Subjects:  1. General    2. Movements - Psychoanalysis    3. Psychoanalysis    4. Psychology    5. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    6. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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A Scientific Approach to Change
In the thorougly revised edition of the "Heroic Client", Duncan, Miller, and Sparks now advocate "A Revolutionary Way to Improve Effectivness." They invite mental health professionals, of any discipline, to partner with clients in all aspects of their care and abandon the search for the best therapeutic process or evidence-based therapy, and instead,focus on client-based outcome feedback to improve effectivness by an incredible 65 percent! Provocative Insights for Corporate Training and Development
A provocative book that is relevant to the European market although it is written in the context of the US where psychotherapy practice is enmeshed in disputes about status and funding that can sideline the needs of the clients. US psychotherapy seems to be fragmented by internal battles about models and techniques, while fighting a general action to resist medical domination from perceived second-status to psychiatry, and the siren-like influence of Big Pharma and the financial pressures of managed care. To a different approach to helping people
Barry Duncan and Scott Miller are with Marc Hubble directors of The Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change (...). These people play an important role in improving and renewing therapy. In this book, the authors explain how therapy has for too long been been neglecting, ignoring, and depersonalizing clients, by its over-emphasis on methods and techniques, by following the medical model, by its emphasis on pathology, by hegemony of biological approaches, and so on. Read more

Subjects:  1. Client-centered psychotherapy    2. Physician-Patient Interaction    3. Psychiatry - General    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy    6. Psychotherapy - Counseling    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / Counseling   

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A multigenerational, intrapersonal practical counseling tool
Family systems are facinating, dynamic, and multidimensional.Psycologists and counselors have developed systems for studying them.M. Bowen and Systems Theory are well linked to the development and use ofgenograms in family and individual therapy, for instance. Genogramare used in American Association of Marriage and Family Thereapistsclinical training and supervision programs, and are an important tool inthe clinical process.Medical schools and practices, genetic counselors,and even business and organizational settings find them useful.Genograms, though, have their limitations which the authors summarize well,proceeding to make a clear case for what they have developed: theMultilayered Focused Genogram (MFG).They make a graphic comparison ofcurrent genograms as normal X-ray exam, to MFG system which for them islike the hospital MRI exam, providing much more in-depth information.Actually, the MFG is a combination of the Basic Genogram, Family Map andTime Line, amplified with one or more Focused Genograms.It is aninclusive system of assessing issues in all aspects of a client's personaland multi-generational history as well as present day circumstances.I appreciate the format of the book for its clarity.In the first third,the authors address succinctly each of the three main components of MFGsusing vignettes and rationals for collecting and organizing so much dataabout the client and his or her family system.They provide practicalapplications and diagrams for the clinician's immediate use. The lasttwo thirds of the book address Focused Genograms, outlining a surprisingfifty plus possible topics of focus, and concentrate a chapter on the majorones: attachments, emotions, anger (as an important, specificallyindependent focus), gender, sexuality, romantic love and culture.Thefirst part of each of these last chapters is a guide to the constructionand uniqueness of each, while the last half gives the basic theoreticalconcepts and research that supports the inclusion of the particular topicsfor each Focused Genogram. Though the book does not pretend to be acritical review of the literature, the text is peppered with references,each chapter offers suggested reading, and includes a good bibliography ofover 225 books as well as comments on two computerized genogram programs. Neither is the book a complete exploration of the topical areas but ratheran strong overview, and therefore, would be useful to graduate students (incounseling, psychology, genetics, medicine, or business) or anyone whowanted to upgrade their current use of genograms to incorporate thismeaningful and extensive MFG tool into their counseling practice.Focused Genograms kept my interest throughout, and it was well worth mytime.I will make good use of the practical list of suggested question itcontains in every chapter with my clients starting right away. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Behavioral assessment    2. Charts, diagrams, etc    3. Family Psychotherapy    4. Interpersonal Relations    5. Medical    6. Medical History & Records    7. Psychology    8. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family    9. Psychotherapy - General    10. Reference    11. Technique    12. Family & relationships    13. Family history    14. Genealogy    15. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy    16. Psychotherapy   

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Brief Child Therapy Homework Planner
If you work with underprivileged kids, as I do, you will find this book's exercises very difficult to use.The exercises requiresustained attention for reading long passages, and the vocabulary level is extremely high, even for my 7th grade clients.Many exercises require critical thinking and creative writing skills, which my client's have great difficulty with as well.Most inner city kids I work with are performing 2-3 grade levels behind, and look at me like I am crazy when I try to do these exercises with them. Child Homework Planner Review
I feel this book is an excellent resource for students, teachers, family, and clinicians. I use this book on a regular basis, incorporating each homework assignment into each session and treatment plan. It is very helpful in defining the appropriate technique to a specific problem area. This book gives specific homework assignments for particular diagnoses. As clinicians, we can use this book to explore assignments other clinicians have found useful. We can also increase our knowledge of new homework assignments. This book is different to other books due to its specificity to various childhood disorders. I recommend counseling classes use this book as a guide to learn techniques. I also recommend families to read this book and try out the homework assignments. As a psychotherapist, I have found this book to be a highly effective tool in my everyday work with childhood disorders. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Child Psychiatry    2. Child psychotherapy    3. Developmental - Adolescent    4. Mental illness    5. Planning    6. Practice Management    7. Psychiatric records    8. Psychology    9. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    10. Psychotherapy    11. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    12. Psychotherapy - General    13. Treatment    14. Child & developmental psychology    15. Paediatric medicine    16. Psychology & Psychiatry / Adolescent Psychology   

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Therapists, Your Job Just Got Easier
I am the webowner of Mental Health Today. I cannot recommend this book enough. It contains exercises - questions in assisting people with change and dealing with problems. Excellent aid for therapists for treating clients of all ages. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Adolescent psychotherapy    2. Child psychotherapy    3. Family psychotherapy    4. Family/Marriage    5. Psychology    6. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    7. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    8. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family    9. Solution-focused therapy    10. Psychotherapy    11. Sociology, Social Studies   

Subjects:  1. Computer sex    2. Human Sexuality    3. Love / Sex / Marriage    4. Mental Illness    5. Psychology    6. Sex addiction    7. Sex counseling    8. Computer fraud & hacking    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / Human Sexuality    10. Psychotherapy    11. Sex & sexuality   

Subjects:  1. Dreams    2. Dreams - General    3. Movements - Psychoanalysis    4. Psychoanalysis    5. Psychological aspects    6. Psychology    7. Psychopathology - General    8. Psychotherapy - Counseling    9. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis   

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Cognitive Behavior Therapy:Applying Empirically...
Excellent resource book for all health psychologists.This book will be a staple reference book on my shelf.Great source of a practical strategies that are empirically sound.
A very useful text for clinical practice
This volume is one of the most complete and useful tools available for the application of cognitive-behavioral interventions. Instead of a dry academic text that is difficult to apply or a poorly grounded and loose set of guidelines, you get a scientifically grounded and precise set of interventions for a variety of different problems.
A good reference on CBT skills
The book serves a good reference for essential CBT skills, with easy-to-understand format and step-by-step illustrations.For experienced clinican with solid theortical background, it can serve as a quick reference and reminder for good tools available in our hands. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Behavior Therapy    2. Clinical Psychology    3. Cognitive Psychology    4. Cognitive Therapy    5. Psychology    6. Psychotherapy    7. Cognition & cognitive psychology    8. Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology   

Subjects:  1. Existential psychotherapy    2. Movements - Existential    3. Psychology    4. Psychotherapy - Counseling    5. Psychotherapy - General    6. Reference    7. Psychotherapy    8. Sociology, Social Studies   

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Good introduction to biopsychosocial assessment
The authors all teach at the Smith College School for Social Work, andthis book developed from their lectures on biopsychosocial theories ofdevelopment.Their students report that of all the books purchased duringtheir graduate career, this is the one they refer back to most often. Well-chosen cases illuminate the theories, and issues of culture and genderare nicely integrated. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Movements - Psychoanalysis    2. Personality    3. Psychology    4. Psychotherapy - General    5. Psychology & Psychiatry / General    6. Psychotherapy   

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Really useful book
This book is primarily a teaching tool for therapists, but with useful ideas for application in interpersonal practice. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Child Psychiatry    2. Child psychotherapy    3. Health/Fitness    4. Physician-Patient Relations    5. Post-traumatic stress disorder    6. Post-traumatic stress disorder in children    7. Psychology    8. Psychotherapy    9. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    10. Treatment    11. Child & developmental psychology    12. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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Some of the most important principles in my life
Some of the most important principles in my life can be found in Dr. Viktor Frankl's The Doctor and the Soul. Without them, I along with my efforts to do good in the world would be lost in cynicism and depression. The book is an answer to Ecclesiastes' refrain, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." The book is an answer of hope.
Existential concerns
Existential frustration results in neurotic symptoms.Logotherapy is a specific therapy.Life is a task.Logotherapy is education toward responsibility.Psychoanalysis regards neurosis as limitation. deneurotization of humanity
Frankl's logotherapy enables people to once again discover the quality of life.Frankl believes that the first two schools of Viennese psychotherapy (Freud and Adler), which he calls the depth psychology, must be complimented the logotherapy - the height psychology.His therapy explores man's future instead of his past.Summarizing the Freudian concept as the will to pleasure and the Adlerian concept as the will to power, Frankl points out that man's basic motivation in life is neither pleasure nor power.Each person lives to discover the meaning of life and thereby to fulfill it - the will to meaning.Life is too meaningful for man to comprehend: it is essentially incomprehensible because it lies on a higher realm than that of man's. During the World War 2, Frankl survived four concentration camps including Auschwitz.In the camps, most of the inmates despaired that if they did not survive the camp, there was no meaning in suffering.Frankl, on the other hand, believed that if there was no meaning in suffering, there was no point in surviving the camp.In other words, the meaning of life was either unconditional regardless of the situation one was facing, or it was none at all.In the camps, Frankl would console his inmates telling them, "Someone looks down on each of us in difficult hours ?a friend, a wife, somebody alive or dead ?and he would not expect us to disappoint him.He would hope to find us suffering proudly ?not miserably ?knowing how to die.? He would explain to them that it was not them asking the meaning of life.It was life asking them the meaning, and they had to answer to it.What Frankl witnessed in the camps contradicted Freud's theory that if people were left without food for few days, their wants would be reduced to the common desire for food.While some inmates behaved according to their instincts, as Freud predicted, there were also others who lived up to this challenge.Frankl witnessed people who gave away their last piece of bread and others who organized religious activities, which resulted in execution if they were caught. One of logotherapy's techniques to help people discover values is to have them imagine their lives from their deathbeds and look back on them.During such exercises people often find that their current definition of success differs significantly from that on their deathbeds.They realize that they do not wish they had made more money, had more sex.It is interesting to note that virtually everyone points to relationship as their most cherished value.They wish that they had spent more time with people they care about. Logotherapy bases its therapy on the fact that man is a self-transcendent being.Psychotherapy which views man as a self-contained being is bound to fail.Frankl's favourite analogy regarding this matter is the eye.The function of the eye is to transcend itself: healthy eye does not see itself.The more it self-transcends, the more it actualizes itself.Only when there is a problem, such as glaucoma, does it notice itself.Man actualizes himself in the same way.Self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendent.Man is most human when he is occupied with something other than himself - when he is serving others?needs.The best time to take a picture of man is when he is least conscious of himself.How unnatural the picture looks when he is told to say cheese, to notice himself. Man neither lives by himself nor for himself.Man who views himself as a self-contained being is bound to live in despair.If he were to weigh the suffering and joy in life, he will find that the suffering outweighs by far.Every approach to suicide prevention needs to be grounded on the irreducibility of the unique human phenomenons and the self-transcendent nature of man.Only then can he find the meaning in suffering and thereby meet the challenge.He then realizes that life expects something from him in every situation.This "mere?realization in itself may even put an end to suicidal thoughts.Painting green the leaves of a dying tree lasts only so long, while watering its roots naturally turns them green.Frankl warns us of the serious consequences of reductionism.And his logotherapy thoroughly deestablishes the reductionism in psychotherapy and reinstitutes the human realm in psychotherapy.Logotherapy has a significant contribution to make in our world where more and more people are seeking psychotherapy to address this human realm.Logotherapy, then, is a psychotherapy for the man in the street ?all of us. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Existentialism    2. Logotherapy    3. Psychoanalysis    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy    6. Psychotherapy - General    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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Scientifically Investigating the Unexplainable.
_Synchronicity:An Acausal Connecting Principle_ is an essay written by the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, first published in 1952 and republished by the Bollingen Series of Princeton University Press, translated by R. F. C. Hull.In this essay, Jung proposes the idea of synchronicity, a "meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where something other that the probability of chance is involved".Throughout his life, Jung had been interested in occult ideas and as a youth had experienced several occult occurrences.As a scientist, Jung sought to explain these sorts of occult occurrences through the concept of synchronicity.Jung was influenced by many of the ideas emerging from modern physics at the time, particularly as concerned relativity theory (Albert Einstein had been a guest at his home while staying in Zurich) and the quantum theory (Jung benefited from collaboration with the physicist Wolfgang Pauli and this essay and a related study by Pauli appeared together when originally published).
Beyond Chance, or: Mapping the Etherverse
Just as Oppenheimer's Shiva-jigging atom-stomp codified the nuclear sciences as a force to be reckoned with and redefined the method and madness of the battlefield for the 20th century, so in turn were set in motion a series of sub-atomic particle explorations that would ultimately serve just as destructive to long-held paradigms about the nature of the universe.The contradictory tenants of Quantum Physics desecrated the Newtonian Determinism that had dominated modern thought for some two hundred years: the electron 'cloud of possibility' and the photon wave/particle paradox shattered the comfortable, mechanistic notion of causality (cause and effect), relegating it to historical curiosity.In effect: these rigid clockwork rules, when viewed at the smallest sphere, suddenly turn elastic, "reality" dictated by the will of the observer and/or the constraint of the causal experiment: clockwork causality began to stretch like salt-water taffy before the conscious participant, giving Dali's soft-clock surrealism an eerily prescient scope.For empiricists and hardwired logicians, Quantum-theory was as dangerous and reality-threatening as anything Darwin pulled on the Secular Fundamentalists, and resistance to its baffling, frustratingly unfussy relativity continues to this day - some would rather reject it out of hand, rather than deal with the consequences.
A Unified Theory of Mind and Matter.
Jung's "Synchronicity" is an essay about those moments when everything just seems to come together. Jung defined synchronicity as "the coincidence in time of two or more causally unrelated events which have the same meaning". Synchronicity is a cluster of meaningful patterns that normal cause and effect has not caused. Synchronicity is acausal. Beyond cause as we know it. A bridge between the known and the unknown, between the conscious and the unconscious. Though there have been others from the West that have expanded upon Jung's thoughts concerning synchronicity this is still a very good place to start. For further reading I would suggest looking to Jean Shinoda Bolen and F. David Peat, among others. For an Oriental perspective regarding acausality, synchronicity, may I suggest the "I Ching" and "Tao Te Ching". Lao Tzu, the author of "Tao Te Ching", is the father of Taoism. As Barbara Marx Hubbard has said, "The spiral of our evolutionary progress is turning back in time to reconnect with the great sage Lao Tzu". Taoism is a way of life that attempts to live in harmony with the unity of the universe by following the natural grain of things, of going with the flow. Wisdom is timeless and knows no bounds.
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Subjects:  1. Astrology    2. Coincidence    3. Movements - Behaviorism    4. Movements - Psychoanalysis    5. Parapsychology - General    6. Psychic aspects    7. Psychology    8. Mind, Body, Spirit    9. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis   

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True Life Crisis
As an Emergency Room Social Worker, this handbook has been invaluable, it offers comphrensive perspectives in everyday situations and how to handle these crisis. True life situations and hands on approaches to options that can be used with patients in crisis and some facing mortality. This handbook is one of my more invaluable tools for daily emergency room situations.

An all-inclusive resource for crisis workers
As a former crisis intervention worker I am impressed with theall-inclusive nature of this book which covers crisis intervention acrossmultiple populations and practice settings with sensitivity to culturaldiversity. As a current social work faculty member teaching crisisintervention course content, I am impressed that Dr. Robert's book isgrounded in clinical research with contributing authors who are the expertsin this field.A must read for all crisis workers and an outstanding bookto incorporate into the classroom. Very impressive!

A Must-have for Crisis prevention and intervention
This vitally important and comprehensive handbook provides informed citizens, healthcare specialists, and mental health professionals with everything they need to know about crisis episodes and crisisinterventions.This compelling, yet practical book is vitally needed andprovides the most comprehensive information to date on everything fromschool violence, date rape, 24-hour mobile crisis units to hospitalemergency room crises.This book is a rare gem for every graduate studentand practitioner in the human services field. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Community mental health servic    2. Community mental health services    3. Crisis intervention (Mental he    4. Crisis intervention (Mental health services)    5. Handbooks, manuals, etc    6. Mental Illness    7. Social Science    8. Social Work    9. Sociology    10. Aid & relief programmes    11. Emergency services    12. Psychotherapy    13. Social Science / Social Work   

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Let's Not Go Completely Overboard
Like pretty much anything in which Neil's involved, this a fine and useful work. The reviews of Teddy Millon's Axis II taxonomic extensions are worth most of the considerable price of admission here all by themselves. But after 30 years in the field, I'll warn any newcomers that getting any too rigid with treatment plan rollouts will make you as nuts at the people you're treating.
Absolutely essential!
If you write treatment plans then you must have this book.Well organized and easy to follow for any mental health professional.It saves me time and allows me to customize my treatment plans for my clients' individual needs.If you own the DSM-IV, this book is the perfect companion.Regardless of theoretical orientation this book will help you to satisfy the demands of managed care.It is indispensable and, in today's world of managed care, this book is the ultimate time saver. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Handbooks, manuals, etc    2. Mental Illness    3. Personality    4. Personality Disorders    5. Psychology    6. Psychopathology - General    7. Psychotherapy - General    8. Abnormal psychology    9. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Personality    11. Psychotherapy    12. The self, ego, identity, personality   

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How Much Would You Pay...
for a book that could help you discover your purpose in life? Exactly.God is not dead and reading this book helped me realize it. For that alone it is priceless. You owe it to yourself to add it to your cart now.Read it carefully enough and it could have a profound influence on your life too.

Underline it and re-read it
Holocaust survivor Frankl earned the right to teach us how to transcend ourselves and find "ultimate meaning". He was a contemporary of Freud who was able to take Freud to task for naturalism and reductionism which "undermines and erodes the enthusiasm of youth". Frankl has a lot to tell us about how to avoid the neurotic train wreck many of us are headed for. He points out that an existential vacuum (meaninglessness and emptyness) is growing in our culture as man "Now, knowing neither what he must do nor what he should do, he sometimes does not even know what he basically wishes to do. Instead, he wishes to do what other people do-which is conformism-or he does what other people wish him to do-which is totalitarianism." Frankl tells us "Man is responsible for fulfilling the meaning of his life." He contends "man is not he who poses the question, What is the meaning of life? But he who is asked this question, for life itself poses it to him. And man has to answer to life by answering for life; he has to respond by being responsible;" and "Being human means being confronted continually with situations, each of which is at once a chance and a challenge, giving us a "chance" to fulfill ourselves by meeting the "challenge" to fulfill it's meaning.Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Logotherapy    3. Movements - Psychoanalysis    4. Psychiatry and religion    5. Psychology    6. Psychology of Religion    7. Psychotherapy    8. Psychotherapy - General    9. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    10. Religion   

Subjects:  1. Art Therapy    2. Family Psychotherapy    3. Family Therapy    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family    6. methods    7. Psychiatry    8. Psychology & Psychiatry / Family Therapy    9. Psychotherapy    10. Social, group or collective psychology    11. The Arts: General Issues   

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Very Informative!
This book was a requirement for a Marriage and Family Counseling class. It is written very well and is a very easy read compared to many text books I've had to read. Gladding is always a good choicein textbooks! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Education / Teaching    2. Family Psychotherapy    3. Family Therapy    4. Guidance & Orientation    5. Psychology    6. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family    7. Counselling    8. Education / Guidance & Orientation    9. Psychotherapy   

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