This hands-on manual from teaches the nuts and bolts of practising short-term dynamic psychotherapy, the research-supported model first presented in Changing Character, Leigh McCullough's foundational text. Reflecting the ongoing evolution of the approach, the manual emphasizes affect phobia, or conflict about feelings. It shows how such proven behavioural techniques as systemic desensitization can be applied effectively within a psychodynamic framework, and offers clear guidelines for when and how to intervene. Demonstrated are procedures for assessing patients, formulating core conflicts...

Focused on the Lake Poets' prose writing-including their journalism and correspondence-this collection of essays challenges some widely held assumptions. Much of the narrative is Bristol-based, as the city's reference library holds not only much of Southey's personal library, but the borrowing registers of the old subscription library which still record the titles that Coleridge and Southey borrowed in the 1790s.It places the poets' American Susquehanna project, customarily dismissed as the idealistic dreams of Oxbridge students, in the context of European emigration schemes prompted by the...