What the author calls capable touching is the focus for this book. She believes that developmental play therapy builds both the self of the hurt child and his or her appreciation of the nurturing other, thus making way for dialogue between them and - as the dialogue becomes an organizing force for the child's behaving and relating - facilitates healing and maturation. Dr. Brody attempts to incorporate training in developmental play into the body of her book to provide therapists, teachers and other helping professionals with the experience they need to understand and practice capable...

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This work translates analytic theory and principles of treatment into interpersonal and behavioural terms, illustrating points with clinical examples. It describes the authors' approach to combined individual and group psychotherapy.

The authors incorporate the neurologic examination into a play framework, wherein they can analyze a child's personality and development, searching for 'soft' signs of postural or motor incoordination, and for 'hard' signs of childrens' mental status.

This work explores the self-help experiences of clinicians. It consists of personal accounts by psychiatrists who participated in the Autognosis Seminar at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and reveals what they learned about themselves and how they learned it.

Shneidman presents basic ideas of the common characteristics of suicide. He offers a fresh definition of the phenomenon, which includes direct implications for preventive action.

This work argues that the selection of 12 sessions on a once weekly basis mobilises hope and optimism in psychotherapy patients. It also necessitates dealing with the conscious and unconscious conflicts and meanings surrounding time, termination and separation-individuation. The patient knows precisely when the beginning stages of therapy are over, and where the middle and end are. No other short-term therapy deals specifically with these issues. Much of the theorising on time by Dr Mann is relevant to the termination issues in open-ended long-term psychotherapy and psychoanalysis proper....

This work emphasises a psychoanalytic perspective in work with both intact and disturbed patients in groups. It argues that ego and self-psychology offer a valuable repertoire of interventions for use with many types of groups, particularly those comprising needy or neglected patients.

For many the fear of being killed by parents is dominant in early childhood.

Grief is a universal human experience, painful and inevitable. In this wise and compassionate book, a psychiatrist who has done extensive work and research with the bereaved shares her broad experience, revealing how people cope with, understand, and eventually adapt to many different bereavements in the course of human life. Those first few hours and days after a loved one has died may seem to pass like a dream, and only afterward does the real work of grieving and healing begin. In this comprehensive book, Beverley Raphael describes all the stages of mourning and healing, and analyzes how...