Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions
About the Book Series
The Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions Series celebrates Routledge's commitment to excellence within the field of mental health. These books are recognized as timeless classics covering a range of important issues, and continue to be recommended as key reading for professionals and students in the area. With a new introduction that explores what has changed since the books were first published, and why these books are as relevant now as ever, the series presents key ideas to a new generation.
The Anti-Group: Destructive Forces in the Group and their Creative Potential
1st Edition
By Morris Nitsun
October 08, 2014
The 'anti-group' is a major conceptual addition to the theory and practice of group psychotherapy. It comprises the negative, disruptive elements, which threaten to undermine and even destroy the group, but when contained, have the potential to mobilise the group's creative processes. Understanding...
The Psychoanalysis of Organizations: A psychoanalytic approach to behaviour in groups and organizations
1st Edition
By Robert De Board
June 11, 2014
One of the most pressing needs of modern society is to understand and construct organizations that are not only effective in terms of carrying out work but that also allow and encourage people to develop their full human potential. Psychoanalytic theory describes those primary processes that lie at...
On Becoming a Psychotherapist
1st Edition
Edited
By Windy Dryden, Dr Laurence Spurling
March 04, 2014
Why do people want to become a psychotherapist? How do they translate this desire into reality? On Becoming a Psychotherapist explores these and related questions. Ten leading therapists write about their profession and their careers, examining how and why they became psychotherapists. The ...
An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame
1st Edition
By Anne Gray
October 07, 2013
Designed for psychotherapists and counsellors in training, An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame clarifies the concept of the frame - the way of working set out in the first meeting between therapist and client. This Classic Edition of the book includes a brand new introduction by the author. ...
A Special Scar: The experiences of people bereaved by suicide
1st Edition
By Alison Wertheimer
September 23, 2013
Every 85 minutes someone in the UK takes their own life and the suicide rate is currently the highest since 2004. Society often reacts with unease, fear and even disapproval but what happens to those bereaved by a self-inflicted death? The reasons leading someone to take their own life are complex...
The Wounded Healer: Counter-Transference from a Jungian Perspective
1st Edition
By David Sedgwick
November 29, 1994
Countertransference is an important part of the analytical process. It is concerned with the analyst's emotional response to the patient. As such, it can be a particularly difficult aspect of the analytical setting and especially so because of the threat of possible sexual involvement with the ...