Reprinting Books
The Invisible Matrix: An Exploration of Professional Relationships in the Service of Psychotherapy
Does therapy involve only one patient, one therapist and no-one else, or does it involve many people? This book explores the complex web of inter-relationships within which both the therapist and the... (more)
The Bounds of Reason: Habermas, Lyotard and Melanie Klein on Rationality
A highly original yet accessible study of the debate between modernity and postmodernity. Emilia Steuerman clearly explains the modernity/postmodernity dispute by examining the problem that has... (more)
Person to Person: The Problem of Being Human
In contemporary society it is increasingly difficult to identify our real wants and needs. In this book the authors offer the possibility of becoming more of ourselves, based on the assumption that... (more)
Bridging the Gap: A Training Module in Personal and Professional Development
This book opens a very important debate for the family therapy field. At a time of treatment rationing and standard setting, it aptly draws our attention to an issue of increasing importance:... (more)
Systemic Approaches to Training in Child Protection
This book contributes to the debate on child sexual abuse and illuminates the trainer practitioner in the process. It shows that human services training is not built solely on scientific theory but... (more)
Internal Consultation in Health Care Settings
Robert Bor and, Riva Miller, who run the AIDS Counseling Service at the Royal Free Hospital, London, are internationally known for their work in providing consultation to many hospital departments... (more)
Therapy or Coercion: Does Psychoanalysis Differ from Brainwashing?
This book questions whether 'autonomy' is a pivotal psychotherapeutic value. Basing his discussion upon the key Kleinian concept of 'projective identification', the author argues that 'integration'... (more)
Divorce as Family Transition: When Private Sorrow Becomes A Public Matter
Based on the 1996 Family Law Act, this book looks at how the therapist can work with the different professions involved in a divorce, how children might be consulted, and ways in which vulnerable... (more)
Transforming Hate to Love: An Outcome Study of the Peper Harow Treatment Process for Adolescence
The Peper Harow residential community was founded in 1970 and gained repute for its pioneering work with disturbed adolescents. This text assesses Peper Harow's success in managing disturbed... (more)
Death and the Family: The Importance of Mourning
First published in 1976, this is a standard text on bereavement. (more)
The Person Who Is Me: Contemporary Perspectives on the True and False
The Squiggle Foundation has for many years produced Winnicott Studies, a journal which celebrates and reconsiders the work of Donald Winnicott, the groundbreaking pediatrician and psychoanalyst. This... (more)
Not Saussure: A critique of post-Saussurean literary theory, 2nd edition
Lacanian psychoanalysis and much contemporary literary theory is based upon the model of signs and language proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure. This book criticises Saussure's ideas and explores some... (more)
Tradition and Change in Psychoanalysis
This book traces a line of continuity in psychoanalysis back to Freud and his immediate followers, and describes the major transformations that followed, particularly in the works of Heinz Hartmann... (more)
Clinical Papers and Essays on Psychoanalysis
This is the second volume of the works of Karl Abraham, whose Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis is one of the most widely read and highly valued classics on the subject. The first part of this book... (more)
The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham 1907-1925
Karl Abraham was an important and influential early member of Freud's inner circle of trusted colleagues. As such, he played a significant part in the establishment of psychoanalysis as a recognised... (more)
Separation, will and creativity: The wisdom of Otto Rank
This text describes Otto Rank's place in the history of psychoanalysis. It shows how Rank was a forerunner in both object-relations theory and self psychology, and offers evidence that Rank was far... (more)
The Use of Humour in Psychotherapy
Until recently, the use of humour in therapy has been decried and demeaned. However, Freud himself was an active joke-teller, and used wit in many interactions with patients. The text considers the... (more)
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi: Volume 1: 1908-1914
This first of three volumes of correspondence between Freud and Ferenczi opens in 1908 and closes on the eve of World War One. The letters give an intimate picture of psychoanalytic theory being made... (more)
The Personal Relations Therapy: Collected Papers of H.J.S.Guntrip
Collected papers by Harry Guntrip, with a critical introduction. A key figure in British Psychoanalysis, Guntrip was analysed by Fairbairn and Winnicott and drew his theories from both. The papers... (more)
Empowered Psychotherapy: Teaching Self-Processing
'Self-Processing' is Langs' development of self-analysis. He lays down a detailed technique and ground-rules for using this technique in everyday practice, in order to utilise the encoded impulses... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Catholicism
This is an exploration of the similarities and differences between these two, often feuding, perspectives on living: psychoanalysis and Catholicism.
Between Reality and Fantasy: Transitional Objects and Phenomena
These 31 essays explore Donald W. Winnicott's discovery of transitional objects and phenomena. They serves as a tribute to Winnicott, and also go some way towards placing his seminal ideas into the... (more)
Personality and psychological disorders:
Written by psychologists in areas of abnormal and differential psychology, this text aims to integrate evidence and ideas from healthy personality and temperament on the one hand and psychological... (more)