Explorations in Mental Health
About the Book Series
The Explorations 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
Self and Identity: An Exploration of the Development, Constitution and Breakdown of Human Selfhood
1st Edition
By Matthew Tieu
May 27, 2024
What is a self? What does it mean to have selfhood? What is the relationship between selfhood and identity? These are puzzling questions that philosophers, psychologists, social scientists, and many other researchers often grapple with. Self and Identity is a book that explores and brings together...
Towards a Transtheoretical Definition of Countertransference: Re-visioning the Clinician's Intersubjective Experience
1st Edition
By Rudy Roman
May 27, 2024
This book explores the analyst’s countertransference experience in clinical settings from a number of theoretical perspectives in order to develop a transtheoretical definition of countertransference. Stemming from an examination of the definition of countertransference itself, the author utilizes...
Learning the Hard Way in Clinical Internships in Social Work and Psychology: Lessons for Safety, Boundary-Setting, and Deepening the Practicum Experience
1st Edition
By Susan A. Lord
March 15, 2024
In this book, Susan A. Lord shares important stories and lessons from two undergraduate and two postgraduate clinical internships as colorful narratives that will augment texts in undergraduate and graduate practicum seminar classes. The chapters engage with fundamental issues, including the ...
Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory: Eating the Lack
1st Edition
By Bethany Morris
February 06, 2024
This book offers a close analysis of the relationship between diets and identity in modern Western culture through the examination of popular texts including blogs, diet books, and websites. The relationship between consumerism and identity has been explored by scholars for decades now, but less ...
Compassionate Love in Intimate Relationships: The Integration Process of Sexual Mass Trauma, Racism, and Resilience
1st Edition
By Josiane M. Apollon
September 25, 2023
Drawing on interviews conducted with Black couples in the United States, this book explores relational resilience and identifies unique adaptation strategies that enable couples to overcome the multigenerational effects of violence and sexual mass trauma from slavery and activates compassionate ...
Trauma and Its Impacts on Temporal Experience: New Perspectives from Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Selene Mezzalira
September 25, 2023
This unique text develops an original theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between trauma and time by combining phenomenological and psychoanalytical traditions. Moving beyond Western psychoanalytical and phenomenological traditions, this volume presents new perspectives on ...
Fear and Primordial Trust: From Becoming an Ego to Becoming Whole
1st Edition
By Monika Renz, Mark Kyburz (translator)
January 09, 2023
Fear and Primordial Trust explores fear as an existential phenomenon and how it can be overcome. Illustrated by clinical examples from the author’s practice as a psychotherapist and spiritual caregiver working with the severely ill and dying, the book outline theoretical insights into how ...
Fostering Resilience Before, During, and After Experiences of Trauma: Insights to Inform Practice Across the Lifetime
1st Edition
Edited
By Buuma Maisha, Stephanie Massicotte, Melanie Morin
January 09, 2023
This edited volume recognizes that resilience, and the most effective means of harnessing it, differ across individuals, contexts and time. Presenting chapters written by a range of scholars and clinicians, the book highlights effective evidence-based approaches to nurturing resilience, before, ...
Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Therapy in School Counseling: Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches
1st Edition
By Ian Levy
January 09, 2023
This volume recognizes the need for culturally responsive forms of school counseling and draws on the author’s first-hand experiences of working with students in urban schools in the United States to illustrate how hip-hop culture can be effectively integrated into school counseling to benefit and ...
Effective Group Therapies for Young Adults Affected by Cancer: Using Support Groups in Clinical Settings in the US
1st Edition
By Sarah Kurker
August 01, 2022
Outlining the unique psychosocial and development issues faced by young adults affected by cancer, this text draws on qualitative data from two pilot studies conducted in the United States to illustrate how the needs of this often-overlooked population can be effectively met via group therapy in ...
Applications of a Psychospiritual Model in the Helping Professions: Principles of InnerView Guidance
1st Edition
By Cedric Speyer, John Yaphe
May 30, 2022
This book brings together the historically separate domains of mental health and spiritual awareness in a holistic framework called InnerView Guidance. Building on strength-based and solution-oriented approaches to therapy, the InnerView model offers a unique psychospiritual approach which can be ...
Deinstitutionalizing Art of the Nomadic Museum: Practicing And Theorizing Critical Art Therapy With Adolescents
1st Edition
By Eva Marxen
December 13, 2021
Deinstitutionalizing Art of the Nomadic Museum explores the possibility of the "nomadic museum" to facilitate social and political resistance through engagement with critical art practices and imagery. Grounded in a decade-long art therapy project in a contemporary art museum setting, this book ...