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Dictionary of Images and Symbols 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 More1998, Paperback / softback, 9.21in x 6.10in / 234mm x 155mm, 350pp, CA$62.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-351-4 -
Dialogue in the Analytic Setting
Spoken From the Being
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. Learn More1998, Paperback / softback, 8.86in x 6.50in / 225mm x 165mm, 256pp, CA$53.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-610-2 -
The Social Symbolism of Grief and Mourning
Roger Grainger
In The Social Symbolism of Grief and Mourning Roger Grainger focuses on the role of funerals in promoting the personal and social adjustment of the bereaved. Tying together folklore with funeral practices, the author has created a work that examines the anthropological, psychological and superstitious aspects of our relationship to death and dying. Learn More1998, 160pp -
Prison Theatre
Practices and Perspectives
Edited by James Thompson
Prison Theatre offers a variety of perspectives on a range of practical and theoretical approaches to the use of drama and theatre in prisons and probation but also in secure settings including the use of creative processes to examine the roots of offending behaviour and in building prisoners' confidence, self-esteem and communication skills. Learn More1998, 240pp -
Forensic Psychotherapy
Crime, Psychodynamics and the Offender Patient
Christopher Cordess and Murray Cox
Widely regarded as the definitive work on forensic psychotherapy, this major compendium is now published in paperback in one volume.This compendium of forensic psychotherapy brings together the contributions of over sixty authors and covers all aspects- both theoretical and applied- of this currently crystallizing field. Learn More1995, Hardback, 9.84in x 6.50in / 250mm x 165mm, 992pp, CA$332.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-240-11998, Paperback / softback, 9.53in x 7.01in / 242mm x 178mm, 738pp, CA$134.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-634-8 -
Advocacy, Counselling and Mediation in Casework
Processes of Empowerment
Edited by Yvonne Joan Craig
This is the first study to compare advocacy, counselling and mediation as social processes of empowerment. It focuses on the user/worker partnership in care-giving services, and on the increasing imperative for cooperation between disciplines. Learn More1998, 200pp -
Helping Children to Manage Loss
Positive Strategies for Renewal and Growth
Brenda Mallon
This book explores the territory of loss in childhood using the words of children who have found themselves bereft of hope. As well as covering the short and long term implications that arise when loss occurs, it provides positive approaches that enable children not only to cope but to grow through their experiences. Learn More1998, Paperback / softback, 9.13in x 6.10in / 232mm x 155mm, 184pp, CA$35.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-605-81998, Ebook, PDF, 240pp, CA$35.95ISBN: 978-0-85700-092-7 -
Managing High Security Psychiatric Care
Edited by Charles Kaye and Alan Franey
The management of the secure psychiatric services is under increasing scrutiny. The book illustrates the problems faced by the Special Hospitals, the techniques and action employed to effect major change in these large, enclosed institutions, difficulties and obstacles encountered which dominate and influenced management and clinical initiatives. Learn More1998, 200pp -
Gravity and the Creation of Self
An Exploration of Self Representations Using Spatial Concepts
Elizabeth Burford
This book explores how physical structures that children create in play reflect their own inner emotional landscape. Burford focuses on these physical expressions of the internal processes and their application in psychotherapy, with particular reference to the pioneering work of the child psychotherapist Margaret Lowenfield. Learn More1998, 160pp -
An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities
David Kennard
This comprehensive introduction to the nature and work of therapeutic communities sets them within their historical and social context, to create a backdrop against which current practice can be viewed. The author examines communities specifically aimed at certain sectors of society, and describes the day-to-day running of a therapeutic community. Learn More1998, 192pp