The ​Body Never Lies The ​Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting

Alice Miller - From ​Rage to Courage
Collected ​for the first time, Alice Miller’s most helpful, therapeutic, and invaluable answers to hundreds of readers’ letters. The renowned childhood researcher, psychotherapist, and best-selling author Alice Miller has received, throughout her long and distinguished career, countless personal letters from readers all over the world. In From Rage to Courage, Dr. Miller has assembled the most recent, producing an insightful work that illuminates the issues and consequences of childhood abuse. Whether exploring the connection between repressed anger and physical illnesses like cancer, the reasons why many survivors of abuse turn to drugs or crime, or the cycle that condemns generations of families to cruelty in childhood, Dr. Miller’s answers are sensitive, honest, and supported by decades of experience. Unafraid of controversy, she discusses much-debated theories such as the impact of religious belief on the cultural traditions of child abuse and the therapeutic community’s denial of the truth and dependency on antidepressants. A practical guide to Dr. Miller’s unique therapeutic concept, this work once again affirms the healing and liberating power of retrieved emotions.

Joan M. Farrell - Neele Reiss - Ida A. Shaw - The ​Schema Therapy Clinician’s Guide
The ​Schema Therapy Clinician’s Guide is a complete clinical resource for psychotherapists looking to implement schema therapy, group schema therapy or a combination of both in a structured, cost-effective way. Written by world leaders in the field, including the creators of group schema therapy, this book is based on the only model for integrated, time-limited schema therapy that has been proven in research studies. Accessible for schema therapy beginners, the book will also be invaluable for group or individual therapists interested in combining the two approaches, and for clinicians seeking ready-made resources for work on specific schema modes. The authors provide ready-to-use individual and group sessions with patient hand-outs, independently effective but also linked by schema mode, that can be delivered across a range of treatment lengths. It divides the work of Schema therapy into its basic components of cognitive, experiential and behavioral pattern-breaking work, focusing on one of these components at a time in sessions. Readers can thus select the formats and modes that are most appropriate for the needs of their own patient group and then use those sessions as a basis for planning and delivering a treatment program. Ways to balance individual and group focus are discussed throughout.

Irvin D. Yalom - A ​terápia ajándéka
Irvin ​D. Yalom negyvenöt évnyi praktizálás után összegyűjtötte leghasznosabbnak bizonyult terápiás módszereit, hogy ekképp járuljon hozzá pályakezdő kollégái szakmai fejlődéséhez. Nyíltan és szinte zavarba ejtően tárja elénk saját kétségeit, botladozásait éppúgy, mint briliáns megoldásait. Eszmefuttatásai a laikus olvasó számára is érthetőek, sok az esetleírás, a gyakorlati tanács. Az írásokon átsüt emberszeretete, empátiája, toleranciája, hitelessége és bölcsessége. A legkényesebb kérdésektől sem zárkózik el; saját haláláról vagy az élet értelméről ugyanolyan tárgyilagosan ír, mint a páciens és terapeuta kapcsolatának buktatóiról vagy a szexuális kapcsolat létesítésének tilalmáról. A sokat tanult és sokat megélt terapeuta lényegesen többet enged meg magának a páciens-terapeuta viszonyban, mint tapasztalatlanabb kollégái. Laza és magabiztos, dörzsölt és érzékeny. Tanácsait pácienseknek és terapeutáknak egyaránt érdemes megfontolni. - Irvin D. Yalom (1931) orosz zsidó bevándorló szülők gyermekeként született Washingtonban. A Stanford Egyetem pszichiátriaprofesszora, író. A fikciót, filozófiát és pszichoterápiát ötvöző regényei, A Schopenhauer-terápia és az Amikor Nietzsche sírt világszerte több millió példányban keltek el, és ismertté tették a magyar olvasóközönség számára is.

Irvin D. Yalom - Lying ​on the Couch
From ​the bestselling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept comes a provocative exploration of the unusual relationships three therapists form with their patients. Seymour is a therapist of the old school who blurs the boundary of sexual propriety with one of his clients. Marshal, who is haunted by his own obsessive-compulsive behaviors, is troubled by the role money plays in his dealings with his patients. Finally, there is Ernest Lash. Driven by his sincere desire to help and his faith in psychoanalysis, he invents a radically new approach to therapy -- a totally open and honest relationship with a patient that threatens to have devastating results. Exposing the many lies that are told on and off the psychoanalyst's couch, Lying on the Couch gives readers a tantalizing, almost illicit, glimpse at what their therapists might really be thinking during their sessions. Fascinating, engrossing and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves readers with a denouement of surprising humanity and redemptive faith.

Julie Gregory - Sickened
A ​remarkable memoir that speaks in an original and distinctive Midwestern voice, rising to indelible scenes in prose of scathing beauty and fierce humor. A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. It’s four o’clock, and she hasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to "get to the bottom of this." She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. This child will not ruin her plans. From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, and operated on—in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother’s mind. Munchausen by proxy (MBP) is the world’s most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse, in which the caretaker—almost always the mother—invents or induces symptoms in her child because she craves the attention of medical professionals. Many MBP children die, but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's madness and rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman. Punctuated with Julie's actual medical records, Sickened re-creates the bizarre cocoon of her family's isolated double-wide trailer, their wild shopping sprees and gun-waving confrontations, the astonishing naïveté of medical professionals and social workers. It also exposes the twisted bonds of terror and love that roped Julie's family together—including the love that made a child willing to sacrifice herself to win her mother's happiness. The realization that the sickness lay in her mother, not in herself, would not come to Julie until adulthood. But when it did, it would strike like lightning. Through her painful metamorphosis, she discovered the courage to save her own life—and, ultimately, the life of the girl her mother had found to replace her. Sickened takes us to new places in the human heart and spirit. It is an unforgettable story, unforgettably told.

Frederick S. Perls - Gestalt ​Therapy Verbatim
[Compiled ​and edited from transcriptions of three workshop/demonstrations that took place at the Esalen Institute in 1968, the first section of this book includes four lectures wherein Perls presents a clear explanation in simple terms of the basic ideas he believed underlie the philosophy and methodology of Gestalt therapy. The lectures are followed by verbatim transcripts of work Perls did with workshop participants. This Gestalt Journal edition includes an introduction by Michael Vincent Miller that explores the political and cultural milieu when Gestalt therapy leapt to the "theatrical forefront" of the human potential movement.]

Irvin D. Yalom - A ​magyar macska átka
„Hat ​lebilincselő mese életről és halálról egy virtuóz terapeuta tollából.” – Kirkus Irvin D. Yalom az emberi lélek feltárásának mestere, a „kétszemélyes terápia” elkötelezett híve, akinek hitvallása, hogy a terapeutának a pácienssel együtt kell fejlődnie és változnia, fenekestül felfordítja elképzeléseinket a páciens–terapeuta viszonyról. Ezúttal hat, részint saját klinikai tapasztalataiból merített, részint fiktív történetet írt, melyekben aprólékos részletességgel, magabiztos nyelvi kifejezőerővel mutatja be szereplőit, egykori pácienseit, akik nemcsak a terapeuta álmaiba és gondolataiba fészkelik be magukat, de az olvasó számára is emlékezetesek maradnak. Miközben Yalom betekintést enged a terapeuta szívének és elméjének legmélyebb bugyraiba, arra hívja fel a figyelmet, hogy törékeny és egyedi kapcsolataink végtelen lehetőségek tárházai, megváltozni, önmagunkat jobban megismerni és megérteni pedig soha nem késő.

Verena Kast - Álmok
Az ​álmodásnak, az álmok értelmezésének évezredes irodalma van, az álom ugyanakkor legszemélyesebb magánügyünk, melyet csak válogatott kevesekkel kívánunk és tudunk megosztani. Hétköznapi, mégis titokzatos tapasztalat. Az örökzöld kérdéseket, hogy mi is az álom és miért álmodunk, Verena Kast neves svájci analitikus és pszichoterapeuta a modern agykutatás, a pszichológiai álomfejtés és Carl Gustav Jung tézisei felől közelíti meg. Konkrét példák sorával igazolja, hogy érdemes álmainkat elemeznünk: tünetértékűek, önismerethez segítenek, ennélfogva támogatnak abban, hogy életünkön változtassunk.

Gordon Wheeler - Gestalt ​Reconsidered
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

James I. Kepner - Body ​Process
Traditional ​psychotherapy approaches, focusing on working with and correcting mental events and conditions, have placed little importance on the fundamentally physical nature of the person. Yet many of the problems people bring to therapy are linked with or manifested in the body--such as obesity, psychosomatic distress, chronic tension, and sexual problems. This book provides a therapeutic approach that addresses both the physical and mental nature of clients. In this book, James Kepner shows that a client's posture, movements, and bodily experiences are indeed relevant to therapy, and he offers an insightful framework for incorporating these aspects into a therapeutic framework. This comprehensive treatment explains how body work can be integrated with the aims, methods, and philosophy of psychotherapy, offering a framework within which practitioners of different theoretical approaches can better appreciate body processes in the context of the whole person, rather than as isolated events. This book, including an updated introduction by the author, explores the range of body work in psychotherapy, from the development of body awareness to intensive work with physical structure and expression. And it demonstrates how this approach can be particularly effective with a range of clients, including survivors of sexual abuse, recovering drug addicts or alcoholics, or those suffering from chronic illness.

Slavoj Žižek - Violence
Philosopher, ​cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary terrorists. Violence, Žižek states, takes three forms--subjective (crime, terror), objective (racism, hate-speech, discrimination), and systemic (the catastrophic effects of economic and political systems)--and often one form of violence blunts our ability to see the others, raising complicated questions. Does the advent of capitalism and, indeed, civilization cause more violence than it prevents? Is there violence in the simple idea of "the neighbour"? And could the appropriate form of action against violence today simply be to contemplate, to think? Beginning with these and other equally contemplative questions, Žižek discusses the inherent violence of globalization, capitalism, fundamentalism, and language, in a work that will confirm his standing as one of our most erudite and incendiary modern thinkers.

Paulo Coelho - Veronika ​Decides to Die
Veronika ​has everything she could wish for - young and pretty, with plenty of attractive boyfriends, a steady job, loving family. Yet Veronika is not happy and one winter's morning takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later in the local hospital. There she is told that although she is alive, her heart is now irreparably damaged and she has only a few days to live… This story follows her through these intense days as she starts question all her ideas about life. Soon she comes to realise that every second of existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. This is a moving and uplifting song to life, one that reminds us that every moment in our lives is special and precious.

Ismeretlen szerző - The ​Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Schema Therapy
The ​Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Schema Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the theory, diagnosis, treatment, research, implementation, and management of schema therapy. Presents the first comprehensive overview of schema therapy - goes far beyond all previous books on the subject to cover theoretical, research and practical perspectives Covers the latest developments, including work on mindfulness and borderline personality disorder, as well as new applications of schema therapy beyond personality disorders Includes chapters by leaders in the field including Wendy Behary, president of the ISST and Arnoud Arntz, as well as a foreword by Jeffrey Young, the founder of schema therapy

Irvin D. Yalom - The ​Spinoza Problem
In ​The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical novel. A psychiatrist with a deep interest in philosophical issues, Yalom jointly tells the story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza, his philosophy and subsequent excommunication from the Jewish community, and his apparent influence on the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, whose einsatzgruppe was dispatched during the Second World War to investigate a mysterious “Spinoza Problem.” Seamlessly alternating between Golden Age Amsterdam and Nazi Germany, Yalom investigates the inner lives of these two enigmatic men in a tale of influence and anxiety, the origins of good and evil, and the philosophy of freedom and the tyranny of terror.

Gary M. Yontef - Awareness ​Dialogue & Process
Called ​"the most significant addition to the body of Gestalt therapy literature in almost two decades," this collection of Yontef's writings encompasses the history and politics of Gestalt therapy, Gestalt therapy theory, field theory and the practice of Gestalt therapy including new chapters on treating people with character disorders and working with shame. Highly recommended as a training text and as a resource for graduate students and scholars.

Donald W. Winnicott - Malacka
Egy ​érzékeny, tehetséges kisgyermek pszichoterápiájáról szól ez a kötet, elsõsorban a nagyközönségnek. A kislányt ért trauma is közönséges: kistestvére születik. Kisgyerekek esetében a pszichoterápia közös játszásból áll. A folyamat értését könnyíti, hogy Winnicott közli saját gondolatmenetét is - és közben az olvasó bepillanthat abba a munkába, ahol nehéz különbséget tenni klinikai javulás és érzelmi fejlõdés, a terápia hatásai és az immár felszabadított érési folyamatok között.

Jeffrey E. Young - Janet S. Klosko - Aaron T. Beck - Reinventing ​Your Life
Two ​of America's leading psychologists, Jeffrey E. Young, Ph.D., and Janet S. Klosko, Ph.D., show readers how to free themselves from negative life patterns. Written with compassion as well as clinical insight, this thought-provoking book guides readers through the process of identifying "life traps." For example, "Do you put the needs of others before your own? Are you drawn into relationships with people who are self-centered, cold to you, misunderstand you, or use you? Do you feel inadequate compared to people around you?" Followed by an engaging discussion that makes use of case studies, this book can help people change their lives by stopping the cycle of self-destruction.

Steven Pinker - The ​Better Angels of Our Nature
_A ​provocative history of violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank Slate_ Believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. In his gripping and controversial new work, New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows that despite the ceaseless news about war, crime, and terrorism, violence has actually been in decline over long stretches of history. Exploding myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious book continues Pinker's exploration of the essence of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly enlightened world.

Swami Ajaya - Psychotherapy ​East and West
Psychotherapy ​meets spirituality in this unique work which compares the worldview and methods of the yogic sages with modem psychotherapists. In the ancient system of yoga, the sages studied the psyche scientifically, developing techniques to lead their students through mental barriers to the reality beyond the mind. Students learned through direct experience, by practicing the methods taught by their teachers. Modern psychotherapists also help the individual to know himself, but this young science only goes part of the way, each school emphasizing a different aspect of human functioning. In Psychotherapy East and West practical methods are described for helping people change and attain a higher state of consciousness. The spiritual aspects of psychotherapy are clearly explained, and yogic techniques are provided for bodywork, breathwork, working with habit patterns, self-observation, and spiritual practices such as silence. Swami Ayaja, Ph.D. is both a clinical psychologist and swami. He received his education at Wesleyan University and at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his Western training, Swami Ajaya studied yoga therapy and Vedanta philosophy with various yogis in India. He is the author of Yoga Psychology and a coauthor of Yoga and Psychotherapy.

Robert Hartzema - You ​Are the Weaver of Your World
In ​nine accessible chapters, You Are the Weaver of Your World examines the forces that stunt spiritual growth and offers strategies for countering them. Based on the author’s 15 years of operating a Tibetan Buddhist center, readers learn how to release "the two spirals"—childhood hopes and fears—and embrace their own power, reclaim the longing for life and love, a fundamental principle of human happiness, and tap into the elusive energy of the present moment. This book is a wonderful guidepost to personal growth that combines Eastern meditation with Western psychotherapy.