Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Psychiatry - General

This book deals with the nitty-gritty of understanding why countertransference remains an on-going challenge for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. Over the years the emphasis has moved from theoretical disapproval to potential clinical advantage. This advantage is in practice often hard to achieve, sometimes due to the fear of the closeness in the psychoanalyst as much as in the patient. This thorough and thoughtful book will help students and more seasoned practitioners understand the way differing trends in understanding countertransference connect, relate and sometimes contradict. It...

Die Gedachtnistrainerin Annemarie Frick-Salzmann beschreibt, wie unser Gedachtnis funktioniert und welche Gehirnregionen fur einzelne Gedachtnissysteme relevant sind. Sie beantwortet oft gestellte Fragen wie z.B. -Wie sehr konnen wir uns auf unsere Erinnerungen verlassen? Was konnen Ursachen fur falsche Erinnerungen sein? Warum haben Vergessen und Gedachtnispannen auch positive Seiten?- Gut nachvollziehbar widerlegt sie das Vorurteil uber die Vergesslichkeit alternder Menschen. Sie gibt dem Leser Hinweise zum Lernen und Informationen anhand ausgewahlter Texte zu Gehirnregionen und...

Introduces a Powerful New Brief Therapy Approach

This groundbreaking book is the first to provide a comprehensive model for effectively blending the two main postmodern brief therapy approaches: solution focused and narrative therapies. It harnesses the power of both models--the strengths-based, problem-solving approach of SFT and the value-honoring and re-descriptive approach of narrative therapy--to offer brief, effective help to clients that builds on their strengths and abilities to envision and craft preferred outcomes.

Authored by a leading trainer, teacher, and...

Focused Genograms provides a cutting-edge guide to utilizing the Intersystem Approach meta-framework and attachment theory to construct focused genograms. Focused genograms are graphic representations of intergenerational family interactions, and can be tailored to themes. This new volume includes nearly two decades of research, clinical experience, and theory; including rapidly expanding empirical support of attachment theory, gender, and trauma theory. It will allow the reader to comprehensively develop assessment and treatment planning for a wide range of client-systems. The...

Surgeons start their career in the expectation that it will bring personal satisfaction through an unparalleled sense of achievement and professional growth. Nonetheless, a career in surgery carries with it serious challenges: surgical training is rigorous, both emotionally and physically, and demands that the surgeon adjust to unpredictability. Chronic levels of stress can affect surgical performance, the quality of family relationships, and even the nature of the doctor-patient relationship. Unmanaged stress has been shown to contribute to physical illness, emotional problems,...