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This important new work uses the feminist perspective to illuminate and explore the relationship between the anguish of those who suffer from eating disorders and the problems of ordinary women.
Explores how clients' problems are defined by personal and cultural narratives, and looks at the ways therapists can assist clients in co- constructing and reauthoring narratives to fit their preferences. Various problems are given voice through a series of stories and fictionalized discussions see
Offering a fresh new look at how Freud practised psychoanalysis, this book draws upon the five existing full-length accounts of Freud's analyses written by the patients themselves.
A critique of traditional psychotherapeutic approaches used in treating children, seeking to close the gap between researchers and practitioners by offering an integrative method that links intervention with case-relevant analysis. Shirk (psychology, U. of Denver) and Russell (psychology, Loyola U.
Developing a new systematic attachment concept, "the secure family base", the author shows how families can change insecure relationship patterns both during and after therapy.
An analysis of the building blocks that form the foundation of theory in the social sciences, showing how to analyze any theory, evaluate its worth, assess its connections, and understand its development. Uses seven defining questions about the four essential components of any theory, and examines
This accessible guide to dream interpretation is designed to help clinicians incorporate work with dreams more effectively into therapy. The author integrates psychodynamic, experiential, and humanistic theories into a comprehensive model based on the premises that dreams are personal and reflect waking life; that the meaning of dreams is best ......
The authors, both university professors of communication, draw on the dialogism of social theorist Mikhail Bakhtin to address core ideas of interpersonal communication including relationship development, closeness, certainty, openness, communication competence, and the boundaries between self, rela
