Surviving Post-Natal Depression

At Home, No One Hears You Scream

Cara Aiken

Research indicates that at least one in ten new mothers experience post-natal depression, yet there is little help available to sufferers. The book raises awareness of the illness and the destructive effect it can have on individuals and families. It offers positive suggestions and practical advice, based on personal and professional experience. more »

Keywords: counselling, depression, health care, mental health, psychology, psychotherapy, social work

Early Experience and the Life Path

Ann Clarke and Alan Clarke

The book challenges the widely held assumption that early experience has a disproportionate effect on later development. Drawing from over forty years of research, the authors argue the effects of early experiences are just the first steps in an ongoing, complex life path, on which the shaping, re-shaping of development can occur in any period. more »

Keywords: child psychology, psychology

Vulnerability and Resilience in Human Development

A Festschrift for Ann and Alan Clarke

Edited by Barbara Tizard and Ved Varma

This volume explores the human capacity for resilience despite the experience of adversity in early life. The book is a celebration of the contribution Ann and Alan Clarke have made to the field. Through their empirical and conceptual work they have advanced our understanding of how people overcome the influence of a hostile early environment. more »

Keywords: depression, health care, mental health, older people, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, social work, trauma

Bion, Rickman, Foulkes and the Northfield Experiments

Advancing on a Different Front

Tom Harrison

The Northfield Experiments, conducted during the Second World War, mark an important moment in the development of the therapeutic community movement. This is the first book to record the experiments in detail. The book provides a fascinating account of a significant advance in psychiatry. more »

Keywords: psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, therapeutic communities

Key Ideas in Psychology

Ian Stuart-Hamilton

This accessible book has a simple aim - to tell people what psychology is about. It presents a review of the key areas of the subject as it is traditionally taught, and provides the reader with an introduction to important concepts and findings within each of these. The reader should be able at least to make sense of most psychological topics. more »

Keyword: psychology

Complementary Therapies in Context

The Psychology of Healing

Helen Graham

This is a detailed and comprehensive reference text for people wanting extensive background knowledge of complementary therapies and the background to their development. It also includes interesting sections on the complex relationship between eastern and western medicine; and how both have developed and progressed within the very recent past. more »

Keywords: complementary therapies, psychology

Emotional Expression Among The Cree Indians

The Role of Pictorial Representations in the Assessment of Psychological Mindedness

Nadia Ferrara

Nadia Ferrara examines cultural differences in emotional expression and psychological mindedness by comparing Euro-Canadians, and Cree Amerindians – who are often stereotyped as taciturn and less verbally expressive. She investigates the ethnographic contexts of the Cree people, as well as their style of communication and views of imagery and art. more »

Keywords: anthropology, art therapy, emotions, psychology

Dialogue in the Analytic Setting : Spoken From the Being

Louis Zinkin and Hindle Zinkin

The book focuses on the theory and practice of Jungian analysis, group analysis and the relevance of these psychotherapy to one another. Zinkin makes connections between concepts in the Jungian analysis and the psychoanalytic repertoire, from his other disciplines, including anthropology, social psychology, literary philosophy and physics. more »

Keywords: psychoanalysis, psychology

The Social Construction of Dementia

Confused Professionals?

Nancy H. Harding and Colin Palfrey

In this study the social construction of dementia is examined closely for the first time. Nancy Harding and Colin Palfrey show how Western society sees dementia as a disease, rather than a natural part of the ageing process. They take issue with the constructed view of the body as a machine, whose parts 'break down' and need replacement. more »

Keywords: dementia, mental health, older people, palliative care, psychiatry, psychology, residential care, social care, social work

Boys

Sexual Abuse and Treatment

Anders Nyman and B"rje Svensson

Looking in detail at cases where boys have been victims of sexual abuse, the authors look at the many questions that arise around the topic, particularly in so far as there are fears and anxieties specific to boys. They show what can be done to help these boys, and provide new insight into the state of mind of boys who have been abused. more »

Keywords: child psychiatry, child psychology, children, counselling, sexual abuse

How We Feel

An Insight into the Emotional World of Teenagers

Edited by Jacki Gordon and Gillian Grant

This innovative and accessible book shows, largely in their own words, how young people really feel about themselves and the world around them. They speak about school, parents, siblings, peers, romance, good looks, jealousy, bullying, sex, drugs, normality and difference, their joy, pain and confusion, and everything else. more »

Keywords: adolescence, child psychology, counselling, emotions, pastoral care, psychology, SEAL

Growth and Risk in Infancy

Stephen Briggs

This book is based on detailed weekly observations of infants in their home environment from birth until two years. Each infant's interactions, relationships, physical, emotional and cognitive development are systematically studied. The focus of the study is on problems in vulnerable infants' development encountered in the observations. more »

Keywords: child development, child protection, child psychiatry, child psychology, children, families, psychoanalysis, psychology

Managing Manic Depressive Disorders

Edited by Ved Varma

The reasons for the onset of manic depression are considered in order to further understand and assist treatment by increasing knowledge of how manic depressives actually feel. Particular difficulties in treatment are addressed, such as unresponsiveness and the problem of the manic high from which the patient may not want to recover. more »

Keywords: depression, mental health, mental illness, occupational therapy, psychiatry, social care, social work

Communication and the Mentally Ill Patient

Developmental and Linguistic Approaches to Schizophrenia

Edited by Jenny France and Niki Muir

The book examines issues of communication and speech in schizophrenic patients, in collaboration with psychiatrists, linguists, psychologists, and speech and language therapists. It demonstrates the need for closer ties between the disciplines and the role that language and communication play in the diagnosis and rehabilitation of the mentally ill. more »

Keywords: communication, forensic psychotherapy, mental health, mental illness, psychiatry

The Construction of Racial Identity in Children of Mixed Parentage

Mixed Metaphors

Ilan Katz

This book is a major contribution to the literature on race, identity and child development, and offers a radically new way of looking at some of these issues. Based on intensive research on interracial families, the book reviews the previous literature relating to racial identity development, and shows it to be based on flawed assumptions. more »

Keywords: child psychiatry, child psychology, children, race

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