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.
Psychoanalysis and the Wisdom of Ecclesiastes: A Time to Heal
1st Edition
By Paul Marcus
September 17, 2025
Psychoanalysis and the Wisdom of Ecclesiastes looks at one of the most profound books in the Hebrew Bible – Ecclesiastes, known as Koheleth in Hebrew – through a psychoanalytic lens. Paul Marcus explores Ecclesiastes’ understanding of the profound and compelling problematics of the human condition ...
The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses
1st Edition
By Raul Moncayo
September 05, 2025
In The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses, Raul Moncayo uses the complex plane to evaluate analytic outcomes. Moncayo’s approach provides a study of the process and outcomes of singular analyses that does not rely on the methods and questionnaires of psychotherapy or medical ...
The Power of Being a Subject: Transcending Myth and Machine
1st Edition
By Matthew H. Bowker
September 01, 2025
Amid countless prescriptive self-help manuals, The Power of Being a Subject: Transcending Myth and Machine emerges as a refreshing intellectual cornerstone in contemporary psychology and personal development literature. Dr. Bowker dismantles the persistent "myth of human mechanics" – the flawed ...
Understanding and Coping with Illness Anxiety
1st Edition
By Phil Lane
July 30, 2025
This book offers comfort and psychoeducation to readers as well as psychological explanation of concepts to mental health and medical professionals. The importance of understanding how disease, illness, and health affect our emotional and mental wellbeing cannot be overstated. The book is divided ...
A Critical Examination of Irvin D. Yalom’s Single-Session Consultations: It is the Relationship that Heals
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
June 23, 2025
This book explores the single-session work done by Irving Yalom and considers the implications of this work for the current theory and practice of single-session therapy (SST). Due to failing memory and decreasing stamina as he aged, Yalom eventually decided that if he was to continue to offer help...
The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective
1st Edition
By Shirley Zisser
April 14, 2025
The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena of the English Renaissance, all of which include a focus on language, from a Lacanian perspective. The book examines four inter-related cultural symptoms of the English Renaissance: the...
Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health: Can Kids Be Taught to Master Life?
1st Edition
By Ole Jacob Madsen
January 30, 2025
Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness. The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to ...
Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences: The One and the Many
1st Edition
By Raul Moncayo
November 29, 2024
Exploring how a Freudian-Lacanian approach to psychoanalysis intersects with social and cultural theory, Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences demonstrates the significance of subjectivity as a concept for the study of leadership, social psychology, culture, and political theory. Raul Moncayo ...
Helping Clients Deal with Adversity by Changing their Attitudes: A Concise Therapist Guide
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
October 14, 2024
Helping Clients Deal with Adversity by Changing Their Attitudes: A Concise Therapist Guide provides an outline for therapists wishing to help clients deal with life’s adversities by encouraging them to change their attitudes.Divided in two parts, this book first provides a thorough, but concise, ...
Single-Session 'One-at-a-Time' Therapy: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy Approach
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
October 14, 2024
Single-Session ‘One-at-a-Time’ Therapy: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy Approach details a specific approach to Single-Session Therapy (SST) known as ‘One-At-A-Time’ (OAAT) Therapy and shows how this can be implemented from a Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) perspective. Windy Dryden ...
The Relevance of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy for Modern CBT and Psychotherapy
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
October 14, 2024
The Relevance of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy for Modern CBT and Psychotherapy explores the contemporary relevance of this treatment for modern psychotherapy, from the point of view of a leading contributor. First founded in 1955 by Albert Ellis, REBT still has much to offer the field. ...
Technology in Mental Health: Foundations of Clinical Use
1st Edition
By Jessica Stone
October 09, 2024
Technology in Mental Health focuses on the responsible integration of technology into therapy in a world affected by COVID. Author Jessica Stone discusses the pandemic’s effects on the mental health field, historical fundamentals, and possible future implications. Chapters also explore legal and ...