Psychology

Sandtray: Playing to Heal, Recover, and Grow

by Roxanne Rae

Sandtray refers to psychotherapies that use sand, water, and miniatures in a tray of sand where clients create a three-dimensional “world.” This story-driven book is based in clinical practice and illustrated...

Embodied Collective Memory: The Making and Unmaking of Human Nature

by Rafael F. Narváez

The human body is not a given fact—it is acquired, achieved, and learned. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. This book discusses how, why, and to what extent corporeal memories...

Psychodynamic Supervision: Perspectives for the Supervisor and the Supervisee

by Martin H. Rock

Provides first-person, subjective accounts of the supervisory process from the viewpoint of both the supervisor and the supervisee.

Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy

by Susan M. Knell

Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy (CBPT) incorporates cognitive and behavioral interventions within a play therapy paradigm. It provides a theoretical framework based on cognitive-behavioral principles and integrates...

Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: The Treatment of Choice

by Bertram P. Karon & Gary R. VandenBos

An important new book which is a stunning attempt by two knowledgeable, persevering psychotherapists to present their understanding and sound therapeutic approach to dealing with the difficulties and challenges...

Psychotherapy of Preoedipal Conditions: Schizophrenia and Severe Character Disorders

by Hyman Spotnitz

In Psychotherapy of Preoedipal Conditions, Hyman Spotnitz and his contributors demonstrate how to develop and use emotional interchange that fosters a climate of increasing emotional complexity and facilitates...

A Primer on Working with Resistance

by Martha Stark

"Martha Stark's primer on resistance is a unique book. It takes as the heart of the clinical problem the patient's reluctance to change, that ubiquitous and paradoxical phenomenon of our work in which people...

Riding the Windhorse: Manic-Depressive Disorder and the Quest for Wholeness

by Robert S. Corrington

In this moving account of his struggles with manic-depressive disorder, distinguished philosopher Robert S. Corrington, creator of the school of ecstatic naturalism, presents a compelling argument for rethinking...

Interventions for Addiction: Comprehensive Addictive Behaviors and Disorders, Volume 3

by Peter M. Miller

Interventions for Addiction examines a wide range of responses to addictive behaviors, including psychosocial treatments, pharmacological treatments, provision of health care to addicted individuals, prevention,...

Biological Research on Addiction: Comprehensive Addictive Behaviors and Disorders, Volume 2

by Peter M. Miller

Biological Research on Addiction examines the neurobiological mechanisms of drug use and drug addiction, describing how the brain responds to addictive substances as well as how it is affected by drugs of abuse....

Principles of Addiction: Comprehensive Addictive Behaviors and Disorders, Volume 1

by Peter M. Miller

Principles of Addiction provides a solid understanding of the definitional and diagnostic differences between use, abuse, and disorder. It describes in great detail the characteristics of these syndromes and...

Children's Creative Play

by Karin Neuschutz

Many parents find it hard to know which toys are appropriate for children at different ages, and what kinds of play to initiate and encourage. What can parents do to best help children develop, and foster their...

ADD / ADHD Breakthrough

by Enza Lyons

ADD / ADHD Breakthrough is about transforming children struggling with learning challenges to succeed at school and in life. Clearly you can see these children are intelligent, just stuck. Enza Lyons shares...

Brothers and Sisters: Developmental, Dynamic, and Technical Aspects of the Sibling Relationship

by Salman Akhtar & Selma Kramer

Sibling relationships and rivalry are as old as recorded history. This analysis explores that ambivalence between siblings casts its shadow throughout people's lifetimes and affects their choices of mates, relationships...

Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis

by Lisa Cosgrove, Paula J. Caplan & Maureen McHugh

Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis is the first book about how gender, race, social class, age, physical disability, and sexual orientation affect the classification of human beings into psychiatric categories. This...

Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

by Adam Alter

An illuminating look at the way the thoughts we have and the decisions we make are influenced by forces that aren't always in our control

Why are people named Kim, Kelly, and Ken more likely to donate to Hurricane...

Madness and Creativity

by Ann Belford Ulanov & David H. Rosen

Analyst and author Ann Belford Ulanov draws on her years of clinical work and reflection to make the point that madness and creativity share a kinship, an insight that shakes both analysand and analyst to the...

Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation: Current Applications and New Directions

by Mark D. Shermis & Jill Burstein

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies. Highlights include the latest in the evaluation of...

Beyond Gender: From Suject to Drive

by Paul Verhaeghe

In this volume, Paul Verhaeghe's lectures on the development of psychoanalytic theory between Freud and Lacan are reproduced as a written work of astonishing versatility, which stands at the vanguard of Lacanian...

The Fifty-Minute Hour

by Robert Lindner & Jonathan Lear

“A fascinating mixture of traditional psychoanalytic thinking with clinical strategies that even today would be considered creative and controversial, The Fifty-Minute Hour has never failed to capture the...