Introducing the issue of alternative psychotherapies -- Regression therapies : back to babyhood -- Repression and remembering in alternative psychotherapies -- Energy therapies -- Bodywork, passive and active -- All about attachment -- Understanding and treating autism -- Special education and treatments for developmental disabilities -- Conclusion : regulating alternative psychotherapies.
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Summary
<Span><span>In this book, Jean Mercer evaluates a series of unconventional and potentially harmful psychological treatments that are rarely mentioned in the profession's literature. Mercer guides readers to an understanding of alternative psychotherapies that will help them advise clients with respect to existing and newly-emerging unconventional treatments.</span></span>