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Book SynopsisBased on rich clinical experience and on theory from numerous psychoanalytical works, this book explores and analyses the emergence and development of the psychic life.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: 1. Introjection and its Relations to the Construction of the Psychical Apparatus 2. The First Containing External Object: the Momentary Object Part 2: 3. The Optimal Containing Object 4. Psychic Space Part 3: 5. On Adhesive Identification: Genesis of the Psychic Skin 6. On Symbiosis: a Common Skin 7. On the Skin-ego: a Complete Psychic Envelope 8. Conclusion: Psychic Birth and Psychopathological Deviations Part 4: 9. Splitting and Idealization: the Life Drives/Death Drives Duality 10. The Genesis and Development of Thought-Activity Part 5: 11. Projective Identification: Definition and Description 12. Projective Identification: Motives, Consequences, Phenomenology Part 6: 13. The Inadequacies of the Containing object 14. Phantasied Attacks on the Object 15. "Second Skin" Formation

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Managing Clinical Risk is an authoritative guide on how to engage in risk assessment and management practice in evidence-based, accountable and effective ways.Over the course of a dozen chapters, each oriented around a brief case study reflecting a different area of risk, practitioners are offered guidance on how to read referrals, how to decide what information matters to their evaluations, how to speak to a person who may be reluctant to engage in an assessment of this kind, how to organise the information they have gathered in order to prepare a risk formulation that will in turn guide risk management, and how to communicate opinions and recommendations in ways that have an impact. The book provides an evidence-based understanding of risk assessment and management in key areas of practice violence, sexual violence, suicidal and self-harmful behaviour, as well as family and relationship violence, organised criminal and group-based violence, andTable of Contents 1. A second edition of Managing Clinical RiskCAROLINE LOGAN & LORRAINE JOHNSTONE 2. General practice principles in violence risk assessment and managementCAROLINE LOGAN & JOHN TAYLOR 3. General practice principles in sexual violence risk assessment and managementLEAM CRAIG, MARTIN RETTENBERGER, CAROLINE LOGAN & LORRAINE JOHNSTONE 4. General practice principles in the risk assessment and management of self-harmful and suicidal behaviourCAROLINE LOGAN & LORRAINE JOHNSTONE 5. Autism and the assessment and management of violence riskDAVID MURPHY & LISA DAVIES6. Acquired brain injury and the assessment and management of violence riskSUZANNE O’ROURKE & EMMA DRYSDALE 7. Assessing parenting capacity and risk of child maltreatmentLORRAINE JOHNSTONE 8. Assessing and managing the risk of intimate partner and family violenceANDREW NEWMAN & CERI JONES 9. Assessing and managing risks associated with stalkingTROY MCEWAN & ALAN UNDERWOOD 10. Assessing and managing the risk of organised crime, human trafficking and modern slaveryLISA DAVIES, LAURA POWLING & JODI SYMMONDS 11.Assessing and managing the risk of group and gang violence in young peopleBERIT RICHIE & DONNA MCEWAN 12. Assessing and managing the risk of violent extremismCAROLINE LOGAN13. The ecology of institutional violence: Understanding and interveningDAVID COOKE14. Managing Clinical Risk: Key points and take-home messagesCAROLINE LOGAN & LORRAINE JOHNSTONE

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Book SynopsisLacan and Chan Buddhist Thought provides a close reading of how Lacan mobilizes concepts from Chan Buddhist philosophy, culture, and practice in his later teachings. The book emerged from the three co-authorsâ engagement with Lacanâs 1962â1963 Seminar on Anxiety, and the significance of Lacanâs original interpretation of the Buddhist principle that desire is the cause of suffering. The book reads key Lacanian concepts â such as the objet a, jouissance, the real, Nirvana, and the mirror â through ancient Buddhist teachings and koans. With this focused exploration of psychoanalysis and Chan Buddhism, the authors offer a philosophically grounded cross-cultural approach to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis in Asian countries. Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought will be a rich resource for psychoanalysts, academics, and students interested in Lacan and religion, the intellectual and cultural relationship between Asian and Western thought, and Mahayana BuTrade Review"This book is one of the clearest and most interesting introductions to Lacan. Since Chinese people are familiar with Buddhist thought, interpreting Lacan from this perspective makes the reader feel especially at home and helps to understand some of Lacan's extremely difficult concepts. This book is very suitable for Chinese readers to study Lacan and the writers present Lacan with such depth and lightness that the reader will find it a pleasure to read. The interpretation of the name Lackhan is very helpful in understanding the two otherness inside and outside the subject, as well the explication of the concepts of jouissance, pleasure, and the Real are very illuminative and greatly clarify their complexities. In the works published in China on Lacan, there are only a few references to the relationship between Lacan's thought and Buddhism which are not so systematic. Therefore, this book, and eventually a Chinese translation, will have a great academic impact that will not only help to popularize Lacanian theory in China, but also orients a new trend in studying Lacan." - Xiaoyi Zhou, Peking university. Dr. Zhou earned his doctorate at Lancaster University in 1993, and has published widely on comparative literature and literary theory."What a treat to read this profound, careful, and creative exploration of Lacan and Chan Buddhism. East-West illuminate and add to each other, amplifying Lacan's vocabulary and concepts and Chan's existential evocations. It was not a surprise to see YHVH in the glossary touching a dimension beyond name and thought in the usual sense. And although Bion was not part of this work, his emphasis on the creative unknown vibrates with it. Unconscious to unconscious, psyche to psyche, mind to mind—so much permeates and enriches. This book opens many doors and passageways and gives us much to think about, experience and digest." - Michael Eigen, PhD., New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (adjunct) and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis "This book is one of the clearest and most interesting introductions to Lacan. Since Chinese people are familiar with Buddhist thought, interpreting Lacan from this perspective makes the reader feel especially at home and helps to understand some of Lacan's extremely difficult concepts. This book is very suitable for Chinese readers to study Lacan and the writers present Lacan with such depth and lightness that the reader will find it a pleasure to read. The interpretation of the name Lackhan is very helpful in understanding the two otherness inside and outside the subject, as well the explication of the concepts of jouissance, pleasure, and the Real are very illuminative and greatly clarify their complexities. In the works published in China on Lacan, there are only a few references to the relationship between Lacan's thought and Buddhism which are not so systematic. Therefore, this book, and eventually a Chinese translation, will have a great academic impact that will not only help to popularize Lacanian theory in China, but also orients a new trend in studying Lacan." - Xiaoyi Zhou, Peking university. Dr. Zhou earned his doctorate at Lancaster University in 1993, and has published widely on comparative literature and literary theory."What a treat to read this profound, careful, and creative exploration of Lacan and Chan Buddhism. East-West illuminate and add to each other, amplifying Lacan's vocabulary and concepts and Chan's existential evocations. It was not a surprise to see YHVH in the glossary touching a dimension beyond name and thought in the usual sense. And although Bion was not part of this work, his emphasis on the creative unknown vibrates with it. Unconscious to unconscious, psyche to psyche, mind to mind—so much permeates and enriches. This book opens many doors and passageways and gives us much to think about, experience and digest." - Michael Eigen, PhD., New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (adjunct) and the National Psychological Association for PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Lacan and Vasubhandu ( 世亲菩萨) 2. The Second Turning of the Dharma Wheel: Nagarjuna’s Teachings on Nirvan 3. Rereading Freud’s Nirvana 4. The Pleasure, Constancy, and Nirvana Principles 5. Wu and Mu in the Cáodòng Zōng and Línjì Schools 6. "No Buddha-Nature" and Buddha’s Desire 7. The Vacuum in Western Science 8. Lacan and Wu 9. The Paradoxical Chan Koans, Self-Reference, and Letter Jouissance 10. The True Body of Bodhi and Buddh(a) 11. The Mirror in Lacan, Chan, and Dogen’s Zen 12. The One, the Many, and Kuan-yin 13. Clinical Dream Example, Appendix: The Practice of Thinking non-thinking or Thinking/Meditating with the Body of (the Third) Jouissance.

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Behavioural Addiction in Women gives insight into ongoing research efforts and clinical developments across the globe, focusing specifically on women with behavioural addictions.The book brings together an international network of clinicians and researchers to offer a unique transcultural female perspective on female-specific aspects of addiction, which is underrepresented in the available literature. By compiling both research and clinical spotlights focusing on women with behavioural addictions across the six continents, the book is an important first step towards building a shared knowledge base on the subject, starting from the importance of female-specific diagnostic criteria, to new therapeutic strategies, prevention programs, and harm reduction approaches. This book will help us gain a better understanding of ongoing work and where to allocate our attention and efforts for helping a vulnerable, and - in many areas of the world - still underserved, and economic

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Book SynopsisFor effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the story book, The Lonely Little Cactus: A Story About Friendship, Coping, and Belonging. Both books can be purchased together as a set, Building Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing: The Lonely Little Cactus Story Book and Accompanying Resource Book.This vital resource uses the evidence-driven Conceptual PlayWorlds model of intentional teaching developed by Professor Marilyn Fleer to provide supporting classroom or home-based activities to help children aged between four and eight solve challenges and learn wellbeing concepts through play.Intended for use with the accompanying picture story book, The Lonely Little Cactus, a tale about a cactus that feels lonely living in the desert, this guide offers imagery-rich scenarios, including 20 unique activities, so children have an opportunity to experientially grasp wellbeing concepts that can be otherwise difficult to explain. Table of Contents1. PlayWorlds for wellbeing 2. An urgent message from Eagle 3. Little Cactus’ quest in Friendship Land 4. The Little Cactus finds out how to organise a playdate 5. Wise mermaid’s magic mirror 6. Helping Bat be included 7. From feeling unhappy to being a Superstar Snake 8. Anonymous acts of kindness 9. Grand opening of the Little Cactus movie 10. Feeling safe and designing a security system for the Deer Family 11. Message in a bottle 12. Working together for more than just treasure 13. Sneezing and wheezing: staying connected 14. Relaxing in the snow 15. The twinkle party 16. An acorn feast for Deer 17. Helping Eagle fly again 18. Breathing buddies 19. Celebration of strengths 20. A new friend 21. Compliments unlocked

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Book SynopsisSocioculturally Attuned Family Therapy, 2nd edition, is a fully updated and essential textbook that addresses the need for marriage and family therapists to engage in socially responsible practice by infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout theory and clinical practice. Written accessibly by leaders in the field, this new edition explores why sociocultural attunement and equity matter, providing students and clinicians with integrative, equity-based family therapy guidelines and case illustrations that clinicians can apply to their practice. The authors integrate principles of societal context, power, and equity into the core concepts and practice of ten major family therapy models, such as structural family therapy, narrative family therapy, and Bowen family systems, with this new edition including a chapter on socio-emotional relationship therapy. Paying close attention to the how toâs of change processes, updates include the use of more diverse voices Trade Review"Attuning to the sociocultural perspective was never a choice but our culture of dominance invisiblizes it, creating colonizing conditions for therapeutic practice. But no more! McDowell, Knudson-Martin, and Bermudez’s socioculturally attuned framework offers theoretically dynamic, contextually sensitive, and relationally ethical ways to unpack the invisible, yet highly felt, role power plays to create third-order change. They show us how this change is an imperative, not a choice, to create just relationships. One of the rich features in this edition are diverse practitioner reflections, across contexts, which afford the reader to engage one’s unique intersectional positionalities in practice. This book needs to be required reading for all practitioners."Saliha Bava, PhD, Associate Professor, MFT Program, Mercy College; Co-founder & Executive Council Member, International Certificate in Collaborative-Dialogic Practices Network "Systemic, third-order thinking requires profound and authentic engagement making transformative change at many contextual levels impossible without socioculturally attuned praxis in family therapy. This compelling book challenges family therapists to stay true to their systemic training and consider all the intersections of our relational contexts. It uses a social justice and inclusion lens and has uniquely included the voices of many engaged in transformative third-order thinking and change. It is a must-read for anyone claiming to be a family therapist."Manijeh Daneshpour, Distinguished Professor of Family Therapy, Alliant International University, CaliforniaTable of Contents1: What is Sociocultural Attunement and Why is it Important? 2: Guiding Principles for Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy 3: Third Order Ethics and Contextual Self-in-Relationship 4: Socioculturally Attuned Structural Family Therapy 5: Socioculturally Attuned Brief and Strategic Family Therapies 6: Socioculturally Attuned experiential Family Therapy 7: Socioculturally Attuned Attachment based Family Therapies 8: Socioculturally Attuned Bowenian Family Therapy 9: Socioculturally Attuned Contextual Family Therapy 10: Socioculturally Attuned Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy 11: Socioculturally Attuned Solution Focused Family Therapy 12: Socioculturally Attuned Collaborative Family Therapy 13. Socioculturally Attuned Narrative Family Therapy 14: Socio-Emotional Relational Therapy: An Example Of Socioculturally Attuned Couple And Family Therapy 15: Socioculturally Attuned Praxis: Consciousness in Action

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Book SynopsisThis unique book offers valuable insights into the often-hidden world of forensic psychological assessment and intervention. It follows on from Case Studies in Forensic Psychology (2019) and presents a range of detailed clinical case studies of adults and young people across secure and community settings. The case studies represent individuals with several different forms of offending histories, such as sexual and violent offending, and various clinical diagnoses including autism and acquired brain injury. Each chapter details the individual's personal background, offending, any relevant psychiatric or psychological diagnoses, and treatments. The chapters end with an intensive discussion on the outcomes for that case, and its wider implications. This book allows the readers to understand the on-ground clinical practice and day-to-day role of a forensic psychologist by demonstrating the work undertaken behind the empirical research and highlighting the complexities to wTrade ReviewThis book provides a welcome focus upon individual work and learning from the expertise of practitioner psychologists. As academics, and policy makers, we have much to learn from expert practitioners, who are not beholden to the biases of the managerialism of the treatment industry. Real world issues such as working within covid based restrictions are also covered highlighting both challenges and some of the new learning from our practice informing how we may improve services. Very well worth a read for anyone interested in the real world of forensic practice. - Graham Towl, Professor of Forensic Psychology, Durham University and formerly Chief Psychologist, Ministry of Justice, UKThis book could not be more welcome. In an era when resources are scant and opportunities to discuss cases with others are few, this collection of case studies fills the void. Not only does it focus on best practices generally, it provides wisdom and expertise on how to adapt services to build clients’ ability to respond to treatment. The topics themselves will be of interest to all at the front lines of forensic treatment. The innovative ideas on individualized treatment for sexual offending, fire setting, and domestic violence will be helpful to all readers. - David S. Prescott, Director, Continuing Education Center, Safer Society Foundation, USTable of ContentsList of contributors Introduction Ruth J. Tully & Jennifer Bamford Psychological treatment relating to intimate partner violence and domestic abuse in the family court context Gemma Luke The effectiveness of bespoke psychological intervention for an adult male convicted of internet facilitated sex offending Jennifer Bamford Providing psychological care in the youth custodial estate: Making ‘Every Interaction Matter’ Clare Holt & Joel Warkcup Treatment of Delusions of Exceptionality in an Adult Male with Sexual Offences Against Children in a Secure Psychiatric Setting Khyati Patel The psychological recovery journey of a patient detained in a low secure forensic mental health service Lara Arsuffi Utilising EMDR to address trauma with an autistic person with a history of sexual offending Lyn Shelton A case study examining the use of functional analysis to understand behavioural and emotional instability in an adult male with an acquired brain injury Sarah Ashworth Clinical and forensic assessment of firesetting Faye Horsley Conclusion Ruth J. Tully & Jennifer BamfordGlossary

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Book SynopsisMental Health and Academic Learning in Schools: Approaches for Facilitating the Wellbeing of Children and Young People investigates the many areas impacting on young people's learning and mental health in a unified manner. Offering a new model for teaching, learning and connecting with young people, it provides compelling evidence about the intertwined nature of students' academic performance, mental health and behaviour. The book presents integrated models and strategies that serve to enhance student learning and promote wellbeing. Chapters explore issues relating to classroom management, school culture and leadership, staff wellbeing, pedagogy, inclusion and the curriculum. Placing students at the centre of decision making, the book showcases innovative models and strategies that schools might use for preventing problems, engaging students and identifying and addressing learning or mental health problems that some students might experience. This bTable of Contents1. Alice’s story. 2. The role of schools in promoting children’s mental health. 3. The relationship between mental illness, wellbeing and academic achievement. 4. Towards a school wide model for supporting students’ mental health and academic learning. 5. School culture and climate. 6. Reconceptualising student behaviour. 7. Teaching and learning. 8. Partnerships. 9. Inclusivity: celebrating diversity. 10. Staff wellbeing: school staff have feelings too. 11. Trauma informed schools. 12. Making a difference: Are we there yet?

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Book SynopsisArts Therapies and Gender Issues offers international perspectives on gender in arts therapies research and demonstrates understandings of gender and arts therapies in a variety of global contexts. Analysing current innovations and approaches in the arts therapies, it discusses issues of cultural identity, which intersect with sex, gender norms, stereotypes and sexual identity.The book includes unique and detailed case studies such as the emerging discipline of creative writing for therapeutic purposes, re-enactment phototherapy, performative practice and virtual reality. Bringing together leading researchers, it demonstrates clinical applications and shares ideas about best practice.Incorporating art, drama, dance and music therapy, this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in the fields of arts therapies, psychology, medicine, psychotherapy, health and education. It will also appeal to practitionersTable of ContentsAbout the editor.List of contributors.Part One: Art Therapy, Dance-Movement-Therapy, Drama Therapy & Music Therapy1. Introduction. Arts Therapies & Gender Issues. Professor Susan Hogan. 2. Drawing on Visions of the Future of Young Women in Poverty. Art as a Feminist Research Method. Michal Magos & Professor Ephrat Huss.3. Queering Music Therapy: Music Therapy and LGBTQAI+ Peoples. Dr Annette Whitehead-Pleaux.4. Analysing Gender Oppression in Music Therapy Research and Practice. Dr Sue Baines and Dr Jane Edwards.5. "The Eye of the Beholder": encountering women’s experience of domestic violence and abuse as a male researcher and art therapist. Dr Jamie Bird.6. Parental gender roles in clay: Perceptions of gender-role issues among Israeli fathers to toddlers as expressed in a clay figure-sculpting task. Nehama Grenimann Bauch.7. The Birth Project: Mothers & Birth Professionals Make Art. Professor Susan Hogan.8. Queer bodies and queer practices: The implications of queer theory for dramatherapy. Patrick Tomczyk.9. The therapists’ gender identity in dance movement therapy: does it matter? Job Cornelissen.10. The Gendered Body in Arts Therapies Research and Practice. Professor Sue Jennings.Part Two: Emergent practices and specialisms11. Multiple Gendered Abilities: A Therapeutic Writing Approach. Manu Rodríguez. 12. What can a Man do with a Camera? Exploring Masculinities with Phototherapy. Dr José Loureiro.13. Look at me! Representing Self: Representing Ageing. Older Women Represent Their Own Narratives of Ageing, Using Re-enactment Phototherapeutic Techniques. Rosy Martin.14. The Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa Among Female Adolescents Aged 18-21 Using Intertwined Arts Therapies. Alenka Vidrih, Ana Hram & Vita Poštuvan.15. Complicated Gender and Problematized Bodies: the impact of severe illness explored through the lens of Portrait Therapy. Dr Susan M. D. Carr.16. Experimenting with Gender Roles in Virtual Reality. Dr Rose Ehemann Nicole Ottiger.17. Conclusion. Professor Susan Hogan.

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Book SynopsisAs a result of recent media interest, the practice of BDSM has become more mainstream yet remains marginalized. Now more than ever, greater numbers of heterosexual and LGBTQ couples are starting to explore some form of BDSM. However, profound misunderstandings continue leading to unintentional physical and psychological harm. Drawing on current research and ethnographic narratives from the kink community, this book seeks to provide psychotherapists with an introductory understanding of the culture and practice of BDSM, and presents specific therapeutic concerns related to common misconceptions. This book strives to de-pathologize BDSM practices, while also providing concrete ways to distinguish abuse from consent, harmful codependency, and more. Packed with practical suggestions and rich case studies, this book belongs on the shelf of every therapist seeing BDSM and kink clients.Trade ReviewPraise from the forewords:"The book lives up to its title. It is the first capable of taking an interested but wholly unexposed and untrained therapist through a process that will result in the ability to handle some complex therapeutic issues–or to know when those issues need referral to someone more experienced. Shahbaz and Chirinos have a commanding understanding of the research and clinical literature. They use their resources to persuade, through rational argument, those therapists who may not understand the paradigm shift within their own profession. The authors quickly and effectively demolish the pathology model by marshalling the scientific evidence used to change DSM-5…. The book is worth reading for the psychoeducational information alone, including the appendices and resources at the end."—Margie Nichols, PhD, founder and president, Institute for Personal Growth; psychologist and sex therapist"Becoming a Kink Aware Therapist is a much needed book on an understudied and misunderstood clinical issue. Traditionally, sex therapy had focused on married and partnered couples who experience problems of desire, arousal, or orgasm. The study of atypical or variant sexual desire and arousal has featured a psychopathology bias and treatment of the ‘identified patient.’ In contrast, Shahbaz and Chirinos have written an insightful book for therapists with a focus on a respectful understanding of the culture and practice of BDSM."—Barry McCarthy, PhD, professor of psychology, American University; author: Sex Made Simple and Rekindling DesireTable of ContentsForeword Margie Nichols Foreword Barry McCarthy Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Reimagining Healthy Sexuality 2. There are More Than Fifty Shades of BDSM 3. Is it “Bad”, “Mad” and “Sick or, Is It Okay? 4. Psychotherapeutic Persecution: Kinkophobia and Othering 5. Becoming a Kink Aware Therapist 6. The “Yes But’ Questions—Controversial Psychological Issues 7. Into the Psychotherapeutic Borderland Appendices References About The Authors

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Book SynopsisBiopsychology: The Basics is a concise, accessible and illuminating introduction to the field of biopsychology. The book explores what psychology is in the broadest sense and how combining it with a biological perspective offers a deeper understanding of behavior and mental life. Key topics include the following:â What biopsychology is: understanding the interaction of biology and psychologyâ The biology of the brain and how to study itâ How psychological states are related to physiological processesâ The effects of drugs, both therapeutic and recreational, on behaviour and psychologyâ How genes and the environment impact psychological developmentâ The biopsychology of cognitionâ People in the world: understanding emotions, motivation and communicationâ The biological basis of psychopathologies â causes, diagnoses and treatmentsâ Explanations, mechanisms and the biopsychology of consciousnessWith sugges

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Book SynopsisTangolo and Massi offer a complete manual for transactional analysis (TA)-based group therapy. Group Therapy in Transactional Analysis demonstrates the evolution of TA as a relational psychodynamic therapy rich in clinical experiences both within individual and group settings. The authors outline how to select clients, which setting to provide, how to establish contracts, and which techniques to use during group sessions. The book includes a full assessment of research and theory, clearly demonstrating efficacy and taking into account neuroscientific studies on intersubjectivity and the social brain. This is combined with a practical approach which supports therapists from the very first steps to the analysis of more complex interpersonal dynamics and dream analysis in a group setting. Finally, future research directions are discussed, together with an overview of an experiment on online groups in the time of coronavirus. This foundational text will be a key rTrade ReviewWith the publication of Group Therapy in Transactional Analysis, Anna Emanuela Tangolo and Anna Massi draw upon their decades of experience working together in therapy, supervision and training groups to present a compelling and comprehensive accounting of contemporary TA group therapy… As a therapist, supervisor and trainer, Group Therapy in Transactional Analysis will not be sitting idly on my book shelves. It will become a well-worn favorite resource for my own work. - William F. Cornell, Training and Supervising Member of the International Transactional Analysis AssociationGroup Therapy in Transactional Analysis, written in an intense and straightforward style, is an in-depth journey into group psychotherapy, in which the two authors, both transactional analysis teachers and supervisors, combine their voices to present the rich nature of their thought and work. - Patrizia Vinella, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA) of ITAA / EATATable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why the Group? 2. Group Theory 3. Change and Empowerment Factors in Group 4. Intersubjectivity and the Group as Emotional Regulator 5. Client Selection and Group Composition 6. Setting 7. Therapeutic Alliance and Contracts 8. Decontamination Work in a Group Setting 9. Deconfusion Work in a Group Setting 10. Basic Techniques: Therapeutic Operations 11. Advanced Techniques 12. Monitoring Group Evolution Through Group Imago Analysis 13. Transference, Countertransference, Games, and Enactments 14. Dreamwork in Group Therapy 15. Efficacy of TA Psychotherapy Groups in the Treatment of Personality Disorders 16. Depressive and Bipolar Disorders in a Group Setting 17. The End of Therapy 18. A Case Study 19. Online Groups at the Time of Coronavirus: An Ongoing Case Study 20. Efficacy and Limits of Group Psychotherapy Appendix

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Book SynopsisThe Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking: Material, Methods, and Applications provides a comprehensive collection about the contemporary practices, media, and value of hand papermaking as social engagement, art therapy, and personal voice. Divided into three parts that highlight each of these areas, contributors explore topics such as advocacy, work with survivors, community outreach, medical challenges, and how papermaking can empower creative expression, stories of change, recovery, and reclamation to address trauma, grief and loss, social action, and life experiences. Previous books have covered hand papermaking or art therapy media as stand-alone subjects; this text is the first of its kind that unites and describes the convergence of papermaking in all these forms. Art therapists, art educators, and artists will find this book essential to their education about how papermaking can be a powerful process to make meaning for the self, groups, and community.Trade Review"In The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking: Material, Methods, and Applications, editors Drew Luan Matott and Gretchen M. Miller have gathered an important series of essays by practitioners who have seen, again and again, how therapeutic the craft can be. This book is essential for anyone who cares about the craft of papermaking, and its ability to help nurture and heal."Tim Barrett, director emeritus, University of Iowa Center for the Book"This wonderful book is what happens when artists and art therapists get together to rediscover an age-old yet uncommon material. Every aspect of papermaking is described: from how to approach this fascinating medium and invite participants to explore its alchemical potential, to the practical details and endless therapeutic adaptations that can be made. But it doesn’t stop there: More than a book on papermaking, it offers a soul-stirring testimony to the work of reclamation – as people courageously free the fibers of their military uniforms, baby blankets, public records, t-shirts, love and hate letters, and more – to be pulped, recast, and transformed with radical insights that inspire far-reaching transformations in their lives."Lynn Kapitan, Ph.D., ATR-BC, HLM, professor emerit of graduate and doctoral art therapy and author, Introduction to Art Therapy Research"The Art & Art Therapy of Papermaking is an accessible guide to transforming meaningful materials and experiences into sheets of paper and works of art. An insightful book filled with examples of healing through the papermaking process – the first of its kind!"Helen Hiebert, author, The Papermaker’s Companion, artist, and educator"Serendipity often led contributors to this book to papermaking. Fortunately, readers can engage with papermaking more intentionally and knowledgeably with Matott and Miller’s The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking as their guide. Teachers, art activists, art therapists, students, and artists of all experience levels will find practical and inspirational material here. The book is replete with examples, instructions, and resources that are relatable and accessible. The authors have made papermaking, often perceived as too complicated for novice users, approachable by all. Highly Recommended!" Lisa D. Hinz, Ph.D., ATR-BC author, Expressive Therapies Continuum A Framework for Using Art in TherapyTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: Papermaking as Social Engagement 1. Making Paper Mean Something: Socially Engaged Art with Content-Specific Fibers 2.Pulp, Pull, Press, and Print: Engaging with Papermaking in Community Art Workshops 3. Paper as Praxis PART II: Papermaking as Art Therapy 4. Adaptations and Modifications for Therapeutic Hand Papermaking 5.Papermaking Transformation in an Art Therapy Curriculum 6. Voices of the Bereaved: Papermaking for Processing Grief and Loss PART III: Papermaking as Personal Voice 7.Papermaker Reflections: Stories of Change, Growth, and Creativity 8.Future Thoughts and Directions

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the leading research in child and adolescent grief from a diverse and global perspective, focusing on the systemic, political, and cultural processes that have a direct bearing on the way youth experience loss and grief.Carrie Traher and Lauren J. Breen bring together a global community of academics, practitioners, and social activists to discuss and address the complexity of lived experiences of grief for young people today. Presented in four parts, the contributors begin by providing a theoretical overview of youth, grief, and bereavement, before moving onto other important topics, such as suicide bereavement, the trauma of war, digital grief narratives, child soldiering, and more. Within each chapter, authors address contemporary theoretical frameworks, research findings, and praxis related to both death and non-death losses, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental grief, and grief on the internet and social media. Including contributorsTrade Review"This timely edited collection from Carrie Traher and Lauren J. Breen has both breadth and relevance. The chapters offer needed insight into areas that have for too long sat outside the lens of research, extending knowledge and establishing a foundation for improved practice."Dr. Sam Frankel, Associate Professor, Childhood and Youth Studies, King’s University College, Canada and Founder – Learning Allowed, UK"In this impressive volume, Traher and Breen have brought together leading thinkers from around the world to explore child and adolescent grief in a wide array of contexts. Compelling and urgent, this edited collection shows the scale and depth of the impact of loss for this population. It will be a reference point for years to come."Dr. Kate Woodthorpe, Director of Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, UK"As the strikingly diverse contributions to this timely Handbook demonstrate, children and youth stand at the crosshairs of many of this century’s most endemic and intractable sources of trauma and tragedy. Across cultures, continents, and contexts of care, those who are most vulnerable bear a disproportionate share of the often unseen, disenfranchised, or silenced grief that results. Traher and Breen have assembled a formidable resource in these pages to bring such suffering among youth to light, and to point to model programs that foster their ultimate resilience."Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, Editor of New Techniques of Grief Therapy: Bereavement and Beyond"The International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief in Contemporary Contexts covers an impressive range of international issues involving child and adolescent grief which will broaden the perspective of even the most experienced clinician as a result. The editors and contributors have done a phenomenal job of weaving together research and practice, with many of the chapters including important strategies and recommendations to inform organizational development and policy making as well as direct clinical practice."Andrea Warnick, RN, Registered Psychotherapist, Andrea Warnick Consulting"Traher and Breen's comprehensive exploration of child and adolescent death and non-death losses is a timely and indispensable addition to the field of grief studies. With contributions from leading international scholars and clinicians, its meticulously crafted chapters, informed by rigorous research and scholarship, offer a comprehensive view of the intricate tapestry of child and adolescent grief. It is a must-read for clinicians, scholars, and policymakers who seek a deeper understanding of the complex experiences of young people dealing with loss."Christopher Hall, CEO, Grief Australia"In today's swiftly evolving and world, numerous children and adolescents find themselves confronting the challenges, ambiguities, and uncertainties associated with death and bereavement. Carrie Traher and Lauren J. Breen skillfully compiled a wealth of information on contemporary challenges in assisting children and adolescents who grapple with a diverse array of death-related experiences. This book stands as an invaluable resource for anyone working with children and adolescents, providing insights and guidance crucial for navigating the complex terrain of death-related issues in the lives of young individuals."Regina Szylit RN, MsN, PhD, FANN, Professor and Dean, School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, BrazilTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I Section Summary: Introductory Considerations 1. Contemporary Perspectives on Childhood and Adolescence in a Global Context 2. Disenfranchised Youth Within a Global Context 3. Death and Non-death Losses: Youth Grief in an Increasingly Volatile World 4. Culturally Competent Grief Counselling for Elementary School Students Part II Section Summary: Grief and Bereavement 5. Family Care in a Scottish ICU during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Issues a Young Person Would Like Us to Hear 6. Supporting Adolescents and Young People Through Death, Loss, and Grief in Botswana 7. "You Probably Won't Understand": The Grief of Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities 8. Social Formations of Pain and Suffering in a Nicaraguan Pediatric Hospital 9. Suicide Bereavement and Postvention Approaches for Young People in Scotland 10. Grief Among Refugee Youth: Reflections of a Social Counsellor 11. De-naturalizing Manufactured Loss: Building a Decolonial Paradigm for Understanding the Experiences of Indigenous Children and Youth 12. Child Soldiering, Loss, and Reintegration: Experiences of Former Female Child Soldiers in Uganda Part III Section Summary: Global Matters: Facing Life and Death 13. A Virtual Space for Us: How LGBTQ+ Youth Grieve Online 14. Going Upriver: Understanding Indigenous Youths' Unique Perspectives on Safety in the Context of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada 15. Living and Dying on the Street: Advocating for an End to Homelessness Through the Delivery of Palliative Care 16. A Roof Over Your Head is not a Home: Youth Homelessness in Canada 17. Global Trafficking/Sexual Exploitation of Youth: A Proposed Protocol for Grief and Traumatic Loss 18. Hope, Grief, Loss, and a Plethora of Feelings in Between: Lived Experiences of Teenage Pregnant Girls and Adolescent Mothers in India 19. Global Perspectives on Youth Suicide: Saving the Next Generation 20. Palestinian Youth Loss: From Clinical to Sociopolitical Understandings 21. Children in Ukraine and the Trauma of War Part IV Section Summary: Loss as Growth and Resilience 22. Reflections on Supporting Children and Teens Who are Grieving 23. Using Technology to Assist Grieving Children During a Pandemic 24. The Impact of Gun Violence on Youth: From Thoughts and Prayers to Action 25. TikTok Memes of Grief: Playfulness and Dark Humour in Youth Digital Grief Narratives 26. #BlackLivesMatter and the African Diaspora in Australia 27. "It's How We're Leaving a Mark": Youth Coalition Combatting Islamophobia and Grief Activism 28. Climate Change and Youth: Grief, Loss, Trauma, and Action 29. The Children's Sensorium: Art, Play, and Mindfulness for Children's Wellbeing, Recovery, and Resilience

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Book SynopsisCreative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community champions several diverse and innovative approaches in the professional engagement with the creative body as a catalyst for change in therapy, education, somatics and performance. With contributors from the wide-ranging fields of performance and visual arts, psychotherapy, dance and somatics, this book articulates practice-based experiences in a creative language. The readers are invited to move from the process of reading, into the experience of being in and making sense of the world through a moving body. The book meanders purposefully through practice-led embodied approaches in research that generate new knowledge, methodological frameworks that have emerged in response to the needs of different contexts, as well as offerring a window on first-hand experience as practice.The book will appeal to a wide range of practitioners and trainees in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, arts therapies, counselling and psyTrade Review‘Frizell and Rova’s book is fizzing with ideas, thoughts and bodies of all kinds that continually touch, move and morph into new assemblages. The book is unsettling – in the best sense of the word: questioning, probing and deconstructing established binaries and norms, and in the process revealing new vistas of humanity’s capacity for compassion, connection and depth. Reading this book was a stirring experience for me, not dissimilar to that of reading David Abram’s Spell of the Sensuous, which is high praise indeed.’ - Dr Farhad Dalal, psychotherapist, group analyst and author, UK‘Caroline Frizell and Marina Rove have brought together an inspiring collection of voices that weave a picture of contemporary embodied research and practice as creatively, politically, critically and evocatively alive and kicking. As co-editors, authors and co-authors of chapters, they bring a spirit of spontaneity, inclusiveness, warmth and humour to a complex and rigorous intersectional enquiry. The book spans a range of research, theoretical and practical approaches to creative, movement, dance and community psychotherapy, its contributors representing and working with a truly diverse set of people and contexts. This anthology walks its talk or rather dances it….as the construction of the book, its layers, and the dialogue within and between each chapter, shimmer and resonate. Each chapter takes us through steps of embodied knowing towards transformation that goes beyond the personal and into wider social change.’ - Roz Carroll, psychotherapist, trainer and author, UK‘Self-reflective, experimental and full of warmth, this collaborative book is a welcome example of creative non-fiction that deepens the project of integrating the embodied and the relational.’ - Jane Ryan, Founder and Creative Director of Confer, UK‘Frizell and Rova’s book is fizzing with ideas, thoughts and bodies of all kinds that continually touch, move and morph into new assemblages. The book is unsettling – in the best sense of the word: questioning, probing and deconstructing established binaries and norms, and in the process revealing new vistas of humanity’s capacity for compassion, connection and depth. Reading this book was a stirring experience for me, not dissimilar to that of reading David Abram’s Spell of the Sensuous, which is high praise indeed.’ - Dr Farhad Dalal, psychotherapist, group analyst and author, UK‘Caroline Frizell and Marina Rove have brought together an inspiring collection of voices that weave a picture of contemporary embodied research and practice as creatively, politically, critically and evocatively alive and kicking. As co-editors, authors and co-authors of chapters, they bring a spirit of spontaneity, inclusiveness, warmth and humour to a complex and rigorous intersectional enquiry. The book spans a range of research, theoretical and practical approaches to creative, movement, dance and community psychotherapy, its contributors representing and working with a truly diverse set of people and contexts. This anthology walks its talk or rather dances it….as the construction of the book, its layers, and the dialogue within and between each chapter, shimmer and resonate. Each chapter takes us through steps of embodied knowing towards transformation that goes beyond the personal and into wider social change.’ - Roz Carroll, psychotherapist, trainer and author, UK‘Self-reflective, experimental and full of warmth, this collaborative book is a welcome example of creative non-fiction that deepens the project of integrating the embodied and the relational.’ - Jane Ryan, Founder and Creative Director of Confer, UKTable of ContentsTable of contents List of Figures Acknowledgements List of contributors Foreword: Dr Jill Westwood Chapter 1Arriving, becoming and arriving again Caroline Frizell and Marina RovaChapter 2Check- in, please! Exploring movement check-ins as a tool for embodied psychotherapeutic practiceHeidrun PanhoferChapter 3Arts-based research and self-reflexive autobiographical performance Ditty DokterChapter 4Kinaesthetic entanglements and creative immersion in embodied performanceMarina RovaChapter 5The cat, the foal and other meetings that make a difference: Posthuman research that re-animates our responsiveness to knowing and becomingCaroline FrizellChapter 6Offerings tells the stories of our lives in movementSarah Black-Frizell and Angela Pierre LouisChapter 7Lives transformed through dance: The art of dance as a catalyst for personal transformationEllen SteinmüllerChapter 8Breath, belly and back: Dropping into body as ground Paul BeaumontChapter 9‘Is that yoga or are you just making it up?’ Helen PoynorChapter 10Being seen and seeing self: Explorations in the creative process in performance and therapyClaire Burrell Chapter 11Finding my way home: An embodied journey to building an inclusive dance community Juliet DienerChapter 12Dancing in the kitchen: Using creativity and embodiment to promote a decolonising approach to psychotherapyArchana BallalChapter 13Sing your way home: Designing a creative group intervention in the women’s prison as a Dance Movement Therapist in SingaporeAgnes LawChapter 14Borderlands: Exploring creativity as a practice of liminality in the arts therapies Marina Rova and Marrianne BehmChapter 15Indominus Rex; developing mentalisation with offenders through externalisation and creativity in a Dance Movement Psychotherapy Group Dawn BatcupChapter 16Dancing with Stephen: Reconnecting with the body in a search for closureGoretti Barjacoba-SoutoChapter 17The matriarch and the mollusc and all things in betweenCaroline Frizell and Helen PoynorChapter 18Happening upon a cobwebCaroline Frizell and Marina RovaIndex

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Book SynopsisThis unique book examines the psychanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the provocative eighteenth-century novel by Laurence Sterne.Trade Review"As a practicing psychoanalyst, the author of this book opens the rigorously social work of trauma psychoanalysis up to the realm of fiction, so often wrongly dismissed as escapist, and makes the relationship between the two domains mutual, in a most productive way. She demonstrates the point – for social reality – of literature, as she had already done in her two volumes edition of the seminars of Jean-Max Gaudillière. In this book on Sterne’s masterpiece, laughter is as important as grief, pursuits of love as weighty as slavery and other forms of violence, and above all, the past, she demonstrates, incisively intervenes in the present. No other author that I know of is so skilled and refined in reading – both the literary text and the psyche of traumatized people. This book enriches the life of its readers on many levels." - Mieke Bal, Cultural Analyst and video artist"The literary wit of Sterne and the unique analytic wit of Davoine go head to head in this remarkable book, which teaches us to read in Sterne’s humor and style the workings of "Shandean psychoanalysis," a singular treatment of historical trauma and a "mad" challenge to the totalitarian politics of all centuries. Sterne takes his place, in Davoine’s surprising reading, within a dazzling array of literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic writers who "don the fool’s cap" to offer new resources for reinscribing the lost catastrophes of history and for resisting varying forms of political perversion. Davoine weaves into her reading of the book her own personal history growing up in war as well as her innovative development of a psychoanalysis of madness, one that draws on and illuminates the literary therapeutics of Sterne’s writing. Tristram Shandy ultimately provides for her, in its profound insight into history and madness, a "memory of the future" that anticipates the traumas--and the treatments--of the 20th and 21st centuries, challenging our doctrinal approaches to the understanding of catastrophic history and the treatment of historically and politically produced trauma. In Davoine’s extraordinary reading, Tristram Shandy finally speaks to our contemporary 21st century crises while offering unexpected resources, in its rich "art of storytelling," for responding to the powers of erasure and denial and for enabling the emergence of a new kind of political subject." - Cathy Caruth, Professor of English, Cornell University "Francoise Davoine is a highly respected expert in the clinical psychoanalysis of madness; she is also a respected authority in regard to the application of psychoanalytic theory to world literature, and the corollary illumination of trauma within fiction (Don Quixote, and now, Tristram Shandy). Davoine’s coverage of her subject is exhaustive and wide-ranging, drawing upon a multitude of philosophic and literary sources. Her approach is highly creative, engaging, and high-spirited – filled with surprising insights and associations. Shandean Psychoanalysis is a revelatory reinterpretation of Sterne’s novelistic masterpiece, with profound implications for the theory and treatment of trauma and other extreme states." - James E. Gorney, Ph.D."Françoise Davoine, is a highly regarded and respected psychoanalyst and author who has written at the forefront of psychoanalysis involving extreme states and literature. She is the author of numerous books in this field which are much quoted and used in both areas of expertise. In a previous book on Don Quixote, she rattled the cage of psychoanalysis to use a description from Bion allowing us to see through literary fiction how we can understand psychological trauma. This book takes Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and further rattles the cage introducing through the rhythm of her writing more psychoanalytic animals allowing them to appear from her own history and Sterne's history/fiction teaching us about forgotten wars, trauma and what it is to be a therapist/therapon and stand with those who have suffered from madness." - Alfred Gillham, MSc Consultant Clinical Psychologist'As a practicing psychoanalyst, the author of this book opens the rigorously social work of trauma psychoanalysis up to the realm of fiction, so often wrongly dismissed as escapist, and makes the relationship between the two domains mutual, in a most productive way. She demonstrates the point—for social reality—of literature, as she had already done in her two volumes edition of the seminars of Jean-Max Gaudillière. In this book on Sterne’s masterpiece, laughter is as important as grief, pursuits of love as weighty as slavery and other forms of violence, and above all, the past, she demonstrates, incisively intervenes in the present. No other author that I know of is so skilled and refined in reading—both the literary text and the psyche of traumatized people. This book enriches the life of its readers on many levels'. — Mieke Bal, Cultural Analyst and video artist'The literary wit of Sterne and the unique analytic wit of Davoine go head-to-head in this remarkable book, which teaches us to read in Sterne’s humor and style the workings of "Shandean psychoanalysis", a singular treatment of historical trauma and a "mad" challenge to the totalitarian politics of all centuries. Sterne takes his place, in Davoine’s surprising reading, within a dazzling array of literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic writers who "don the fool’s cap" to offer new resources for reinscribing the lost catastrophes of history and for resisting varying forms of political perversion. Davoine weaves into her reading of the book her own personal history growing up in war as well as her innovative development of a psychoanalysis of madness, one that draws on and illuminates the literary therapeutics of Sterne’s writing. Tristram Shandy ultimately provides for her, in its profound insight into history and madness, a "memory of the future" that anticipates the traumas—and the treatments—of the 20th and 21st centuries, challenging our doctrinal approaches to the understanding of catastrophic history and the treatment of historically and politically produced trauma. In Davoine’s extraordinary reading, Tristram Shandy finally speaks to our contemporary 21st century crises while offering unexpected resources, in its rich "art of storytelling," for responding to the powers of erasure and denial and for enabling the emergence of a new kind of political subject'. — Cathy Caruth, Professor of English, Cornell University'Francoise Davoine is a highly respected expert in the clinical psychoanalysis of madness; she is also a respected authority in regard to the application of psychoanalytic theory to world literature, and the corollary illumination of trauma within fiction (Don Quixote, and now, Tristram Shandy). Davoine’s coverage of her subject is exhaustive and wide-ranging, drawing upon a multitude of philosophic and literary sources. Her approach is highly creative, engaging, and high-spirited—filled with surprising insights and associations. Shandean Psychoanalysis is a revelatory reinterpretation of Sterne’s novelistic masterpiece, with profound implications for the theory and treatment of trauma and other extreme states'. — James E. Gorney, PhD'Françoise Davoine, is a highly regarded and respected psychoanalyst and author who has written at the forefront of psychoanalysis involving extreme states and literature. She is the author of numerous books in this field which are much quoted and used in both areas of expertise. In a previous book on Don Quixote, she rattled the cage of psychoanalysis, to use a description from Bion, allowing us to see through literary fiction how we can understand psychological trauma. This book takes Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and further rattles the cage, introducing through the rhythm of her writing more psychoanalytic animals, allowing them to appear from her own history and Sterne's history/fiction, teaching us about forgotten wars, trauma and what it is to be a therapist/therapon and stand with those who have suffered from madness'. — Alfred Gillham, MSc Consultant Clinical PsychologistTable of Contents1: The embryo’s "I wish" 2: Psychotherapy of Uncle Toby’s war traumas and the reading of a sermon on perversion 3: Theatre of fools4: Social unrest in Strasburg5: Confinement 6: Epitaph7: Journey to France8: The politics of love and slavery 9: No to perversion

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Book SynopsisPlaying at Work offers a thorough guide to the innovative psychoanalytic practices of Vincenzo Bonaminio, as he draws on the work of Winnicott, Bollas, and Tustin to demonstrate an effective method for working with adults, adolescents, and children in clinical settings. Using several clinical cases, the book explores central psychoanalytic concepts such as transference and countertransference, identity and self, embodiment, anxiety, and the role of parental influence on psychic development. By providing extended commentary on his case material, Bonaminio illustrates the significance of writing about clinical practice to the development of techniques that address patients'' varying needs. Simultaneously, this text offers a method that cultivates each patient''s capacity for intuition and the use of metaphor to form their own interpretations, and thereby invests a sense of freedom into the analytic situation. By its deeply reflective insights, and its emphasis oTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Transference Before Transference 2. Clinical Winnicott: Travelling a Revolutionary Road 3. A Task Which can Never be Accomplished: Dealing with Mother's Mood - Winnicott's Clinical Understanding of Psychic Work Carried out for the [M]other 4. The Analyst Oscillating Between Interpreting and Not Interpreting 5. The Person of the Analyst 6. Imaginative Elaboration 7. The Adolescent's Discourse: New Forms of Civilization's Discontents 8. Parental Pre-Fabrication of the Self. An Account of the Analysis of a Thirty-Year Man. 9. "These Anxieties are Not Mine": Adolescence, the Oedipal Configuration and Transgenerational Factors 10. "A Hundred Times I Died, and a Hundred Times I was Born Again" 11. "Noticing, Understanding and Interpreting": 'The Mother's Madness Appearing in the Clinical Material as an Ego-Alien Factor' (1969) 12. The Burden and Encumberance of the Analyst's and the Analysand's Bodies Within the Confines of the Consulting Room

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Book SynopsisChallenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing is a groundbreaking work that addresses the biases and inequalities within the field of forensic psychology. It gives valuable insights into individual practices and wider criminal justice approaches at an international level, while providing tangible solutions to tackle the disparities.This book constructively critiques current forensic practice and psychological assessment approaches through a variety of diverse voices from pioneering researchers around the world who offer their expertise on these challenges and assist the reader to consider their potential contribution to pushing forward the frontiers of Forensic Psychology. The authors also locate the origin of these biases in order to further dismantle them, and improve the outcomes for the forensic client base  especially specific diverse populations. They emphasise the need to be creative and evolve not just in line with the real-world chanTrade ReviewGiven recent powerful reminders that bias is very much alive and well in many areas of life, it is maybe surprising that this volume is the first to address this matter in forensic psychology. It does so exceptionally well and courageously with broad coverage of issues, in-depth and cutting edge analysis of theory as well as addressing practical considerations. Let’s hope other professions will follow, after all not doing so can have disastrous consequences for those in our care. - Prof. Dr. med. Birgit Völlm PhD MRCPsych DiplForPsych, Medical director, hospital for forensic psychiatry, Chair, University medicine Rostock, GermanyConcern about bias and discrimination in all their guises is a salient feature of public discourse. This timely and much-needed volume examines meticulously and frankly the diverse biases that can permeate forensic services and research. More importantly, it offers thoughtful and innovative suggestions for change making it essential reading for professionals and students seeking an impartial system. - John Livesley, Professor emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, UK While the influence of forensic psychology in prisons has grown in recent decades, there has been little critical analysis of its assumptions, biases and limitations from practitioners themselves. This volume is therefore a really significant contribution both to professional practice and to the wider discipline, setting out through a hugely impressive range of chapters how things are done and how they might be done better. - Ben Crewe, Professor of Penology and Criminal Justice and Deputy Director of the Prisons Research Centre. University of Cambridge, UKThe editors have brought together a much-needed volume that encourages forensic practitioners to challenge and transform current practice, from reformulating theories that underpin offending behaviour, through to the assessment, diagnosis, and intervention, all within the prism of unconscious bias and cultural diversity. This volume can be seen as an awakening moment in forensic psychology practice and will be essential reading for those working in a wide variety of forensic contexts. - Prof. Leam A Craig, FPP Ltd; University of Birmingham; Birmingham City University; University of Lincoln, UKThis is a timely and an original volume. Risk assessment can be dangerous if it is applied thoughtlessly. This volume not only identifies biases in the assessment of risk, but importantly, it offers solutions. It provides clear and coherent advice about providing the best possible care to users of forensic services. This is fundamental for ethical practice given the diversity of those who use such services. - David J Cooke, David J Cooke, Adjunct Professor of the Australian Catholic University, AustraliaGiven recent powerful reminders that bias is very much alive and well in many areas of life, it is maybe surprising that this volume is the first to address this matter in forensic psychology. It does so exceptionally well and courageously with broad coverage of issues, in-depth and cutting edge analysis of theory as well as addressing practical considerations. Let’s hope other professions will follow, after all not doing so can have disastrous consequences for those in our care. - Prof. Dr. med. Birgit Völlm PhD MRCPsych DiplForPsych, Medical director, hospital for forensic psychiatry, Chair, University medicine Rostock, GermanyConcern about bias and discrimination in all their guises is a salient feature of public discourse. This timely and much-needed volume examines meticulously and frankly the diverse biases that can permeate forensic services and research. More importantly, it offers thoughtful and innovative suggestions for change making it essential reading for professionals and students seeking an impartial system. - John Livesley, Professor emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, UK While the influence of forensic psychology in prisons has grown in recent decades, there has been little critical analysis of its assumptions, biases and limitations from practitioners themselves. This volume is therefore a really significant contribution both to professional practice and to the wider discipline, setting out through a hugely impressive range of chapters how things are done and how they might be done better. - Ben Crewe, Professor of Penology and Criminal Justice and Deputy Director of the Prisons Research Centre. University of Cambridge, UKThe editors have brought together a much-needed volume that encourages forensic practitioners to challenge and transform current practice, from reformulating theories that underpin offending behaviour, through to the assessment, diagnosis, and intervention, all within the prism of unconscious bias and cultural diversity. This volume can be seen as an awakening moment in forensic psychology practice and will be essential reading for those working in a wide variety of forensic contexts. - Prof. Leam A Craig, FPP Ltd; University of Birmingham; Birmingham City University; University of Lincoln, UKThis is a timely and an original volume. Risk assessment can be dangerous if it is applied thoughtlessly. This volume not only identifies biases in the assessment of risk, but importantly, it offers solutions. It provides clear and coherent advice about providing the best possible care to users of forensic services. This is fundamental for ethical practice given the diversity of those who use such services. - David J Cooke, Adjunct Professor of the Australian Catholic University, AustraliaTable of ContentsPART 1: PRESENT DAY ISSUES IN FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT1 Introduction: Forensic Context Assessment - Reliability, Validity, & Current Challenges2 Challenging Bias in the Forensic Context: Lived Experiences3 The Role of Dynamic Risk Factors in Forensic Assessment and Treatment planning4 Why dynamic risk factors cannot be applied universally: Their normative nature and the importance of cultural awareness in risk assessment and intervention5 The Validity of Reconviction as a Proxy Measure for Re-offending: Interpreting Risk Measures and Research in the Light of False Convictions and Detection and Conviction Evasion Skills (DACES) and processes.6 Measuring what matters: Standardized risk levels for criminal recidivism risk7 The Cumulative Modelling of Risk8 What Works in the Digital Age? VR and Smartphone Applications for Forensic Psychology 9 Assessment and Intervention Technologies in Juvenile Justice 10 Implications and Considerations for Conducting Remote Forensic Evaluations in Underserved and Marginalized CommunitiesPART 2: FORENSIC PRACTICE & WORKING WITH BIASES11 Supervising Assessment Practice12 The Power Threat Meaning Framework - Implications for the Criminal Justice System 13 Individual Bias in Forensic Practice14 Cultural bias in Forensic Assessment: Considerations and Suggestions 15 Personal Construct Psychology & Repertory Grids in Formulation 16 Using Social Media Data in Forensic Evaluations: Addressing Bias PART 3: DIVERSITY & FORENSIC POPULATIONS: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES17 Gender-sensitive violence risk assessment18 Critical Reflection on Gender Identity Assessments with Trans and Gender Non-Binary individuals: Challenges, implications, and a newly proposed approach in Forensic Psychology19 Neurodiversity Assessment In Forensic Contexts: 20 Risk Assessment in Offenders in Learning Disability Populations21 How forensic practitioners may better understand neurodevelopmental disorders within forensic practice with a specific focus on ADHD22 Deafness in a forensic context23 Criminally Diverse Offenders24 Challenging Bias in the Assessment of Extremist Offending 25 The Assessment of Psychopathy 26 Technological assessment methods: New directions in the assessment of sexual offending and sexualised violence FUTURE DIRECTIONS 27 Challenging bias in cross-cultural forensic psychology assessment and testing: A summary perspective

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Book SynopsisCommunicating with Vulnerable Patients explores ways to improve the communication process between highly vulnerable patients and the therapist, based on the assumption of the permanent presence of an outsider' or potential space in the communication field between them. In this space, the therapist and highly vulnerable patients can undergo transitional states of mind established between and within their relationship.Leticia Castrechini-Franieck, also known as Maria Leticia Castrechini Fernandes Franieck, presents practical methods to overcome communication issues and engage therapeutically with highly vulnerable patients suffering from personality disorders, addiction, and trauma, as well as with deprived children. Communicating with Vulnerable Patients is presented in five parts, with Part one focused on building communication through a Transient Interactive Communication Approach (TICA) and Part two applying TICA in forensic settings with fiTrade Review"This fascinating book reveals, in clear and in-depth form, the vicissitudes faced by therapists dealing with people in distressing social situations. It deals with prisoners, refugees, children with antisocial tendencies and other traumatised and highly vulnerable groups. The author shows us how she carefully develops therapeutic resources that can facilitate communication among people from diverse backgrounds, allowing them to feel themselves fully human and able to live in the societies that welcome them." - Roosevelt Cassorla, Training Analyst of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Association, Sigourney Award 2017."Leticia Castrechini-Franieck has written an important book based on her forensic and psychoanalytic training in which she communicates, critically, the necessity for an experiential approach to the understanding and treatment of marginalized, traumatized and highly vulnerable individuals. The timely subject of social and cultural ‘outsiders’ is front and center. Many clinicians today find that a developmental, ontological psychoanalytic perspective that emphasizes experience rather than the deployment of knowledge, yields valuable clinical results. Castrechini-Franieck achieves this in a difficult clinical context in ways that will reward the reader. I strongly recommend this book." - Paul Williams, Psychoanalyst. Trained at The British Psychoanalytic SocietyTable of ContentsList of Contributors Series Editor's Foreword PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: On building communicationChapter 1: Handling, mastering, and integrating personal and factual realityChapter 2: On intercultural interactional communicationChapter 3: TICA –Transient Interactive Communication ApproachPart Two: TICA in forensic settingsChapter 4: TICA in withdrawal therapy Chapter 5: TICA in pretrial detentionPart Three: TICA in intercultural settingsChapter 6: TICA in short-term therapy with traumatized refugeesChapter 7: TICA in multicultural team supervision Part Four: TICA adaptations (variations)Chapter 8: T-WAS- Together We Are Strongwith contribution from Niko BittnerChapter 9: TICA in the COVID-19 pandemicwith contribution from Niko BittnerPart Five: Reflections on TICAChapter 10: Outcomes and limitations

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Book SynopsisA Psychotherapist Paints is a unique account of an internationally known psychotherapist and group analyst's struggle to bring together his psychological experience and his interests and talent as an artist. This book describes a body of painting that was responsive to a major existential challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic, but which also comes from deeply personal experience; the paintings are a mirror of life through the decades. These paintings, fifty of which are included here in full colour, were mainly presented online to groups both small and large, who were invited to participate in a dialogue that became a vital part of the developing project. The value of this dialogue is reflected in the author's concept of the artist''s matrix, describing the social context in which an artist produces and presents their work. The paintings, together with the autobiographical narrative and the groups' generativity, combine to produce a moving testament to our times. Trade Review'What an extraordinary, beautiful and inspiring book! Interlinking psychotherapy, group analysis, art and paintings in a totally unique way, this is, simply, a masterpiece. The author, Morris Nitsun, both a psychotherapist and artist, is present throughout, adding a personal narrative to the paintings and sharing a courageous life story. What is most impressive, however, is how much he lets the paintings speak for themselves, coming alive through the eyes of the observers. Their memories, associations, phantasies and projections, all in response to the paintings, are fascinating and moving, and form a continuing thread through the book. A further pleasure are the author’s insights woven from these biographical threads and reminiscences, creating a text that is full of interest and resonance for others. Nitsun has succeeded in creating something entirely new, a new format for applying group analysis and a new way of understanding paintings. No longer separate pieces of art, the paintings are given a social and cultural context. Their stories are both personal and universal. But the paintings are full of contrast. There is beauty but also the uncanny: the embrace but also loneliness; colour and light but also dark and suffering. This book will touch many readers and I recommend it very highly and widely.'Professor Elisabeth Rohr, PhD., Institute of Group Analysis, Heidelberg, formerly Professor of Intercultural Education at Phillips University, Marburg, Germany'This is a fabulous book, a tour-de-force. Through the lens of his wonderful paintings, Morris Nitsun takes us on his journey from South Africa to the UK and from artist to therapist. He moves effortlessly from the consulting room to his artist’s studio and through a powerful narrative draws us, openly and intimately, into his life. The book is rich in psychological theory, deeply personal reflections and artistic prowess. It is unique. As with his previous books, this will become a classic.'Professor Dame Clare Gerada, President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Director of Practitioner Health Service, UK'A Psychotherapist Paints is a visual and conceptual presentation of stunning beauty. Being the artist that he is, Nitsun beckons the reader to join a compelling journey of personal and social discovery, weaving together strands of autobiography, analytic acumen and pure talent. This highly original book is not only a major contribution to psychotherapy: it illuminates the world of the arts and suggests exciting possibilities for cross-fertilization.'Richard M Billow, Clinical Professor and former Director of the Group Program at Adelphi University, USA and author of Richard M Billow’s Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis and Group Process (2021)'Congratulations on a wonderful book. Morris Nitsun gives his readers a rare gift: the reproduction of fifty of his paintings (the paintings themselves are worth the price of the book), as well as a deep appreciation of the obstacles, inner and outer, he had to overcome to achieve the artistic freedom and devotion to truth that are so evident in this book. In his evocative presentations of his paintings, he touches on poignant themes: childhood identity, loss and trauma, oppression and shame, and more. Offering a vivid portrait of himself as a psychotherapist and artist, he does not flinch from sharing the pain of self-doubt and the problems of ageing and loneliness. He writes with courage and clarity. Painting and writing through the pandemic years, his capacity to integrate beauty with the dark side, to face fear, to find hope in despair, and to remain resolutely creative throughout, shines through this book and offers inspiration to many others.'Jerome S. Gans, MD, Distinguished Fellow, American Group Psychotherapy Association, Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association. Former Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA. Author of Addressing, Challenging Moments in Psychotherapy'In this unique and compelling book, Morris Nitsun treats us to a beautiful portrait of the mind of both the artist and the psychologist. An esteemed group analyst and a talented painter, Nitsun reveals the rich complexities of the human mind in a generous fashion, helping us to appreciate even more fully the ways in which each of us – whether clinicians or patients – can aspire to lead richer and more integrated lives.'Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and Honorary Director of Research, Freud Museum, London, UK'This is a unique book. Weaving together twin passions - painting and psychotherapy – Nitsun’s vivid artwork and lucid writing invite the reader, like a late-comer to his online exhibitions, to be both witness and participant in the "artist’s matrix". Through this matrix we comprehend what is both an artistic and psychological journey; a journey where "The Deserted City’’ (a "dark" exhibition prompted by Covid’s lockdown) is gradually re-animated: with nature’s bounty and resilience, with dancers, with the spirit of a woman’s courage, with the search for transcendence: all testaments to what Winnicott calls "creative living". Movingly, this journey emerges as rooted in Morris Nitsun’s relationship with his own mother, a "place" of absence as well as love. Inspiringly, the journey of art and reflection demonstrates the profound and purposeful engagement we must all make, especially in later years, if we are to choose integrity over despair.'Professor Nick Barwick, Group Analyst and Head of Student Counselling, Guildhall School of Music & Drama'A magnificent book, inspiring and moving. It is not just to be read: it is to be experienced. Through the paintings and the commentary, the author stimulates the senses. You are entranced by the dolls, shudder at the sight of the deserted cities, smell the earth in fragile nature, and dance with the dancers. As in art therapy, Nitsun creates a safe but transformational space in which readers can project themselves, find a mirror in the images and find themselves in the process. The language is intimate and lyrical. It prompted an unforgettable personal journey. In line with his own concept, the author illustrates how art can deepen "the group as an object of desire". A must read!!'Marcia Honig, PsyD, group analyst, art therapist, Chair of the master’s degree in Art Therapy at Seminar HaKibutzim College, Chair of the Transcultural Section of the International Group Psychotherapy Association, International group facilitator'In this unique combination of social experiment and personal history, Morris Nitsun takes the reader on a journey, traversing the territory between art, art therapy and group psychotherapy. Personal biography is woven with the author’s paintings to form a rich tapestry. Nitsun combines his deep knowledge of group analysis and a lifetime of making art to create an innovative approach to working with groups. At conferences, exhibitions and online during Covid lockdown, he offered his paintings as catalysts, courageously exposing his process to the gaze and associations of audience members. Self-analysis, art and group process combine in this engaging personal memoir. A compelling read for art psychotherapists and analysts and all who are interested in the links between art and psychotherapy.'Professor Joy Schaverien, PhD, Jungian analyst, art psychotherapist and author of Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the 'Privileged' Child and The Revealing Image: Analytical Art Psychotherapy in Theory and Practice'This is the story of a man who wanted to be an artist and a psychotherapist, and this book is his answer to the question ‘Can you be both?’ Morris Nitsun is that man; someone who has excelled as both an artist and a group analyst. In this book, Nitsun uses his paintings, and accounts of how groups of people have responded to those paintings, to explore how art and psychotherapy can bring something into being that wasn’t there before. Both art and psychotherapy give us a frame in which we can think new thoughts and maybe change our minds in so doing. This process of change is not always comfortable or easy, and Nitsun never avoids that challenge, whether in his work on the Anti-Group, the disturbing image, or the associated painful thought. This is a rich and complex work, wonderfully illustrated with Nitsun’s work; and that alone makes this book an essential purchase.'Gwen Adshead, consultant forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist Broadmoor Hospital and HMP Bronzefield; co-author with Eileen Horne, The Devil You Know'This book is truly exceptional in every sense. It is the remarkable distillation of the wealth of insights from a long and illustrious career of a psychotherapist and artist. Dr Nitsun's highly accomplished paintings interweave with his therapeutic sensitivity to construct, in respectfully understated tones, a most moving tapestry of the human condition that will touch deeply not only therapists and artists but also all those who can open their heart to the wondrous complexities of suffering and fortitude. The masterful interplay between his visual images and perceptive narrative, his personal journey, group experiences and wider collective, usher the reader into painful and exhilarating caverns of the psyche.'Professor Renos K Papadopoulos, PhD, University of Essex. Clinical psychologist, Jungian psychoanalyst, family therapist and author of 'Involuntary Dislocation. Home, Trauma, Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development''It is a great pleasure to read this book, it is written with such wisdom, humanity and clarity. It is absorbing to read and has helped me understand the influences of Morris's life on his work. He has a gift for communicating personally and universally, which gives us, his readers, permission to allow honesty and purity in the expression of our own life stories. I attended one of Morris's online presentations and loved his work. This led to an ongoing creative collaboration between Morris, his paintings and my cross-art dance/theatre group, SpiralArts. We have had two exploratory sessions inspired by The Dancers, Deserted City and Fragile Nature. The images in the paintings are evocative and triggered an outpouring of spontaneous improvisation in dance, music and voice. Inanimate, timeless paintings became the trigger for living expression, seeming to create an extra dimension through mutual creative communication.This book illuminates the creative resonance and underlying connections between art forms that can cross boundaries and create a new dimension for the expression of life experience in the present time.'Bryony Williams, FHEA, Dance/movement teacher, choreographer and co-founder and director of SpiralArts Dance Theatre Company'This is a very special and creative book. Whereas art and psychotherapy both release unconscious imagery, Morris Nitsun integrates these two processes in his highly original book. He creates a transitional space, which he calls ‘the artist’s matrix’, into which the reader is invited to share his paintings and reflections. Joining this matrix, I became captivated by the images, words and ideas. The way Nitsun merges his two callings, as a well-known group analyst and an experienced artist, into one narrative is powerful and evocative. Therapists, artists and anyone who is open to new learning and experience, will be fascinated by this book.'Haim Weinberg, PhD, psychologist and group analyst, past President of the North California Society of Group Psychotherapy and the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy. Author and co-editor of several volumes on the social unconscious and the spread of online groups'I enjoyed reading this book immensely! In his highly engaging and deeply evocative text, Morris Nitsun eloquently integrates the powerful and reciprocal dimensions of his life: art, identity, creativity, psychotherapy and human relationships – all illuminated within the matrix of group analysis. Replete with his original and beautiful paintings, Nitsun’s narrative demonstrates the rich and transformative unfolding of personal development, shaped both by adversity and by opportunity.'Molyn Leszcz, MD, FRCPC, CGP, DFAGPA, Professor, University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry; Past President, The American Group Psychotherapy Association'There is so much in Morris Nitsun’s new book that is valuable, moving, and inspiring. Reading about his creative and emotional journey and seeing the rich and varied examples of his powerful, symbolic and beautifully executed paintings, is emotionally stirring. I was gripped as it all unfolded. It is an intellectually nourishing read, bringing together rich and deep experience across psychology and the arts. And all this in the context of worrying world events, particularly the pandemic and climate change. The pandemic is an important background to the book and part of Nitsun's achievement is the wave of creativity it unleashed in him. He illustrates on many levels how in leaning into the shadows, in the free associations of ‘the artist’s matrix’, and in the mourning of loss, we can find light. His book will be a lasting reminder of the benefits of online groups, using art as a creative medium to reflect and connect at a time of threat and isolation. The wide audience this book will reach is too long to list, but it certainly will be of great interest to art psychotherapists. It is exciting to think how this approach could develop in the future. This is a book for now and for the future.'Sophie Fletcher, art therapist and psychotherapist, in the NHS and private practice, trainer, workshop conductor and lecturer'Nitsun’s latest book A Psychotherapist Paints is a courageous and personal account that weaves together the world of an accomplished artist, psychotherapist and group analyst. His concept of the "Artist’s Matrix" is an important new contribution, inviting an intersubjective dance between the maker and viewer in a way that is original and unprecedented. Nitsun’s visual research journey taps into and recognises the rich potential of the image in the group analytic discourse. Challenging the usual privileging of words over images, he deconstructs hierarchies of practice, offering a rich and expansive resource for all psychotherapists, particularly those in the arts psychotherapies. At a time of such global fragmentation, his creative group matrix, whether online or in person, opens up the potential for renewal, belonging and connection.'Hayley Berman, PhD, senior lecturer in art therapy at the University of Hertfordshire, visiting professor at the University of Witwatersrand, and founding director of Lefika La Phodiso, a psychoanalytically informed art therapy training in South Africa'I am amazed by the beauty and wisdom of this book. Morris Nitsun has written a compelling work, a testimony to the depths of the creative spirit. The book is richly laden with Nitsun's clinical experience and his stunning, breath-taking paintings. It emphasises how his life journey as a psychotherapist helps to understand the painter in him, and vice versa. Processes that go into making art can shed light on psychotherapy. Nitsun uses his deep knowledge and clinical sensitivity as a group analyst in order to enrich his - and our - insight. The clinician and the artist come together in his exploration of what he calls "the artist's matrix". He highlights dimensions of the creative mind that add to our appreciation, no less, of being alive. The clarity of Nitsun's writing and our delight in the connections between his paintings and his personal and professional odyssey make this an extraordinary book: a sophisticated gift to clinicians at all levels, artists and everybody who reads it.'Gila Ofer, PhD, psychologist, psychoanalyst and group analyst. Co-founder and past President of Tel-Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, founding member of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis. Editor of 'A Bridge over Troubled Water: Conflict and Reconciliation in Groups and Society' (2017)'In his new book, Morris Nitsun takes us on a journey of discovery in territory that ranges from interpersonal, intra-psychic and artistic regions of the author's life. Nitsun delineates the route of discovery as a fine artist alongside his development as an exquisitely attuned group leader. This is a tale that weaves Nitsun's development of a projective group technique that employs his paintings as the stimulus for group dialogue. Nitsun's work as a psychologist, painter and group conductor organically comes together in a vivid presentation of paintings and rich description of group members emotional responses to the work. This is pioneering work presented in prose and paintings rendered by the artist/analyst. I highly recommend it!'Elliot Zeisel, PhD, Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, Founder and Faculty Center for Group Studies, Psychoanalyst, Executive Producer of GROUP - The TV Series'Nitsun has exceptional powers of depiction in his art, in his therapeutic and self narrative and in his exploration of the mysterious spaces in between. The result is an absolutely extraordinary book that speaks with deep compassion to distress and pain and celebrates the spirit liberated by creativity and imagination but brings fresh psychoanalytic understanding to the creative essence of therapy. A profound and wonderful achievement.'Professor Peter Fonagy, OBE, FMedSci FBA FAcSS, Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences; Director, UCLPartners Mental Health and Behaviour Change Programme; Chief Executive, Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families; National Clinical Advisor on Children's Mental Health, NHS England; Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science, UCL, UK'Through his latest paintings, memoir and group imagination – a highly original form of travel - Morris Nitsun takes us on a fascinating journey through art and psychotherapy. From the despair and frozen states of the pandemic, he initiates a shift for himself and for us all. Touching on loss, the losses of past and present, of personal and transpersonal, the shift awakens the heart of our being. We take a leap of faith into the freedom of discovery and rediscovery. Through the matrices of art, performance and group dialogue, we discover the possibility of transformation. As if in the dance of the group he describes, we encounter a new joy, a deeper meaning and integrity of being. The book itself becomes a significant transformational object, embracing the infinite, the uncertain, and the wonder of the human condition.'Marina Mojović, psychiatrist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, training group analyst in Belgrade, founder of the International Reflective Citizens Koinonia'Morris Nitsun’s latest book takes us on a personal journey that chronicles the author’s unique ability to nurture a symbiotic relationship between psychotherapy and painting during Covid times. The extraordinary artworks that evolved from this meeting of cultures offer the reader a vivid insight into a wider life of both struggle and fulfilment.'Tim Benson, President, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, fine artist and tutor, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Background 1. "Can I be both?" 2. Early stages 3. The artist's matrix Part 2: The paintings 4. Dolls and demons 5. The deserted city 6. Fragile nature 7. Dancers 8. Four women Part 3: Reflections and review 9. A deeper view 10. Concluding thoughts

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This book examines the recovery principle of co-production within mental health services, defining it as the creation of a space where all stakeholders â including service users, family members, carers and supporters â come together in a partnership to improve all aspects of mental health services.Exploring both the practicalities and complexities of co-production, the book provides detailed analyses of all aspects of the concept in relation to mental health and discusses the growing evidence-base for adopting co-production as a recovery approach within a mental health setting. The bookâs chapters outline: the foundational principles in implementing the concept in services; the theories of co-production in and outside of mental health settings; how to translate theory into practice; and examples of implementation. The book also explores the sustainability of co-production and the tensions that are present between the idea of recovery and mental health policy.The volume

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Book SynopsisThis clinically focused book explores W. R. Bionâs thinking on primitive and unrepresented mental states and shows how therapists can work effectively with traumatized patients who are difficult to reach.The author illuminates how trauma survivors suffer from direct access to primal undifferentiated positions of the psyche that lie outside the symbolic order of the mind and are resistant to treatment. This access, unmediated by symbolic representation but represented in the body, disrupts the normal trajectory of development and of relationship. Integrating theory and clinical application, the book addresses processes of symbolization, somatic receptivity, and the use of countertransference when working therapeutically with undeveloped areas of the mind. It also demonstrates how primitive body relations and object relations include the body of the analyst as part of the analytic frame and are essential in establishing a therapeutic alliance.Illustrated with detailed clTrade Review"It is sometimes asked ‘would you refer a member of your family to this analyst?’ The answer is ‘yes’. Eekhoff knows what she is doing and she is naturally kind. She is a good person to learn from. Trauma damages a person’s boundaries and therapists need the technical knowledge to understand the patient’s necessary projections and introjections. Eekhoff is also very very interesting, in part because she is so interested in the people who have gone before her – in particular, W.R. Bion." Nicola Abel-Hirsch, training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society, she has written numerous papers and presentations and is the author of Bion: 365 Quotes"Judy K. Eekhoff is clearly a unique clinician who endeavors to help her patients become the unique persons they are. This book offers us profound and moving accounts of analytic processes, illustrating patient and analyst in their painful struggle to bear emotional truth and so achieve a measure of relief from lifelong suffering. Creatively integrating the thinking of Bion, Ferenczi, Klein and Meltzer, Eekhoff explores primal, encapsulated states of mind, which have remained outside of verbal language, seemingly inaccessible, threatening to collapse into meaninglessness and nothingness. The author suggests a mode of analytic listening, deeply rooted in the analyst's emotional experience, which can aid those who venture the encounter with these mental realms." Avner Bergstein, training and supervising psychoanalyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Society, author of Bion and Meltzer's Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life: Beyond the Spectrum in Psychoanalysis"Dr. Judy Eekhoff's new book, Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link, is a carefully composed volume that offers the reader a sweeping overview of contemporary psychoanalysis, especially the profound influence of the work of Wilfred Bion. Building on her recent (2019) book, Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective, Dr. Eekhoff deepens our understanding of traumatic experience through her discussions of the accumulated wisdom of Ferenczi, Klein, Bion and Meltzer. These theoretical contributions are amplified by many clinical vignettes that deepen the reader's appreciation of her valuable contributions to contemporary analytic thinking. An excellent book that I highly recommend." Lawrence J. Brown, PhD, author of Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment"Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link is a wonderful contribution both to the study of unrepresented states of mind and to the development of post-Bionian psychoanalysis. A central point of reference is clinical work in the light of theory and expanding theory in the light of clinical experience; we see here a strong reaffirmation of Freud’s basic principle of Junktim (the inseparable bond). This is what makes psychoanalysis a unique discipline and distinct from other universes of discourse that also aim at saying something about what constitutes the essence of humanity. Judy K. Eekhoff explores systematically the domain of the non-repressed unconscious, of emotional linking and primitive somatic affects. In doing so she uses a clear and very effective style of language. Dealing with trauma, she does not follow at all current trends in psychoanalysis that emphasize trauma per se, neglecting psychic reality. What we learn about these extreme states of suffering, sometimes resistant to treatment, guide us with all of our patients, no matter the severity of their illness. A very modern concept of truth (for Bion the food that nourishes the mind and makes it grow) as inherently intersubjective is the focus of the analytic session. Capacity for suffering; vitality inside the session and outside; Bion’s concept of transformation as opposed to Freud’s of distortion; these are, among others, issues that Eekhoff deals with brilliantly. Reading Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link reasserts our ‘faith’ and gratitude for the psychoanalytic method. Anyone involved in the field of mental health will find it an extraordinary tool for thinking and work." Giuseppe Civitarese, author of Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis"The unarticulated language of trauma is mostly heard through its suffering, a suffering the analyst joins. It is the thread that runs through this book. It provides the reader an opportunity to join Dr. Eekhoff in the experience of the nature of unarticulated emotional pain. She is guided through this journey by W.R. Bion who created so much out of his own experiences of suffering. Dr Eekhoff is inviting us to join her in her journey; a profoundly personal and meaningful aesthetic experience." Elie Debbane, training and supervising analyst, Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis "In Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link, Dr. Judy Eekhoff shares her experience of having studied Bion’s work for forty years. She describes never tiring of re-reading Bion’s writing, a telling fact that reveals how much Bion leaves for readers to bring their own imaginations, understanding, and questions to his ideas. I think it is difficult, without this kind of curiosity about truth that Eekhoff embodies, to get an idea of Bion’s challenging perspective on the mind. Dr. Eekhoff’s approach helps in understanding how Bion’s advances in psychoanalysis continue to pose new challenges for psychoanalysts, requiring new ways of approaching clinical work. These are important ideas about how to find a language able to reach the primitive levels of the mind that Bion addressed. By examining Ferenczi’s ideas about early trauma in relation to Bion’s ideas, Dr. Eekhoff reminds us of this notable and original thinker who is sometimes overlooked in psychoanalysis. This interesting and important book challenges us all to look more deeply into Bion, and into our own work." Dr. Annie Reiner, training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center for Psychoanalysis and the author of Bion and BeingTable of Contents1. Trauma and Primal States of Mind 2. No Words to Say it 3. The Black Hole: Alarm Signal of Catastrophe 4. Primitive Identification and Confusional Mental States 5. Terrified by Suffering, Tormented by Pain 6. Introjective Identification: The Analytic Work Of Evocation 7. Breaking Up, Breaking Down, Breaking Through 8. The Spark of Life 9. Intuition and Transformation in O

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Book SynopsisThe fifth edition of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Advancing Positive Practices in Education provides readers with a comprehensive and accessible understanding of current research and evidence-based practices in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), linking research, theory, and practice. This new edition includes new chapters on trauma and co-morbidity, current trends in autism research, social media, neurodiversity, and aging in people with ASD. It also features updated content on international contexts and culturally sustaining and relevant practices. Aligned with DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, this text continues to be critical reading for students and researchers in special and inclusive education programs.Table of ContentsSection I: The Study of Autism: Historical and Global Perspectives 1. Definitions and Classification of Autism Spectrum Disorders 2. Historical Overview of Autism Spectrum Disorder 3. Legislation, Evidence Based Practices, and State Implementation 4. Global Perspectives: Autism Education and Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Nations Section II: Education and Intervention in the Early Years 5. Early Intervention Services for Children with Autism 6. Preschool Years 7. Teaching Communication to Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders 8. Building and Managing Appropriate Behaviors 9. Development of Academic Skills in Childhood 10. Developing Social Interaction Competence Section III: Adolescent and Young Adult Years 11. Self-Determination in School and Community 12. Universal Design for Transition for Students on the Spectrum 13. Positive Behavior Supports in Middle and Secondary School 14. Services and Supports for Transition from High School to Higher Education 15. Promoting Integrated Employment Options 16. Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Practice in Educational and Transition Section IV: Cross-cutting Themes in the Field of Autism 17. Trauma and Autism in Childhood 18. Current Trends and Theoretical Approaches in Autism Research 19. Aging and Autism Spectrum Disorder 20. Social Media, Digital Inclusion, and Internet Safety 21. Interactions with First Responders and Medical Providers 22. Teaching and Supporting Sexuality Education 23. Neurodiversity and the Culture of Autism

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Body Image in Eating Disorders explores issues relating to the prevention, clinical diagnosis, and psychological treatment of distortions of body image in eating disorders. It presents a multifactorial model of indicators for diagnosis and treatment, considering psychological, sociocultural, and family indicators. Based on original empirical research with women and girls suffering from eating disorders, the book draws attention to limitations and dilemmas related to psychological diagnosis and treatment of people with eating disorders including anorexia readiness syndrome, bulimia, and bigorexia. The book proposes an integrative psychodynamic approach to the diagnosis and treatment of body image disorders and presents case studies illustrating examples of application of integration of psychodynamic therapy and psychodrama in psychological treatment of young people suffering from eating disorders. It considers risk factors including abnormal body image for the

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Book SynopsisHeteronormativity and Psychoanalysis proposes a critical reading of the Freudian and Lacanian texts that paved the way for a heteronormative bias in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Jorge N. Reitter's theoretical-political project engages in a genealogy of how psychoanalysis approached the gay question' through time. This book determinedly seeks to dismantle the heteronormative bias in the theories of psychoanalysis that resist new discourses on gender and sexuality. Drawing on developments by Michel Foucault and lesbian and gay studies on queer theory and feminist theorizing, Reitter draws attention to the normalizing devices that permanently regulate sexuality neglected by psychoanalysis as producers of subjectivities.Accessibly written, Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis will be key reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training, as well as academics and students of psychoanalytic studies, gender studies, and sexualities. Trade Review"Not just a compelling critique of the heteronormativity of institutionalized psychoanalysis, Jorge Reitter's book offers a bracing performative speech act whose effects will reverberate for some time to come. Out of the shadows emerges---if we dare to name it---a capaciously queer psychoanalysis for the twenty-first century." ---Tim Dean, James M. Benson Professor in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; author of Beyond Sexuality and editor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis."Jorge Reitter is one of the present-day most innovative psychoanalysts in Argentina: his work is renowned among all Latin-America psychoanalysts, academics and students who wish to tackle minority gender and sexuality issues. The book very clearly sums up and analyses the main Freudian and Lacanian ambivalent stances on homosexuality and alternative sexualities, and suggests creative ways to renew psychoanalytic theory and practice. The book’s main asset is to try and think of sexuality in terms of power relations, in a Foucauldian approach applied to psychoanalysis, yet from a psychoanalytic point of view." - Thamy Ayouch, Psychoanalyst, Doctor of Research in Psychoanalysis (Université Paris 7), Maître de Conférence (Full Professor) in Clinical Psychology (Université Lille 3), Researcher and director of doctoral research (Université Paris 7), Visiting Professor do Exterior (Universidade de São Paulo), Former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure."Jorge Reitter's book Edipo Gay is an important milestone for psychoanalysis as it is practiced in the 21st century. The book reconnects with the fundamental dimensions of clinical experience. However, it does so in a resolutely critical and open manner by purging both practice and theory of any risk of homophobic, transphobic or simply heteronormative conservatism. From a reflection on the so-called sexual minorities, Reiter manages to reinvent ethics at the heart of transferential dynamics and to assume the not only intimate but also political dimension of the analytic act." - Fabrice Bourlez is a psychoanalyst, doctor of philosophy, he teaches at the esad in Reims, at SciencesPo Paris and is co-holder of the Troubles, Dissidences and Aesthetics chair at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He teaches psychoanalysis at the International Institute of Psychoanalysis (Brazil). He has written Pulsions Pasoliniennes (Presses du Réel, 2015) and Queer psychanalyse (Hermann, 2018)."Jorge N. Reitter's book reminds us that psychoanalysis is first and foremost an act...here an act of writing where the author takes a position, as a psychoanalyst, in the scholarly public debate concerning minoritized sexualities and their conflicting relationships with the theories of Freud or Lacan, which are too often put at the service of a reactionary heteronormativity. As part of Freud's desire, Jorge N. Reitter thus revisits the Oedipus complex and the clinic of castration in the light of LGBTQIA+ approaches from - and this is perhaps the most important - arguments internal to our field." - Lionel Le Corre, psychoanalyst, researcher associated with the CRPMS, Université Paris Cité (France). Doctor in psychoanalytic anthropology. Author of the book Freud's Homosexuality."Reitter argues, and I agree with him, that psychoanalysis is not necessarily heteronormative, binary, and patriarchal. Psychoanalysis can do better things than it does by revising that matrix around its nodal concepts. Untying what was tied to conceptions of the time, with what is still sustained and keeps it vital and current. A necessary and avant-garde book that bets on a living psychoanalysis proposing a clinic of the specificity of the intrapsychic and the biopolitical of gay erotica and amorousness, both on the side of the patients and on the side of the analysts." - Débora Tajer, Feminist psychoanalyst and author of the book Psychoanalysis for Everyone. Associate Professor in charge of the "Introduction to Gender Studies" Chair. Regular Associate Professor of the "Public Health/Mental Health II" Chair, Faculty of Psychology, UBA. Co-founder Forum of Psychoanalysis and Gender, Association of Psychologists of Buenos Aires."Today the human is breaking with certain prohibitions and limits that were imposed on us a long time ago and in another history, and we do not allow ourselves to be determined externally (we emancipated ourselves with great rage from this); because the human is articulated with multiple pleasures that radically constitute it, with sexual diversities that flood it and complement it, and this is so because the logics of the world have changed, continue to change and cannot be stopped under any signifier Father. Jorge Nico Reitter expresses this becoming of each one of us in a brilliant and exemplary way in hisbook Edipo Gay. Moreover, Reitter, as the clinician that he is, knows it from the inside in the day today pain that the Other suffers in order to be accepted in this society of heteropatriarchal control; it is not only a question of the desire of this or that human being, but we are in the "Hegelian" dimension of the matter, namely, of the logics of power that allow or do not allow the performative and in this to speak of the diversity that we are and, in this, to feel accepted as such; for this reason his book becomes totally necessary for us to understand and transform our present." - Ricardo Espinosa Lolas Chilean writer, critical theorist and philosopher. Member of the Goldsmiths Center for Philosophy and Critical Thought. University of London."Jorge N. Reitter's book reminds us that psychoanalysis is first and foremost an act...here an act of writing where the author takes a position, as a psychoanalyst, in the scholarly public debate concerning minoritized sexualities and their conflicting relationships with the theories of Freud or Lacan, which are too often put at the service of a reactionary heteronormativity. As part of Freud's desire, Jorge N. Reitter thus revisits the Oedipus complex and the clinic of castration in the light of LGBTQIA+ approaches from - and this is perhaps the most important - arguments internal to our field." - Lionel Le Corre, psychoanalyst, researcher associated with the CRPMS, Université Paris Cité (France). Doctor in psychoanalytic anthropology. Author of the book Freud's Homosexuality."Jorge’s text makes a vital intervention in spotlighting the challenges for the psychoanalytic field of remaining true to the unconscious as what precisely cannot be "normalised" and "mainstreamed." The text is a wake-up call to twenty-first century psychoanalysts to learn important lessons from its own history of (hetero)normalisation and to remain open to the heteros of the unconscious and to an ethics of subjectivity that is irreducible to any social classification or cultural appropriation." - Eve Watson, PhD. Psychoanalyst, Dublin, and Editor of Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (2023) "Not just a compelling critique of the heteronormativity of institutionalized psychoanalysis, Jorge Reitter's book offers a bracing performative speech act whose effects will reverberate for some time to come. Out of the shadows emerges---if we dare to name it---a capaciously queer psychoanalysis for the twenty-first century." ---Tim Dean, James M. Benson Professor in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; author of Beyond Sexuality and editor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis."Jorge Reitter is one of the present-day most innovative psychoanalysts in Argentina: his work is renowned among all Latin-America psychoanalysts, academics and students who wish to tackle minority gender and sexuality issues. The book very clearly sums up and analyses the main Freudian and Lacanian ambivalent stances on homosexuality and alternative sexualities, and suggests creative ways to renew psychoanalytic theory and practice. The book’s main asset is to try and think of sexuality in terms of power relations, in a Foucauldian approach applied to psychoanalysis, yet from a psychoanalytic point of view." - Thamy Ayouch, Psychoanalyst, Doctor of Research in Psychoanalysis (Université Paris 7), Maître de Conférence (Full Professor) in Clinical Psychology (Université Lille 3), Researcher and director of doctoral research (Université Paris 7), Visiting Professor do Exterior (Universidade de São Paulo), Former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure."Jorge Reitter's book Edipo Gay is an important milestone for psychoanalysis as it is practiced in the 21st century. The book reconnects with the fundamental dimensions of clinical experience. However, it does so in a resolutely critical and open manner by purging both practice and theory of any risk of homophobic, transphobic or simply heteronormative conservatism. From a reflection on the so-called sexual minorities, Reitter manages to reinvent ethics at the heart of transferential dynamics and to assume the not only intimate but also political dimension of the analytic act." - Fabrice Bourlez is a psychoanalyst, doctor of philosophy, he teaches at the esad in Reims, at SciencesPo Paris and is co-holder of the Troubles, Dissidences and Aesthetics chair at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He teaches psychoanalysis at the International Institute of Psychoanalysis (Brazil). He has written Pulsions Pasoliniennes (Presses du Réel, 2015) and Queer psychanalyse (Hermann, 2018)."Jorge N. Reitter's book reminds us that psychoanalysis is first and foremost an act...here an act of writing where the author takes a position, as a psychoanalyst, in the scholarly public debate concerning minoritized sexualities and their conflicting relationships with the theories of Freud or Lacan, which are too often put at the service of a reactionary heteronormativity. As part of Freud's desire, Jorge N. Reitter thus revisits the Oedipus complex and the clinic of castration in the light of LGBTQIA+ approaches from - and this is perhaps the most important - arguments internal to our field." - Lionel Le Corre, psychoanalyst, researcher associated with the CRPMS, Université Paris Cité (France). Doctor in psychoanalytic anthropology. Author of the book Freud's Homosexuality."Reitter argues, and I agree with him, that psychoanalysis is not necessarily heteronormative, binary, and patriarchal. Psychoanalysis can do better things than it does by revising that matrix around its nodal concepts. Untying what was tied to conceptions of the time, with what is still sustained and keeps it vital and current. A necessary and avant-garde book that bets on a living psychoanalysis proposing a clinic of the specificity of the intrapsychic and the biopolitical of gay erotica and amorousness, both on the side of the patients and on the side of the analysts." - Débora Tajer, Feminist psychoanalyst and author of the book Psychoanalysis for Everyone. Associate Professor in charge of the "Introduction to Gender Studies" Chair. Regular Associate Professor of the "Public Health/Mental Health II" Chair, Faculty of Psychology, UBA. Co-founder Forum of Psychoanalysis and Gender, Association of Psychologists of Buenos Aires."Today the human is breaking with certain prohibitions and limits that were imposed on us a long time ago and in another history, and we do not allow ourselves to be determined externally (we emancipated ourselves with great rage from this); because the human is articulated with multiple pleasures that radically constitute it, with sexual diversities that flood it and complement it, and this is so because the logics of the world have changed, continue to change and cannot be stopped under any signifier Father. Jorge Nico Reitter expresses this becoming of each one of us in a brilliant and exemplary way in hisbook Edipo Gay. Moreover, Reitter, as the clinician that he is, knows it from the inside in the day today pain that the Other suffers in order to be accepted in this society of heteropatriarchal control; it is not only a question of the desire of this or that human being, but we are in the "Hegelian" dimension of the matter, namely, of the logics of power that allow or do not allow the performative and in this to speak of the diversity that we are and, in this, to feel accepted as such; for this reason his book becomes totally necessary for us to understand and transform our present." - Ricardo Espinosa Lolas Chilean writer, critical theorist and philosopher. Member of the Goldsmiths Center for Philosophy and Critical Thought. University of London."Jorge N. Reitter's book reminds us that psychoanalysis is first and foremost an act...here an act of writing where the author takes a position, as a psychoanalyst, in the scholarly public debate concerning minoritized sexualities and their conflicting relationships with the theories of Freud or Lacan, which are too often put at the service of a reactionary heteronormativity. As part of Freud's desire, Jorge N. Reitter thus revisits the Oedipus complex and the clinic of castration in the light of LGBTQIA+ approaches from - and this is perhaps the most important - arguments internal to our field." - Lionel Le Corre, psychoanalyst, researcher associated with the CRPMS, Université Paris Cité (France). Doctor in psychoanalytic anthropology. Author of the book Freud's Homosexuality."Jorge’s text makes a vital intervention in spotlighting the challenges for the psychoanalytic field of remaining true to the unconscious as what precisely cannot be "normalised" and "mainstreamed." The text is a wake-up call to twenty-first century psychoanalysts to learn important lessons from its own history of (hetero)normalisation and to remain open to the heteros of the unconscious and to an ethics of subjectivity that is irreducible to any social classification or cultural appropriation." - Eve Watson, PhD. Psychoanalyst, Dublin, and Editor of Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (2023) Table of ContentsIn the English editionPrologue by Patricia GheroviciPrologue to the first edition Heteronormativity and psychoanalysis 1) Oedipus gay2) The original entanglement. How psychoanalysis could not escape the heteronorm3) Oedipus reloaded 4) Towards a post-heteronormative Oedipus II. Miscellanea5) On the political incorrectness of eroticism6) Rethinking the possible as such7) Felix Julius BoehmIII Bonus tracks8) Talking with Jorge Reitter: neither the Other nor sexuality exists outside of power relationsEpilogue

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Book SynopsisThe Psychological Resilience Treatment Manual (PRTM) provides mental health professionals with an evidence-based guide to psychological resilience treatment designed to equip clients with a toolbox of adaptive coping strategies.This intervention treatment manual is for practitioners working with clients to develop resilience and the skills they need to cope with daily challenges, reduce stress levels, and increase general well-being without necessarily diagnosing a specific disorder, such as anxiety or depression. The manual is structured around four guided intervention modules: Passive Coping, Self-Care Behaviour, Social Support, and Active Coping. Each module encompasses four one-hour sessions and includes a contents framework, overview, and target objectives for each session. The manual includes 16 client worksheets that correspond to each session, and relapse prevention therapy is incorporated at the end of each module. Flexible in nature, the manual can be used Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction Objective Abstract and module overview Disclaimer Recommendations to mental health professionals Module 1: Passive Coping 1. The Psychology of Coping and Venting Session 2. Reviewing Behaviour Disengagement and Self-distraction activities 3. Addressing self-blame and denial tendencies 4. Metacognition and relapse prevention exercises Appendix A: Client worksheets for Passive Coping Module Module 2: Self-Care Behaviours 5. Getting Active and Right Nutrition—Paying attention 6. Mindfulness practice—All about thoughts, feelings, and body sensations 7. Practising self-compassion techniques 8. Learning how to relax, managing time, space, and meaning-making activities; revisiting relapse prevention exercises Appendix B:. Client worksheets for Self-Care Module Module 3: Social Support 9. Structural and Functional Social Support 10. Emotional Social Support 11. Instrumental or Material Social Support 12. Information or Cognitive Social Support and relapse prevention exercises Appendix C: Client worksheets for Social Support Module Module 4: Active Coping 13. Introduction to active coping, stress experience, and reactions 14. Positive reframing, tracking thoughts, behaviour, and learning effective problem-solving techniques 15. Utilising restraint coping, grateful journaling, and relapse prevention exercises 16. Humour—an active coping strategy Appendix D: Client worksheets for Active Coping Module Index

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Book SynopsisWhat can concerned parents and carers do to ensure their children, of all ages, develop great learning habits which will help them achieve their maximum at school and in life? This is probably one of the most important questions any parent can ask and now John Hattie, one of the most respected and renowned Education researchers in the world draws on his globally famous Visible Learning research to provide some answers. Writing this book with his own son Kyle, himself a respected teacher, the Hatties offer a 10-step plan to nurturing curiosity and intellectual ambition and providing a home environment that encourages and values learning. These simple steps based on the strongest of research evidence and packed full of practical advice can be followed by any parent or carer to support and enhance learning and maximize the potential of their children. Areas covered include: Communicating effectively with teachers Being the first learner' and demTrade Review"John Hattie has devoted his life to helping children learn—and enjoy learning. This book is chock full of great ideas for how parents can help their children become eager and effective learners." Carol Dweck, author of ‘Mindset’ and Lewis & Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University, US "A provocative new look at how parents can best support their children’s learning underpinned by both in depth research evidence and hands on parenting. From the man who used mass research to show teachers how to get the best out of their teaching and his schoolteacher son, an irresistible combination and a fascinating insight for parents." Wendy Berliner, author of ‘Great Minds and How to Grow Them’ and ‘How to Succeed at School’ "The most precious gift we can give our children is the confidence, capacity and appetite for learning. To not shy away from things that are challenging, changing and complicated is the foundation for a fulfilling and adventurous life. But how best to lay that foundation? In their new book, father and son team John and Kyle Hattie offer sound, practical advice that is based on an irresistible blend of solid scholarship and wise first-hand experience. One of the best parenting books I have ever read." Guy Claxton, author of The Learning Power Approach and The Future of Teaching "As a father of three and an educationalist, I have read many books on family education. When I got John and Kyle Hattie's manuscript to read, something happened that has never happened before: I couldn't stop reading! From my point of view, the book is a treasure trove of helpful hints and vivid examples, full of life experience and scientific foundation. The latter is worth emphasising from my point of view: everything that is presented in the book can be scientifically proven - and that without having a scientific duct. In my opinion, this makes the book stand out in the long line of parenting guides that often spread more myths than truths. In other words, it is a book in which research and practice merge and parents get the help they need to give their children the best possible education." Klaus Zierer, Professor of Education, University of Augsburg, Germany Praise received for John Hattie’s previous work: "Reveals teaching’s ‘holy grail" Times Educational Supplement "John Hattie has made a supersized contribution to the improvement of learning. Visible Learning came crashing on the scene in 2009 and got the attention of all of us. What I especially like is how Hattie and team continue to be internally critical and externally open to considering all possibilities. Their new series in search of ’the Gold Standard’ is typical of Hattie’s commitment and skill in processing criticism and modelling continuous learning and improvement. A million books! Congratulations for a monumental achievement and the promise of more, and more" Michael Fullan, OC. Professor Emeritus, OISE/University of Toronto. "I’m not sure John knows his own impact - I can’t think of anyone in education on this planet with a higher effect size. We teachers needed a sieve to sort the research that helps teachers make a difference, from the research that doesn’t. John provided it and now we all know how to increase our own impact. Thank you John!" Geoff Petty, Author of ‘Teaching Today’ and ‘Evidence-Based Teaching’ "Education research suffers from an embarrassment of riches—there’s too much of it! John Hattie has been a resolute leader in summarizing this wealth of information into practical terms that are digestible yet reliably capture the essence. Better still, they translate readily to classroom practice! Hattie’s success and influence are richly deserved." Dan Willingham, Professor of Psychology, University of West Virginia, author of ‘Why Don’t Students Like School?’ "Everything changed when Visible Learning revealed the key messages from research into influences on learning. Thousands of studies brought together confirmed what we must focus on … educators across the world continue to have a reference point for what matters in guiding thinking and practice." Shirley Clarke, Author of ‘Unlocking Formative Assessment’ and ‘Thinking Classrooms’ "John Hattie's contributions to generations of students, teachers, and educational leaders around the world are profound and lasting. He has that rare combination of courage and humility, fearlessly challenging conventional wisdom while continually improving and expanding his work. He makes our profession and the world of education better, and children on every continent benefit from his scholarship, wisdom, and practical guidance." Douglas Reeves, Creative Leadership.net "Hattie’s work enables us to see the effects of what teachers do in the classroom. His work on lesson preparation is one of those must-reads for all teachers. In teaching we are often looking for those light-bulb moments of illumination. Hattie has mapped the hidden wiring." Huw Thomas, Former Headteacher, college lecturer and Diocesan Director of Education "In a world where educators are often tempted and encouraged to utilize the latest fads to support student learning, John Hattie’s Visible Learning books serve as exceptional resources. Every practicing teacher, school administrator, and education researcher should have these books on their shelves." Eric M. Anderman, Professor of Educational Psychology, The Ohio State University "John Hattie has a dream that one day every child learns not by chance, but by design. He has a dream that one day the expertise which is all around us gets together and changes the system. He has a dream that one day teachers ask themselves the powerful question "What works best?" instead of only "What works". And he has a dream that one day teachers always seek maximum impact. And – most important – he lives his dream. He has started the fire with his passion. He sparked the learning. And he sparked the teaching. Congratulations John and: Know your impact!" Klaus Zierer, Professor of Education, University of Augsburg, Germany, and Associate Research Fellow of the ESRC-funded Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the University of Oxford "John Hattie has devoted his life to helping children learn—and enjoy learning. This book is chock full of great ideas for how parents can help their children become eager and effective learners." Carol Dweck, author of ‘Mindset’ and Lewis & Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University, US "A provocative new look at how parents can best support their children’s learning underpinned by both in depth research evidence and hands on parenting. From the man who used mass research to show teachers how to get the best out of their teaching and his schoolteacher son, an irresistible combination and a fascinating insight for parents." Wendy Berliner, author of ‘Great Minds and How to Grow Them’ and ‘How to Succeed at School’ "The most precious gift we can give our children is the confidence, capacity and appetite for learning. To not shy away from things that are challenging, changing and complicated is the foundation for a fulfilling and adventurous life. But how best to lay that foundation? In their new book, father and son team John and Kyle Hattie offer sound, practical advice that is based on an irresistible blend of solid scholarship and wise first-hand experience. One of the best parenting books I have ever read." Guy Claxton, author of The Learning Power Approach and The Future of Teaching "As a father of three and an educationalist, I have read many books on family education. When I got John and Kyle Hattie's manuscript to read, something happened that has never happened before: I couldn't stop reading! From my point of view, the book is a treasure trove of helpful hints and vivid examples, full of life experience and scientific foundation. The latter is worth emphasising from my point of view: everything that is presented in the book can be scientifically proven - and that without having a scientific duct. In my opinion, this makes the book stand out in the long line of parenting guides that often spread more myths than truths. In other words, it is a book in which research and practice merge and parents get the help they need to give their children the best possible education." Klaus Zierer, Professor of Education, University of Augsburg, Germany Praise received for John Hattie’s previous work: "Reveals teaching’s ‘holy grail" Times Educational Supplement "John Hattie has made a supersized contribution to the improvement of learning. Visible Learning came crashing on the scene in 2009 and got the attention of all of us. What I especially like is how Hattie and team continue to be internally critical and externally open to considering all possibilities. Their new series in search of ’the Gold Standard’ is typical of Hattie’s commitment and skill in processing criticism and modelling continuous learning and improvement. A million books! Congratulations for a monumental achievement and the promise of more, and more" Michael Fullan, OC. Professor Emeritus, OISE/University of Toronto. "I’m not sure John knows his own impact - I can’t think of anyone in education on this planet with a higher effect size. We teachers needed a sieve to sort the research that helps teachers make a difference, from the research that doesn’t. John provided it and now we all know how to increase our own impact. Thank you John!" Geoff Petty, Author of ‘Teaching Today’ and ‘Evidence-Based Teaching’ "Education research suffers from an embarrassment of riches—there’s too much of it! John Hattie has been a resolute leader in summarizing this wealth of information into practical terms that are digestible yet reliably capture the essence. Better still, they translate readily to classroom practice! Hattie’s success and influence are richly deserved." Dan Willingham, Professor of Psychology, University of West Virginia, author of ‘Why Don’t Students Like School?’ "Everything changed when Visible Learning revealed the key messages from research into influences on learning. Thousands of studies brought together confirmed what we must focus on … educators across the world continue to have a reference point for what matters in guiding thinking and practice." Shirley Clarke, Author of ‘Unlocking Formative Assessment’ and ‘Thinking Classrooms’ "John Hattie's contributions to generations of students, teachers, and educational leaders around the world are profound and lasting. He has that rare combination of courage and humility, fearlessly challenging conventional wisdom while continually improving and expanding his work. He makes our profession and the world of education better, and children on every continent benefit from his scholarship, wisdom, and practical guidance." Douglas Reeves, Creative Leadership.net "Hattie’s work enables us to see the effects of what teachers do in the classroom. His work on lesson preparation is one of those must-reads for all teachers. In teaching we are often looking for those light-bulb moments of illumination. Hattie has mapped the hidden wiring." Huw Thomas, Former Headteacher, college lecturer and Diocesan Director of Education "In a world where educators are often tempted and encouraged to utilize the latest fads to support student learning, John Hattie’s Visible Learning books serve as exceptional resources. Every practicing teacher, school administrator, and education researcher should have these books on their shelves." Eric M. Anderman, Professor of Educational Psychology, The Ohio State University "John Hattie has a dream that one day every child learns not by chance, but by design. He has a dream that one day the expertise which is all around us gets together and changes the system. He has a dream that one day teachers ask themselves the powerful question "What works best?" instead of only "What works". And he has a dream that one day teachers always seek maximum impact. And – most important – he lives his dream. He has started the fire with his passion. He sparked the learning. And he sparked the teaching. Congratulations John and: Know your impact!" Klaus Zierer, Professor of Education, University of Augsburg, Germany, and Associate Research Fellow of the ESRC-funded Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the University of Oxford "10 Steps to Develop Great Learners is an especially recommended addition to personal, professional, community, school district, college, and university library Education Psychology and Parenting collections and supplemental studies curriculum lists." Midwest Book Review Table of ContentsThe Main Messages - The 10 mind frames Part I: Setting the scene 1. I have appropriately high expectations 2. I make reasonable demands and am highly responsive to my child 3. I am not alone II: The foundations to develop learners 4. I develop my child’s skill, will and sense of thrill 5. I love learning 6. I know the power of feedback and success thrives on errors III: Learning and schooling 7. I am a parent not a teacher 8. I expose my child to language, language, language IV. The big picture story 9. I appreciate that my child is not perfect, nor am I 10. I am an evaluator of my impact Glossary Appendix: The evidence

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Book SynopsisUsing a wealth of infographics and classroom examples, Dogs in Schools sets out the pedagogical principles that schools can employ to work with school dogs in a way that promotes the well-being of all participants and creates a safe environment for all.This is the first book to combine theory and research with the views of experienced teachers and professionals working around the world, from the United Kingdom to India, from Australia to mainland Europe. Their perspectives illustrate the wide-ranging interest in school dogs but also highlight common concerns. For policymakers, this is a book not to ignore because it shows how dogs have the potential to make a significant contribution to children''s well-being at a time of growing concern in this area. Simultaneously, the authors endorse the views of contributors who call for the introduction of humane regulations and fulsome guidance so that school dogs are viewed as sentient companions and not relegated to the latesTrade Review"Dogs in Schools fills a huge gap in the literature about involving dogs responsibly and humanely in school settings, a practice that has become much more popular in recent years. This well-written, interesting, and timely volume considers the well-being of both students and dogs and gives voice to the dogs as sentient beings. Lewis and Grigg offer a comprehensive look at the complexities of human-canine relationships in general and in educational settings specifically. Potential benefits such as enhancing students' motivation, empathy, and learning are balanced with potential risks and challenges, offering vital, research-based information on the topic. Highly recommended."Risë VanFleet, PhD, CDBC, president and founder of the International Institute for Animal Assisted Play Therapy®, Pennsylvania, USA, and co-author of Animal Assisted Play Therapy "In these pages there is a deep understanding and compassion for dogs in the school environment, which if considered properly, as this book does, can be extremely beneficial to all parties involved. The authors touch on the most essential aspects of canine-assisted education in a comprehensive yet intelligible manner."Debby Lucken, Dip., Canin. Prac., International School of Canine Psychology, dog behaviorist and trainer and founder of Kids Around Dogs (KAD)"Dogs in Schools shares insights into school-based dog interventions from around the world before imparting critically important information to help ensure these programs are created, managed, and evaluated in ways that ensure the welfare of all those involved. Anyone interested in implementing a dog intervention program will find value in this unique blend of foundational information and practical tips for success."Lori Kogan, professor of clinical sciences at Colorado State University, editor-in-chief for the Human-Animal Interaction Journal, and chair of the American Psychological Association's Human Animal Interaction SectionTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Background and Rationale 1. The Human-Dog Bond in Historical Context 2. School Dogs: What Does the Research Tell Us? 3. Towards a Pedagogy for Effective Practice Part Two: Challenges and Achievements Around the World 4. The UK and Mainland Europe 5. Africa 6. The United States of America 7. Asia and Australia Part Three: Making the Most of Relationships 8. Planning and Preparing for a School Dog 9. Implementation 10. Researching and Evaluating Impact

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the current state of student mental health and trauma while offering theories and practice of trauma-informed teaching and learning.The interdisciplinary authors gathered in this collection discuss the roles, practices, and structures in higher education that can support the wellness and academic success of students who suffer from the effects of traumatic experiences. Chapters cover topics on teaching traumatic materials ethically and effectively, reading and writing to support recovery and healing from trauma, inclusive pedagogies responsive to systemically inflicted trauma, and developing institutional structures to support trauma-informed pedagogies.This timely and important book is designed for faculty in institutions of higher education seeking to meaningfully cultivate trauma-informed classes and learning experiences for their students.Table of Contents1. Introduction [Ernest Stromberg] Section I: Transforming the Institution and the Classroom 2. Considerations for Developing a First Year Seminar on Psychological Trauma [Christine Valdez] 3. Trauma Informed Pedagogy at the Grassroots: Building and Sustaining a Trauma Informed Movement at a Large Public Institution [Sarah Le Pichon and Steve Lundy] 4. Racial Trauma: Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in Classrooms and Academia [Vanessa Lopez-Littleton and Dennis Kombe] 5. When Embodied Histories Meet Institutional Stories: Trauma as Pedagogical Possibility [Whitney J. Archer, Carina M. Buzo Tipton, Cassandra L. Hall, and Emma L. Larkins] 6. Affective Solidarity and Trauma Informed Possibilities: A Comparative Analysis of the Classroom and the Clinic [Kriti Prasad and Pritha Prasad] 7. Trauma Informed Mindfulness Meditation in the College Classroom [Ernest Stromberg] 8. Examining Authority through Trauma: Reflections from Student to Teacher [Angela Moore] Section II: Reading and Writing to Recover and Heal 9. Trauma Together: Rethinking Collaborative Learning [Brynn Fitzsimmons] 10. Insights in Trauma Informed Pedagogy from the field of Bibliotherapy: Literary Trauma Studies and Creative Writing [Katarina Båth] 11. Trigger Warnings with Conscience: Presenting Texts about Sexual Assault with Respect [Rose Gubele] 12. LGBTQ+ Trauma Informed Pedagogy in a Transnational Context [Jason Lee, Beverley Hancock-Smith, Zara Hooley, and Eleanor McSherry]

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that mental life is organized by and around affect. It proposes a clinical model for understanding how affect influences states of consciousness and self. It illustrates how, from moment to moment, affect determines the world we know, how we are disposed to being in it, and our capacity to function in it.After introducing consciousness and self as features of mind that have posed daunting problems for philosophy, neurology, and psychoanalysis, subsequent chapters propose a model for understanding them at the clinical level. Initial chapters are devoted to the influence of affect on the structure and dynamics of normal waking consciousness and on the selfâs capacity to act agentically, to relate intersubjectively, and to develop itself. Final chapters discuss disordered states of consciousness and impeded selfâfunctioning, due to affect dysregulation and what all this looks like in patients with preoccupied and avoidant attachment patterns.Drawing on psychoanalysis, attachment theory, interpersonal and affective neurobiology, and traumatology, this book offers a fresh perspective on the importance of affect for psychoanalysts and psychodynamic psychotherapists.

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Book SynopsisThe Power of Group Attachment provides evidence for the fundamental role that interpersonal and group attachment have played in our survival and evolution as individuals, groups, organisations, and species.Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete deliver a creative integration of updated theoretical knowledge, meticulous research and inspiring clinical work; they go beyond the consulting room, and draw on cross-cultural studies, to postulate that there is no such thing as individual or interpersonal attachment without group attachment. Their joint work enhances and brings closer together the fields of group analysis and attachment theory. Compelling narratives from group-analytic psychotherapy, for a broad range of problems (including trauma, suicidality, mood disorder and psychosis), demonstrate effective change from polarisation and hatred (idealising one's own group and denigrating other's) to working through conflict and accepting real differences between members, the ha

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Book SynopsisI wish I had not had to write this book because then my lovely son Reuben would still be alive, says David Cohen. He was adorable, formidably intelligent, a loving son, a loving brother. He died far too young. He had the bad luck to have two grandparents who had addictive personalities. His efforts to resist the lure of drugs failed. And so did I.The Book of My Son Reuben is a personal account of how psychologist David Cohen coped and did not cope with the death of his son, Reuben. Offering a unique perspective on the experience of parental loss, it offers a personal and analytical exploration of sorrow and guilt, and of what research tells us about trauma and grief. Illustrated throughout with David Cohen's personal insight into how he continues to navigate his loss, this honest book provides a deeper understanding of loss for parents who have experienced it, as well as those who support them. The book remembers the many parents who have lost chTable of Contents1. To begin at his end. 2. More about Reuben. 3. Pleasure and panic. 4. The death of children in antiquity and the Middle Ages. 5. The shock of death. 6. Reuben as a writer. 7. What children know about death: saying goodbye and spiritualism. 8. School killings. 9. Poverty, class and social work. 10. The physical consequences of bereavement. 11. Psychological research. 12. Social media. 13. Mourning and marriages. 14. How brothers and sisters react. 15. How fathers react to a child’s death. 16. What can help? 17. Reuben – half a life. Appendix: Extract from Theo's Ruins by Reuben Cohen. References

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together cutting-edge expertise from psychoanalysis, psychiatry, neuroscience and social science to shed light on the dark side of chronic depression.Considering different forms of depression on a continuum, the book develops new diagnostical considerations on depression. It includes detailed case studies from clinical psychoanalytical practice, conceptual considerations and historical analyses to current empirical and neurobiological studies on depression. The book is unique in bridging a gap between Anglo-Saxon/German psychoanalysis and French traditions in relation to clinical treatment techniques and conceptualizations of depression and trauma. Chapters present new research on the social, biographical, genetic and neurobiological determinants of severe depressive disorder and explore how these can be differentiated and expanded in the face of new cultural realities as well of new findings particularly in modern neurosciences.The book explores new u

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Descendants of Holocaust Survivors offers a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge studies from a wide range of fields dealing with new research about descendants of Holocaust survivors. Examining the aftermath of the Holocaust on the Second Generation and Third Generation, children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, it is the first volume to bring together research perspectives from history, psychology, sociology, communications, literature, film, theater, art, music, biology, and medicine. With contributions from international experts, key topics covered include survivor characteristics and experiences; the phenomenological experience of transmitted trauma legacies; the creation of Second Generation groups; the epigenetics of inherited trauma; the development of Second Generation writing; representation of Holocaust survivors in film; music and the transmission of memory; art, music,Table of ContentsIntroduction – Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Amit Shrira Part I - Humanities Creating Second Generation Groups in the USA and Israel: A Four-decade Perspective – Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz The Metamorphosis of Second-Generation Writing: Just When I Thought I Was Out - A Case Study – Melvin Jules Bukiet Literary Works on the Second and Third Generation of Holocaust Survivors in Hungary – Presence or Absence? – Katalin Pécsi-Pollner Past Life: A Cantata for Holocaust Voices Past and Present – Phyllis Lassner Time Stands Still: Acting Out the Trauma in Second Generation Israeli Documentaries – Liat Steir Livny The Representation of Second Generation Holocaust Survivors in Certificate of Life - On and Off the Stage – Roy Horovitz Arbeit Macht Frei: Reality and Meaning in Second Generation Israeli Artists' Artworks – Batya Brutin The Role of Music in Shaping Holocaust Memory: An Intergenerational Process of Preservation and Transmission – Rachel Kollender Holocaust Remembrance: Music as a Therapeutic Tool That Mediates Between Holocaust Survivors and Their Offspring – Atarah Fisher Part II - The Social Sciences and Health-Related Sciences Effects of the Holocaust on the Second Generation: A Preliminary Analysis of an Ongoing Survey –Samuel Juni Intergenerational Transmission in the Experiences of Aging Children of Holocaust Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA - Irit Felsen Past, Present, and Future Perspectives of Holocaust Trauma Transmission – Natan P.F. Kellermann Ethnographic Accounts of Israeli Holocaust Descendant Resilient-Vulnerability: Moral-Political Worldviews and the Emergence of Empowering Distress – Carol A. Kidron, Dan Kotliar, and Laurence J. Kirmayer A Digital Safe Haven: Six Functions of Social Media for Second Generation Holocaust Survivors – Motti Neiger and Miriam Neiger-Fleischmann Late Life Manifestations of Ancestral Trauma: The Case of Older Adult Offspring of Holocaust Survivors – Amit Shrira Specific Aspects in the Life and Care of the Offspring of Shoah Survivors in Germany - Andrea Zielke-Nadkarni Long-term Physical Health Outcomes in Child Holocaust Survivors and in Offspring of Holocaust Survivors – Lital Keinan Boker

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Book SynopsisThis practical evidence-based guide to running Reflective Practice professional development programmes provides a dynamic and engaging resource for a wide range of coaches. Reflective Practice is a proven learning and development approach that involves consciously and deliberately thinking about experiences to develop insights and apply these within coaching practice. McCormick argues that it is vital that coaches regularly reflect on their work to develop and grow professionally, and this book provides a definitive and rich source of material on how and what to reflect on. Topics include how to reflect as an individual coach; working in pairs and small groups; applying reflective practice in a training context; and how to run advanced group sessions for coaches. The book features a wide range of practical workbook exercises to challenge the reader's current practice and extend their capability, as well as an evidence-based guide to enhancing skills in recently developTrade Review"Coaching has grown exponentially over the last decade, and coaches are in need of professional development as much as their clients. Dr. McCormick’s book is a step-by-step approach for professional development for coaches using ‘reflective practice’. It is a very well written, well-organised and an easy to follow guide to help coaches develop their coaching skills as they discover more about themselves from the experience of their practice. This is a ‘must buy’ book for anyone engaged in coaching."Professor Sir Cary Cooper, CBE, University of Manchester, UK"Without adaption, we atrophy. Without learning, we never improve. Without reflection, we minimize learning from our experiences. Through this marvelous trip-tik of various approaches and models of coaching and psychotherapy, McCormick raises crucial distinctions in practice that can help clients. As professionals, coaches and therapists are paid for their time. Such performance pressure often suppresses reflective practices. This book helps to remind us what can help."Richard Boyatzis PhD, Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University, USA, Co-author of the international best seller, Primal Leadership and the breakthrough book on the latest research on coaching called Helping People Change.""Reflective practice is essential for coaches' development and good practice, and it is becoming a recognised domain of expertise in its own right. This book explores a good range of definitions, approaches and tools, offering the right balance between theory and practice. It also provides a wide range of tools and exercises, inviting readers to try different techniques and challenge their thinking and practice. As an academic, researcher and coaching psychology practitioner and supervisor, I highly recommend this valuable book for trainee and professional coaches and supervisors."Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes, chartered psychologist and director of the MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology at the University of East London."Reflective practice is essential for coaching practitioners. It helps us learn and develop our skills, knowledge and understanding as we join our coachees on their coaching journey. Dr Iain McCormick’s workbook is packed with techniques, case studies and reflective practice exercises. It is an excellent step by step guide to enhance reflective practice of both trainee and experienced coaches." Stephen Palmer PhD, Professor of Practice at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and Director of the National Academy of Coaching Psychology Ltd."The Reflective Practice for Coaches: A Guidebook for Advanced Professional Development is packed full of opportunities to learn more about the application of approaches to reflective practice, accompanied by practical and insightful exercises. This offers the potential to enhance the work of coaches working across different settings and contexts, from the beginner to the more experienced practitioner. The book is timely, engaging, practical, informative and straightforward in its contribution. This offers a key resource for coaches, coach supervisors and anyone interested in enhancing their understanding and doing more around evidence-based approaches to reflective practice". Dr Siobhain O’Riordan, Chartered Psychologist, UK."Whether you are an experienced coach, or you're new, you will get something from this book.The first part of the book takes a deep dive into what reflective practice is, and provides lots of useful activities geared around helping you to develop your reflective practice. The second part of the book explores specific approaches, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and how coaches can incorporate these into practice. The case studies that Iain provides brings to life each approach, and gives ideas for how you might use these approaches in your own practice.This is not a book that's a 'read it and then leave it to gather dust on a shelf' kind of book. This is very much a guide that is designed for you to refer to time and time again."Dr Hayley Lewis, Chartered psychologist, Coach, Consultant, University lecturer at Birkbeck University of London, UK."Reflective practice is one of the cornerstones of personal development... Yet for too long reflective practice has been under-acknowledged and under developed in coach education and in coaching books. Iain McCormick is determined to change this and places reflection at the centre of his new book... The book explores coaching from multiple perspectives drawing on Iain's expertise as a coach and clinical psychologist, based in New Zealand, with interesting chapters on Schema Therapy, Compassion focused, Buddhist and Cognitive Analytic techniques, but what I enjoyed most where the chapters on integration and eclectic approaches and on coaching effectiveness. If you are looking to broaden the range of approaches you use, are interested in reflective practice or want to think about how you draw together the different approaches into a more integrated approach, this book will make for an excellent read, and hopefully deepen and broaden your own practice as a coach, leader or supervisor."Jonathan Passmore, Executive Coach, Senior Vice President, Award winning I/O Psychologist, Consultant, Author, Professor Henley Business School, UK.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction To Reflective Practice For Coaches 1. Reflective Practice – A Critical Focus 2. Practical Steps to Reflective Practice Part 2: Connection and Safety: Setting the Stage For Practice Reflective Practice 3. Psychological Connection, Safety and Confidentiality 4. Establishing Effectiveness Measurement Part 3: The Nature of Coaching 5. What Coaching Is 6. The Conceptual Models of Coaching 7. Executive Coaching 8. Coaching Effectiveness 9. Solution-Focused Coaching 10. The Critical Skills Part 4: Using Innovative Therapeutic Techniques in Coaching and Reflective Practice Sessions 11. Eclectic Versus an Integrated Approach to using Therapeutic Techniques in Coaching 12. Using Unified Protocol Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Techniques 13. Internet Supplemented Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Techniques 14. Using Buddhist Psychology Techniques 15. Using Compassion-Focused Techniques 16. Using Schema Therapy and Mindfulness Techniques 17. Using Cognitive Analytic Therapy Techniques 18. Using Stress Inoculation Therapy Techniques 19. When to Use Which Therapeutic Technique or Approach Part 5: Conclusion 20. Final Reflections

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Book SynopsisThis international and thought-provoking volume addresses both theoretical and conceptual issues of resilience in modern organizations, looking at areas of concern and providing suggestions for future preventative measures.In recent years, organizations across the world have been subjected to major upheavals as several crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Economic Crisis, and the Migratory Crisis, have contributed to the changing landscape of work. Individuals, organizations, and societies have been forced to re-think, re-adjust, and re-align in the face of adversity. The âœsurvivorsâ of such upheavals are those who come to grips with the new realities of our times and encompass resilience in its entirety. This timely collection assesses resilience on critically important variables, such as socio-economic status, occupational type, and gender differences, and highlights preventative measures that organizations and individuals should take to maximise wellbeing anTrade Review"On the heels of a world-wide pandemic when both individuals and organizations are dealing with economic upheaval and uncertainty, a reconsideration of the notion of resilience is both important and timely. In Resilience in Modern Day Organizations, the editors have produced such a review. The international slate of chapter authors consider the nature and effects of resilience at different levels of the organization, apply these considerations to specific occupations and occupational contexts and conclude by pointing to the implications of their review for individuals, organizations and researchers. The book will be a welcome addition to the library of anyone interested in fostering healthy workplaces and resilience in organizations."E. Kevin Kelloway, Ph.D., University Research Professor, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada. "Fotinatos-Ventouratos, Sir Cary Cooper, and Antoniou have edited a valuable volume on resilience in modern organizations. The post-COVID work world demands the scientific, professional, and applied information offered by these leading global scholars. This volume is essential reading!"James Campbell Quick FSAScot FAPA, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Colonel, United States Air Force (Ret.), LOM Arlington Veterans Park Foundation Fort Worth Air Power Council. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Resilience in Modern Day OrganisationsRitsa S. J. Fotinatos-Ventouratos., Cary. L. Cooper, and Alexander-Stamatios. G. AntoniouPart I. Resilience in Perspective: Theoretical, Conceptual and Scientific Factors1. What are you thinking? Understanding the Cognitive Dimension of Resilience CapacityCynthia Lengnick-Hall., Tammy Beck, and Haley Myers Woznyj2. Individual, Team, and Organisational Resilience: A Multi-Level Dynamic RelationshipAndrew James Clements and Gail Kinman3. Configuring Team Boundary Spanning for ResilienceThomas A. de Vries., Gerben S. van der Vegt, and Nevena Ivanovic4. Career Adaptability and Career Resilience in the WorkplaceNikos Drosos and Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou5. Unpicking Organisational Resilience: A Systems Perspective on Uncertainty, Information, and the Potential for CrisisDenis Fischbacher-SmithPart II. Resilience Under Examination: Occupational and Contextual Issues of Concern6. Stress and Resilience in the Human Services: The Importance of Radical Social-Ecological Systems PerspectivesKate van Heugten7. Applying a Psychologically Informed Approach to Resilience in Health and Social Care OrganizationsFelicity R.L. Baker, Kevin L. Baker and Jo Burrell8. Building Resilience in Social Work: A Multi-Level Approach Gail Kinman and Louise Grant9. Resilience as a Leadership Trait in Modern OrganizationsAlexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Evangelia Markopoulou, and Virginia-Eirini Angelou10. Resilience: From the Frontlines to the Boardroom Sakshi Bansal11. Elite High-performing Military Leaders: An Evidence-Based Analysis on the role of Resilience in Military CareersIngrid K. Covington., Wika Malkowska and Vicki ElseyPart III. Enhancing the Resilience Paradigm: Scientific Implications for Future Research12: Revisiting Assumptions About Resilience Effects: Adaptive Versus Maladaptive Resilience Processes in OrganizationsTisnue Jean-Baptiste, Danielle King, Nick Banerjee, and Ida Du13. Role of Organization to Build Resilient EmployeesRadhika Thanki and D. M. Pestonjee

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Book SynopsisThe Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-Being for a Sustainable Legal Profession is based on an innovative model, grounded in science. This book serves as a resource for promoting well-being and culture-change in the legal community by educating about pertinent issues impacting lawyers, and how to address them. It is a roadmap, highlighting the many over-arching and inter-connected aspects of well-being, and enabling readers to identify and target the issues most relevant to their unique situations.Along with practical strategies, the book provides a big-picture framework, illustrating how the many intersecting individual and organizational factors which influence well-being are all related, yet separate and distinct. The framework provides a foundation for creating change, and where you focus first will depend on the needs, the situation, and any unique challenges faced by you or your organization. The Thriving Lawyer explains why, iTrade ReviewThrough accurate insights and analysis that demonstrate an intimate understanding of the challenges so many committed attorneys face, The Thriving Lawyer offers a helpful roadmap for critical individual and institutional change needed to improve lawyer well-being. This book is a must read for both attorneys and HR professionals across all legal organizations – Claire Coleman, State of Connecticut Consumer Counsel; former Biglaw firm associate, non-profit and government attorney.The interest in wellness and self-care has gained unprecedented momentum among professionals in general and lawyers, in particular. The available resources, however, tend to be repetitive and non-directive. With this book, Dr. Cipriano has filled a critical void through a scientifically based model wellness as a way of life, the basis for decision-making, and the guide for actions. She has seamlessly integrated philosophy, psychological research, and pragmatic interventions within a persuasive narrative about making a commitment to wellbeing. Although this book will be of interest to any professional, Dr. Cipriano incorporates her education and experience as an attorney to address the unique challenges in the practice of law. Practicing attorneys, law students and law schools, and mental health professionals who advise and counsel the legal community will gain insights and strategies for promoting genuine well-being. Dr. Cipriano introduces a model of wellbeing that goes far beyond usual stand-alone recommendations for specific behaviors. After reading her book, I realized that I cannot attain wellbeing through any routine of meditation and yoga or any other add-on activity. True wellness is a state of being that affects all life domains, true wellness encompasses all aspects of professional and personal life. Dr. Cipriano does not stop with her unique theoretical model of wellbeing; she incorporates in an informative, compelling narrative, pathways for translating the concept of wellbeing into pragmatic actions. Lawyers, law students and law schools and those who give counsel and treatment to the legal community will find this book a valued and lasting resource. – Madelon V. Baranoski, PhD, Yale School of Medicine"Through accurate insights and analysis that demonstrate an intimate understanding of the challenges so many committed attorneys face, The Thriving Lawyer offers a helpful roadmap for critical individual and institutional change needed to improve lawyer well-being. This book is a must read for both attorneys and HR professionals across all legal organizations." – Claire Coleman, State of Connecticut Consumer Counsel; former Biglaw firm associate, non-profit and government attorney."The interest in wellness and self-care has gained unprecedented momentum among professionals in general and lawyers, in particular. The available resources, however, tend to be repetitive and non-directive. With this book, Dr. Cipriano has filled a critical void through a scientifically based model wellness as a way of life, the basis for decision-making, and the guide for actions. She has seamlessly integrated philosophy, psychological research, and pragmatic interventions within a persuasive narrative about making a commitment to wellbeing. Although this book will be of interest to any professional, Dr. Cipriano incorporates her education and experience as an attorney to address the unique challenges in the practice of law. Practicing attorneys, law students and law schools, and mental health professionals who advise and counsel the legal community will gain insights and strategies for promoting genuine well-being. Dr. Cipriano introduces a model of wellbeing that goes far beyond usual stand-alone recommendations for specific behaviors. After reading her book, I realized that I cannot attain wellbeing through any routine of meditation and yoga or any other add-on activity. True wellness is a state of being that affects all life domains, true wellness encompasses all aspects of professional and personal life. Dr. Cipriano does not stop with her unique theoretical model of wellbeing; she incorporates in an informative, compelling narrative, pathways for translating the concept of wellbeing into pragmatic actions. Lawyers, law students and law schools and those who give counsel and treatment to the legal community will find this book a valued and lasting resource." – Madelon V. Baranoski, PhD, Yale School of Medicine"As a former lawyer herself, Cipriano has intimate knowledge about the way that law firms function and about the legal culture itself.Dr. Cipriano presents this book's information in a clear, informative, and conversational tone, which highlights the relevance of the material and her masterful command of the topic."Eileen Kohutis, Independent Practitioner, Winter 2024, USA"What makes The Thriving Lawyer a resource that will be read and referred to over again, is the way Cipriano marries statistical information with psychological impacts. She then goes a critical step further to offer everyday techniques to offset the stress and pressure inherent to the legal profession. This book provides a psychologist-curated list of real-time methods that anyone can implement. It is one of the reasons that I continuously return to this book – both as a tool for my own wellbeing journey, but also as a key part of my interaction with law students in distress. I’m certain its value easily translates from use in an educational setting to the legal field."Jennifer Cerny, Associate Dean of Students, Yale Law School, NALP Bulletin, February, 2024, USATable of Contents1 Introduction to Lawyer Well-Being and a Guide to Reading this Book. 2 Introducing The Multidimensional Model of Lawyer Well-Being, a.k.a., The Honeycomb Model of Well-Being—A Way of Being. 3 Attention to Overall Physical and Mental Health: The Mind-Body Connection and Impact of Stress on Health and Performance. 4 Self-Care Strategies and Overcoming Barriers to Healthy Routines. 5 Understanding and Addressing Workplace Issues Which Impact Well-Being. 6 Managing Work-Life Balance for Well-Being. 7 The Impact of Financial Resources on Well-Being. 8 The Essential Role of Personal Relationships and Social Supports in Well-Being. 9 Cultivating Meaning and Purpose for Well-Being. 10 Creating Change

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Book SynopsisThese flashcards are part of The Trauma Recovery Toolkit and need to be purchased alongside the guidebook for full and effective use. Both can be purchased together as a set: 978-0-367-54690-8These flashcards are part of The Trauma Recovery Toolkit, a guidebook and flashcard set that has been created to empower individuals living with the effects of trauma and the mental health professionals that support them.Inspired by the latest research surrounding mindfulness, self-compassion, neuroscience and trauma recovery, the resource explores the effect of trauma on the brain and body and offers strategies which may be helpful in combatting the symptoms. The flashcard format enables trauma survivors to creatively respond to visual aids and prompts in a way that is comfortable for them, providing mental health professionals with a more creative and person-centred approach to directing clients towards their own healing journey.TTrade ReviewPraise for The Trauma Recovery Toolkit 9780367546908These wonderfully illustrated cards will be tremendously helpful in therapeutic work with trauma survivors. By bringing to life exciting yet complex information about neurobiology and trauma, they offer a compassionate and wise set of resources for exploring and healing from trauma. Highly recommended. Dr Jacqui Dillon, Independent Trauma Expert, Survivor and ActivistThis is a comprehensive compilation of trauma concepts and visual exercises for mental health clients with trauma histories. The beautifully illustrated flash cards provide a creative path beyond the verbal approach and can be used in partnership with professionals or by clients themselves. The visual approach produces many wonderful and apposite metaphors that will resonate with clients and help provide ways forward for people who may have been stuck for years. This is a remarkable resource for the expanding field of trauma treatment.Dr Marian Liebmann, Art Therapist and AuthorThis beautifully illustrated toolkit reflects Kim Matias's depth and breadth of knowledge on Trauma Recovery. Her mastery of this subject means that she can explain complex issues clearly. Her engaging writing style and use of rich visual metaphors make this publication extremely accessible [...] this toolkit is a treasure trove of resources for therapists who will find it easy to follow and use. It will be an inspiration for anyone with a personal or professional interest in this issue.Val Huet, Director of Research and development, BAATTable of ContentsThese flashcards are part of The Trauma Recovery Toolkit and need to be purchased alongside the guidebook for full and effective use. Both can be purchased together as a set: 978-0-367-54690-8

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Book SynopsisIntegrative Couple Therapy in Action offers a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to handling the most common problems and crisis situations seen by couple therapists.Drawing on the latest literature and the author's experience of over 40 years, Nielsen investigates what makes certain issues, such as sex, or situations, such as extramarital affairs, so stressful for clients and challenging for therapists. Unlike most graduate programs and texts on couple therapy that focus on theory and technique, Integrated Couple Therapy in Action fills in the details. The chapters cover common presenting problems (sex, money, children, and the stresses of time, work, and simply living together) and then discuss catastrophic crisis situations (couples reeling from affairs, contemplating divorce, divorcing, or living in stepfamilies after divorcing). Integrative Couple Therapy in Action provides one-stop shopping for readers of all skill levels interested in undeTrade Review"This is a wonderful book about couple therapy. Saturated with the wisdom of one of America’s most thoughtful and skillful couple therapists, Nielsen provides the sort of practical guide to practice for which couple therapists yearn. Building on a wide-ranging integrative framework, he helps couple therapists understand the intricacies involved in working with couples experiencing common problems and stressful situations such as issues with money, stepfamily issues, and sexuality. This book should be required reading for every graduate course in couple therapy and will be of great value to every couple therapist." Jay Lebow, PhD, Editor, Family Process; Professor, The Family Institute at Northwestern University."Art Nielsen has written a tour de force, applying his comprehensive, flexible integrative approach to couple therapy to the common struggles couples present. Blending systemic, psychoeducational/behavioral, and psychodynamic theories and techniques in a systematic manner, Nielsen shows beginning and advanced clinicians how to bring these multiple perspectives to issues of money, issues of division of domestic labor, the balance between work and relationship time, affairs, couples on the brink of divorce or already engaged in that process, and stepfamilies. Based on science, therapeutic craft, and artistic use of metaphor, and with great attention to sustaining a working alliance, Nielsen provides a detailed roadmap for helping couples with these common challenges. This book is an essential text for couple therapists at any level of training and experience. Highly recommended, and highly engaging!"Peter Fraenkel, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, The City College of New York, former Vice President, American Family Therapy Academy, and author of Last Chance Couple Therapy: Bringing Relationships Back from the Brink."In a comprehensive work that reflects a vast knowledge along with years of wisdom and experience as a couple therapist, Nielsen successfully integrates from across psychotherapy couple treatment models, drawing upon the most up-to-date research and scholarship, and offering all sorts of gems about how to conduct therapy along with helpful tools that will prove indispensable to your practice. Definitely a must have on your bookshelf!"Rhonda Goldman, PhD, Professor, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Author: Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy: Co-creating Clinical Maps for Change, and The Clinical Handbook of Emotion-focused Therapy."Art Nielsen has done it again! Like his first book, this sequel is another clear, well-written, user-friendly guide that draws on the author's 40 years of clinical experience, seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of the couple therapy and related literature, and ability to translate complicated concepts into plain English. Both are books I wish I'd had when I saw my first couple, and yet I still learned from them over 30 years later." Carla Leone, PhD, Faculty Institute for Clinical Social Work (Chicago); Secretary, International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology; author of numerous papers on the application of self psychology to the treatment of couples and families."Couple therapy is a most difficult field. Art Nielsen’s Integrative Couple Therapy in Action is a master class in how to integrate diverse therapeutic approaches to treating couples. Drawing on decades of experience and from the depth of his thinking about couple therapy, Nielsen integrates lessons from systems, psychodynamic and behavior therapies to produce a guide that is at once practical and wise. The book offers support to therapists with a wide range of approaches and a deeper understanding of the shoals upon which couples frequently flounder. It is a book to keep at hand for moments when therapists need a guide for navigating their way through clinical problems."David E. Scharff, MD, Co-Founder and Former Director, International Psychotherapy Institute.Former Chair, International Psychoanalytic Association Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis; co-author, Object Relations Couple Therapy, and co-editor, Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy."Following on Art Nielsen’s landmark, Roadmap for Couple Therapy, which mapped the integrative territory of couple therapy, Nielsen’s new book focuses on the major intersections in that territory—sex, conflict, intimacy, money, etc. Not only does he focus on understanding those intersections, this book is full of his wisdom on how to successfully traverse them. Nielsen’s unique wisdom is his ability to seamlessly move back and forth from the depths of the psyche to the complexities of changing behavior in the here and now. Beginners can use this book to learn "how to" and old folks like me can use it sharpen and expand what we know. Another gift to the field and to the couples we treat."William Pinsof, PhD, LMFT, ABPP, Past President, The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Clinical Professor of Psychology Northwestern University, lead author, Integrative Systemic Therapy: Metaframeworks for Problem Solving with Individuals, Couples, and Families."In this second comprehensive text, Art Nielsen again brings his brilliantly integrative mind to the task of teaching the science and art of couple therapy. Whether he is summarizing the major theories that have shaped the field, teaching essential clinical concepts and principles, or offering specific and helpful case illustrations, one senses Nielsen’s scholarly grasp, clinical wisdom, and basic humanity and empathy (including empathy for the reader) on every page. The result is a sophisticated primer that teaches therapists at all levels how to offer distressed couples the complex, often-multidimensional, therapeutic help they actually need." Steven Stern, PsyD, Author of Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing (2017) and Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicineand Maine Medical Center"In this generous book, Dr. Nielsen provides a far-ranging view of the most common topics that couples in therapy bring to their therapist—problems with money, job issues, children, sex, affairs and so on. He digs down in each of these broad topics, detailing all the different nuances, subtopics and hidden issues that can be involved as well as providing extensive research references, case vignettes and practical tips for both therapists and couples. For novice therapists, this book is a treasure trove of concentrated expertise and experience. For more experienced clinicians, it is a wonderful tool for refreshing, expanding, and focusing your thinking about the couples who come to you with their problems."Prudence Leib Gourguechon, MD, Past President of The American Psychoanalytic Association and Past Dean of The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute."At a time when our field is riven with narrow partisan advocacy, Art Nielsen has pursued a very different path, He draws from the best of each major line of thought and arrives at an approach marked by both depth and clinical wisdom. An invaluable guide to clinical work with couples."Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, City College of New York. Co-founder of The Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI). "Art Nielsen provides a comprehensive guide to couple therapy, offering both the beginning and more advance clinician a wide array of helpful interventions with couples in distress. Using an integrative lens, and bringing the reader into the therapist's thought process, this book offers concrete suggestions for successfully working with a variety of common couple struggles." Mona Fishbane, PhD, 2017 APA Family Psychologist of the Year (Division 43)Author of Loving with the Brain in Mind: Neurobiology & Couple TherapyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Synopsis of Integrative Couple Therapy1.Couple Therapy 1.02.The First Upgrade: Focus on the Interpersonal Process3.Psychodynamic Upgrades4.Behavioral/Psychoeducational Upgrades5.Sequencing Interventions6.The Intimidator and the Novelist: An Illustration of the Integrative ModelIntroduction to Parts II and III: Domain-Specific KnowledgePart II: Upgrades to Address Common Problems7.Sex8.Children and Extended Family 9.Money 10.Domestic Problems and Division-of-Labor Disputes 11.Job Stress, Cultural Pressures, and Limited Time Part III: Upgrades to Address Common Stressful Situations12.Extramarital Affairs13.Couples Contemplating Divorce 14.Divorcing Couples 15.Stepfamily CouplesConcluding RemarksReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisDedicated to Daniela Eulert-Fuchs, this important volume offers a broad and in-depth overview of how to understand and treat trauma from a Jungian perspective, written by internationally recognized experts in the field of Jungian and traditional psychoanalysis.It applies C.G. Jungâs concept of the âcomplexâ and his understanding of splitting processes of the psyche to trauma. Traversing a range of pertinent themes including archetypal defences, primary narcissistic wounding, somatic symptoms, symbolic representation and processing, transference and types of memory, the book features a variety of voices from different theoretical perspectives, with each contributor offering clinical examples and lessons from their experiences working with patients. Chapters cover a wide range of clinical phenomena including early relational trauma, dissociative states, the Self-care System, unconscious communication, embodied countertransference, eroticization, PTSD, creativity and cultural/social issues.The Complexity of Trauma is key reading for psychoanalysts and therapists as well as for researchers, students, and trainees in schools of psychodynamic psychotherapy and those interested in working with trauma.

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Book SynopsisReciprocal mentoring represents an approach to mentoring in organisations that is both timely and of critical importance in the context of diversity, inclusion, equity, and the power shift in mentoring practice. This book provides insight into how reciprocal mentoring programmes can strengthen mutual learning and encourage true partnership between participants. This approach to mentoring places participants on a level playing field; people with disparate expertise, backgrounds, and experience levels are placed in relationships in which they act as both mentor and mentee, generating a range of benefits for all involved. This book explores the design, development, and evaluation of reciprocal mentoring programmes in six different contexts: entrepreneurial, healthcare sector, third sector, education sector, membership organisations, and private sector organisations. Three different approaches to reciprocal mentoring programmes are set out: reciprocal by design, reciprocal by defTrade Review"Reciprocal Mentoring is a resource for anyone interested in building strong and supportive communities of learning. This book provides an overview of what reciprocal mentoring is and how it might operate in a variety of organizational contexts. Through real-world examples and practical advice, the editors have put together a collection of case studies that feature three types of reciprocal mentoring experiences. What I appreciate most about Reciprocal Mentoring is its emphasis on the mutual benefits of this approach."Laura Gail Lunsford, PhD, Professor, Psychology, Assistant Dean, School of Education and Human Sciences, Campbell University"This excellent book examines not only the theory and hypotheses of reciprocal mentoring, but also the reality of how that is applied in practice and how impact is measured. The case studies explore the challenges and solutions individuals and organisations face across multiple sectors, illustrating personal, professional and business growth and transformation. To see examples of how EMCC Global-accredited organisations, like the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, ODTÜMİST and Resilient Pilot are exploring and leading developments, is a testament to the professional integrity and commitment of all involved."Denise Whitworth, EMCC Global Executive Board Director and EMCC Global Vice President Accreditation "If you are looking for a way to understand the inputs and outputs required to achieve a successful mentoring initiative that yields reciprocal benefits, let this book be your guide. Through case studies across sectors, you will find helpful examples, insights, and action steps that will inform your work and guide you to success."Lisa Z. Fain, CEO, Center for Mentoring Excellence"Reciprocal Mentoring is the central theme of this book. Analysing 26 contemporary mentoring case studies across a variety of sectors including health care, education and the charitable/third sector the authors provide three lenses: reciprocal by design, default and emergent to examine the context and purpose in which each mentoring programme has been designed. Whilst we have known for some-time that mentoring can benefit both parties, these case studies and their analysis affords us rich insight to the benefits and outcomes for both the individuals and organisations involved, through examples such as inclusion in health care and the development of medical professional as beautifully captured in the schemes aspirational title ‘From Roots to Wings’. Importantly, this book represents a new and significant contribution to understanding of the value of reciprocal mentoring programmes, providing lessons for practitioners and academics alike, in how we design and evaluate mentoring schemes in the future."Dr Mary Hartog, FCIPD, CM (CMI), Member EMCC. Programme Leader Coaching Professional, Director Organisation and Leadership Practice Middlesex University Business SchoolTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Reciprocal Mentoring in the Entrepreneurial Sector 3. Reciprocal Mentoring in the Healthcare Sector 4. Reciprocal Mentoring in the Third Sector 5. Reciprocal Mentoring in the PK-12 Education Sector 6. Reciprocal Mentoring for Students and Staff in Higher Education 7. Reciprocal Mentoring for Faculty in Higher Education 8. Mentoring in Membership Organisations 9. Reciprocal Mentoring in Private Sector Organisations 10. Conclusions: Towards a theory of reciprocal mentoring

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Book SynopsisBringing together international experts in psychological and behavioural treatments for pediatric gastrointestinal symptoms, this book provides detailed, evidence-based protocols targeting gastrointestinal distress and associated mental health concerns for patients and their families. The first consolidated resource on the topic, Pediatric Psychogastroenterology gives mental health professionals access to the most up to date clinical knowledge and practice. Taking a holistic approach, it guides the reader on the treatment and care of pediatric gastrointestinal patients, as well as how to work with and support children's parents and families. The book is structured around symptom presentation and common challenges, enabling the reader to focus quickly on the area of need. Each chapter includes clinical pearls of wisdom and 62 developmentally appropriate worksheets for patients and their families to facilitate treatment, available for download.This pTrade Review‘The current book is the first to provide comprehensive information needed for any mental health professional entering the field or established providers looking for an update on recent practices and approaches. This book is a pleasure to read and will be an invaluable resource for any mental health care provider encountering youth with GI issues.’ Professor Carlo Di Lorenzo, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, USA.‘Van Tilburg, Reed and Knowles have assembled an all-star cast that will make this book pivotal to current clinical care of disorders of gut-brain interaction in both health and disease and provide the basis for future research in the field!’ Professor Benjamin D. Gold, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Site for Improve Care Now (ICN), Past President, North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN), USA. ‘What has become clear is the importance of the relationship between pediatric gastroenterologists and psychologists who collaborate on the care of so many patients. But, for that to happen seamlessly, they need to speak the same language and share a common knowledge base. This book will become the standard road atlas for that communication. It so nicely facilitates a mutual understanding of the complexities of the patients we share. Psychogastroenterology is a tour de force that will quickly become required reading.’ Professor Jeffrey S. Hyams, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA. ‘This is a must-have practical and essential resource for health professionals providing care to children with gastrointestinal (GI) conditions.’ Professor Tonya M. Palermo, Seattle Children's Research Institute, University of Washington, USA. Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction to pediatric gastrointestinal physiology and conditions, the brain-gut axis, and working within health care teams 1. Gastrointestinal anatomy and physiology 2. Stress, psychological factors, and the brain-gut axis 3. Common gastrointestinal conditions in pediatrics 4. Medical procedures/testing in pediatric gastroenterology 5. Helping youth manage medical procedures 6. Case conceptualization and assessment 7. Collaborative, multidisciplinary treatment 8. Working with parents and primary caregivers 9. Caring for youth and families with complex medical and psychosocial concerns Part 2: Psychological approaches in pediatric Psychogastroenterology 10. Feeding difficulties: Introduction 11. Feeding difficulties: Food refusal 12. Feeding difficulties: Food selectivity 13. Feeding difficulties: Difficulty swallowing and the fear of aversive consequences 14. Nausea and vomiting 15. Pain disorders: Introduction, assessment, and psychophysiology 16. Pain disorders interventions: Cognitive behavior therapy & Acceptance and commitment therapy 17. Pain disorder interventions: Hypnotherapy 18. Constipation and soiling: Infant/toddler 19. Constipation and soiling: Children and adolescents Part 3: Transition and future challenges in pediatric Psychogastroenterology 20. Chronic illness adjustment and transition 21. Supervision and future challenges in pediatric psychogastroenterology

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Book SynopsisCouple Therapy: The Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to couple therapy. Taking both a general overview and a psychoanalytic focus, it addresses the basic questions that both couples and those interested in becoming couple therapists can expect to ask.Using jargon-light language, this book summarises the range of approaches available to those seeking couple therapy from behavioural to psychoanalytic. It covers topics such as: what defines a couple, challenges for couple therapists, and outcomes for couple therapy. While introducing the subject to many readers, it also aims to further interest in and understanding of couple therapy, explaining its differences from other therapies. A glossary of key terms is included, as well as appendices with links to research and associated organisations.This book is essential for early career therapists, as well as those undertaking or are interested in couple therapy.

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Book SynopsisThis classic edition of Violet Oaklanderâs groundbreaking book presents her pioneering approach to engaging with children who enter therapy. A new introduction by Peter Mortola reflects on the ways that Hidden Treasure continues to inform therapeutic practice all over the world.Most of the literature available on working with children is written from a traditional `play therapyâ point of view; the Gestalt therapy-based approach detailed here provides a more effective method for psychotherapeutic work with children of all ages. With a focus on the relationship between the therapist and the client, Violet Oaklander shows a wide variety of creative, expressive, and projective techniques in her work, and each chapter reflects and exemplifies the use of this work in the service of therapy. This dynamic approach is applicable to a wide variety of ages as well as individual, family, and group settings.This book will interest child and adolescent psychotherapists, psychTable of ContentsIntroduction to Hidden Treasure, Classic Edition (Peter Mortola) 1. Introduction 2. What brings children into therapy: a developmental perspective 3. The therapeutic process with children and adolescents 4. Enhancing the sense of self of children and adolescents 5. The many faces of anger 6. Working with adolescents 7. Loss and grief 8. Helping children and adolescents become self-nurturing 9. Working with very young children 10. Working with groups 11. Treating children with symptoms of attention deficit hyperactive disorder 12. An innovative way to use music in therapy

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