Routledge Focus on Mental Health
About the Book Series
Routledge Focus on Mental Health presents short books on current topics, linking in with cutting-edge research and practice.
Being a Crisis Chaplain: Delivering Help and Healing in Critical Scenarios
1st Edition
By Sidney Dekker, Lance Mergard
November 16, 2026
Being a Crisis Chaplain delivers the essential elements of crisis chaplaincy, outlining the process of responding to crises with clarity and compassion. Drawing from real‑world experiences and research, this is a concise but comprehensive toolkit for navigating the delicate aftermath of crises. ...
Single-Session Therapy: Early Pioneers Before Talmon (1975-1989)
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
August 17, 2026
In this book Dryden considers the works of the Early Pioneers of Single Session Therapy spanning from 1975 to 1992 and outlines the contribution they made to present day SST. Dryden gives a focused, detailed consideration of the works of Freud, Otto Spoerl, Kenneth Rockwell & Rolffs Pinkerton and...
A Critical Reconstruction of Evidence-based Practice in Psychology: Evidence and Ethics
1st Edition
By Henrik Berg
July 20, 2026
Evidence-based practice in psychology is the dominant regulatory principle in clinical psychology, defining psychological knowledge and its application. This book provides a critical analysis and a reconstruction of the policy statement focusing on epistemology and ethics. The book shows the ...
Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems: Making the Most of Every Client Session
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
July 20, 2026
Most clients seeking therapy want to be helped with specific emotional problems with which they are struggling, and yet many therapists are reluctant to offer problem-focused therapy. Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems presents the case for such an approach and details how it can be ...
Psychoanalysis and the Feminine: An "Other" Sex
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Schaeffer
July 20, 2026
Psychoanalysis and the Feminine presents Jacqueline Schaeffer's understanding of the feminine as a psychoanalytic concept. Schaeffer considers the difference between the sexes to be the paradigm of all differences, and the basis for the repudiation of the feminine and gender theories, those that ...
The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis: The Ego, the Self, the Subject, and the Person
1st Edition
By Raul Moncayo
May 22, 2026
The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis considers the different conceptions of the individual that are found in psychoanalysis according to the culture in which it operates, and its political structure. Considering the origins and use of concepts including the Ego, the Self, the Subject, ...
Physician Wellness and Resilience: Narrative Prompts to Address Burnout
1st Edition
Edited
By Pauline Davies, Cynthia M. Stonnington
May 21, 2026
Physician Wellness and Resilience: Narrative Prompts to Address Burnout explores 26 compelling narratives from practicing doctors and medical students as they share their personal and professional encounters in their own words. This volume seeks to expand the conversations around burnout and mental...
The Origins of Single-Session Therapy: An Examination of Freud’s Single Sessions
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
February 06, 2026
This book explores the single-session work done by Sigmund Freud and considers the implications of this work for the current theory and practice of single-session therapy (SST). While contemporary interest in SST can be traced to Moshe Talmon’s (1990) book, its origins go back to Freud. There are ...
Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Psychosis: A Case of Catatonia and Discussion
1st Edition
Edited
By Bennett E. Roth
December 26, 2025
This book explores the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient with psychosis from a range of different psychotherapeutic perspectives. The psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic individuals is both rare and controversial with a limitation in availability of clinical material. As psychoanalytically...
Elements of Faith: Psychoanalytic Phenomenon and Lived Experience
1st Edition
By Brent Potter
December 11, 2025
Elements of Faith explores the rich, complex terrain of faith through the lenses of psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology, and lived clinical experience. It offers both theoretical reflections and a compelling case study of a therapeutic journey in faith, identity, and transformation. This book...
The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst
1st Edition
By Raul Moncayo
September 24, 2025
The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst documents Raul Moncayo’s practice of analysis over a period of twenty-five years. Exploring different aspects of knowledge in the work of Freud and Lacan, Moncayo considers themes including not-knowing as opposed to non-knowing, truth, and ignorance. The book ...
Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education
1st Edition
By Joseph Scalia III, Lynne S. Scalia
September 23, 2025
Critical Consciousness provides insight into the antagonism and disputative dialogue present in contemporary discourse. Taking a broad, pluralistic psychoanalytic perspective, the authors shed light on how and why ideology and conflict have infiltrated education, environmentalism, and ...