This text provides coverage of the uses and abuses of the therapeutic relationship in counselling, psychology, psychotherapy and related fields.

'At last - answers to a multitude of questions on the complexities of the therapeutic relationship. This is a gem of a book.' Carole Smith, Course Leader, BSc Counselling Studies, Huddersfield University

This study explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies where nearly every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. It suggests that the cultural turn toward the realm of the emotions coincides with a radical redefinition of personhood.

Covering working with children from infancy to secondary school, this book is an essential resource for both trainees and practising therapists who wish to work in schools.

Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations? Does your life seem governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? This book shows that it is the way we were cared for in the first six years of life that has a crucial effect on who we are and how we behave.

The aim here is not to attempt any generalisations from individual, personal experience but rather to contribute the author's story to the meagre body of first-person data currently found in suicidology. A second purpose is to use the author's story to draw attention to some serious shortcomings in suicidology.

The detailed narratives reflect a width of practice, including both clinical and educational perspectives. Contributors drawn from practice around the world give an international perspective to a subject which is central to the growing maturity of occupational therapy.

Clay Jensen returns home to find a strange package with his name on it. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker - his classmate and first love - who committed suicide. Hannah's voice explains there are thirteen reasons why she killed herself and Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why.

'What's sort of funny when something horrific happens is that nothing happens to the rest of the world. The cars still drive, the planes still fly...everything just continues. And that's probably the best gift we have. Because, for the most part, there's no right or wrong way to do things - life becomes whatever you make it'

'I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Caitlin Moran 'Brims with compassion and wit.' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Absolutely blew me away.' Jo Brand 'Brilliant .

'This book can't give you a six-pack in seven days or the skin of a supermodel. But I can promise that if you make even a few of these adjustments, your eating life will alter for the better in ways that you can sustain.'

Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain.

Packed with student-friendly advice and the necessary tools for a rewarding and fulfilling educational experience this book will enable students to excel in their personal and professional lives as they train for their careers as counsellors and within the helping professions.

A beautifully written first hand account of a 20-year old's battle with eating disorders.

Counselors and psychotherapists are divided about the morality and efficacy of short-term psychotherapy and counseling. The model of therapy described Time-Conscious Psychological Therapy is based on flexible adjustment to the life pattern

Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf.

With over 25,000 copies sold since its first edition, this book provides an unrivalled introduction to the core concepts and basic techniques of transactional analysis (TA).

Helps counsellors and professional helpers give sensitive and appropriate support to clients from cultures other than their own. This title illustrates the process of transcultural counselling using the contrasting case studies of 4 different clients, and highlights the impact of cultural issues at individual, community and global levels.

The author recognised Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a serious clinical condition from the start of his career. Since then he has offered his care and counsel to hundreds of sufferers. This book gives an account of how he and his team help to rebuild lives, and piece together the fragments of troubled minds.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to all aspects of trauma counselling.

An illuminating, compassionate exploration of the psychology of caregiving - and the mysterious world of the human mind

This manual presents a powerful approach for helping people manage bipolar illness and protect against the recurrence of manic or depressive episodes. Each phase of the treatment is vividly detailed.

Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders draws on major theorists and the very latest research to help formulate and introduce the Relational/Multi-Motivational Therapeutic Approach (REMOTA), a new model for treating such patients within a clinical psychoanalytic setting.