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.
Growing Through the Erotic Transference: An Analysand's Journey
1st Edition
By Frances H. Moore
May 27, 2024
The book offers an in-depth case study of the erotic transference experienced by a female analysand with her male analyst, exploring how the shifting phases of erotic transference help the analysand to understand, rediscover and redefine herself with transformative growth. The first half of the ...
Treatment for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: An Integrative Psychodynamic Approach
1st Edition
By Stacy K. Nakell
May 27, 2024
Treatment for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors is the first book to establish the theory and practice of a psychodynamic approach to treating body-focused repetitive behavior disorders (BFRBDs), such as hair pulling, skin picking, and cheek, lip and cuticle biting. Chapters set out a new framework...
Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Psychosis: A Case of Catatonia and Discussion
1st Edition
Edited
By Bennett E. Roth
April 25, 2024
This book explores the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient with psychosis from a range of different psychotherapeutic perspectives. The psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic individuals is both rare and controversial with a limitation in availability of clinical material. As psychoanalytically...
The Gifts We Receive from Animals: Stories to Warm the Heart
1st Edition
Edited
By Lori R. Kogan
January 31, 2024
The Gifts We Receive from Animals is a book guaranteed to brighten a reader’s day. Professionals engaged in therapy work as well as those who have companion animals at home will enjoy learning about the many ways in which animals impact people’s lives. Through a series of short, true-life stories, ...
James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child
1st Edition
By Mary Adams
January 29, 2024
This book is an exploration of the internal world of James Joyce with particular emphasis on his being born into his parents’ grief at the loss of their firstborn son, offering a new perspective on his emotional difficulties. Mary Adams links Joyce’s profound sense of guilt and abandonment with the...
Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women: A Tragic Reading of Politics
1st Edition
By Sotiris Manolopoulos
January 29, 2024
Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women applies the "tragic" reading of politics, presented by Euripides in his play, The Suppliant Women, to the contemporary world. Manolopoulos presents a psychoanalytic assessment of the key themes of the play, considering the phenomenon of hubris in ...
Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Perspective on Identity, Language and Queer Theory
1st Edition
By Duane Rousselle
May 31, 2023
Offering a concise yet comprehensive introduction to gender theory, this thought-provoking new book aims to make an intervention into the contemporary American paradigm of thinking gender and sexuality and offers a powerful challenge to the paradigm of social constructionism. Within each gender ...
The Disseminated Self: Ecosystem Perspective and Metapsychology
1st Edition
By Jean Paul Matot
January 09, 2023
The Disseminated Self: Ecosystem Perspective and Metapsychology explores attitudes to climate change and ecological disaster from a psychoanalytic perspective. The author examines the concept of Self, how this can be broad enough to encompass our world as well as just our own bodies and why in ...
Psychosocial Support for Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Roadmap of Trauma and Critical Incident Care
1st Edition
By Fiona Dunkley
October 17, 2019
Humanitarian aid workers are trying to make a difference in an increasingly dangerous world. Psychosocial Support for Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Roadmap of Trauma and Critical Incident Care highlights the risks of such work, educates professionals responsible for their duty of care, and brings ...
The Feldenkrais Method for Executive Coaches, Managers, and Business Leaders: Moving in All Directions
1st Edition
By Garet Newell, Simon Paul Ogden
July 29, 2019
In this fascinating and practical book, Garet Newell and Simon Paul Ogden show how the Feldenkrais Method can be used by coaches and managers as a resource to improve both the performance of individuals and the health and wellbeing of the people they work with. The Feldenkrais Method is based on ...
The Tao of Dialogue
1st Edition
By Paul Lawrence, Sarah Hill, Andreas Priestland, Cecilia Forrestal, Floris Rommerts, Isla Hyslop, Monica Manning
March 26, 2019
Contemporary writers position ‘dialogue’ at the heart of change theory, but what do we mean by ‘dialogue’? The Tao of Dialogue explains through story what dialogue means, and how to leverage dialogic principles in managing relationships within the workplace. Accessible and innovative, The Tao of ...
A Dream-Guided Meditation Model and the Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams
1st Edition
By Evelyn M. Duesbury
July 18, 2016
A Dream-Guided Meditation Model and the Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams presents a model for meditation that counselors can use with clients regardless of gender, race, national origin, religion, age, or marital status. Using the model, readers can, if they wish, learn to interpret ...