A well-updated and comprehensive second edition, this handbook covers the philosophy, evolution, methodology and teaching of gestalt therapy, and exists as a valuable resource of contemporary research for both trainee therapists and advanced practitioners of the discipline.
Demons on the Couch
Belief in possession has ancient roots. This book traces its global history and explores how mental health professionals can help a person who believes they are possessed. Featuring interviews with exorcists, this is a fascinating study for believers and sceptics alike.
Script and Addiction
The 12 Steps programme for addiction has a low success rate. This book demonstrates how combining it with the “Life Script” concept from Transactional Analysis can achieve a much higher rate of success. Pioneered by the author, this new approach is supported by case studies.
Health and Safety for Spirit Seers, Telepaths and Visionaries
While 51 million people in the world are afflicted with schizophrenia, self-help books on the topic are not in ample supply and often very dark in outlook. This extensive study provides a much-needed, positive, hopeful and holistic perspective on how to cope with schizophrenia.
A positive link exists between religiosity and well-being. This book brings together in one volume scattered empirical studies on the topic from different Arab, mainly Muslim, countries, exploring the connection to mental health, happiness, and quality of life.
Psychology for a Better World
This anthology from World without Anger (WWA) promotes peace. Peer-reviewed papers from an international conference reflect diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives on anger management, emotional intelligence, and cultural harmony.
This book is for everyone interested in the prevention and treatment of addiction. It applies research on the causes and cures of drug addiction using the author’s unique personality theory, analyzing 12 addict case studies. A timely read for dealing with the opioid crisis.
This book articulates Christian anthropology as a foundation for psychotherapy. Contributors integrate scientific psychology with Christian theology, viewing spirituality as an intrinsic part of humanity that influences health and the search for meaning.
This text compiles conceptual research in cognitive linguistics and empirical studies on language, showing the current state of five areas of cognitive explorations of language, namely conceptual blending, narratology, multimodality, linguistic creativity and construction grammar
This book introduces “AfroSymbiocity,” a paradigm for conflict resolution based on original African strategies. It provides the missing cultural pieces in the puzzle of conflict, using the historical example of King Moshoeshoe to demonstrate an approach with universal relevance.
Conceptual Blending and the Arts
Warchoł analyses how the processes described in Conceptual Blending Theory can be applied in practice, on the basis of Michał Batory’s posters designed for artistic events, highlighting how Batory’s artefacts influence people and convey hidden messages.
Western civilization endures three seminal, tragic father-son stories. This book explores a fourth, softer myth: that of Jacob and Joseph. In this alternative path, the son, chosen by his father, unites a tribe and furthers his father’s dreams, and neither is destroyed.
The Story Cookbook
The Story Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of over 80 story-based activities. This easy-to-follow guide provides a treasure trove of techniques to apply and adapt. It is a must-read for consultants, educators, and leaders using storytelling for positive change.
Saylan covers a selection of Yeats’s poems from 1889 to 1939, discussing them within the frame of the quest to find oneself and its gyroscopic transformation. In doing so, she illustrates that self is not a single entity, but has multiple layers.
This handbook helps psychology professors internationalize their courses and curricula. It offers practical tips and innovative ideas to enrich teaching, with authors from every major geographic region providing a truly global perspective on psychology education.
Practical Action
This book presents a dynamic model of practical action that challenges the one imposed by the cognitive sciences. Integrating Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and interactionist sociology, it reveals a radically contextual conception of human individual and collective behaviour.
The Well-being of Chinese Older Adults
Ouyang studies the well-being of the Chinese elderly through the relationship among personal factors, environmental factors, person-environment fit, and the mediating effects of supplementary fit.
Principles and Practices for Psychodynamic Group Career Counseling
The first manual on psychodynamic group career counseling, this book offers insights into unconscious processes affecting career decisions. It provides a complete intervention with detailed sessions, methodological tools, case illustrations, and scripts for practitioners.
Ożańska-Ponikwia addresses a prominent area of second language acquisition research, specifically the factors that mediate learning outcomes in learning a second or foreign language. She provides a comprehensive overview of the field from the point of view emotional intelligence.
Psychotherapy, Ethics, and Society
Drawing on psychoanalytic thinking from over a century and the author’s three decades of experience, this text asks whether psychotherapy can offer insight into a more inclusive kind of ethics, and, if so, whether it can glean any guidance on how such an ethics may be furthered.