Routledge Mental Health News
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National PTSD Awareness Day
June 27th is National PTSD Awareness Day. According to the National Center for PTSD (NCPTSD), PTSD is an anxiety disorder resulting from exposure to a single traumatic event or multiple traumatic events, such as sexual or physical assault, natural or man-made disaster, and war-related combat stress.
Join Routledge in supporting those suffering from PTSD as well as their loved ones and professionals who are caring for them.
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Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship
Congratulations to Philip A. Ringstrom, author of A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Psychotherapy winner of the 2014 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship presented by the Canadian Psychological Association!
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Contemporary Families
NEW “Finally, a book on contemporary families that goes beyond the myth that families still look like Duvall proposed in 1950s. Additionally,Contemporary Families:Translating Research Into Practice is a serious attempt to integrate research and practice, excellently written by clinical and research scholars. Equally valuable for both groups, the book is a must read for beginning and advanced family science and therapy students and scholars.” – Volker Thomas, PhD, Professor and Coordinator, Director of Couple and Family Therapy Program, The University of Iowa
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From Pregnancy to Motherhood
JUST PUBLISHED From Pregnancy to Motherhood: Psychoanalytic aspects of the beginning of the mother-child relationship explores the mental states associated with pregnancy, birth and the early days of motherhood from a psychoanalytic perspective.
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Sexual Predators
NEW "An impressive tour of the law, science and psychology of civil commitment of sexual offenders. Sexual Predators: Society, Risk and the Law is important to all those concerned with reducing the burden of sexual victimization. It is essential to those specifically working in civil commitment proceedings. This book will shape discussion for years to come." R. Karl Hanson, PhD, Adjunct Research Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Internal Family Systems in Pixar’s Inside Out: Interview with Arthur Mones
Pixar’s upcoming film, Inside Out, explores the emotional struggles of 11 year old Riley, as she adjusts to her new life in San Francisco when her family moves from the Midwest. With Riley’s emotions—Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Anger, and Fear—as the audience’s guide, you go on a journey through the mind of a child and the pitfalls of adolescence.
Using the principles outlined in his book, Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families, Arthur Mones explains how the film showcases Internal Family Systems theory.
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Freud and the Spoken Word
JUST PUBLISHED There is extensive literature on Freud and language; however, there is very little that looks at Freud’s use of the spoken word. In Freud and the Spoken Word: Speech as a key to the unconscious, Ana-María Rizzuto contends that Freud’s focus on the intrapsychic function and meaning of patients’ words allowed him to use the new psychoanalytic method of talking to gain access to unconscious psychic life.
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A Rumor of Empathy
NEW Empathy is an essential component of the psychoanalyst’s ability to listen and treat their patients. It is key to the achievement of therapeutic understanding and change. A Rumor of Empathy explores the psychodynamic resistances to empathy, from the analyst themselves, the patient, from wider culture, and seeks to explore those factors which represent resistance to empathic engagement, and to show how these can be overcome in the psychoanalytic context.
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Sexualities
NEW Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives presents a broad selection of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking on sexuality from a wide range of psychoanalytic traditions. Sexuality remains at the heart of much psychoanalytic theory and practice but it is a complex and controversial subject.
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Addiction
NEW Addiction: A Behavioral Economic Perspective focuses on the behavioral economics of addiction to explain why someone decides and act against her own well-being. It answers the questions of what accounts for self-defeating behavior patterns and how do we best motivate individuals to act according with their long-term goals.