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The College Seminars Series is a collection of books aimed at helping psychiatric trainees through their clinical and academic training. The books should also appeal to other mental-health professionals and more senior doctors.
Seminars in the Psychotherapies presents an overview of the major established psychotherapies for psychiatrists who are developing their therapeutic skills. Clinical examples are used throughout to highlight how theory can be applied to practice and to illustrate how different theoretical concepts are linked.
Based on the Tavistock Lectures of 1930, one of Jung's most accessible introductions to his work.
"Working in mental health puts us in touch with the complexity, depth, creativity and turmoil of the human mind. We are at the emotional coal face, privileged to be encountering the fundamental unknowability and strangeness of the internal world. How much we make of this opportunity depends on how open or closed we are to the experience. Our patients communicate their disturbance powerfully and the working environment can be challenging and exhausting without meaningful understanding. To explore one's own mind, and to be receptive and knowledgeable about the unconscious processes that underlie all mental activity, allows us to learn from this experience. Working in this area then becomes more creative, enjoyable, productive, and of lower personal risk. It feeds rather than depletes"--