Gestalt Therapists Guide Through the Depressive Field - Giving Way to Hope

This book is intended for psychotherapists working with depressed clients. In particular, it focuses on how working with depressed clients affects the therapists themselves, and elaborates on how therapists can care for themselves in such demanding work to prevent burnout, or process it meaningfully as part of their professional development.

Table des matières

Introduction 1. How Depression Gets Under Our Skin 2. We Depress Together 3. Why Do We Do It? 4. Therapists in the Depressive Swamp 5. What Do We Actually Do? 6. Letting Pain Be Felt 7. The Art of "Doing Nothing" 8. Surrendering to Hope 9. Above All, Get Out of the Way 10. Inviting a Stranger 11. Something for the Road Postscrip 12. Diagnosis Like the Backrest of a Chair 13. Not Fighting with the Medication 14. Movement in the Suicidal Field

A propos de l'auteur

Jan Roubal, MD, PhD, is an associate professor at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, where he also works in the Center for Psychotherapy Research. He works as a psychotherapist and psychiatrist. He founded the Training in Psychotherapy Integration and the Training Gestalt Studia in the Czech Republic; he also works as a psychotherapy trainer and supervisor internationally.

Résumé

This book is intended for psychotherapists working with depressed clients. In particular, it focuses on how working with depressed clients affects the therapists themselves, and elaborates on how therapists can care for themselves in such demanding work to prevent burnout, or process it meaningfully as part of their professional development.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jan Roubal
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032814940
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281494-0
• Pages: 148
• Thème: The Gestalt Therapy Book Series
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Psychologie > Psychologie théorique; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Psychotherapy, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services