The Handbook of Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a fast-growing profession and The Handbook of Psychotherapy offers a unique and comprehensive overview of its many aspects. The editors and contributors are all highly experienced practitioners who articulate, singularly or jointly, a particular viewpoint, approach or opinion to produce an overall perspective on psychotherapy today. Each brings a different emphasis to the relevant issues and the creative tension of this dialogue contributes to a lively and well-informed picture of theory and practice. Presented under five main headings - the nature of psychotherapy and its research, its culture, modalities, settings and issues - the book offers a rich source of information and reference. It has been written for all health professionals, including nurses and general practitioners; for social workers; for psychotherapists in training; for anyone considering psychotherapy as a career or seeking psychotherapy; for voluntary organizations; in short, for all those who need or wish to know more about psychotherapy. Petruska Clarkson is a consultant clinical psychologist, Head of School and Founder Director of both the metanoia Psychotherapy Training Institute and of metanoia Organisations International. Michael Pokorny is a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, past Chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy and currently Chair of the Registration Board.

I: Introduction; 1: The nature and range of psychotherapy *; 2: The psychotherapeutic relationship *; 3: A practitioner-scientist approach to psychotherapy process and outcome research; II: Culture; 4: Psychotherapy and race; 5: Psychotherapy and gender; 6: Therapy with survivors of the Nazi Holocaust; 7: Psychotherapy and sexual orientation; III: Modalities; 8: Individual adult psychotherapy; 9A: A spectrum of psychological therapies for children; 9B: Analytical psychotherapy with children; 10: Adolescent psychotherapy; 11: Short-term psychotherapy; 12: Marital psychotherapy; 13: Family therapy; 14: Group psychotherapy; IV: Settings; 15: Psychotherapy in and with organisations; 16: Psychotherapies within the NHS; 17: Psychotherapy and social services; 18: Psychotherapeutic communities; 19: Psychotherapy in the voluntary and independent sector; 20: Psychotherapy in private practice; V: Issues; 21: Psychotherapy and learning disability; 22: The personal and the political; 23: Psychotherapeutic work with adult survivors of sexual abuse in childhood; 24: Sexual contact between psychotherapists and their patients; 25: An approach to the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD); 26: Forensic psychotherapy; 27: Psychotherapy with the dying and the bereaved

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Petruska Clarkson, Michael Pokorny