Myths of Termination confronts and refutes the myths about how psychoanalysis should end--what patients experience and what analysts do. Kantrowitz explores the accounts of 82 former analysands reflecting on the effect of non-mutual endings due to external factors (moving, retir…
"The success of psychotherapy depends on the development of both the patient and the psychotherapist. This is the central thesis of Chris Jaenicke's book, which addresses the clinical application of intersubjectivity theory in terms of the risk - what Jaenicke terms the "risk of…
"This book brings together a large number of influential research programs that have changed the way we think about and practice psychotherapy. It presents the main findings derived by such scholarly and empirical endeavors in a way that, we hope, is conceptually meaningful and …
"Psychoanalytic Collisions Second Edition wrestles with a theme that confronts every psychotherapist: the gap between illusions and realities about the professional self. Joyce Slochower closely examines situations in which the therapist's professional and personal wishes collid…
Introduction -- Clinical psychology : clinical evidence for a nonmedical model -- Attachment theory and social telationships research : the power of human connection and social interaction -- Neuroscience and evolutionary theory : how our brains are evolved to heal through socia…
This reference manual takes a person-centred, holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, seeing the client as the unrecognized expert on their condition and encouraging their collaboration.
Clients with mental health conditions are often diagnosed and treated using a strictly medical model of diagnosis, with little input from the client themselves. This reference manual takes a person-centered, holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment, seeing the client as the …
Shame in the therapy hour
"Shame is a common emotion that contributes to many problems that bring clients into therapy, such as poor psychological adjustment, interpersonal difficulties, and overall poor life functioning (see Tangney & Dearing, 2002). Not only is shame a factor underlying many of the rea…