Sets out the range of options for trainees, including the professional pathways and main theoretical models available to them. This book provides insights into what to expect from training and offers advice to help readers select the right training; and identify personal qualities which make them suitable or unsuitable.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Awe-inspiring... You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh 'One of the best scientist-writers of our time' Oliver SacksWhy do human beings behave as they do?

Provides insights into a range of therapeutic interventions. This book provides theoretical background, addresses legal and ethical issues, and raises questions about the language we use to describe behaviour we find difficult to understand. It is suitable for those working in health and social services, educational, and independent settings.

A celebration of the work of Anne Alvarez, an enormously influential psychoanalytic psychotherapist whose work on autism and severe personality disorders in children has been important internationally.

Researchers and therapists from a wide range of disciplines explore the role of shame in various physical and psychological disorders, and provide practical advice on management and treatment.

In A Bolt from the Blue, Salli Saari examines in detail the psychological effect traumatic events can have on an individual, taking the reader step-by-step through each stage of the process of understanding and recovery. This book shows how crisis care can be an integral part of health care services, covering all traumatic incidents.

A renowned psychotherapist explores healthy and unhealthy relationships and personal boundaries, with self-assessment tests, descriptions of ten types of human interaction, and more. Original. 50,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

The author highlights the revolution wrought in both sexes' psychology by adolescence, particularly by its fantasies of divided selves and loves and of 'boy crazy' grandiosity and romance, arguing that men and women respond differently to the sexual awakening that takes place during their teens and to the memories of that part of their life.

In this groundbreaking book, the bestselling author of Parenting from the Inside Out and The Whole-Brain Child shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children's lives into one of the most rewarding.

This timely new edition describes how to use cognitive behaviour therapy successfully with clients in a brief, time-limited way. It covers a wide range of disorders including anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress, or those who are suicidal.

This timely new edition describes how to use cognitive behaviour therapy successfully with clients in a brief, time-limited way. It covers a wide range of disorders including anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress, or those who are suicidal.

The first book to tackle using person-centred therapy in a time-limited setting.

This title has been specifically written to give readers the insight, tools and confidence they need to understand and use CBT in their own lives. It offers a cohesive approach to this groundbreaking therapeutic technique that unfolds in a wholly logical, accessible and practical manner.

This collection of papers by distinguished international contributors explores formative influences affecting Bion's emotional and intellectual development. The authors revisit in depth the origins of Bion's ideas, his contact with Trotter, and his later work with the Tavistock Clinic and psychoanalysis.

Written for those who either suffer from or come into contact with bulimia nervosa, this book will be an invaluable source of support for all those who wish to understand and to change their behaviour. It provides a framework for understanding what maintains the disorder, why it has developed and a step-by-step programme to aid recovery.

Offers a guide to the life and work of one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy and most influential thinkers in modern times. Combining insights from his early life, this book traces the development of Jung's ideas on the functioning of the human mind, including the origins of core Jungian concepts such as archetypes, teleology, and alchemy.

As founder of the person-centred approach, Carl Rogers (1902-1987) is arguably the most influential psychologist and psychotherapist of the 20th century. This book provides unique insights into his life and a clear explanation of his major theoretical ideas.

Thoughtful and persuasive, this book urges the medical profession to improve palliative care and develop a more humane response to the complex issues facing those who are terminally ill.

Provides effective and practical strategies from gerontology to augment CBT techniques.

A comprehensive introduction for CBT & IAPT trainees and new practitioners, this textbook demonstrates how and why CBT can work effectively for children & young people in real world settings.

Understanding a child's viewpoint is often considered helpful within child clinical psychology. Personal construct theory offers a practical method that allows children to express their viewpoint relating to behavior, feelings, self-construing, and solutions.

Offers a mind management model that can help you become a happy, confident, healthier and successful person. This book explains the struggle that takes place within your mind and shows how to apply this understanding to every area of your life so you can: recognise how your mind is working; and understand and manage your emotions and thoughts.