Routledge Focus on Mental Health
About the Book Series
Routledge Focus on Mental Health presents short books on current topics, linking in with cutting-edge research and practice.
Elements of Faith: Psychoanalytic Phenomenon and Lived Experience
1st Edition
By Brent Potter
October 31, 2025
Elements of Faith explores the rich, complex terrain of faith through the lenses of psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology, and lived clinical experience. It offers both theoretical reflections and a compelling case study of a therapeutic journey in faith, identity, and transformation. This book...
Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education
1st Edition
By Joseph Scalia III, Lynne S. Scalia
October 08, 2025
Critical Consciousness provides insight into the antagonism and disputative dialogue present in contemporary discourse. Taking a broad, pluralistic psychoanalytic perspective, the authors shed light on how and why ideology and conflict have infiltrated education, environmentalism, and ...
The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst
1st Edition
By Raul Moncayo
September 25, 2025
The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst documents Raul Moncayo’s practice of analysis over a period of 25 years. Exploring different aspects of knowledge in the work of Freud and Lacan, Moncayo considers themes including not-knowing as opposed to non-knowing, truth, and ignorance. The book considers ...
Psychoanalysis and the Wisdom of Ecclesiastes: A Time to Heal
1st Edition
By Paul Marcus
September 24, 2025
Psychoanalysis and the Wisdom of Ecclesiastes looks at one of the most profound books in the Hebrew Bible - Ecclesiastes, known as Koheleth in Hebrew - through a psychoanalytic lens. Paul Marcus explores Ecclesiastes’ understanding of the profound and compelling problematics of the human condition ...
The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses
1st Edition
By Raul Moncayo
September 08, 2025
In The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses, Raul Moncayo uses the complex plane to evaluate analytic outcomes. Moncayo’s approach provides a study of the process and outcome of singular analyses that does not rely on the methods and questionnaires of psychotherapy or medical ...
The Power of Being a Subject: Transcending Myth and Machine
1st Edition
By Matthew H. Bowker
September 03, 2025
Amid countless prescriptive self-help manuals, The Power of Being a Subject: Transcending Myth and Machine emerges as a refreshing intellectual cornerstone in contemporary psychology and personal development literature. Dr. Bowker dismantles the persistent "myth of human mechanics" — the flawed ...
Understanding and Coping with Illness Anxiety
1st Edition
By Phil Lane
July 30, 2025
This book offers comfort and psychoeducation to readers as well as psychological explanation of concepts to mental health and medical professionals. The importance of understanding how disease, illness, and health affect our emotional and mental wellbeing cannot be overstated. The book is divided ...
A Critical Examination of Irvin D. Yalom’s Single-Session Consultations: It is the Relationship that Heals
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
June 23, 2025
This book explores the single-session work done by Irving Yalom and considers the implications of this work for the current theory and practice of single-session therapy (SST). Due to failing memory and decreasing stamina as he aged, Yalom eventually decided that if he was to continue to offer help...
Being a Crisis Chaplain: Delivering Help and Healing in Critical Scenarios
1st Edition
By Sidney Dekker, Lance Mergard
June 23, 2025
Being a Crisis Chaplain delivers the essential elements of crisis chaplaincy, outlining the process of responding to crises with clarity and compassion. Drawing from real‑world experiences and research, this is a concise but comprehensive toolkit for navigating the delicate aftermath of crises. ...
The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective
1st Edition
By Shirley Zisser
April 14, 2025
The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena of the English Renaissance, all of which include a focus on language, from a Lacanian perspective. The book examines four inter-related cultural symptoms of the English Renaissance: the...
Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems: Making the Most of Every Client Session
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
April 11, 2025
Most clients seeking therapy want to be helped with specific emotional problems with which they are struggling, and yet many therapists are reluctant to offer problem-focused therapy. Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems presents the case for such an approach and details how it can be ...
Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health: Can Kids Be Taught to Master Life?
1st Edition
By Ole Jacob Madsen
January 30, 2025
Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness. The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to ...