The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series
What Will You Do With My Story?
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Meakins
July 31, 2012
The author uses her popular columns from The Independent to explore the therapeutic process. Successful analysis, she argues, is less about following pre-formulated theory and more about being led by the experience of what is actually happening....
Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction: Two Languages, One Voice?
1st Edition
By Lynette Harborne
April 30, 2012
This book explores the similarities and differences between the practice of psychotherapy and spiritual direction and suggests that, whilst there may be distinctions between the two activities, the process is essentially the same. The purpose of the book is to improve the understanding between ...
Addictive Personalities and Why People Take Drugs: The Spike and the Moon
1st Edition
By Gary Winship
November 30, 2011
'Why do we take drugs? I haven't the faintest idea, but Gary Winship has a damned good go at telling me the answer. Some might say this is a largely academic book, but as an ex-psychiatric nurse and a Jo Public for the last twenty-five years, I'd say there's something in here for everyone. We've ...
Why Can't I Help this Child to Learn?: Understanding Emotional Barriers to Learning
1st Edition
By Helen High
October 31, 2011
The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of their relationships on their learning. In addition, anxieties that some children show about reading, writing and arithmetic are described. In exploring ...
Attachment and New Beginnings: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary Winship, Jonathan Pedder
December 31, 2010
This collection of written pieces plots the work of an NHS psychotherapist, Jonathan Pedder, turning the science of psychiatry into human encounters. He had a career teaching and inspiring colleagues and students with psychoanalytic ways of thinking, encouraging and supporting them in the ...
Love: Bondage or Liberation?: A Psycholological Exploration of the Meaning, Values and Dangers of Falling in Love
1st Edition
By Deirdre Johnson
December 31, 2010
Much has been written about the function of falling in love in the course of therapy itself. This book has a much broader aim. Deirdre Johnson, a Jungian analyst and psychotherapy trainer, uses her teaching and clinical experience to illuminate the whole range of this near universal human ...
Therapy with Children: An Existential Perspective
1st Edition
By Chris Scalzo
December 31, 2010
This book explores the existential themes and challenges present in all therapeutic relationships when working with children. Existential ideas and concepts are a rapidly growing influence on the practice of psychotherapy and yet their application to work with children remains largely unexplored. ...
Why Therapists Choose to Become Therapists: A Practice-Based Enquiry
1st Edition
By Sofie Bager-Charleson
September 30, 2010
Almost two decades ago, the psychoanalyst Sussman concluded that the therapist's motivation for practicing was a neglected area. Is this maybe a question best left alone? This book revisits the question. The authors support Sussman's rationale for raising the issue in the first place and wonder if...
The Role of Brief Therapy in Attachment Disorders
1st Edition
By Lisa Wake
July 14, 2010
The Role of Brief Therapy in Attachment Disorders provides a comprehensive summary of the range of approaches that exist within the brief therapy world, including Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, Ericksonian Therapy, ...
The Use of Psychoanalytic Concepts in Therapy with Families: For all Professionals Working with Families
1st Edition
By Hilary A. Davies
February 17, 2010
This book begins with a readable practitioner’s guide to psychoanalytic theory and concepts. It moves on to give a number of detailed practice-based examples of the application of this theoretical model in the therapy room with the families of children seeking help with a variety of difficulties. ...
Child-Centred Attachment Therapy: The CcAT Programme
1st Edition
By Alexandra Raicar
December 31, 2009
This book describes the development of the Child-Centred Attachment Therapy (CcAT) model of working with children with attachment difficulties. The authors describe, in a vivid and accessible manner, the complexities involved in supporting parents in their struggles to respond positively to the ...
Hidden Twins: What Adult Opposite Sex Twins Have to Teach Us
1st Edition
By Olivia Lousada
December 31, 2009
This book finds itself being part of the rising tide of interest and investigation into the nature of relationship experience for siblings, same sex twins, and opposite sex twins. It illuminates adult opposite sex twinship that has been undervalued and even hidden....