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Not Just Talking
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 25.95Good relationships depend, above all, on our skills in conversation. Harvey Sacks' method, Conversational Analysis, was the springboard for Jean Pain's research into psychotherapy as a social activity that depends for its success on the quality of the therapeutic dialogue. She wrote this book not only for therapists, but for all those who do not understand... more...
Programs and Interventions for Maltreated Children and Families at Risk
Wiley 2011; US$ 58.00Evidence-based interventions are increasingly being required by third-party payers and an evidence-based orientation has come to define ethical practice. This compendium of short, how-to chapters focuses on the programs and interventions to prevent child maltreatment that have the best scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness. Interventions... more...
Psychic Assaults and Frightened Clinicians
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 25.95'...a fascinating read for mental health workers regardless of their own theoretical background. Working with disturbed and disturbing individuals in secure settings produces strong feelings, and working with those feelings is undoubtedly an essential part of providing care effectively. This book is likely to challenge readers' understandings of their... more...
Evolving Lacanian Perspectives for Clinical Psychoanalysis
Karnac Books 2008; US$ 27.95This book presents an evolving Lacanian reading of the psychoanalytic theory of narcissism, of the phases within Oedipus, transference, and within different types of analytic treatments. Sexual difference between psychical masculinity and femininity is formulated as a negative dialectic: both sexes are not without having and not having the phallus... more...
The Origins of Health and Disease
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 34.00Integrates findings in health psychology, psychoneuroimmunology and psychotherapy to provide a new explanation for health and disease. more...
Counselling and Therapy with Refugees and Victims of Trauma
John Wiley & Sons 2000; US$ 73.95The first edition of this book was acclaimed as a practical, insightful and humane guide for professionals in mental health, social work and voluntary and government agencies who are concerned with the care of refugees and other victims of political and military violence. These professionals can develop feelings of irritation, disappointment and hopelessness... more...
Self-Harm and Violence
Wiley 2011; US$ 109.95Self-Harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services presents the first exploration of the most effective clinical practice techniques relating to the management of risk in mental health care settings. Based on the Department of Health’s Best Practice in Managing Risk guidance document, which was developed... more...
The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Wiley 2011; US$ 160.00The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder is the definitive resource for empirically sound information on narcissism for researchers, students, and clinicians at a time when this personality disorder has become a particularly relevant area of interest. This unique work deepens understanding of how narcissistic behavior... more...
The Electrified Tightrope
Karnac Books 2004; US$ 27.95A collection of exceptional papers by Michael Eigen, selected and assembled by Adam Phillips, that represent 20 years of writing and 30 years of work. The papers examine the tension, caused by the conflict between poise and catastrophe, in the therapeutic relationship. This volume contains a thought-provoking introduction from Adam Phillips and includes... more...
The Psychotic Core
Karnac Books 2004; US$ 27.95Understanding the psychodynamics of madness is essential to the therapy of most patients, including those who are not diagnosed as mad in the literal sense. This volume draws on Freud, Jung, recent object relation and self psychologies, and, particularly, the work of Winnicott, Bion and Elkin. It describes and critiques the basic ideas on the dynamics... more...









