Books in the The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series series

This book is a psychoanalytic discussion of the effects of trauma and torture on children, with a specific focus on how professionals can use an approach focused on resiliency rather than vulnerability to help the child reach wellbeing.

Good relationships depend, above all, on our skills in conversation. This book presents research into psychotherapy as a social activity that depends for its success on the quality of the therapeutic dialogue. It is suitable for therapists, and also for those who do not understand what psychotherapy is for and are curious to know how it works.

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. This book also offers a brief overview of the historical background to spiritual direction.

Presents the narrative of a mother looking to help her son avoid a lifelong sentence of medication whilst trying to research holistic resources and alternative approaches for treatment. This book includes an inquiry into how unconscious forces influence our mind, our bodies and the entire family system.

Discusses CcAT model of working with children with attachment difficulties. This book describes the complexities involved in supporting parents in their struggles to respond positively to the needs of children who have been traumatized by their early experiences.

There has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences. This title explores this movement in terms of poetry; therapy; dreams; literary texts; Heideggerian, Kantian, and post-modern philosophy; the modern developmental theorising of Daniel Stern; and, the politics of psychotherapy regulation.

Discusses eight of Shakespeare's plays and the relationships between the main characters with them. This book is written for the thinking lay reader, and does not blind the ordinary reader with psychoanalytic terminology and concepts.

In 2001, the UK Council for Psychotherapy held a conference to provide a forum to explore the field of neuroscience, in particular the branch called "affective neuroscience." This collection of papers is the result of the extensive and fruitful discussion that was generated at the conference.

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.

A collection of some of the papers and lectures written by the author over a period of thirty or more years. It looks at some important aspects of the author's discipline - principally psychodynamic psychotherapy, although always with reference to other forms of discourse such as literature and theology.

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 all taken drugs at some point in our lives (except, perhaps, my grandma) so one way to find out why is by reading this fascinating book.

Explores the existential themes and challenges present in therapeutic relationships when working with children. This book presents an existential perspective on some key themes in practicing psychotherapy with children including: play, anxiety, guilt, choice, family relationships, language and process.

This collection of written pieces plots the work of an NHS psychotherapist, Jonathan Pedder, turning the science of psychiatry into human encounters. In his work he made the world of psychoanalysis accessible to non-analysts, and this book augments the textbook on psychotherapy which Pedder wrote with Dennis Brown.

How, and why, does falling in love affect us so profoundly? How can it enhance who we are, or must it ultimately fade without lasting value? This title highlights and explores the many values and dangers inherent in passionate love.

This important book looks at the place of love in therapy and whether it is the curative factor. The authors continually stress, however, that within psychotherapy both ethical and professional boundaries should govern this 'Love' at all times in order for it to be experienced as healing and therapeutic.

The Role of Brief Therapy in Attachment Disorders provides a comprehensive summary of the range of approaches that exist within the brief therapy world,.

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. This book tells the story of one trainee's journey in search of professional success and recognition.

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 imperatives of training, supervision and regulation.

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.

This book outlines the neurobiology of a number of core structures that lie not on the outer surface of the cerebral hemisphere, but deep within the brain. It offers psychotherapy a great deal more than just fragments of interesting information and alternative models of the mind.