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Alcohol Problems
Talking with Drinkers
Gillie Ruscombe-King and Sheila Hurst
The helplessness often felt by families involved with drinkers is frequently shared by professionals and by the drinkers themselves. This book uses these parallel experiences to build a resource that provides an understanding of why people may drink to excess, and combines this with illustrations of ways of dealing with problems linked to drinking. Learn More1993, 176pp -
Shakespeare as Prompter
The Amending Imagination and the Therapeutic Process
Murray Cox and Alice Theilgaard
The authors show how Shakespeare can prompt therapeutic engagement with "inaccessible" patients who might otherwise be out of therapeutic reach. At the same time, they demonstrate that the clinical, off-stage world of therapy can also prompt the work of the actor in his on-stage search for representational precision. Learn More1994, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 5.98in / 229mm x 152mm, 480pp, $65.00ISBN: 978-1-85302-159-6 -
Structuring the Therapeutic Process
Compromise with Chaos: The Therapist's Response to the Individual and the Group
Murray Cox
A stimulating reflection for those of us who are aware of the unwithering need of organising and structuring again and again our creative doubts. It combines practical help and the development of theoretical concepts in an unusually convincing way. Learn More1995, 320pp -
The Listening Reader
Fiction and Poetry for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
Ben Knights
This book offers itself as a guide both to the wealth of reading texts available for use in counselling, and to ways of reading that extend the reader-listener's engagement with fiction and poetry. Ben Knights argues that reflective reading requires us to work at both analytical and empathic levels. Learn More1995, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 5.98in / 229mm x 152mm, 300pp, $51.99ISBN: 978-1-85302-266-1 -
Imagery and Symbolism in Counselling
William Stewart
This dictionary analyses and explains numerous symbols and images, with an emphasis on their use in counselling. The subjects in the dictionary all have relevance to symbols and symbolic language, and all of them have an imagery content. This book is intended to help the reader understand the wealth of symbols and symbolic language existing today. Learn More1995, 350pp -
The Anti-Bullying Game
Yvonne Searle and Isabelle Streng
The Anti-Bullying Game enables both victims and bullies to understand the dynamics underlying bullying behaviour and helps them to explore more adaptive interaction styles. Exploring the mechanisms behind passive and provocative behaviour, the game focuses on interactive processes, communication, belief systems and assertiveness. Learn More1996, Game, 9.21in x 6.14in / 234mm x 156mm, $84.00ISBN: 978-1-85302-335-4 -
The Divorced and Separated Game
Yvonne Searle and Isabelle Streng
The Divorced & Separated Game is of special use for those who are finding it difficult to cope with or understand the pain and upheaval surrounding separation. The game can be played with groups of siblings, peers or children from reconstituted families, and is also suitable for working with individuals Learn More1996, Game, 9.21in x 6.14in / 234mm x 156mm, $84.00ISBN: 978-1-85302-334-7 -
Not Too Late
Ageing and Psychotherapy
Ann Orbach
Old age is a stage of human development which has largely been neglected in the field of psychotherapy. Not Too Late looks at ageing and psychotherapy from the perspectives of both client and therapist and challenges the view that only short-term therapy or counselling is suitable and that psychoanalysis is just for the young. Learn More1996, 160pp -
Healing Through Meeting
Martin Buber's Conversational Approach to Psychotherapy
John C. Gunzburg
Healing Through Meeting explains Martin Buber's ideas in simple terms and shows how they can offer a philosophical framework within which to hold a therapeutic conversation. John Gunzburg shares his skills in composing therapeutic stories and encourages therapists to formulate their own stories out of their and their clients' experiences. Learn More1997, 250pp -
Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy
The Aeolian Mode
Murray Cox and Alice Theilgaard
The aim of the Aeolian Mode is to release energy by freeing an individual from the restrictive legacy of the past. Taking Bachelard's paradox "But the image has touched the depths before it stirs the surface" as a paradigm, the book presents the therapeutic possibilities in metaphor and image whereby patients are enabled to tell their story. Learn More1997, 308pp
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