Reviews (24)

Wonderful to learn about attachment
This was one of many books I have been reading regarding attachment.This book had my sons name written all over it.I am a mother of a foreign adopted son with many issues ahead.This has by far been the best one I have found.It showed examples of problems along with a recommended solution to correcting the behavior.We are now seeing some much needed changes in our household.I highly recommend this selection.

Fantastic!
Daniel Hughes really understands children with RAD! I especially would recommend this book for parents adopting or doing foster care.

highly recommend
We recently adopted a 9 yr old boy.This book helped me understand the source of his behavior and have more compassion.There weren't a lot of methods to help me cope, but I hope his other book will have that.
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Subjects:  1. Children with Special Needs    2. Developmental - Child    3. Family & Relationships    4. Family/Marriage    5. Parenting - Stepparenting    6. Psychology    7. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    8. Social Work    9. Child & developmental psychology    10. Child welfare    11. Psychiatry    12. Psychology & Psychiatry / Child Psychology    13. Psychotherapy   

Reviews (5)

"The double face of alchemy-laboratory and library-corresponds to the two-fold nature of the individuation process:
. . . the active nature of participation in outer reality and relationships, together with the process of inner reflection."
correction
just a note: the review above refers to Anatomy of the Psyche by Edinger.Anatomy of the Soul is a misprint.

A meeting with a remarkable mind
I first discovered Marie-Louise Von Franz in her collaboration with Emma Jung in their extraordinary book "The Grail Legend", which is by far the most intellectually coherent book I have ever encountered regarding that material, in which they place those strange and surreal stories in the framework of a Jungian perspective on the history of consciousness. In these lectures on alchemical symbolism, Von Franz applies many of the same Jungian techniques to explore some important alchemical texts.Read more

Subjects:  1. Alchemy    2. Chemistry - General    3. General    4. History & Surveys - Modern    5. Jungian Psychology    6. New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Psychotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Geriatric Psychiatry    2. Geriatric psychotherapy    3. Gerontology    4. Medical    5. Mental illness    6. Planning    7. Psychiatry - General    8. Psychology    9. Psychotherapy    10. Psychotherapy - General    11. Psychotherapy for older people    12. Reference    13. Treatment    14. Geriatric medicine    15. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy   

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Great overview
Excellent overview of IPT from "the source", that is experts involved in its development and research. I decided to buy this book because I needed an introduction to IPT. It discusses in a clear manner the theoretical underpinnings of IPT, and the strategies and techniques used in IPT; the chapters are peppered with case histories and useful questions to ask and interventions to make with patients from an IPT perspective. I give it 4 stars rather than 5 because I think it may try to be all things to all people, blending too much of the elementary and esoteric.I think this book is meant for clinicians, and I don't think a lay person would be much drawn to it; as such I think some of the introductory information on depression (criteria for diagnosis etc.) is too elementary for your typical, even neophyte, clinician. The chapter on research data supporting IPT is rather esoteric; I liked this chapter, but this esoterica doesn't fit with the elementary aspect I just mentioned. This is a minor critique in what is otherwise a very good book for an introduction to IPT. I recommend it.

Review-Comprehensive Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is an important intervention in mood and other related disorders. This volume represents the gold standard reference for any clinician seeking to learn or consolidate their practice of IPT. Updating the original 1984 text, this comprehensive reference clearly describes the theoretical basis of IPT as well as providing a good introduction to the actual practice of IPT in day to day clinical life. The real strength of the volume however, is its scholarly and comprhensive review of previous and ongoing research in IPT and its newer applications in other disorders.This volume is a wonderful inclusion on any library bookshelf as well as being an invaluable tool for the clinician seeking a comprehensive introduction to Interpersonal Psychotherapy ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Psychology    2. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    3. Psychotherapy    4. Psychotherapy - General    5. Reference   

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Excellent beginning counselor text
This text has great information and good self exploration exercises.Kottler has been writing these texts for many years, and has written a text that is accessible to the beginning counseling student.I cannot recommend using this text highly enough, my students love the book (as evidenced by my NOT seeing it on our bookstore shelves as a used text after the course wraps), and it is organized for both the student and the professor.The only alteration in chapter sequencing that I make is to teach the ethics chapter early in the course rather than late in the course.

Do youself a favor and read this
By the end of this book, I wanted to meet Jeffrey Kottler, have coffee with him, exchange jokes, and ask him all the bigger questions that, as a graduate student, lurk in the back of my brain. You know.Those questions like, "Can I really do this?" and "What happens if I screw up someone's emotional well-being even worse than when they came in?" Should be required for those entering the field of therapy.
This book should be required reading for students who are consideringentering into the mental health field. It is thorough, helpful andstraightfoward. Personal anecdotes from practitioners offers a nice touch. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Counseling    2. Mental Health    3. Psychology    4. Psychotherapy - Counseling    5. Psychotherapy - General    6. Counselling    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / Counseling    8. Psychotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Handbooks, manuals, etc    2. Human Sexuality    3. Mental Illness    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy - Counseling    6. Psychotherapy - General    7. Reference    8. Sexual disorders    9. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Reference    11. Psychotherapy    12. Sexual behaviour    13. Urology & urogenital medicine   

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Brilliant!
The Hakomi Method, created by Ron Kurtz, is a beautifully constructed experiential therapeutic process which incorporates the best of the last 100 or so years of psychotherapeutic study. It integrates Taoist and Buddhist Principles with Western Theory and the Body-Centered Wisdom of Alexander Lowen, John Pierrakos, Hector Prestera and others.I've been a therapist for over 16 years and the Hakomi Method has now become the main influence inmy work. Ron's five principles: Mindfulness, Non-violence,Organicity, Unity and Mind-Body Wholism, insure not only change in a person's behavioral patterns, but in their soul as well. It is creative, effective and heartfelt. It is a pleasure to practice therapy this way. I highly recommend this book for anyone in the healing professions. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Healing - General    3. Holism    4. Mind and body therapies    5. Psychology    6. Psychotherapy    7. Psychotherapy - General    8. methods    9. Faith healing & religious therapy   

Subjects:  1. Family Relationships    2. Psychology    3. Psychotherapy - General    4. Reference    5. Family & Relationships / Family Relationships    6. Psychiatry    7. Psychotherapy   

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The Best Forgiveness Book on the Market
I received the Ph.D. degree in one of the most research-oriented universities in the country.Therefore, any time an author purports to have discovered a new and effective program, I tend to ask, "Has this program been scientifically tested?"Most "self-help" books are based on impressions and opinions only, not science. This book, however, is the grand exception. Forgiveness Is a Choice is based on years of research into how people forgive. The research is strong and the results also strong. I gave this book as a gift to a friend who had a very serious break up with someone years ago. After reading the book, she decided to take the risk of forgiving and reconciling with the other person from whom she was estranged for years. The book provided the necessary help to get the reconciliation process started. My friend credits this book with the success."I am sold on the power of forgiveness," she said. The reader is given systematic exercises in the forgiving process. You start with exploring the anger you have,then you turn to a decision to forgive, including a clear exposition of what forgiveness is and is not. Next, you are given cognitive/thinking tasks to aid your forgiving, followed by affective/feeling tasks. In the Discovery Phase of forgiving (the final phase of the forgiveness process), the reader learns a great deal about oneself, the other person, and relationships. The author's encouragement of the reader's journaling as a means of reflection is very useful. Although the author makes the point that forgiveness benefits the forgiver, he is clear that forgiveness itself is not at all a self-focused process. Instead, as the author notes, forgiveness is a moral process in which you reach out with compassion and understanding to the one who hurt you. This book has received much national attention. I read an article in USA Today favorably reporting on this book. I also caught the radio program, Talk of the Nation, on National Public Radio in which this book was featured. I highly recommend this thoughtful and helpful book.

Too simplistic for some victims & it's not for everyone
This book is an invaluable aid to those who feel forgiveness is their best way to find healing, or for those whose personal beliefs demand this, but it's too simplistic to work for every trauma victim. Some victims find the pressure to forgive their tormentors to be an additional burden, or an addition to their pain, or an insult to their suffering. Therapy must be tailored to the individual and this method just doesn't work for everyone.

so encouraging
I found this book mentioned on the Nightmares Echo book site as one of the books bought with, so I purchased both. This book is so encouraging, so helpful...so uplifting. I would tell the reading audience to buy both Nightmares Echo and Forgiveness is a choice....I have learned so muchRead more

Subjects:  1. Abuse - General    2. Anger    3. Emotions    4. Forgiveness    5. Mental Health    6. Psychology    7. Self-Help    8. Popular psychology    9. Psychotherapy   

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The Man Behind the Curtain
If you have read "A Rational Guide to Living" and still consider it somewhat of a "self help" book (with all of the negative connotations that carries), but really want to understand REBT, then I can highly recommend this book.It makes a convincing case for the relevance of this type of therapy, offers no panacea, yet at the same time provides much insight into the methods, challenges, strengths, and shortcomings of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
Change Destructive Beliefs to Heal and Reclaim Happiness
Albert Ellis wrote a goldmine of a book to help people and therapists heal those who are in pain with destructive beliefs, post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, marriage and family, jealousy, OCD, and many other difficulties that CAN be healed. It requires commitment and dedication on the part of the individual to want to heal.
Most up-to-date description of REBT
This book contains the most up-to-date description of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy available. Ellis especially emphasizes the following:Read more

Subjects:  1. Mental Illness    2. Psychology    3. Psychotherapy - General    4. Rational emotive behavior ther    5. Rational emotive behavior therapy    6. Psychotherapy   

Reviews (7)

useful advice for many practices
Much of the advice in the book is applicable to any professional who wants to start her own practice. Not necessarily restricted to mental health workers. She offers useful tips in many mundane details of getting started and also in minimising your costs. The latter is vital, especially if you are starting a new practice of your own, and probably will have to carefully watch expenditure.
Excellent guide to starting a practice
Forget the fact that the author is a psychologist. Do not let that dissuade you from purchasing this book if you are not in the mental health care field. Perhaps 98% of the information is applicable to any health care provider wanting to establish a private practice.
Great on office practices and getting paid
I could have used a bit more on marketing, but really like this book.I bought it after "How to Survive and Thrive as a Therapist" which had more on the practice itself and not so much on the business end of things.A very helpful book and I am SO glad I bought it! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Business & Economics    3. Business/Economics    4. Finance    5. General    6. Management    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Medical offices    9. Medicine    10. Practice    11. Practice Management & Reimbursement    12. Business & Management    13. Psychotherapy   

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Not All Ethics Texts are Created Equal
I thought I read every ethics text throughout my close to ten years in higher education.Obviously, this one was left out.This is an excellent text, easily readable, engaging, practical, and down to earth.I look forward to picking it up and continuing on each day.This text should be used in every ethics class and by every professional in the field of human service.Incredible job by the authors.Definitely recommended to every practicing clinician. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Clinical Psychology    2. Counseling    3. Counselors    4. General    5. Moral and ethical aspects    6. Professional ethics    7. Psychiatric Ethics    8. Psychiatry - General    9. Psychology    10. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    11. Psychotherapists    12. Psychotherapy - Counseling    13. Psychotherapy - General    14. Counselling    15. Medical ethics    16. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy    17. Psychotherapy   

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An Absolute must have for any student of the mind.
This dictionary style work is absolutely vital for any student of psychoanalysis, amateur or aspiring professional. From the armchair to the doctor's office, this book makes the intricacies of psychoanalyticterminology accessible in everyday language. Got a big psych test comingup? Don't know where to begin on what "object-cathexis" or"secondary Narcissism" could possibly mean? What to woo thatspecial someone with your knowledge of "jouissance"? Go to thesource. If that makes little or no sense, come here. (So to speak.) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1856-1939    2. Dictionaries    3. Freud, Sigmund    4. Freud, Sigmund,    5. Movements - Psychoanalysis    6. Psychoanalysis    7. Psychology   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Disasters in literature    3. History and criticism    4. Literary Criticism    5. Literature - Classics / Criticism    6. Literature, Modern    7. Psychic trauma in literature    8. Semiotics & Theory    9. Literary Criticism & Collections / American    10. Literary studies: general    11. Literary theory    12. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory   

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Handbook of Attachment Interventions
An excellent reference for workers who support families in repairing damaged children. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Attachment behavior    2. Attachment behavior in childre    3. Attachment behavior in children    4. Developmental - Child    5. Developmental - General    6. Family Psychology    7. Handbooks, manuals, etc    8. Interpersonal Relations    9. Personality    10. Psychology    11. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    12. Psychotherapy - Counseling    13. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family    14. Child & developmental psychology    15. Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology    16. Psychotherapy   

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Great reference for students of Psychology/Counseling
This book is a great documentation reference for those just going into the field of counseling.I've used the examples in this book in numerous assignments, and learning to document assessments, diagnoses and notes.I highly recommend it for those in school or having just graduated and needing guidance in documentation.

It's OK
I found the book to be slightly outdated. I would, at minimum, conduct a search of other books on the same topic before purchasing this one.

best clinical documentation book I have read
Clinical documentation is critical for mental health professionals. This book is the best I've read on this topic. It discusses elements that need to be in the progress notes of a mental health professionals, and different formats for doing progress notes. It is a guide that is practical and legally savvy. I highly recommend this book for mental health professionals at all levels of experience. It is a resource that I refer to frequently in my work. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Management    2. Medical records    3. Mental health services    4. Practice Management    5. Psychiatric records    6. Psychology    7. Psychotherapy - General    8. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy    9. Psychotherapy    10. Writing & editing guides   

Subjects:  1. Marital psychotherapy    2. Medical    3. Psychology    4. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family    5. Psychotherapy   

Reviews (24)

Freud is Fascinating--In a Historical Artifact-Like Way
Although many of his ideas have now been refuted and/or are seen as far-fetched, it is worth taking a look at if one is interested in reading first-hand what Freud has to say.
A must read
Freud's 'Civilization and its Discontents' has stood tall as a brightly burning lamp for the better part of a century. It has helped to illuminate our 'age of extremes,' an age of genocide and perpetual war. It proves that the Enlightenment was not and will not always be a kind of 'mass deception.' As a few reviewers have already noted, one cannot consider oneself educated if one has not yet read this book.

Entertaining
This was a very short, yet very fun read. Freud proposes some pretty far fetched and strange concepts, yet I can see some appeal in them. I didn't agree with a lot of what he said, but I enjoyed this book greatly and it did have some good points. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Civilization    2. General    3. Healing - General    4. Movements - Behaviorism    5. Psychoanalysis and culture    6. Psychology    7. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory   

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Value in the Handbook of Psychiatric Measures
I purchased this book because of my studies in family therapy in particular family therapy with young clients who have a developing mental illness.
A Disappointment
The book is good.....The CD that is included containing the actual tests, inventories and measures on it is nearly unacceptable as far as quality.The scanning job was poor and there is nothing that can be doneto improve the quality or change the size.if I had seen it prior to purchase, I wouldn't have bought it.Additionally, when I contacted the publisher, the customer servifce representative was not even remotely interested in my concern or feedback.

Excellent resource for health scales
I was primarily interested in social health scales, and found this book to be an invaluable listing of many of the scales available, including reliability and validity information, and actual scale text on e-file with the attached CD.Not for psychiatrists only, for any health researcher interested in using tested scales. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Diagnosis    2. Handbooks    3. Handbooks, manuals, etc    4. Medical    5. Mental Illness    6. Psychiatric Diagnosis    7. Psychiatric Research    8. Psychiatric Status Rating Scal    9. Psychiatric Status Rating Scales    10. Psychiatric rating scales    11. Psychiatry - General    12. Psychology    13. Reference    14. Research & Methodology    15. Mental health services    16. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    17. Psychotherapy   

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A return to roots
As good as it was when first published...even more meaningful after 30 years. As valid now as it was then.

Very stimulating and enlightening book!
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand his or her behaviour in situations. We're OK
An outstanding self-help book discussing human behavior based on transactional analysis, in an easy to understand language while still technical. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Mental health    2. Movements - Psychoanalysis    3. Personal Growth - General    4. Personal Growth - Self-Esteem    5. Psychology    6. Transactional analysis    7. BG-MIND & BODY - BG-PSYCHGY/SELF HELP    8. Psychology & Psychiatry / General    9. Sale Books