Product Description

There are an astonishing number of treatments available to us for all types of disorders. But how can we choose wisely from so much on offer?

Introducing Psychotherapy is a unique and valuable guide for anyone who wants to understand more about the subject of psychotherapy. For people seeking help for themselves or others, it focuses on the types of practices available for students and those considering involvement in promoting wellness.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144562 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-04
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Synopsis
There are an astonishing number of treatments available to us for all types of disorders. But how can we choose wisely from so much on offer? "Introducing Psychotherapy" is a unique and valuable guide for anyone who wants to understand more about the subject of psychotherapy. For people seeking help for themselves or others, it focuses on the types of practices available for students and those considering involvement in promoting wellness. This is a brilliant introduction to one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century. No other thinker has had such a profound effect on the ideas and politics of the last hundred years. Hegel's writings on philosophy, politics, history and art aimed to create a system of thought which would actually make sense of history. "Introducing Hegel" guides us through the captivating mind of this important philosopher and is key reading for anyone trying to understand such modern thinkers as Marx, Sartre, Lacan and Adorno.

About the Author
Nigel Benson is a Lecturer in Psychology at Barnfield College, Luton and the author of the hugely successful Introducing Psychology.

Customer Reviews

Excellent summary of psychotherapy!
Introducing Psychotherapy is a superb follow-up to Introducing Psychology (by the same author). This sensitively illustrated book not only includes conventional approaches (ie psychoanalysis, cognitive and behavioural therapies, etc) but it also manages to include a useful summary of alternative / complementary therapies (eg spiritual and energy based techniques). As well as being an ideal introduction for anyone wanting to study this broad subject, or even take it up as a career, it is a very handy reference book for anyone just wanting to look up key topics and get a quick understanding. Thoroughly recommended!

Highly recommened introduction to Psychotherapy
Introducing Psychotherapy like so many of the introducing series brings to life a fansicating topic that you may have read about in a stuffy old textbook or heard about on the television Through a perfect balance of humour and comicbook pictures and text psychotherapy comes alive as a powerful and useful set of talking treatments used to treat mental disorders.
Psychotherapy is a huge topic and one that is widely misunderstood often being mistaken for 'counselling' which is a unique part of psychotherapy.
The authors chart the course of psychotherapy through the ages, how it has developed into hundreds of different treatments, what they aim to do and the mental disorders they aim to treat.
The book is fanscinating and is the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to do psychotherapy or for anyone embarking on working in mental health and for those with many years of experience.