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CONTENTS 2 18 COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 28 MENTAL HEALTH AND MADNESS 32 SURVIVOR AND SERVICE USER PERSPECTIVES 33 MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS HOW TO ORDER PCCS Books Key contacts Desk copies and student discountsWyastone Business Park Please apply for desk copies via the formWyastone Leys Catherine Jackson on our website www.pccs-books.co.uk/Monmouth Commissioning and editorial inspection-copy-request-formNP25 3SR [email protected] To request or set up special discounts for your students please contact Katie Moffat.+44 (0)1600 891 509 Katie [email protected] Sales, marketing and publicity Stay in touch! [email protected] Sign up for our eNews to receive newwww.pccs-books.co.uk release notifications and exclusive offers. Jill Marsh www.pccs-books.co.uk Customer service and accounts enquiries [email protected] Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter @pccsbooks Di English Journals and Asylum magazine [email protected] 2

Welcome to our 2017/18 catalogueBe inspired!What is PCCS Books about? In essence, new book is Kay Inckle’s Safe withwe want a better deal for everyone who Self-Injury – an absolutely necessaryseeks help for emotional distress – guide for anyone working withbetter understanding from practitioners troubled children and young people inand society in general, better responses particular (but not exclusively).and more choices from services, andbetter outcomes from treatments. Upcoming in 2017/18 are several newOur aim is that our books support that and exciting publications, includinggoal – by feeding critical debate and books on psychotherapy with survivorsthe development of non-medicalised of torture, stalking, counselling withintherapies; by encouraging and mainstream mental health services,promoting service user perspectives, work and mental health, and criticalnarratives and research, and by mental health nursing. In 2018 we willsupporting the personal, professional be celebrating a revised and updatedand political development of people edition of First Steps in Counselling,working in counselling, the psy our biggest seller and beloved of mostprofessions and the wider mental health people coming to person-centredand social care world. We hold fast to counselling for the first time. You canthe belief that, by communicating our view the full list on our website at:collective knowledge and experience www.pccs-books.co.ukand working together, we can createmore humane services. Additionally in 2018, we will be marking our 25th anniversary. OverWe are sure you those 25 years, we have had thewill find much here privilege to collaborate with manyto inspire you. wonderful authors and editors. We are indebted to all those we are honouredThis catalogue showcases the latest to call ‘our authors’. Another of ourand best-selling books in our list. aims is to ensure that new writers getNew in 2017 – the updated second a chance to take their work to a widereditions of Gillian Proctor’s The audience – so please get in touch ifDynamics of Power in Counselling and you are hatching an idea that wouldPsychotherapy (which now includes suit our list.IAPT as the latest power-player toenter the field), and the retitled The For any inquiries, you can email us, or,Handbook of Person-Centred Therapy if you prefer to talk to someone, pleaseand Mental Health, edited by Stephen don’t hesitate to telephone us at ourJoseph and replacing Person-Centred offices (see key contact information).Psychopathology. Another powerful We look forward to hearing from you.1

Power is ubiquitous. The dynamicsof power are in every relationshipand cannot be dissolved in a utopiaof transparency.”Gillian Proctor, The Dynamics of Power in Counselling andPsychotherapy (second edition), PCCS Books 2

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPYThe Handbook of Person-Centred Therapy and MentalHealth: theory, research and practiceEdited by Stephen JosephUpdated and with a new title this book ‘As we seem to slip more into achallenges the use of psychiatric diagnoses culture that pathologises every aspectand makes a powerful case for the of human experience, this book iseffectiveness of person-centred approaches not only welcome but essential…as the alternative way to work with people This is an incredibly invaluablewho would otherwise be diagnosed with handbook that helps us questionsevere mental illnesses. This second edition what increasingly seems to be thecaptures the significant changes in recent unquestionable’years in how mental health and ill healthare conceptualised and understood and Dr Andrew Reeves, counsellor/psychotherapist, seniorhow mental health care is delivered. It lecturer and writerdemonstrates how the person-centredapproach can help occupy the space that is £27.99 / 502pp / 2017opening up as mental health professionals pb: 978 1 910919 31 6 / ebook: 978 1 910919 32 3look for alternatives to the medical modeland argues for collaborative working withthese fellow mental health professionals.Stephen Joseph is Professor of Psychology, Healthand Social Care at the University of Nottingham,where he is convenor of the counselling andpsychotherapy teaching cluster.The Dynamics of Power in Counselling andPsychotherapy (second edition)Gillian ProctorThis hard-hitting, impeccably referenced ‘Power is always present in anybook draws on academic theories and therapeutic relationship, but oftenanalyses of power and the author’s overlooked until something goespersonal experience both as client and disastrously wrong. Gillian Proctorpractitioner to critique power within has written an informative andthe psychotherapeutic relationship and thought-provoking book that willwithin the organisations where therapy help practitioners to use power fortakes place. Accessible, political and the benefit of our clients and to beseverely critical of her own profession, more aware of the many ways thatProctor provides an essential reminder to power is present throughout ourstudent, practitioner and researcher of work.’the imperative to remain always mindfulof the values and ethics of justice and Tim Bond, Emeritus Professor, University of Bristolresponsibility. £21.00 / 216pp / 2017In this revised second edition, Gillian pb: 978 1 910919 18 7 / ebook: 978 1 910919 19 4Proctor extends her discussion to the morerecent challenges presented by the IAPTinitiative.Gillian Proctor is a lecturer in counselling atthe University of Leeds, an independent clinicalpsychologist, a person-centred therapist and aresearch supervisor.3

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPYSexualityExistential perspectivesEdited by Martin MiltonThe perspectives that existential ‘For me, this book’s real strengthphilosophy and psychotherapy can is its robust use of the existentialcontribute to our understandings of approach, and the frank,sexuality have often been overlooked, unflinching and open way itas they frequently languish, one by one, addresses the topic of sexuality. Therein hard to access journals. Sexuality: is challenging – even unsettling –Existential Perspectives changes all this. material here to be taken in andLeading voices in existential thinking considered…’provide clear insight into sexuality andits related manifestations, offering Ian Argent, psychotherapistperspectives that warrant considerationboth within and beyond the consulting £24.99 / 369pp / 2014room. pb: 978 1 906254 70 4Professor Martin Milton is a chartered psychologistand registered existential psychotherapist. He isDirector of Counselling Psychology Programmes atRegent’s University London School of Psychotherapyand Psychology.Case Studies in Existential Therapy The Existential Counselling PrimerTranslating theory into practice Mick CooperEdited by Simon du Plock(Due in March 2018) Part of the Primers Series, this book is ideal for students requiring a theory bridgeThe case study is a well-established between introductory, intermediate andteaching device. Despite a climate strongly diploma courses or focused input forinfluenced by evidence-based practice, comparative essays and integrative theorycase studies are still highly valued. The assignments. Mick Cooper explains clearlystudy and writing of case studies remains the philosophical origins of existentialistan integral part of almost all therapy therapy, existentialist understandingstraining programmes. Many academic of what it is to be human, and how bothpapers either focus on an aspect of theory inform the theory and practice of existentialor on reporting research findings; only a counselling. A case study helps give thesmall minority of papers today show how reader an example of what existentialinnovations in theory can be applied in therapy might look like.therapeutic practice. This book providesan opportunity for high-profile writers in Mick Cooper is a Professor of Counselling Psychologythe existential community to show how at the University of Roehampton, and a practisingtheir unique contributions to theory can be counselling psychologist. Mick is author of a rangeemployed in therapeutic practice. of texts on person-centred, existential and pluralistic approaches to counselling and psychotherapy. HisProfessor Simon du Plock is currently Faculty Head principal research interests are counselling in schoolsfor Applied Research and Clinical Practice at the and the experience of relational depth.Metanoia Institute, London. He co-edits the academicjournal Existential Analysis and has authored £12.99 / 112pp / 2012numerous book chapters and journal articles. pb: 978 1 906254 51 3 / ebook: 978 1 906254 85 8Due March 2018pb: 978 1 910919 28 6 / ebook: 978 1 910919 29 34

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPYPsychological Therapies with Survivors of TortureA human-rights approach with people seeking asylumEdited by Jude BoylesThis edited collection of writings by ‘The book is a truly innovativeexperienced therapists, social workers collection of papers, written byand interpreters working with survivors of skilled professionals who contributetorture in exile fills a gap in the English- their rich experiences from a varietylanguage literature with its specific focus of mental health backgrounds. Theon an increasingly important but neglected book addresses both the reality andclient group. complexity of therapeutic work with refugees and survivours of tortureThis is a book for all counsellors and and trauma'therapists, but particularly those who arenew to or already working with this client Dr Zach Eleftheriadou, counselling psychologistgroup. Packed with first-hand practitionerexperience and survivors’ stories, and £24.99 / 420pp / September 2017written in plain English, it captures the pb: 978 1 910919 33 0 / ebook: 978 1 910919 35 4everyday realities and challenges ofsurvivors’ lives in the UK today. Alsoimportant reading for mental healthprofessionals and NGO workers who needa better understanding of the impact oftorture and the asylum process on people’smental wellbeing.The editor, Jude Boyles, is an experienced therapistwho established and managed a UK rehabilitationcentre for survivors of torture in exile for 14 years.Clinical Supervision Made Easy(second edition)Els van OoijenClinical Supervision Made Easy is a ‘… a humane and generous book…practical book for supervisors and I particularly like the chapters onsupervisees that offers the 3–Step Method creative supervision and ethicalas a guide to effective supervision. The decision-making, because they are somethod is not linked to any particular full of ideas and useful suggestions.theoretical orientation or philosophy, and For me this is one of the best newcan be applied in any helping context. books on supervision and I willVan Ooijen’s intention is not to imply that certainly recommend it to mysupervision is a simplistic activity but to students.’help practitioners feel more ‘at ease’ withthe process. The book is principally aimed Helen Weston, counsellor and educatorat supervisors new to the role and theauthor adopts an interactive style that is £22.00 / 243pp / 2013accessible and practical. pb: 978 1 906254 67 4 / ebook: 978 1 906254 98 8Dr Els van Ooijen has a private psychotherapy,counselling and supervision practice in Bristoland co-teaches a diploma/MA in ConsultativeSupervision at the University of South Wales.5

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Steps in Counselling SeriesThe Steps in Counselling series is chosen by thousands of students throughout the UK each year.These core textbooks/study companions support students from introductory level right throughto degree, encompassing study skills and students’ first foray into research along the way. Theinclusion of vignettes, running glossaries, notes from practice and on-page references ensurethat these interactive texts not only cover everything needed by students but supply abundanttraining material for educators too.The authors: Paul Wilkins is an academic and therapist Alan Frankland was formerly Principal committed to the person-centred approach Lecturer and Head of the Division ofPete Sanders has written, co-written and and has written numerous papers, Counselling and Psychotherapy atedited numerous books, chapters and chapters and books on the subject. Until Nottingham Trent University. He is a fellowpapers on many aspects of counselling, his retirement he was senior lecturer in of BACP.psychotherapy and mental health. He the Department of Pyschology and Socialhas an active interest in developing Change at Manchester Metropolitanperson-centred theory, the politics of University.counselling and psychotherapy, and thedemedicalisation of distress. First Steps in Counselling A students’ companion for introductory courses (fourth edition) Pete Sanders With an unrivalled 59 five-star reviews ‘I bought this book largely from on Amazon, First Steps in Counselling reading all the good reports on retains its status as the book of choice Amazon. I must say, I wasn’t for thousands of trainee helpers and disappointed… I have found a great counsellors year on year. If you are an deal to learn from this book which introductory trainer and you haven’t yet is well written, extremely ‘reader discovered this text, please request a friendly’ and contains something for desk copy. everyone I’m sure - whatever their stage of learning or practice. In my ‘… Pete Sanders leaves nothing out. opinion, despite the title, this book It really is a must for anyone starting would be of interest well beyond the on their counselling training. An introductory stage.’ excellent investment.’ Online reviewer Online reviewer £19.99 / US$30.00 / 204pp / 2011 pb: 978 1 906254 41 4 A new, fifth edition of this best-selling companion for students will be out in 2018. 6

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPYSteps in Counselling SeriesNext Steps in Counselling Practice (second edition)A students’ companion for degrees, HE diplomas andvocational coursesPete Sanders, Alan Frankland and Paul WilkinsA comprehensive core text for student ‘A fantastically engaging,therapists, and described as ‘a course in comprehensive and down-to-earthits own right’ by educators, Next Steps in guide to counselling practice.Counselling Practice is a companion to Animated throughout… the bookaccompany the reader as they progress makes an ideal all-in-one guide forthrough their training. Its approachable, trainee counsellors.’interactive style makes it a favouriteat colleges, universities and institutes Professor Mick Cooper, University of Roehamptonthroughout the UK. It is brimming withinformation and pointers for further study £25.00 / 376pp / 2009in the form of margin notes, vignettes, pb: 978 1 898059 66 0notes from practice and full on-pagereferences.Step in to Study Counselling First Steps in Practitioner Research(third edition) A guide to understanding andA students’ guide to learning doing research in counselling andcounselling and tackling course health and social careassignments Pete Sanders and Paul WilkinsPete Sanders It is widely acknowledged that researchStep in to Study Counselling has provided is an essential core component in thewelcome assistance to thousands of counselling and psychotherapy curriculum.students on counselling courses at all levels, This text supports this area of coursein settings from further education colleges development, being uniquely dedicatedto universities. Frequently described as to the helping and therapy professions.a ‘life saver’, this book is an invaluable Written for complete beginners in socialstudy guide for those returning to study sciences research, it will guide the readerafter several years away from education, from first principles right through to theor for life’s perpetual students. All facets point at which they can attempt simpleof counselling courses are included, from research on their own practice.improving essay writing through overcomingthe fear of using libraries to beating the ‘This is an excellent guide to the wholetraumas of audio transcribing. research process and leads the reader step by step through the journey. It’s the Delia‘Very useful book… Can easily locate the Smith Cook Book of research guides!’information you need. Very happy andsatisfied customer, thank you!’ Dr Maggie Robson, University of KeeleOnline reviewer £24.00 / US$35.00 / 323pp / 2010 pb: 978 1 898059 73 8£18.00 / 156pp / 2003pb: 978 1 898059 64 67

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY The Counselling Primer SeriesThe bestselling Counselling Primer Series provides teachers and students with a conciseand accessible overview of key therapeutic approaches. Whether you want an introduction,a refresher or a resource for a specific assignment, these affordable books will give you acomprehensive and accessible overview with ample suggestions for further reading should youwish to take study further. A glossary of key terms is included in each.The School-Based Counselling The Cognitive Behaviour The Focusing-OrientedPrimer Counselling Primer Counselling PrimerKatie McArthur (see page 12) Rhena Branch and Windy Dryden Campbell PurtonForeword by Mick Cooper £12.99 / US$19.00 / 122pp/ 2008 £12.99 / US$19.00 / 121pp /2007£12.99 / 118pp / 2016 pb: 978 1 898059 86 8 / ebook: 978 1 906254 91 9 pb: 978 1 898059 82 0 / ebook: 978 1 906254 88 9pb: 978 1 906254 78 0 / ebook: 978 1 910919 22 4The Person-Centred Counselling The Psychodynamic Counselling The Experiential CounsellingPrimer Primer PrimerPete Sanders Mavis Klein Nick Baker£12.99 / 124pp /2006 £12.99 / US$19.00 / 123pp / 2006 £12.99 / 123pp / 2008pb: 978 1 898059 80 6 / ebook: 978 1 906254 84 1 pb: 978 1 898059 85 1 / ebook: 978 1 906254 89 6 pb: 978 1 898059 83 7The Existential Counselling Primer The Integrative Counselling Primer The Contact Work PrimerMick Cooper Richard Worsley Edited by Pete Sanders£12.99 / US$19.00 / 111pp / 2012 £12.99 / 122pp / 2007 £12.99 / 122pp / 2007pb: 978 1 906254 51 3 / ebook: 978 1 906254 85 8 pb: 978 1 898059 81 3 / ebook: 978 1 906254 90 2 pb: 978 1 898059 84 4 8

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Critical Examinations Series Edited by Craig Newnes‘Critique’ is an essential element of academic study and professional practice. Each theoryis only as strong as its capacity to withstand sustained critical appraisal of the assumptionsit makes about the world. And, of course, it is by critically examining theory and subsequentpractice that we construct new approaches that help us to understand the world better.Counselling and Counselling Clinical Psychology PsychotherapyPsychology A critical examination A critical examinationA critical examination Craig Newnes Keith TudorColin Feltham (Due January 2018) We often read critiques of psychiatry,Colin Feltham, one of the field’s most but much less readily available are Keith Tudor subjects to scrutiny theprominent figures and insider critics, critiques of clinical psychology. Newnes theories, claims and practices ofplaces under the critical lens of his reviews the claims and practice of clinical psychotherapists, using both macro-microscope the claims and practices of psychologists as scientists and experts on and micro-critical lenses in this criticalcounsellors and counselling psychologists. the human condition. Exposing research review of the central theoreticalHere he scrutinises the central theoretical bias, contextual problems and the concepts of the major approaches andconcepts of the major approaches and therapeutic blind alleys of the profession, components of everyday psychotherapytheir applications in everyday counselling. this text is essential reading for scholars practice. This is essential reading forResearch-based claims are unpacked and practitioners alike. student psychotherapists and clinicaland thoroughly shaken out, and the psychologists, postgraduate practitioners,professional aspirations of counselling ‘… I was not left with a sense of academics, researchers and policy-and counselling psychology subjected to hopelessness and despair for my career. makers. It is also a must-read for anyoneequally rigorous but fair treatment. Rather, I was imbued with a feeling of with a critical interest in the expansion of optimism, and I look forward to embarking psychology throughout the media and our‘… raises numerous questions that many on future placements with a critical eye. daily lives.try to ignore, avoid, or didn’t even know I strongly recommend that other traineeexisted.’ clinical psychologists, or indeed anyone £19.99 / US$ 27.50 / Due January 2018 considering a career in psychology, read pb: 978 1 906254 61 2Terry Hanley, University of Manchester this book.’ £19.99 / 205pp / 2013 Victoria Bagnall, clinical psychologist in training pb: 978 1 906254 58 2 £19.99 / US$27.50 / 241pp / 2014 pb 978 1 906254 59 9 9

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Learning and Being in The Tribes of the Person-Centred Person-Centred Counselling Nation (second edition) (second edition) An introduction to the schools of therapy related to the person- Tony Merry centred approach Tony Merry’s classic text maintains its Edited by Pete Sanders, with Mick Cooper, place on the reading lists of trainee Robert Elliot, Tony Merry, Campbell Purton psychologists, counsellors and therapists, and Richard Worsley and other professions for whom ‘person- centred’ provides a guiding principle This book has a mission – to gather the for their practice. Presented in plain tribes of the person-centred nation for language, with end-of-chapter checklists dialogue; to discover common ground and suggestions for further self- and and debate differences; to celebrate the professional development, the book fact that we are, as Margaret Warner provides an in-depth explanation of all declared, ‘one nation, many tribes’. This aspects of person-centred counselling. popular, widely used set-text is the first UK student text to include coverage of the Tony Merry (1948–2004) was Reader in Psychology comprehensive range of person-centred at the University of East London. He co-founded the and experiential therapies and approaches. British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA). ‘No other book shows quite the range and depth of PCE psychotherapies in a single £20.00 / 218pp / 2002 volume – a brilliant book.’ pb 978 1 898059 53 0; ebook 978 1 906254 83 4 David Murphy, University of Nottingham £22.00 / 267pp / 2012 pb 978 1 906254 55 1‘No other book shows The Person-Centred Counselling Person-Centered and Experientialquite the range Primer Therapies Workand depth of PCE A review of the research onpsychotherapies in Pete Sanders counselling, psychotherapy anda single volume – a related practicesbrilliant book.’ A PCCS Books best-seller, this concise introduction to person-centred counselling Edited by Mick Cooper, Jeanne C WatsonThe Tribes of the Person-Centred theory and practice is a must for anyone and Dagmar HöldampfNation seeking a brief, authoritative guide. It covers origins, the ‘five conditions’, theory, Effectiveness and evidence-based are the application and the research evidence that watchwords in today’s talking therapies. shows that person-centred counselling This book addresses head-on the oft-cited works. Presented clearly and simply, the lack of robust evidence to support person- primer would be useful for anyone coming centred and experiential therapies. At a to the subject with no prior knowledge. time when these approaches are having to fight their corner against an encroaching ‘It’s excellent and I’m recommending it CBT monoculture, this book challenges wholeheartedly. It fills a gap in the market the doubters and naysayers and sets the beautifully: easy enough to be accessible foundations for future research in this field. and both intelligent enough and thorough enough to be worth reading. It’s a delight.’ ‘... offers supportive evidence for the validity of our work in the terminology Mike Worrall, independent practitioner and educator recognised and supported by medical and psychological orthodoxy.’ Pete Sanders spent over 30 years practising as a counsellor, educator and clinical supervisor. He is a Ewan Davidson, person-centred counsellor trustee of the Soteria Network UK. £12.99 / US$19.00 / 124pp / 2006 £24.00 / UD$35.00 / 278pp / 2010 pb: 978 1 898059 80 6 / ebook: 978 1 906254 84 1 pb: 978 1 906254 25 4 / ebook: 978 1 910919 11 8 10

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPYPerson-Centred Practice at the Difficult EdgeEdited by Peter Pearce and Lisbeth SommerbeckInspired by a series of workshops on ‘This is for me a joyful book...‘therapeutic practice at the difficult edge’ it recognises and celebrates the(Metanoia, UK), this book explores person- effectiveness of person-centredcentred practice with clients that have practice in areas that maytraditionally been regarded as ‘beyond traditionally have been thetherapeutic reach’, labelled as learning preserve of psychiatry, or focused ondisabled, autistic, psychotic, traumatised stabilisation and support rather thanor demented. Experienced practitioners the facilitation of growth.’describe how they have successfullyengaged with such clients at the ‘edge’ Mike Gallant, Warwick Universitywhere their two worlds meet, how theyhave built bridges there and established £24.00 / $US37.50 / 240pp / 2014a ‘liminal space where change has pb: 978 1 906254 69 8 / ebook: 978 1 906254 82 7become possible’.Peter Pearce is Head of the Person-CentredDepartment at Metanoia Institute. He has providedperson-centred counselling for nearly twenty fiveyears, predominantly in ‘difficult edge’ situations.Lisbeth Sommerbeck is a clinical psychologist.Prior to retirement she was employed in Danishpsychiatry, where the bulk of her work consisted inpsychotherapy, supervision, consultationand teaching.Therapist Limits in Person- Dreams and the Person-CenteredCentred Therapy Approach Cherishing client experiencingLisbeth Sommerbeck Andrea KochIt’s surprising how little there is abouttherapist limits in the client-centred Koch situates dreams at the centre ofliterature when the issue is so frequently person-centered practice. She positsbrought to supervision. This book attempts that a person-centered understanding ofto redress that omission. What makes dreaming is to view it as a process of nightlythis book still more essential reading are self-healing: the mainspring of dreamingthe stories from her extensive clinical being the actualising tendency. Her bookexperience in hospital and community takes a significant step into this still largelysettings that author uses to bring vividly to unchartered territory.life her review of the available literature. ‘… I have had numerous clients walk‘In a world echoing with the industrial through the door and say, “What do youhammers of evidence-based practice, this think this dream means?” ... I found thesurely is a quarried diamond of practice- book easy to read and suggest it would bebased evidence.’ useful to anyone who has been asked the same question by a client.’Mike Gallant, Warwick University Sarah Lewis, person-centred therapistLisbeth Sommerbeck is a clinical psychologist.Until she retired in 2011 she was employed in £13.99 / 149pp / 2012Danish psychiatry, where the bulk of her work was pb: 978 1 906254 47 6in psychotherapy, supervision, consultation andteaching.£14.00 / US$21.00 / 112pp / 2015pb: 978 1 906254 81 0 / ebook: 978 1 910919 15 611

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPYThe School-Based Counselling PrimerKatie McArthurForeword by Mick CooperSchool-based counselling is high on the ‘With school-based counsellinghealth and education policy agendas. growing in the UK, this is anEvery major political party has declared its important and timely text. It isbelief in the importance of school-based brief, informed and full of usefulcounselling to the wellbeing of children content. A must for people workingand young people both in the here and (or thinking about working) innow and in supporting their continuing this area.’mental wellbeing and resilience throughadulthood, parenthood and into old age. Terry Hanley, University of ManchesterIn this unique book, based on her ownexperience and extensive research with Katie McArthur is a humanistic counsellor andchildren and young people, McArthur researcher. She has been an advocate of school-explains how school-based counselling based humanistic counselling for several years,works, why it works and what it can offer working with BACP to set up their Children andthe individual child, their family, their Young People Practice Research Network.school and the wider community. £12.99 / 118pp / 2016 pb: 978 1 906254 78 0 / ebook: 978 1 910919 22 4The Wisdom of Children Focusing with Children The art of communicating withBarbara Williams and Heather Williams children at school and at home(Due out 1st September 2016) Marta Stapert and Erik VerliefdeEvery child is born with innate wisdom; therole of adults – parents, educators, social Listening to children is a skill thatworkers and policy makers – is to nurture parents, teachers, caretakers and schoolthis wisdom and enable it to flourish. counsellors need to use every day. ThisChildren have the ability to trust, to express book is about listening to what childrenthemselves, to be empathetic and open to say, feel and think, and also about lookingdifference. When a child can recognise and deeper than thoughts and feelings.express these qualities, it helps them to Change in behaviour arises when childrenbe insightful, self-confident, creative and learn to listen inwardly, sensing what isresilient. When the wisdom of children is bodily felt inside them. This process isnot recognised their self-confidence dips, called ‘focusing’. With this book you canthey lose trust and become fearful. Sadly, independently start to accompany childrenthe educational and medical systems are more consciously in their development, andquick to diagnose and medicate, when in doing so see their confidence grow.much of this medication could be avoided.This is an extraordinary book about the ‘This enormously inspiring bookchild-centred work of Barbara and Heather should take its place as a landmark inWilliams with children and young people in contemplative practice with children.’a range of settings. Richard C. Brown, Naropa University, ColoradoBarbara and Heather both have backgrounds in £14.00 / 159pp / 2008psychotherapy and social work. pb: 978 1 906254 08 7£9.99 / Due 1st September 2016pb: 978 1 910919 20 0 / ebook: 978 1 910919 21 712

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Wild Therapy Not a Tame Lion Undomesticating inner and outer Writings on therapy in its social and worlds political context Nick Totton Nick Totton Therapy is by nature wild, but a lot of it at This volume brings together 24 of Totton’s the moment is rather tame. This book tries articles and chapters, all exploring the to shift the balance back towards wildness relationship between therapy, the world by connecting therapy with ecological and society. A central argument is that thinking, seeing each species, each being, therapy, if it is to be effective, cannot and and each person inherently and profoundly should not be risk-free or risk-averse. linked to each other. Nick Totton describes a mode of being present in all cultures, ‘How amazing it is for an “outsider”, a ‘wild mind’, and explores how this can be maverick even, to emerge from the margins supported through a ‘wild therapy’. as the agenda-setter for counselling and psychotherapy… I think I learn more from ‘“Wild therapy” is a call from nature to [Nick Totton] than from anyone.’ rediscover the earth and relationship to the universe… Read, dream, and be moved by Professor Andrew Samuels, University of Essex his book!’ Nick Totton is a therapist and trainer with over Arnold Mindell, author of Processmind 30 years’ experience. Originally a Reichian body therapist, his approach has become broad based £18.00 / 249pp / 2011 and open to the spontaneous and unexpected. pb: 978 1 906254 36 0 £16.99 / 181pp / 2012 pb: 978 1 906254 48 3‘How amazing it is Counseling Across the Cultural Carl Rogers Counsels a Black Clientfor an “outsider”, Divide Race and culture in person-centreda maverick even, The Clemmont E. Vontress reader counsellingto emerge fromthe margins as the Edited by Roy Moodley, Lawrence Epp and Edited by Roy Moodley, Colin Lago andagenda-setter for Humair Yusuf Anissa Talahitecounselling andpsychotherapy… I How’s this for a story? Vontress embraced This book investigates and explores thethink I learn more existential theory after a chance encounter issues of race and culture in a ‘single casefrom [Nick Totton] with Jean-Paul Sartre in a Paris café. study’ of one of Rogers’ own demonstrationthan from anyone.’ Sartre’s sobering depiction of the human films: Carl Rogers Counsels an Individual. condition resonated with Vontress’s The emerging knowledge and innovativeNot a Tame Lion experience of racism and segregation in clinical practices that arise from the post-war America. For over 50 years he has analysis in the various chapters are all been a leading advocate of the existential ultimately concerned with diversity and approach to counselling, and has multicultural issues in counselling and popularised the link between existential psychotherapy. and cross-cultural theory. Roy Moodley was born and raised in South Africa, ‘The ideas of Clemmont Vontress that are but spent just as many years in England. He now presented in this volume are foundational lives and works in Toronto, Canada, as a university to an understanding not only of Black teacher and researcher. psychology, but of the existential condition Colin Lago is an independent practitioner, trainer and of human beings everywhere.’ a fellow of BACP. Anissa Talahite teaches and researches at the Courtland C Lee, Professor, University of Maryland University of Toronto. £23.00 / US$34.00 / 387pp / 2012 £22.00 / 296pp / 2004 pb: 978 1 906254 49 0 pb: 978 1 898059 44 8 13

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPYRogers' Therapeutic ConditionsEvolution, theory and practiceSeries editor Gill WyattVolume 1: Congruence Volume 2: EmpathyEdited by Gill Wyatt Edited by Sheila Haugh and Tony MerryGenuineness, transparency, authenticity What is empathy? Is it a basic humanand realness are all terms used to convey characteristic? How does it work in therapy?Rogers' concept of congruence. Boasting Is it a necessary condition for therapeutican international collection of leading change? A formidable collection ofwriters, this is the first book to specifically distinguished writers on the person-centredfocus on, and collect critical explorations approach to help readers examine theseof, this under-studied therapeutic and other important questions.condition. £23.00 / 266pp / 2001 £23.00 / 252pp / 2001 pb: 978 1 898059 30 1 / ebook: 978 1 910919 08 8 pb: 978 1 898059 29 5 / ebook: 978 1 910919 07 1Volume 3: UPR Unconditional Volume 4: Contact and PerceptionPositive Regard Edited by Gill Wyatt and Pete SandersEdited by Jerold D Bozarth and PaulWilkins Understudied to the point of being ignored, conditions one and six of Carl Rogers'This international collection of writers ‘necessary and sufficient' conditionsgive us a cutting-edge appreciation of are given due attention for the first time.unconditional positive regard. Dubbed Psychological contact and the client'sboth the 'controversial' condition and, perception of the therapist are put right atcontrastingly, the 'curative factor' in client- the centre of the theoretical map.centred therapy, UPR has never had somuch attention focused on it. £23.00 / 313pp / 2002 pb: 978 1 898059 32 5 / ebook: 978 1 910919 10 1 £23.00 / 250pp / 2001 pb: 978 1 898059 31 8 / ebook: 978 1 910919 09 5Dictionary of Person-Centred The Person-Centred ApproachPsychology A passionate presenceKeith Tudor and Tony Merry Peggy NatielloWhile the person-centred approach to A consistent favourite among studentscounselling and psychotherapy is one of throughout the UK. In the foreword,the most popular today, it is also widely Jules Seeman observes the work to bemisunderstood. These definitions clarify 'immensely personal... taking us to theconcepts fundamental to the approach, heart of each issue that she touches.' Asummarise key debates and, with extensive scholarly, much-referenced work thatreferencing, provide starting points for covers, among other things, collaborativefurther study. power and gender issues.£18.00 / 183pp / 2002 £22.00 / 181pp / 2001pb: 978 1 898059 88 2 pb: 978 1 898059 20 214

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPYTales of Unknowing Demystifying TherapyTherapeutic encounters from anexistential perspective Ernesto SpinelliErnesto Spinelli Ernesto Spinelli examines the assumptions of his profession, laying bare theSpinelli is a leading exponent of existential increasingly unnecessary and artificialtherapy today and one of its most brilliant reliance on ‘techniques’ and resultantpractitioners. Here he gives an account of abuse of power in the therapeuticsome of his most unforgettable therapeutic relationship. He goes on to explore howencounters. With astonishing effectiveness, therapists should engage with and listen tohe explains the core of his work and why their clients in order to help.the existential approach is the way forward. £19.99 / US$26.00 / 247pp / 2006 £18.00 / US$28.00 / 156pp / 2006 pb: 978 1 898059 89 9 / ebook: 978 1 910919 12 5 pb: 978 1 898059 79 0 / ebook: 978 1 910919 04 0The Hope of Therapy Against and For CBT Towards a constructive dialogue?Paul Gordon Edited by Richard House and DelLike artists, therapists need to feel free Loewenthalif they are to be truly creative in theirendeavour to help another. This book is This book offers a wide range of criticalan argument for that therapeutic freedom. perpectives on cognitive-behaviouralLike art, therapy inevitably carries within therapy (CBT) from around the world, andit an idea of hope – hope both for the substantial responses to them. Essentialindividual who seeks help and hope for a reading for mental health practitioners andbetter world. students interested in critical engagement with the CBT phenomenon and its £14.00 / 130pp / 2009 ‘discontents’. pb: 978 1 906254 11 7 £23.00 / US$33.50 / 319pp / 2008 pb: 978 1 906254 10 0Politicizing the Person-Centred Counselling, Class and PoliticsApproach Undeclared influences in therapyAn agenda for social change Anne KearneyEdited by Gillian Proctor, Mick Cooper,Pete Sanders and Beryl Malcolm It is sobering to think that this book, ground-breaking in 1996, still standsAn ever-popular collection of critical practically alone in looking at class, politicsanalyses of the person-centred approach and counselling in the UK. This bookand its position on difference and diversity, has received unequivocally enthusiasticclass, culture and racism, sexuality, power reviews in a wide range of journals andand gender issues, work with refugees and many counsellor-educators keep it on theirasylum seekers and ecopolitics. 'essential reading' list.£23.99 / 329pp / 2006 £13.00 / 92pp / 1996pb: 978 1 898059 72 1 pb: 978 1 898059 09 715

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPYThe Therapeutic Relationship Person-Centred PracticePerspectives and themes Case studies in positive psychologyEdited by Sheila Haugh and Stephen Paul Edited by Richard Worsley and Stephen JosephThis classic text reviews the importanceof the therapeutic relationship within This volume complements the argumentsperson-centred, psychodynamic, made in The Handbook of Person-Centredexistential, Gestalt, TA, CBT, relational Therapy and Mental Health. Case studiesand transpersonal approaches. Themes show how practitioners engage with a rangeexplored include the place of power and of issues in psychopathology: from loss ofoppression and the social context of the psychological contact to eating disordersrelationship in therapy. and childhood sexual abuse. This book builds bridges between counselling theory £24.00 / 280pp / 2008 and practice. pb: 978 1 906254 04 9 £22.00 / US$32.00 / 232pp / 2007 pb: 978 1 898059 95 0Embracing Non-Directivity Reflections on Human PotentialReassessing person-centered theory Bridging the person-centredand practice in the 21st century approach and positive psychologyEdited by Brian Levitt Edited by Brian LevittNon-directivity is the distinguishing feature The person-centred approach is based onof the revolutionary, anti-authoritarian trust of the individual, the ethical stanceapproach to psychotherapy and human of non-directivity and the theoreticalrelations developed by Carl Rogers. In construct of the actualising tendency.this collection, person-centred writers Here, the actualising tendency serves as aexplore important facets of non-directivity catalyst for reflection on various aspects ofas it relates to person-centred theory and human potential.practice. £22.00 / US$32.00 / 250pp / 2008 £24.00 / US$32.00 / 361pp / 2005 pb: 978 1 898059 96 7 pb: 978 1 898059 68 4Pre-Therapy The Contact Work PrimerReaching contact impaired clients An introduction to Pre-TherapyGary Prouty, Dion Van Werde and Marlis Edited by Pete SandersPörtner The Contact Work Primer brings thePre-therapy is a method for anyone practice of Pre-Therapy and contact workwanting to work with people whose ability to a general readership. It is an accessibleto establish and maintain psychological introduction for everyone, qualified andcontact is impaired temporarily or unqualified, who wants to be more effectivepermanently. This book introduced its in their work with contact-impaired clients.revolutionary ideas to English-speakingreaders for the first time. £12.99 / 124pp / 2007 pb: 978 1 898059 84 4 £20.00 / 183pp / 2002 pb: 978 1 898059 34 916

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPYHypnocounseling Reichian Growth WorkAn eclectic bridge between Milton Melting the blocks between lifeErikson and Carl Rogers and love (second edition)Hugh Gunnison Nick TottonIn this carefully crafted exploration of Nick Totton conveys the essential featuresclassic hypnotherapy, Hugh Gunnison has of Reichian therapy in plain language.articulated the connection between the The style of body therapy describedideas and practices of Milton Erickson and here is democratic, growth-orientedCarl Rogers. and undogmatic, while still committed to Reich’s radical description of human £18.00 / 217pp / 2003 beings and their difficulties. pb: 978 1 898059 45 5 £14.99 / 170pp / 2009 pb: 978 1 906254 12 4The Life and Work of Carl Rogers Living with ‘The Gloria Films’ A daughter’s memoryHoward Kirschenbaum Pamela J BurryA detailed personal and professionalhistory that includes an evaluation of ‘The Gloria Films’ generated endlessRogers’ Wisconsin years and a full account papers, theories and rumours aboutof the last decade of his life. Kirschenbaum Gloria, yet what she experienced, howadds deeper understanding of Rogers’ she was treated after filming and howcontributions to psychology, the helping her life evolved were never fully revealed.professions and society at large. This memoir, written by her daughter, illuminates a life of devotion, happiness, £29.00 / 726pp / 2007 generosity and profound loss. pb: 978 1 898059 93 6 £15.00 / US$20.00 / 178pp / 2008 pb: 978 1 906254 02 5The Life of Things Infinitely BelovedTherapy and the soul of the world A therapist explores divine intimacyBernie Neville Brian ThorneEcopsychologists have little time for This book is born of a series of lecturesindividual counselling and psychotherapy, given by Brian Thorne in Salisburywhile therapists carry on as though the Cathedral and St Julian’s church inwider ecosystem is completely irrelevant Norwich. It gives powerful insights into histo their work. Here these stances are passionate commitment as a bridge-builderbrought together lucidly and coherently, between the worlds of counselling anddemonstrating that it is possible and psychotherapy and mystical theology.necessary to take both the personal andthe planet seriously. £11.00 / 102pp / 2012 pb: 978 1 906254 52 0 £20.00 / US$28.50 / 211pp / 2012 pb: 978 1 906254 46 917

The simplest answer to the question of‘What do we do instead of diagnosingpeople?’ is ‘Stop diagnosing people’. Theargument that we need a fully worked-outalternative system before we can abandonsomething that is admitted to be non-valid,even by the people who invented it, is,in my view, a complete red herring. Andthe simplest current alternative is to askpeople what their problems are, and startfrom there.”Lucy Johnstone, A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis,PCCS Books 18

MENTAL HEALTH AND MADNESSChildren in SocietyPolitics, policies and interventionsEdited by Craig NewnesA searching and challenging collection ‘I loved this book. I think it isof socio-cultural and critical explorations virtually unique in the range ofof the place of children, families and topics covered by the authors thatchildren’s services in society today. relate to both the social constructionRespected practitioners and academics of childhood and the real lifeprovide perspectives on a range of topics experiences of children. I thoroughlythat currently preoccupy politicians, recommend this to all professionalspolicymakers, theorists, educationalists who work with children and youngand practitioners from many disciplines people.’and specialisms. Presented in two parts– ‘Just Kids?’ and ‘Just Services?’ – the Sami Timimi, author, consultant child and adolescentbook tackles topics at the top of the child psychiatrist, Visiting Professor of Child Psychiatry and Mentalcare policy and psy practice agendas and Health Improvement at the University of Lincoln, UKchallenges traditional and comfortableperceptions of the benign role of the £22.00 / US$35.00 / 258pp / 2015conversative state. pb: 978 1 906254 80 3 / ebook: 978 1 910919 14 9Craig Newnes is a leading critical psychologist.He has a life-time commitment to the NHS andis an outspoken critic of much of the practice ofpsychiatry and psychology.Psychiatry in ContextExperience, meaning and communitesPhilip ThomasPeople’s contexts should be central to our ‘... influential and indispensable tounderstanding of psychosis and distress, anyone concerned with the politics,yet far too often they are overlooked in the practice, and philosophy of mentalfruitless search for the biological origins of health... Thomas issues a prescriptionmental distress and technological solutions for a medical discipline that, in histo its management. Psychiatry, argues own words, is mired in turmoil andThomas, has no future as a ‘medicine crisis.’of the mind’ based in neuroscience ormolecular genetics; but doctors could Eleanor Longden is currently a trustee of Intervoice and ahave an important role in the future mental faculty member of the International Centre for Recoveryhealth arena: one that encompasses Action in Practice, Education and Researchnarrative psychiatry, engaging withcommunities, refining non-technological £26.99 / US$45.00 / 304pp / 2014models of care, delivering physical health pb: 978 1 906254 72 8care in mental health, and developing andapplying scientific insights to the treatmentof distress.Philip Thomas worked as a full-time consultantpsychiatrist in the NHS for over 20years. He iswell known for working in alliance with survivors ofpsychiatry, service users and community groups,nationally and internationally.19

MENTAL HEALTH AND MADNESS Straight Talking Introductions Series‘... crammed with These accessibly written introductions aim to distinguishuseful and important fact from fiction in the mental health field. Many key ideas ininformation about psychology and psychiatry are just that – ideas. The problem formental health. The professionals, students and the public alike is that these ideasStraight Talking have been passed off as fact for so long, and so unremittingly,series works because that they are commonly thought of as certainties.all the authors aremental health experts Written by notable experts in their respective fields, thesewho can really write.’ inexpensive and thought-provoking books are ideal for students considering current debates and critical thinking in mentalGuy Holmes, clinical pyschologist, in health, as well as practitioners, psychiatric service users, carersTherapy Today and indeed everyone with an interest in mental health. The Straight Talking Introductions will arm you, your students or your clients with clearer understandings of where fact ends and myth takes over. Prepare to be surprised. 20

MENTAL HEALTH AND MADNESS Straight Talking Introductions SeriesA Straight Talking Introduction A Straight Talking Introduction A Straight Talking Introductionto Psychiatric Diagnosis to Psychiatric Drugs to the Causes of Mental Health ProblemsLucy Johnstone Joanna Moncrieff John Read and Pete Sanders‘I was looking forward to the publication ‘This straightforward book is one thatof this book. I was not disappointed. It’s a should be read by anyone currently taking, ‘An accessible look at complex issuesmagnificent text, which encapsulates the or thinking about taking, a psychotropic which empowers the reader to startdemedicalising paradigm shift currently drug, anyone prescribing them and anyone thinking for themselves. A refreshingtaking place in mental health in clear, party to their use. It offers a radically antidote to the simplistic and pessimisticinformative, no nonsense and highly different and sobering view as to what the biomedical model.’readable ways.’ drugs do compared with the views on offer elsewhere.’ Jacqui Dillon, Chair, Hearing Voices NetworkDr Alec Grant, Reader in Narrative Mental Health, Universityof Brighton David Healy, Professor of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff £9.99 / $14.50 / 165pp / 2010 University School of Medicine pb: 978 1 906254 19 3 / ebook: 978 1 910919 01 9‘Making sense of personal experiencespromotes hope, strength and recovery. This ‘Exceptional advice and background A Straight Talking Introductionis the message from Lucy Johnstone as an knowledge for users and non-users alike. to Children’s Mental Healthalternative to the biomedical language that Allows an informed choice not readily Problemskeeps mental health care in a stranglehold.’ available elsewhere.’ Sami TimimiDirk Corstens, psychiatrist, Chair of Intervoice Online reviewer ‘Trust Timimi, not the medical mouthpieces‘This book is simply fantastic. An absolute £9.99 / $14.50 / 149pp / 2009 of the pharmaceutical establishmentmust-read for anyone and everyone pb: 978 1 906254 17 9 / ebook: 978 1 910919 00 2 he demolishes. The message is simple:working in or accessing support from Doctors! Leave our kids alone!’mental health services. Buy it!’ A Straight Talking Introduction to Being a Mental Health Service Oliver James, psychologist, columnist, authorOnline reviewer User ‘Often without knowing it, many people£9.99 / $14.50 / 136pp / 2014 Peter Beresford who are involved in the care of children arepb: 978 1 906254 66 7 / ebook: 978 1 906254 86 5 misled and bamboozled by professionals who know more about the theory of mentalA Straight Talking Introduction to ‘This book offers valuable information, a disorder than they do about children. ThisCaring for Someone with Mental message of hope and a call for collective book is about children, and is essentialHealth Problems action for real, sustainable change reading for all people concerned with their through practical strategies – I wish it welfare.’edited by Jen Kilyon and Theresa Smith had been available when I was beginning my own recovery from mental distress Dorothy Rowe, psychologist, columnist, author‘This book is an urgent wake-up call to all and psychiatric treatment, and I hope it isconnected with mental health services. widely read and shared by mental health £9.99 / $14.50 / 131pp / 2009The comprehensive introduction shows service users and survivors and those who pb: 978 1 906254 15 5 / ebook: 978 1 910919 02 6understanding of the difficulties faced by care for or about them.’both sufferers and carers, and signals theeditors’ hope for a better service.’ Jan Wallcraft, survivor researcher, Honorary Fellow, University of BirminghamJenny Bloomer, counsellor/psychotherapist in independentpractice £9.99 / 142pp / 2010 pb: 978 1 906254 20 9£9.99 / 149pp / 2009pb: 978 1 906254 18 6 21

MENTAL HEALTH AND MADNESSPublished in 2017 Safe with Self-Injury A practical guide to understanding, responding and harm-reduction Kay Inckle This book is designed for anyone who using creative practices and harm- has a supporting role or relationship with reduction, and a guide to producing a someone who self-injures, regardless of harm-reduction policy for self-injury within whether that is in a professional or informal health, education and social services. context. It is also intended to be a useful resource for people who self-injure, to Dr Kay Inckle is a course convener in the sociology help them to explore their experiences of health and medicine at the London School of and to keep themself safe. It is written in a Economics and Political Science. She worked as a clear and accessible manner and includes service provider in a range of health and social care chapters on the facts and misconceptions contexts, supporting both adults and young people. about self-injury, understanding self-injury in the context of human embodiment and £23.99 / US$37.00 / 265pp / 2017 a social-model approach to distress and pb: 978 1 910919 16 3 / ebook: 978 1 910919 17 0 illness, exploring practical strategies for responding in meaningful ways, including Tales from the Madhouse An insider critique of psychiatric services Gary Sidley Based on his 33 years in mental health Gary Sidley worked in NHS mental health services practice, this book is a distillation of what for 33 years in a variety of nursing, psychological and Sidley has observed about the inhumanities managerial roles. and indignities that the mental health system routinely inflicts on those ‘Although [Sidley] supports his case unfortunate enough to come within its with clearly reviewed research, it reach. ‘I too am culpable,’ he writes. is the accompanying stories of his experiences with vulnerable patients The book is structured to juxtapose critical mistreated by the system which explorations of key issues in the mental are particularly compelling. Sidley health arena with Sidley’s observations of vividly describes how power operates how these are played out in practice. His within psychiatric teams to the aim is to ‘contribute to the groundswell of detriment of those who are utterly dissent striving to realise radical change to powerless.’ the way we make sense of human distress’. Richard Bentall, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK £18.00 / 225pp / 2015 pb: 978 1 906254 75 9 / ebook: 978 1 906254 99 5 22

MENTAL HEALTH AND MADNESSLiving with Voices50 stories of recoveryEdited by Marius Romme, Sandra Escher, Jacqui Dillon, Dirk Corstens and Mervyn MorrisVoice hearers and the Hearing Voices ‘Living with Voices is a must-readNetwork have been an essential force for all: voice hearers, practitionersin the recovery movement, pioneering and scholars of all orientations. It isand embodying the concept that much a milestone because it offers learningof recovery happens outside treatment directly from the experiences ofsettings. Alongside chapters introducing voices hearers, not in the alienatingthe ‘accepting’ and ‘making sense of’ language of deterioration andapproaches to working with voices, this immobility, but in the optimisticbook is a compendium of recovery stories language of resilience and recovery.’written by people who hear voices. In theirdescriptions of how they have tackled the Mathias Dekeyser, person-centred therapistthreats, feelings of powerlessness andthe fear of being mad that are commonly £23.99 / US$35.00 / 349pp / 2009associated with voice hearing, we see how pb: 978 1 906254 22 3 / ebook: 978 1 906254 87 2they have changed their relationship withtheir voices and come to understand themas a symptom of life experience rather thanmadness.Young People Hearing Voices Agnes’s JacketWhat you need to know and what A psychologist’s search for theyou can do meanings of madness (UK Edition)Sandra Escher and Marius Rommewith Rachel Waddingham Gail HornsteinVoice hearing is not a disease but it can Incarcerated in Hubertusberg Psychiatricmake you ill if you don’t know how to Institution in the 19th century, seamstressdeal with it. Based on a study by Romme Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched herand Escher into the experiences of voice life’s story into every inch of her jacket.hearing of 80 children and young people Gail Hornstein takes Agnes’s jacket as aaged from eight to 19 years, this book is metaphor for every story that inmates ofwritten for them, and others like them, and psychiatric institutions have managed,for their parents, teachers and the mental despite attempts to silence them, tohealth professionals who seek to help smuggle to the outside world. In thisthem, to explode the myths and fears about evocative and moving book, Hornsteinthe phenomenon. brings us up to the present day, charting how networks of survivor groups all‘... effectively re-frames voice hearing as “a over the world have come together tohuman characteristic and an indication of make meaning from their experiences ofproblems that need to be solved, instead madness and its causes and find waysof a psycho-pathological problem”. For of recovering from and living with itsanybody who supports children who hear consequences.voices, this is the book to read.’ Gail A Hornstein is a professor of psychology atCaroline Rosta, counsellor and psychotherapist Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA. She divides her time between Holyoke and London. £22.00 / US$32.00 / 302pp / 2010 pb: 978 1 906254 57 5 / ebook: 978 1 906254 94 0 £18.00 / 310pp / 2012 pb: 978 1 906254 45 223

MENTAL HEALTH AND MADNESS Power, Interest and Psychology Madness Contested Elements of a social materialist Power and practice understanding of distress Edited by Steven Coles, Sarah Keenan and David Smail Bob Diamond Conventional therapeutic psychology Nurses, survivors, psychiatrists, suggests that we are essentially self- psychologist and academics question the creating and able (with a little help from paradigm at the heart of our mental health a therapist) to heal ourselves of the services and consider alternative ways to emotional ills that beset us. This kind respond to madness. of view reflects the wishful thinking and make-believe that are necessary for the ‘The book is a remarkable piece of work. success of modern consumer capitalism, It covers just about every contentious but it does not reflect the way things are. concept in the present “mental illness” debate, and brings to bear an abundance ‘There’s a surging current of analysis here of new insights and up-to-date research that should be read by all students of findings.’ psychology.’ Phil Hickey, psychologist and blogger Professor Gary Thomas, University of Birmingham Steven Coles, Sarah Keenan and Bob Diamond are David Smail (1938–2014) was a clinical clinical psychologists who work or have worked in psychologist in the NHS for over 30 years. He held and around Nottingham. the post of Special Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Nottingham. £24.00 / US$39.95 / 391pp / 2013 pb: 978 1 906254 43 8 / ebook: 978 1 906254 97 1 £12.00 / US$19.95 / 122pp / 2005 pb: 978 1 898059 71 4 / ebook: 978 1 906254 77 3‘The book is a Being Human Queering Healthremarkable piece Reflections on mental distress in Critical challenges to normativeof work. It covers society health and healthcarejust about everycontentious concept Edited by Alastair Morgan Edited by Laetitia Zeeman, Kay Arandain the present ‘mental and Alec Grantillness’ debate, and This volume sheds a new and differentbrings to bear an light on the intersections between mental This book uncovers the normativeabundance of new health, mental distress and society. An assumptions, practices and discourses thatinsights and up- array of critical, non-reductive voices from are central to the production of differenceto-date research across various disciplines in the humanities – gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity –findings.’ (including philosophy, psychiatry, which in turn creates disadvantage and psychology, history and literature) discrimination in health and healthcare.Madness Contested debate the subject of mental distress as a The queer and critical theories within this phenomenon that appears within particular book subvert the neoliberal healthcare social and cultural environments. economics and biomedical scientific norms that operate in every sphere of healthcare. Alastair Morgan is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. He has worked in the mental health Laetitia Zeeman is a senior lecturer at the University field for a number of years and is also a trained of Brighton. Kay Aranda is a principal lecturer at philosopher. the University of Brighton. Dr Alec Grant is Reader in Narrative Mental Health at the University of £22.00 / 213pp / 2008 Brighton. pb: 978 1 906254 06 3 £22.00 / US$27.50 / 224pp / 2014 pb: 978 1 906254 71 1 24

MENTAL HEALTH AND MADNESS Psychology in the Real World Beyond Prozac Community-based groupwork Healing mental distress Guy Holmes Terry Lynch Psychology in the Real World describes Drawing on his wide experience as a GP groups, courses and projects recognised and counsellor, Lynch demonstrates the nationally for both their innovation and commonsense, but sadly controversial, their importance as new ways to provide idea that personal contact is a better healer psychological services, to reduce and than drugs. combat stigma, to help people understand and to some extent escape toxic mental ‘I just loved Beyond Prozac. If I ever get environments and to bring about service seriously unhappy, I’m going to camp on user involvement that provides real Terry’s doorstep... I can’t speak of it too benefits to people in terms of the learning highly. If ever a man puts a human face on of new skills. mental suffering and offers an optimistic message, Dr Lynch is that man.’ Guy Holmes retired in 2015 having been an inspirational clinical psychologist in the NHS for William Glasser, MD years. His community-based groupwork has been profiled on Radio 4’s All in the Mind. Terry Lynch is a GP and psychotherapist. He has been a key advisor to the Irish government on mental £24.00 / 311pp / 2010 health policy for many years. pb: 978 1 906254 13 1 £17.00 / 393pp / 2004 pb: 978 1 898059 63 9‘Remains the This is Madness This is Madness Tooseminal text for A critical look at psychiatry and the Critical perspectives on mentalcritical psychology future mental health services health servicesand psychiatry.’ Edited by Craig Newnes, Guy Holmes and Edited by Craig Newnes, Guy Holmes andThis is Madness Cailzie Dunn Cailzie Dunn A comprehensive critique of the ‘Another excellent book from this trio, contemporary British psychiatric system, following up This is Madness… Together This is Madness is a breath of fresh air. the essays present the case for a root In turn critical, strident, scholarly, personal, and branch overhaul of the mental heath moving and ultimately hopeful, it brings system… Go buy it, wherever you stand together the views of professionals and on these issues. This is serious, evidence- users. It is an attempt to develop a more based stuff, not simply polemic. It may effective, respectful and humane mental change minds as well as fuel the efforts of health system. the converted.’ ‘Remains the seminal text for critical Catherine Jackson, Mental Health Today psychology and psychiatry.’ Craig Newnes, Guy Holmes and Cailzie Dunn all Professor Mark Rapley (1962–2012) worked as clinical psychologists in Shropshire, UK. Craig was Director of Psychological Therapies. Craig Newnes, Guy Holmes and Cailzie Dunn all worked as clinical psychologists in Shropshire, UK. £16.00 / US$24.50 / 202pp / 2001 Craig was Director of Psychological Therapies. pb: 978 1 898059 37 0 £18.00 / US$27.50 / 296pp / 1999 pb: 978 1 898059 25 7 25

MENTAL HEALTH AND MADNESS Children and young people Otis Doesn’t Scratch £12.50 / 46pp / 2015 pb: 978 1 906254 56 8 By Clare Shaw and Tamsin Walker This children’s storybook is accompanied by a guide for adults. Together they comprise a two-part resource designed to help adults looking for a safe and helpful way to talk with a child about a parent, guardian or close family member who self-injures. ‘The strength of the publication lies in its simplicity; the guide would be accessible to any reader and seeks to conquer in a sensitive and caring way the confusion, negativity and fear that surround self-injury.’ Janet Edwards, counsellor and supervisor Clare Shaw is a poet and self-harm awareness trainer. Tamsin Walker is an illustrator and works for a mental health charity raising awareness about mental health and wellbeing.Beyond Fear and Control Flesh Wounds Rainbow JournalWorking with young people who New ways of understanding For young people who self-injureself-harm self-injury In association with Self-Injury SupportEdited by Helen Spandler and Kay InckleSam Warner Created for young people who self-harm, Research-based stories challenge this journal acknowledges different types ofHow can services change the focus from the stigmatising view of self-injury self-harm as a way of coping with difficultmanaging or ‘stopping’ self-harm to as something ‘mad’ or ‘bad’ to be feelings, encouraging the reader to use theworking in more ‘young person centred’ prevented at all costs. Inckle highlights journal as an alternative to help alleviateand empowering ways? The need for such the importance of understanding the the pain those feelings can cause.a change is increasingly being recognised, complexity of each individual and theirbut the practical implications and ethical relationship with self-injury alongside By encouraging creative outlets such asdilemmas of this shift have rarely been practices that offer acceptance and writing, drawing, poetry and letter writing,explored. This important book fills that support across the breadth and depth of the journal may help the young personessential gap. someone’s needs. develop less harmful coping mechanisms, and help them explore underlying‘There is a desperate need for change from ‘… if you really want to understand what problems.unhelpful attitudes which are dismissive, self-injury is all about, the issues involved,paternal, patronising and sometimes what helps and what doesn’t, you couldn’t Young people who self-injure can receive apunitive to ones which are more accepting, do better than to read this book…’ free copy of the journal by contacting Self-respectful and supportive... which Injury Support via their website at:acknowledges the person experiencing Shaun Johnson, Mental Health Today www.selfinjurysupport.org.ukthe self-harm as the central source ofinformation and learning.’ £18.00 / 248pp / 2010 £8.00 / 92pp / 2012 pb: 978 1 906254 29 2 Ring bound format: 978 0 953134 88 5Doreen Fleet, counsellor, supervisor and trainer£18.00 / US$27.50 / 200pp / 2007pb: 978 1 898059 87 5 26

MENTAL HEALTH AND MADNESS The New Politics of Experience Testimony of Experience and The Bitter Herbs Docta Ignorantia and the Philadelphia Association Theodor Itten and Ron Roberts Communities Theorising of the human condition too Bruce Scott often follows the ideological fashions of the day, which can be described as biological/ The tyranny of scientific certainty and corporate fundamentalism. This toxic striving for ‘knowing’, so prevalent within mixture not only mystifies the general our state-sanctioned ‘mental health’ public but also makes epistemological institutions, deprives us of other ways of slaves of professional psychologists. As accommodating what it is to suffer, to live, neoliberal capitalism continues its forward to be human. Testimony of Experience is march, this book considers its influence on an attempt to transcend this oppressive the divide between academic psychology discourse. It does so by intricately exploring and the psychotherapeutic art of healing. over 40-years-worth of the experiences of ex-residents of Philadelphia Association Theodor Itten is a psychotherapist and clinical (PA) communities. psychologist in private practice. Ron Roberts is a chartered psychologist and Associate Fellow of the Bruce Scott is an existential and phenomenologically British Psychological Society. He currently lectures informed psychoanalyst, and a member of the at Kingston University. College of Psychoanalysts-UK, the Philadelphia Association and Human Development Scotland. £18.00 / US$28.00 / 281pp / 2014 pb: 978 1 906254 74 2 £22.00 / 253pp / 2014 pb: 978 1 906254 64 3‘Half a century R.D. Laing An Uneasy Dwellingafter the publication 50 years since The Divided Self The story of the Phildelphiaof The Divided Association community housesSelf, this book is Edited by Theodor Itten anda timely reminder Courtenay Young Paul Gordonof Laing the man,and of his enduring ‘For anyone interested in Laing and his Despite the longevity and the radicallyimportance.’ ideas, this is a fascinating collection of different nature of the Philadelphia interviews with the great man, followed by Association project, surprisingly little hasR.D. Laing: reflections – often warm and occasionally been written about the work. This book is50 years since The Divided Self critical – of meetings with him, or of the an attempt to correct that. influence he has had on our thinking today. Half a century after the publication of The ‘I didn’t expect to find An Uneasy Dwelling Divided Self, this book is a timely reminder ... quite so gripping. Paul Gordon writes of Laing the man, and of his enduring eloquently yet with an honesty that at times importance.’ shocked me – our current culture is so dominated by people whose main aim is Richard Bentall, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University to sell their wares that writing like this is of Liverpool astonishingly rare.’ Theodor Itten is a psychotherapist and clinical Guy Holmes, clinical and critical psychologist psychologist in private practice. Courtenay Young works in the NHS and privately as a counsellor, Paul Gordon has been working as a psychotherapist psychotherapist and body psychotherapist. for 25 years. He works in private practice and in one of the Philadelphia Association community £19.99 / US$27.00 / 371pp / 2012 households. pb: 978 1 906254 54 4 £14.00 / 137pp / 2010 pb: 978 1 906254 24 7 27

This work was only made possible becauseI found the reasons, the courage and,ultimately, the words to break a deathlysilence – the silence imposed on us byexpert psychiatric discourse and chemicaltreatment. Most importantly, I found otherpeople who wanted to hear these complexand unpleasant stories, who were capableof taking them as they were, and whotrusted my version of reality even when Icouldn’t really express it.”Jasna Russo, Searching for a Rose Garden, PCCS Books 28

SURVIVOR AND SERVICE USER PERSPECTIVESSearching for a Rose GardenChallenging psychiatry, fostering mad studiesEdited by Jasna Russo and Angela Sweeney. Foreword by Brenda A. LeFrançoisWith an international spread of Jasna Russo has an MA in clinical psychologycontributors, this book offers an incisive and works as an independent researcher. She is acritique of all that is unhelpful about long-term activist in the international user/survivormainstream (sanestream) responses to movement. Angela Sweeney conducted her firstmental distress, alongside descriptions survivor research project as an undergraduateof pioneering, user-inspired and user- student in 1998. She later joined the Service Userdelivered approaches that challenge Research Enterprise at the Institute of Psychiatrypsychiatric medical models and orthodoxy. where she gained a PhD in medical sociology.Other contributions cover survivor/user-ledresearch and teaching, and the constant ‘… I found myself cheering as thebattle to establish and maintain a safe words on the page dared to say outspace within academia and mainstream loud what others will not – theresearch projects for users/survivors as simple yet complex truths that othersgenuinely equal members of the team. do not have the courage or honesty to speak.’ Brenda A LeFrançois, Professor of Social Work, Memorial University Newfoundland £22.99 / US$35.00 / 250pp / 2016 pb: 978 1 906254 79 7 / ebook: 978 1 910919 23 1This is Survivor ResearchEdited by Angela Sweeney, Peter Beresford, Alison Faulkner, Mary Nettle and Diana RoseHealth and social science research is ‘These arguments for servicenow being carried out by people who user-/consumer-/survivor-led orhave previously been seen only as its participatory research are powerfullysubjects. At the forefront are researchers argued, strongly justified, andwith experience as mental health service persuasively marshalled in this veryusers/survivors, who are now pioneering important addition to the literature.’a new approach that is commandingincreasing attention and respect. Written Graham Thornicroft, Professor of Community Psychiatry andand edited by these pioneers, the book Head of the Health Service Research Department, Institute ofexplores the theory and practice of survivor Psychiatry, King’s College Londonresearch, provides practical examples ofsurvivor research and offers guidance for £22.00 / 202pp / 2009people wishing to carry out such research pb: 978 1 906254 14 8themselves.This is a groundbreaking book for policymakers, researchers, educators, students,service users and practitioners in themental health field and beyond.29

SURVIVOR AND SERVICE USER PERSPECTIVES Our Encounters with… Series‘I write from an emotional stance that highlights my multiple interpretive positions. Physiciansand therapists keep readers at a distance. I invite you to come close and experience this worldfor yourself.’ (Tillmann-Healy, 1996: 79–80). This is what the Our Encounters series is about –personal narratives both of people who have suffered mental health problems and the peoplewho cared for them. Subjective views from the vantage point of experience as opposed toscholastic and detached discussions about these experiences.Our Encounters Our Encounters Our Encounters Our Encounterswith Madness with Suicide with Self-Harm with StalkingEdited by Alec Grant, Francis Edited by Alec Grant, Edited by Charley Baker, Claire (Due November 2017)Biley and Hannah Walker Judith Hare, Fran Biley and Shaw and Fran Biley Brendan Stone Edited by Sam Taylor,This book is grouped under five The contributors who have Alec Grant and Helen Leigh-themes: on diagnosis; stories ‘It isn’t society that sheds light so generously shared their Phippardof experience (of mental health on suicide, but rather suicide experiences in this book willproblems); experiencing the that sheds light on society.’ promote understanding and With an introduction by themental health system; on being compassion, improve attitudes author Peter James, himselfa carer and abuse and survival. Baidelot and Establet (2008) and care and offer hope to a victim of stalking, the book those who are personally foregrounds the experiences‘The various authors in this This collection comprises a encountering self-harm. of those who have been (andbook are engaged in making range of writings on the theme are still being) stalked. Itsense of their encounters with of suicide – by those who ‘I cannot recommend this book offers a unique insight into themadness by telling stories. have been suicidal, and the enough. Written with honesty commonalities of experienceRead those stories and you may friends, family and staff who and dignity, these accounts and a platform where peoplewell appreciate something of have lived and worked with bear witness to the sometimes who have, in many cases,“what” they have encountered. them. Too often the rhetoric monstrous failings of services been driven into silence andReflect on their stories and you of ‘suicidology’ is voiced ostensibly set up to offer anonymity are able to writemay well appreciate better your only by those who have not help and support... a forceful openly and angrily about theirown “self” and your myriad had personal experience reminder that each person’s battles to stay sane and re-encounters with life and its of suicidality; these frank experience of self-harm is establish a life free from theirinherent madness.’ accounts go some way to unique and different.’ persecutor. . correcting that imbalance.Professor Phil Barker, from his foreword Jackie Townsend, counsellor and supervisor £20.00 / US$27.50 / 2017 £20.00 / US$27.50 / 218pp / 2013 pb: 978 1 910919 24 8£20.00 / US$27.50 / 254pp / 2011 pb: 978 1 906254 62 9 £20.00 / US$ 27.50 / 240pp / 2013 ebook: 978 1 910919 25 5pb: 978 1 906254 38 4 ebook: 978 1 906254 95 7 pb: 978 1 90625463 6 ebook: 978 1 906254 96 4 30

SURVIVOR AND SERVICE USER PERSPECTIVES Living with Voices Young People Hearing Voices 50 stories of recovery What you need to know and what you can do Edited by Marius Romme, Sandra Escher, Jacqui Dillon, Dirk Corstens and Mervyn Sandra Escher and Marius Romme Morris Contributions by Rai Waddingham This book demonstrates that it is entirely Based on a study by Romme and Escher possible to overcome problems with into the experiences of voice hearing of 80 hearing voices. At the heart of this book young people aged from 8 to 19 years, this are the stories of 50 people who have book explodes the myths and fears about learnt that their voices are not a sign of voice hearing and offers practical advice. madness but a reaction to problems in their It is written for the young people and lives. They have discovered a relationship the parents, teachers and mental health between the voices and their history; that professionals who seek to help them. the voices talk about problems that they haven’t dealt with – and that they therefore ‘... provides its readers with extensive make sense. guidance and information not only for understanding voice hearing, but in ‘This book is a breakthrough because for reframing it as a meaningful experience the first time we hear about and can make that can be lived with rather than an sense of “hearing voices” through the direct unfortunate medical abnormality to be voice of 50 service users themselves.’ endured.’ Professor Peter Beresford, OBE Eleanor Longden, Psychosis Research Unit, Manchester University £23.99 / US$35.00 / 349pp / 2009 £22.00 / US$32.00 / 302pp / 2010 pb: 978 1 906254 22 3 / ebook: 978 1 906254 87 2 pb: 978 1 906254 57 5 / ebook: 978 1 906254 94 0‘This book is a Thinking about Suicide A Straight-Talking Introductionbreakthrough because Contemplating and comprehending to Being a Mental Health Servicefor the first time the urge to die Userwe hear about andcan make sense of David Webb Peter Beresford“ hearing voices”through the direct The literature of suicidology has studiously Few of us would want to be a uservoice of 50 service ignored the voice of those who actually of psychiatric services. It is a statususers themselves.’ experience suicidal feelings. David Webb associated with fear, stigma, isolation and suggests this is no accidental oversight but disadvantage. This book takes a closer lookLiving with Voices a very deliberate and systematic exclusion at the realities for people and how to deal of this critically important first-person with them. knowledge. ‘… outlines the alternative and myriad ‘… lucid, clear, and compelling… Mr Webb ways in which people can be helped; that rightly refers to, and competently critiques, such help can be provided by people whose our existing mental health “circus” as it expertise derives from their experiences, relates to suicide… clearly original and not academic qualifications; that there significant as a scholarly contribution to our needs to be a focus on social as well as knowledge of the topic.’ individual change; and these alternative ways are a lot less mad than much of what David Jobes, Professor of Psychology, The Catholic University goes on in mental health services today.’ of America, Washington, DC Guy Holmes, clinical psychologist In 2006 David Webb completed the world’s first PhD on suicide by someone who has attempted it. He has £9.99 / US$14.50 / 142pp / 2010 been a board member of the World Network of Users pb: 978 1 906254 20 9 and Survivors of Psychiatry. £15.00 / US$22.00 / 184pp / 2010 pb: 978 1 906254 28 5 31

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