Mental Health Books

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71. Bizarre Behaviours (Psychology Revivals)

    Boundaries of Psychiatric Disorder

    By Herschel Prins

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    The most deviant forms of human behaviour can be disturbing, incomprehensible, and sometimes very frightening. Herschel Prins believes that even the most deviant-seeming behaviours have their counterparts in ‘normality’ and can often be seen as an extension of this. In Bizarre Behaviours he sets...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
72. Living with the Bomb (Psychology Revivals)

    Can We Live Without Enemies?

    By Dorothy Rowe

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    Originally published in 1985, Living with the Bomb was written as a sequel to the best seller Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison. The human species is facing extinction, not merely from nuclear war but also, and perhaps more likely, from the destruction of the resources of the planet. Is it...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
73. Human Destructiveness (Psychology Revivals)

    The Roots of Genocide and Human Cruelty

    By Anthony Storr

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    First published in 1972, this fully revised edition was originally published in 1991 and provides a classic study of humanity’s capacity for evil. The human species is capable of the most appalling cruelty. Why is this and where does our capacity for such destructiveness come from? In Human...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
74. The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals)

    Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind

    By Meg Harris Williams, Margot Waddell

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    Literature is recognised as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of western culture and moved away from its original medical–scientific context. Originally...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
75. A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working with High-Risk Adolescents

    By Sam Himelstein

    A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working With High-Risk Adolescents is an accessible introduction to a new model of therapy that combines the Buddhist concept of mindfulness with modern trends in psychotherapy. Drawing on years of experience working with at-risk adolescents, the chapters explore...

    Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
76. The Darkening Spirit

    Jung, spirituality, religion

    By David Tacey

    The twenty-first century could well be Jung's century, just as the twentieth century was Freud's. Jung predicted the demise of secular humanism and claimed we would search for alternatives to science, atheism and reason. We would experience a new and even unfashionable appetite for the sacred....

    Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
77. Positive Psychology in Higher Education

    Edited by Acacia Parks

    Positive psychology – the scientific study of happiness – is a rapidly burgeoning field, and in no area more so than education. More departments than ever are offering courses in positive psychology, and demand for these courses is consistently high. Graduate programs offering concentrations in...

    Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
78. The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep: A Relational Approach to Internalized Perpetration in Complex Trauma Survivors

    By Harvey L. Schwartz

    The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and deconstructed. This book presents a synthesis of relational and archetypal psychology, trauma and...

    Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
79. Rhetorical Investigations

    G. B. Vico and C. G. Jung

    By Leslie Gardner

    Rhetorical analysis of texts exposes plausible ‘truths’ and presumptions implied by the writer’s presentation. In this volume, Leslie Gardner analyses the master psychologist Jung, who claimed to be expert at uncovering personal, psychological truths. In his theoretical writings, his rhetoric...

    Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
80. Love and Loss in Life and in Treatment

    By Linda B. Sherby

    Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

    Have you ever wondered what a therapist really thinks? Have you ever wondered if a therapist truly cares about her patients? Have you tried to imagine the unimaginable, the loss of the person most dear to you? Is it true that `tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all? `...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge