Therapy is no longer seen as a one-way street. Experiences with patients can have strong reverberations in practioners' lives. This book explores the ways in which their efforts to work through issues in particular therapeutic relationships effected
Covering the last four decades of the 20th century, this book explores the unwritten history of the struggles between psychoanalysis and psychiatry in..
This book presents chapters by Dr. Blatt's many colleagues and students that explore questions of relatedness, self-definition, and mental representat..
Reconstructing Schizophrenia subjects the difficult concept of schizophrenia to rigorous scientific, historical, and sociological scrutiny. The result..
Through a detailed history of the asylum at Ticehurst in Sussex, Charlotte MacKenzie explores the consumer revolution which stimulated the proliferati..
In this guide for mental health practitioners undertaking complex child care assessments for the courts contributors advise on sensitive issues, inclu..
Drawing on anthroplogy, religion, literature and psychoanalysis Levans discusses the images which eating disorder patients create in art therapy and t..
Addressing the experience of 180 female adults who were sexually abused in childhood, this book combines clinical experience with an innovative approa..
Brings together distinguished clinicians and researchers from a range of professions to provide an authoritative and updated review of diagnosis, trea..
This new edition is completely revised and updated it uses the authors real-life examples to argue that the traditional way of treating mental illness..
Challenging a medical model which has supplied few effective answers to long-standing conundrums, this book proposes a new conceptual framework for ps..
This book provides a brief overview of the current definitions and various explanations for psychological abnormality and focuses on how society diagn..
