Product Description: Multimedia Psychotherapy is a new technique that helps patients to mourn and overcome loss and grief experiences as well as blocks and inhibitions in the life cycle. The method can be easily summarized in 5 steps: the intake (where the therapist explains the technique to the patient), the “picture sessions” (where the patient, helped by his/her own family, brings in pictures and works them through freely associating with memories and emotions evoked by the images), the “music session” (during which a song or music is chosen by the patient in order to become the soundtrack of the “psychodynamic montage” which a multimedia artist, who collaborates with the therapist, will produce and then give back to the therapist), the “screening session” (where patient and therapist watch, comment, and elaborate the video together), and the outcome...read more

Product Description: The treatment manual is intended to serve more than one purpose. It is designed to be a research tool, making possible the standardization and validation of a treatment method. It is also a highly condensed primer and a practicum, offering a description of psychoanalytic group therapy which will act as a handbook for the beginner and as an aide-memoire for the more experienced therapist...read more

Product Description: Through the use of group therapy sessions, conducted within a cognitive-behavioral framework, the author explores the cultural, social and parental influences on women's lives. In-depth case studies and transcripts from the sessions illustrate the women's actual step-by step process in examining such issues as: Self-determination Motherhood as fulfillment Consequences of a two-career family Divorce Infidelity Competitiveness among women Identifying sources of power within and outside onesel...read more

Product Description: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A practical guide for group therapists which provides technical directions for psychotherapy. Important issues such as the benefits of the group's microsociety and group peers to the individual patients in altering established interactive procedures are examined.

Product Description: The ways in which people struggle to establish a sense of belonging and connectedness, yet also need to preserve their individuality and separateness, has long fascinated psychologists, therapists and group-workers. This treatise brings new insights to this fundamental issue and examines the ways in which different theoretical interpretations of group processes may be integrated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)