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Because of limited mental health resources, third-party payers are demanding that clinicians use briefer therapeutic approaches, approaches that can be as effective and more cost-efficient than long-term psychotherapy. Unfortunately, there is a significant gap between the demand and the supply of professionals who can use these methods effectively. Brief therapy requires specialized training to produce favorable outcomes. Because the effectiveness of the procedure depends on how well the therapist understands the patient and is able to predict and overcome the patient's resistance, improperly trained therapists can expect poorer therapeutic outcomes. Fortunately, there is a source that can help clinicians use brief therapy effectively.

A useful teaching tool and handy clinical reference, the Concise Guide to Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy presents therapists with seven brief psychodynamic therapy models, including supportive therapy, time-limited therapy, interpersonal therapy, time-limited dynamic psychotherapy, short-term dynamic therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder, brief dynamic therapy for substance abuse disorders, and brief psychodynamic psychotherapy with children. These seven models are well-established, short-term approaches to common clinical problems and can accommodate the 10- to 20-session time frame found in most managed care settings. In jargon-free style, each chapter focuses on a particular approach. It matches particular patient problems best handled by that approach; discusses each model in terms of its overall framework, selection criteria, goals, therapeutic tasks and strategies, empirical support, and relevance for managed care; and uses clinical cases to illustrate how each model is applied. A separate chapter covering the use of psychopharmacology in brief psychotherapy is also included.

By using this book and the models it describes, therapists can enrich their clinical practice and will have a greater palette of approaches that can help patients in a time-efficient and effective manner. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection ... Read more

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A renewed interest in the spiritual, with an increasing number of people today wishing toincorporate the contemplative in their active lives, prompts the reissue of this classic work, a doctrine that is at once elevated and practical. The writings are meant to be studied from three distinct points of view: religious philosophy, material for the study of those states between mind and body such as ecstasy and trance, and for the sake of their mysticism. Drawn from the writings and teachings of Saint Augustine, Saint Gregory and Saint Bernard, the writings form a coordinated body of doctrine with what three great teachers of mystical theology in the Western Church have written concerning their own religious experience and the theories they based on it. In addition, the book discusses such important topics as speculative contemplation, what mysticism is, the characteristics of Western mysticism, the practical, and the contrasts between the contemplative and active lives. No student of mysticism can possibly afford to neglect a volume so full of valuable suggestions and real insight into spiritual conditions. ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Stay Together, Rockferry, It Was You, Animal Nitrate, Refugees, We Are the Pigs, The Wild Ones, Lovers, The Drowners, New Generation, So Young, Metal Mickey, Yes,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Stay Together" is a non-album single by Suede, released on 14 February 1994 on Nude Records. It is the last single released while guitarist Bernard Butler was in the band, though subsequent singles from Dog Man Star feature his music. Oddly enough, although lead singer Brett Anderson considers the single and the video that accompanies it, the worst the band has released, it is tied with "Trash" as the highest charting single the band has released at number three. Following the death of Butler's father, relations within the band started to deteriorate. Butler kept to himself on the following tour of the USA, while the other band members 'indulged in probably the worst excesses of their career'. Butler travelled to concerts by himself or on The Cranberries tour bus, rather than travel with his fellow band members. This influence became prevalent as Butler later stated, "Whatever I did on Stay Together was the A to Z of the emotions I was experiencing... defiance, loss, a final sigh." What was intended as a couple of days recording stretched out to two weeks. It was later revealed that the song had almost 50 tracks of recorded material on it. According to an entry in Simon Gilbert's diary in the biography Love and Poison Butler objected to the lyrics in Stay Together. The entry read: "Lyrics not to be printed on cover of single in case his mother reads it. '16 tears', obviously paedophilic!". The lyrics for The Living Dead were also criticised by Butler, "I've written this really beautiful piece of music a...http://booksllc.net/?id=1952113 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jarvis Cocker, Bernard Butler, Babybird, Paul Mcgregor, Martin Rossiter. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician and former frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career. Cocker founded "Arabacus Pulp" (named after a tradeable commodity he saw in an economics class) at the age of 15 while he was still at The City School. After numerous line-up changes, and a shortening of the name to "Pulp", they eventually found fame in the 1990s with the success of the albums His 'n' Hers (1994) and Different Class (1995). Pulp released two more albums (This Is Hardcore and We Love Life) to critical acclaim, though neither achieved the commercial success of Different Class. After releasing a greatest hits album, the band are now on hiatus. Cocker is also renowned for his wit and observations of the cultural scene. He was a frequent guest on TV shows in the 1990s, as well as hosting an arts series for the Channel 4 - "Journeys into the Outside". Here he took a trip across the globe, meeting so-called "outsider artists", people who create wacky and wonderful works of art, and trying to understand what compels them to do so. Cocker's penchant for TV appearances was reflected in a parody of "Common People" ("Showbiz People") which was featured on the satirical comedy show Spitting Image in 1996. Cocker invaded the stage at the 1996 BRIT Awards in a spur of the moment protest against Michael Jackson's performance. Jackson performed surrounded by children and a rabbi, while making "Christ-like" poses and performing his recent hit, "Earth Song". Cocke...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=348103 ... Read more

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Chapters: Brett Anderson, Bernard Butler, Richard Oakes, Justine Frischmann, Neil Codling, Alex Lee, Mat Osman, Simon Gilbert. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Brett Lewis Anderson (born 29 September 1967) is an English singer-songwriter, best-known as the former lead vocalist of Britpop band Suede. After Suede disbanded, he fronted The Tears, who are currently on indefinite hiatus. Anderson has also released three solo albums. Born in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England Anderson grew up in a poor family, his mother was an artist and his father was a classical music fan. He was brought up in a small council estate in Lindfield, a village adjoining Haywards Heath, attending Lindfield Junior School then Oathall Comprehensive School. In his teens, Anderson played guitar for garage bands such as The Pigs and Geoff, the latter featuring future Suede bassist Mat Osman. In the late-1980s, Anderson and Osman formed Suede with Anderson's girlfriend, Justine Frischmann, soon recruiting guitarist Bernard Butler through an advertisement in the NME. After receiving percussional help from former Smiths drummer Mike Joyce, in 1991, Simon Gilbert joined Suede as their official drummer. It was around this time that Frischmann left Anderson for Blur frontman Damon Albarn, which created an early rift in the burgeoning Britpop scene of the early 1990s. After missing too many rehearsals and flaunting her relationship with Albarn while still living with Anderson, Frischmann was fired from the group, going on to front Elastica. Even before Suede's first album appeared in stores, Anderson's androgynous style and vague "confessions" about his sexuality stirred controversy in the British music press. His infamous comment that he was "a bisexual man who never had a homo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1123192 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alfred Hitchcock, George Martin, Paul Mckenna, Dave Sexton, Bernard Butler, John Carmel Heenan, George Sewell, Edmund Purdom, List of St Ignatius' College People, Reginald Dunne, Brendan Donnelly. Excerpt:Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock , KBE (13 August 1899 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies , Hitchcock moved to Hollywood . In 1956 he became an American citizen while retaining his British citizenship. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. Often regarded as the greatest British filmmaker, he came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which said: "Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from us) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else." MovieMaker has hailed him as the most influential filmmaker of all time. Early life Hitchcock mosaic at Leytonstone Station. Hitchcock was born on 13 August 1899 in Leytonstone , London , the second son and youngest of three children of William Hitchcock (1862 1914), a greengrocer and poulterer, and Emma Jane Hitchcock ( née Whelan; 1863 1942). He was named after his father's brother, Alfred. His family was mostly Roman Catholic , with his mother and paternal grandmother being of Irish extraction. Hitchcock was sent to the Jesuit Classic school St Ignatius' College in Stamford Hill , London. He often described his chi... ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Rockferry, Partie Traumatic, Melody, People Move On, the Runaway Found, My Best Friend Is You, Here Come the Tears, Bring It Back, Cookies, Words on the Floor, This Gift, the Colourful Life, Friends and Lovers, the Sound of Mcalmont and Butler, Kicks. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rockferry is the debut studio album by Welsh singer Duffy released on 3 March 2008. The album was the fourth best selling album of 2008 worldwide. Prior to releasing the album, Duffy appeared twice on Jools Holland's music show, performing the tracks "Mercy", "Warwick Avenue" and her version of "The First Cut Is the Deepest". The album title Rockferry, according to Duffy, is loosely based on Rock Ferry, a suburb of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula and approximately ten miles from the Welsh border and three miles from Liverpool. The album art and video for the title track were shot on and around the Ffestiniog Railway in Porthmadog, which was renamed 'Rockferry' for the occasion. The timing of the photoshoot was somewhat before the release of the album, when Duffy was still a relatively unknown performer. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, which were presented 8 February 2009. Rockferry was ranked number 30th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the Best Albums of 2008. At the end of 2008, Q named the album the 6 best album of 2008 and Mojo named it the 31 best album of 2008. Rockferry also received the award for Mastercard British Album at the 2009 BRIT Awards, in a night that saw Duffy take home three awards. The album was the 4th biggest selling of 2008 in the world, as according to the IFPI, as well as being the biggest selling of the UK. The album is consider...http://booksllc.net/?id=15363034 ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: James Songs, Nik Kershaw Songs, Shed Seven Songs, Songs Written by Bernard Butler, Songs Written by Brett Anderson, Songs Written by Mat Osman, Songs Written by Neil Codling, Songs Written by Nik Kershaw, Songs Written by Richard Oakes, Starsailor Songs, Suede Songs, the Charlatans Songs, Bitter Sweet Symphony, Tell Me It's Not Over, Stay Together, Wouldn't It Be Good, Alright, Country House, Rockferry, Come Home, the One and Only, Four to the Floor, All the Plans, Parklife, the Riddle, I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Sit Down, Trash, It Was You, in the Crossfire, Animal Nitrate, Silence Is Easy, Obsessions, Laid, This Time, Attitude / Golden Gun, Alcoholic, Positivity, Lullaby, Born Again, Good Souls, Everything Will Flow, Can't Get Enough, Keep Us Together, Poor Misguided Fool, Electricity, We Are the Pigs, Getting Better, Destiny Calling, the Wild Ones, Oh! Vanity, the Drowners, Saturday Night, Jimone, So Young, New Generation, Chain Mail, Refugees, the Only One I Know, Filmstar, She's in Fashion, So Many Ways, Me. in Time, Lazy, Metal Mickey, Something Changed, Yes, Nyc, Ocean Pie, Beautiful Ones, Village Fire, Getting Away With It, Love Is Dead, What For, Blackened Blue Eyes, Fever, Over Rising, When a Heart Beats, Lovers, Back to You, Runaground, the Misbegotten, Born of Frustration, Mis-Takes, One to Another, Human Racing, Waterfall, Whiteboy, She's a Star, Then, Sound, Weirdo, We're Going to Miss You, Just When You're Thinkin' Things Over, I Know What I'm Here For, Just Like Fred Astaire, Waltzing Along, Try Again Today, up at the Lake, Love Is the Key, Just Lookin/bullet Comes, Tellin' Stories, My Beautiful Friend, a Man Needs to Be Told, How High, Can't Get Out of Bed, North Country Boy, Jesus Hairdo, Tremelo Song, Forever, Impossible, I Never Want an Easy Life if Me and He Were Ever to Get There. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 271. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free tria... ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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The Big Easy Not So Easy is a collection of the true life stories as seen through the eyes of former New Orleans policeman Bernard Butler Jr.; a twenty year, highly decorated veteran of the City of New Orleans Police Department. His accomplishments speak for themselves; being a former Veteran of Foreign Wars, State of Louisiana outstanding officer of the Year, and the City of New Orleans Policeman of the Year. He once even saved a man from drowning. This book is a compilation of events that actually occurred, while he worked the streets of New Orleans. The stories are written in an autobiography format because Officer Butler is only reporting incidents where he was personally involved. Not only is he reporting incidents that occurred, he also tags a series of events that led to him being ostracized by the very police department he once so admirably served. ... Read more

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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a multi Grammy Award winning American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a pop, R ... Read more

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For a comparatively small island, Ireland has made a disproportionatly large contribution to world literature in all its branches. Irish literature encompasses the Irish and English languages. The island's most widely-known literary works are undoubtedly in English. Particularly famous examples of such works are those of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and Ireland's four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature; William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. Ireland's oldest literary traditions, however, are found in the Irish language, referred to simply as "Irish". Indeed, Irish has the third oldest literature in Europe (after Greek and Latin) and the most significant body of written literature (both ancient and recent) of any Celtic language. Furthermore, the historic influence of Irish language traditions, such as a strong oral tradition of legends and poetry, has helped make much English Literature in Ireland quite distinctive from that in other countries. ... Read more