Queering Psychotherapy

Edited by Jane C. Czyzselska

LGBTIQ+ people are more likely than cisgender and heterosexual individuals to suffer with mental health issues, yet often have poorer therapeutic outcomes. Jane C. Czyzselska speaks with practitioners and clients from diverse modalities and lived experiences, exploring and rethinking some of the unique challenges encountered in a world that continues to marginalise queer lives.

Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst

Edited by Linda Hopkins & Steven Kuchuck

“Although a brilliant and charming man, and an excellent horse rider, [Masud Khan] also caused great distress to many colleagues. These beautifully edited Work Books offer a rare glimpse into the mind of a complicated psychoanalyst. We have much to learn from Khan about how to be a human being and, moreover, how not to be.” Professor Estela V. Welldon, Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust

False Self

Linda Hopkins

“If I were a snob, a liar, a drunk, a philanderer, an anti-Semite, a violent bully, a poseur and a menace to the vulnerable, I would want Linda Hopkins to write my biography. Masud Khan was all of these things. … [Hopkins] sees his life as a tragedy lived “on a scale grand enough to match his favorite characters: Shakespeare’s King Lear and Dostoevsky’s Prince Myshkin.”’ Amy Bloom, The New York Times Review of Books

Media and Psychoanalysis

Jacob Johanssen and Steffen Krüger

Spanning a wide range of examples, this critical introduction guides readers through the growing field of psychoanalytic media studies in a clear and accessible manner. It is indispensable read for anyone who wants to understand the complex relationship between humans and technology today.

The Race Conversation

Eugene Ellis

“This timely, moving book captures in an accessible and practical way the essence and depth of the trauma and psychodynamics of race. Over eight chapters the book maps the construction of race through the centuries, the language and social constructivism around race, the nature of embodied trauma and how it manifests in the here and now.” New Psychotherapist

The Burden of Heritage

Aileen Alleyne

In this timely addition to the literature on inter- and transgenerational trauma, Aileen Alleyne addresses black ancestral trauma passed down the generations, highlighting the ongoing impact on black lives. Alleyne explores the unheeded dimensions of individual and collective identity trauma, paying particular attention to identity shame, black identity wounding and cultural enmeshment. To break the cycle of generational trauma, Alleyne suggests an active process of separation from archaic attachments, and engagement in intentional modes of transformation.

Resilience and Survival

Clara Mucci

Resilience stands at the limits of what it is to be human. The opposite of vulnerability, it defines qualities that are both relational and innately enforced. Clara Mucci explores contemporary therapeutic approaches to intergenerational trauma, focusing on the key principles that can foster resilience and healing. She looks through the prism of attachment, neuroscience, memory and other frameworks to ask what traits constitute a predisposition to resilience – in individuals and in society.

Primitive Bodily Communications

Edited by Raffaella Hilty

“These essays show us the tensions, challenges and opportunities that occur when our clients use their bodies as a primary means of communicating their distress. These highly skilled psychotherapists give us a remarkable insight into how these complex communications can be received and understood in the consulting room.” Graeme Galton, Consultant Psychotherapist, Clinic for Dissociative Studies

Contented Couples

Anne Power

“A diverse cross-cultural perspective … covering a range of marriage styles – from random romance to self-arranged marriages – this book shows how an initial spark of attraction can be transformed into an ever-glowing cosy fire that sustains a long-term relationship. A ‘must read’ for anyone who has ever wondered what makes a marriage work!”

Raksha Pande, author of Learning to Love: Arranged Marriages and the British Indian Diaspora

Blue Diamond Healing

Phil Mollon

“Dr. Mollon’s book has accomplished integrating the cutting edge of psychotherapy and clinical psychology with the advanced evolving world of physics and the quantum world. He has accomplished a work of genius that will be understood to be the dawning of a new age of psychotherapy and all that come with this shift in perspective …”  – DR. RICHARD SHERRY

Children in Lockdown

Christopher Arnold and Brian Davis

This timely and relevant book focuses on the societal impact of the pandemic on children and the educational, social and psychological services that function to support them. It acknowledges the constant change and adaptation required in real time and provides the basis for a start to the discussion about the effects of COVID-19 on families and everyone involved with ‘school life’. Includes contributions from children, parents, teachers, educational psychologists and social workers in the UK and worldwide.

Analysis and Exile

Vivian Heller

“Analysis and Exile is not only a remarkable portrait of a young man’s development – it also gives an unusually intimate portrait of the early years of child psychoanalysis, the rise of fascism in Europe and the shameful treatment of Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution. This is both social history and a rich account of a young man’s struggles to make sense of his own place in the world, as that world transforms around him.”– Nick Midgley, author of Reading Anna Freud and Co-director of the Child Attachment and Psychological Therapies Research Unit at The Anna Freud Centre

Darkness Was My Candle

Lora DeVore

“Lora DeVore’s story reveals the transformative power of care and love, as well as the capacity of the human spirit to endure the unspeakable and to emerge whole. Lora calls to account the institutions that fail us and offers us a vision of a more conscious way to bring healing to the world …” – Marci Shimoff, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul

Unlocked

Anastasia Piatakhina Giré

“This is first-rate storytelling; these tales of therapy entirely drew me in and left me wanting more.  A most impressive debut collection.”  – IRVIN YALOM, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Stanford University

Unlocked tells the stories of ten different people in online therapy. Rather than always presenting a barrier, these narratives demonstrate how a curious and skilled therapist can make the most of the gifts that the ‘screen’ offers and suggest new possibilities for the therapeutic process.

Present With Suffering

Nigel Wellings and Elizabeth Wilde McCormick

What is the place of discontent and unhappiness in human experience and how best can we be with it? People entering psychotherapy want to feel better – more authoritative, less anxious or depressed, more whole – and although it can help, an enormous amount of difficult and painful emotions continue to arise. Even after years and years of therapy many of us feel that there is no ‘happy ever after’. Present with Suffering shows that by becoming present, accepting and kind, we may enfold what hurts us in a more spacious and meaningful way.

Freud's Pandemics

Brett Kahr

“A vivid account of how Sigmund Freud coped with the great “pandemics” of his time, from the Great War and Spanish Flu to cancer and the Nazis.  By assessing how my great-grandfather might have addressed COVID-19 – the pandemic of our own times – Professor Kahr opens up a series of insights into the life of the man who championed the radical innovation of actually listening to people suffering from mental affliction.  Meticulously researched, and written with real pace, this book is a timely reminder of the psychological roots of our response to national trauma.”  –  LORD FREUD,  President of the Freud Museum London.

How it Feels to be You

Tamsin Cottis

“Cottis’s explanations of how a child therapist works flow seamlessly from events in the session … the reader is never bored, always pulled along by the narrative, yet ever more informed.  This is a beautiful book, describing beautiful work.” – DR. ANNE ALVAREZ

This is a wonderful and engaging book. Tamsin is the therapist you’d want every child to have. I learnt so very much. – DR. SUSIE ORBACH

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The Unanswered Self

Dr Candace Orcutt

“Dr. Orcutt’s brilliant, creative and theory-bent mind is more than evident in her new book … Her profound level of understanding of the works of Freud, Masterson, Winnicott and other psychodynamic and developmental theorists, and her experienced and deeply-felt knowledge of the impact of trauma on the developing self stand at the heart of this book … original answers to some very old and very deep clinical and theoretical questions.’ – JUDITH PEARSON, Ph.D

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The Cure for Psychoanalysis

Adam Phillips

We know Adam Phillips to be a remarkable writer but in this wonderfully spirited book we discover he is also an endlessly interesting conversationalist.  With his old friend, Ed Corrigan, as a talk-buddy, we are privy to dialogue as a form of performance art.  There is genius here; there is good humor; there is joy.  It doesn’t get better than this.’ – CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS, psychoanalyst, and author of Meaning and Melancholia, and The Shadow of the Object

Life After a Partner's Suicide Attempt

Francis McGivern

When a person attempts suicide the world often falls in around their partners and families. (…) Yet there is hope and help as Dr McGivern’s seminal work convincingly charts – opening up a neglected landscape for recognition and discussion.” – DR. MARY MCALEESE, former President of Ireland and Professor of Children, Law & Religion, University of Glasgow

McGivern is the first to document in depth the experiences of the partners of those who have attempted to take their own lives. He highlights some implications for psychotherapy training and research and makes recommendations for practice and policy.

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The Race Conversation

Eugene Ellis

“When the history of therapy’s engagement with race and diversity comes to be written, Eugene Ellis will be one of the most important figures … ideal for any in-depth training, whether involving students or more experienced clinicians.” – PROFESSOR ANDREW SAMUELS

“Insightful and accessible … Eugene Ellis manages to clarify the complexity of the race construct and its debilitating impact on our bodies, mental health and relationships, while instilling hope for healing this legacy.” – PAT OGDEN Ph.D.

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The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Steven Kuchuck

Steven Kuchuck’s highly nuanced account offers as many questions as answers, and so stays true to the revolutionary project of replacing absolutist views of technique with recognition of the complexity that arises when we envision therapy as a meeting of minds, a co-creation in which the analyst is a full participant. This much-needed primer, sparkling with insight and wisdom, will be invaluable for readers within and outside the clinical field.” – JESSICA BENJAMIN, Ph.D.

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Learning from the Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Approaches in Educational Psychology Confer Book Cover

Edited by Christopher Arnold, Dale Bartle and Xavier Eloquin

This is a great book and an enjoyable read which I would recommend for all educational psychologists … chapters discuss a wide range of practical applications of psychoanalytic theory; with individual children and young people as well as considering school leaders, groups of school staff and work which has its focus upon whole organisations. There is much to be learnt, or reminded of, from reading this book.” – DR CATE MULLEN

What is Normal? Psychotherapists Explore the Question

Edited by Jane Ryan and Roz Carroll

Insightful, thoughtful and highly original … a challenging and much-needed contribution.” – GABOR MATÉ, M.D.

CONTRIBUTORS: Meg-John Barker, Doris Brothers, Roz Carroll, Christopher Clulow, Tania Glyde, Jane Haberlin, Brett Kahr, Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga, Phil Mollon, Dany Nobus, Chris Oakley, Susie Orbach, Andrew Samuels, Ann Shearer, Stephen Seligman, Stephen Setterberg, Valerie Sinason, Foluke Taylor, Lennox Thomas, Felicity de Zulueta

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The Brain Has a Mind of its Own

Jeremy Holmes

“This book is a visionary tour de force. It will serve as a guide to every clinician’s thinking. It takes a significant step towards realizing Freud’s ambition of establishing a viable neuroscientific model for psychotherapy. It is one of the most valuable contributions to the field this Century.” – PROFESSOR PETER FONAGY, OBE

“Rich and thought-provoking … the examples are profound and beautiful; and Jeremy’s work is a reminder that psychotherapy will always be both an art and a science.” – DR GWEN ADSHEAD

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The Truth About Trauma and Dissociation

Valerie Sinason

“Valerie Sinason ventures into troubled emotional spaces to hear what we don’t know and, often, don’t wish to know. In plain language she has enabled us to see forms of cruelty and the psychic consequences which lead to the extreme splitting of psyches into dissociated and multiple self-states … A book of interest to clinicians and a much wider audience.” – DR. SUSIE ORBACH

“Enjoy the clarity and beauty of Valerie’s whistle-stop tour of trauma and dissociation.” – BARONESS HOLLINS

Pathologies for the Self

Phil Mollon

“One of the most original thinkers in the mental health profession, Dr Phil Mollon has written a rich and readable portrait of the complexities of narcissistic and borderline states of mind.  Drawing upon a generous range of psychological theories and clinical data, Mollon has provided us with a veritable master class, illuminating these deeply troubling – indeed malignant – features of the human personality.” – PROFESSOR BRETT KAHR

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Towards an Ecopsychotherapy

Mary-Jayne Rust

“This thought-provoking book touches on the heart of controversies in this field – our need to grow new terminology – and to actively ensure our spaces are inclusive. This is an invaluable introduction to ecopsychotherapy and is also sure to deepen the work of more seasoned practitioners.” – EMMA PALMER

“A succinct, heartfelt overview of eco-psychotherapy … the wisdom in this book is needed now more than ever.” – JEFFREY T KIEHL

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Body Psychotherapy for the 21st Century

Nick Totton

“An exquisite introduction to Body Psychotherapy, describing the influences on its development and the models of working so that people new to this approach will be able to get an image of it.” – LIDY EVERTSEN

“Nick Totton has been a pivotal figure in Body Psychotherapy … this book has the vitality of a genuine re-appraisal and both frankness and rigour in its argument and questions.” – ROZ CARROLL

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Dangerous Lunatics

Brett Kahr

“Only Brett Kahr could produce such a masterpiece … combines his unique expertise as a clinician and as a historian to tell this vital tale about how we have treated criminals throughout the ages and how we might do much, much better in the future!” – PROFESSOR ESTELA V. WELLDON

Via clinical case reports, archival material, and a review of the latest psychological research, Dangerous Lunatics offers a unique insight into the treatment of violent criminals through history.

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The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Dr Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco

“This new volume is a truly outstanding contribution to psychoanalytic thinking. It is a wake-up call to all practitioners … We clinicians must adjust to a sea change in how gender and sexuality are evolving and how these transformations are related to our digital era … I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the future of psychotherapy in an era dominated by technology.” PROFESSOR GLEN O. GABBARD, M.D.

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