The Values of Psychotherapy (Studies in Bioethics)

A unique collaboration between a philosopher and a psychiatrist, this volume provides information on the scientific, philosophical, and political value of psychotherapy, focusing on its capacity to enhance autonomy and emotional freedom. The book also treats the moral and clinical issues that may arise in different forms of therapy--analytic, behavioral, and systemic--and explores possible solutions. In addition the author discusses the need for a code of practice for psychotherapists, as well as expansion of state-funded treatment for the needy, while considering the future role of psychotherapy in the modern world.

Science & Math

Holmes, Jeremy

Lindley, Richard

Evolution

Oxford University Press

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

Introduction to Psychoanalysis

What is psychoanalysis? Is it relevant to today’s mental health crisis? How can psychoanalysis help people suffering from psychological distress and illness? This vital new book examines how psychoanalysis has changed since its inception, and how it has adapted to the needs and concerns of 21st-century mental health professionals and patients. 
The first part of this book provides a concise and unbiased account of the origins of psychoanalysis, and the theories which characterise the main post-Freudian schools – neo-Freudian, Kleinian, interpersonal, self-psychological, Lacanian – and the ways in which they agree and diverge. The second part uses clinical illustrations to examine the practicalities of psychoanalytic technique in the consulting room – assessment, free association, dream analysis, transference, and counter-transference. Whatever their allegiance or role, mental health professionals – psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, child mental health professionals, mental health nurses – need to be conversant with the strengths, relevance, and limitations of the psychoanalytic approach. 
This book provides an indispensable, up-to-date, and accessible account of psychoanalysis today. Shaped throughout by considering the viewpoint of an interested 21st-century reader, it is of great interest to psychoanalysts and related mental health professionals, as well as students and all those interested in the treatment of mental health.

Allison, Elizabeth

Bateman, Anthony W.

Attachment Theory is one of the most important theoretical developments in psychoanalysis to have emerged in the past half-century. It combines the rigorous scientific empiricism of ethology with the subjective insights of psychoanalysis, and has had an enormous impact in the fields of child development, social work, psychology, and psychiatry. This is the first known book to appear which brings together John Bowlby and post-Bowlbian research and shows how the findings of Attachment Theory can inform the practice of psychotherapy. It also provides fascinating insights into the history of the psychoanalytic movement and looks at the ways in which Attachment Theory can help in the understanding of society and its problems.

John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (Makers of Modern Psychotherapy)

This book is both a celebration and a critique of contemporary psychotherapy. Written from the perspective of a practising psychiatrist and psychotherapist in the NHS, it shows how psychoanalytical ideas can illuminate such clinical problems as disturbances of personal identity, adolescent loneliness, obsessionality, long-term mental illness, agoraphobia and suicide. The book emphasizes the importance of creativity in psychotherapy and the connections between the artistic and the psychotherapeutic impulse. The importance of psychotherapy as a humanizing force within psychiatry is discussed and the book describes the problems and possibilites created by setting up a psychotherapy service in a rural setting. Interwoven with these clinical and organizational issues is a theoretical discussion of the strengths and limitations of the psychoanalytical approach. Freud always considered psychoanalysis as science and, in the author's view, psychoanalysis is at its best a hybrid discipline combining the intuitive and the rational, the narrative with the experimental approach.

Between Art and Science: Essays in Psychotherapy and Psychiatry

Psychology & Counseling

Psychotherapy is a vital humanising force within psychiatry and contemporary culture, while the psychoanalytical vision acts as an important bridge between the arts and the sciences. In this collection of essays Jeremy Holmes discusses the wider application of psychotherapy within psychiatry and suggests that psychoanalysis needs to escape from its esotericism by taking into account contemporary advances in cognitive science, family therapy and the realities of psychiatric work in a public health setting. Often illustrating his arguments with literary as well as clinical examples, he emphasises the importance of creativity in psychotherapy and the connections between the artistic and psychotherapeutic implulse.

The need for a concise, comprehensive guide to the main principles and practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy has become pressing as the psychoanalytic movement has expanded and diversified. An introductory text suitable for a wide range of courses, this lively, widely referenced account presents the core features of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice in an easily assimilated, but thought-provoking manner. Illustrated throughout with clinical examples, it provides an up-to-date source of reference for a wider range of mental health professionals as well as those training in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy or counselling.

Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory and Practice

The need for a concise, comprehensive guide to the main principles and practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy has become pressing as the psychoanalytic movement has expanded and diversified. An introductory text suitable for a wide range of courses, this lively, widely referenced account presents the core features of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice in an easily assimilated, but thought-provoking manner. Illustrated throughout with clinical examples, it provides an up-to-date source of reference for a wider range of mental health professionals as well as those training in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy or counselling.

Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Winner of the 2010 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship! This book builds a key clinical bridge between attachment theory and psychoanalysis, deploying Holmes' unique capacity to weld empirical evidence, psychoanalytic theory and consulting room experience into a coherent and convincing whole.  Starting from the theory–practice gap in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the book demonstrates how attachment theory can help practitioners better understand what they intuitively do in the consulting room, how this benefits clients, and informs evidence-based practice.  Divided into two sections, theory and practice, Exploring in Security discusses the concept of mentalising and considers three components of effective therapy – the therapeutic relationship, meaning making and change promotion – from both attachment and psychoanalytic perspectives. The second part of the book applies attachment theory to a number of clinical situations including:   working with borderline clients suicide and deliberate self-harm sex and sexuality dreams ending therapy.  Throughout the book theoretical discussion is vividly illustrated with clinical material, personal experience and examples from literature and film, making this an accessible yet authoritative text for psychotherapy practitioners at all levels, including psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, mental health nurses and counsellors.

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The Values of Psychotherapy (Studies in Bioethics)

The Values of Psychotherapy (Studies in Bioethics)

Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Introduction to Psychoanalysis

John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (Makers of Modern Psychotherapy)

Between Art and Science: Essays in Psychotherapy and Psychiatry

Between Art and Science: Essays in Psychotherapy and Psychiatry

Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory and Practice

Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy