Professional Issues and Resources
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Caring and Well-being
A Lifeworld Approach
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient’s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise...
Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
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Changing Roles for a New Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is not a “one size fits all approach.” As author John Miller describes in Changing Roles for a New Psychotherapy, all theoretical orientations have their uses and merits in different situations and with different clients. Through a varied personal life and professional career, in...
Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
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New Law and Ethics in Mental Health Advance Directives
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to Choose
Series: Explorations in Mental Health
The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringing increasing entitlement to an array of health services. In this book, Penelope Weller considers the relationship between human rights and...
Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Subjectivity in Motion
Life, Art, and Movement in the Work of Hermann Rorschach
Series: Routledge Monographs in Mental Health
The motif of human movement has long been understood as central to Hermann Rorschach’s strikingly innovative inkblot experiment. But owing to Rorschach’s untimely death a year after publishing his famous work, Psychodiagnostics, the world has lacked an adequate understanding of how he came to put...
Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge





