Lesley Murdin
Lesley Murdin practises as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She teaches and supervises in many contexts and has considerable experience in running psychotherapy organisations. She has worked for the registering bodies UKCP and BPC, chairing committees over many years. She was CEO and National Director of WPF Therapy and is now Chair of the psychoanalytic section of the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling. She has published numerous books and papers.
How Much Is Enough?: Endings in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Looking at the reasons why therapy can go on for too long or can come to a destructively premature ending, this text offers advice on how to avoid either. Using examples and practical guidelines,... (more)
How Money Talks
Money speaks in everyday life and in literature of our greed and our generosity, our pride and our humiliation and as it passes among us it shows our creativity and our ability to co-operate even... (more)
Managing Difficult Endings in Psychotherapy: It's Time
This book is about the difficulty of endings, but it is also about learning from the endings that we know have gone wrong as well as those that have worked well. It sets out how the psychological... (more)
Setting Out: The Importance of the Beginning in Psychotherapy and Counselling
The outcome of therapy is always to some extent determined by success of the initial session. In Setting Out the issues surrounding this subject are explored, providing valuable insights into the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Insights into Fundamentalism and Conviction: The Certainty Principle
Psychoanalytic Insights into Fundamentalism and Conviction: The Certainty Principle examines the role of, and need for, certainty in mental life, addressing questions raised by fundamentalism and... (more)