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Critical Issues in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

by Sarah Campbell, Dinah Morley, and Roger Catchpole

Published 6 March 2017

Working with Dual Diagnosis (Foundations of Mental Health Practice)

by Darren Hill, William J. Penson, and Divine Charura

Published 15 September 2017

Interdisciplinary Working in Mental Health

The Paradox of Suicide and Creativity

If creativity is the highest expression of the life impulse, why do creative individuals who have made lasting contributions to the arts and sciences so often end their lives? M.F. Alvarez addresses this central paradox by exploring the inner lives and works of eleven creative visionaries who succumbed to suicide. Through a series of case studies, Alvarez shows that creativity and suicide are both attempts to authenticate and resolve personal catastrophes that have called into question the most...

Saving Talk Therapy

by Enrico Gnaulati

Published 9 January 2018

Adult

A hard-hitting critique of how managed care and the selective use of science to privilege quick-fix therapies have undermined in-depth psychotherapy—to the detriment of patients and practitioners In recent decades there has been a decline in the quality and availability of psychotherapy in America that has gone largely unnoticed—even though rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are on the rise. In Saving Talk Therapy, master therapist Dr. Enrico Gnaulati presents powerful case studies from...

Encyclopaedia of International Community Psychology (3 Volumes)

Published 1 April 2018

Waking Dreams

by Allan Frater

Published 1 September 2021

Adult

In a waking dream, we inhabit the dreamworld with an awareness of doing so-as sometimes happens upon waking from sleep when a dream continues to feel present alongside an awareness of lying in bed. Taking perspectives from transpersonal psychology, ecotherapy, complexity theory, and fractal geometry, this book develops new possibilities within waking dream practice (also known as "active imagination" and "guided imagery") to show: how the in-between waking/dreaming experience allows us to be...