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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.

36 Series Titles


Growing Through the Erotic Transference An Analysand's Journey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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