Rebuilding shattered lives

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Wendy Maltz

Considered a classic in its field, this comprehensive guide will help survivors of sexual abuse improve their relationships and discover the joys of sexual intimacy. Wendy Maltz takes survivors step-by-step through the recovery process using groundbreaking exercises and techniques. Based on the author's clinical work, interviews, and workshops, this guide is filled with first-person accounts of women and men at every stage of sexual healing. This compassionate resource helps survivors to: Identify the sexual effects of sexual abuse, Eliminate negative sexual behavior and resolve specific problems, Gain control over upsetting automatic reactions to touch and sex, Develop a healthy sexual self-concept.

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M. Clement Hall

As many as fifteen million Americans may suffer from the disabling medical condition known as fibromyalgia. Nonetheless, the medical community is divided over the reality of this condition. One side argues that the patients are masquerading--pretending a disability they know they do not have. The other side counters that fibromyalgia sufferers are abused by a society that fails to give them the support they deserve. Without taking sides, Dr. M. Clement Hall presents six fictional, though factually based, case studies of typical patients from differing socioeconomic backgrounds and describes the varying investigations, diagnoses, and treatments they have undergone. Each case study represents a composite of many years of clinical practice rather than one specific patient. Collectively, they cover the range of experiences fibromyalgia patients are likely to have encountered. Dr. Hall thus presents an objective overview of the fibromyalgia situation today in North America.--From publisher description.

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John McLeod

Practical and accessible this guide to doing research within psychotherapy and counselling has been fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on evidence-based practice and practitioner research.

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Gaie Houston

The ways in which people struggle to establish a sense of belonging, and their need to preserve their individuality, has long fascinated psychologists, therapists and group-workers. Overvaluing separateness may be at least as damaging as abandoning personal judgment to the dictates of the group. We all belong; yet many people are far less skilled at recognising and managing themselves as group members than at behaving as isolates. This highly original book brings new insights to this fundamental issue and examines the ways in which different theoretical interpretations of group processes may be integrated. The author gives an account of how the reality of belonging is dealt with during a residential group experience. The fictional participants talk for themselves but, at the same time, they also represent a range of theoretical perspectives. By means of this compelling dialogue, and commentary, the reader is guided through a series of crucial issues in the struggle to understand what happens when people attend to their experience in and between groups. This book is both a powerful drama and a handbook for all those working with groups as counsellors, therapists and facilitators.