track in the first place. Getting on track now means something much bigger. Over months, or years, Joseph works with his clients to peel away the layers and find something deeper behind their discontents and identify new understandings of what really matters. These revelations often seem to come out of the blue - lightbulb moments in which people suddenly gain a new perspective on how to lead theirTrade ReviewIlluminating, insightful, and a lovely read. Stephen Joseph has beautifully distilled the essence of psychotherapy to bring a book of wisdom and compassion with powerful lessons in living. Whether it is to untangle emotions or seek a new direction, this book will help you look at life afresh. It challenges us to ask ourselves the hard questions that we must answer if we are to learn to value ourselves, reclaim our personal power, and live a richer life. Anyone wanting a more balanced and happier life will benefit from this book -- Julia Samuel, psychotherapist, bestselling author & speakerStephen Joseph has crafted the art of conveying complex concepts and ideas in an accessible way whilst maintaining the depth and rigour of the research and philosophical bases from which they are built. And he conveys these ideas in a kind, compassionate, and warm way that reflects him as a person. I would like to thank him for writing this book. THINK LIKE A THERAPIST will enrich the process of self-development for anyone in a way that is made possible only by his depth and wealth of understanding the human condition. I will recommend it to students thinking about becoming therapists and to clients in therapy. Anyone thinking about therapy and self-development will learn a lot -- David Murphy, Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Nottingham & editor of COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY: A TEXTBOOK FOR STUDY AND PRACTICEThis book is a rare gem - a masterclass in how to live a contented life - all told in Stephen's gentle caring voice. His six insights are irrefutably right: simple in meaning, yet very deep in truth. Anyone who actually follows what he offers, really will find it life-changing -- Richard Macklin, Executive Coach, The Alexander PartnershipI love this book. The concept of sharing with people what an experienced therapist has learned about living life well is brilliant. The way Stephen Joseph mixes together his personal experience, clients' stories and research is a perfect balance. His writing is so conversational that people are going to feel like they are in a personal relationship -- Richard G. Tedeschi, Ph.D., Distinguished Chair, Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic GrowthI love this book. The concept of sharing with people what an experienced therapist has learned about living life well is brilliant. The way Stephen Joseph mixes together his personal experience, clients' stories and research is a perfect balance. His writing is so conversational that people are going to feel like they are in a personal relationship -- Richard Tedeschi, Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte & Distinguished Chair, Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth

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Book SynopsisLearn the comprehensive skills and practices necessary to deliver the MBSR program confidently! Developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn and first introduced in a hospital setting, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an evidence-based modality that has been shown to help alleviate a wide range of physical and mental health issues—such as anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain, stress, and more. This comprehensive learning manual for professionals provides everything you need to practice and teach MBSR. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is a timely book that focuses on structure and flexibility when delivering this seminal program. Whether you work in health care, the mental health field, social work, or education, this manual offers clear direction and a sound framework for practicing MBSR in any setting. You’ll gain an understanding of the underlying principles of mindfulness, learn to establish your own personal practice, and discover how you can embody that practice. You’ll also find tips to help you guide meditations, engage in inquiry, and to convey the content of the program to others. If you’re looking for a clear protocol and curriculum for delivering MBSR, this book has everything you need to get started today.

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Book Synopsis''A gem'' - The Evening Standard''Pure book joy. Deep thinking made digestible & doled up with lashings of wit'' Bernardine Evaristo on Twitter ''So smart and interesting!'' Fearne Cotton on Instagram____________________________________________________________________________Ever wanted to know what really happens in a therapist''s consultation room? Bestselling author Philippa Perry (The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read) turns her keen insights to the power of therapy. This compelling study of psychotherapy in the form of a graphic novel vividly explores a year''s therapy sessions as a search for understanding and truth.Beautifully illustrated by Flo Perry, author of How to Have Feminist Sex, and accompanied by succinct and illuminating footnotes, this book offers a witty and thought-provoking exploration of the therapeutic journey, considering a range of skills, insights and techniques along the way.______________________________________________________________________________''I loved it. I smiled and laughed. And nodded. One to read'' Susie Orbach, author of In Therapy''(Full of) wit and good sense (...) Philippa is a tonic'' Rachel Cooke, ObserverTrade ReviewPhilippa is a tonic even if you're not her patient * Rachel Cooke *Pure book joy. Deep thinking made digestible & doled up with lashings of wit. How old habits hold us back. Perfect Xmas present. * Bernardine Evaristo *So smart and interesting! * Fearne Cotton *If you've ever wondered whether therapy is for you, Mrs Grayson Perry's entertaining, insightful guide will give you an idea (...) This is a story about connection, honesty and opening up emotionally - things many of us find difficult. Charmingly illustrated by daughter Flo * Evening Standard *Curl up with a fireside read (and) swot up with psychology * Glamour *a gem (...) funny, engaging, enlightening * Evening Standard *Perry offers a digestible, droll guide to the therapeutic process * i Newspaper *This can help many of us to understand the therapeutic process better * BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind with Claudia Hammond *winningly illustrated (...) absolutely fascinating and very funny * The Spectator Magazine *

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Book SynopsisFor effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the storybook. Both books can be purchased together as a set, Feel, Think and Do with Ruby, Rafa and Riz: A Storybook and Guide for Understanding Behaviour and Emotions, 978-1-032-05939-6.Written as the adult accompaniment to the Feel, Think and Do with Ruby, Rafa and Riz storybook, this resource explores behaviour with strategies for supporting children who struggle to manage their responses and behaviours; and the role of the adult in recognising signs, de-escalation, connection and reflection. Designed to assist adults in introducing children to their inner world and connecting that world to the world around us in an emotionally safe space, this guidebook contains six sessions that can be delivered to children in a large group, as a class, in smaller groups or individually. These sessions provide the context and landscape of theTrade Review"The 'Ruby, Rafa and Riz' story book and the 'Understanding behaviour and emotions' guide for teachers together provide a valuable resource for promoting children's healthy social and emotional development. In a warm and engaging way, teachers are encouraged to think about and explore with children the subtle links between their emotions, thoughts and behaviour. The relationship-based activities enable children to reflect on the challenges of their everyday family and school lives and develop strategies to manage them more positively. All children can benefit from this approach, but troubled children in particular would benefit from the extra help and confidence that this theoretically driven but practical resource can offer, in order to enjoy learning, build positive relationships and fulfil their potential."Emeritus Professor Gillian Schofield, University of East Anglia, UKTable of Contents1. Similarities and Differences 2. Ruby’s Story 3. Rafa’s Story 4. Riz’s Story 5. How Am I Feeling and What Am I Thinking 6. The Imaginary Iceberg 7. That’s Not Me

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Book SynopsisFor effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the guidebook. Both books can be purchased together as a set, Feel, Think and Do with Ruby, Rafa and Riz: A Storybook and Guide for Understanding Behaviour and Emotions, 978-1-032-05939-6.This childrenâs storybook tells the story of Ruby, Rafa and Riz as each child has an experience that affects them â unkind friendship, the death of a pet, a bullying family member and coercive peers. Their teacher, who knows nothing of these events, notices the behaviour of each child which leads to him asking how they are feeling and what they are thinking, enabling each child to talk about their emotions and so helping the adult to understand their behaviour.In a clever and enjoyable way, the stories of Ruby, Rafa and Riz lead children through scenarios that introduce ideas key to developing childrenâs understanding and security such as the: knowledge that behaviour is a response to feelings and thoughts understanding that these feelings and thoughts are a response to the external world insight into how thoughts and feelings are hidden unless shared; and the empowerment to share their emotional context with trusted adults, explaining their behaviour â both to others and themselves. When used alongside the practical guidebook, this unique and engaging story enables all those working directly with children to support their development, allowing children to become strong enough and secure enough to meet the challenges of life and learning.Trade Review"The 'Ruby, Rafa and Riz' story book and the 'Understanding behaviour and emotions' guide for teachers together provide a valuable resource for promoting children's healthy social and emotional development. In a warm and engaging way, teachers are encouraged to think about and explore with children the subtle links between their emotions, thoughts and behaviour. The relationship-based activities enable children to reflect on the challenges of their everyday family and school lives and develop strategies to manage them more positively. All children can benefit from this approach, but troubled children in particular would benefit from the extra help and confidence that this theoretically driven but practical resource can offer, in order to enjoy learning, build positive relationships and fulfil their potential."Emeritus Professor Gillian Schofield, University of East Anglia, UKTable of ContentsRuby, Rafa and Riz: Understanding Behaviour and Emotions

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Book SynopsisFrom leading researcher and bestselling author, John McLeod, this new edition of Doing Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a book for students and practitioners who wish to undertake a small-scale publishable research study. The focus is on research projects that are appropriate for student and practitioner researchers: qualitative interview-based research, practice-based outcome studies, case studies, and autoethnographic research. These different genres of research provide a grounding in the main approaches used in counselling and psychotherapy research. This accessible and comprehensive ′how to′ guide on conducting a successful research project in counselling and psychotherapy takes you step-by-step through the research journey: initial engagement with the idea of doing research, developing a research question, appreciating the strengths and limitations of both qualitative and quantitative methods, conducting a study, and then finally writing up the findings for potential publication. Supported by a wide range of case examples and points for reflection, as well as extensive on-line resources, this highly practical introduction to research in counselling, psychotherapy and allied disciplines is essential reading for any trainee or practitioner learning about the research process for the first time.Trade ReviewAs a psychology student, I believe this book will benefit students learning to write their research studies or professionals who are novices to writing psychotherapy or counselling research studies. [...] a textbook such as this one would have been a significant source of support and I would have felt more confident writing my research study. This book will help me continue to pursue research within counselling and mental health, and it is a vital tool for students and practitioners keen to follow similar paths. -- Sharuni Shanmugaranjan * QMiP Bulletin Issue 35 *Table of ContentsEntering the World of Research Reading Research Developing Your Research Question The Research Proposal Ethical Responsibility Criteria for Evaluating the Quality of a Research Study Using Quantitative Methods Qualitative Methods: Key Principles Basic Research Tools Using Qualitative Interviews to Explore the Client’s Experience of Therapy Research on Professional Knowledge Evaluating Outcome: Practice-based Research Carrying Out a Systematic Case Study Using Personal Experience as a Basis for Research: Autoethnography Disseminating the Findings of Your Research Study

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Book SynopsisThis introduction to countertransference in counselling and psychotherapy covers: Countertransference and the therapeutic relationship Different theoretical perspectives and approaches to countertransference and key psychodynamic perspectives (Freud, object relations, attachment, relational psychodynamic) and perspectives from other modalities (TA, integrative, CBT). How to understand and work with countertransference in practice (providing step-by-step guidance on identifying, understanding, and managing / processing countertransference.) The development and repair of therapeutic ruptures in the alliance Cultural countertransference. Written for trainees and practitioners from a range of psychotherapeutic approaches, this book is supported by reflective practice activities, research, case studies, chapter summaries and chapter summaries. It will help you enhance your knowledge and practice in relation to countertransference.Trade ReviewAn Introduction to Countertransference contains a wealth of information that will help orient novice trainees to this important topic, as well as guide experienced therapists in their own clinical work, teaching, and supervision. Dr. Cartwright′s wisdom, accumulated from many years of studying and helping others learn about countertransference, is evident in this gem of a book. Dr. Cartwright neatly synthesizes theory, research, and practical applications in a highly digestible fashion. I can′t imagine a therapist who would not benefit from reading this book. -- Professor Jeffrey A. Hayes, Ph.D.This book helps the reader understand key concepts relating to transference and countertransference, providing explanation of terms from Freud’s original perspective through more modern psychodynamic views to perspectives from cognitive-behavioural therapy. This is helpful for those not well versed in psychodynamic or object relations theory. The book takes a stepwise approach from understanding terms, to their relevance for the therapeutic relationship, to a process for understanding and managing countertransference, and includes dealing with ruptures and aspects as challenging as sexual countertransference in therapy. This layering from the simple to the more complex is aided by the use of transactional analysis as a frame to guide practice. There are questions for reflection to help identify countertransference and its origin, i.e., client or self, as well as suggestions for managing it in vignettes and transcripts. Therapists with little background in psychodynamic approaches to therapy will find this a fantastic entry into an important aspect of clinical work. For those more seasoned it will offer perspectives and processes that will complement your work. The supervisor will find the sequences of reflective questions excellent to guide the supervision process when supervisees bring their reactions to clients. This is welcomed in this era of increasingly integrative approaches to therapy where a comprehensive training in these approaches cannot be assumed. Claire’s writing style is refreshingly clear and easy to comprehend, making the reader feel resourced and encouraged. Not only this but Claire takes a compassionate approach toward plight of the clients and their unconscious dynamics and toward the therapists who get caught up in them. -- Fiona HowardDr Cartwright has truly done the psychotherapy profession an invaluable service by writing this book as it provides a theoretical and practical guide for understanding a rich and powerful therapeutic phenomenon in such a way that is accessible to trainee therapists and therapists practicing from a wide range of therapeutic orientations. If you are a trainee therapist, therapist interested in enhancing your knowledge and/or practice around countertransference, or a person with general interest in this area, then I highly recommend you read this book. -- Dr. Kristin ReillyThis book will be of interest to anyone working with clients in a therapeutic or helping capacity, and perhaps in particular to those who are not used to embracing and using their own subjective responses in the work. Clinical psychologist Cartwright first provides a theoretical introduction to the concept of countertransference, from its origins in discussions between Freud and Jung, who viewed it as something of an inconvenience, through to Heimann, who argued it was a tool to be used in service of the client. Cartwright defines countertransference as ′the emotional, cognitive, and bodily reactions of the therapist to the client or the therapy situation and context′. She goes on to explain how these reactions can affect the therapeutic process and the importance of recognising and addressing them, as well as the dangers of not being aware of them, which can lead to ruptures. She introduces a four-step approach to working with countertransference, which although a little manualised, feels practical and grounded in client work. The steps are: becoming aware of countertransference responses, reflecting on the client′s patterns in relating, developing hypotheses about the dynamic between client and therapist, and managing countertransference responses as they arise in sessions. Each step is illustrated with clinical vignettes and exercises, which although useful, occasionally felt a little simplistic. I enjoyed the breadth of this book and the incorporation of different traditions including psychodynamic, CBT, attachment and transactional analysis. Cartwright is also mindful of the social and cultural dimensions to countertransference, for example, when clients and therapists are of different ethnic/racial backgrounds, different sexualities and genders and different socio-economic status. This is an important addition to the existing literature about countertransference responses. -- Emmanuelle Smith, Psychodynamic PsychotherapistTable of ContentsChapter 1 - An Introduction to Countertransference Chapter 2 - Countertransference and the Therapeutic Relationship Chapter 3 - Four Steps to Understanding and Managing Countertransference Chapter 4 - Understanding Countertransference in Practice Chapter 5 - Countertransference and therapeutic ruptures Chapter 6 - Managing Countertransference in Practice Chapter 7 - Classroom and group learning and countertransference References

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Book SynopsisIn this part memoir, part mental health resource and how-to guide, Jo Love throws opens the door of her therapist's office and shines a light on what exactly goes on in the therapy room. With the help of experts, including her very own therapist, Jo opens a rare window into the real world of therapy, unpicking the magical powers that enabled her to re-find her own voice, restored her resilience through the cloudiest days and ultimately saved her from her own mind. Each chapter includes:- A therapy list where Jo shares her knowledgeable insights into therapy- Inspirational voices in the mental health space on the life-changing effects of therapy - A 'From the Other Chair' section featuring expert opinions from mental health professionals- 'Need Help Now' suggestions Therapy is ... Magic moves away from the stigma sometimes associated with seeking help, and shines a light on the emotional and physical benefits of talking therapies. Jo Love shows us that with professional guidance we can heal ourselves and the relationships we have, tackle addictions and trauma, and save our minds.

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Book SynopsisThis book emphasises ecological, nature-assisted expressive and creative arts and art therapies within the context of the current ecological crises. Rich in fresh theoretical perspectives, this timely compendium of theory, research, and practice also provides methods and tools that can help the reader understand and incorporate new eco perspectives into their work.Building on the concept of poiesis as the human creative function, this book seeks to stress the importance of humanity's ecopoietic capacity, creating a more sustainable life for humans. It has been specifically created within the context of this most critical period of human existence, and acts as a forum for innovation based on the values of the environmental movement and its desire to address the extensive sociopsychological impact of the ecological crisis.Trade ReviewAn erudite exploration of eco-humanity and feeling through art, in being more completely with the world as well as of the world. This book takes a fresh ecological perspective and offers hopeful insights to all those with an interest in the powerful role of art, no matter what the form or function, in helping to develop the emerging area of ecopoiesis. -- Professor Ross W. Prior, Principal Editor, Journal of Applied Arts & HealthThis is a brave book! This is an urgent book! Expanding far beyond conventional therapies, the book engages with complex social, economic, and political issues related to climate crisis. It positions expressive arts therapists as uniquely situated to address the interrelationship between care for the self and care for the environment, tying well-being to decolonization of the planet. -- Catherine Hyland Moon, Professor Emeritus, School of the Art Institute of ChicagoTable of ContentsContents Shaun McNiffForewordAlexander KopytinINTRODUCTIONPart One. In search of the eco-human paradigm in expressive arts, therapy, and education: theory, methodology, conceptsSally AtkinsThe AWAKENING ROAR OF BEAUTY Levine, Stephen K.ECOPOIESIS: TOWARDS A POIETIC ECOLOGYKopytin, AlexanderNATURE-ASSISTED CREAYIVE ARTS THERAPIES AND THE PARADIGM CHANGE: WHAT ARTS THERAPISTS CAN DO IN THE FACE OF NEW GLOBAL CHALLENGES Madeline RughPAYING ATTENTION: NATURE, ART AND AWARENESS Varvara SidorovaCULTURE AND NATURE: THE PLAY OF ECOPOIESISPart Two. Integrating ecological and sustainable development perspectives in expressive/creative arts therapies practice with individuals, groups, and communitiesBeverley A'CourtWANDERING THE BEAUTIFUL TRAIL: ECOPOIESIS IN ECOLOGICAL ART THERAPY Eliza SweeneyEliza SweeneySOLASTALGIA, SENSE AND THERAPEUTIC ECO-SCENOGRAPHYAlexey Lebedev and Alexander KopytinECOLOGICAL/NATURE-ASSISTED ART THERAPY WITH WAR VETERANS: HOW NATURE CAN HEAL THE TRAUMA OF WARPamela WhitakerWALKING THE COMMONPLACE OF COMMEMORATION Monica CarpendaleRE-IMAGING ART THERAPY IN THE GLOBAL CRISIS: STORM CLOUDS AND SILVER LININGS Gracelynn Chung-Yan LauCORONAVIRUS AS A RITE OF PASSAGE: FINDING CURES FOR "COLONIALVIRUS" THROUGH EXPRESSIVE ARTS-BASED RESEARCH Ruth HampeA PROCESS-ORIENTED APPROACH TOWARDS NATURE IN THE CONTEXT OF ECOLOGICAL ART THERAPY Monika WiggerNATURAL AND ARTISTIC ASPECTS OF ART THERAPY Alexander Kopytin and Tony Yu ZhouFROM IKEBANA TO BOTANICAL ARRANGING: ARTISTIC, THERAPEUTIC, AND SPIRITUAL ALIGNMENT WITH NATUREPart Three. The sustainable development and eco-human perspectives in the contemporary arts Alexander Kopytin and Stephen K. LevineINTERVIEW WITH NEWTON HARRISONNewton HarrisonSENSORIUM: THE THINKINGAlexandra DvornikovaINTERVIEW WITH TEAGAN WHITE Alexandra DvornikovaINTERVIEW WITH DIANA SUDYKAAlexander KopytinINTERIEW WITH BEVERLEY A'COURTJudith L. Alalú, Odette A. VélezTHE VITAL EXODUS | ÉXODO VITAL

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Book SynopsisThis book will assist therapists in easily implementing the concepts of strategic and solution-oriented applications into one’s therapeutic work with depressed clients. The focus of these brief therapy approaches is on the clients’ resources and potential rather than on their deficits and pathology. These ideas have their roots in the work of Milton H. Erickson, the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, and Bill O’Hanlon’s Solution Oriented Therapy. The methods and applications recognise the significance of how clients perceive their problems, the importance on assisting clients to be validated and understood in the realm of their experiences, and the creation of change in their views and actions concerning their individual situations. Perceptions and Possibilities is designed to assist therapists in finding new ways of moving their therapy sessions away from an entrenched focus on client pathology. Instead, therapists are encouraged towards brief and effective interactions with a focus on future-oriented possibilities. Paul Leslie presents established and cutting-edge research, colourful case studies, and stories told in everyday language to engage, educate, and aid mental health professionals. The aim is to enable them to understand how to easily adapt and apply creative and resourceful therapy interventions to help clients who are suffering from depression. This book is highly recommended for psychologists, counsellors, and psychotherapists, particularly those who are interested in exploring brief therapies, postmodern/Ericksonian approaches, and solution-focused, systemic, and strategic therapies.Trade Review‘In Perceptions and Possibilities, author Paul J. Leslie takes the reader into a realm of perceptual creativity and clinical intelligence. Using fascinating case examples that show how it is done, spiced with insights from respected colleagues, Leslie demonstrates unique ways to tailor treatment to the differential needs of each individual. Starting with clear descriptions of currently vetted modalities, the author guides the reader into a world where strategic possibility and solution-oriented approaches offer new hope. In Perceptions and Possibilities, you will discover clinical wisdom that will help your clients stop chasing their tails – and begin their recovery.’ -- Bette Freedson, LICSW, LCSW, CGP, author of Other Realms, Other Ways: A Clinician’s Guide to the Magick of Intuition‘This book is a breath of fresh air, in a time when research is weaponized, and used to persuade mental health practitioners to choose the best golden procrustean bed. Paul Leslie seems to hold the secrets of a flexible magic of change, which he generously and skillfully shares with us. Complex things are simply exposed without over-simplification, and Paul's optimistic and pragmatic vision energizes and gives hope. The book invites us to change our perceptions, by looking in between strategic and solution-oriented approaches, on the background of their Ericksonian roots, enabling us to discover new possibilities, simple and actionable strategies for mobilizing things from the stuckness of depression. I highly recommend this book to my colleagues and students.’ -- Bogdan Cezar Ion, PhD, lecturer, Department of Applied Psychology & Psychotherapy, Bucharest University‘Paul J. Leslie’s latest work on the phenomenology, genesis, and treatment of depression reads like an artful tapestry of interwoven materials: from psychoanalysis to behaviorist and cognitive approaches, the progression leads to Milton H. Erickson's solution-focused psychotherapy. Like all good hypnotherapists, he vividly and movingly describes cases, stories, and strategies, especially creative play with realities. This reminds us once again of the importance of the sensitive use of words. A stimulating, inspiring book that not only benefits clients, but also helps therapists to proceed in a lively way and – yes! – with joy, always remaining optimistic on this serious subject.’ -- Andreas Steiner, Dipl-Psych, MA, SEPT Institute CologneTable of ContentsAcknowledgments About the author Foreword by Bob Bertolino, PhD Introduction Chapter 1: Strategies, solutions, and depression Chapter 2: Theoretical foundation for a strategic and solution-oriented approach Chapter 3: Assessment and intervention planning Chapter 4: Changing perceptions Chapter 5: Altering and interrupting patterns Chapter 6: Using metaphors, analogies, and stories Epilogue References Index

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Book Synopsis‘Profoundly honest, unflinching in examining her own history as a thinker and clinician, Ingrid Pedroni challenges us to see where we have been and where we have failed, each of us.’ Donna Orange, from the Foreword Ingrid Pedroni is multicultural to her core. Fully fluent in German, Italian, and English, she took that multilingual outlook to the varied world of psychoanalysis. Beginning her journey with a Jungian analysis, she later read The Restoration of the Self by Heinz Kohut and discovered a theoretical and clinical framework consistent with her Jungian experience. Thus began her engagement with different theoretical dimensions and clinical settings. Beyond Fragmentation is a masterly overview of the result of her open-minded exploration of not only traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic schools of thought, but also systemic family therapy, plus modern anthropology, theatre, and literature. Part I explores the integration of different theoretical and clinical models, with special reference to self psychology and relational psychoanalysis. Part II outlines significant areas of experience that build the sense of self and how it is represented in intra-psychic and inter-relational dimensions. Part III focuses on couple and family relations, their evolution over time, and how they represent an essential part of the self. The final part deals with the treatment of cultural diversity, the universality of attachment bonds, and the extreme specificity of their cultural expression. Throughout the book are clinical and theoretical concepts derived from authors such as Adler, Jung, Rank, Fromm, Ferenczi, Klein, Winnicott, Loewald, Bowlby, Bion, and, of course, Freud. The clinical examples illustrate how it is possible to weave together the various threads of theoretical thinking and clinical practice not only in the many diversified psychoanalytic schools, but also in the larger field of the psychotherapies. The varied themes covered include gender, couple relations, family therapy, spirituality, cultural diversity and integration, migration, transcultural psychotherapy, and collective trauma. This book is essential reading for trainee and practising clinicians, and may well help them to find their own integration of therapeutic experiences. Professionals active in social, educational, and psychological fields will also find much useful and engaging information to help them in their work.Trade Review‘This is an important and most welcome book because it develops not only innovative ways of conceptualising and working therapeutically in general, but also it demonstrates how the approach that it constructs can be applied to contexts beyond the conventional psychotherapy settings, including areas such as traumas of wars and migration. Using epistemological insights, in an accessible language, the author builds bridges across theoretical directions, linking theory to practice (with ample clinical material, respectfully presented), the intra-psychic with the inter-relational realms and the traditional therapies with cultural and religious beliefs. Above all, the book is written with sensitivity and compassion for both patients and therapists, and it will be invaluable not only for professional therapists and trainees but also for everyone who wishes to delve deeper into the human psyche in distress.’ -- Professor Renos K. Papadopoulos, PhD, University of Essex, clinical psychologist, Jungian psychoanalyst, family therapist‘It is my pleasure to write in support of Ingrid Pedroni’s outstanding publication, Beyond Fragmentation: Clinical Journeys in Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. It is a book that addresses the most important issues in clinical work from past to present, and, most significantly, leads us into a future of integration and dedication to the best in our field. As noted in the title of her Introduction, “Widening clinical practice in relation to other therapeutic schools as the future of psychoanalysis”, Pedroni begins with her own valuing of knowing the past and noting its movement into the present and what is to come. To provide some sense of the scope of the work, Pedroni follows with sections on: building therapeutic bridges, the search for subjectivity, working with couples, parents, families, transcultural psychotherapy, and, finally, the treatment of trauma in individuals and groups suffering migration and war. Throughout there are elegant clinical examples. I find much that is original here, but I’m most impressed by Pedroni’s chapter on Talking with God, in which she discusses “spirituality and religion in the therapeutic encounter”. This seldom-addressed aspect of therapeutic work illustrates, to my mind, the expansiveness of Pedroni’s inclusive attention to contemporary psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. I’m grateful for this opportunity to reflect on Ingrid Pedroni’s contribution to our understanding.’ -- Estelle Shane, PhD, training and supervising analyst, The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles‘Beyond Fragmentation is a true tour de force – a must-read for psychoanalytic clinicians and thinkers of all persuasions. Ingrid Pedroni has produced an amazingly comprehensive body of work that mirrors its author’s own developmental journey both personally and theoretically. Her book threads its way through the retrospective and the prospective and their intersections as she traverses and assimilates psychoanalytic theories, pressing cultural concerns and trauma from the individual to the collective. Her numerous and compelling clinical illustrations that are woven throughout cannot but stir the reader’s mind and heart. The book highlights her deep wisdom and humility as she models an attitude of openness and an abiding readiness to keep learning from students and patients, from colleagues and teachers, and from ongoing life lessons that instruct and humble us, even as they urge us to keep moving, to keep thinking and above all to keep feeling. Ingrid Pedroni’s Beyond Fragmentation will inspire, vitalise and richly inform the work of all clinicians and psychoanalytic thinkers.’ -- Hazel Ipp, Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, ISIPSÉ, chief editor emerita of 'Psychoanalytic Dialogues'‘Beyond Fragmentation is a remarkable achievement. The use of diverse clinical experiences at its finest. Ingrid Pedroni integrates self psychology and relational psychoanalysis and makes comparisons among therapy schools that are lucid and, at times, magisterial. She captures the radical changes that are taking place in psychoanalytic epistemology, the search for “the creation of oneself”, culture and religion, and the dangers of either/or thinking about gender. She brings us close to the subtle, interpenetrating impact of couples, parents, and families on the individual self. Her thinking about how culture saturates one’s subjectivity is bold and inspiring, and ranges from individual to collective traumas. Pedroni’s writing resonates with the tensions and triumphs of the contemporary psychoanalytic moment, and likely will for another generation, if not beyond.’ -- Spyros D. Orfanos, PhD, ABPP, Director and Clinical Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis'Profoundly honest, unflinching in examining her own history as a thinker and clinician, Ingrid Pedroni challenges us to see where we have been and where we have failed, each of us.’ -- Donna M. Orange, faculty and supervising analyst, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York, from the Foreword'This book is an impressive philosophical and historical explication of psychological theory beginning with Freud through to the modern day. In particular, Pedroni's use of Kohut's model has changed my own originally sceptical response to his theory of self psychology. [...] Pedroni's clinical examples are clear and moving. [...] An inspiring read, the theme of integration of other models gives hope for the future of psychoanalysis.' -- Gillian Ingram, MBACP (Accred), psychodynamic therapist, BACP Therapy Today, 35:2, March, 2024Table of ContentsIntroduction: Widening clinical practice in relation to other therapeutic schools as the future of psychoanalysis Part I: The need to build therapeutic bridges 1. From drives to relations through culture, the new epistemological paradigm of psychoanalysis 2. Beyond Freud: a contemporary integrative approach to obsessive-compulsive disorder 3. Integrating self psychology and relational psychoanalysis Part II: The search for subjectivity 1. Creating the self 2. Talking with God: spirituality and religion in the therapeutic encounter 3. Gender identity and subjectivity Part III: Couples, parents, families: multiple relational dimensions, multiple selves, and sometimes multiple therapists in coordinated treatment 1. The life cycle of the couple relation 2. Couples of spouses and couples of therapists in the dialectic of mutual recognition 3. Family relations in therapy Part IV: Transcultural psychotherapy and the treatment of individual and collective traumas of migration and wars 1. Transcultural psychotherapy 2. Migrations: cultural mourning and cultural contaminations 3. War, trauma, memory, and resilience

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Book SynopsisSalman Akhtar is a Professor of Psychiatry, a Training and Supervising Analyst, a member of numerous editorial boards, winner of many awards, including the highly prestigious Sigourney Award, a writer of several hundred articles, a poet, and the author or editor of over one hundred books. A modern-day Renaissance man, his elegant writing is simultaneously scholarly and literary and brings a light touch to profound material. Phoenix Publishing House is proud to present his most inspiring works in a stunning ten-volume hardback set, fit to grace the shelves of collectors and libraries with its high-quality finish. Volume I: Character Pathology Volume II: Metapsychology and Fantasy Volume III: Negative Emotions and Attitudes Volume IV: Positive Emotions and Attitudes Volume V: Therapeutic Technique Volume VI: Immigration and Exile Volume VII: Psychoanalysis and Culture Volume VIII: Psychic Development Volume IX: Death, Writing, and Other Topics Volume X: Book Reviews, Forewords, and CommentariesTable of ContentsVolume I: Character Pathology Preface PART I: SPECIFIC PERSONALITY DISORDERS SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER (1987) HYPOMANIC PERSONALITY DISORDER (1988) NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER (1989) PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER (1990) BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (1992) ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER (1992) HISTRIONIC, SCHIZOTYPAL, MASOCHISTIC, AND ‘AS-IF’ PERSONALITY DISORDERS (1992/2020) PART II: SOME OTHER CHARACTER TYPES THE OTHER WOMAN (1985) THE SHY NARCISSIST (2000) THE VOYEUR (2019) THE WORK ADDICT (2019) THE HOARDER (2019) References Index Volume II: Metapsychology and Fantasy Preface PART I: METAPSYCHOLOGY ON FREUD’S ‘NEGATION’ (2011) ON FREUD’S ‘THE UNCONSCIOUS’ (2013) ON FREUD’S ‘REPRESSION’ (2020) PART II: MOTIVATION AGGRESSION (1995) ON FREUD’S ‘BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE’ (2011) PART III: POLARITIES KOHUT V.S. KERNBERG (1988) THE NEED-WISH DISTINCTION (1999) PART IV: STRUCTURE OBJECT CONSTANCY (1994) IDENTITY (1999) PART V: FANTASY THE PROLONGED EMBRACE FANTASY (1991/2020) TETHERS, ORBITS, AND INVISIBLE FENCES (1992) ‘SOMEDAY…’ AND ‘IF-ONLY…’ FANTASIES (1996) THE SCHIZOID WISH TO DIE AND BE REBORN (2009) References Volume III: Negative Emotions and Attitudes Preface HATRED (1999) DECEPTION (2009) GUILT (2013) BETRAYAL (2013) FEAR (2014) GREED (2014) REVENGE (2014) HOPELESSNESS (2015) SHAMELESSNESS (2016) JEALOUSY (2017) MISTRUST (2017) REGRET (2017) ARROGANCE (2018) References Index Volume IV: Positive Emotions and Attitudes Preface LOVE (1999) FORGIVENESS (2002) HAPPINESS (2010) PLAYFULNESS (2011) GOODNESS (2011) GENEROSITY (2012) GRATITUDE (2013) COURAGE (2013) DIGNITY (2015) PATIENCE (2015) CURIOSITY (2017) HUMILITY (2018) INTIMACY (2019) PRIVACY (2019) References Index Volume V: Therapeutic Technique Preface PART I: SETTING THE ANALYST’S OFFICE (2009) THE ANALYST’S ATTITUDE (2009) INITIAL ASSESSMENT (2009) BOUNDARIES (2009) MONEY (2009) PART II: LISTENING LISTENING IN FOUR DIFFERENT WAYS (2013) LISTENING TO SILENCE (2013) LISTENING TO ACTIONS (2013) LISTENING TO ONESELF (2013) IMPEDIMENTS TO LISTENING (2013) PART III: INTERVENTIONS FROM SIMPLICITY THROUGH CONTRADICTION TO PARADOX (1998) FROM SCHISMS THROUGH SYNTHESIS TO INFORMED OSCILLATION (2000) UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING DISRUPTIONS (2009) UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING SUICIDAL THREATS (2009) REFUSING TO LISTEN TO CERTAIN KINDS OF MATERIAL (2013) PSYCHOANALYTIC TREATMENT OF TRAUMA AND THE ANALYST’S PERSONALITY (2014) DEVELOPMENT FACILITATING INTERVENTIONS (2022) References Index Volume VI: Immigration and Exile Preface PART I: LEAVING AND ARRIVING FOUR TRACKS OF IDENTITY TRANSFORMATION FOLLOWING IMMIGRATION (1995) PSYCHOSOCIAL VARIABLES ASSOCIATED WITH IMMIGRATION (1999) THE TRAUMA OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISLOCATION (2007) PART II: BEING AND BECOMING WORK AND MONEY (2011) SEX AND MARRIAGE (2011) FRIENDSHIP AND SOCIALIZATION (2011) POLITICS AND RELIGION (2011) PART III: THE DUSK AND THE DAWN ENCOUNTERING MIDDLE AGE AND GETTING OLD (2011) THE NEXT GENERATION (2011) PART IV: TREATMENT CONSIDERATIONS GUIDELINES FOR TREATING IMMIGRANT PATIENTS (1999/2007) GUIDELINES FOR TREATING THE OFFSPRING OF IMMIGRANT PARENTS (1999/2011) CHILD AND FAMILY INTERVENTIONS, COMMUNITY OUTREACH, AND PSYCHOANALYTICALLY INFORMED ADVICE (1999) THE IMMIGRANT THERAPIST (1999/2006) References Index Volume VII: Psychoanalysis and Culture Preface PROLOGUE PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CULTURE: THEORY AND TECHNIQUE (2013) PART I: GLOBAL TURMOIL RACIAL, RELIGIOUS, AND ETHNIC PREJUDICE (2007) MENTAL PAIN OF MINORITIES (2014) VIOLENCE (with Shawn Blue, 2017) PART II: ISLAM AND MUSLIMS MUSLIMS IN THE PSYCHOANALYTIC WORLD (2008) MOHAMMAD ALI JINNAH, THE FOUNDER OF PAKISTAN (with Manasi Kumar, 2008) THE SO-CALLED RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM (2018) PART III: ESSAYS PERTAINING TO INDIA PSYCHOANALYSIS IN INDIA (with Pratyusha Tummala-Narra, 2005) BOLLYWOOD AND THE INDIAN UNCONSCIOUS (with Komal Choksi, 2005) HINDU-MUSLIM RELATIONS IN INDIA (2005) WHERE IS INDIA IN MY PSYCHOANALYTIC WORK? (2015) EPILOGUE PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CULTURE: EDUCATION AND TRAINING (2018) References Index Volume VIII: Psychic Development Preface PART I: FORMATIVE EXPERIENCES THE ROLE OF A MENTOR (2000) EARLY RELATIONSHIPS AND THEIR INTERNALIZATION (2005) WHAT DOES THE MOTHER DO? (2012) PART II: THE UNFOLDING LIFE SPAN INFANCY, CHILDHOOD, AND ADOLESCENCE (2020) YOUNG ADULTHOOD, MIDLIFE, AND GETTING OLD (2020) PART III: DEVELOPMENTAL DERAILMENTS AND TRAUMA THE EVOLUTION OF A PSYCHOTIC CORE (1997) PARENTAL DIVORCE (with Shawn Blue, 2016) SEXUAL ABUSE (with Shawn Blue, 2019) PART IV: NON-HUMAN ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS (with Jodi Brown, 1995) THINGS (2003) References Index Volume IX: Death, Writing, and Other Topics Preface PART I: DEATH FREUD’S “TODESANGST” AND GHALIB’S “ISHRAT-E-QATRA” (2010) MORTALITY (2011) GRAVES (2011) ORPHANS (2011) BEREAVEMENT (2017) THREE MOVIES FOCUSING LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT (with Beverly Shin, 2019) SPACES FOR MOURNING (2021) PART II: WRITING MENTAL PAIN AND THE CULTURAL OINTMENT OF POETRY (2000) WRITER’S BLOCK (2003) A BIT OF PROSE ABOUT POETRY (2008) WHY I WRITE (2020) PART III: MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS DEHUMANIZATION (2003) NARCISSISTIC LOVE RELATIONS (2009) ON SOME INANIMATE REINCARNATIONS OF FREUD (2006) ON FREUD’S “FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION” (2013) LISTENING IN NONCLINICAL SITUATIONS (2013) CULTURAL ASPECTS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER (with Jessica Zoltani, 2018) References Index Volume X: Book Reviews, Forewords, and Commentaries Preface PART I: BOOK REVIEWS NORMAN KIELL’S Freud Without Hindsight (1990) ADAM LIMENTANI’S Between Freud and Klein (1992) CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS’ Being a Character (1993) ROGER LEWIN & CLARENCE SCHULZ’S Losing and Fusing (1995) MURRAY MEISELS & ESTHER SHAPIRO’S Tradition and Innovation in Psychoanalytic Education (1995) FRANK YEOMANS, MICHAEL SELZER, & JOHN CLARKIN’S Treating the Borderline Patient (1995) THOMAS OGDEN’S Subjects of Analysis (1996) STANLEY KURTZ’S All the Mothers Are One (1997) FRANK SUMMERS’ Object Relations Theories (1997) FRED PINE’S Diversity and Direction in Psychoanalytic Technique (1999) PAUL ELOVITZ & CHARLOTTE KAHN’S Immigrant Experiences (1999) JOSEPH SANDLER & ANN-MARIE SANDLER’S Internal Objects Revisited (1999) PETER GIOVACCHINI’S Impact of Narcissism (2003) SUSAN KOLODNY’S The Captive Muse (2003) RON AVIRAM’S The Relational Origins of Prejudice (2010) CHRIS JAENICKE’S Change in Psychoanalysis (2012) OTTO KERNBERG’S The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression (2012) JAMES DAVIES’ The Importance of Suffering (2013) JACKIE GERRARD’S The Impossibility of Knowing (2013) JEROME BLACKMAN’S The Therapists’ Answerbook (2014) STEFANO BOLOGNINI’S Secret Passages (2014) GEMMA CORRADI FIUMARA’S Spontaneity (2014) GOHAR HOMAYOUNPOUR’S Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran (2014) PETER RUDNYTSKY’S Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud (2014) JON SLETVOLD’S The Embodied Analyst (2014) MIKITA BROTTMAN’S Phantoms of the Clinic (2015) ANDREA SABBADINI’S Boundaries and Bridges (2015) MADELINE BARRANGER & WILLY BARRANGER’S The Work of Confluence (2016) MARCIANNE BLEVIS’ Jealousy (2016) ANCA CARRINGTON’S Money as Emotional Currency (2016) ANDREA CELENZA’S Erotic Revelations (2016) PROPHECY COLES’ The Shadow of the Second Mother (2016) LETICIA GLOCER FIORINI’S Deconstructing the Feminine (2016) SUDHIR KAKAR’S The Analyst and the Mystic (2016) OSAMU KITAYAMA’S Prohibition of Don’t Look (2016) LEO RANGELL’S The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory (2016) FRANCES THOMSON SALO’S You and Your Baby (2016) MICHAEL SHOSHANI ROSENBAUM’S Dare to Be Human (2016) JULIA BELTSIOU’S Immigration in Psychoanalysis (2017) RICHARD SUMMERS & DILIP JESTE’S Positive Psychiatry (2020) JOAN WHEELIS’ The Known, the Secret, the Forgotten (2020) PATRICK CASEMENT’S Credo? (2020) PART II: FOREWORDS RICHARD STERBA’S The First Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2014) IRA BRENNER’S The Handbook of Psychoanalytic Holocaust Studies (2019) MICHAEL SHOSHANI & BATYA SHOSHANI’S Narcissism and Perversion (2020) SUDHIR BHAVE & SUSHIL GAWANDE’S Cyber Psychiatry (2020) PART III: COMMENTARIES MARVIN MARGOLIS’ Paper on Maternal Incest (1991) ERNEST WOLF’S Paper on Self-Psychology (1994) CARLOTTA MILES’ Paper on African Americans (1998) CALVIN SETTLAGE’S Paper on Childhood Parental Loss (2001) ILANY KOGAN’S Paper on Craving for Oneness (2006) LUCY LAFARGE’S Paper on Transferences of Deception (2007) HELMUT THOMA’S Paper on Psychoanalytic Technique (2007) STANLEY COEN’S Paper on Helping Patients Bear the Unbearable (2016) OTTO KERNBERG’S Paper on Specific Transferences in Severe Personality Disorders (2020) References Index

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Book SynopsisWith a Foreword by Nancy McWilliams The purpose of Meaning-Fullness: Developmental Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mental Health is to show why current mental health practices are falling short in the ever-growing need for effective responses to the epidemic of mental unwellness. Jan Resnick begins by taking a critical look at psychiatry and psychology, especially the misuse and corruption of research that undergirds these practices. He goes on to offer an alternative perspective, understanding, and approach to issues of mental disorders. Resnik focuses upon the existential vacuum, a term originating in Viktor Frankl’s classic text Man’s Search for Meaning, which refers to feelings of emptiness, purposelessness, and meaninglessness. Feelings that are increasingly prevalent in our contemporary world. The existential vacuum points to a domain of experience not well described by the DSM or treated with a bio-medical approach. A radically different therapeutic approach emerges through elaborating Winnicott’s ideas in Playing and Reality, his last published work. Resnick shows how the capacity for meaning-making originates in early childhood development, and how this understanding can be applied to adult experience, thereby making psychotherapy a developmental process. Developmental psychotherapy aims to cultivate a greater capacity for play, creativity, relationship, and meaningful living. In addition, therapy must work toward relief of mental suffering, recovery from trauma, and mitigation, if not resolution, of psychological disorders. The theory is richly supported with clinical examples throughout the book, culminating in a long case study that integrates the ideas with clinical practice, which forms the final part of the book. Dr Jan Resnick has created a must-read work for mental health practitioners the world over. His easy-to-read prose makes it accessible and of value to anyone concerned with issues of mental health and well-being, personal development and creating a meaning-full way of living.Trade Review‘This book is a much-needed antidote for the troubled times that psychotherapy finds itself in. Jan Resnick draws on John Heaton, R. D. Laing, D. W. Winnicott, and a host of others to argue (convincingly and cogently) that the blight that humanity suffers from is not that of mental illness, but meaninglessness. Resnick deftly pulls together theory, discussion, and case study, and shows us that, ultimately, it is the heart that is central to the project of psychotherapy.’ -- Farhad Dalal, psychotherapist and group analyst, author of 'CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Manage-rialism, Politics, and the Corruptions of Science''At a time when so many experience life as hurried and empty (“There is a feeling of running a race but not knowing why or where the finish line is”) – and therapy too is increasingly hurried, rote, and occupied with superficial metrics and “efficiency” – Dr Resnick reminds us what meaningful psychotherapy is about. In lucid, unpretentious prose, he walks us into and through the questions at the heart of real psychotherapy: What makes life meaningful? Why does it so often feel meaningless for so many? How can that change? Dr Resnick has written a book for our time that will speak to beginning clinicians and experts both.’ -- Jonathan Shedler, Clinical Professor, University of California San Francisco, and author of 'The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy'‘This passionate book – written in an insistent first-person voice – is an inspiring call to arms for those in the mental health professions to discard quick-fix solutions to the challenges of being human. We must delve into time to understand how we are profound reservoirs of meaning. To quickly fix that – to remedy our dilemmas – is to engage in a fix. This work argues for and indicates how all of us can find meaning in our pain and our failures if we have the patience to do so. This book is a brilliant act of liberation on the author’s part – as it liberates the reader from overly worn prose and intellection – and becomes a beacon for all of us in our times.’ -- Christopher Bollas, author of 'The Shadow of the Object'‘… you will learn a lot from this book and, even better, you can expect to enjoy reading it. Written without jargon, self-inflation, or pretension, it explores – in accessible and even entertaining language – ideas that often come across as dense and complicated. Clinical vignettes, offered candidly and with the author’s description of his own emotional involvement in the patient’s story as it unfolds in each session, illuminate the developmental concepts that have inspired the book.’ -- Nancy McWilliams, from the Foreword‘Open-minded, independent thinkers will certainly embrace Dr Jan Resnick’s nearly half-century of clinical wisdom. Drawing upon such thinkers as Donald Winnicott, Ronald Laing, and Viktor Frankl, the author provides us with a critique of contemporary mental health as well as a very inspiring plan to improve our profession and our minds in the future.’ -- Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London, and Honorary Director of Research, Freud Museum London‘Dr Resnik does well to criticise the false economy of short treatments that are increasingly popular. He describes a model of relational therapy that highlights childhood experience, dream work, transference, and the therapist’s reverie. One can imagine that if Donald Winnicott were alive today, he would be practising in this way. The clinical illustrations will be especially useful in teaching.’ -- Deborah A. Luepnitz, PhD, author, 'Schopenhauer's Porcupines: 5 Stories of Psychotherapy'Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: Meaning and Meaninglessness Chapter 1. The epidemic crisis of mental health Chapter 2. Current practices and corrupt science Chapter 3. The existential vacuum: meaninglessness and filling the void Chapter 4. The origin of the capacity for meaning-making Chapter 5. Language and the body PART II: Play and Creativity in Child and Adult Development Chapter 6. The value of illusion Chapter 7. Play and work Chapter 8. Creativity: living falsely or authentically Chapter 9. The object of desire and how to destroy it PART III: Towards Meaning-Fullness Chapter 10. Meaning’s emergence in potential space Chapter 11. Beyond Winnicott: I play therefore I am Chapter 12. Play and symbolisation in the professional relationship PART IV. Luke: Finding Meaning through Developmental Psychotherapy Chapter 13. Working with Luke: a full-length case study Unscientific Postscript References About the author Index

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Book SynopsisThis is an easy-to-read explication of relationally focused integrative psychotherapy/counselling that will be enjoyed by novice and experienced mental health professionals worldwide. Richard Erskine and Janet Moursund illuminate the central role of the therapeutic relationship, and of relationships in general, both in the healing process and in maintaining a psychologically healthy life. They posit that the therapeutic relationship is key to helping clients become integrated or whole, and present both theory and practice to demonstrate this view. The book is divided into three parts: Theoretical Foundations, Therapeutic Practice, and a full verbatim transcript of a therapy session. The book’s unique feature is the linkage of the transcript section with the earlier, theoretical and practice-oriented sections to clearly show how theory can be applied in the consulting room. For virtually every exchange between therapist and patient, the reader is directed back to a discussion of the specific aspect of theory and method that underly the actual words being spoken. The result is theory brought to life, theory brought out of the classroom or the professional workshop and into the real world of ongoing psychotherapy. This book is highly recommended for students and practitioners of psychotherapy, counselling, and clinical psychology, and will be of interest to all those who work in a mental health setting.Trade Review‘I love reading this book. It is an essential text in my counselling and psychotherapy courses. I find the relational orientation to be informative, powerful, and comprehensive while the style of writing makes the concepts and methods easy for trainees to learn. The various examples of actual therapy help my trainees to be effective therapists and also help me to be a better trainer and supervisor.’ -- Elena Maria Guarrella, Trainer and Supervisor, Istituto di Analisi Transazionale Integrativa, Roma, Italy‘This splendid book is ideal for the experienced psychotherapist and mental health counsellor while also serving as an important professional guide for someone new to the professions. It conveys Richard Erskine’s and Janet Moursund’s very meaningful philosophy, theory, and methods of relational psychotherapy. The authors address the therapeutic relationship with respect, profundity, and hope. The relevant case examples make the theory come alive. It was a pleasure to read this book and learn from two master psychotherapists.’ -- Amaia Mauriz-Etxabe, licensed clinical psychologist, certified integrative psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor; Professor of Psychology, Deusto University; Director, BIOS Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy, Bilbao, Spain‘I love this book. The writing is simple, yet the authors cover a vast knowledge of psychotherapy and counselling while offering practical guidelines on how to work with our clients. Throughout this book, I was accompanied in understanding how authentic relationships are achieved, maintained, and repaired when disrupted. The transcripts of actual therapy sessions, and the authors’ explanations, reveal how a relationally focused integrative psychotherapy enhances our clients’ healing and wellbeing. This book is a must-read for all mental health practitioners.’ -- Karen Cesarano, chartered psychologist and psychotherapist; trainer and supervisor, International Integrative Psychotherapy Association'As an integrative counsellor, I found this the most comprehensive and useful book on the subject I've come across [...] My favourite part of the book is 'Therapeutic interventions', which feels very containing and takes you step-by-step through the therapeutic encounter, starting from the first session to eventually saying goodbye. [...] This is an engaging textbook about working relationally that would be useful for any therapist, regardless of their modality.' -- Kevin Franke, integrative counsellor and group facilitator, 'BACP Therapy Today', October 2023, 34:8Table of ContentsAbout the authors Preface Introduction to the reissue PART I: Theoretical Foundations CHAPTER 1: Development of Integrative Psychotherapy Roots and Beyond Modern Psychotherapies Principles of Relationship-Focused Integrative Psychotherapy Relationship Summary CHAPTER 2: Script, Repression, and Contact Distortion Schemas and Script The Function of Script Maintaining the Script System The Consequences of Script, Repression, and Contact Disruption The Widening Spiral Summary CHAPTER 3: Relationship and Human Development The Early Experience of Relationship The Concept of Relational Needs Development and Healthy Relationships Development and Unhealthy Relationships Trauma and Its Consequences Summary PART II: Therapeutic Interventions CHAPTER 4: Healing the Hurts A Set of Interlocking Systems The Role of Relationship in the Healing Process Relationship and the Facets of Growth and Change Accessibility Summary CHAPTER 5: Creating a Therapeutic Relationship Developing Therapeutic Personhood Symmetry and Asymmetry Empathy Summary CHAPTER 6: Beyond Empathy Attunement Inquiry Involvement Summary CHAPTER 7: Beginning the Work First-Session Tasks Establishing a Safe Working Environment The Decision to Work Together The Therapeutic Contract Saying Good-Bye Summary CHAPTER 8: Moving In Affect and Awareness Fear and Anxiety Resistance and Repression Accessing Summary CHAPTER 9: Therapeutic Interventions Intervention Guidelines Interpretation Enactment and Experiment Regression Behavioral Interventions Summary CHAPTER 10: A Focus on Relationship Three Relational Concerns Transference and Countertransference Revisited Touch Therapist Error The Juxtaposition Response Shame The Moment of Meeting Summary CHAPTER 11: Termination Termination Criteria The Decision to Terminate Preparing for Termination Tasks of Termination Taking New Behaviors Out Into the World The Last Session Summary PART III: The Transcript CHAPTER 12: The Transcript Postscript Transcript Linkage Index References Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisJean Benjamin Stora has worked as a psychoanalyst and psychosomatist for almost five decades. The aim of integrative psychosomatics is to heal the body and mind in relationship to one another rather than treating the body as a machine with parts to be fixed. Thus, Stora explores a patient’s current and past life history in relation to physical illness and offers therapeutic support alongside medical treatments. To better understand this revolutionary approach, Stora presents fifteen case studies from the past twenty years. We read of George suffering from hyperlipidemia; Giles, a diabetic facing amputation; Elvira, an alcoholic; Dorothy, who complains the doctors treat body parts but not her; Beatrice facing a reappearance of breast cancer; and ten further patients. This complex process takes into account the fundamental role of the central nervous system in the relationship of mind and body. Thus, neuroscience is a key component of this holistic approach, as well as the new discipline of neuropsychoanalysis. This is most clearly shown in the case of Emma, suffering after brain surgery. The Psychosomatic Therapy Casebook is an excellent introduction to integrative psychosomatics. The stories presented in the first four chapters can be read by anyone with an interest in the subject. The fifth and final chapter is aimed at psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and doctors looking to gain a greater understanding of the practice. It contains a comprehensive review of the technical points involved and clearly shows the difference between psychoanalytic technique and the technique of psychosomatic therapy. This is an important book in learning to treat the person as a whole rather than split into mind and body.Trade Review'Jean Benjamin Stora was President of the Paris Psychosomatic School in the 1990s. Subsequently, his work at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital led him to develop a new discipline, integrative psychosomatics. It was based on a scientific model called "metapsychosomatics", which supports the tension of knowledge between three disciplines: biomedicine, neuroscience and metapsychology. Following on from his previous works, this book explains the model and its paradigm in which the individual is perceived and investigated as a whole, in other words, as a "psychosomatic unit". Through fifteen clinical cases, Stora exposes the clinical and therapeutic orientations at play. This is an important book for doctors, clinicians, and psychological practitioners. It carries an obvious yet often overlooked message: that the care of patients should not focus solely on the sick organ or biological system as separate from mind and spirit, but should also focus on taking care of the person behind the illness.' -- Dr L. Naccache, Professor at the Psychosomatic School of the Pitié-SalpêtrièreTable of ContentsAbout the author Introduction A mysterious word: “psychosomatics” Chapter One Doctors, patients, and mind therapists Chapter Two “A good enough mother” Chapter Three Serious illness and pain Chapter Four Psychosomatic enigmas Chapter Five From the originality of psychosomatic psychotherapy Conclusion From the clinic of psychoanalysis to that of psychosomatic therapy Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 References Index

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from Silvia Allari, Leigh Bettles, Dan Eastop, Richard G. Erskine, Amaia Mauriz Etxabe, Linda Finlay, Ray Little, Lynn Martin, Marye O’Reilly-Knapp, Eugenio Peiro Orozco. Richard G. Erskine is a master clinician who, through more than fifty years of practice, has integrated diverse schools of psychoanalytic thought – self psychology, object relations, transactional analysis, and Gestalt therapy – with his client-centered background to form his relationally focused, integrative psychotherapy. Alongside eight colleagues, he presents an authoritative guide on working with the schizoid process. Part I provides an introduction to the schizoid process and an understanding of the concepts and therapeutic interventions required, helpfully illustrated through relevant vignettes that retain the subjective experience of therapist and client. Part II, the heart of the book, contains a longitudinal case study of Allan. This focuses on the narrative of the psychotherapy sessions interwoven with several salient concepts. It is followed by the observations of two colleagues on the process of the psychotherapy. A representation of professional dialogue, which is so central to refining the practice of psychotherapy. Part III looks at the clients’ perspective, including a chapter written by a client to provide her personal views on her internal experience of psychotherapy. The final part contains a chapter on the five-year psychotherapeutic journey of a client, Louise. This chapter demonstrates how the theory of the schizoid process is put into therapeutic practice. This is an essential book for all psychotherapists to widen their understanding of therapeutic practice.Trade Review‘Richard Erskine has extended Carl Rogers’ model of psychotherapy by inviting us to go "beyond empathy”; to practice psychotherapy with attunement, involvement, respect, and depth. Through extraordinarily presented cases, the reader will sense the suffering, fear, and loneliness experienced by people trapped between protective withdrawal and their need to be in relationship. I consider his book is fundamental for every psychotherapist since we all have clients who engage in a schizoid process.’ -- Professor Ignacio Gómez-Marroquín, Faculty of Health Sciences and Director of the post-master degree in Integrative Relational Psychotherapy, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain‘Richard Erskine brilliantly demonstrates the effectiveness of a developmentally based, relationally focused psychotherapy for the treatment of patients who struggle with internal criticism and relational withdrawal. In this book, Dr. Erskine takes us through his clients’ intrapsychic conflicts and the multi dimensions of the psychotherapy as if he were reading us a story – a story that illustrates a unique psychotherapeutic approach. I strongly recommend this book to both novice and experienced psychotherapists.’ -- Ruth Birkebaek, MD, UKCP Psychotherapist, London'In this impressive book Erskine gives a masterclass in working with silence. Together with nine invited contributors he explores the schizoid process – a condition way more prevalent that we realise. [...] I could not put down this deeply moving account of psychotherapy with a man with an isolated attachment style. The quality of Erskine's observations and his description of the therapeutic use of self are remarkable. [...] This is a gentle, hopeful book from a very experienced clinician.' -- Jane Cooper, former senior counsellor in higher education, BACP Therapy Today, Feb 2024, 35:1Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the editor and contributors Foreword Amaia Mauriz Etxabe (Basque Country, Spain) Preface Richard G. Erskine (Canada) Part I: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process 1. The Schizoid Process: An Introduction Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 2. Relational Withdrawal, Internal Criticism, Social Facade: Attunement to Parts of the Self Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 3. Relational Withdrawal, Attunement to Silence: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 4. Engaging with the Schizoid Compromise Ray Little (Scotland) 5. Silence, Withdrawal, and Contact in the Schizoid Process Marye O’Riely-Knapp (USA) 6. Relational Needs and the Schizoid Phenomena Dan Eastop (Ireland) Part II: A Five-Year Case Study and Colleague’s Reflections 7. Allan: Depression or Isolated Attachment? Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 8. Allan: Internal Criticism and Shame, Physical Sensations and Affect Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 9. Allan: Isolation, Loneliness, and a Need to be Loved Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 10. Allan: Therapeutic Withdrawal and Painful Memories Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 11. Allan: My Mother’s Voice; Psychotherapy of Introjection Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 12. Reflexively exploring the ‘therapeutic use of self’: A response to Richard Erskine’s five-chapter case study of Allan Linda Finlay (UK) 13. The Role of Shame in the Development of the Schizoid Process Lynn Martin (UK) Part III: Clients’ Perspectives on the Psychotherapy 14. Come closer … but keep your distance” Leigh Bettles (UK) 15. From Inner Safety to Contact-in-Relationship: Analyzing the Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process Silvia Allari (Italy) and Eugenio Peiro Orozco (Spain) Part IV: Theory into Therapeutic Practice 16. Louise: Social Facade, Depression, Relational Richard G. Erskine (Canada) Index

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Book SynopsisSince the introduction of psychoanalysis, radical paradigm shifts have occurred in philosophy, science, mathematics, and the arts. How we exchange information, how we interact on the global stage, and how we conceive of ourselves as citizens have also evolved. And yet, depth psychotherapy remains locked within its nineteenth-century image, poorly understood by those not intimately involved in its processes. Lover, Exorcist, Critic dives deeply into the field’s history, examining the cultural and historical context from which it emerged, and explaining how it evolved into a more vitalising methodology. Alan Michael Karbelnig exposes the inner workings of depth psychotherapy using the innovative perspective of three distinct social role analogies. As Lovers, psychoanalysts create a warm, accepting environment; as Exorcists, they receive, process, and deliver back projections; and, as Critics, they analyse, confront, and educate patients about self- and other-destructive patterns. These methods come to life in the rich descriptions of how psychoanalytic processes progressed with three fictional patients. Carlos, who suffered neglect and abuse during his childhood in East Los Angeles, struggled with the emotional intensity of depth psychotherapy and took months-long breaks when he felt too vulnerable. Gilda, a Greek-American woman sexually abused in her adolescence and traumatised by a physical attack in adulthood, grappled with periods of suicidal depression and episodic psychogenic fugue states. These severe symptoms made the psychotherapy process, at various times, difficult to contain. The final patient, Penn, an orthopaedic surgeon struggling with anxiety and over-achievement which left him exhausted, demonstrates the benefit gained by a person undergoing depth psychotherapy, intermittently, for more than two decades. Bravely exploring the failures alongside the successes, Dr. Karbelnig demonstrates the myriad ways psychoanalytic processes unfold and why they remain an effective, even vibrant way to reduce pain, grow, and live a more authentic life. Trade Review“Lover, Exorcist, and Critic: Understanding Depth Psychotherapy reads like a long, entertaining, and enlightening essay in which Dr. Karbelnig puts his stamp on what thought leaders in the field of depth psychotherapy have to say about how it reduces human suffering. The rich case studies he provides, as well as candid self-disclosures, ensure that the complicated ideas he covers are accessible and hit their mark. The book’s message is immensely important: depth psychotherapy is a cherished cultural resource to help individuals truly think, act, and feel like individuals, and Dr. Karbelnig delivers that message resoundingly well.” -- Enrico Gnaulati, PhD, affiliate professor of psychology at Seattle University, author of 'Saving Talk Therapy: How Health Insurers, Big Pharma, and Slanted Science are Ruining Good Mental Health Care'"Dr. Karbelnig does a masterful job of elucidating unconscious themes, which he terms "internal dramas," and exploring how these hidden conflicts and dynamics influence our present-day functioning. Utilizing jargon-free and accessible language, he pulls back the curtain on the often-misunderstood and mysterious process of psychoanalysis, offering a new model of understanding psychoanalysis that differs from the stereotypical silent, pipe-smoking analyst. We see how psychoanalysts function in three primary ways in relation to patients – the eponymous lover, exorcist, and critic. This book offers compelling studies of the contemporary depth psychotherapy process, revealing how the past haunts our present-day lives. We see how depth psychotherapy is akin to time travel, visiting the past to understand the present in a new way, and making internal dramas available to be rewritten. In this deeply thoughtful, personal, and vulnerable volume, Dr. Karbelnig shows how psychoanalysis liberates us from our past and creates a new roadmap to freedom, offering hope for living a fully vibrant, authentic, and meaningful life." -- Nina Savelle-Rocklin, PsyD, psychoanalyst and co-editor of 'Food for Thought: Perspectives on Eating Disorders', 'The Binge Cure', and 'Beyond the Primal Addiction'"Alan Karbelnig's book accomplishes what most volumes rarely do – that is to be just as congenial to an educated lay audience as it is to psychoanalysts at any point in their career. His authorial style covers, in his many voices, pretty much the entire history of psychoanalysis. He discusses it in its many iterations, including its primary leaders of prominent theories, along with their key followers, while providing a front-row seat to the evolution of their arguments. This is critically important to understanding how psychoanalysis' promise of "subversion" and of "freedom" is often undermined by its internal, intellectual "politics." Karbelnig conveys this in a deeply personal and self-disclosing manner, illustrating his points with three "fellow travelers." Calling these fictional patients "Carlos," "Gilda," and "Penn," he captures the inexorable struggles involved in the depth psychotherapy of psychoanalysis, which parallels the struggles between its many theories. This volume will doubtlessly find homes on the bookshelves of psychoanalysts and its lay fans alike. Dr. Karbelnig's sage and inviting chapter-by-chapter conversations turn this book into a remarkable page-turner of a read." -- Phillip Ringstrom, PsyD, PhD, training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) and author of 'A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Psychotherapy'"This is a brilliant book! It should be mandatory reading for any therapist in training and a beacon of wisdom senior practitioners will aspire towards. Through an inner prism in the intimate work with three ongoing case studies, we are afforded a rare glimpse into the minds and agonies of both patient and analyst. Written in clear and elegant prose, Dr. Karbelnig provides us with a real gem showcasing the pains, pitfalls, and ecstasies of what makes the talking cure so courageous and life-altering. " -- Jon Mills, professor in psychosocial and psychoanalytic studies at the University of Essex and author of 'Psyche, Culture, World, Debating Relational Psychoanalysis' and 'Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality'“Dr. Karbelnig’s book is well researched, yet easy to read – both broad and deep. He makes “old” ideas vulnerable, compelling, and strangely relevant to today’s society, culture, and its thinking people. It’s a warning that puts us on notice of the subtle deleterious effects of twenty-first-century “innovation” and of an entrenched lack of true and deep self-awareness. But then he provides a discipline and practice that frees us up and opens us up, lowering self-deception and raising self-awareness with the possibility of true transformation. He (re)introduces and explains in detail depth psychology. Depth therapy is an ongoing profound encounter that is not just for symptom relief; but for liberty and freedom. And its cumulative effect duly incorporated in modern culture and leadership–along with related practices that raise awareness and compassion – just might be something that makes a significant contribution to healing our dysfunctional country and perhaps touches the world itself. I highly recommend the careful reading of Dr. Karbelnig’s gift.” -- Sam Alibrando, PhD, clinical psychologist and organizational consultant, author of 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road' and 'The Three Dimensions of Emotion: Finding the Balance of Power, Heart, and Mindfulness''This is an accessible read and the chapters on the philosophical context and evolution of psychoanalytic theory are excellent summaries, especially for trainees. [...] This is a powerful and novel way of thinking about what psychoanalysts actually do, which will help to demystify and educate. I highly recommend this book.' -- Jane Cooper, former senior counsellor in higher education, BACP Therapy Today, 35:2, March, 2024Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface CHAPTER 1 A polemical introduction CHAPTER 2 The time travelers CHAPTER 3 Psychoanalysis’ philosophical context CHAPTER 4 The evolution of psychoanalytic theory CHAPTER 5 Creating the transformational frame CHAPTER 6 The Lover CHAPTER 7 The Exorcist CHAPTER 8 The Critic CHAPTER 9 Concluding unscientific postscript

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Book SynopsisThere is a great deal of confusion about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, even among practitioners of these methods. One reason is the sheer volume of psychoanalytic psychotherapies currently practised around the world; some very similar, others widely divergent. To help allay this confusion, Kevin Volkan and Vamık Volkan present what lies at the heart of psychoanalysis and demonstrate the different ways this core can manifest in practice. The authors’ aim is to improve psychoanalytic psychotherapists’ professional identities as well as their approaches to patients. The wide-ranging subjects discussed include therapeutic principles; key psychoanalytic concepts; psychotherapeutic identity; the clinician’s office; making formulations and interpretations; psychosocial development; individual and large-group identity; trauma and transgenerational transmission; dreams and unconscious fantasies; therapeutic play; personality organisations; cultural considerations; and psychoanalysis in organisations and groups. Volkan and Volkan draw upon their decades of experience of psychoanalysis, biculturalism, and supervision of colleagues in various countries and cultures to create an exceptional textbook to explain psychoanalytic theory clearly. They present compelling case examples to illustrate technical issues that never lose sight of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy as living professions that continue to develop. This is a must-read for all who want to learn more about psychoanalytic practice and theory.Trade Review‘Kevin and Vamik Volkan’s new book, How the Mind Works: Concepts and Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, is a significant and welcome addition to the literature. It brings both depth and reach, presenting varied new perspectives without jettisoning important elements of classical approaches. Of particular value is the authors’ ability to span inner and outer, psyche and culture, unconscious fantasy and reality, intrapsychic with small and large group processes, and transgenerational traumatic elements with individual and cultural dimensions of the here and now. The authors see psychoanalysis as an ever-evolving “living profession,” and they have resisted the temptation to dogmatize while not throwing out the baby with the bathwater. This is a rich and worthwhile book.’ -- Joseph Bobrow, PhD, psychoanalyst and author of 'Zen and Psychotherapy: Partners in Liberation'‘This textbook on psychoanalysis offers the reader both a historical lens and a current one, incorporating issues such as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, of telephone and virtual sessions, and of the war in Ukraine. The authors’ in-depth case examples illustrate fundamental constructs of psychoanalytic principles in a clear and cogent manner. Vamık Volkan’s profound conceptualization of large-group identity gives the reader a unique understanding of human development with clarity and poignant examples. Kevin Volkan’s framing of analytic theory with a cultural lens brings clarity to dynamics familiar to all mental health professionals in an understandable manner. Each chapter contains pearls of wisdom that can be appreciated by seasoned training analysts as well as those new to analytic thinking. The meaning and limitations of confidentiality in the virtual world of today is timely and essential for all practicing analytic therapists to understand and appreciate. Addressing how organizations and groups can be understood using the analytic lens that the Volkans focus on can be of value to leaders of all types of groups, corporations, and countries. This book is a gift to all people interested in the human mind, co-authored by two gifted deep thinkers. It can’t be recommended highly enough. A text for all seasons, a book for all reasons, for everyone interested in deepening one’s understanding of analytic thinking.’ -- Richard Beck, LCSW, BCD, CGP, AGPA-F, President, International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes, 2018–2022‘Kevin Volkan and Vamık Volkan update psychoanalytic knowledge about how the mind works while preserving the basic foundation of psychoanalysis. In a clear way they illustrate the link between the psychosocial realm and clinical work, bringing our attention to how major external events play a role in shaping individuals’ internal worlds and psychological functions. Regardless of the kind of theoretical or technical ideas held, this book is a significant contribution in helping clinicians solidify their therapeutic identities.’ -- Işıl Vahip, MD, retired professor of psychiatry, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey; a training and supervising psychoanalyst, Istanbul Psychoanalytic Association for Training, Research and Development; founder and president, Izmir Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy AssociationTable of ContentsAbout the authors About this book Chapter 1 Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy: five therapeutic principles Chapter 2 Id, ego, and superego Chapter 3 Psychotherapeutic identity, confidentiality, and psychotherapist disclosure Chapter 4 Neutrality, transference, countertransference, counterresponses Chapter 5 The psychoanalytic clinician’s office Chapter 6 Developmental levels Chapter 7 Defense mechanisms Chapter 8 Resistances Chapter 9 Making formulations, interpretations, and working through Chapter 10 The separation–individuation level and psychosocial development Chapter 11 Individual identity and large-group identity Chapter 12 Traumas and transgenerational transmissions Chapter 13 Two case stories illustrating transgenerational transmissions Chapter 14 Dreams and unconscious fantasies Chapter 15 Therapeutic play Chapter 16 Personality organizations Chapter 17 A story of a psychoanalysis illustrating psychoanalytic terms and concepts Chapter 18 Two brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy cases Chapter 19 A psychotherapy case with cultural considerations Chapter 20 Psychoanalytic ideas related to organizations and groups Chapter 21 Concepts related to psychoanalytic group psychotherapy Coda References Index

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Book SynopsisThe book includes contributions from Audrey Adeyemi, Tasha Bailey, Kelly Brackett, Jamie Butterworth, Alix Hearn, Evania Inward, Irene Mburu, Sasha Morphitis, Magda Raczynska, Nadja Rolli, Zisi Schleider, and Anna Tuttle. One Tree, Many Branches: The Practice of Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the pioneering child and adolescent psychotherapy and counselling training organisation Terapia and the achievements of its trainees , tutors, and staff, who provide highly specialised counselling, psychotherapy, and bespoke mental health services for young people, children, parents, and families. Terapia works with individuals, organisations, schools, and the statutory and non-statutory sector and is a strong voice for child psychotherapy as a distinct and specialist profession. Therapeutic work with children requires a different set of skills and knowledge to that of adult psychotherapists. For example, much of the work is non-verbal and uses play and metaphor alongside talking. It also requires involvement with the system around the child, such as parents, families, and professionals, and the management of conflicting agendas and politics to act on behalf of the child. Subjects discussed within its pages include ecopsychotherapy, autism, the lack of male psychotherapists, working with refugees, racial trauma, female genital mutilation, working in closed communities, and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. The book is essential reading for all who work with children and opens up exciting and pioneering new approaches for meeting the multifarious needs of our children and adolescents today.Trade Review'This most welcome book addresses a significant gap in the literature regarding the practice of integrative child and adolescent psychotherapy. It sensitively tackles a multitude of important topics, bringing the client’s experiences, and the reparative relationships formed with the therapist, to life in a warm and inspirational way. This is a beautiful text, a must-read for all humanistic and integrative child and adolescent psychotherapists.' -- Eileen Prendiville, psychotherapist, play therapist, and author; Director, Academic Affairs, Children’s Therapy Centre, Ireland'This excellent book demonstrates how integrative child psychotherapy has more than come of age. Brave, moving, clinically and intellectually rigorous, its chapters interrogate and illuminate essential contemporary therapeutic subjects, from neurodiversity to race to the body to displacement to systems and so much more. This is a marvellous and rich resource for experienced and newer therapists and anyone working with children.’ -- Graham Music, consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist, Tavistock Centre, London, and author of 'Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the editors and contributors Foreword Introduction: Seeds sown Bozena Merrick and Di Gammage Part I: Therapeutic holding 1. Ecopsychotherapy with children and young people in mind: attachment to place, nature, and landscape Alix Hearn 2. Airy creatures: using somatic countertransference to ground autistic states in child psychotherapy Magda Raczynska 3. The absent other: reflections on the absence of male, integrative child and adolescent psychotherapists Jamie Butterworth Part II: Race and cultural identity 4. Meet them where they are: integrative psychotherapy with refugee children and young people Evania Inward 5. Unveiling racial trauma in the practice of the integrative child and adolescent psychotherapist Audrey Adeyemi 6. Understanding the trauma and implications of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) through child psychotherapy Irene Mburu 7. Working with children and young people in the Orthodox Jewish Community Zisi Schleider 8. Go well: Exploring themes of grief and loss in therapy with children and young people Tasha Bailey Part III: Neurodivergence and differently wired brains 9. Working therapeutically with uniquely wired children Sasha Morphitis 10. Is it too late? The contribution of the integrative child psychotherapist to those affected by Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Anna Tuttle Part IV: Systemic issues and working within systems 11. An ongoing conversation…What (really) works in therapeutic residential care Kelly Brackett 12. Working through play on the mentalizing capacity of controlling-caregiving children who suffered early relational trauma Nadja Rolli Index

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Book SynopsisTamás Vekerdy, one of the most well-known Hungarian psychologists, called Credo an ’essential insight not just into Feldmár’s life but into the world and the era that we currently live in.’ Feldmár was three and a half years old when the Arrow Cross came and took his mother to Auschwitz, his father to labour service, and his grandmother to the ghetto. A young Catholic woman hid him for a year and a half – perhaps she inspired Feldmár to become the kind stranger in many other people's lives years later. Feldmár was sixteen in 1956 when the revolution was crushed, and he escaped from Hungary to Canada all by himself. He fled from bleak prospects and a controlling, critical mother into the unknown. He ended up in Toronto, Canada, and became an academic. In the early 1970s, he met the person who radically changed his thinking: R. D. Laing. The book’s longest chapter, ’Journal Entries’, comes from notes Feldmár took in 1974–1975 when he studied with Laing in London. He adds notes and remarks in the present to the past, increasing the tension in the already fascinating passages. Following this is the text of an important conversation with Laing, covering topics such as love, therapy, and change. Next is a paper by his lifelong friend Francis Huxley, ’Shamanism, Healing, and R. D. Laing’. The book concludes with perhaps its most influential chapter, ’Fantasy and Reality’. Here, Feldmár speculates on the fundamental elements of his approach to psychotherapy: the nature of responsibility and ethics, politics, freedom, individuality, community, solidarity, will, and relationships. The bond between Feldmár and Laing permeates every page of Credo. The reader can closely follow Feldmár's remarkable journey of how their relationship shaped his therapeutic approach and helped him develop into the radical and inspirational psychotherapist he is today. This book is essential reading for all psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and fans of R. D. Laing.Trade Review‘With an unerring sense of direction, Andrew Feldmár, born into a desperate situation in Hungary, found his way from Canada to R. D. Laing and the milieu around him in London in 1974 (I was there too). His one year of intensive involvement became foundational both for his life and for his career as a psychotherapist, founded in the ethics of ancient wisdom and existential courage. Through many what he calls “magnified moments”, he tells and shows how to fully inhabit one’s own life despite trauma and struggles, as a simultaneous sine qua non for being in communion with anyone else and with all that is. I remember and think of Andrew with respect and personal warmth; his Credo is well worth reading.’ -- Paul Zeal, MA, writer and psychotherapist’Andrew Feldmár’s Credo is an amazing memoir, filled with brave personal revelations, a record of his intellectual journeys and accomplishments, his conversations with some of the world’s leading psychologists, philosophers, psychiatrists, and healers – especially R. D. Laing but also Francis Huxley, David Bakan, and others – and his vast reading of the West’s major thinkers. Credo is a guide to Feldmár’s humility as a therapist, his eternal life as an outsider – a Jew, a Hungarian-speaking Canadian – and his ability to always start over again and to “market his pathology” as a compassionate therapist to very diverse populations. I am honored to have worked with him in Vancouver and New York — but even I did not know that Feldmár had founded a Laingian-style shelter (Soteria) for people with psychiatric diagnoses in Hungary or that friends had founded a Feldmár Institute there to popularise his theoretical and practical approaches to psychotherapy.’ -- Phyllis Chesler, writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies, College of Staten Island'I found reading Credo inspiring, even therapeutic, and I think it could be so for many who read it with an open mind and heart. It's written with careful, attentive observations and questioning of self and others, and with a clarity of intentions and aspirations. It has a lot of jargon-free, undogmatic, uncommon sense.' (Read the full review here) -- Leon Redler, physician, psychotherapist, and researcher'I found this an intriguing book to read. One can learn much about the formulation of a radical psychotherapeutic method here. [...] we can refer to Credo as a valuable contribution to the world of Humanistic Psychology, amongst other things.' (Read the full review here). -- Murray Gordon, MAHP, Living PsychologyTable of ContentsEDITOR’S NOTE PREFACE by Alphonso Lingis INTRODUCTION RUPTURES First Rupture My Father Second Rupture Irén Igaz Third Rupture My Mother Fourth Rupture Fifth Rupture Sixth Rupture Seventh Rupture Laing ORIGINS JOURNAL ENTRIES 1974–75, LONDON A CONVERSATION WITH R.D. LAING Love Therapy Forms Transformations Lying Change SHAMANISM, HEALING, AND R.D. LAING by Francis Huxley FANTASY AND REALITY R.D. LAING’S 12 RECOMMENDED BOOKS NOTES ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Book SynopsisThis guide explains how to incorporate creative interventions into counselling confidently and effectively and provides activities to support clients to express themselves through art, sound, movement, symbols, poetry and more.The book presents the Creative Counselling Model and gives guidance on incorporating creativity at every step of the therapeutic journey, from initial contract through to managing endings. It will support you to better adapt to the needs and interests of your clients, increase engagement, build better therapeutic relationships and improve outcomes.Advice is also given on nurturing your own creativity as a therapist and using creativity as self-care.Bonus content! This book also gives access to a free video series where you can learn more about some of the creative tools and interventions in the book, such as using clay, sand and symbols.Trade Review"This book contains a huge array of creative interventions and describes how to use them in counselling sessions... . I can also see that some of these interventions could enable certain clients to connect and open up in a way they might not otherwise have felt able to. What is abundantly clear throughout the book is the author's heartfelt enthusiasm for working creatively, and for helping clients to find meaning through a creative lens." * Therapy Today *This is a truly comprehensive guide to help counsellors and therapists embrace a multitude of creative tools and techniques.Useful for those new to incorporating creativity into their practice, and as well as for the more experienced practitioner. -- Jennifer Guest, Clinical Supervisor, Author of Even More CBT Art Activities

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Book SynopsisNina Coltart’s classic work, How to Survive as a Psychotherapist, was written over a quarter of a century ago and yet still resonates today with sage advice for the aspiring and established psychotherapist. This reissue contains a new Foreword from celebrated psychoanalyst David E. Scharff and an updated Further Reading section. Not simply a “how to” manual, this compact book is an amalgam of down-to-earth practicality about assessment, the pleasures of psychotherapy as opposed to analysis, details of how to run a practice, vivid clinical stories which don’t necessarily turn out well, discussions of Buddhism, and an autobiographical finale on the balance between life and work, including Coltart’s choice to live alone. Written in deceptively simple language, it reads easily and encourages beginners, but its backbone is the accrued wisdom for a career containing “survival-with-enjoyment” that offers new perspectives to both mid-career and experienced therapists and teachers. The professional autobiographical quality of the book reveals a lot about Coltart: her love of psychotherapy over full analysis and the number of strictures in analysis that she feels bind rather than guide. She describes the first years, in training and beyond, as full of anxiety: trying to get things right whilst an inner critical voice and the judgement of supervisors and teachers hangs over it all. Slowly, as time goes by, the ability to relax into a career with confidence in one’s own voice, knowledge, and intuition leads to a capacity for enjoyment of what can seem to outsiders a grim profession dealing only with suffering. Coltart’s book celebrates psychotherapy and its practitioners, and is full of interesting and practical advice that both experienced and novice psychotherapists will find invaluable. This enduring classic has stood the test of time and should be a feature of every aficionado’s bookshelf.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the author Foreword by David E. Scharff Introduction 1. Survival-with-enjoyment 2. Psychoanalysis vs psychotherapy? 3. Apparent trivia 4. Paradoxes 5. The pleasures of assessment 6. The art of assessment 7. Stranger than fiction … 8. Leisure and living Further reading Index

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Book SynopsisA compelling true story of one woman’s battle with the aftermath of childhood trauma, which gives a gripping account of the often controversial and misunderstood condition of dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD). This emotional but ultimately uplifting journey details the unforeseen twists and turns of the effects of therapy and how it can help in coming to terms with the past and its unsettling echoes in the present. Heartwarming and lucid, it’s an inspiring tale for all to read. Through its clinical rigour, professional therapists will also gain insight into the various treatment options for DID, including the innovative use of energy therapy. The book contains 32 colour illustrations, including 24 drawings by The Girls. The star of this book is an extraordinary, bright-spirited, and entertaining six-year-old girl, called Little Vivvi, who experienced shocking abuse from members of her family. Yet Little Vivvi lives within Vivian, a middle-aged woman who has struggled with DID for many years. The challenging process of psychotherapy is laid bare, as Little Vivvi wrestles with overwhelming memories of childhood abuse. Alongside talking therapy, energy treatment, which she calls Wooshing, is utilised to astonishing effect, becoming the enigmatic ingredient that finally enables Little Vivvi to find relief from the distress and fear that had dominated her existence. As therapy seems to draw to a close, Izzy appears. A very sensitive, thoughtful and mature eight-year-old, Izzy too needs love, support and treatment to speak about her trauma. After overcoming her understandable distrust, Izzy enables an exceptional ending to the therapeutic journey, far beyond anything Vivian and her therapist, Gill, could have dreamed. Little Vivvi and Izzy will make you want to laugh out loud as well as cry. Their story teaches so much about suffering, dissociation and survival. Their aim is to enlighten, inspire and offer hope to others through reading their incredible tales, which reveal the astonishing power of The Girls within.Trade ReviewWritten by counsellor, psychotherapist and clinical tutor Gill Frost, The Girls Within relates the moving case study of Vivian, a woman struggling with the impact of extreme childhood trauma. The tough subject is handled with extraordinary compassion, and written in a compellingly clear, warm style that will engage laypeople and psychotherapy professionals alike. While Vivian’s childhood experiences and resulting adulthood disorders are affectingly harrowing, the restorative twelve-year relationship between patient and therapist brings waves of joy. ‘After a horrific childhood, Vivian went on to a nursing career with no signs of trauma until she and her husband began couple therapy. It was then Vivian first spoke of the emotional, physical and sexual abuse she suffered as a child, and began to experience flashbacks, seizures and dissociative identity disorder (DID). As the author explains, “Dissociating is something we all do at times when we are feeling uncomfortable or in pain, either physically or emotionally… in order to relieve the discomfort we would otherwise experience”, but in extreme cases like Vivian’s, “dissociation can evolve into dissociative identity disorder (DID).” ‘This tells the story of two girls living within Vivian: six-year-old Little Vivvi (whose drawings are featured in the book) and teenage Izzy, and of the innovative therapies that spoke to Vivian during therapy, most notably Advanced Integrative Therapy, a form of “energy psychology” that holistically links body and mind, and draws on traditional knowledge like chakras. The twelve-year connection between patient and therapist recounted here is a complex, looping, juddering rollercoaster ride; a journey readers will feel deeply invested in, and much compassion for. -- Joanne Owen, LoveReading.co.ukIt takes a unique kind of courage to go to deep places with a client who becomes a constellation of clients. Gill Frost has that courage, allied to the bravery of Vivian, Little Vivvi, Izzy, and others. The result is a compelling account of therapy that touches the soul. -- Alistair Ross, Associate Professor – Psychotherapy, Oxford UniversityThis book is a gift to people living and working with dissociative identity disorder. Thank you to Vivian and all her internal family for allowing Gill to share their incredible journey. The genuineness and power of this story captures the innate drive to survive a childhood that is beyond horrendous. ‘Gill’s honesty with her own challenging journey, which runs parallel to that of Vivian and her internal family, allows the reader to share her roller coaster of emotions: elation, confusion, total despair, sadness, frustration, and, at times, peace and joy. ‘Clinicians reading this book will welcome how Gill continually emphasises the importance of the therapeutic relationship with all the parts and how, when this is firmly established and in partnership with Vivian, she introduces advanced integrative therapy (AIT), “Wooshing” to little Vivvi and “Calming Therapy” to Izzy. This offers a unique insight into how other therapies can support the core therapy when the conditions are right. Gill’s respectful curiosity and loving approach at all times is validating for each part, enabling trust to be experienced for the first time in their lives. Her firm and consistent boundaries, which are at the heart of the healing process, provide the bedrock on which this amazing journey unfolds. Making the links to difficulties in adult Vivian’s life helps us all to understand the impact of unresolved childhood abuse that continues to have an impact on every hour of every day. ‘This book has captured the way different personalities have developed, how important each role was in survival, and how logical they are within the context of Vivian’s childhood. The beauty of this story is tangible on every page and I want to thank Vivian, Little Vivvi, Izzy, and the other parts for allowing us to hear and share their story. I also want to thank the whole team because this book will offer hope and insight to survivors, therapists, and many others. Through the humane storytelling, we can all, whatever depths we plunge to, know things can change and to always hold onto this. ‘“Tough emotions are our contact with life,” says Susan David, psychologist – be mindful of this when reading this book. -- Melanie Goodwin, co-founder and chair of First Person PluralGill Frost, with her client Vivian and internal family, have written a remarkable book – a full and detailed account of a successful but lengthy psychotherapy of dissociative identity disorder (DID), resulting in a harmonious association of previously dissociated personality parts. This engaging narrative describes the inevitable challenges to the therapist’s assumptions, theoretical framework, and technique presented by DID – and the need to adapt and respond to the particular traumas, roles and functions, and age-specific cognitions of different dissociative alters. A crucial component was the use of an energy psychology modality, known as AIT but internally called ‘Whooshing’. The resulting text is a very significant contribution to the literature in the three areas of trauma, DID, and energy psychotherapy. -- Phil Mollon, PhD, psychoanalyst and energy psychotherapist. author of ‘Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices’This is an inspirational book which tells gripping, interweaving real-life stories. First, it is about the respectful relationship between a thoughtful therapist and a courageous patient (and parts of a patient) with dissociative identity disorder. Second, with the subject hardly included in UK trainings, it helpfully shows Gill Frost’s responsible and reflective ways of making sense of what is happening, the hopes and hurdles. Third, we witness the hard work and integrity of all “the girls within” as they dare to tell their stories and offer their pieces of the jigsaw. At times harrowing, although never gratuitously, and ultimately hopeful, the unfolding account of “the girls within” will help professionals and survivors alike. -- Dr Valerie Sinason 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award ISSTDTable of ContentsIntroduction: Distant memories – devastated lives Part I: The comings and goings of Little Vivvi 1. First meeting 2. New room 3. Trauma treatment 4. Telephone talks 5. Greek tragedy 6. The aftermath 7. The problem with being a girl 8. Dark nights 9. Christmas 2013 10. Cabin fever 11. Preparing ground 12. Breaking news 13. The fallout 14. The three faces of Vivian 15. Just Angry 16. New boundaries 17. Increasing integration 18. The book 19. An exorcism 20. The fear of being alone 21. Role reversal 22. Mothers and daughters 23. Team work 24. Talk! Talk! Part II: And then there was Izzy 25. Black shadows of the night 26. Striking a deal 27. Out of hiding 28. Belief after betrayal 29. Poor Baby 30. A slipped disc 31. Internal family systems 32. The joy of being inside out 33. Night terrors 34. A burning rage 35. Down to the wire 36. Beyond the chequered flag Postscript Epilogue by Vivian The last word from Little Vivvi Family trees Acknowledgements About the author References Glossary Resources

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Book SynopsisOne hundred (and one) tales to mark Salman Akhtar’s one hundredth book! Divided into eight informative parts – Dr Akhtar’s journey to psychoanalysis; the lessons he learned from his teachers, supervisors, and mentors; the teachings from his peers and colleagues; the benefits of clinical work; the impact of cultural difference; insights gained from students, supervisees, and audiences; his experiences of writing, editing, and publishing; and advice for those about to take their first steps – each section is packed full of incredible advice lightly given in a series of engaging anecdotes. Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis is the perfect book for trainees, practising clinicians, those considering psychoanalysis as a career path, anyone with an interest in the subject, and all who enjoy reading the recollections of a witty raconteur.Trade Review‘I enjoyed hearing about the process of psychotherapy, the delicate balancing act of therapeutic interpretation and the thought processes behind disclosure. [...] Overall, this book allows the reader to see one analysts 50 year journey and witnessed the ever changing theoretical landscape of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy’ -- Nick Campion, integrative psychotherapist in Derby, 'Therapy Today' September 2022Salman Akhtar is a brilliant scholar, a superb integrator of ideas, and one of the most original minds in modern psychoanalysis. -- Peter FonagySalman Akhtar is one of the most learned but also lyrical and imaginative medical men who ever graced the field of psychoanalysis. -- Rosemary BalsamIf, by a magical process, you were able to generate a unique individual with an encyclopedic mind, an indefatigable search for scientific knowledge, a superb scholar and teacher, and a poet able to movingly convey human ecstasies and tragedy, you would have created a replica of Salman Akhtar. -- Otto KernbergIn my very first meeting with Salman Akhtar, whom I had already read, I was amazed by his kind simplicity allied with princely refinement. Salman is a poet, a storyteller and has a rare quality that I would call ‘heartfelt civility.’ -- Marilia AisensteinHis amiability and enthusiasm, his curiosity and creativity, his eagerness to share and teach make Salman Akhtar an admirable psychoanalyst and a memorable man. -- Vamik VolkanTable of ContentsPROLOGUE What is not in this book? Part I Finding my way to psychoanalysis 1. Delusion and stage acting 2. A nagging question 3. Papa! 4. A benevolent prediction 5. Otto Fenichel in a navy blue suit 6.How can one predict such things? 7. Streaking in New Jersey 8. A class act 9. Don’t mess with the master 10. Nipples 11. Self-castration and a man called John Buckman 12. The grand permission 13. Refusing to listen PART II Lessons I received from my teachers, supervisors, and mentors 14. The renowned analyst who traumatized me 15. Why not Broadway? 16. Rare indeed 17. To pee or not to peeIndian miniatures and Jackson Pollock 18. Indian miniatures and Jackson Pollock 19. What else can a man want? 20. Unlike Jacob Freud 21. Illusionless man 22. Let us give the boy a chance! 23. A true gentleman 24. Ten percent goes a long way! 25. Naughty—1 26.Schizophrenia 27.The Brazilian panic 28. Amazing grace 29. A diligent follow-up 30. From ‘Liquid Steel’ to ‘Deep Throat’ 31. A brutal transgression 32. Seven features of a proper apology 33. A missed opportunity 34. The man who laid everything on the line 35. Leonard Horowitz eats baklava PART III What my colleagues and peers taught me 36. An act of genuine empathy 37. The mourning pill 38. Eleven hours in Oslo 39. From Stephen Ward to Ivan Ward 40. A gentleman from Virginia introduced me to Charles Darwin 41. On an escalator in Toronto 42. Dominic and Damien 43. Psychoanalysis and Idi Amin 44. My own narrowmindedness 45. Book review—1 46. Hardly arrogant 47. Circumcision—1 48. Bangles 49. Un-associated 50. No, I did not sleep with Mark Moore and Ira Brenner 51. Frank Maleson made me lose a million dollars 52. Ralph Fishkin made me think 53. An editor’s gift 54. Circumcision—2 PART IV Clinical work turned out to be my ‘royal road’ to learning 55. Long before the Rain Man 56. A son by any other name 57. Silence and stillness 58. The man who shot a pregnant woman 59. Between yes and no 60. Learning to speak from animals 61. Please don’t give me any money 62. A now moment 63. Let us do it this Sunday 64. Naming the female genital 65. First patience, then act of faith 66. The boat never sinks 67. Curtailing the greed for interpretation 68. Milk and cookies 69. Ten most important lessons PART V The cultural difference between me and my professional surround became an adjunct instructor of mine 70. Meeting Masud Khan 71. One friendly nudge, one award, and two books 72. Who pays? 73. From Evelyne Schwaber to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks 74. Trans-fixed 75. ‘You are not one of us!’ 76. The altruistic core of 9/11 77. A dam across the Ganges 78. ‘What else can you expect from these Muslims?’ 79. My African American struggle 80. Culture, narcissism, or sorrow? 81. ‘Humbug!’ 82. A good reason to not have sex? PART VI Insights that arose from dealing with students, supervisees, and sundry audiences 83. Two flower vases 84. Can water cure cancer? 85. On being called a ‘good man’ 86. Tennis as a disguise for psychoanalysis 87. Naughty—2 88. My French connection 89. Can a believer be a psychoanalyst? 90. Who do I belong to? 91. Is really old stuff any good? 92. Seventy-three plus twenty-five PART VII Writing, editing, and publishing ‘saved’ me 93. Writing aids 94. Why I write 95. Writing as manic defense 96. Why I edit books 97. On being a midwife 98. A man of few words 99. Book Review—2 100. Writing poetry 101. One final thought EPILOGUE A few amazing coincidences Permissions Acknowledgments About the author The other ninety-nine books by the author Name index

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Book SynopsisA Healing Relationship is about a relationally focused psychotherapy, how the author works, and why. The first couple of chapters provide a brief orientation to relationally focused aspects of an integrative psychotherapy. The heart of the book are the transaction-by-transaction examples of what actually occurred in the psychotherapeutic dialogue. It is composed of three verbatim transcripts along with annotations about what the author was thinking and feeling when he engaged in psychotherapy with each client. Many of the annotated comments as well as the actual therapeutic dialogue will describe some elements of the process of relationally focused psychotherapy and the reasoning behind his therapeutic comments, silences, and challenge. This book is intended to elicit a dialogue between the reader and the psychotherapist / author and is written as though a personal letter. Psychotherapy is such an interpersonal encounter — an intimate meeting of two souls. No two psychotherapists will ever do the same therapy, even with the same client, even if they use the same theory and methods. It is important to appreciate how each think about theories, the concepts that underlie the methods chosen, how each assess the therapeutic setting, and express personal temperament. Richard G. Erskine has taken an important step in communication about the practice of psychotherapy. Not only with this excellent book but also with video footage of the three therapy sessions, which will be made accessible to purchasers of the book. The overarching aim is to stimulate important conversations between colleagues; to both agree and disagree, to influence each other, to grow professionally, and to share knowledge.Trade ReviewIn this beautifully written book, Richard G. Erskine shares his rich knowledge through an in-depth discussion of transcripts of actual psychotherapy sessions. Reading the book feels like being in the psychotherapy session and having the first-hand experience of the therapist’s internal process from moment-to-moment. The book is a work of art, full of wisdom, clinical thinking, and methods that convey the importance of respect and compassion for the client’s experience. The book will be of interest to all psychotherapists who would like to enrich their clinical practice and learn from the originator of developmentally based and relationally focused integrative psychotherapy. -- Gregor Žvelc, Assoc. Prof. University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology; Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, LjubljanaDr. Erskine’s dialogue with the reader opens a royal avenue to understand and internalize the principles and methods of relationally focused integrative psychotherapy. This is a key book in the psychotherapy field because it clearly demonstrates the importance of intersubjectivity in the therapeutic relationship and the need for an involved other to heal the injuries of early relational ruptures. -- José M. Martínez, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the Valladolid University, Spain; international integrative psychotherapy trainer and supervisor; teaching and supervising transactional analyst'the book is important for all those who want to reflect on the process of their own work. I also believe Erskine’s openness around his work, his feelings, his thinking, his capacity to reflect on himself, the relationship and his client, will be very helpful for those who sometimes see their own struggle within the process with their client as reflecting negatively on themselves rather than seeing the struggle as the very stuff of the therapeutic journey.' -- James Sweeney, The Transactional Analyst (Autumn 2021)Table of ContentsAbout the author Preface CHAPTER ONE Reflections on relationally focused psychotherapy CHAPTER TWO Discovering relational psychotherapy CHAPTER THREE How I practice relational psychotherapy CHAPTER FOUR Relational needs CHAPTER FIVE Trauma, relational neglect, and the need to tell the story CHAPTER SIX Attunement to affect, rhythm, and an internal child CHAPTER SEVEN Validation, normalization, and presence CHAPTER EIGHT A collegial dialogue References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book attempts to do justice to the depth and complexity of depression – as to its causes and its treatment in psychotherapy. It challenges the reductive medical view of depression as a serotonin deficiency resulting in a collection of undesirable symptoms to be dispatched with antidepressants or CBT exercises. Rather, it locates the origins of depression in childhood adversity, primarily caused by unattuned, cold, critical, hostile or abusive caregiving. Insecure attachment interacts with other elements of a stressful life history as well as with genetic makeup to pave the way for depression. Such a childhood has long-term impacts on the setting of the stress and threat responses of the nervous system. Depression fundamentally indicates a weak and non-resilient sense of self, coupled with limited capacities for trust and either autonomy or intimacy in relationships. These are the issues that must be tackled in psychotherapy. Since depression carries a message for the sufferer, it must be investigated for its meaning. Why has the individual withdrawn from life and what are they being asked to change in how they live and relate? Before this reparative and creative phase of therapy can begin, however, we must remember that depression is not just ‘low’ mood but also ‘stuck’ mood. Rigid beliefs and processes that block therapeutic engagement can be gently questioned by helping the client see that they are held by only one part of the self, whereas other ‘for growth’ parts carry hope and a willingness to play and explore. Overall, it is crucial in working with depression to see and to relate to the client as a whole person; not simply a bundle of cognitive shortcomings to be corrected, but as an emotional, organismic, relational, existential and spiritual being. Depression: An Introduction presents a biopsychosocial model, combining developmental and attachment perspectives with genetics and neurobiology. Its therapeutic orientation is humanistic and integrative but has much to offer anyone wanting to know more about this widely known but little understood condition.Trade Review‘The plainness of [the] title belies the freshness, rigour and creative synthesis of up-to-date thinking in the book. Both broad and deep in perspective … Dowds does justice to the complexity of depression. … This is a truly fascinating read and will be of great interest to anyone who really wants to understand what depression is’ -- Roz Carroll, co-editor with Jane Ryan of ‘What is Normal? Psychotherapists Explore the Question’‘The most helpful book I’ve ever read about understanding and working with depression … skimps on neither scope nor substance. Dowds covers everything from evolutionary theories of depression to the impacts of globalisation and social media, taking in epigenetics and economic status, gender and gut flora. She conveys a strong sense of the emotional, cognitive, somatic, existential and relational qualities of depression, and shares many practical ways of engaging with its different dimensions. And she still finds space to recurrently sound, and deepen, her key developmental themes.’ -- Isobel Todd, psychodynamic counsellor, SCAP no. 141 (Summer 2021) sussex-counselling.co.uk‘The focus on depression as an immediate and common experience that is on the increase (while being hard to work with), marks this book out as essential reading not just for therapists and trainees, but for anyone interested in deepening and expanding their knowledge and awareness of the impact of depression, its evolution and manifestation within the context of contemporary society.’ -- Pauline Macey, MIACP, IJCP Vol. 21 Issue 3 (Autumn 2021)‘well worth reading for anyone who wants to reacquaint themselves with the theory and practice in relation to depression and also those who may want pointers as to how to keep up to date with the latest thinking in the field.’ -- Eleanor Dunn IAHAP, ‘Inside Out’ Issue 95 (Autumn 2021)Table of Contents Acknowledgements About the author Foreword by Roz Carroll Preface Part I Incidence, causes, and consequences of depression CHAPTER 1 An anatomy of depression CHAPTER 2 Biological causes and consequences CHAPTER 3 An application of neuroscience CHAPTER 4 Childhood origins and adult triggers Part II Psychotherapy: mobilisation and meaning CHAPTER 5 The message from within: moving towards authenticity CHAPTER 6 The therapeutic challenges of stuck mood CHAPTER 7 Repairing the self, building resilience CHAPTER 8 Brigid’s story Final thoughts Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisReading The Power of Talking: Stories from the Therapy Room feels as though you have joined author Stelios Kiosses at his favourite coffee shop for a chat whilst enjoying a cappuccino and slice of cake. It is a joy to read, inviting you into the psychotherapeutic world as a welcome guest to discover the process of psychotherapy, the role of the therapist, and the psychological defences we all employ. ‘Being a therapist is truly a lifelong journey which we share with others towards healing.’ So says Stelios Kiosses and here he presents his journey so far. Along the way, we meet Gareth, suffering from depression for many years. Then there is Helen, dealing with unresolved childhood trauma. John and Alice, experiencing difficulties in their relationship, hoping couple therapy will help. David, successfully treated for burnout / work-related stress over a decade ago, but now struggling with suicidal thoughts after the loss of his job and his mother. This case has the added resonance of the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic and the need to work remotely via video. And finally, Abigail, who is struggling with hoarding and the memories and pain of sexual abuse. These stories come to life in an engaging, enthralling, and enjoyable read for therapists and the public alike.Trade ReviewIn a humane, moving and highly intelligent book, Stelios Kiosses opens the door on the world of therapy. He shows how human beings can come to acknowledge their own deepest wounds, and then find the strength to repair them. So much talk about therapy is shrouded in confusing jargon. This book is at the opposite extreme; it explains the scope and the limits of the therapist’s role in a plain and comprehensible way that many will find illuminating – and comforting. -- Bruce Clark, writer for ‘The Economist’ on history and cultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgements About the author Preface 1. On being a therapist 2. Gareth 3. Helen 4. John and Alice 5. David 6. Abigail Index

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Book SynopsisFeatures interviews with Graeme Fowler (England cricketer), Nigel Owens (Welsh International Rugby Union referee), Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson (Paralympian), Kieren Emery (GB lightweight rower), Mark Enright (jockey), Michelle Bergstrand (British cyclo-cross champion), Luke Stoltman (five-times Scotland’s Strongest Man), Jack Rutter (Paralympian and England cerebral palsy football captain), and Ruth Walczak (GB Lightweight Rower). The demands of the high-performance athlete are huge, with many celebrated for their achievements, and put on a pedestal for admired personality traits such as discipline, sacrifice, commitment, and focus. This book seeks to explore the celebrated traits of the high-performance athlete and, by doing so, to increase awareness of the vulnerability that such traits also present. Through discussion with professional sports people and presentation of their own personal stories the book explores obsessionality, masochism, and focus, and how these characteristics can enhance performance on the field yet hinder life off it and may even develop into clinically diagnosable mental health difficulties. In psychology, assessments are based on statistical phenomena; the title Skewed to the Right is based on the ‘bell curve’ that is shown through a graph whereby the majority sit in the middle with a few clusters at either on of the extremes. The suggestion is that elite athletes are ‘skewed to the right’ on a number of key traits that put them between the ‘general’ population and those with a clinical diagnosis. The book opens with an exploration of weight-restricted sport and how making weight is achieved through practices that become culturally acceptable in the sporting world yet would be seen to be classified as clinically diagnosable eating disorders in the medical world. It then moves on to personality traits that help and hinder – those skewed to the right: masochism, obsessionality, and focus. Part 3 looks at one trait skewed to the left – acceptance – that many sportspeople struggle with. The book closes with a section exploring points of vulnerability for all athletes and ends with a look at where we can go from here. The aim of the book is to increase social awareness of the reality of life for the successful high-performance athlete and the challenging dynamics that exist in sporting culture today. It will be of interest to psychologists, psychotherapists, trainees, and anyone with an interest in sporting culture.Trade ReviewThere has always been a fascination with what makes an elite performing sportsperson, but few have taken a deep look into what the cost of that might be. Dr Amy Izycky tackles this discussion with amazing detail and insight but also with sensitivity. If you are interested in truly understanding elite performance in sport then this is a book you must read. -- Luke Sutton, former professional cricketer and now high profile sports agentThat what makes a person exceptional in sport can also be their ultimate weakness. Dr Amy Izycky has cleverly combined storytelling alongside a more scientific narrative, based in theory. Bringing this all-important phenomenon home to us all, in such an interesting way. -- Dr Zoe Williams, former Gladiator, GP, and television presenterSkewed to the Right. Even the title of this book captured my imagination and has been well thought out. As a medical doctor working in several sports over several decades, I have been confronted as a “front line“ health worker to address many of the issues that Dr Amy Izycky has highlighted in her excellent work. The text has been eloquently put forward in this highly readable and informative book. The mental health and welfare issues of so many of our athletes are brushed under the carpet and as a society we have yet to seriously open up and address the harm that has been and is being done. Just like the government paper Duty of Care by Tanni Grey-Thompson, Skewed to the Right should be a compulsory text for any person working in sport who genuinely wishes to face up to the challenge of mental health. Amy Izycky addresses areas of controversy head on and this refreshing and necessary approach underlines that such issues should not be controversial because as a society we should be addressing them as mainstream concerns. Then we may be able to adopt good practice and truly demonstrate a duty of care. I for one will be a better practitioner for reading this highly informative, well-structured book. I believe that many more people who have been exposed to the idiosyncrasies and questionable practice in elite sport, will say the same. -- Dr Bryan English, current Head of Medicine, Leicester City Football Club; previous Chief Medical Officer at Middlesbrough AFC, Chelsea FC, The Lawn Tennis Association, and UK AthleticsDr Amy Izycky delivers an informative and really interesting insight into the psychology of mental health within professional sports. Skewed to the Right is a MUST-have handbook to anyone involved in sports. Often overlooked within the industry in the pursuit of elite performance, mental health is brought to the forefront and explored in detail that really hits home and gets you thinking. The case studies and discussions she provides not only encourage you to understand the various mental health issues that occur but also allow you to identify and highlight when you may be tipping over or, as the title states, “skewing to the right” in your own life. -- The Mulligan Brothers, Inspirational Change documentary makers‘An exploration of the liminal space where sporting achievement and mental ill health are uncomfortable bedfellows, this book feels long overdue. [...] Izycky asks difficult questions, explores paradoxes, isn’t afraid to draw a conclusion where it’s warranted but is equally comfortable to sit with not-knowing. She writes with clarity, explaining key concepts and addressing issues that appertain far beyond the sports field alone.’ -- Nick Campion, Therapy Today, March 2022Table of ContentsAbout the author Acknowledgements Introduction Where it all began Part I Weight-restricted sport 1. Rowing with Kieren Emery, GB lightweight rower 2. Horseracing with Mark Enright, jockey Part II Skewed to the right: personality traits that help and hinder 3. Masochism with Michelle Bergstrand, British cyclo-cross champion 4. Obsessionality with Luke Stoltman, five-times Scotland’s Strongest Man and World’s Strongest Man competitor 5. Focus with Graeme Fowler, England cricketer Part III Skewed to the left? 6. Acceptance with Nigel Owens, Welsh international rugby union referee Part IV Vulnerability 7. Injury and retirement with Jack Rutter, Paralympian and England cerebral palsy football captain Conclusion 8. Where do we go from here? with Ruth Walczak, GB lightweight rower, and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Paralympian Index

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Book SynopsisWe are living in times where the issue of identity and difference has taken on a more defensive hue. The tide is turning towards an inward-looking nostalgia of sameness based on fear rather than on understanding. The experience of hearing another language, the way it is spoken, and being faced with the image of the other is now more complex, imbued with projections of powerlessness, fear, terrorism, and survival. The issue of identity appears to have become even more complex. All cultures are concerned with how we speak and communicate as this represents identity, history, and home. Communication is also essential for survival, both emotionally and socially. The speaking person is an individual but also part of a culture or cultures with dense collective and individual shapes. The issue of identity, that feeling of belonging, is essential, full of possibility, and, at times, very uncomfortable, as it touches the tensions between who we are and who we are becoming. This sits next to more complex historical experiences and memories of languages and cultures being changed or lost or banished due to the colonial, imperial, and regional moves of powerful nations in search of conquest and economic gain. This collection addresses how language affects therapists and their patients, and how it can be understood culturally and therapeutically. Drawn from talks given at the Multi-lingual Psychotherapy Centre (MLPC), the contributors not only bring a therapeutic slant but also their other roles as academics, writers, and artists. These reflections, memories, and stories give a glimpse of the multilingual journey the MLPC has been exploring for over twenty years, and leave much food for thought. The book contains contributions from Cédric Bouët-Willaumez, Giselle China, Patricia Gorringe, Natsu Hattori, Monique Morris, Esti Rimmer, and Edna Sovin.Trade ReviewIn old Vienna, Sigmund Freud treated his very first patients, all of whom lived nearby, in his native German tongue. But, today, psychotherapy has become a far more globally diversified practice, both culturally and linguistically, posing many challenges and opportunities. In this wonderfully rich and readable book, Ali Zarbafi and Shula Wilson have assembled a magnificent collection of colleagues from Canada, France, Germany, Iran, Israel, Japan, the United States of America, and Zimbabwe, to examine the nature of multilingual psychotherapy from the perspective of both the patient and the clinician. I devoured this book in one sitting and I recommend it very highly indeed. -- Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London, and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health, Regent’s University London‘Speaking a language is an emotional experience,’ states Ali Zarbafi at the beginning of this book. Speaking multiple languages is increasingly the norm across the world. So why has the multilingual experience been left in the shadows of psychotherapy practice for so long? Mother Tongue and Other Tongues, edited by Ali Zarbafi and Shula Wilson, boldly and truthfully examines the profoundly important, although neglected, experience of the multilingual client in psychotherapy theory and practice. The book is a collection of chapters (developed from the Burgh House lectures) written by practising multilingual psychotherapists. These chapters make the compelling case that we experience the world differently according to the languages we speak or hear throughout our lives. Each beautifully written chapter starts with the author’s autobiographical narrative, interwoven with case vignettes and examples from theory, novels, poetry, and music. The themes of identity, home, displacement and exile, dreams, mother tongues and father tongues, loss, attachment, transgenerational gifting or withholding of languages, intimacy, emotional engagement and distance and the processing of trauma – are all considered through the multilingual frame. Each chapter is a story in its own right. The book is written in English which is the mother tongue of only a few of the contributors. Perhaps for that reason the writing is so compelling – each word chosen with care and respect for the inherent power of language. Each page is saturated with the truth of the experiences shared and reflected upon by the authors. Mother Tongue and Other Tongues takes the reader deep into the multilingual experience. It shows us that if we ignore the multilingual emotional experiences of our clients, we do not really see them. This book makes a powerful case for the multilingual experience to be incorporated into contemporary psychotherapy thinking and practice. -- Dr Beverley Costa, DPsych, UKCP-approved supervisor, MBACP, Senior Practitioner Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London , Director, the Pásalo Project, www.pasaloproject.orgThis is an exciting and topical book, written with great elegance, that demands to be read. Ali Zarbafi and Shula Wilson have edited a series of moving and thoughtful chapters, written by authors, all psychotherapists, exploring what it is like to speak and work in a second language that is not their mother tongue. The authors’ personal experiences of exile, dislocation, and then adaptation into a new culture will be an invaluable resource for those working with or living alongside people from other cultures and how to communicate with them. -- Jan Wiener, Training Analyst and Supervisor, Society of Analytical Psychology, London‘this book spoke volumes to me; particularly the delicate sensitivity and authenticity with which the authors re-consider the collective experience of loss, trans-generational trauma and resilience whilst bringing out ‘the gifting’ of the deeper understanding that difference and cross-cultural meetings can bring. […] this will not only be a welcome resource for counsellors and psychotherapists who work with the multilingual experience in all its shapes, but also for anyone curious about, or confronted with this topic.’ -- Alice Hartmann, Integrative Psychotherapist (UKCP), in SCAP News No.142, 2021Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the editors and contributors Introduction by Ali Zarbafi 1. Language of the mountains, language of the sea: living with exile and trauma as a journey between languages Esti Rimmer 2. Living in-between languages and cultures Ali Zarbafi 3. Childhood, spoken and written selves Natsu Hattori 4. When the mother tongue is contaminated Patricia Gorringe 5. Outre-mer et la langue de ma mère Monique Morris 6. Silence, dissonance, and harmony: integrating the multilingual self Cédric Bouët-Willaumez 7. Return to Berlin: my forbidden mother tongue Edna Sovin 8. Once upon… a silence Giselle China 9. The challenge of 'home' Shula Wilson Index

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Book SynopsisTransforming Themes challenges the dominant view of psychotherapy as a structured, reductionist process. Instead, it views psychotherapy as an alive, unrehearsed interaction that embraces healing when it is focused on the role of ‘therapeutic themes’. These themes are the entrenched frames of references or contexts from which clients perceive their lives. In any interaction, each participant has a unique worldview. When clients come to therapy, they bring their problems in the form of a theme: ‘the woman who can’t forgive’ or ‘the child who is a terror’. Any potential statement or action performed within this theme merely strengthens the problem. Only when the theme of the therapy session has shifted can clients gain access to inner resources to shift perspectives and begin inner transformation. Effective therapy results from moving clients into more flexible, empowering themes. These changes occur as a result of the dynamic interaction between therapist and client, which embraces improvisation, creativity, and novelty, rather than adherence to specific theories or techniques. Using historical and modern research and colourful case studies, this work will help professionals understand how to easily adapt and apply creative and resourceful therapy interventions, no matter what therapeutic orientation they endorse. This book will enable therapists, counsellors, psychologists, and social workers to gain access to creative, effective methods which help their clients heal while increasing effectiveness and enjoyment in clinical work.Trade ReviewPaul J. Leslie has written a richly referenced text that provides a solid foundation to appreciate the benefits of shifting from a rigid, pathology-based therapy to a theme-based approach. This is supported by a clear history of therapy down through the ages, by specific steps in creating preferred themes, and by clinical examples of this creative, respectful, and effective approach. I enjoyed Paul’s flexibility in his genuine caring for his clients, and learned from the experience. It’s a pleasure to recommend this delightful book to any serious therapist. -- Rob McNeilly, MBBS, co-director of The Milton H Erickson Institute of TasmaniaPaul J. Leslie presents an approach to psychotherapy that affirms the unique ideas of the therapist, the unrealized resources of the client, and a creative process for co-constructing change. At times teacher, other times philosopher, and always masterful mentor, Leslie demonstrates the way therapists might move away from medicalized patterns of conducting therapy toward new dimensions of transformational potency while becoming curators of their own creativity. -- Bette J. Freedson, LICSW, LCSW, CGP, author of ‘Other Realms, Other Ways: A Clinician’s Guide to the Magick of Intuition’In this intriguing book, Paul J. Leslie invites therapists to become more flexible and inventive in their work by abandoning any rigid attachment to predetermined theories or techniques. His call for more spontaneity and creativity in therapeutic interaction is refreshing and inspiring. Great ideas for helping clients open up to new possibilities in their lives! -- Courtney Armstrong, LPC, author of ‘Rethinking Trauma Treatment: Attachment, Memory Reconsolidation and Resilience’Transforming Themes invites psychotherapists to engage in a process that is known, but rarely discussed within the framework of themes. Dr. Leslie highlights and defines a powerful treatment model that is co-created, cooperative, and empowering. Instead of focusing on problems, clinicians are encouraged to create new themes that incorporate resources, improvisation, and healing. Within this framework, the therapeutic relationship is incorporated as a resource, along with departing from a pathology-oriented approach of treatment. Leslie reminds us that utilization and empowerment are themes that ought to be carried out in all successful treatments. -- Rick Miller, LICSW, author of ‘Unwrapped: Integrative Therapy with Gay Men … The Gift of Presence’Table of Contentsvii Acknowledgements ix About the author xi Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1 Theme-oriented therapy 19 CHAPTER 2 Psychotherapy as theme creation 49 CHAPTER 3 Cocreating new themes 71 CHAPTER 4 Thematic patterns and rituals 91 CHAPTER 5 The soldier who was secretly a hippie 105 CHAPTER 6 The heart of an artist 119 CHAPTER 7 The eccentric professor 131 References 135 Index

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Book SynopsisEvery psychotherapist will be familiar with what it means to experience the hatred and despair of their most vulnerable patients in the midst of a psychotherapy session. Most often these patients will manage to express their feelings verbally, but what about those who never developed the capacity to speak? Or those who are capable of talking, but carry a complex range of unprocessed embodied feelings that cannot be verbally expressed? Some patients must rely on another type of language in order to communicate their dissociative states of mind.Primitive Bodily Communications explores how the talking cure' can still work when words fail and the body talks.' Non-verbal communication can be thought of as a form of body language and, even though this is a topic not frequently discussed, many practitioners have experienced working with people who communicate through the use of their bodies. The book does not refer to bodily communications as primitive because we see them as inferior to verbal language, but simply because they point to the beginnings of psychological development, to primary ways of being and relating, as well as to enduring aspects of ourselves.The contributors explore the topic of primitive bodily communications in the context of intellectual disability, eating disorders and bodily neglect, focusing on the communicative aspect of bodily expressions within the therapeutic relationship. A wide spectrum of clinical cases illustrates how these patients can reach a state of better physical and emotional containment and, when possible, of verbal communication.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an interdisciplinary structure to critique existing approaches that have failed to eradicate systemic inequalities across helping professions. This timely contribution offers helping professionals sought after resources that many are clamoring for to improve their practice, their pedagogical stance, and their knowledge as it relates to antiracism and antiracist approaches. This collection of chapters that cover antiracist research, theory and practice approaches is in direct response to Kendi’s (2019) call to action to examine and revise institutional policies and practices to become antiracist. Collectively this book advances existing research and resources by providing interdisciplinary strategies for helping professionals to engage in antiracism through critical evaluation of research, practice, and policies. Doing so empowers helping professionals across disciplines to employ antiracist strategies that deconstruct and dismantle racism embedded within the foundational origins, professional standards, and disciplinary practices of helping professions while simultaneously merging research, practice, and advocacy that employs antiracist practices.Table of Contents1. Introduction.Section I. Antiracist Helping Professions Theoretical Underpinnings.2. Introduction to Anti-Racist Theories.3. The Importance of Culturally Responsive and Afrocentric Theoretical Frameworks-A Call for More Inclusive Curriculum in Counselor Education.4. Antilinguicist Schools, Antilinguicist Systems.5. Moving Beyond Performative Allyship: A Conceptual Framework for Anti-racist Co-conspirators.6. Service or Saviorism: Deconstructing Benevolent Racism in the Helping Professions.- Section II. Antiracist Pedagogy in Helping Professions.7. Antiracist Pedagogy for Helping Professionals.8. The Linguistic Gospel Truth: Implementing Inclusive Language Practices for Navigating the Educational Space.9. Decentering Whiteness in Teaching Psychopathology: Challenges and Opportunities.10. An Antiracist Approach to Social Work Education at HBCUs.11. Program Practices for Cultivating Antiracist Counselors.12. Examining Multicultural Pedagogy in Counselor Programs: Recommendations for Enhanced Clinical Competency.13. Strategies for Implementing Antiracist Frameworks in Teaching Materials for Health Professions.Section III. Antiracist Helping Professions in Application.14. Breaking Strongholds: Equity Centering in Helping Approaches.15. Voices from the Field of School Counseling: Promoting Anti-Racism in School Settings.16. “There Isn’t a Racist Bone in My Body!”: A Case Study on Fostering Anti-Racism in School Counseling.- 17. Antisemitism and Islamophobia: Old and Dynamic Racisms.18. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training in a New Key: Adapting a Race-Class Lens for the Helping Professions.19. Antiracism and Health: An Action Plan for Mitigating Racism in Healthcare.20. A Telehealth Antiracist Learning Experience for Nursing and Social Work Students in the Midst of COVID-19.21. Working with Multiracial Individuals: Antiracist Pedagogy, Practices, and Considerations.22. Epilogue.

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