UKCP - Karnac 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.

Books in the UKCP/Karnac series

Buy UKCP - Karnac series books at a 10% discount via the following link:

www.karnacbooks.com/ukcp

	Hidden Twins: What Adult Opposite Sex Twins Have to Teach Us Olivia Lousada, (2009) £20.99, ISBN 9781855757417 An insightful look into the lives of three opposite-sex twin pairs. Candid, informative and rich in psychological detail.
	The 3-Point Therapist Hilary A. Davies, (2009) £9.99, 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.
	The Use of Psychoanalytic Concepts in Therapy with Families: for all Professionals Working with Families Hilary A. Davies, (2010) £16.99, 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.
	Love: Bondage or Liberation? A Psycholological Exploration of the Meaning, Values and Dangers of Falling in Love Deirdre Johnson, (2010) £18.99, 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.
	Revolutionary Connections: psychotherapy and neuroscience Jenny Corrigall and Heward Wilkinson (ed), (2003) £20.99, ISBN 9781855759411 The collection of papers is the result of the extensive and fruitful discussion that was generated at a 2001 UKCP conference.
	Shakespeare on the Couch Michael Jacobs, (2008) £16.99, 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
	Our Desire of Unrest: Thinking About Therapy Jacobs, Michael, (2009) £20.99, ISBN 9781855754898 A collection of some of the 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 some important aspects of his discipline.
	What is Psychotherapeutic Research? Del Loewenthal and David Winter, (2006) £23.50, ISBN 9781855753013 Examples of how psychotherapeutic research and the abilities to carry it out can help the practising psychotherapist.
	Psychosis in the Family: A Personal and Transpersonal Journey Janet Love, (2009) £20.99, 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
	Diversity, Discipline and Devotion in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Clinical, Training and Supervisory Perspectives Gertrud Mander, (2007) £18.99, 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.
	Not Just Talking: Conversational Analysis, Harvey Sacks' Gift to Therapy Jean Pain, (2009) £14.99, 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.
	The Emergent Self: An Existential-Gestalt Approach Peter Philippson, (2009) £16.99, 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.
	Dialogue and Desire: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Linguistic Turn in Psychotherapy Rachel Pollard, (2008) £20.99, ISBN 9781855754492 This 'lucid exploration of the landscape of Bakhtinian-inspired psychotherapy opens up a disalogue 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.
	Child-Centred Attachment Therapy: the CcAT Programme Alexandra Maeja Raicar with contributions from Pauline Sear and Maggie Gall £20.99, 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
	The Muse as Therapist: a New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy Heward Wilkinson, (2008), £20.99, ISBN 9781855755956 A book offering 'a feast of fascinating reading' exploring psychotherapy as an art through a 'rich yet rigorous multi-disciplinary text.'

Writing for the UKCP/Karnac book series

In this article, published in issue 42 of The Psychotherapist, Pippa Weitz, UKCP/Karnac commissioning editor, explains the five stages to getting your book published. Read more...