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A list of publications in my library, sorted alphabetically by title

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<p class="font_8" style="text-align: justify">Shame, both a universal human feeling and also one of the most potentially disorganizing of all affect experiences, has been relatively neglected in clinical writing until recent years and even today remains in unclear focus in much of our dominant clinical tradition and thinking about self- models. Both this neglect and this lack of focus are much clarified by a Gestalt model Of self-experience and self-process, a perspective which raises paradigmatic questions for our thinking about human nature and relational process.&nbsp;</p>

Self and Shame: A Gestalt Approach.

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Gordon Wheeler

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Wheeler, G. PhD., 1997, Self and Shame: A Gestalt Approach. Gestalt Review,1(3):22l-244

<p class="font_7">Sexual Attraction in Therapy presents new findings from multiple perspectives into the complex phenomenon of sexual attraction in therapy. Detailed clinical examples and strategies from expert contributors demonstrate how therapists can engage with sexual attraction, when it arises, in positive ways that facilitate client progress and ensure appropriate professional conduct. Challenges practitioners to think about sexual attraction as a normal dynamic developing through the unique intimacy of the therapy encounter Presents new findings from research to enrich understanding of the lived experience of therapists and how they confront, avoid, make use of the process of sexual attraction Provides clinical examples to highlight common challenges faced by practitioners, the strategies they use to overcome them and how they normalize the ‘taboo’ of sexual attraction to make positive use of it in therapy Makes an important contribution to current literature on professional practice, an area of increasing importance as more emphasis is placed on issues of ethics, ongoing supervision and appropriate professional conduct Expert contributors include Doris McIlwain, Michael Worrell, John Sommers-Flanagan and Martin Milton</p>

Sexual attraction in therapy : clinical perspectives on moving beyond the taboo : a guide for training and practice.

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Maria Luca

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Luca, M. 2013 Sexual Attraction in Therapy: Clinical Perspectives on Moving Beyond the Taboo - A Guide for Training and Practice. Wiley-Blackwell

<p class="font_7">Shame is a painful emotion stemming from negative self-evaluation, a belief that there is something fundamentally wrong with you as a person rather than simply that you did something wrong. It involves feelings of inadequacy, unworthiness, and humiliation, and often triggers a desire to hide or withdraw from others.</p>

Shame the Power of Caring

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Gershen Kaufman

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Kaufman, G. 1985, Shame The Power of Caring. Schenkman Pub. Co

<p class="font_7">shame may be an archaic fixation or an introjection. The suggestion is made that self-righteousness is the denial of a need for relationship. A contact-oriented relationship psychotherapy that emphasises methods of inquiry, attunement, and involvement is described.</p>

A Gestalt Therapy Approach To Shame And Self-Righteousness: Theory And Methods

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Richard G Erskine

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Erskine, R., 1995 A Gestalt Therapy Approach To Shame And Self-Righteousness: Theory And Methods. British Gestalt Journal 4.2 pp107-117

<p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">Recent neurobiological research findings parallel, support, and inform Gestalt field theory’s notions of childhood development. This article examines the neurobiological research literature involving the role and importance of relationship in structuring neural circuits in the first and second year of life, as well as what this information meansfrom a Gestalt constructionist, intersubjective perspective.</p>

Shame and Belonging in Childhood: The Interaction Between Relationship and Neurobiological Development in the Early Years of Life

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Robert Lee

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Lee, R. Shame & Belonging in Childhood: The Interaction BetweenRelationship and Neurobiological Development in the Early Years of Life. British Gestalt Journal 16(2)

<p class="font_7">This practical guide to the gestalt approach has successfully introduced thousands of trainee therapists to the essential skills needed in gestalt practice. The authors offer practical guidance on the entire process of therapy.</p>

Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy (Skills in Counselling & Psychotherapy Series)

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Phil Joyce

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Joyce, P., Sills, C., 2018 Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy (Skills in Counselling & Psychotherapy Series). SAGE Publications. Kindle Edition.

<p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">Social Change Begins with Two is a collection of published and unpublished essays and conference lectures prepared by Jean-Marie Robine over the last ten years. Its release is a unique opportunity to be taken on a tour of his thought over the decade</p>

Social Change Begins with Two (Gestalt Therapy Book Series 3)

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Jean-Marie Robine

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Robine, J., 2015 Social Change Begins with Two (Gestalt Therapy Book Series 3). Instituto Gestalt HCC Italy

<p class="font_7">Treating men as a culturally distinct group, Rich Furman integrates key conceptions of masculinity into culturally sensitive social work practice with men.</p>

Social Work Practice with Men at Risk

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Rich Furman

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Furman, Rich. 2010 Social Work Practice with Men at Risk . Columbia University Press. Kindle Edition.

<p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">This is your essential guide to standards and ethics in the psychological therapies. The book introduces you to key ethical values and principles and discusses how to practice in accordance with these.&nbsp;</p>

Standards Ethics for Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series)

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Tim Bond

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Rees, A., Bond, T. 2021 Standards Ethics for Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series). Sage, London

<p class="font_7">"This book remains a seminal text in supervision. In the fourth edition the authors bring a contemporary perspective to bear on supervision with an emphasis on the wider contextual and cultural contexts of our work as supervisors. I appreciate above all the 'fearless compassion' with which the authors have addressed the challenges that face us as supervisors in a global culture, and at the same time their ongoing stress on integrating the 'emotional and the rational, the personal and the organizational' in a very accessible model of supervision." Professor Maria Gilbert, Metanoia Institute, West London</p>

Supervision In The Helping Professions (Supervision in Context)

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Peter Hawkins

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Hawkins, P. & Shohet, R., 2012. Supervising in the Helping Professions. (4th) Kindle ed. s.l.:McGraw Hill International.

<p class="font_7">This is an easy-to-read explication of relationally focused integrative psychotherapy/counselling that will be enjoyed by novice and experienced mental health professionals worldwide. Richard Erskine and Janet Moursund illuminate the central role of the therapeutic relationship, and of relationships in general, both in the healing process and in maintaining a psychologically healthy life.</p>

The Art and Science of Relationship: The Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy

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Richard G Erskine

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Erskine, R. G., Moursund, J., 2004 The Art and Science of Relationship: The Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy. Phoenix Publishing House.

<p class="font_7">In The Art of Being, renowned humanist philosopher and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm draws from sources as varied as Sigmund Freud, Buddha, and Karl Marx to find a new, centered path to self-knowledge and well-being.</p>

The Art of Being

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Erich Fromm

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Fromm, Erich. 1989: 1992 The Art of Being. Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.

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