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.
Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness
1st Edition
By Paul Gilbert
August 16, 2016
Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness offers a fresh perspective on research, theory and conceptualisations of the depressive disorders, derived from evolution theory and arguing for the adoption of the biopsychosocial model. The book is split into three parts. Part I explores the major ...
Four Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden, Jill Mytton
July 26, 2016
Four Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy provides an essential introduction to and overview of the main models of psychotherapy and counselling. With a new preface from Windy Dryden, this Classic Edition traces the development of counselling and psychotherapy, and examines the relationship ...
The Wounded Healer: Countertransference from a Jungian Perspective
2nd Edition
By David Sedgwick
June 27, 2016
In the years since the publication of The Wounded Healer, countertransference has become a central consideration in the analytic process. David Sedgwick’s work was ground-breaking in tackling this difficult topic from a Jungian perspective and demonstrating how countertransference can be used in ...
The Inner World Outside: Object Relations Theory and Psychodrama
1st Edition
By Paul Holmes
February 04, 2016
What happens in Psychodrama Session? How can object relations theory illuminate the practice of psychodrama? Paul Holmes is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist trained in both psychoanalytic and psychodramatic methods of treatment. In The Inner World Outside he draws on his experiences to give a ...
Evolutionary Psychiatry: A new beginning
1st Edition
By Anthony Stevens, John Price
December 08, 2015
Evolutionary Psychiatry was first published in 1996, the second edition followed in 2000. This ground breaking book challenged the medical model which supplied few effective answers to long-standing conundrums. A comprehensive introduction to the science of Darwinian Psychiatry, the second edition ...
The Plural Psyche: Personality, Morality and the Father
1st Edition
By Andrew Samuels
October 05, 2015
Pluralism can bridge the gaps that have opened up between personal experience, psychotherapy, and cultural criticism. In The Plural Psyche: Personality, Morality and the Father, a provocative, much praised and widely discussed book, Andrew Samuels lays bare the political implications of the ...
The Political Psyche
1st Edition
By Andrew Samuels
October 05, 2015
What can depth psychology and politics offer each other? In The Political Psyche Andrew Samuels shows how the inner journey of analysis and psychotherapy and the passionate political convictions of the outer world are linked. He brings an acute psychological perspective to bear on public themes ...
The Inner World Outside: Object Relations Theory and Psychodrama
2nd Edition
By Paul Holmes
August 06, 2015
First published in 1993, The Inner World Outside has become a classic in its field. Paul Holmes walks the reader through the ‘inner world’ of object relationships and the corresponding ‘outside world’ shared by others in which real relationships exist. Trained as a psychotherapist in both ...
Archetype Revisited: An Updated Natural History of the Self
1st Edition
By Anthony Stevens
June 17, 2015
Archetype: A Natural History of the Self, first published in 1982, was a ground-breaking book; the first to explore the connections between Jung's archetypes and evolutionary disciplines such as ethology and sociobiology, and an excellent introduction to the archetypes in theory and practical ...
Jung and Phenomenology
1st Edition
By Roger Brooke
January 23, 2015
Jung and Phenomenology is a classic text in the field of Jungian scholarship. Originally published in 1991, it continues to be essential to conversations regarding the foundations of Jungian thought. This Classic Edition of the book includes a brand new introduction by the author. Jung described ...
The Anti-Group: Destructive Forces in the Group and their Creative Potential
1st Edition
By Morris Nitsun
October 08, 2014
The 'anti-group' is a major conceptual addition to the theory and practice of group psychotherapy. It comprises the negative, disruptive elements, which threaten to undermine and even destroy the group, but when contained, have the potential to mobilise the group's creative processes. Understanding...
The Psychoanalysis of Organizations: A psychoanalytic approach to behaviour in groups and organizations
1st Edition
By Robert De Board
June 11, 2014
One of the most pressing needs of modern society is to understand and construct organizations that are not only effective in terms of carrying out work but that also allow and encourage people to develop their full human potential. Psychoanalytic theory describes those primary processes that lie at...