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Psychotherapy Office Designs That Support Treatment Objectives
Sally Augustin and Agneta Morelli
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
This chapter provides information about how to design the psychotherapy setting to support therapy objectives. The needs of both practitioner and client are addressed. The goal is to design ...
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Knowing and Learning
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 3, 1946-1951
In this broadcast and paper, Winnicott discusses what a mother knows and what she learns being a mother. Holding the baby is very important, and the mother does not let other people hold ...
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Considerations in Acquiring Office Space
Jeffrey Zimmerman and Steven Walfish
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
Acquiring office space is one of the largest business expenditures made in the course of running a private practice. Most mental health clinicians are not knowledgeable or experienced in ...
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Donald Winnicott: Transitional transcendence
Janet Sayers
in Divine Therapy: Love, Mysticism and Psychoanalysis
Chapter 10 outlines the work of psychoanalyst and paediatrician Donald Winnicott, and his account of illusions first being inspired, or at least fuelled, through our mothers’ oneness with ...
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Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 5, 1955-1959
In this essay, Winnicott describes the interstices between illusion and reality. He focuses his discussion on the soft objects used by an infant, what he calls a transitional object. He ...
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How to Do Exposure
Martin M. Antony, Michelle G. Craske, and David H. Barlow
in Mastering Your Fears and Phobias: Workbook (2 ed.)
Chapter 7 further explores in vivo exposures, and focuses on the process of performing an exposure. The chapter discusses the differences between massed and spaced exposures, graduated and ...
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Playing: Creative Activity and the Search for the Self
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
In this paper, Winnicott proposes that only in the act of playing is the adult or child free to be creative. The paradox at the heart of his paper on Transitional Objects and Phenomena—that ...
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The Place Where We Live
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
In this paper, Winnicott restates the themes of his paper ‘The Location of Cultural Experience’ for a different audience. Here he examines ‘the place where we live’ when we are experiencing ...
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Common Factors to Consider for All Sexual Problems
John P. Wincze
in Enhancing Sexuality: A Problem-Solving Approach to Treating Dysfunction (2 ed.)
Chapter 4 discusses common factors to consider for all sexual problems, including feelings of privacy, comfort, novelty and risk, sex with a new partner versus sex with a familiar partner, ...
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Playing: A Theoretical Statement
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
In this paper, Winnicott makes a theoretical statement about what psychotherapy and psychoanalysis do. For him, the work of therapy is a form of playing, and it occurs in the area of ...
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The Location of Cultural Experience
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
In this paper, Winnicott addresses the existence of culture and all it implies in understanding human development. Dissatisfied with the Freudian notion of culture as the sublimation of ...
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Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena: A Study of the First Not-Me Possession
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 4, 1952-1955
This paper describes the interstices between illusion and reality and their importance in emotional development. Some soft object or equivalent is often found and used by an infant, and ...
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But It’s a Really Nice Gift!: Ethical Challenges in Responding to Offers of Gifts From Clients
Jeffrey E. Barnett
in Ethical Conundrums, Quandaries and Predicaments in Mental Health Practice: A Casebook from the Files of Experts
This case focuses on boundaries. Boundaries exist regarding psychotherapy issues such as the use of touch, self-disclosure, personal space, gift giving, time and location of treatment. The ...
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Personal Safety as Bedrock and Safeguard for Positive Embodiment
Rachel M. Calogero, Tracy L. Tylka, and Jaclyn A. Siegel
in Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment: Constructs, Protective Factors, and Interventions
Personal safety is a pillar of positive embodiment. Yet, women’s personal safety is continuously threatened within environments that promote or excuse the sexual objectification of women ...
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Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents
Eli R. Lebowitz
Anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are the most common mental health problems of childhood and adolescence. Parents of anxious children struggle with how to help ...
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Emotion Regulation and Anxiety: Developmental Psychopathology and Treatment
Dagmar Kr. Hannesdóttir and Thomas H. Ollendick
in Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents
Chapter 8 reviews anxiety disorders of childhood and adolescence, investigating the role of emotion regulation in onset, maintenance and propagation. Based on DSM-5 criteria anxiety ...
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Introduction to Volume 3: Sowing Creative Seeds for Future Clinical Development
Vincenzo Bonaminio and Paolo Fabozzi
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 3, 1946-1951
The Introduction to Volume 3 covers the growth of Winnicott’s important clinical contributions to psychoanalysis, in particular the paper ‘Hate In the Counter Transference’, whose use of ...
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