PSYCHOTHERAPY TODAY. CONVERSATIONS

The book "Psychotherapy Today. Conversations" is a fascinating journey through the world of psychotherapy, presenting a unique perspective from leading Polish psychotherapists and supervisors of psychotherapy gathered around the Psychoeducation Laboratory. It is a collection of inspiring conversations that reveal the secrets of the human psyche and therapeutic processes.

• Understanding Psychotherapy: Learn how psychotherapy helps to free yourself from mental suffering.
• Modern Research: Discover the latest findings about the human psyche.
• Causes of Depression: Understand the mechanisms of the development of depression.
• Process of Psychotherapy: Learn what psychotherapy is about and how long it should last.
• Personal Development: Discover how to take care of your own development without falling into egocentrism.
• Couple Therapy: Understand how to help a couple experiencing a crisis.
• Child Psychotherapy: Learn what the work of a psychotherapist with a child looks like.

The book answers questions about addiction, grief, trauma, and restoring agency. The authors look at various forms and applications of psychotherapy in the context of changes taking place in modern society, indicate new directions of development in this field, and dispel myths about it. This book is a kind of collage that has the features of a textbook.

From the foreword by Bogdan de Barbaro: “So what is this book about? It is in a sense a story about what the field called psychotherapy is today – at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. Perhaps this is what makes this book so fascinating that one answer raises another question, and the multitude of threads shows how complex and multi-layered the reality of the psychotherapeutic practice is. At the same time, from this multitude of problems emerges a picture of a field that is theoretically mature, practically effective, and socially useful.”

The book is a collection of conversations with leading Polish psychotherapists and supervisors of psychotherapy gathered around the Psychoeducation Laboratory. The subject of reflection here are various areas of life and psychotherapeutic work, such as: relationships and building a sense of security, pregnancy and the perinatal period, parenthood, corporeality and its relationships with the psyche, work, addiction, grief and trauma, restoring agency, the psychotherapeutic workshop.

PWN Publishing House, year of publication 2020. Number of pages: 338. Cover: paperback. Format: 206x143 mm.

“So what is this book about? It is in a sense a story about what the field called psychotherapy is today – at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. Perhaps this is what makes this book so fascinating that one answer raises another question, and the multitude of threads shows how complex and multi-layered the reality of the psychotherapeutic practice is. At the same time, from this multitude of problems emerges a picture of a field that is theoretically mature, practically effective, and socially useful. Psychotherapists are (can be) well-educated, self-aware of themselves and their tasks, as well as their possibilities and limitations. It is worth emphasizing that this book is not just a collection of interesting interviews on fascinating topics. These sixteen conversations are at the same time a kind of collage that has the features of a textbook” – from the foreword by Bogdan de Barbaro.