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Author:   Erick Messias ,  Hamid Peseschkian
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Second Edition 2025
ISBN:  

9783031946448

ISBN 10:   3031946448
Pages:   702
Publication Date:   17 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Basic Concepts, Background, and History.- Positive Psychiatry: An Introduction.- Positive Psychotherapy: An Introduction.- Positive Psychology: An Introduction.- Part 2: Staying Positive Through Life.- Positive Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.- Positive Psychiatry in Midlife.- Professional well-being.- Successful Aging.- Life Balance with Positive Psychotherapy.- Death and grieving with Positive Psychotherapy.- Part 3: Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders.- Positive interventions in Depression.- Positive interventions in Anxiety disorders.- Positive interventions in Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders.- Positive interventions in Substance Use Disorders.- Positive Psychotherapy and Eating Disorders.- Positive interventions in PTSD and post traumatic growth.- Positive Psychosomatics.- Positive Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy .- Positive psychotherapy and Autism Spectrum Disorders.- Treatment of Chronic Pain patients with Positive Psychotherapy.- Positive communication inthe therapeutic-medical relationship.- Part 4: Special Settings and Populations.- Culture and Minorities: Positive Psychology and Positive Psychiatry Perspectives.- Positive Psychotherapy in different Cultures.- Positive Sports Psychiatry.- Positive Family Counselling and Marital Therapy.- Positive Pedagogy and Counselling.- Positive Group Psychotherapy.- Positive Psychotherapy in organizational and leadership coaching.- Psychotherapeutic work with men.- Positive Psychotherapy in Virtual and Remote Settings (Online therapy).- Suicide from the perspective of positive psychiatry and psychotherapy.- Particularities of the therapeutic relationship in Positive Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.- Trauma counseling and crisis interventions based on Positive Psychotherapy.- Sexual counselling and sexual education using methods of Positive Psychotherapy.- Part 5: Theoretical Foundations and Training.- Theoretical Foundations and Roots of Positive Psychotherapy.- The First Interview in PositivePsychotherapy.- The Conflict Model in Positive Psychotherapy.- Using stories, anecdotes, and humor in Positive Psychotherapy.- Supervision in Positive Psychotherapy.- Spirituality and Religion in positive psychiatry and psychology.- Positive Psychotherapy as an Existentialism.- Positive Psychotherapy and other psychotherapeutic methods.- Positive Psychotherapy and Meaning.- Positive interpretation as a tool in psychotherapy.- Educational self-discovery in positive psychotherapy training.- Part 6: Emerging Topics and Contemporary Issue.- Humor in Positive Psychotherapy and Psychiatry.- Climate change and mental health: positive ecopsychotherapy.- Dealing with the Covid-19 Pandemic with positive psychotherapy.- Understanding the LGBTQ community’s needs in therapy from a Positive Psychotherapy perspective.- Pathways to Group Trauma Intervention Using Positive Psychotherapy: A Practical Experience with Severely Traumatised War Survivors.- The challenge of mental health professionals beinga refugee – and working with refugees.- War, working with soldiers, separated families.- Positive psychotherapy and dealing with sexual violence, rape, and trauma.- Transgenerational trauma with PPT.

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Dr. Erick Messias was born and raised in Brazil, where he completed medical school and practiced family medicine in rural areas before moving to Baltimore for residency training. In 2001, he completed a psychiatry residency at the University of Maryland, and he completed preventive medicine training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2003. While at Hopkins he also received a master’s in public health and a PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology. Since graduation he has held academic positions at his alma mater in Brazil, and later in Georgia and Arkansas where he was medical director of the Walker Family Clinic and responsible for the House Staff Mental Health Service at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock. Dr. Messias served as VP and Medical Director for Beacon Health Options, overseeing the mental health care received by Arkansas Medicaid recipients. Dr. Messias has over 50 publications in scientific journals, has published several book chapters, and has edited a volume on schizophrenia for psychiatrists and a textbook on Positive Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychotherapy. Dr. Messias also served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Affair for the UAMS College of Medicine and Program Director for the Baptist-UAMS psychiatry residency program, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Dr. Messias is currently the Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the St. Louis University School of Medicine. Dr. Hamid Peseschkian is a German board-certified specialist in psychiatry, neurology, and psychotherapy, and an internationally recognized expert in transcultural and humanistic psychodynamic psychotherapy. He serves as the Academic and Managing Director of the Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy (Wiesbaden, Germany), where he also leads the psychotherapy residency program, and is the Medical Director of the Wiesbaden Psychotherapy Center. As President of the World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (WAPP), Dr. Peseschkian plays a key role in advancing global mental health education across more than 60 countries. He is a European Certified Psychotherapist (EAP), an International Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and an International Associate of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK). His additional affiliations include the Council of the World Federation for Psychotherapy (WFP) and the German Association for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (DFT), where he holds honorary membership. He also serves as Senior Adjunct Faculty for psychiatry and psychotherapy training in Hesse, Germany. With over three decades of clinical, academic, and international teaching experience, Dr. Peseschkian has trained thousands of psychotherapists worldwide. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, many of which have been translated into multiple languages. His professional interests include transcultural psychiatry, psychotherapy education, stress management, and intercultural competence. He earned his M.D. from the University of Mainz in 1987, followed by a doctorate in medicine in 1988 and a postdoctoral research degree in 1999. 

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