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The Rainbow Journal has been created for young people who self-harm. The journal acknowledges different types of self harm as a way of coping with difficult feelings, and encourages the reader to use the journal as another alternative to help alleviate the pain and upset those feelings can cause. By…
A collection of user, carer and survivor narratives, this book is grouped under five themes: On diagnosis; Stories of experience (of mental health problems); Experiencing the mental health system; On being a carer and Abuse and Survival. The book should be of great benefit to students of mental health, narrative…
There has been a major development in health and social science research: it is now being carried out by people who had previously only been seen as its subjects. At the forefront are people with experience as mental health service users/survivors who have taken a lead in pioneering a…
The literature of suicidology has studiously ignored the voice of those who actually experience suicidal feelings. David Webb suggests this is no accidental oversight but a very deliberate and systematic exclusion of this critically important first-person knowledge. The only thing that is banished with even more vigour from suicidology is…
•Examines the related demands for audit and ‘evidence-based practice’ in health services, and how these increasingly encroach upon the field of psychotherapy. •Critically discusses whether the tools used to carry out ‘audit’ and measure ‘accountability’ can possibly relate to, or help reflect…
Psychology in the Real World describes groups, courses and projects that psychologist Guy Holmes has been involved in over the past decade, many of which have been recognised nationally for their innovation and their importance as new ways to provide psychological services, to reduce and combat stigma, to help people…
This title will be printed and dispatched directly from our print-on-demand supplier. Your book will be delivered within 7 working days. In, Against and Beyond Therapy assembles some 15 years of updated critical writings within the broad therapy field, with incisively provocative commentaries on the professionalisation process, the client voice, therapeutic education…
Flesh Wounds? is a book of research-based stories about self-injury (sometimes called self-harm). It explores the meaning and purpose of self-injury in an individual’s life; the experiences that might lead to self-injury; and which approaches and responses to self-injury are helpful and which are not. It is intended…
An international collection of papers offers critical analysis of the person-centred approach and its position on difference and diversity; class; culture and racism; sexuality; power and gender issues. Other contributions present a range of work including theory development; social change as a necessary and sufficient conditon for therapeutic personality growth;…
This title will be printed and dispatched directly from our print-on-demand supplier. Your book will be delivered within 7 working days. This volume attempts to shed a new and different light on the intersections between mental health, mental distress and society, without offering any programmatic methodology or declaration of intent. An…
Violence affects us all. There are daily reports of murders, shootings, abductions and child abuse in the media. We may be horrified and disturbed by violence but it also fascinates and intrigues us. In the UK in the last few decades, serial killers Fred and Rose West committed appalling acts…
From sceptics to believers, through theorists and therapists working with our deepest concerns, Spirituality and Psychotherapy provides a timely and invigorating journey through Freud's 'black tide of mud of occultism'. An experienced selection of contributors bring a variety of strong views to the reader interested in spirituality and its…