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Explorations in Mental Health


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The Explorations in Mental Health series draws together research, theory and practice from within the field of Mental Health, enhancing our understanding of key challenges and facilitate ongoing academic debate.

Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:

AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

Alice Salt: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America

Vilija Stephens: [email protected] – Editor, Australia & New Zealand

Katie Peace: [email protected] – Publisher, Asia

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Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing

Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Helmar Kurz
June 14, 2024

This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients’ health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry. Comparative chapters document and critically assess the affective arrangements of Spiritist spaces...

E-attachment and Online Communication The Changing Context of the Clinical Diagnosis and Psychological Treatment

E-attachment and Online Communication: The Changing Context of the Clinical Diagnosis and Psychological Treatment

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Katarzyna Sitnik-Warchulska, Bernadetta Izydorczyk, Zbigniew Wajda
May 27, 2024

This book examines the use of modern technologies in clinical psychological practice. It considers how we define attachment in an age where changes in technology and the COVID-19 pandemic have increased the prevalence of online contact in the process of diagnosis and psychological treatment. Based ...

Self and Identity An Exploration of the Development, Constitution and Breakdown of Human Selfhood

Self and Identity: An Exploration of the Development, Constitution and Breakdown of Human Selfhood

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Matthew Tieu
May 27, 2024

What is a self? What does it mean to have selfhood? What is the relationship between selfhood and identity? These are puzzling questions that philosophers, psychologists, social scientists, and many other researchers often grapple with. Self and Identity is a book that explores and brings together...

Towards a Transtheoretical Definition of Countertransference Re-visioning the Clinician's Intersubjective Experience

Towards a Transtheoretical Definition of Countertransference: Re-visioning the Clinician's Intersubjective Experience

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Rudy Roman
May 27, 2024

This book explores the analyst’s countertransference experience in clinical settings from a number of theoretical perspectives in order to develop a transtheoretical definition of countertransference. Stemming from an examination of the definition of countertransference itself, the author utilizes...

Music in Arts-Based Research and Depth Psychology Listening for Shadow as Inclusive Inquiry

Music in Arts-Based Research and Depth Psychology: Listening for Shadow as Inclusive Inquiry

1st Edition

By Shara Brun
March 19, 2024

This book addresses an existing gap in academic arts-based research, whereby, rather than exploring music as an effective therapeutic intervention, it is explored as the central medium or tool of inquiry. Integrating heuristic, hermeneutic, and arts-based grounded theory methodologies, the book ...

Learning the Hard Way in Clinical Internships in Social Work and Psychology Lessons for Safety, Boundary-Setting, and Deepening the Practicum Experience

Learning the Hard Way in Clinical Internships in Social Work and Psychology: Lessons for Safety, Boundary-Setting, and Deepening the Practicum Experience

1st Edition

By Susan A. Lord
March 15, 2024

In this book, Susan A. Lord shares important stories and lessons from two undergraduate and two postgraduate clinical internships as colorful narratives that will augment texts in undergraduate and graduate practicum seminar classes. The chapters engage with fundamental issues, including the ...

Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory Eating the Lack

Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory: Eating the Lack

1st Edition

By Bethany Morris
February 06, 2024

This book offers a close analysis of the relationship between diets and identity in modern Western culture through the examination of popular texts including blogs, diet books, and websites. The relationship between consumerism and identity has been explored by scholars for decades now, but less ...

Desettlering as Re-subjectification of the Settler Subject Towards Alternative Traditions and Identity

Desettlering as Re-subjectification of the Settler Subject: Towards Alternative Traditions and Identity

1st Edition

By Kathleen S.G. Skott-Myhre, Hans A. Skott-Myhre, Jeffrey Galvin Smith, Scott Kouri
September 30, 2023

This book offers an intervention into the process of decolonization through the re-subjectification of the settler subject. The authors draw on what Deleuze and Guattari call minor threads of philosophy, pedagogy, spirituality, and healing practices rooted in neglected lineages of European thought ...

Compassionate Love in Intimate Relationships The Integration Process of Sexual Mass Trauma, Racism, and Resilience

Compassionate Love in Intimate Relationships: The Integration Process of Sexual Mass Trauma, Racism, and Resilience

1st Edition

By Josiane M. Apollon
September 25, 2023

Drawing on interviews conducted with Black couples in the United States, this book explores relational resilience and identifies unique adaptation strategies that enable couples to overcome the multigenerational effects of violence and sexual mass trauma from slavery and activates compassionate ...

Trauma and Its Impacts on Temporal Experience New Perspectives from Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis

Trauma and Its Impacts on Temporal Experience: New Perspectives from Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis

1st Edition

By Selene Mezzalira
September 25, 2023

This unique text develops an original theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between trauma and time by combining phenomenological and psychoanalytical traditions. Moving beyond Western psychoanalytical and phenomenological traditions, this volume presents new perspectives on ...

Critical Resilience and Thriving in Response to Systemic Oppression Insights to Inform Social Justice in Critical Times

Critical Resilience and Thriving in Response to Systemic Oppression: Insights to Inform Social Justice in Critical Times

1st Edition

By Melissa L. Morgan
March 31, 2023

This book offers new insight into how individuals utilize resilience in the face of structural and social injustice. By drawing on qualitative research methods to foreground the voices of Holocaust survivors and Latinx immigrants to the United States, Critical Resilience and Thriving in Response to...

Challenging the Therapeutic Narrative Historical and Clinical Perspectives on the Genetics of Behavior

Challenging the Therapeutic Narrative: Historical and Clinical Perspectives on the Genetics of Behavior

1st Edition

By Robert G. Goldstein
January 18, 2023

This volume explores and challenges the assumption that behavioral proclivities and pathologies are directly traceable to experience—an assumption that still widely dominates folk psychology as well as the perspective of many mental health practitioners.  This tendency continues despite powerful ...

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