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.
Psychoanalysis and the Act of Artistic Creation: A Look at the Unconscious Dynamics of Creativity
1st Edition
By Luís Manuel Romano Delgado
August 26, 2024
This book explores the phenomenon of creativity and creation from a psychoanalytic point of view, focusing on understanding the psychoemotional dynamics underlying artistic creative activities, such as theatre, literature, and painting. Throughout, Delgado considers these works of art through a ...
Single-Session Therapy and Its Future: What SST Leaders Think
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
August 26, 2024
Single-Session Therapy and Its Future provides an introduction to the major principles of single-session therapy and what currently constitutes good practice in the field. The book is a timely reflection on where SST is at, and where it might be heading. It is comprised of interviews with ...
The Working Alliance in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Principles and Practice
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
August 26, 2024
The Working Alliance in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy explores the principles and practice of REBT from the perspective of working alliance theory. Windy Dryden seeks to debunk the myth that REBT neglects the therapeutic relationship by breaking down working alliance theory into specific ...
The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis: The Ego, the Self, the Subject, and the Person
1st Edition
By Raul Moncayo
July 29, 2024
The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis considers the different conceptions of the individual that are found in psychoanalysis according to the culture in which it operates, and its political structure. Considering the origins and use of concepts including the Ego, the Self, the Subject, ...
Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Initiating Individuation and Enabling Liberation
1st Edition
By Monika Renz
May 27, 2024
This book details a five-phase model of the process of forgiveness and reconciliation, exploring how it can be understood as a threshold experience with the potential to offer profound emotional renewal. Illustrated with numerous case study vignettes, the book presents the findings of a research ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Puppet-Assisted Play Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice
1st Edition
By Cheryl Hulburd
June 13, 2022
Puppet-Assisted Play Therapy is an innovative and comprehensive approach that significantly advances the field of play therapy. This easy to read, user-friendly book includes history, creative interventions, case studies, the art of puppetry, and the worldwide benefits of puppet-assisted play ...