Handbook of Psychotherapy

Petruska Clarkson, Michael Pokorny

`This book will be remembered as an outstanding contribution to the development of the profession of psychotherapy.' - Counselling News'Is the book a success? Undoubtedly so. The contributors have been selected for their knowledge of their subject and clarity of writing. Although the chapters are short, they are concise and easy to read, and they are supplemented by extensive references, recommendations for futher reading and useful addresses.' - British Journal of Medical Psychology

• I: Introduction; 1: The nature and range of psychotherapy *; 2: The psychotherapeutic relationship *; 3: A practitioner-scientist approach to psychotherapy process and outcome research; II: Culture; 4: Psychotherapy and race; 5: Psychotherapy and gender; 6: Therapy with survivors of the Nazi Holocaust; 7: Psychotherapy and sexual orientation; III: Modalities; 8: Individual adult psychotherapy; 9A: A spectrum of psychological therapies for children; 9B: Analytical psychotherapy with children; 10: Adolescent psychotherapy; 11: Short-term psychotherapy; 12: Marital psychotherapy; 13: Family therapy; 14: Group psychotherapy; IV: Settings; 15: Psychotherapy in and with organisations; 16: Psychotherapies within the NHS; 17: Psychotherapy and social services; 18: Psychotherapeutic communities; 19: Psychotherapy in the voluntary and independent sector; 20: Psychotherapy in private practice; V: Issues; 21: Psychotherapy and learning disability; 22: The personal and the political; 23: Psychotherapeutic work with adult survivors of sexual abuse in childhood; 24: Sexual contact between psychotherapists and their patients; 25: An approach to the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD); 26: Forensic psychotherapy; 27: Psychotherapy with the dying and the bereaved