Böcker i The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series-serien

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

In this book we are shown the problems parents can experience when their young child does not respond to them in a 'typical' way, how they often voice concerns that something is 'not quite right' with their child, and how it is important to address these concerns, which may be signs of pre-autism.

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.

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.