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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791142403321

Autore

Mercer Jean

Titolo

Alternative psychotherapies : evaluating unconventional mental health treatments / / Jean Mercer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4422-3492-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/14

Soggetti

Psychotherapy - Methodology

Mental illness - Alternative treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introducing the Issue of Alternative Psychotherapies; 2 Regression Therapies; 3 Repression and Remembering in Alternative Psychotherapies; 4 Energy Therapies; 5 Bodywork, Passive and Active; 6 All About Attachment; 7 Understanding and Treating Autism; 8 Special Education and Treatments for Developmental Disabilities; 9 Conclusion; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>In this book, Jean Mercer evaluates a series of unconventional and potentially harmful psychological treatments that are rarely mentioned in the profession's literature. Mercer guides readers to an understanding of alternative psychotherapies that will help them advise clients with respect to existing and newly-emerging unconventional treatments.</span></span>