Recipient of the 2017 Anne Alonso Award for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Therapy, conferred by the Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health, part of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. From the Couch to the Circle: Group-Analytic Psychotherapy in Practice is a handbook of group therapy and a guide to the group-analytic model - the prevailing form of group therapy in Europe. The book draws on both John Schlapobersky’s engagement as a practitioner and the words and experience of people in groups as they face psychotherapy’s key challenges - understanding and change. This book provides a manual of practice for therapists’ use that includes detailed descriptions of groups at work; accounts of therapists’ own experience and the issues they face in themselves and in their groups. The book is devoted to the Group-Analytic model but the other principally psychodynamic models of group therapy - the Tavistock, Interpersonal, Psychodynamic, Modern Analytic and Structural/Systemic models - are brought into a comparative discussion and drawn upon to create an integrated and coherent approach. The book is divided into three sections: Foundations – aimed at practitioners using groups of any kind and working at every level, including those providing supportive psychotherapy and providing groups for psychosis, trauma, the elderly, people at risk, the elderly and children; The Group-Analytic Model – defines the group-analytic model at a basic and advanced level; The Dynamics of Change – aimed at group analysts, psychotherapists and psychologists providing short-term psychotherapy and long-term group analysis The book is illustrated with clinical vignettes including incisive, instructive commentaries to explain the concepts in use. It is intended for those seeking psychotherapy, whether to resolve personal problems or to find new sources of meaning in their lives. It is also intended for policy-makers in mental health, students of different models of psychotherapy and the psychosocial field. The comparative discussion running through the text about methods and models of practice will likely be of interest to the wider mental health and psychotherapy fields. The author draws together the inherited wisdom of group analysis since Foulkes’ time and makes his own lasting contribution. From the Couch to the Circle will be an invaluable, accessible resource for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, family therapists, academics, psychologists, mental health practitioners, academics and teachers in psychotherapy.

He was financially independent, healthy, blessed with a loving family, and quietly loving the magic of life. Then she appeared, changing life and the destiny of the human race forever.

Nina transformed her life from a war-torn stream of tragedy to a glimmering example of The American Dream. After surviving the her harrowing childhood ripped to shreds by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, she and her younger brother Hari found solace in the United States of America. A well-educated, successful, and driven woman in her thirties, Nina felt that the entire world was within her grasp. And then, yet again, tragedy struck once more. With only minimal help from law enforcement, Nina must put the pieces of this senseless catastrophe together herself; unveiling all at once a shocking, shady underworld that she never knew lurked just below the surface of her awareness.

An impossible quest… A victorious enemy… Who will be the sacrifice? Caught between warring gods and Shapers, Rosteval has little choice: he must undertake an impossible quest on an alien world occupied by his foes. Together with Cat-Eye Touhai and an erstwhile adversary, Rosteval must brave the dark lair of an enemy who has already defeated their god. As tragedy strikes all around them, Rosteval, Ghaitta, Cat-Eye Touhai, and their people must confront an enemy mastermind and a terrifying question: who will be the sacrifice for their people’s survival? Impossible quests, a multitude of foes, and the machinations of a mastermind force Rosteval to confront terrible dilemmas and take incredible risks in The Circle of My Sovereignty, sequel to The Shadow of My Vision. Get it now.

A rising soccer star. An ambitious journalist. An outlaw turned hero. An orphaned tomboy. An aspiring actor. A wishful writer. From the militancy infested state of Kashmir to the glittering stadiums of Spain...from the dark underworld of drug peddling to the murky world of the fashion industry... from the big bad world of corporates to the court of law. 'Love and the Circle of Six' will take you into the intricately entwined fates of six individuals, experiencing the joy of love, the pain of betrayal, the feeling of ecstasy, and the brittleness of relationships.

Tommy Marshall was eighteen when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and he enlisted, anxious to seek revenge, but the Army assigned him to a finance job in London where he languished as others fought the enemy. A chance encounter with Eisenhower landed Tommy in a combat unit and he found himself amongst those storming Omaha Beach on D-Day. What Tommy witnessed would change him forever; the loss of comrades creating a killing frenzy and heroics that won him the Congressional Medal of Honor. After the war Tommy tried to fit back into an America that was distancing itself from the scars of war. He married, started a family and a career, and pursued his newly won American dream. But that dream ultimately became a nightmare as his wife and son died and his career ended in bitterness. Years later, when Tommy entered the old soldier's home in Washington, D.C., he was resolved to spend his final years as a recluse. But when he returned to France for the 50th anniversary of D-Day, his perspective changed when he found the graves of his wartime buddies in Normandy and challenged himself to enjoy a life they had been denied. This is a story of the hope and promise wrought from war, of how its lessons changed those who fought it, and how a younger generation has much to learn from those who sacrificed for our prosperity and freedom.