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.
Psychiatry and Religion: Context, Consensus and Controversies
1st Edition
Edited
By Dinesh Bhugra
August 10, 2018
Psychiatry and Religion: Context, Consensus and Controversies works to eradicate the distinction between spiritual and psychological welfare and promote greater understanding of the relationship between the two. This book brings together chapters from fifteen mental health practitioners and ...
Shame and the Origins of Self-Esteem: A Jungian approach
1st Edition
By Mario Jacoby
September 07, 2016
Shame is one of our most central feelings and a universal human characteristic. Why do we experience it? For what purpose? How can we cope with excessive feelings of shame? In this elegant exposition informed by many years of helping people to understand feelings of shame, leading Jungian analyst ...
Human Nature and Suffering
1st Edition
By Paul Gilbert
August 17, 2016
Human Nature and Suffering is a profound comment on the human condition, from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. Paul Gilbert explores the implications of humans as evolved social animals, suggesting that evolution has given rise to a varied set of social competencies, which form the basis...
Individuation and Narcissism: The psychology of self in Jung and Kohut
1st Edition
By Mario Jacoby
August 17, 2016
Developments in Freudian psychoanalysis, particularly the work of Kohut and Winnicott, have led to a convergence with the Jungian position. In Individuation and Narcissism Mario Jacoby attempted to overcome the doctrinal differences between the different schools of depth psychology, while taking ...
The Therapeutic Use of Self: Counselling practice, research and supervision
2nd Edition
By Val Wosket
August 17, 2016
The Therapeutic Use of Self has continued, since its publication in 1999, to be considered a key text within integrative, humanistic and relational approaches for the training and development of therapists in the UK and abroad. This long-awaited classic edition includes powerful case examples ...
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 ...