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    Teenagers and Technology

    Teenagers and Technology presents a balanced picture of the part played by technology in the lives of young people. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over several years, this book offers a timely and non-sensational exploration of teenagers’ experiences and opinions about the digital technologies they use, desire and dislike.

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    Acclaim for The Development of Emotional Intelligence

    Times Higher Education Textbook Guide November 2012

    "This book is a breath of fresh air in bringing human meaning to the theory. It's an innovative approach and makes for an enthralling read. A great starting point for anyone wishing to dip their toes into emotional intelligence." - Andy Field, University of Sussex, UK, in the Times Higher Education Textbook Guide November 2012

    Click here to read the full review.
     

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    The Therapist’s Answer Book: Solutions to 101 Tricky Problems in Psychotherapy

    Therapists inevitably feel more gratified in their work when their cases have better treatment outcomes. This book is designed to help them achieve that by providing practical solutions to problems that arise in psychotherapy, such as: Do depressed people need an antidepressant, or psychotherapy alone? How do you handle people who want to be your “friend,” who touch you, who won’t leave your office, or who break boundaries? How do you prevent people from quitting treatment prematurely? Suppose you don’t like the person who consults you? What if people you treat with CBT don’t do their homework? When do you explain defense mechanisms, and when do you use supportive approaches?

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    Congratulations to Donna Orange, winner of the 2012 Gradiva Award!

    Donna Orange wins the 2012 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for her book The Suffering Stranger (2011). To find out more about the Gradiva Awards, click here.

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    Listen to Nick Midgley, author of Reading Anna Freud on BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind

    This year, the Anna Freud Centre in London celebrates its 60th anniversary. To celebrate Nick Midgley, a child psychotherapist at the Anna Freud Centre and author of Reading Anna Freud discusses the work of Anna Freud and the Anna Freud Centre on BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind program. To listen to the interview click here.

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    Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults

    Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults is an indispensible guidebook to the unique set of problems and opportunities that families face when young adults are experiencing difficulty pulling anchor and setting sail. Renowned clinician Brad Sachs, PhD, provides both a conceptual framework for understanding the reasons behind the increasing number of young adults who are unable to achieve psychological and financial self-reliance and a treatment framework that will enable practitioners to help these young adults and their families to get unstuck and experience age/stage-appropriate growth and development.

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    Rhythms of Recovery

    Rhythm is one of the most important components of our survival and well-being. It governs the patterns of our sleep and respiration and is profoundly tied to our relationships with friends and family. But what happens when these rhythms are disrupted by traumatic events? Can balance be restored, and if so, how? What insights do eastern, natural, and modern western healing traditions have to offer, and how can practitioners put these lessons to use?

38. 

    The Child Survivor

    The Child Survivor is a clinically rich, comprehensive overview of the treatment of children and adolescents who have developed dissociative symptoms in response to ongoing developmental trauma. Joyanna Silberg, a widely respected authority in the field, uses case examples to illustrate hard-to-manage clinical dilemmas such as children presenting with rage reactions, amnesia, and dissociative shut-down.

39. 

    What does climate change mean to people?

    Listen to Sally Weintrobe, editor of Engaging with Climate Change, discuss this question and the contribution psychoanalysis can make to climate change, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves, here.

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    Unlocking the Emotional Brain

    Psychotherapy that regularly yields liberating, lasting change was, in the last century, a futuristic vision, but it has now become reality, thanks to a convergence of remarkable advances in clinical knowledge and brain science. In Unlocking the Emotional Brain, authors Ecker, Ticic and Hulley equip readers to carry out focused, empathic therapy using the process found by researchers to induce memory reconsolidation, the recently discovered and only known process for actually unlocking emotional memory at the synaptic level.