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

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<p class="font_7">The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.</p>
The Body Keeps The Score

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Author short name:

Bessel Van der Kolk

Author:

van der Kolk, B. 2015 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

<p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, illuminated the nature of mental illness and made the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a wide audience. First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness.</p>
The Divided Self

The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Modern Classics)

Author short name:

R D Laing

Author:

Laing, R., D., 1960:2010 The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Modern Classics). Penguin.

<p class="font_7">This book tracks a particular understanding of self, philosophically, from research evidence and in its implications for psychotherapy. At each step, the author includes first the theory he is working from, then the clinical implications of the theory, followed by some links to the philosophical outlook inherent in the theory, and finally a more extended case example.</p>
The Emergent Self

The Emergent Self: An Existential-Gestalt Approach (The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series)

Author short name:

Peter Philippson

Author:

Philippson, P., 2009. The Emergent Self: An Existential-Gestalt Approach (The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series). London: Karnac Books.

<p class="font_7">Counter-incest victims are daughters whose fathers turn away in apparently cold rejection as the daughters reach adolescence and incestuous impulses arise in both father and daughter.</p>
The Father-Daughter Dilemma

The Father-Daughter Dilemma: Incest and Counter-Incest

Author short name:

B Bary

Author:

Bary, B. and Ohlson, R., 1985 The Father-Daughter Dilemma: Incest and Counter-Incest

<p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">The movement repertoire that develops in the first year of life is a language in itself and conveys desires, intentions, and emotions. This early life in motion serves as the roots of ongoing nonverbal interaction and later verbal expression – in short, this language remains a key element in communication throughout life.</p>
The First Year and The Rest of Your Life

The First Year and The Rest of Your Life : Movement, Development, and Psychotherapeutic Change

Author short name:

Ruella Frank

Author:

Frank, Ruella; La Barre, Frances. 2011 The First Year and The Rest of Your Life : Movement, Development, and Psychotherapeutic Change. Taylor & Francis. Kindle Edition

<p class="font_7">This giant of modern psychology wrote that The Gestalt Approach was an exploration of a somewhat new approach to the entire subject of human behavior -- both in its actuality and its potentiality. Eyewitness contains film transcripts that Perls believed had significant teaching value.</p>
The Gestalt Approach and Eye Witness to Therapy

The Gestalt Approach and Eye Witness to Therapy:

Author short name:

Fritz (Frederick) Perls

Author:

Perls, F., 1989 The Gestalt Approach and Eye Witness to Therapy. Science and Behavior Books

<p class="font_7">"Rich Hycner and Lynne Jacobs, representing a new generation of Gestalt therapists, have written a rich book expanding the implications of Gestalt therapy principles. In addition, the examples they use from their own therapeutic practice are warmed by the humanity and sensitivity that pervades their work."</p>
The Healing Relationship

The Healing Relationship in Gestalt Therapy: A Dialogic/Self Psychology Approach

Author short name:

Rich Hycner

Author:

Hycner, R. & Jacobs, L., 1995. The Healing Relationship In Gestalt Therapy: A Dialogic/Self Psychology Approach. Gouldsboro, ME: The Gestalt Journal Press.

<p class="font_7">A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology. Challenging the traditional developmental sequence as well as the idea that issues of attachment, dependency, and trust are confined to infancy, Stern integrates clinical and experimental science to support his revolutionizing vision of the social and emotional life of the youngest children, which has had spiraling implications for theory, research, and practice</p>
The Interpersonal World of the Infant

Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Development Psychology

Author short name:

Daniel Stern

Author:

Stern, D. N., 1998 Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Development Psychology

<p class="font_7">The Interpreted World, Second Edition, is a welcome introduction to phenomenological psychology, an area of psychology which has its roots in notoriously difficult philosophical literature. Writing in a highly accessible, jargon-free style, Ernesto Spinelli traces the philosophical origins of phenomenological theory and presents phenomenological perspectives on central topics in psychology - perception, social cognition and the self.</p>
The Interpreted World

The Interpreted World: An Introduction To Phenomenological Psychology

Author short name:

Ernesto Spinelli

Author:

Spinelli, E., 2005 The Interpreted World: An Introduction To Phenomenological Psychology SAGE Publications Ltd

<p class="font_7">There's a lot of information out there dedicated to protecting our kids from bullying and enforcing policies to ensure it doesn't happen, but the real key to stopping this problem is understanding it. Bullies are definitely people like the rest of us, so what's so different about them that their social skills are so drastically different?</p>
The Mind Behind the Bully

The Mind Behind the Bully - The Psychology of Bullying from A Platform for Good

Author short name:

Alex

Author:

Alex 2015 The Mind Behind the Bully - The Psychology of Bullying from A Platform for Good. available at aplatformforgood.org/the-mind-behind-the-bully-the-psychology-of-bullying 08/04/2015

<p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">Gestalt therapy sees the therapeutic relationship as the occurring, the coming to light of a co-creation between patient and therapist. By means of clinical cases, the author leads the reader on her path of understanding of the Gestalt approach...</p>
The Now-for-Next in Psychotherapy

The Now-for-Next in Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy Recounted in Post-Modern Society (Gestalt Therapy Book Series 1).

Author short name:

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb

Author:

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Donna Orange, and Paolo Migone.  The Now-for-Next in Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy Recounted in Post-Modern Society (Gestalt Therapy Book Series 1).

<p class="font_7">In this classic volume, Kaufman synthesizes object relations theory, interpersonal theory, and, in particular, Silvan Tompkins's affect theory, to provide a powerful and multidimensional view of shame.&nbsp;</p>
The Psychology of Shame

The Psychology of Shame: Theory and Treatment of Shame-Based Syndromes, Second Edition

Author short name:

Gershen Kaufman

Author:

Kaufman, G. 2004 The Psychology of Shame: Theory and Treatment of Shame-Based Syndromes. Springer Publishing Company

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