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5 Awesome Psychiatric Case Study Books

There is nothing I love more than a good psychiatric case study book. I included five of my favorites below, but  let me know  if there are any good ones that I missed. Enjoy!

Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology

DSM-5 Clinical Cases

Casebook of Psychosomatic Medicine

Case Files: Psychiatry

Case Studies in Psychotherapy

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Melissa, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner students can review current cases written by Psychiatric NPs for NPs. The book, Psychiatric Case Studies for Advanced Practice, is available now. Author, Kathleen Prendergast PMHNP

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Case Study Approach to Psychotherapy for Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses 1st Edition

• ISBN-10 0826195032
• ISBN-13 978-0826195036
• Edition 1st
• Publisher Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date August 28, 2020
• Language English
• Dimensions 7 x 0.72 x 10 inches
• Print length 318 pages
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The Art of Psychotherapy: Case Studies, Processes and Techniques

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Zelda G. Knight

Series : Psychology Research Progress BISAC : PSY028000

At some point, the therapeutic relationship takes on a certain shape that invites clients to ‘speak their story’ with all of its pain, hope and angst, and for therapists to become ‘containers’ of this emotional world of patient. In this light, psychotherapy is the art of emotional engagement or ‘the art of feeling’. This book contains nine chapters, with a common binding thread that documents clinical case work.

Chapter One – “The Door of the Psychotherapy Room” — is an excellent chapter for those readers who would never think about the door to the therapy room in such a way. From now on, the door will always be viewed as symbolic of the inside and outside, and what that means for the patient.

Chapter Two – “Without Form and Void: Working with Autistic Defences in a Psychoanalytic Treatment” — is a fresh viewpoint to the autistoid personality organization, and the therapeutic encounter and treatment of such a character. Readers interested in how to manage difficult cases that concern this type of personality organization will find this chapter informative and educational.

Chapter Three – “On Love and Truth in Psychotherapy” — is an unusual topic and would appeal to all readers interested in this theme and its conceptualisation within Jungian psychotherapy.

Chapter Four —– “The Art of Psychoanalysis: Object, Method and Case” — is an excellent read and gives the reader a chance to re-think issues about object, method and technique in psychoanalysis.

Chapter Five – “Between Parental Demand and Child Symptoms: Considerations regarding Psychoanalysis with Children” — is a worthwhile read and gives a new perspective on the psychology of the child and the process of therapeutically working with children in the context of being separate from, and yet a part of, the family dynamics.

Chapter Six —– “Those Who Know Do Not Speak: The Psychobiography of a South African Psychotherapist” — is valuable in that it brings into focus the processes of becoming a psychotherapist, and if it is agreed that psychotherapy is a relational practice, the story of becoming a psychotherapist becomes important.

Chapter Seven – “Please Acknowledge What You Have Done to Me: Working through Rupture and Repair in the Therapeutic Relationship” — would appeal to those readers who wish to understand that the art of psychotherapy is not always easy, straightforward and without disruptions.

Chapter Eight – “Daisy: From Dissociation to Resolution using an Integrative Approach to Working with Children” — is a comprehensive documentation of the case study of child sexual abuse and the therapeutic process with the child survivor. Readers interested in working with abused children will find this chapter fascinating and informative.

Chapter Nine – “Rape and Sexual Violence in South Africa: A Case Study of Trauma” — focuses on therapeutically treating sexually abused women, would appeal to readers who have had to encounter similar cases of gender-based violence in their therapy room, and gives a clear indication as to how this integrated model of therapy used can assist such traumatised people. (Imprint: Nova)

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Chapter 1. The Door of the Psychotherapy Room Rex van Vuuren (St Augustine College of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa)

Chapter 2. Without Form and Void: Working with Autistic Defences in Psychoanalytic Treatment Bruce Bradfield (Clinical Psychologist, Cape Town, South Africa)

Chapter 3. On Love and Truth in Psychotherapy Andreas De Koning (Jungian Psychoanalyst in Private Practice, Australia)

Chapter 4. The Art of Psychoanalysis: Object, Methods and Cases Maria Isabel Fortes and Mônica Medeiros Kother Macedo (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil, and others)

Chapter 5. Between Parental Demand and Child Symptoms: Considerations Regarding Psychoanalysis with Children Silvia Maria Abu-Jamra Zornig (Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil)

Chapter 6. Those Who Know do not Speak: The Psychobiography of a South African Psychotherapist Carolina Saccaggi, and D Litt et Phil (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Chapter 7. Please Acknowledge What You Have Done to Me: Working through Rupture and Repair in the Therapeutic Relationship Melissa Card (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Chapter 8. Daisy: From Dissociation to Resolution using an Integrative Approach to Working with Children Jayleen C. Davies (Counselling Psychologist, Johannesburg, South Africa)

Chapter 9. Rape and Sexual Violence in South Africa: A Case Study of Trauma Krysia Teodorczuk (Clinical Psychologist, Johannesburg, South Africa)

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Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy

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Case-based knowledge forms an essential element of the evidence base for counselling and psychotherapy practice. This book provides the reader with a unique introduction to the conceptual and practical tools required to conduct high quality case study research that is grounded in their own therapy practice or training. Drawing on real-life cases at the heart of counselling and psychotherapy practice, John McLeod makes complex debates and concepts engaging and accessible for the trainees and practitioners at all levels, and from all theoretical orientations. Key topics covered in the book include:

- the role of case studies in the development of theory, practice and policy in counselling and psychotherapy

- strategies for responding to moral and ethical issues in therapy case study research

- practical tools for collecting case data

- 'how-to-do-it' guides for carrying out different types of case study

- team-based case study research for practitioners and students

- questions, issues and challenges that may have been raised for readers through their study.

Concrete examples, points for reflection and discussion, and recommendations for further reading will enable readers to use the book as a basis for carrying out their own case investigation.

Comprehensive, passionate, right out at the growing edge of the psychotherapy research and even slightly beyond it, this book maps out where case study research has come from, what it looks like today, and what its future will look like.

Robert Elliott, Professor of Counselling, University of Strathclyde

This is an excellent book that has been needed by the counselling and psychotherapy profession for some considerable time. It has been worth the wait. John McLeod writes in a clearly accessible style easy to read and absorb and his comprehensive book both captures existing methods and identifies potential methods ripe for development.

Sue Wheeler, University of Leicester

This is an excellent book, and a very much needed addition to the case study methodology literature. It is very comprehensive and covers all aspects of case study methodology. The text addresses the issue intelligently, but is also an introduction for those engaging in case study research.

Mark Widdowson, Director of Training, CPTI Edinburgh

This book does an outstanding job in pulling together the crucially important literature on case studies in psychotherapy practice and research into a coherent, engaging and scholarly whole.

Daniel Fishman, Editor-in-Chief, Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA

McLeod covers in real depth and high quality how to complete case study research, would definitely recommend.

Always have enjoyed John McLeod's writing style ever since I first started training and this book has not disapointed me. My students have said they also find him easy to read and digest, brilliant.

A good book in preparing students how to conduct case study research in counselling and psychotherapy

Very good book that highlights the focus of counselling and psychotherapy using detailed case studies.

John McLeod writes with his usual high level of insight and accessibility in this fascinating book, which is a must for everyone interested in counselling research. The examples provided give a new way of exploring ideas and concepts. Well written throughout, this is a vital book for anyone in the field - practitioners and students alike.

Essential of considering doing case study research - recommended for those who are not yet sure re the method to use for their research

John McLeod has provided an essential reference for training the new generation of research savvy psychotherapists. This book brings more than just the "what" and "how" - it reveals credibility, rigour and dignity in human ways of researching human process to develop more humane practice and research.

This book adds a useful source for students with a particular interest in case study methodology. In particular Counselling students, who struggle with positivistic approaches, welcome such a clear text that puts their own pratice into an evidence-based context.

This is an excellent addition to support students conducting their own research study as part of their higher education training. It clearly helps them to navigate their way through the research process and the use of case study research for further development of counselling practice.

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The human mind is both extraordinary and compelling. From the leader who convinced his followers to kill themselves to the man who lost his memory, these famous accounts have provided invaluable insights for scholars and researchers and amazed the public at large. Brought to life by Rolls, each case is contextualized with more typical behaviour, while the latest thinking in each subfield is also discussed.

Revised and updated, this new edition features two new case studies including the 'Jim Twins' by Thomas Bouchard, an amazing case of twins separated at birth and adopted by different parents yet when reunited 30 years later shared so many behavioural characteristics. It also features a new issues and debates chapter.

Classic Case Studies in Psychology is accessibly written and requires no prior knowledge of psychology, just an interest in the human condition. The book will amaze, sometimes disturb, but above all enlighten its readers.

Geoff Rolls has taught psychology for over 26 years and is currently Head of Psychology at Peter Symonds College, Winchester, UK. He is the author of the popular Women Can’t Park, Men Can’t Pack (Chambers, 2009), which investigates gender stereotypes (including driving), and also Taking the Proverbial (Chambers, 2007), which explores the psychological truth behind well-known proverbs and sayings.

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Chapter | 4  pages, introduction, part 1 | 2  pages, cognitive psychology, chapter chapter 1 | 12  pages, the man who couldn’t forget, chapter chapter 2 | 13  pages, the man who lived for the present, chapter chapter 3 | 9  pages, the man who was disappointed with what he saw, chapter chapter 4 | 12  pages, chapter chapter 5 | 12  pages, holly ramona and the nature of memory, part 2 | 2  pages, social psychology, chapter chapter 6 | 10  pages, the girl who cried murder, chapter chapter 7 | 18  pages, jonestown and the dangers of obedience, chapter chapter 8 | 17  pages, the end of the world is nigh, chapter chapter 9 | 15  pages, bad apples or bad barrels, part 3 | 2  pages, developmental psychology, chapter chapter 10 | 16  pages, innocence lost, chapter chapter 11 | 16  pages, the boy who was never a girl, chapter chapter 12 | 18  pages, the ‘wild boy of aveyron’, chapter chapter 13 | 17  pages, two little boys, chapter chapter 14 | 8  pages, the ‘jim twins’, part 4 | 2  pages, individual differences, chapter chapter 15 | 12  pages, the boy who needed to play, chapter chapter 16 | 16  pages, the man who was turned on by prams and handbags, chapter chapter 17 | 11  pages, freud’s analysis of phobia in a young boy, chapter chapter 18 | 18  pages, the three faces of eve, chapter chapter 19 | 6  pages, the boy who couldn’t stop washing, part 5 | 2  pages, physiological psychology, chapter chapter 20 | 9  pages, the men who didn’t sleep, chapter chapter 21 | 11  pages, the man who lived with a hole in his head, chapter chapter 22 | 8  pages, the man with no brain, chapter chapter 23 | 16  pages, charles decker – natural born killer, part 6 | 2  pages, comparative psychology, chapter chapter 24 | 16  pages, talking to the animals, chapter chapter 25 | 16  pages, signposting approaches, issues and debates.

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How ‘psychics’ use psychology to create the illusion of telepathy

By Chris French / MIT Press Reader

Posted on Aug 11, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

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This article was originally featured on MIT Press Reader . This article is excerpted from Chris French’s book “ The Science of Weird Shit .”

There is a hidden cause behind a fun little demonstration of an ostensibly paranormal experience that I often include in public talks on anomalistic psychology, especially when I have a reasonably large audience. I explain to my audience that an important part of proper skepticism is to always be open to the possibility that you may be wrong. In that spirit, I tell the audience that I would like to do a little experiment with them to see just how psychic they are. I tell them that I am going to try to telepathically send a simple message from my mind to theirs. “I’m thinking of a number between one and ten,” I say. “Not three, because that’s too obvious. I want you to make a mental note of the first number that comes into your mind  now !”

I then explain that, with such a large audience, we would expect around 10 percent of them to guess the number correctly just by chance, so we should only get ecstatically excited if considerably more than 10 percent of the audience get it right. I then, apparently somewhat nervously, ask, “Did anybody think of the number seven? If you did, raise your hand.” With a large audience, I can, in fact, be very confident that around a third of them will put up their hand.

Feigning surprise, I will try another, slightly more complicated example. “This time I’m thinking of a two-digit number between one and fifty. They are both odd digits and they are not the same. So, it could be fifteen — one and five, both odd digits, not the same — but it could not be eleven — both odd digits but they are the same. What is the first number that fits that description that comes into your mind  now ?”

I then ask, as if expecting no one to have got it right this time, “Did  anyone  think of the number thirty-seven?” Once again, about a third of the audience will put up their hand. I will then add, “Did anyone think of thirty-five?” About a further quarter of the audience will raise their hand. “Sorry, that was my fault,” I explain. “I thought of thirty-five first and then I changed my mind.”

What is going on here? Any audience members who believe in ESP may well think that it has just been demonstrated. More skeptical members may be at a loss to explain what they have seen (and possibly directly experienced). Is it possible that I had simply conspired with all those members of the audience who got it right by telling them in advance to raise their hands in response to my questions? That would seem unlikely. Was it just a coincidence that so many more people guessed correctly than would be expected on the basis of chance alone? Again, possible but extremely unlikely.

The actual explanation is  a phenomenon that psychologists refer to as  population stereotypes . For most people faced with this task, when they are asked to make a mental note of the first number that comes into their head, they assume this is pretty much a random process. Therefore, they expect the frequencies of response to be more or less equal across the range of response options. In fact, this is not what happens. Responses tend to cluster in reliable and predictable ways, especially with large audiences.

In the first example, about a third of people will choose seven regardless of whatever number I may be thinking of (especially as I have ruled out three as a valid response, which otherwise would also be a popular choice). In the second example, about a third will pick 37 and about a further quarter will choose 35. Note that in neither example do the response rates approach 100 percent, but that is not a problem as people do not expect telepathy to be 100 percent reliable.

There are several other examples of population stereotypes that could be used to fool (at least some of) the unwary that you possess amazing telepathic powers. Tell them your telepathic target is two simple geometric forms, one inside the other. Around 60 percent will choose circle and triangle. Tell them you are thinking of a simple line drawing. Around 10 to 12 percent will draw a little house. It makes for a fun demonstration of the fact that not everything that looks like paranormal actually is. But would anyone ever seriously try to pass off such a demonstration as really involving telepathy?

The answer is yes. For example, in the mid-1990s Uri Geller took part in a TV program called  Beyond Belief , presented by David Frost, in which, it was claimed, various paranormal phenomena would be demonstrated live for the millions of viewers at home. I was one of those viewers. Uri demonstrated his alleged telepathic powers by supposedly transmitting a message to viewers. Uri had chosen one of four symbols that were presented at the bottom of the screen in the following order: square, star, circle, cross. As the camera slowly zoomed in on his face, Uri said: “I’m visualizing the symbol in my mind . . . and you people at home, millions of you, I’m actually communicating now with millions of people, maybe eleven, twelve, thirteen million people. Here goes. I’m transmitting it to you. I’m visualizing it. Open up your minds. Try to see it. Try to feel it. I’m really strongly passing it to  you ! One more time . . . okay.” By this point, the upper half of Uri’s face pretty much filled the screen, with the four symbols still displayed across the bottom of the screen. Viewers were instructed to phone in using one of four different numbers to indicate their guess at Uri’s choice of symbol. Over 70,000 viewers did so.

My days of believing that Uri really did possess amazing psychic abilities were long gone by this stage, and I was therefore watching from the perspective of an informed skeptic. It was pretty easy to come up with nonparanormal explanations for all of the demonstrations featured in the program. With respect to this particular demonstration, I was rather pleased with myself for not only stating in advance what Uri’s telepathic target would be but for also correctly stating the order of popularity of the remaining symbols. It was very lucky for Uri that he chose to “telepathically” transmit the star symbol. It was by far the most popular choice of the viewers, with 47 percent of them indicating that this was the symbol that they had “received.” The second most popular was the circle, with 32 percent of the “votes,” followed by the cross (12 percent) and the square (10 percent). If the guesses were completely random, we would expect about 25 percent for each option, so 47 percent choosing the same symbol as Uri is a massively statistically significant outcome. The probability that almost half of the callers chose this symbol just by chance is astronomically low. So, was this really strong evidence of Uri’s psychic powers?

Readers who are familiar with common techniques used to test for ESP will have recognized that the four symbols used in Uri’s demonstration are taken from the five symbols used on Zener cards (the missing symbol is three wavy lines). The cards are named after the person who designed them, perceptual psychologist Karl Zener. A full deck consists of twenty-five cards, five of each design. In a test of telepathy, a “sender” would take each card from a shuffled deck in turn and attempt to telepathically transmit the image on the card to a “receiver.” The receiver would record their guess of which card the sender was looking at. By chance alone, we would expect around five of the receiver’s guesses to be correct. If the receiver scores significantly more than five, this might be taken as evidence of ESP. However, it has been known for over eight decades that people are more likely to guess certain symbols compared to others. Back in 1939, Frederick Lund  asked 596 people to each generate a random sequence of five symbols from the Zener set . By far the most popular symbol was — you’ve guessed it — the star, accounting for 32 percent of the responses compared to the 20 percent that would be expected by chance alone. So, as I said, it really was lucky for Uri that he chose the star as his telepathic target (assuming that it was just luck).

Chris French  is Emeritus Professor and Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Patron of Humanists UK. He is the coauthor of “ Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Paranormal Belief and Experience ” and author of “ The Science of Weird Shit ,” from which this article is excerpted.

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