Advances in Mental Health Research
About the Book Series
The Advances in Mental Health series draws together research, theory and practice from within the field of Mental Health, enhancing our understanding of key challenges and facilitate ongoing academic debate.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Vilija Stephens: [email protected] – Editor, Australia & New Zealand
Katie Peace: [email protected] – Publisher, Asia
Class Identity, Social Hierarchy, and Psychotherapy: Considering the Impacts in Therapy Using a Model of Critical Narrative Humility
1st Edition
By Debra A. Harkins, Lynne-Marie Shea
December 22, 2025
Class Identity, Social Hierarchy, and Psychotherapy explores the often-ignored influence of class identity on psychological care. Written by two psychologists with working-class roots, this book explores the development of American psychology both within and in support of a capitalist social ...
Decolonizing C. G. Jung: An Amazonian Myth as a Decolonial Option to Jungian Studies
1st Edition
By Hannah Armbrust
November 04, 2025
This book puts forth a ‘decolonial option’ to C. G. Jung’s work as part of a new overview of his thoughts and writings. Challenging traditional Eurocentric views of the psyche, it presents a novel interpretation of Jung’s theories through the concept of archetypal intersubjectivity, indigenous ...
Counseling and the Resolution of Religious and Spiritual Struggles: A Common Factors Approach
1st Edition
By Mentanna Campbell
December 31, 2024
This book delves into the critical question of how counseling can help individuals navigate and resolve these struggles. It prioritizes the true experts in this domain—the strugglers themselves—and provides an in-depth examination of their experiences. Using the rich, methodological approach of ...
Art Therapy as Cumulative Trauma Repair: Expressive Therapies Continuum, Perry’s Neurosequential Model, and Using Art Therapy Techniques to Inform Perception and Imagination
1st Edition
By Jennifer Albright Knash
November 08, 2024
This book explores the effectiveness of art therapy as treatment for cumulative trauma survivors.Bringing together case studies, research, and the author’s clinical and personal experience, it outlines different clinical approaches as well as numerous art therapy interventions that are processed ...
Challenging Psychiatry’s Reliance on the Disease Model: A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement
1st Edition
By Digby Tantam
August 22, 2024
This volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach prevents the preferred disablement model from becoming the default method to understand mental health conditions, including schizophrenia. Featuring first-hand...
Depth Psychology, Cult Survivors, and the Role of the Daimon: Oppression, Agency, and Authenticity
1st Edition
By Linda R. Quennec
June 10, 2024
This book explores the possibilities that exist for navigating out of and away from multiple levels of oppression through memoir-based research. It considers how those raised in oppressive, high-demand communities, colloquially referred to as “cults,” can emancipate themselves from controls and ...
On the Dark Side of Chronic Depression: Psychoanalytic, Social-cultural and Research Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Gilles Ambresin, Tamara Fischmann, Mark Solms
May 27, 2024
This book brings together cutting-edge expertise from psychoanalysis, psychiatry, neuroscience and social science to shed light on the dark side of chronic depression. Considering different forms of depression on a continuum, the book develops new diagnostical considerations on depression. It ...
The Challenges of Integrating Religion and Spirituality into Psychotherapy: Integrity, Competence, and Cultural Pluralism in Clinical Practice
1st Edition
By Francis A. Martin
April 23, 2024
This book examines personal and professional understandings of religion in psychotherapy and advocates for integrity, competency, and cultural pluralism in clinical practice. A major feature of this book is that it confirms the massive proliferation of religion-oriented approaches to ...
In-patient Mental Health Care from the Asylum System to the Present Day: A Lived Experience of Policy and Practice
1st Edition
By Andrew Colley
February 27, 2024
With a focus on the progression and dismantlement of the Asylum system, this book examines key issues around the policy and practice of in-patient mental health provision in the UK, making comparisons with similar services in other parts of the world. Part narrative history and critical analysis, ...
Body Image in Eating Disorders: Clinical Diagnosis and Integrative Approach to Psychological Treatment
1st Edition
By Bernadetta Izydorczyk
September 25, 2023
Body Image in Eating Disorders explores issues relating to the prevention, clinical diagnosis, and psychological treatment of distortions of body image in eating disorders. It presents a multifactorial model of indicators for diagnosis and treatment, considering psychological, sociocultural, and ...
Neurolinguistic Programming in Clinical Settings: Theory and evidence- based practice
1st Edition
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By Lisa de Rijk, Richard Gray, Frank Bourke
September 25, 2023
Neurolinguistic Programming in Clinical Settings provides a theoretical framework for the clinical applications of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) protocols in mental health. It offers evidence-based models for a range of conditions; including PTSD, anxiety and depression, grief, phobias, and ...
Film/Video-Based Therapy and Trauma: Research and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Joshua L. Cohen
December 30, 2022
This book uses film/video-based therapy to help build resilience in facing personal, communal, national, and global trauma triggers. Offering a rich and diverse range of perspectives on trauma, this volume advocates positive social change using therapeutic techniques in filmmaking as well as film/...