Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions
About the Book Series
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.
Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style: Sharing Desire, Pleasure, and Satisfaction
1st Edition
By Barry W. McCarthy, Emily McCarthy
June 15, 2026
An undoubtable classic, this landmark book from 2009 remains a vital and comprehensive resource for helping couples explore their intimacy and embrace their true, satisfying sexual style. This classic edition includes a new foreword from renowned sexologist and clinical psychologist Dr. Peggy J. ...
The Patient and the Analyst: The Basis of the Psychoanalytic Process
1st Edition
By Joseph Sandler, Anna Ursula Dreher, Christopher Dare, Alex Holder
June 15, 2026
The Patient and the Analyst is an essential work of psychoanalytic literature. Introducing and explaining the core principles of psychoanalytic work, the book is both a readable introduction and an authoritative work of reference. Covering subjects including transference and countertransference, ...
Assessment in Art Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Gilroy, Robin Tipple, Christopher Brown
November 18, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1st Edition
By James S. 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
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
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 ...