UKCP book series
UKCP, as a leading body for psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling, and Karnac Books, a specialist in psychotherapy and mental health publishing, have combined forces to develop a greater presence in the psychotherapy market.
The purpose of this series is to enable UKCP, in its full breadth, depth and diversity, to reflect on and contribute to the important and emerging psychotherapy themes of the day - clinical, training and research.
The series offers UKCP members the opportunity to become published authors (see right).
Discounted books for UKCP members
Books in the UKCP series
Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction: Two Languages, One Voice? |
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Lynette Harborne (2012)
ISBN 13 : 9781780490182
This book 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. The purpose of the book is to improve the understanding between therapists and spiritual directors, to encourage dialogue and discussion between them, as well as to offer challenges and learning to both. |
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What will you do with my story? |
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Elizabeth Meakins (2012)
ISBN 13 : 9781855757929
This book is a response to a question put to the author years ago when she was a trainee psychotherapist. Asked by a young woman who had been describing her traumatic experience of sexual abuse, her question to me was: 'what will you do with my story? |
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Why can't I help this child to learn? Understanding emotional barriers to learning |
 Helen High (2011)
ISBN 1855757877
The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of their relationships on their learning. In addition, anxieties that some children show about reading, writing and arithmetic are described. In exploring these issues the book draws on attachment theory and on psychoanalytic theories of emotional development.
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Addictive personalities and why people take drugs: the spike and the moon |
 Gary Winship (2011)
ISBN 9781855757974
An exploration of drug taking in the twenty-first century. Begins with a statement that this issue is a growing and poorly managed one, the author draws on a range of classical thought, psychoanalytic theory, and his own clinical experience to explore an approach to understanding why people take drugs. Useful for students in clinical fields such as nursing, social care, psychotherapy, and drug support work and an important contribution to the drug policy debate. |
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Attachment and New Beginnings: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Therapy |
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Jonathan Pedder (2010)
ISBN 9781855756328
This collection of written pieces plots the work of an NHS psychotherapist, Jonathan Pedder, turning the science of psychiatry into human encounters. He had a career teaching and inspiring colleagues and students with psychoanalytic ways of thinking, encouraging and supporting them in the challenges of contemporary psychiatry. This book augments the textbook on psychotherapy which Pedder wrote with Dennis Brown.
We are out of stock of this title. Order through Karnac books to receive a 10% members' discount: www.karnacbooks.com/ukcp. | |
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Therapy with Children: An Existential Perspective |
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Chris Scalzo (2010)
ISBN 9781855757301
Existential ideas and concepts are a rapidly growing influence on the practice of psychotherapy and yet their application to work with children remains largely unexplored. This book begins to redress this imbalance in a practical and engaging way by presenting an existential perspective on some key themes in practicing psychotherapy with children. | |
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Why Therapists Choose to Become Therapists: A Practice-Based Enquiry |
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Sofie Bager-Charleson, (2010)
ISBN 9781855758261
At the heart of this book lie six separate accounts as told by counsellors and psychotherapists in a reflective writing and peer support group. Each therapist represents a different modality and all come with very different backgrounds. | |
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The Role of Brief Therapy in Attachment Disorders |
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Lisa Wake, (2010)
ISBN 9781855756977
A comprehensive summary of the range of approaches that exist within the brief therapy world, including Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, Ericksonian Therapy, Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy, Provocative Therapy, Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, and Self Relations Therapy.
Reviewed by Pamela Gawler-Wright | |
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Hidden Twins: What Adult Opposite Sex Twins Have to Teach Us |
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The 3-Point Therapist |
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Hilary A Davies, (2009)
ISBN 9781855757462
The 3-Point Therapist is the charming story of one trainee's journey in search of professional success and recognition. What she learns is unexpected and changes her predicted path. | |
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The Use of Psychoanalytic Concepts in Therapy with Families: for all Professionals Working with Families |
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Hilary A Davies, (2010)
ISBN 9781855755154
This book begins with a readable practitioner's guide to psychoanalytic theory and concepts. It moves on to give a number of detailed practice-based examples of the application of this theoretical model in the therapy room with the families of children seeking help with a variety of difficulties. | |
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Love: Bondage or Liberation? A Psycholological Exploration of the Meaning, Values and Dangers of Falling in Love |
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Deirdre Johnson, (2010)
ISBN 9781855755109
Deirdre Johnson's interdisciplinary approach cuts across the different modalities and will appeal to a good cross-section of psychotherapists and counsellors, while being accessible to anyone interested in the meaning of falling in love. | |
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Revolutionary Connections: psychotherapy and neuroscience |
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Jenny Corrigall and Heward Wilkinson (ed), (2003)
ISBN 9781855759411
The collection of papers is the result of the extensive and fruitful discussion that was generated at a 2001 UKCP conference. | |
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Shakespeare on the Couch |
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Michael Jacobs, (2008)
ISBN 9781855754546
A discussion of eight of Shakespeare's plays and the relationships between the main characters in them. Reviewed in The Psychotherapist, issue 41 | |
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Our Desire of Unrest: Thinking About Therapy |
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Jacobs, Michael, (2009)
ISBN 9781855754898
A collection of papers and lectures written by Michael Jacobs over a period of 30 or more years, showing the author's thinking at work as he challenges himself to look deeper at important aspects of his discipline. | |
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What is Psychotherapeutic Research? |
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Del Loewenthal and David Winter, (2006)
ISBN 9781855753013
Examples of how psychotherapeutic research and the abilities to carry it out can help the practising psychotherapist. | |
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Psychosis in the Family: A Personal and Transpersonal Journey |
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Janet Love, (2009)
ISBN 9781855755208
This is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has experienced the psychological trauma of loving someone in psychosis. This is a highly readable, provocative weave of story and theory is in the main a personal and moving narrative of a mother looking to help her son avoid such a lifelong sentence of medication whilst trying to research holistic resources and alternative approaches for treatment at the same time as negotiating the vagaries of the current mental health system.
Reviewed in The Psychotherapist, issue 43 | |
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Diversity, Discipline and Devotion in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Clinical, Training and Supervisory Perspectives |
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Gertrud Mander, (2007)
ISBN 9781855754737
A selection of papers reflecting a preoccupation with the growth and diversification of counselling and psychotherapy; the imperatives of training, supervision and regulation; and the significant changes in the profession due to the invention of brief, time-limited, intermittent and recurrent psychotherapy.
We are out of stock of this item but you can still order it from Karnac books where UKCP members receive a 10% discount www.karnacbooks.com/ukcp. | |
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Not Just Talking: Conversational Analysis, Harvey Sacks' Gift to Therapy |
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| Jean Pain, (2009)
ISBN 9781855756892
Good relationships depend, above all, on our skills in conversation. Harvey Sacks' method, Conversational Analysis, was the springboard for Jean Pain's research into psychotherapy as a social activity that depends for its success on the quality of the therapeutic dialogue. Reviewed in The Psychotherapist, issue 42. | |
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The Emergent Self: An Existential-Gestalt Approach |
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Peter Philippson, (2009)
ISBN 9781855755253
This book tracks a particular understanding of self as emergent from the relational field: philosophically, from research evidence and in its implications for psychotherapy.
Reviewed by Rob Tyson | |
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Dialogue and Desire: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Linguistic Turn in Psychotherapy |
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Rachel Pollard, (2008)
ISBN 9781855754492
This 'lucid exploration of the landscape of Bakhtinian-inspired psychotherapy opens up a dialogue with theoretical perspectives that enrich our understanding of Bakhtin and the role of desire in the practice and politics of psychotherapy.'
Reviewed in The Psychotherapist, issue 39. | |
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Child-Centred Attachment Therapy: the CcAT Programme |
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Alexandra Maeja Raicar with contributions from Pauline Sear and Maggie Gall (2009)
ISBN : 9781855755055
This book describes the development of the Child-Centred Attachment Therapy (CcAT) model of working with children with attachment difficulties. After many years of working with a number of families with children who act out their hurt through difficult behaviours, the authors offer their insights to help both parents and professionals to understand and deal more effectively with such behaviours.
Reviewed in The Psychotherapist, issue 43 | |
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The Muse as Therapist: a New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy |
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Heward Wilkinson, (2008),
ISBN 9781855755956
A book offering 'a feast of fascinating reading' exploring psychotherapy as an art through a 'rich yet rigorous multi-disciplinary text.'
Reviewed by Cathy Kaplinksy | |
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