This book is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or long-term, provoked by a traumatic event. What is distinctive about this book is that its authors offer a psychoanalytical understanding of the meaning of the trauma for an individual, illuminating theory with detailed clinical illustration and case histories. They show the process of treatment as their patient...

Since the initial publication of this volume, the field of traumatic stress studies has continued to grow at an unprecedented rate. The revised and expanded second edition now brings readers fully u ...

A Biodynamic Approach to Development from Conception to Birth - This book presents an anatomical overview of the changing form and structure of the human body.

Based on the principle that traumatic stress affects the interconnecting tissues of the body by forming patterns of tension called lesions, Mechanical Link therapy has successfully treated fibromyal ...

The Treatment of External Diseases with Acupuncture and Moxibustion is a clinical manual for the treatment of traumatic injuries, muscle joint problems, dermatological conditions, and postoperative complaints. It has been written by Yan Cui-lan, a well-known acupuncturist specializing in external diseases from Tangshan, Hebei. Dr. Yan has written this book specifically with Western pract...

In the West people commonly assume that disruptions of the body are the exclusive domain of medical intervention and that disruptions of the mind are to be addressed primarily by psychological inquiry. This work is a discussion on the integration of the principles of TCM and psychosomatics. It develops a dynamic model of health that acknowledges the connection of body and mind. This mode...

`There is much that is fascinating here. Long-established experiments and conclusions are rubbished and reinterpreted, long-established assumptions and beliefs about emotions are soundly trounced, and generally a good going-over is delivered to the whole field... it is such a blockbuster that one can only reel backwards and tell anyone studying the subject that they would be crazy not to...

In his first new book in ten years, David Shapiro extends the stubbornly intuitive clinical vision that informed his phenomenally successful Neurotic Styles to probe the psychopathological. Emphasizing self-regulatory process over biological event, Shapiro's philosophy of mind goes against the current - but with authority...not to mention a built-in audience

This is the first definitive book to draw on unique, unpublished, professional expertise about the reshaping of herbal medicine in the UK. This book outlines the outcomes of recent examinations, and poses challenging questions about the direction of future herbal medicine policy within the UK.

This controversial book broadens the horizons of manual therapy to embrace adverse tension in the nervous system. Injury can impair the mobility and elasticity of the nervous system, which are both essential features of normal body movement. The author contends that the clinical consequences of altered nervous system biomechanics are unrecognised and that many disorders attributed to mus...

A lively and straightforward introduction to brief therapy for counselors and counseling students. This book enables readers to establish a brief counseling mindset, master key steps of the solution ...

A practical guide to starting and running in-home services for families where a child has an emotional disorder. Preserving families in distress through therapeutic and other services delivered in the family home represents a significant evolution in children's services over the past two decades. This book addresses the full range of home-based service issues, including how to plan and d...