The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series
Not Just Talking: Conversational Analysis, Harvey Sacks' Gift to Therapy
1st Edition
By Jean Pain
December 31, 2009
Good relationships depend, above all, on our skills in conversation. Harvey Sacks' method, Conversational Analysis, was the springboard for The author's research into psychotherapy as a social activity that depends for its success on the quality of the therapeutic dialogue. The ...
Psychosis in the Family: The Journey of a Transpersonal Psychotherapist and Mother
1st Edition
By Janet C. Love
December 31, 2009
This is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has walked the heart-rending path and experienced the psychological trauma of loving someone in psychosis; psychosis which still remains the greatest taboo in society today, together with its implicit...
The 3-Point Therapist
1st Edition
By Hilary A. Davies
December 31, 2009
An ambitious trainee therapist, determined to make her mark in the therapy world, seeks supervision and guidance. In her meetings with the 3-Point Therapist she gains much more than she had bargained for. The 3-Point Therapist is the charming story of one trainee's journey in search of professional...
The Emergent Self: An Existential-Gestalt Approach
1st Edition
By Peter Philippson
December 31, 2009
This book tracks a particular understanding of self, philosophically, from research evidence and in its implications for psychotherapy. At each step, the author includes first the theory he is working from, then the clinical implications of the theory, followed by some links to the philosophical ...
The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy
1st Edition
By Heward Wilkinson
February 19, 2009
In recent years there has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences. In this rich, yet rigorous, multidisciplinary text, this movement is explored in terms of poetry; therapy; dreams; literary texts; Heideggerian, Kantian, and post-modern ...
Our Desire of Unrest: Thinking About Therapy
1st Edition
By Michael Jacobs
January 01, 2009
Knowledge is never static. It is always open to revolutionary thinking or to evolving development. Similarly an individuals knowledge is always moving, and indeed if the ability to think about ideas is lost, an important part of the individual is also lost. In this book, a collection of some of ...
Shakespeare on the Couch
1st Edition
By Michael Jacobs
December 31, 2008
Drawing upon a vast literature in psychoanalytic journals and either upon Shakespeare's characters themselves or alluding to those characters in the course of other topics, this book discusses eight of Shakespeare's plays and the relationships between the main characters in them. Psychoanalytic and...
Dialogue and Desire: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Linguistic Turn in Psychotherapy
1st Edition
By Rachel Pollard
July 21, 2008
This book is an exploration of the relationship between the Russian philosopher, Mikhail Bakhtin, and contemporary dialogical psychotherapy, describing the psychoanalytic and linguistic conception of the dialogical self....
Diversity, Discipline and Devotion in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Clinical and Training Perspectives
1st Edition
By Gertrud Mander
July 02, 2007
This book is a selection of papers written over 25 years of practising psychoanalytic psychotherapy, of training and supervising psychotherapists, psychodynamic counsellors and supervisors. It reflects a preoccupation with the growth and diversification of counselling and psychotherapy, with the ...
What is Psychotherapeutic Research?
1st Edition
Edited
By Del Loewenthal, David Winter
December 31, 2006
This book marks an important watershed in the development of psychotherapy. It provides examples of how psychotherapeutic research and the abilities to carry it out can help the practising psychotherapist. A lack of relative knowledge of research in psychotherapy, a history of apparent ...
Revolutionary Connections: Psychotherapy and Neuroscience
1st Edition
Edited
By Jenny Corrigall, Heward Wilkinson
December 31, 2003
For many years psychotherapy and neuroscience have been estranged, existing on opposite ends of the spectrum concerned with the investigation of the mind. However, in recent years, these two opposing schools of thought have found their paths converging so that now a mutually rewarding relationship ...