General Counselling & Psychotherapy
The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body
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Explores the nature and causes of female violence from the perspectives of psychodynamic theory and forensic psychology. This book includes chapters which address central clinical issues of working with women who kill and designing therapeutic services for women in secure mental health settings.
The Focusing-Oriented Counselling Primer: A concise, accessible, comprehensive introduction
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Freshly updated, this contribution to the PCCS Books popular ‘Primer’ series is written by one of the UK’s leading authorities on focusing-oriented counselling. Developed by Eugene Gendlin from Carl Rogers’ pioneering model of person-centred counselling at the University of Chicago Counseling Center in the 1950s, focusing-oriented counselling can be applied to enhance any model of talking therapy.
Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law
Our Price: £39.99 (with free UK delivery)
This new edition provides clarity and reassurance for practitioners at all levels about the exact nature of their responsibilities, and how these can best be managed, in order to enable them to comply with the law and focus on their therapeutic work with clients.
Integrative Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide 2nd Edition
Our Price: £36.99 (with free UK delivery)
The book is comprehensive, and extensively researched and referenced. ….[The] last chapter contains some excellent training resources for trainers of counsellors/psychotherapists. I would therefore endorse it as a useful textbook, especially as there is an excellent in-depth example of an assessment form, and guidance on how this can be used for trainees. These were useful revision points to me as an experienced counsellor′ – The Independent Practitioner
Equine Utilised Psychotherapy: Dance with Those That Run with Laughter
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Explore the fascinating topic of Equine Utilised Psychotherapy through Don Lavender’s book.
About a Body: Working with the Embodied Mind in Psychotherapy
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This unique collection invites the reader to consider the way we think about the embodied mind, and how it can inform both our lives and our work in psychotherapy and counselling.
Spirituality and Counselling: Experiential and Theoretical Perspectives
Our Price: £19.99 (with free UK delivery)
This book will be of interest to professionals concerned to explore the significance of spirituality in their life and practice, including practising counsellors and psychotherapists, and students at Certificate, Diploma and Masters levels.
How Does Psychotherapy Work?
Our Price: £33.99 (with free UK delivery)
This book defies that notion. Here, the question is both beautifully explored and answered by leading psychotherapists from different schools to create a fascinating volume of ground-breaking ideas and theory.
Nothing to Lose: Psychotherapy, Buddhism and Living Life
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The two authors of this book, psychotherapists who are also involved in training, describe how their work has evolved towards a pluralism that equally values the psychological perspectives of Western depth psychology and Buddhist mindfulness meditation.
The Psychology of Shame: Theory and Treatment of Shame-Based Syndromes (2nd Edition)
Our Price: £56.99 (with free UK delivery)
In this classic volume, Kaufman synthesizes object relations theory, interpersonal theory, and, in particular, Silvan Tompkins’s affect theory, to provide a powerful and multidimensional view of shame.
This is a print-on-demand title so it will take approximately 10 working days to supply.
Body Psychotherapy
Our Price: £32.99 (with free UK delivery)
This book shows how body psychotherapy can be healing, reparative and rewarding. It will make essential reading for postgraduates and professionals, whether they are already involved in this field, or wish to learn more about incorporating it into their own practice.
The Impossibility of Sex: Stories of the Intimate Relationship between Therapist and Patient
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The Impossibility of Sex breaks new ground by taking us into the center of the therapy relationship, one usually shrouded by therapist-client confidentiality.
Illusions: A Psychodynamic Interpretation of Thinking and Belief
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Through a series of parallels running across different disciplines, Michael Jacobs demonstrates the possible analysis of modes of thinking and belief, from intuitive pre-thinking, through authority-driven thinking and belief, and personal and polymathic knowledge, to un-knowing, the last concept being one that is shared by Bion, Winnicott and a major mystical tradition. Using this theoretical model the book provides a map to how clients (and indeed therapists) might think and believe, suggesting ways in which they may be supported as they shift through different modes, with all the anxiety that disillusionment brings.
Psychotherapy & Spirituality: Crossing the Line between Therapy and Religion
Our Price: £41.99 (with free UK delivery)
This thoughtful and intelligent book encourages psychotherapists and counsellors to consider seriously the relationship between spiritual experiences and therapeutic practice. It proposes that therapy itself can be seen as a spiritual process and discusses the implications of this view for therapists, clients and the wider world.
The Shadow and the Counsellor: Working with the Darker Aspects of the Person, the Role and the Profession
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The Shadow and the Counsellor introduces the concept of shadow, the darker side to ourselves that we do not wish to acknowledge, or do not even recognise. It examines how it comes into being and explores its impact within counselling.
The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns to Her Abuser
Our Price: £26.99 (with free UK delivery)
The Illusion of Love challenges the prevailing model, which views the victim of abuse as a normal woman who is unable to escape from her batterer due to the effects of terror and psychological collapse. Instead, David Celani offers a new answer-that women who are battered have a fundamental attraction to partners who are abusive.
This is a print-on-demand title and will take 2-3 weeks to supply.