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Clinical Writing At Its Best
For the practicing clinician, "Awakening The Dreamer: Clinical Journeys" is an exciting trip into the shared reality of the interpersonal field in which psychoanalytic treatment takes place, and into the critically important dissociated aspect of that field. The book is a totally engaging read, clinically alive and wonderfully erudite, drawing on the history of psychoanalysis, literature, poetry, and neuroscience.Both clinically and conceptually, it provides an indispensable frame of reference that will deepen even treatments that appear "routine," but Bromberg's perspective is most breathtakingly powerful in helping the analyst reach the many so-called difficult patients currently finding their way into our waiting rooms.
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Subjects:  1. Clinical Psychology    2. Psychology    3. Psychotherapy - General    4. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy    5. Psychotherapy   

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A Valuable Resource
This book is a wonderful tool to use in developing groups for children and adolescents. Some of the activities are therapeutic in and of themselves, and others are useful for generating discussion on a number of topics. Innovative and easy to follow, I highly reccomend this book.

good tool
I have ordered the book, and although it will take while to come, I have recieved exerpts of activities from this book and I find it EXTREMLY helpful! The other volumes of this book are just as helpful. There are plenty of ideas and some work well with all different populations and ages. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art & Music Therapy    2. Medical    3. Mental Health    4. Play therapy    5. Psychology    6. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    7. Reference    8. Child & developmental psychology    9. Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)    10. Paediatric medicine    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Child Psychology    12. Psychotherapy   

Reviews (10)

A Must for any Coach - not just Practice Building Therapists!
This is a truly extraordinary book that gives the reader a guide to the profession of life coaching.
Helping "Helping Professionals" Reclaim Their Passion
This a an extraordinary book that belongs on the shelves (and in the heart) of every therapist AND every coach. Frankly, I've heard Pat Williams speak, so I fully expected to like the book, but even so, I was surprised by just how good, how inspiring, practical and helpful it is. Williams and Davis do a great service for mental health workers, counselors, social workers and Psychologists by affirming the power of what "we" do, and by expanding the boundaries within which we operate. At the same time, they also provide a great reminder for coaches of what WE do, how we do it, and how powerful it is! You Have to Read This Book!
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Subjects:  1. Conduct of life    2. Counseling    3. General    4. Practice Management    5. Psychology    6. Psychology & Psychiatry Profession - General    7. Psychotherapy - Counseling    8. Advice on careers & achieving success    9. Occupational & industrial psychology    10. Psychotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Cognitive therapy    2. Delusions    3. Hallucinations and illusions    4. Health/Fitness    5. Mental Illness    6. Paranoia    7. Psychology    8. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    9. therapy    10. Psychiatry    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Mental Illness    12. Psychotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Counseling    2. Counseling - General    3. Cross-cultural counseling    4. Mental health services    5. Minorities    6. Psychology    7. Psychotherapy    8. Psychotherapy - Counseling    9. Psychotherapy - General    10. Counselling    11. Education / Guidance & Orientation   

Reviews (15)

Very useful and well written
Very useful and understandable, practical tool and method. It is welcomed as an assett to the counseling profession

This is a case examples book, not a text.
I read the criticisms from other readers and felt that they didn't understand the intention of the book.They wanted an explanation of how to do EMDR, and this is a casebook of examples not a text.If you want to understand how to do EMDR, you have to read the textbook by Dr. Shapiro that explains the procedures and protocols.If you want to actually do EMDR, you have to take the class.I did last year, and because I haven't practiced I am taking it again.It's not something you want to try on your own.
a therapy that gives hope
This is a well studied and important psychological modality which appears to be little known to the lay population. This book is clear and easily read. It will give hope to everyone who is at a juncture in their life. EMDR will certainly help with taking the next step towards self-actualization. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Counseling (Psychology)    2. Mental Illness    3. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy - Counseling    6. Psychotherapy - General    7. Psychotherapy    8. Eye movement desensitization a   

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Comprehensive and easy to read
This book was required for a Narrative Therapy class I'm taking.It is well written with lots of examples from practice, ranging from child therapy to women with anorexia to community work.

Great introduction to narrative therapy
This was easy to read and a great foundation upon which to further explore this fascinating story-based practice.

Excellent Book!
This collection of chapters is essential reading for people learning the narrative approach. Brilliant! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Mental Health    2. Metaphor    3. Narrative therapy    4. Personal construct therapy    5. Psychology    6. Psychotherapy    7. Psychotherapy - General    8. Therapeutic use    9. Therapeutics (Specific Aspects)    10. Cognition & cognitive psychology    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy   

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TRY IT
MECHANISTIC,BUT HELPFUL.IF YOU ARE DESPERATE,TRY IT.IT IS GUARANTEED NOT TO MAKE YOU WORSE,THOUGH IT MAY MAKE YOU BETTER.
Paint by numbers?
This book seems an afterthought to the self-help book, and a very poorly written and edited one at that. Essential companion to workbook
What makes this book so useful is that it assists the therapist in effectively guiding the client as s/he follows the workbook in dealing with his/her mood disorder. It shows how best to employ the workbook in therapy, help the client set goals, and individualize the exercises. It demonstrates its application not only to individuals but also to groups, brief therapy, and inpatient settings. Under each situational category, it provides a session by session description of the book's integration with therapy. What many therapists may find a boon are sample client-therapist dialogues, tips on engaging clients and maintaining collaboration, troubleshooting guides, and assignment reminders. Because of its flexibility, this cognitive program can be tailored to a range of diagnoses. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Affective disorders    2. Cognitive Psychology    3. Cognitive Therapy    4. Emotions    5. Greenberger, Dennis    6. Mental Health    7. Mind over mood    8. Psychology    9. Reference    10. Treatment    11. methods    12. Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology    13. Psychotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Counseling - General    2. Developmental - Child    3. Educational Psychology    4. Medical    5. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    6. Play Therapy    7. Psychology    8. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    9. School Psychology    10. United States    11. Child & developmental psychology    12. Psychology & Psychiatry / Education & Training    13. Psychotherapy    14. Schools   

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Treatment Resource Manual
I have founds both the Assessment and Treatment Manual equally helpful for new and experienced SLP's.As for the review titled "Speech therapy does not work," it is clear that we have a irrational person that cannot see beyond his/her personal experience to see how invaluable SLP's are.We are trained to service many different ages and disorders.Effectiveness of a whole profession should never be evaluated out of anger from an individual experience.However, it is evident that certain support groups are trying to program families into this belief, which is very unfortunate and unproductive(especially for the person their trying to advocate for)!Speech LanguagePathologist are helping their clients daily in the rehabilitation and remediation of skills to help them regain or acquire skills that enable them to function in society. Along with cognitive rehabilitation and speech and language intervention, we also provide dsyphagia therapy (feeding therapy) which certainly helps a client to begin/regain the ability to tolerate certain types of food/textures. This is done to ultimately avoid aspiration pnuemonia, which could be fatal if not treated. This technique strenghthens muscles that assist in eating and articulating.As you can see, our profession is extrememly important.Unfortunately we are not "miracle workers" and can only rehab and treat to the client's ability.A team of advocates, lawyers, or irate family members cannot change this in a person.It is what it is.Maybe the anger should be redirected positively to the person who really needs it, and acceptance should begin. Just then, maybe "real" progress may be observed. SLP's are not rewarded by high salaries, but work and worry about our clients endlessly.Our therapuetic techniques evolve as research does. Keeping an open mind helps people to improve professionally, as well as personally.

good resource
This is an excellent resource with descriptions, ideas, examples, helpful hints and age appropirate goals.Not only do you get sample activies but they are very detailed too.They also list additional resources.OH! and example profiles... you can see if one of your students has similar attributes.They have therapy for children, adolescents and adults... what more can you ask for. I used this book to learn and use "pace" therapy, what a great help! =) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Audiology & Speech Pathology    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Language Therapy    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Speech    7. Speech Disorders (Medical Aspects)    8. Speech Therapy    9. Speech Therapy (Medical Aspects)    10. methods    11. Audiology & otology    12. Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech    13. Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech)    14. Psychotherapy    15. Speech & language disorders & therapy   

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Living in the Borderland. Jerome S. Bernstein
This is an important work, both in a psychological and cultural sense. Bernstein is writing about "Borderland" personalities and environmental illness but these two issues also relate to a sea change going on below the surface of the Western psyche. Bernstein is one of a very small number of people who is trying to track this sea change -- pointing us to its possibilities and its potential dangers. Living in the Borderland is a big picture book that dares to ask the really important cultural questions of our day.

Livng in the Borderland.Jerome S. Bernstein

Seminal Work
In this seminal work, Jerome Bernstein presents a highly literate account of the development of the Western ego and chronicles for the first time the stories of those individuals who are experiencing an evolutionary shift of consciousness that manifests itself in many ways, but particularly in receptivity to what he calls transrational reality and sensitivity to all things animate and, to the Western mind, inanimate.He establishes a link between this emerging consciousness and sensitivity to environmental toxins, capturing in graceful and compassionate language both the desperation of those who suffer from environmental illness and the frustration of those who valiantly seek ways to treat them.He differentiates strongly between those who live in the borderland and those who suffer from borderline personality disorder, suggesting therapeutic approaches based on clinical experience.He argues passionately for a new paradigm for the healing of trauma through a reconnecting of the Western medical model with a body-mind-spirit approach, most notably that of the Navajo medical model.
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Subjects:  1. Cerebral dominance    2. Liminality    3. Mental Health    4. Movements - General    5. Nature    6. Psychoanalysis and religion    7. Psychology    8. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis   

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Like Perls for Children
I have a thriving passion for experiential work, and Violet shows how it is applicable to child treatment.Dr. Oaklander has a deep respect for and understanding of children.She knows how to use their imaginations (and her own) to help them both heal and develop internal resources. I have included her ideas in my own therapeutic work with children/teens, and also in training clinicians.This is my favorite child therapy book.Her new book is due out in December 2006.

Excellent
This is a wonderful book on using many techniques with children. She incorporates guided imagary and art therapy techniques. I work with children and have utilized many ideas with great success.I do wish she would write another book with even more techniques.

Fabulous - but get it used.
I've just started reading this book and it's wonderful.I was told that I must have this book if I wanted to work with children, and I agree.Dr. Oaklander brings you into the world of the child as no one else does.
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Subjects:  1. Developmental - Adolescent    2. Psychology    3. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    4. Educational psychology    5. Psychotherapy   

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Amazing
Stories are very good specially if you have people & want to tell them something.
An excellent collection of Ericksonian metaphors
Dr. Milton H. Erickson often worked his "magic" by telling metaphorical stories to his patients.The construction of such effective metaphors has sometimes been difficult for Ericksonian hypnotherapists.Burns addresses this issue by affording the reader a collection of 101 therapeutic metaphors.For each story, the problems addressed, resources developed, and outcomes offered are listed.Read more

Subjects:  1. Counseling    2. Counseling (Psychology)    3. Narrative therapy    4. Psychology    5. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    6. Psychotherapy    7. Psychotherapy - Counseling    8. Psychotherapy - General    9. Counselling    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy   

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A historical document of a wonderfull new mind
In this book Dr. Kandel give us a review of his thinking.In his lifehe travel from the love of psychoanalisis to the biology, and in his experience can formulated the present of psychoanalisys... something visionary.

Vastly More Than a Text--The Future of Mankind's Mind
This is an extraordinary book that I selected in part based on Amazon's own extraordinary "referal" system.I have been richly rewarded.Although the book is completely out of my field, it has some blinding insights pertinent to my field, which is that of saving mankind by actualizing the World Brain envisioned by H. G. Wells.
Fascinating synthasis of neuroscience with analytic-based psychiatry
Eight truly fascinating essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist and neurobiologist Eric Kandel. An incredible overview of how biology must influence psychiatric thought.
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Subjects:  1. Collected Works    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Mental Illness    5. Molecular biology    6. Movements - Psychoanalysis    7. Neurobiology    8. Neuroscience    9. Psychiatry    10. Psychiatry - General    11. Psychoanalysis    12. Psychology    13. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology   

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A classic!
"Dibs" is an awesome classic every counselor and/or play therapist will love! And even if you're not in the helping field - its a GOOD read!

Excellent book, at least someone did something right
Every now and then I read a book about some parents that goes and hires a specialist to do a parents job for them. This book is probably the best example I've ever read. Simply put, we've got a couple of inept, frustrated parents who obviously have no clue how to emotionally raise a child, hiring a specialist to do the work for them. The problem I have, is that play therapy is what the parents should have been doing. By ignoring the child, never playing with him, emotionally interacting, etc, the parents just let him deteoriate. This book is a classic example.
Encouraging
To me, after reading the book, Dibs seems like a bright kid with parents who had no idea how to raise a child and didn't teach him any normal social skills.He just needed someone who would listen to him, give him undemanding attention, and provide a safe environment.And he got this with the therapist who wrote the book.Then he felt safe coming out of his shell and beginning to interact normally with the rest of his world.He doesn't seem autistic to me at all; he seems frustrated and afraid of doing things wrong.I liked the book.I found that the therapist continually echoing people was a little irritating after a while, but that was her technique, and seemed to work well.
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Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Occupational Therapy    2. Case studies    3. Child Care/Parenting    4. Child psychiatry    5. Child psychotherapy    6. Developmental - Child    7. Psychology    8. Popular psychology    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / Child Development    10. Psychotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Counseling - General    2. Crisis Therapy    3. Crisis intervention (Mental he    4. Crisis intervention (Mental health services)    5. General    6. Handbooks, manuals, etc    7. Mental Illness    8. Psychology    9. Education / Counseling    10. Psychotherapy   

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Disappointing, Unimaginative & Lacking In Detail
Buyer Beware: The detailed packaging of this deck is misleading and not at all representative of the lackluster cards contained within.I am an avid Reader and Collector of Tarot Cards, and I also have a degree in Psychology - so I was looking forward to this deck. I had hoped this deck would combine some interesting Jungian symbolism with the ancient Tarot mysticism. But it falls very short in this regard. There is truly almost NO symbolism in the deck...much of the Rider Waite type symbology has been removed, and it has not been replaced with anything of a new, unique or remotely "psychological" nature. Indeed, many of the "characters" sit alone on stark backgrounds of sky or water with NO surrounding symbolism at all. The Page, Knight, Queen & King in each suit looks like the exact same person in different clothing. Most disappointing, however, is the totally unimaginative Minor Arcana - which is just a "pip" deck of numbered swords, cups, wands and pentacles with absolutely NO SURROUNDING SYMBOLISM, other than sky or water. I find this type of "lazy" deck to be very boring & less than stimulating for the average Querant. I agree fully with the previous reviewer, who considered this purchase a "waste of money."While selecting a Tarot Deck is a very personal matter, UNLESS you prefer a totally "minimalist" deck with muted colors, repetitive imagery and little symbolism, this deck is probably not for you.

Missing the point
This book the Author and the cards are entirely missing the point.
An excellent qabalistic deck with an eastern twist!
I really enjoy the symbolism of this deck. Robert Wang provides a unique interpretation of the entire deck. Each Major Arcana has a unique chakra incorporated in it. Chakras are visual tools for meditation, most popular in Eastern philosophy, that were used by Jung. The cards are simple compared to the symbolism of other decks (ex- Thoth). I have to disagree with Deb28 when she says the Minor Arcana are "so unimaginatively rendered." There are very simple, uniform symbols for each suit but there is also a sphere on each card representing the sepirah in the corresponding color scale that the card represents. The colors and symbolism is subtle, but with a good knowledge of qabalah and/or tarot, this deck can be very powerful. It works well for readings, study, or meditation. This is a great deck but I wouldn't recommend it for beginners. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    2. Tarot   

Subjects:  1. Child psychotherapy    2. Developmental - Child    3. Practice Management    4. Problems, exercises, etc    5. Psychiatry - General    6. Psychology    7. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    8. Education    9. Paediatric medicine    10. Psychology / Practice Management    11. Psychotherapy   

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How stingy...
Steven Hayes wrote here:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy:An Experiential Approach to Behaviour Change
A really good overview and also in depth approach to a new therapy that could well be the next CBT - easy to read and with some very clear examples and analogies. I recommend it to anyone that has found that CBT has some gaps in regards to recurrance and behaviour change.

Challenging Current Thinking in Clinical Psychology
Hayes and colleagues have made an excellent contribution with their book Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) by drawing together many years of theoretical work and practice into a very readable work. The first half ofthe book outlines the theoretical foundations of ACT. Many recent books inclinical psychology claim to offer a new psychotherapeutic technique or anew approach within a particular conceptual framework. In contrast, Hayesand colleagues present a new and comprehensive conceptual foundation forpsychotherapy. They seek to challenge some of the cherished notions inmental health (e.g., that mental disorders always arise from abnormality)and critique some of the central ideas in many popular therapies (e.g., theidea in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy that mental health will be improved bychanging the content of one's thoughts). Their argument identifies languageand our use of it as both one of the key reasons for humanity's success andour inability to rid ourselves of many mental health issues. For areflective practitioner or academic, the arguments presented will give thereader much food for thought.Read more

Subjects:  1. Behavior Therapy    2. Psychology    3. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    4. Psychotherapy - General    5. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy    6. Psychotherapy   

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A Social Constructionist Mediation Book
John Winslade and Gerald Monk are two social constructionists out of New Zealand who, according to their own jacket flap, are "leading figures" in the narrative therapy movement.Their's is an interesting book with an interesting thesis: instead of seeing mediation as a problem-solving process where competing interests are resolved, they see it as a process where competing "stories" (or narratives) of the conflict are "deconstructed" and an alternate story is reconstructed.That alternate story is fashioned in large part outof a recognition of the culturally-influenced power relationships between the dispuiting parties, and with awareness of the cultural biases of the mediator as well.This theory specifically acknowledges one of the real weaknesses with conventional mediation, which is that mediators often struggle to maintain the detached neutrality that is expected of them.The narrative approach also seeks to recalibtate the relationship between the disputants instead of simply solving a particular problem.
An Interesting Approach
This book is a good read for anyone interested in the theory of mediation and why it works. I find the premise of this book to be somewhat over-complicated. Narrative mediation starts from the idea that everyone has their own "story", which positions people in different places which inevitably produce different agendas and therefore conflicts. The authors differentiate this from the traditional view that what gets people into conflicts is that they want something which is an expression of the inner needs or interest. As an experienced mediator, I find the authors' proposed methods of allowing the parties to tell their own storiesnot necessarily in conflict with the traditional view, as it seems to be an outgrowth of the need to allow the parties to "vent" their point of view,while at the same time encouraging them to listen to each other. However, while I agree that the parties "stories" do place them in different places, I do not agree that the fact that they have different stories necessarily leads to conflict. One cannot discount the existence ofan underlying reason for the conflict, apart from the parties' "stories."This is where I part company with the authors.Even so, the book is very helpful for an understanding of the mediation process. For a good "nuts and bolts" book,I also recommend Basic Skills for the New Mediator by Allan H. Goodman, even if you are an experienced mediator.

Settlement Through Alternative Stories
In one of the finest general mediation books I have ever read, Winslade and Monk present a new perspective on the mediation of disputes.In a departure from the more structured models of mediation presented in the past, these authors introduce a revolutionary approach to the manner in which mediation is approached.Read more

Subjects:  1. Conflict management    2. Discourse analysis, Narrative    3. Mediation    4. Psychology    5. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    6. Social Conflict    7. Social Interaction    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Sociology - General    11. Storytelling    12. Violence in Society    13. Psychology & Psychiatry / General    14. Psychotherapy