Product Description: Why is developing as a psychoanalytic practitioner so often laden with anxiety? A simple answer is that psychoanalytic work is intrinsically complex and difficult. But Laurence Spurling argues traditional accounts of practice make these difficulties even worse for students and practitioners: he shows that case descriptions and examples in psychoanalytic textbooks often give a misleading picture of practice, because they explore what practitioners ought to do rather than what they actually do...read more

Product Description: As a psychotherapist, in whose name do I speak? How can I come to speak in my own name? What does ‘tradition’ mean in psychotherapy? Originally published in 1993, the contributors to this book – all practising psychotherapists and teachers – explore these questions and investigate how theories and practices are passed on from one generation to the next...read more

Product Description: Why do people want to become a psychotherapist? How do they translate this desire into reality? On Becoming a Psychotherapist explores these and related questions. Ten leading therapists write about their profession and their careers, examining how and why they became psychotherapists...read more

Product Description: The first edition of this book explored the key assumptions, main theoretical ideas and principles of practice behind psychodynamic counselling. With an updated look at evidence-based practice, supervision and the different stages of counselling, this continues to be a key introductory text for counsellors or psychotherapists from all disciplines...read more

Product Description: This exciting addition to the Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy series provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to psychodynamic counselling and its basic principles. Laurence Spurling examines the basic assumptions underlying the psychodynamic approach, its main theoretical ideas and principles of practice, the techniques associated with it and ways of thinking about the conduct of counselling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application.

Product Description: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.