Library catalogues as data

This book brings together leading practitioners and academic voices to discuss a range of topics surrounding library information and data.

Populism in the uk

With Reform riding high in the polls, Andy Knott charts the history of popular politics in the UK to consider whether the historical antecdents can shed light on the current resurgence.

Kitchen therapy

Pull yourself together, man

Win. lose. repeat: my life as a gambler, from coin-pushers to financial spread-betting

Making a difference: setting up sustainable, community-based projects

Making a Difference is a book which aims to help bring about positive change within communities in England and Wales. It  is distinctive in being a practical ‘How To’ guide rather than a ‘Why Should’ argument. It provides a practical step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to set up a project or ...

Now what? education, career and life choices: how to plan, adapt and embrace your inner entrepreneur in the post-covid world

Performance and purpose in dying and death

This book addresses the dying process and the nature of death itself with the intention that it might help us to accept and embrace both these things as a part of life. Intended to provide a shift in perception, this book aims to alleviate some of the fear, resistance and denial surrounding death...

Day by day

The impact of finding out your child is disabled can be wide ranging. The author’s experience as a psychologist and parent of a disabled child informs this book which focuses on what helps, and hinders, parent-carers’ emotional wellbeing.

Is there a cure for masculinity

Take charge of your diet

This is a short, accessible workbook offering a new approach to weight loss based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Rather than proposing a particular diet, the workbook offers practical tools to help slimmers adhere to whatever plan they have chosen.

Why in the world not? an introduction to daseinanalysis

Living for two

Why men hate women

Asylum years: back to the future?

The silly thing

The Silly Thing is an account of a woman's acceptance of and struggle with living and dying with a grade 4 glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer of the brain. It is told from the perspective of her daughter, Esther Ramsay-Jones, a psychotherapist and academic.

Beyond beige

“I am old. There was no warning: one minute I was young and the next I tipped into the world of old women. This book is about the joys and horrors of our old age. It will show you the uncensored reality of my experience and that of women who confided in me. You will find humour, despair, and some...

Radical revenge

The author explores some of the most egregious examples of radical revenge in contemporary society, including mass shootings, internet trolling, revenge porn, and contemporary populist politics.

Holding time

Holding Time is a unique, in-depth study of the care of people suffering from dementia. Informed by the author’s hands-on experience of being a Carer, and by her work in dementia care and palliative care, this book is a contemporary exploration of the field.

The way up after your breakup

Understanding the depressions

In this new title from Wyn Bramley, many different views on causation and treatment are explored. The emphasis is on real people's experiences from all aspects of the depressions - sufferers, helpers, family and friends - not a self-help work but an all-encompassing aid to understanding this comm...

What you've got is what you want - even if it hurts

Dads don't babysit

By turns informative and irreverent this book takes a new approach to tackling gender inequality in the home and at work, focusing on dads being entitled to a bigger role in parenting. It presents the barriers men face to being active dads – from sexist security guards to Tory MPs and even Homer ...

Born beautiful

Jane Teverson expertly explains how counselling theory can be used by parents throughout the child’s life, from infancy to adolescence, and makes a case for compassionate parenting. With helpful summaries at the end of each chapter and real, usable advice alongside examples for parents, Born Bea...

A wedding in the family

Is your school lying to you? get the career you want. get the life you deserve.

Martin heidegger's impact on psychotherapy (2nd ed.)

Unbounded consciousness

Child abuse psychotherapy and the law

Children as individuals

What happens in groups

Breastfeeding older children

Breastfeeding is a globally recognized imperative for the preservation of infant health, and governments around the world have introduced breastfeeding promotion measures. While initiation rates have improved, duration rates at a few weeks or months after birth still lag behind the World Health O...

Freud and the post-freudians

In this classic work, originally published in 1961, James Brown provides a compelling account of both Freud's original ideas and of the subsequent developments that arose out of them. He explains in an engaging yet informed manner the basic concepts of psychoanalytic theory, including a survey of...

Collaborative learning

The solution lies within

"First published in French by Librairie Arthaeme Fayard, 2006"--T. p. verso.

Single session family staging

Let's talk to barney

The psychosomatic paradox

The author of this book explores a particular mode of mental functioning expressed through a series of clinical symptoms and highlighted by contemporary psychosomatic research. Smadjas concept, a true clinical and conceptual invention in the field of psychopathology, has evolved from work origina...

Hypnotherapy

In the 23 years since this book was first published, numerous books along the same lines have appeared. Techniques vary minimally, and very few discoveries or developments have been made in the field of using hypnosis in therapy. The research that has appeared largely confirms what has been known...

Child abuse psychotherapy and the law

The psychiatry of resolving schizophrenia psychoanalytically

The subject of schizophrenia tends to arouse people's deepest-seated fears of mental illness and this is especially so when it relates to a loved one or to personal experience. It therefore becomes particularly important that services organizing efficient, effective and capable care for individua...

Witches

Is your school lying to you?

Playing the love market

This book directly addresses the question of what is causing people, regardless of their sexuality to use more commercial means of searching for potential partners. The authors do this in a straightforward, realistic but generally neglected view by psychologists, sociologists, and other personal ...

The analytic experience

Unahppy children

The personality of the organization

Continuing the themes of Containing Anxiety in Institutions, Menzies Lyth reflects on a variety of social situations: the dynamics of the Fire Brigade, conflicts between psychiatric hospitals and the communities that they serve and family patterns of consumption. The collection concludes with a s...

Fine (not fine)

John bowlby

Social theory and psychoanalysis in transition

Universals of psychoanalysis

Compendium of lacanian terms

Medard boss and the promise of therapy

Medard Boss and the Promise of Psychotherapy reacquaints counselors, psychotherapists and psychiatrists practicing today with the ideas of this remarkable figure in the history of twentieth-century clinical psychology who quietly but radically deviated from the mainstream of standard thinking and...

Skin disease

The last fifty years have encompassed unparalleled development in the world of scientific medical research. Yet, the causation of many diseases eludes consciousness. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the sometimes neglected discipline of dermatology, as a scientific basis for causation and tr...

Before words

Psychoanalysis has continuously been applied to the exploration of creativity and artistic genius, but up to now, this has not produced its own systematic body of knowledge. The traditional psychoanalytic approach to art is to attempt to decode it, in order to capture its hidden meaning. But in t...

Legal intimidation

SLAPPS (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation), well known in the USA, are on the increase in the United Kingdom. SLAPPS are court actions taken by powerful or wealthy individuals or organizations against ordinary people who seek to express their views and to take part in the decision-m...

A priest's affair

This is the story of a Roman Catholic priest in the grip of a new fanaticism the bigotry that gripped many priests in the wake of the Second Vatican Council and of his consequential sudden descent into madness. It is also an exploration of deeper existential questions concerning the nature of per...

R d laing contemporary perspectives

This unique volume aims to re-establish R. D. Laings position, and reputation, as the major critic of orthodox, medically-based, psychiatry. Laings complex personality enabled powerful figures in the British psychiatric establishment to malign him when he was at the height of his fame, largely be...

Anatomy of judgement

Weed, need and greed

The established model for cannabis markets is one of importation from 'traditional' producer nations in the developing world. However, this model is increasingly flawed, with domestic production replacing importation across the West. Weed, Need and Greed examines the cultivation of cannabis in th...

Breech birth

Wedding in the family, a pb

A Wedding In The Family offers a fascinating insight into the wedding experience from the mother's point of view. The author draws on her own research as a psychotherapist and psychologist to explore the complexities of family relationships that this rite of passage can expose. The book offers th...

Complementary and alternative medicines

From dependency to autonomy

The author draws on the experience of three decades as organizational consultant to a variety of institutions, employing approaches drawn from psychoanalysis, systems theory and the group relations movement.

Mental handicap and the human condition

Mind immunity and health

The ego ideal

Freud's scientific revolution

A doctors dilemma

Why men hate women

What makes a man like John, in every respect a cultured an charming man, successful in his career and liked by his friends and acquaintances, behave violently towards a woman he says he loves? Is he sick? Is he different from other men? Is it, as he says, Jane's fault? Does she like being beaten?...

Opium and the people - revised edition

Drug use and cultural contexts 'beyond the west'

Considerable research, policy and media attention has focused recently on drug use in Britain, wider Europe, the US and other advanced western societies such as Australia and Canada. However, the place of drugs in other cultural contexts has received far less attention. Little is known about the ...

The rumour

Creativity and perversion

The dialectics of schizophrenia

Sodom and gomorrah

Love of beginnings

Collaborative creativity

Psychoanalysis with children

On art and therapy

Psychoanalysis at its limits

A psychometrics primer

Counselling women in violent relationships

Violence against women is a serious and very common social problem, affecting, according to some estimates, one third of women in relationships. Paradoxically, it is a problem which remains under-resourced and little understood. In this comprehensive and practical handbook, Paul Lockley guides th...