A Different Story is the story of the emergence of the narrative approach to psychotherapy as seen through the eyes of a family therapist whose life and work have taken him across some of the great divides between theory and practice. Both biography and history, this book invites professional readers to step beyond the debates among the scientific, the medical, the spiritual, and the social therapies into a paradigm of integration. Using anthropology rather than psychoanalysis as the lens through which to view healing, the book also addresses the professional reader's friends and colleagues, the intellectually concerned lay readers who want to know what has actually been happening in psychotherapy in this half-century. A Different Story is a good long tickle to the intellect, and an important perspective for all who are truly interested in what it takes to help people - and what it gives back.

A Different Story: The Rise of Narrative in Psychotherapy

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C. Christian Beels

Psychology & Counseling

Zeig,Tucker & Theisen

Celebrating more than 20 years of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, this volume brings together 40 of the field's innovators to demonstrate both the breadth of Ericksonian therapy - from pain management to trauma resolution - and the clinical considerations attending its use.

Handbook of Ericksonian Psychotherapy

JEFFREY K. ZEIG

This is a first collection of Bert Hellinger’s lectures and stories now translated into English. In this book he allows us to confront without fear the deep issues of guilt and conscience and brings to light the hidden orders through which love within and between people and groups succeeds.  These stories attempt to lead us to a peaceful centre - a place where we can be collected and calm, in touch with our deepest love and longing, in tune with the world, and from which our relationships can be fulfilled and our lives healed. This is a book of wisdom: exciting, moving and profound. 

Insights: Lectures and Stories

Rob Fisher

Nicholas Cummings has been called a lot of things in his life … entrepreneur is one of them. The Cummings legacy will be voluminous and manifold. His contributions to the field have spanned the many definitions of practicing psychology – from education to policy, from business to ongoing exploration. He has been predicting trends, cautioning those who would listen, and negotiating the obstacles to efficacious delivery of quality therapeutic services for over half a century. With this book, we pause once again to revisit some of the most important of his projects as an entrepreneur. 
Editors Thomas, Cummings, and O’Donohue took on a difficult task when they set out to convince Cummings to tell the story behind the story of how and why he created the various organizations selected here. Of course, he balked at the idea of "showing off" these successes, but the editors were finally able to persuade him of the potential benefit to readers. First, there is the revelation of psychologist as entrepreneur and the delicate balance that is required in order to proceed in this direction with integrity and effectiveness. More important, these organizations were for the most part conceived of as being in service to the profession or to its legislators rather than being focused on profits. Their success, therefore, has had more than a little to do with strengthening the ability of the field to move forward even as it is pulled in different directions. 
In the end, Nick Cummings decided to tell the story behind the story and readers will be very glad he did. Part history, part memoir, this is a fascinating whodunit, and each time you’ll find Nick Cummings … seeing the need, envisioning a way to meet it, and then doing it!

The Entrepreneur in Psychology: The Collected Papers of Nicholas A. Cummings, Vol. II

O′Donohue, William T.

ODonohue, William T.

The River Never Looks Back Historical and Practical Foundations of Bert Hellinger's Family Constellations

Franke, Ursula

Imagine contemporary art without Picasso, mathematics without Newton, theater without Shakespeare, psychology without Freud…  We chug along in our given areas and then one day someone steps in to show us something different, something entirely new. We usually resist it at first, but eventually that radical perspective is subsumed into the movement as if it had always been there. Don D. Jackson was such a pioneer. He galvanized the field of family therapy when individual therapy was the norm. He fostered the development of brief therapy in a world where long-term therapy was the standard. He made significant contributions to the treatment of schizophrenia when most viewed the problem as hopeless. Yes, this book, skillfully edited by Wendel Ray, provides the opportunity for readers to immerse themselves in Jackson’s contributions. More important, however, it reveals the story behind many of the major contemporary trends in the field. At the time of his death, Jackson was poised to lead the human sciences from the then-prevalent view of the individual in isolation to one that encompasses the interconnectedness of humanity and the essential relationship of behavior to context. Although he did not have the chance to forge that paradigmatic shift, the seeds he planted did take root, as is evidenced in the work of so many current experts. These rare chapters offer a detailed portrait of Jackson and his work, and Wendel Ray has provided insightful introductions to frame the three sections into which the papers are divided: Early Clinical Observations, Defining an Interactional Theory of Human Relationships, and Research Into the Nature of Human Interaction.  Don Jackson’s intellectual prowess, teaching charisma, and refusal to blindly adhere to the status quo are all apparent in these writings. Get to know Don Jackson and we get to know a man who profoundly influenced the human sciences. In looking back at his work, we not only shed light on the nature of the field as it is today but we recapture the spark of passion and imagination that could very well revitalize the clinical work we do tomorrow.

Don D. Jackson: Selected Essays at the Dawn of an Era

Wendel A. Ray

An ambitious project, this book offers an organized, comprehensive, and invaluable compilation of relevant research material regarding meaning in life -- the central axis of logotherapy. For those who are interested specifically in the work of Viktor Frankl, the book’s place in the libraryshould be easily accessible because it will be pulled from the shelf again and again. For those who are not as familiar with his truly expansive perspective, the book will clarify Frankl’s place in the field of contemporary psychotherapy and his enduring influence around the world. Batthyany and Guttmann have divided their presentation into three parts. In the first, readers will find studies on the scope, depth, and sources of meaning in everyday life, as well as across a variety of situations. The second part introduces findings related to logotherapy and psychopathology, and the entries in the third section consider the validity, reliability, and structure of logotherapeutic test instruments, or deal on some level withmeta-research on logotherapy. A relevant resource for the classroom or the private study, Empirical Research in Logotherapy and Meaning-Oriented Psychotherapy: An Annotated Bibliography celebrates the most profound aspects of psychotherapeutic exploration.

Empirical Research in Logotherapy and Meaning-Oriented Psychotherapy: An Annotated Bibliography

Alexander Batthyány

A master storyteller, Hellinger's gentleness, honesty, and humor form the framework for every life lesson he presents. The closing interview or conversation between friends offers another opportunity to understand the work on a different level and to see the man behind it through a new lens. Here, after being the subject of so much debate, Hellinger has the chance to express his views in an open and intellectually generous forum.

Love's Own Truths: Bonding and Balancing in Close Relationships

BERT HELLINGER

Tears of the Ancestors is an important contribution to our understanding of problems rooted in collective trauma. Individuals who have been abused and victimized will be helped by becoming aware of the patterns in the soul as it responds to deep relational trauma. Those who want to look into the shadows of history and the legacy of war, persecution and genocide will gain insight into what binds us to the groups we already belong to, and how we can manage this belonging in a responsible way. Daan van Kampenhout presents this work with a voice that gently allows not only a walk through various historical conflicts which have been crystallized with our image of who was the perpetrator and who was the victim, but he offers us a mirror as well. The author penetrates with a keen mind and experimental tools to an essential dimension and is able to relate even to painful and traumatic aspects of human experience with compassion and with trust in the basic all-rightness of all life. Chapter 1 Auschwitz-Birkenau Chapter 2 The Wheel of Souls Chapter 3 Ancestral Connections Chapter 4 Who Belongs? Chapter 5 Hiding the Perpetrators Chapter 6 Searching for a New Definition Chapter 7 The Transmission of Memory Chapter 8 The Silent Cry Chapter 9 The Weight of the Dead Chapter 10 Places of Refuge Chapter 11 Dreaming About Germany Chapter 12 The Body of Grief Chapter 13 The Embrace of the Guilty Chapter 14 Prayers for Broken Stones Chapter 15 Entering the Silence Chapter 16 Roots that Heal Chapter 17 Double Identities Chapter 18 The Turning of the Wheel Chapter 19 At Mauthausen s Gate

The Tears of the Ancestors: Victims and Perpetrators in the Tribal Soul

Daan van Kampenhout

Mental Health

Therapists and laypersons alike have continually urged Eileen Walkenstein to detail the personal odyssey of 1975-76 that led to the creation of The Nucleus concept in group therapy. The Imprinters is Dr. Walkenstein s intriguing, intensely personal, and honest account of that time and the six women who shared in that journey of honest self-discovery an insightful journey of both anguish and triumph. Told through colorful narrative, personal notes, journal entries, and revelatory transcripts, the book reads more like a novel than a memoir. The sins of our fathers and mothers are visited upon us, Walkenstein explains. It is what we do with the consequences that determines the degree of our integration and wholeness. Therapy heals us only when it heals our parents within us. So the best therapy is that which treats the grand crimes of our parents against us. That is our job, and what we were born in order to accomplish. At the professional heart of this book, Walkenstein reveals that The Nucleus is not a technique, not a new tool for therapeutic manipulation of people, not a new psychoanalysis to push people down on their backs and run roughshod over them with a new jargon. Instead, The Nucleus is a concept, a suggestion of an entity, a dream. It must be approached not in the spirit of capturing it....but in the spirit of following it into whatever dark corners it may lead us.

The Imprinters: Surviving the Unlived Life of Our Parents

M.D.

Eileen Walkenstein

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