Catch Them Before They Fall

Catch Them Before They Fall
Author: Christopher Bollas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2012-12-14
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0415637198

In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm. He suggests that the unconscious purpose of breakdown is to present the self to the other for transformative understanding; to have its core distress met and understood directly. If caught in time, a breakdown can become a breakthrough. It is an event imbued with the most profound personal significance, but it requires deep understanding if its meaning is to be released to its transformative potential. Bollas believes that hospitalization, intensive medication and CBT/DBT all negate this opportunity, and he proposes that many of these patients should instead be offered extended, intensive psychoanalysis. This book will be of interest to clinicians who find that, with patients on the verge of breakdown, conventional psychoanalytical work is insufficient to meet the emerging crisis. However, Bollas's challenging proposal will provoke many questions and in the final section of the book some of these are raised by Sacha Bollas and presented in a question-and-answer form.

What Teachers Need to Know about Learning Difficulties

What Teachers Need to Know about Learning Difficulties
Author: Peter Westwood
Publisher: Aust Council for Ed Research
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0864319363

This book draws on international research about learning difficulties, presenting a clear picture of the issues involved. It focuses on early identification, so that intervention can prevent or minimize the negative outcomes of persistent failure and it explains how teachers can address problems effectively. Problems of socialization and behavior are discussed and brief coverage is given to students' specific difficulties with reading and mathematics. A comprehensive range of links to additional sources of information will help teachers find positive solutions for their students.

A Little Too Much Is Enough

A Little Too Much Is Enough
Author: Kathleen Tyau
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393315592

A young woman's story of growing up Hawaiian-Chinese. The short chapters deal with various aspects of her upbringing such as mixing poi, pouring tea and learning to dance the hula. Other chapters describe the impact of general events on the family, such as Pearl Harbor and the Vietnam War.

A Practical Guide to Service Learning

A Practical Guide to Service Learning
Author: Felicia L. Wilczenski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2007-06-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0387465405

This book describes how service learning, an intervention that can be both remedial or preventive and individual or systemic, can enable school psychologists to expand their role beyond special populations to serve students within the academic mainstream. It draws connections between the positive psychology movement, the nurturing of purpose in youth, and the benefits of service learning.

100 Ideas for Teaching Physical Development

100 Ideas for Teaching Physical Development
Author: Simon Brownhill
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009-04-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1847061931

Essential reading for any practitioner involved with children's development in the early years. >

If Life Is a Circus I Must Be the Clown

If Life Is a Circus I Must Be the Clown
Author: Frances Bevan
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 150433714X

When life has turned into a three ring circus and you dont know how it got that way it can cause you to feel overwhelmed and out of control. Change needs happen, but where do you start? This book is designed to help you: identify what you are juggling, determine why you are juggling these things, decide what to put down, learn how to put them down without breaking them, and how to get back up after you fall.

The A C T Balance To Life

The A C T Balance To Life
Author: Ken F. Riley Jr.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 138722946X

The absolute, complete, and total balance to life with can be used to govern one's self. A guide on how to be a good person and how not to be a bad person.

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis
Author: Jeffrey Berman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2023-12-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1438495706

Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective offers in-depth discussions of and conversations with six psychoanalytic writers: Christopher Bollas, Nancy Chodorow, Sander L. Gilman, Adam Phillips, and Allen and Joan Wheelis. All are genuinely interdisciplinary in their work, bridging multiple cultural and professional positions, but all are deeply rooted in the humanities. They are all also highly controversial, challenging and critiquing conventional psychoanalytic wisdom while also devoting themselves to expanding psychoanalytic knowledge. Drawing on interviews as well as his own readings, Jeffrey Berman examines the continuities and discontinuities in each writer's work while also exploring the interrelationships between psychoanalysis and the humanities. The book ultimately offers a portrait of psychoanalysis as a work in progress, a plurality of visions that might more aptly be termed psychoanalyses.

Creating Relationship Wellness

Creating Relationship Wellness
Author: Stephanie Wijkstrom
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2021
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1627343377

Mindfulness for your marriage is a tool book to be used by couples who want to gain the skill of relationship wellness. Each chapter offers evidence-based, and therapist verified techniques to gain insight into yourself and your partners world. Mindfulness for your marriage offers skills-based interventions that draw upon the fields of mindfulness and behavioral psychology, both recognized as pathways to enrichment. Each segment of this text builds upon the previous in an effort to lead the reader toward a mastery of relationship wellness. Divorce, separation, or disconnection do not always need to be the solution, a new approach to your problems will empower your path to reconnection. Prepare to break down specific methods of mindfulness and apply them during each chapter’s exercises as you practice to enhance your relationship. Each segment ends with practical exercises to do together or independently. In this unique text, you are offered thoughtful meditations that make relationship improvement understandable and easy. The writer houses an intimate understanding of human emotions and connections that she intersects in a meaningful way. It is not necessary to wait to improve your love until it is ailing, but here and now, relationship enhancement is offered as a preventative strategy in the attainment of interconnected wellbeing.