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The current mainstream way of describing psychological and emotional distress assumes it is the result of medical illnesses that need diagnosing and treating. This book summarises the Power Threat Meaning Framework as an alternative to psychiatric diagnosis - an alternative that asks not 'What's wrong with you?' but 'What's happened to you?'

Now in its third edition, this classic text is essential reading. From its origins in the 1960s, person-centred therapy has long resonated. But it has not stood still, and in this book leading proponents in their fields offer succinct and inspiring summaries of their specialist approach, supported with suggestions for further reading and resources.

Using the experiences of Brexit and the Covid-19 global pandemic, leading existential theorist and practitioner Emmy van Deurzen explores how we handle such existential crises, and how and what we can learn from them to better prepare ourselves psychologically for the future.

Hornstein bridges the gulf between medical explanations of psychiatric illness and the lived experiences of those given labels such as schizophrenia, bipolar illness, depression and paranoia. What emerges is a new model of understanding which asks not 'what's wrong with you' but 'what happened to you and how did you manage to survive?

In 1964 the films "Three Approaches to Psychotherapy" were produced, therein filming complete psychotherapy sessions for the first time. The client in the sessions was Gloria. This work tells of her life.

This powerful follow-up to the first Drop the Disorder! book (PCCS Books, 2019) assembles a huge array of contributors who write about what they have done and are doing to actively challenge and change the mainstream narrative around mental health and 'disorders'.

In this uplifting book, Helen Kewell addresses the challenges presented to us at this major point of transition: midlife. Her message is that these are years to be lived to the full. In these short vignettes, Kewell crafts a story not of decline but of revival, bringing to it a counsellor's wisdom, rooted both in theory and in personal experience.

Modern life is tough on young people and their mental health is suffering. Psychotherapist Jeanine Connor turns her focus to this generation in another series of vivid portraits of what goes on behind the doors of her therapy room. These therapeutic snapshots bring to life the theories pioneered by Freud and make compulsive reading.

A counselling qualification can open doors to a wealth of career opportunities, but there is little guidance to help newly qualified practitioners or those considering a change of pathway. In this essential guide for anyone looking to explore different arenas of practice, Rick Hughes has gathered leading practitioners to offer practical advice.

Susan Dale argues that all therapeutic work should put the client's needs at the heart of the process. She describes here how a collaborative narrative approach can make a lasting difference to people who have experienced trauma from childhood abuse and neglect, violence, combat, or other circumstances.

This powerful book draws direct comparisons between the plight of African slaves, and the systemic 'othering' of people designated 'mad' throughout Western history. Drawing on contemporary historical records, Barham recounts stories of endemic racism, greed, cruelty, exploitation, and social control in an account that demands to be read by all.

This book is a revised and retitled second edition of A Straight Talking Introduction to Being a Mental Health Service User (2010). It shows how those with experiential knowledge of the mental health system are coming together to bring about changes that will benefit us all.

In this new addition to the very popular 'Straight Talking Introductions' series, two experienced psychotherapists explain what you get when you seek therapy. Based on the latest research, this book tells you what works (and doesn't work), how it works, what you should look for from therapy and your therapist, and what to do if it isn't helping.

A revolution is underway in how we think about human variation. It has the potential to transform the society and politics. Psychotherapy should be in the vanguard of this revolution. In this book, Totton aims to challenge and also help the reader, be they talking therapist, body therapist, client or anyone, to interrogate their own 'normality'.

A book about racism and its intersections with other forms of oppression within the talking therapies, told from the therapist's perspective. Containing first-person accounts of the often traumatising silencing of counsellors of colour within, and by, their own profession. These are also stories of strength, courage, resourcefulness and growth.

John Barton used to live in the non-disabled world. Then he developed symptoms of an inherited condition that affected his mobility, closely followed by Parkinson's disease. John is an accredited psychotherapist and former journalist and in this book he explores the physical, political and psychological meanings of disability.

If psychology is to address the despair and anguish that increasingly afflict us all, it needs to develop 'outsight'; to stop looking inside the head of each troubled individual that seeks its help and turn its gaze outwards. Causes of distress are not to be found in faulty or dysfunctional brains, but in the often toxic circumstances of our lives.

This collection of chapters casts a critical eye on the concept of coproduction in our national mental health and learning disability services. Contributors from across the mental health arena offer critical analysis and case examples of coproduction in principle and practice.

This book is based on insights, understandings and knowledge derived from the first-hand experience of voice hearers, and from mental health practice and research. It describes a myriad of therapeutic and creative approaches and strategies that people find helpful in relating to voices.

What is empathy? Is it a basic human characteristic? Is there a biological basis for it? How does it work in therapy? Is it a necessary condition for therapeutic change? This title helps the serious students examine these and other important questions.

Global heating, catastrophic climate change, ecosystem damage and species extinction hang over us all. In this book - counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches and their supervisors - explore the frameworks, theoretical constructs and ways of working they have devised to hold hope and build agency in the face of it all.

This book considers the evidence for freeing ourselves from the creeping medicalisation of psychological theory and practice. Contributors from a range of modalities illustrate how to practise in a demedicalised way, and demonstrate that a demedicalised model provides the ethically axiomatic framework for psychological practice today.

This is a book about Covid-19 as it happened. It is a vivid, sometimes distressing, often uplifting and powerfully moving account of a nation's journey through a nightmare, told in the words of individuals describing their own and others' experiences and how they and their families and communities coped.

In 1922,Carl Rogers, who was to become one of the world's most respected Psychologists, embarked on a journey. The China Diary provides an intimate portrait of a young man exploring his faith, his purpose, and his personhood. The diary a window into the origins of Carl, the person, and Rogers, the founder of person-centere

What causes mental health problems? Nature or nurture? Brain and biology? Genetic inheritance or social environment? Revised and updated, this concise book explains what we know today about the origins of mental distress, drawing on the latest research from across the world.

This comprehensive workbook brings together in one handy volume a wealth of easy-to-apply CBT-based models and worksheets to help your clients move on. It is for counselling, psychology and mental health practitioners, but it's also for your clients.