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01/18/2022

The Science of Psychotherapy: Introducing The Practitioner's Guide to the Science of Psychotherapy

Listen to Richard Hill and Matthew Dahlitz introduce their forthcoming book, THE PRACTITIONER'S GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY (WWNorton.com/rd/SOP), on the The Science of Psychotherapy podcast. In this episode, Richard and Matt discuss the basis of the book, a scientifically validated foundation for current psychotherapeutic practice. In stores March 8!

Today Richard and Matt talk about their upcoming book The Practitioner's Guide to the Science of Psychotherapy and discuss the introduction and basis of the book. The book is available on pre-order now. Thanks for listening! Support us by becoming a subscriber to Please leave a review! (Reviews are....

01/14/2022

Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault

Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga founder Zahabiyah Yamasaki's powerful new book, TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, and its companion/stand-alone resource, the TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA AFFIRMATION CARD DECK, are now available wherever books are sold. Also available as a discounted set (https://WWNorton.com/rd/TIYSet).

The book (WWNorton.com/rd/TIY) explores practical considerations for survivors, yoga teachers, mental health professionals, educators, and other healing professionals. The card deck (WWNorton.com/rd/TIYD) pairs beautiful, full-color illustrations with powerful and healing affirmations for survivors. Click below to learn more.

01/14/2022

The Sunday Read: ‘What if There’s No Such Thing as Closure?’

Listen to The Daily's reading of "What if There's No Such Thing As Closure?", a NYTimes feature about family therapist and social scientist Pauline Boss, and her new book THE MYTH OF CLOSURE: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change (WWNorton.com/myth). This reading features a personal introduction from Times contributor Meg Bernhard.

Many of us are taught that if we work hard enough we’ll be able to get over our losses. The social scientist Pauline Boss sees it differently.

01/11/2022

Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault

Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga founder Zahabiyah Yamasaki's powerful new book, TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, and its companion/stand-alone resource, the TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA AFFIRMATION CARD DECK, are now available wherever books are sold. Also available as a discounted set (https://WWNorton.com/rd/TIYSet).

The book (WWNorton.com/rd/TIY) explores practical considerations for survivors, yoga teachers, mental health professionals, educators, and other healing professionals. The card deck (WWNorton.com/rd/TIYD) pairs beautiful, full-color illustrations with powerful and healing affirmations for survivors. Click below to learn more.

01/07/2022

The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context

"[T]his book is filled with riveting case examples that illustrate the efficacy of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.... I hope this will become required reading for every therapist and policy maker!" ―Bessel Van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

In THE POCKET GUIDE TO SENSORIMOTOR PSYCHOTHERAPY IN CONTEXT, Pat Ogden (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute), pioneering creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, presents an expanded approach to PTSD and attachment disturbances treatment. Learn more at: WWNorton.com/rd/PGSP

01/06/2022

#782 Psychotherapist Jennifer Sweeton PhD on Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness | Shrink Rap Radio

Listen to Dr. Jennifer Sweeton discuss her new book, EIGHT KEY BRAIN AREAS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS on the Shrink Rap Radio podcast. Dr. Sweeton's book is a client-centered, strategic, brain-based approach to treatment planning. Chapter summaries and tables of brain region, mental health condition, and therapeutic approach are all included for easy reference! Learn more about the book at WWNorton.com/rd/8Key

01/05/2022

When facing loss, embrace change and don't force closure, a therapist urges

"You can't continue to hope that we're going to go back to how our society was before the pandemic. Changes have already taken place. [But] there are new things to hope for."

Read Pauline Boss's new interview with NPR about her new book, THE MYTH OF CLOSURE (WWNorton.com/myth), and how her theory of ambiguous loss applies to the COVID-19 pandemic and the modern political landscape.

Over the last two years, many have experienced a kind of ambiguous loss as we have lived with isolation and uncertainty in the pandemic. Author and therapist Pauline Boss explains how to move forward.

01/04/2022

#781 Neuroscience Educator Sarah Peyton on Affirmations for Turbulent Times | Shrink Rap Radio

Listen to Sarah Peyton - sarahpeyton.com discuss her new book, AFFIRMATIONS FOR TURBULENT TIMES (WWNorton.com/rd/AFTT), with Shrink Rap Radio​, and learn how she applies complex neuroscience concepts to everyday life through these powerful affirmations.

01/04/2022

The Polyvagal Bookshelf

Happy New Year from Norton Mental Health! Get 25% OFF the Polyvagal Bookshelf, featuring resources from our best-selling Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), when you order direct from W. W. Norton. These books combine theory and practice for clinicians to best incorporate polyvagal-informed principles to their therapeutic toolkit, from theory originator Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Institute) and practice leaders like Deb Dana. Offer ends 1/14.

Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory has had a seismic impact on how mental health clinicians understand the nervous system and help their clients regulate. The following Polyvagal Theory resources from the best-selling Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology combine theory and practice for clinic...

01/03/2022

Watch Richard Hill and Matthew Dahlitz introduce their new book, THE PRACTITIONER'S GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

Watch Richard Hill and Matthew Dahlitz of The Science of Psychotherapy introduce their new book, THE PRACTITIONER'S GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY (https://WWNorton.com/rd/SOP). From basic neuroscience to body-brain systems and genetic processes, therapists will discover a new, scientifically validated, and integrated foundation for psychotherapeutic practice. In stores March 8!

01/03/2022

The Polyvagal Bookshelf

Happy New Year from Norton Mental Health! Get 25% OFF the Polyvagal Bookshelf, featuring resources from our best-selling Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), when you order direct from W. W. Norton. These books combine theory and practice for clinicians to best incorporate polyvagal-informed principles to their therapeutic toolkit, from theory originator Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Institute) and practice leaders like Deb Dana. Offer ends 1/14.

Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory has had a seismic impact on how mental health clinicians understand the nervous system and help their clients regulate. The following Polyvagal Theory resources from the best-selling Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology combine theory and practice for clinic...

12/28/2021

The Polyvagal Bookshelf from W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company

Get 25% OFF the Polyvagal Bookshelf, featuring resources from our best-selling Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), when you order direct from W. W. Norton. These books combine theory and practice for clinicians to best incorporate polyvagal-informed principles to their therapeutic toolkit, from theory originator Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Institute) and practice leaders like Deb Dana. Offer ends 1/4.

12/27/2021

Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault

"Yamasaki’s steady, compassionate, and authentic voice offers a comprehensive guidebook for how to navigate the path to trauma healing for survivor and helper alike."
- Nityda Gessel, The The Trauma-Conscious Yoga Institute

Publishing January 11th, 2022, Zahabiyah Yamasaki's powerful new book, TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT (WWNorton.com/rd/TIY) and its companion TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA AFFIRMATION CARD DECK (WWNorton.com/rd/TIYD) are now available directly from Norton. Learn more below.

12/17/2021

What if There’s No Such Thing as Closure?

"In trying to describe losses that society doesn’t always recognize, Boss might be helping us to rethink the nature of loss altogether."

Read The New York Times profile of Pauline Boss, author of THE MYTH OF CLOSURE: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change (WWNorton.com/myth). Dr. Boss discusses her new book, her personal experiences with ambiguous loss, and how her groundbreaking framework for addressing unresolved grief has taken on new meaning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing struggle for racial justice.

Many of us are taught that if we work hard enough we’ll be able to get over our losses. The social scientist Pauline Boss sees it differently.

12/15/2021

Modern Therapist Masterclass

Join Dr. Chanté DeLoach, author of HOW WE PRACTICE THERAPY NOW (WWNorton.com/rd/HWPTN) for a FREE workshop with Teletherapist Network on Friday, January 7th, 2022 at 12 PM EST. In this session, Dr. DeLoach will share practical advice on practicing psychotherapy remotely and discuss the clinical considerations as well as the legal and ethical mandates for clinicians working in a digital space and other non-traditional formations.

Register for the Teletherapist Network's free Masterclass with Chante DeLoach

12/14/2021

Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems in Therapy

"In COMPLEX INTEGRATION OF MULTIPLE BRAIN SYSTEMS IN THERAPY, you will find a powerful way in which you can learn to deepen an understanding of integration in the mind, and how to cultivate this in your clients—and in yourself." —from the Foreword by Dr. Dan Siegel

NEW in the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, COMPLEX INTEGRATION OF MULTIPLE BRAIN SYSTEMS IN THERAPY (WWNorton.com/complex) from Beatriz Sheldon and Albert Sheldon is NOW AVAILABLE wherever books are sold! This book details their novel neurobiological and psychotherapeutic paradigm—and reveals how therapists can use it for more successful treatment.

12/14/2021

The Myth of Closure

NOW AVAILABLE from Dr. Pauline Boss, THE MYTH OF CLOSURE: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change (WWNorton.com/myth) offers readers strategies for navigating the uncertainties we’ve all experienced during the pandemic.

“She writes beautifully and with great emotion as she tackles one of our most difficult challenges—how to grow through pain and suffering. Boss is a cultural therapist whose work helps us understand ourselves and each other." — Mary Pipher, author of WOMEN ROWING NORTH and REVIVING OPHELIA

12/07/2021

Our List of 2021's Influencers in Aging

Congratulations to Pauline Boss, author of the new book THE MYTH OF CLOSURE: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change (WWNorton.com/myth), for being named one of Next Avenue's 2021 Influencers in Aging. Started in 2015, Influencers in Aging annually recognizes remarkable people bringing solutions, innovation, inspiration and big thinking to the aging space.

Learn more and read the full list of influencers below.

Meet this year's thought leaders, activists, entrepreneurs and experts changing how we think about aging

12/07/2021

Affirmations for Turbulent Times

NEW from Sarah Peyton, AFFIRMATIONS FOR TURBULENT TIMES (WWNorton.com/rd/aftt) is NOW AVAILABLE wherever books are sold! Rooted in the neuroscience of affirmations, and covering more than 100 themes (including health, self-care, issues at work, and connection with loved ones and with the planet), this book is a companion for daily life.

Tune in to her virtual book launch Wednesday, December 8, 12pm EST, at https://bit.ly/3lHtumS

12/02/2021

Virtual Book Launch - Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind - Sarah Peyton

On Wednesday, 12/8 at 9 AM PST, join Sarah Peyton, author of AFFIRMATIONS FOR TURBULENT TIMES (WWNorton.com/rd/AFTT) for a virtual book launch hosted on Zoom. Sarah will share a sneak peek of her new book and there will be an opportunity to win a free signed copy of the book or a spot in Sarah's upcoming course exploring affirmations. Click below for more information and to RSVP.

Join Sarah's VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH on December 8th for a sneak peek into her newest release Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind and a chance to win a free, signed copy of the book or a spot in Sarah's upcoming course exploring affirmations!

12/01/2021

Temple Grandin talks about navigating autism

Listen to Dr. Temple Grandin and Debra Moore, authors of NAVIGATING AUTISM (WWNorton.com/rd/autism) on the The Science of Psychotherapy podcast discussing their new book and helpful ways to support young people with autism!

Temple Grandin and Debra Moore talk about their latest book "Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets For Helping Kids on the Spectrum".

12/01/2021

#774 Stephen Porges PhD on The Importance of Polyvagal Safety | Shrink Rap Radio

Listen to Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Institute), author of POLYVAGAL SAFETY (WWNorton.com/rd/psafety) on the Shrink Rap Radio podcast, discussing his new book and why safety is such a key consideration when it comes to the polyvagal theory.

11/30/2021

TODAY, 5:30 PM EST, join Dr. Jennifer Sweeton and Tim Cassidy, Licensed Professional Counselor of Online CE Credits for a Q&A about Dr. Sweeton's new book, EIGHT KEY BRAIN AREAS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS (WWNorton.com/rd/EightKey). Dr. Sweeton will discuss her process for writing this book and the importance of an understanding of neuroscience in the mental health space. The event is free and open to the public, and will be hosted here on the Norton Mental Health page.

TODAY, 5:30 PM EST, join Dr. Jennifer Sweeton and Tim Cassidy, Licensed Professional Counselor of Online CE Credits for a Q&A about Dr. Sweeton's new book, EIGHT KEY BRAIN AREAS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS (WWNorton.com/rd/EightKey). Dr. Sweeton will discuss her process for writing this book and the importance of an understanding of neuroscience in the mental health space. The event is free and open to the public, and will be hosted here on the Norton Mental Health page.

11/30/2021

Norton Mental Health

NEW from Dr. Jennifer Sweeton, EIGHT KEY BRAIN AREAS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS (WWNorton.com/rd/8Key) is NOW AVAILABLE wherever books are sold! In this handbook, clinical psychologist and best-selling author Jennifer Sweeton details the eight main areas of the brain affected by mental illness, how brain changes show up in the therapy room as symptoms and behaviors, and the types of therapies and psychotherapeutic techniques research has shown can heal the brain.

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11/29/2021

Join us for the VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH on December 8th for a sneak peek into my newest release Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind and a chance to win a free, signed copy of the book or a spot in my January 2022 course exploring affirmations! https://sarahpeyton.com/event/virtual-book-launch-affirmations-for-turbulent-times

#SelfEsteem #SelfHelp #Affirmations #turbulenttimesaffirmations

11/23/2021

Norton Mental Health

Start your holiday savings early with 25% OFF the best books in psychotherapy, psychiatry, neurobiology, counseling, social work, and self-help! Visit https://wwnorton.com/promo/NORTON91 or order from our 2022 Mental Health Catalog PDF at WWNorton.com/rd/22CATALOG.

W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers since 1923. Since 1984, Norton has been a premiere publisher of mental health books for clinicians and the general public. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/2SEGSK0.