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Mockingbird Years

Author : Emily Fox Gordon
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465027286
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Mockingbird Years written by Emily Fox Gordon and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2001-04-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During my years as a patient, I felt a guilty and unshakeable conviction that I was completely sane. Of course, my notion that patients were expected to be crazy was a naïve one, but I had swallowed whole the ideology that connects madness to beauty of spirit. In fact, I wasn't interested in being happier, but in growing more poignantly, becomingly, meaningfully unhappy."Here, in her own words, is Emily Fox Gordon, therapy veteran, sometime mental patient, and a prize-winning essayist whose writing Rosellen Brown has praised as "acute and engaging… a combination of wit, rigor and deep feeling." In this astounding memoir, she tells the story of her "therapeutic education," marked by no fewer than five therapists before she turned seventeen. At eighteen, after a half-hearted suicide attempt, Gordon, mired in adolescent angst, began a three-year sojourn at the prestigious Austen Riggs sanitarium. It was at Riggs that Gordon was "rescued" by the maverick psychoanalyst Leslie Farber. Beautifully crafted, and startling in its observations of the therapeutic enterprise, Mockingbird Years is an auspicious debut by a major new talent.

Mockingbird Years A Life In And Out Of Therapy

Author : Emily Fox Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Mockingbird Years A Life In And Out Of Therapy written by Emily Fox Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Farber's help, Gordon finally began to unlearn the lessons of therapy and learn the lessons of life."--BOOK JACKET.

Shouldn't I Be Feeling Better By Now?

Author : Yvonne Bates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350305642
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Shouldn't I Be Feeling Better By Now? written by Yvonne Bates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around one in four clients of counselling and therapy either deteriorate in treatment or show no signs of recovery. Why does therapy fail this significant proportion of vulnerable people and what can be done about it? This ground-breaking volume assembles the first ever collection of client critiques of therapy as a way of kick-starting an urgently needed debate. Including contributions from a range of internationally respected therapists, the book identifies areas of concern and seeks to provide constructive solutions for the future. Nominated for the Mind Book of the Year Award 2006

Practising Existential Psychotherapy

Author : Ernesto Spinelli
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446234568
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Practising Existential Psychotherapy written by Ernesto Spinelli and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existential psychotherapy has emerged as an approach that is distinctively different to that of the other models and systems within psychotherapy. It provides a set of significant challenges to, and critiques of, contemporary Western psychotherapy both at the level of theory and of practice. Although a substantial amount of writing that seeks to describe and delineate the theoretical underpinnings of existential psychotherapy already exists, this is not the case with texts dealing with the application of theory in the form of practice. Practising Existential Psychotherapy examines the unique qualities and possibilities of an existential approach to psychotherapy. Drawn from Ernesto Spinelli's own experience as an internationally recognised theorist, lecturer and practitioner, the book's overall aim is to provide a thorough and accessible explication of existential psychotherapy in practice. Beginning with an overview of the theoretical underpinnings and distinguishing features of existential psychotherapy, the text describes and develops a three-phase structural model for its practice. As well as describing the key components of each phase, the text provides descriptive examples and topic-focused exercises designed to assist readers in developing their own practice-based understanding of existential psychotherapy. Ernesto Spinelli is a Professor in the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent's College, London.

On Being a Therapist

Author : Jeffrey A. Kottler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190641541
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book On Being a Therapist written by Jeffrey A. Kottler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth edition of 'On Being a Therapist' continues to explore many of the challenges that therapists face in their practices today, although it expands from previous editions in that it features new research and clinical experience, shares new stories, and adds material centered on technology.

Practising Existential Therapy

Author : Ernesto Spinelli
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473911184
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Practising Existential Therapy written by Ernesto Spinelli and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the author’s experience as an internationally-recognised theorist, lecturer and practitioner, this practical book elucidates the notoriously difficult and distinctly different therapeutic approach, existential therapy. Balancing theory and practice, the book provides trainees with an accessible introduction to the author’s own three phase structural model for existential therapy, one which has become widely established and used in training and practice. Substantially revised and updated throughout, Part One examines the philosophical underpinnings, essential theory and distinctive features of existential therapy while Part Two goes on to present the author′s structural model for practice. Both parts are now prefaced by useful schematic overviews which introduce the content and pinpoint key themes in each chapter, helping readers to navigate the text with ease. Practical exercises encourage further engagement with the text and the themes, issues and practices under consideration. Seen by existential therapists across the world as one of the most influential books on the topic, this new edition is an essential read for all those training, practising or interested in existential therapy.

A Short Introduction to Psychotherapy

Author : Christine Lister-Ford
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1848605315
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book A Short Introduction to Psychotherapy written by Christine Lister-Ford and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-06-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Short Introduction to Psychotherapy is an accessible guide to the field for anyone embarking on training or simply interested in finding out more about psychotherapy. Mapping the development and dimensions of contemporary practice, the book explores: " the origins of psychotherapy " its applications in terms of modalities, settings and client populations " central theoretical concepts " the nature of training and career paths for qualified practitioners " main critiques, both from within and outside psychotherapy. A team of well-known and highly-regarded contributors examine issues which have particular bearing on psychotherapy today. This includes the changing roles for psychotherapists working in primary and secondary care and the demand for practice to be more ′evidence-based′. A useful summary is provided of existing research into the efficacy and effectiveness of psychotherapy. Looking ahead, the book also examines the future of psychotherapy and considers the effect that the proposed statutory registration will have on the field. Christine Lister-Ford is a Director of the Northern Guild for Psychotherapy where she leads the MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy. Previously she sat on the Governing Board of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy for 7 years. She has chaired International and European Training Standards groups over a 15 year period. Her previous publications include Skills in Transactional Analysis Counselling & Psychotherapy (SAGE, 2002). She is a member of the editorial boards of several psychotherapy journals.

Stories We've Heard, Stories We've Told

Author : Jeffrey A. Kottler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199328250
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Stories We've Heard, Stories We've Told written by Jeffrey A. Kottler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book that integrates what is known from a wide variety of disciplines about the nature of storytelling and how it influences and transforms people's lives. Drawing on material from the humanities, sociology, anthropology, neurophysiology, media and communication studies, narrative inquiry, indigenous healing traditions, as well as education, counseling, and therapy, the book explores the ways that therapists operate as professional storytellers. In addition, our job is to hold and honor the stories of our clients, helping them to reshape them in more constructive ways. The book itself is written as a story, utilizing engaging prose, research, photographs, and powerful anecdotes to draw readers into the intriguing dynamics and processes involved in therapeutic storytelling. It sets the stage for what follows by discussing the ways that stories have influenced history, cultural development, and individual worldviews and then delves into the ways that everyday lives are impacted by the stories we hear, read, and view in popular media. The focus then moves to stories within the context of therapy, exploring how client stories are told, heard, and negotiated in sessions. Attention then moves to the ways that therapists can become more skilled and accomplished storytellers, regardless of their theoretical preferences and style.

Introduction to Clinical Psychology

Author : Geoffrey P. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108705146
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Clinical Psychology written by Geoffrey P. Kramer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a survey of clinical psychology including its history, content, and professional functions.

The Therapeutic Frame in the Clinical Context

Author : Maria Luca
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583919767
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Therapeutic Frame in the Clinical Context written by Maria Luca and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines some of the key issues inherent in the intimate and very often intense therapeutic relationship. It addresses and clarifies perspectives on the creation of a therapeutic environment that is conducive to therapy.

Writing Life Stories

Author : Bill Roorbach
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1582975272
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Writing Life Stories written by Bill Roorbach and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers. Writing Life Stories is a classic text that appears on countless creative nonfiction and composition syllabi the world over. This updated 10th anniversary edition gives you the same friendly instruction and stimulating exercises along with updated information on current memoir writing trends, ethics, internet research, and even marketing ideas. You'll discover how to turn your untold life stories into vivid personal essays and riveting memoirs by learning to open up memory, access emotions, shape scenes from experience, develop characters, and research supporting details. This guide will teach you to see your life more clearly and show you why real stories are often the best ones.

A Democratic Mind

Author : Israel W. Charny
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498561403
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book A Democratic Mind written by Israel W. Charny and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Democratic Mind: Psychology and Psychiatry with Fewer Meds and More Soul focuses on how an individual lives one’s life, and on the extent of harm that an individual can inflict on oneself or others. In this book, Charny provides a new lens for treating real people rather than offering treatments that alleviate symptoms.

Mockingbird

Author : Kathryn Erskine
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1409541673
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Mockingbird written by Kathryn Erskine and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caitlin misses her brother every day. Since his death in a school shooting, she has no one to explain the world to her. And for Caitlin, the world is a confusing place. She hates it when colours get mixed up, prefers everything to be black-and-white, and needs to check her Facial Expressions Chart to understand emotions. So when Caitlin reads the definition of "closure", she decides that's what she needs. And as she struggles to find it, a world of colour begins to enter her black-and-white life...

The Mirror and the Hammer

Author : Ernesto Spinelli
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781412901789
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror and the Hammer written by Ernesto Spinelli and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-06-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `It is surely worth reading, not only by the author's fellow psychiatrists, but also by psychologists in general' - Contemporary Psychology `I found this book a joy to read. Each chapter sets out the orthodoxy in question, then proceeds to explain lucidly the author's difficulties with this orthodoxy and to suggest an alternative way of looking at the issues' - Self and Society Psychotherapy's influence seems all pervasive today. But to what end? Is helping people really therapy's main mission? This provocative book explores the alternatives to psychotherapeutic orthodoxies on such vital issues as sexuality; the self; the unconscious; creativity; and the dilemma of evil. Erensto Spinelli challenges psychotherapy, asking if it has retreated from its early promise of being a pivotal agent in our attempts to discover what it means to be human, in exchange for its current role as a pacifier of personal and social unease.

Book of Days

Author : Emily Fox Gordon
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679604014
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Book of Days written by Emily Fox Gordon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sexual politics of a faculty wives dinner. The psychological gamesmanship of an inappropriate therapist. The emotional minefield of an extended family wedding . . . Whatever the subject, Emily Fox Gordon’s disarmingly personal essays are an art form unto themselves—reflecting and revealing, like mirrors in a maze, the seemingly endless ways a woman can lose herself in the modern world. With piercing humor and merciless precision, Gordon zigzags her way through “the unevolved paradise” of academia, with its dying breeds of bohemians, adulterers, and flirts, then stumbles through the perils and pleasures of psychotherapy, hoping to find a narrative for her life. Along the way, she encounters textbook feminists, partying philosophers, perfectionist moms, and an unlikely kinship with Kafka—in a brilliant collection of essays that challenge our sacred institutions, defy our expectations, and define our lives.

Fearless Confessions

Author : Sue William Silverman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082033166X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Fearless Confessions written by Sue William Silverman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper--or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide helps writers navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing and will be useful to both beginners and more accomplished writers. The rise of interest in memoir recognizes the power of the genre to move and affect not just individual readers but society at large. Sue William Silverman covers traditional writing topics such as metaphor, theme, plot, and voice and also includes chapters on trusting memory and cultivating the courage to tell one's truth in the face of forces--from family members to the media--who would prefer that people with inconvenient pasts and views remain silent. Silverman, an award-winning memoirist, draws upon her own personal and professional experience to provide an essential resource for transforming life into words that matter. Fearless Confessions is an atlas that contains maps to the remarkable places in each person's life that have yet to be explored.

Circular Breathing

Author : Ann McCutchan
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611390265
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Circular Breathing written by Ann McCutchan and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of personal essays, clarinetist Ann McCutchan uses the metaphor of circular breathing to animate her understanding of her own life as a woman, musician, and writer. Circular breathing is a technique for wind instrument playing in which fresh air is drawn in through the nose at the same time that stored air in the lungs is released by mouth through the instrument. The process allows the player to produce a continuous line of music without breaking the curve of a melody to inhale. The questions McCutchan grapples with have universal implications. For example, how does one come to be called to a life’s work? For McCutchan, who grew up in central Florida in the 1960s, the call grew out of twin desires: to exercise a physical voice and to develop an interior one. Bringing both to fruition meant abandoning roles expected of young women in that time and place, and learning to live ever after with the conflicting claims of art and life. Questions of familial loss lie at the heart of this collection, as well. With a sure, delicate hand, McCutchan examines the impact of her parents’ untimely deaths, her inability to bear children, and the foundering of her two marriages. Art may not deliver one from sorrow, she discovers, but it may console—deeply. Finally, there are the questions that arise when one can no longer fulfill the physical demands of an art. Can a musician trade in her instrument, and a world that defined her for decades, for something else? Here, McCutchan charts her journey from the stage to the page, exploring the ways both worlds feed each other. ANN McCUTCHAN is the author of “Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute,” and “The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process.” Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and in “The Best American Spiritual Writing.” She teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas.