Self-Mutilation and Art Therapy

Violent Creation

Diana Milia

Milia examines the effect of art therapy interventions with clients who harm their bodies. Demonstrating how these theories can be implemented in practice, Milia describes examples from her clinical experience, and includes case studies. Her practical book extends our understanding of the self-mutilation concept and how best it may be addressed. more »

Keywords: art therapy, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy

Children of Social Trauma

Hungarian Psychoanalytic Case Studies

Terez Virag
Translated by Emma Roper-Evans

The author has pioneered individual and group therapy with Holocaust survivors and their descendants, identified as the `Holocaust syndrome', in the grandchildren of socially traumatized individuals. The book explores the use of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in work with the psychological effects of social trauma on succeeding generations. more »

Keywords: psychoanalysis, psychotherapy

Systemic Supervision

A Portable Guide for Supervision Training

Gill Gorell Barnes, Gwynneth Down and Damian McCann

Systemic Supervision evaluates the issues involved in implementing and maintaining effective supervisory training within a family therapy practice. The authors outline the UKCP requirements for supervision as interpreted through the Association of Family Therapy Guidelines, and provide an overview of a course designed to cover these requirements. more »

Keywords: families, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy

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

The Therapist's Encounters with Revenge and Forgiveness

Mary Sherrill Durham

Mary Sherrill Durham explores the concepts of vengeance, revenge fantasies, and the granting or withholding of forgiveness, as they are manifested to the therapist during treatment. She also examines potential for the therapist/patient relationship to become a re-enactment of an abusive or controlling situation. more »

Keywords: psychoanalysis, psychotherapy

Theory and Practice of Action and Drama Techniques

Developmental Psychotherapy from an Existential-Dialectical Viewpoint

Leni Verhofstadt-Denève

Taking a dialectical approach to developmental psychology, the author develops a personality model and shows how it can be applied in practice through psychodrama, video feedback and creative play therapy. She focuses on the treatment of children and adolescents suffering from developmental disorders, drug addiction and self-esteem problems more »

Keywords: dramatherapy, psychoanalysis, psychodrama, psychotherapy

Between Therapists

The Processing of Transference/Countertransference Material

Arthur Robbins

Arthur Robbins demonstrates how important countertransference reactions are as sources of information and understanding of patient/therapist interactions. He presents transcriptions of some group supervision sessions, which emphasize the mixture of cognitive and affective organization which the therapist is continually exploring with the patient. more »

Keywords: psychoanalysis, psychotherapy

Using Voice and Theatre in Therapy

The Practical Application of Voice Movement Therapy

Paul Newham

Using Voice and Theatre in Therapy is a guide to how dramatic improvisation can be used in a therapeutic context to promote self-expression. Paul Newham demonstrates how voice, text and speech bring out aspects of character, personality, emotion and diversity of self-image which facilitate self-understanding. more »

Keywords: counselling, dramatherapy, music therapy, psychodrama, psychology, psychotherapy, theatre

Suicidal Behaviour

The Search for Psychic Economy

Jürgen Kind

Looking at the problem of suicide and suicidal behaviour from a psychoanalytical perspective, Kind analyses the various motivations for such impulses and the therapist's countertransference reactions to a suicidal patient. Therapeutic strategies for dealing with threatened or actual suicide are evaluated within the clinical context. more »

Keywords: psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, suicide

The Revealing Image

Analytical Art Psychotherapy in Theory and Practice

Joy Schaverien

This is a book about an analytical approach within art therapy, which may be of interest in itself. The material also raises issues of interest to analysts and psychotherapists, whether or not they work with art in the clinical setting. The book clarifies areas of similarity between the disciplines, and also makes areas of difference apparent. more »

Keywords: art therapy, counselling, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, therapeutic communities

Foundations and Applications of Group Psychotherapy

A Sphere of Influence

Mark F Ettin

The author focuses on how to provide effective individual treatment within psychoeducational and psychotherapeutic groups, and examines the structural properties of such groups as organizational entities in their own right. The book is divided into two main parts, covering foundations and applications. more »

Keywords: group psychotherapy, psychotherapy

Authentic Movement

Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow

Edited by Patrizia Pallaro

Authentic Movement, an exploration of the unconscious through movement, was largely defined by the work of Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow. The basic concepts of Authentic Movement are expressed for the first time in one volume through interviews and conversations with these important figures, and their key papers. more »

Keywords: bodywork, creative therapies, dance, dance and movement therapy, psychotherapy

Music Therapy: Intimate Notes

Mercédès Pavlicevic

The stories and reflections in this book describe powerful encounters between nine music therapists and clients. The stories reveal the passion and integrity of nine music therapists who undergo profound changes as a result of their work. The book provides a lively and informal theoretical foundation, connecting music to our intimate lives. more »

Keywords: health care, mental health, music therapy, psychotherapy

Life, Psychotherapy and Death

The End of Our Exploring

Ann Orbach

In this rich and humane book Ann Orbach explores, from the point of view of a psychotherapist, the subject of death in all its manifestations. Her intention is to look at death and what it means to us, as a means of coming to terms with the inevitable, and helping others to do so. more »

Keywords: bereavement, counselling, death, palliative care, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, social work

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