Series: The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series

This book is a psychoanalytic discussion of the effects of trauma and torture on children, with a specific focus on how professionals can use an approach focused on resiliency rather than vulnerability to help the child reach wellbeing. Aida Alayarian argues that in a world where the torture, maltreatment, and neglect of children shamefully persist, it is incumbent upon all...

Sigmund Freud noted the importance of love in the healing of the human psyche. So many of life's distresses have their origins in lack of love, disruption of love, or trauma. People naturally seek love in their lives to feel complete. Is therapy a substitute for love? Or is it love by another name? This important book looks at the...

This is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has walked the heart-rending path and experienced the psychological trauma of loving someone in psychosis; psychosis which still remains the greatest taboo in society today, together with its implicit diagnosis of a lifelong sentence of medication and no cure. It is in the main...

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 these 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...

Almost two decades ago, the psychoanalyst Sussman concluded that the therapist's motivation for practising was a neglected area. Is this maybe a question best left alone? Why Therapists Choose to Become Therapists revisits this question. The authors support Sussman's rationale for raising the issue in the first place and wonder if much has changed since he referred to it as...