Psychotherapy Books

New and Published Books

1. Men, Addiction, and Intimacy

   Strengthening Recovery by Fostering the Emotional Development of Boys and Men

   By Mark S. Woodford

   Series: The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men

   In the substance abuse and addiction treatment realm, males outnumber females two to one. While gender-issues are seen as a key element of women’s treatment, the acknowledgement that males are "gendered beings" who have lived lives full of male-specific developmental challenges is often overlooked....

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Solution Focused Brief Therapy

   100 Key Points and Techniques

   By Harvey Ratner, Evan George, Chris Iveson

   Series: 100 Key Points

   Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to the thinking and practice of this exciting approach, which enables people to make changes in their lives quickly and effectively. It covers: The history and background to solution focused...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man

   Psychoanalysis and Masculinity

   By Donald Moss

   Images and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. In this book, Donald Moss addresses the never-ending effort of men—regardless of sexual orientation—to shape themselves in relation to the unstable notion of masculinity. Part 1 looks at the lifelong labor faced by boys and men of...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Contemporary Psychotherapies Streaming Video Printed Access Card

   Edited by Jon Frew, Michael D Spiegler

   This online streaming video database will provide readers of Contemporary Psychotherapies for a Diverse World with a unique visual teaching and learning tool. Based on the dynamic platform from the Alexander Street Press Counseling & Therapy database, this video package...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Managing Depression, Growing Older

   A guide for professionals and carers

   By Kerrie Eyers, Gordon Parker, Henry Brodaty

   Even when he’s grey around the muzzle, the black dog of depression can still deliver a ferocious bite. Depression can strike at any age, and it may appear for the first time as we get older, as a result of life circumstances or our genetic makeup. While older people face the same kinds of mental...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Beginnings, Second Edition

   The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy

   By Mary Jo Peebles

   Utilizing a decade's worth of clinical experience gained since its original publication, Mary Jo Peebles builds and expands upon exquisitely demonstrated therapeutic approaches and strategies in this second edition of Beginnings. The essential question remains the same, however: How does a...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Self Experiences in Group, Revisited

   Affective Attachments, Intersubjective Regulations, and Human Understanding

   Edited by Irene Harwood, Walter Stone, Malcolm Pines

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   Since the publication of Self Experiences in Group in 1998—the first book to apply self psychology and intersubjectivity to group work—there have been tremendous advancements in the areas of affect, attachment, infant research, intersubjective regulation, motivational theory, neurobiology,...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
8. Still Practicing

   The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career

   By Sandra Buechler

   Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

   "Still practicing" has several meanings. Still practicing suggests that the balance of heartaches and joys must not deter us from pursuing a clinical practice. At the same time, still practicing suggests that for the clinician "practice" never "makes perfect." We continue to refine our clinical...

   Published April 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Thinking Heart

   Three levels of psychoanalytic therapy with disturbed children

   By Anne Alvarez

   How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach the unreachable child and interest the hardened child? The Thinking Heart is a natural sequel to Live...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Infant Observation and Research

    Emotional Processes in Everyday Lives

    Edited by Cathy Urwin, Janine Sternberg

    Psychoanalytic infant observation is frequently used in training psychoanalytic psychotherapists and allied professionals, but increasingly its value as a research method is being recognised, particularly in understanding developmental processes in vulnerable individuals and groups. This book...

    Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge