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Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions

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The Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions Series celebrates Routledge's commitment to excellence within the field of mental health. These books are recognized as timeless classics covering a range of important issues, and continue to be recommended as key reading for professionals and students in the area. With a new introduction that explores what has changed since the books were first published, and why these books are as relevant now as ever, the series presents key ideas to a new generation.

52 Series Titles


Assessment in Art Therapy

Assessment in Art Therapy

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Andrea Gilroy, Robin Tipple, Christopher Brown
November 05, 2025

Assessment in Art Therapy gives a unique insight into the diverse contemporary practices that constitute assessment in art therapy, providing an overview of the different approaches employed in Britain and the USA today. This professional handbook comprises three parts. 'Sitting Beside' explores ...

Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence Concepts and Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy

Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence: Concepts and Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy

1st Edition

By Richard G. Erskine
August 01, 2025

Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence presents a comprehensive integrative theory and style of therapeutic involvement that reflects a relational and non-pathological perspective. Containing work from the course of Richard Erskine’s career, this book provides an essential introduction to ...

Imagining Animals Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind

Imagining Animals: Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind

1st Edition

By Caroline Case
July 31, 2025

This classic edition of Imagining Animals explores how the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy can act as a powerful catalyst for children who may be struggling with communication. Readers will benefit from learning about the different ways that animal symbolism can ...

Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy A Trainee's Guide to Preparing Case Studies and Reports

Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Trainee's Guide to Preparing Case Studies and Reports

1st Edition

By Linda Papadopoulos, Malcolm C. Cross, Robert Bor
December 30, 2024

Showing practical competence through the production of client reports and case studies is a key aspect of training therapists and other mental health professionals. This Classic Edition of Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy offers a unique hands-on guide to this element of practical work. ...

Managing Intense Emotions and Overcoming Self-Destructive Habits A Self-Help Manual

Managing Intense Emotions and Overcoming Self-Destructive Habits: A Self-Help Manual

1st Edition

By Lorraine Bell
December 24, 2024

What is emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), also known as borderline personality disorder, and how can people with EUPD learn how to manage their emotions more skilfully and effectively? Managing Intense Emotions and Overcoming Self-Destructive Habits is a self-help manual that will ...

On the Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders An Introduction to Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

On the Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders: An Introduction to Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

1st Edition

By Viktor E. Frankl
March 25, 2024

This Classic Edition of On the Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders: An Introduction to Logotherapy and Existential Analysis sees Viktor E. Frankl, bestselling author and founder of logotherapy, introduce his key theories and apply them to work with patients exhibiting symptoms of neurosis. James...

Inner Strengths Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego-Strengthening

Inner Strengths: Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego-Strengthening

1st Edition

By Shirley McNeal
February 26, 2024

Inner Strengths is the first book to meet the need for a comprehensive treatment of approaches to ego-strengthening in psychotherapy. It provides a historical breakthrough in the history of ego-strengthening education, and explores contemporary psychodynamic, object relations, self-psychology, ego ...

A Beam of Intense Darkness Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

1st Edition

By James Grotstein
December 06, 2023

Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker, James Grotstein, A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often-complex work of W. R. Bion. This psychoanalytic classic sees Grotstein introduce over 30 key Bionian theories, comprehensively ...

Playing Sick? Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome, Munchausen by Proxy, Malingering, and Factitious Disorder

Playing Sick?: Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome, Munchausen by Proxy, Malingering, and Factitious Disorder

1st Edition

By Marc Feldman
September 14, 2023

In the classic edition of this outstanding book, originally published in 2004, Dr. Marc Feldman explores the bizarre cases of real patients who feign or even self-induce illness. Playing Sick? chronicles the devastating impact of illness hoaxes, including factitious disorders, Munchausen syndrome, ...

The Adolescent Psyche Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives

The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives

1st Edition

By Richard Frankel
June 30, 2023

In the classic edition of this outstanding book, originally published in 1998, Richard Frankel explores adolescence as a crucial, unique, and turbulent period of human development. He provides guidance for clinicians working with young people as they undergo significant transformations in the way ...

Hidden Treasure A Map to the Child's Inner Self

Hidden Treasure: A Map to the Child's Inner Self

1st Edition

By Violet Oaklander
December 06, 2022

This classic edition of Violet Oaklander’s groundbreaking book presents her pioneering approach to engaging with children who enter therapy. A new introduction by Peter Mortola reflects on the ways that Hidden Treasure continues to inform therapeutic practice all over the world. Most of the ...

Freud and Jung on Religion

Freud and Jung on Religion

1st Edition

By Michael Palmer
October 27, 2022

In this outstanding book, originally published in 1997, and subsequently translated into many languages, Michael Palmer presents a detailed and comparative study of the two most famous theories of religion in the history of psychology: those of Freud and Jung. The first part of the book analyses ...

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