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A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems (2nd edition) John Read 9781915220196
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.79What causes mental health problems? Nature or nurture? Brain and biology? Genetic inheritance or social environment? Revised and updated, this concise book explains what we know today about the... -
We are the Change-Makers: poems supporting Drop the Disorder! by Jo Watson
Booksplease Price: £17.13This is a unique collection of poems written by and for people who have survived our mental health system and the diagnostic process that is used to categorise and treat mental and emotional distress... -
Pre-Therapy: Reaching Contact Impaired Clients by Garry F. Prouty 9781898059349
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.00Developed by Garry Prouty and his associates over a period of 30 years, Pre-Therapy is a method for anyone wanting to work with people whose ability to establish and maintain psychological contact is... -
Person-centered and Experiential Therapies Work: A Review of the Research on Counseling, Psychotherapy and Related Practices by Mick Cooper 9781906254254
Booksplease Price: £24.15Person-Centred and Experiential Therapies Work provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible review of the evidence-base for the approach and the methods and measures by which it can be... -
Therapists Challenging Racism and Oppression: The unheard voices by Neelam Zahid 9781915220295
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.08This is a book about racism and its intersections with other forms of oppression within the talking therapies, told from the therapist's perspective. Inside are powerful, first-person accounts of the... -
Case Studies in Existential Therapy: Translating Theory Into Practice by Simon Du Plock 9781910919286
Booksplease Price: £25.36The ethos of existential therapy is that practitioners seek to co-create a therapeutic alliance with clients that emphasises being with rather than doing to. Trainees and practitioners alike are... -
The Work Cure: Critical essays on work and wellness by David Frayne 9781910919439
Booksplease Price: £24.14This provocative collection of essays presents a powerful critique of contemporary discourse that portrays work - paid employment - as a moral imperative, essential for our health and well-being. ... -
Young People Hearing Voices: What You Need to Know and What You Can Do by Sandra Escher 9781906254575
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.65Young People Hearing Voices is a unique, innovative book providing support and practical solutions for the experience of hearing voices. It is in two parts, one part for voice-hearing children, the... -
Psychiatry and Mental Health: A guide for counsellors and psychotherapists by Rachel Freeth 9781910919521
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £31.99Increasingly, counsellors and psychotherapists are working with people who have been diagnosed with a mental disorder and are required to understand and navigate the mental health system. Counselling... -
Focusing with Children: The Art of Communicating with Children at School and at Home by Marta Stapert 9781906254087
Booksplease Price: £15.29Listening to children is a skill which parents, teachers, caretakers and school counsellors need to employ every day. From a deep respect for the already existing attitude of these adults, the... -
Classics in the Person-centred Approach by David Cain 9781898059424
Booksplease Price: £31.82The Journal Person-Centered Review represents a treasured archive of writing in the person-centered approach. This carefully selected 'best of' collection of 58 classic articles is one that no... -
The Client-Centred Therapist in Psychiatric Contexts: A Therapists Guide to the Psychiatric Landscape and Its Inhabitants by Lisbeth Sommerbeck 9781898059554
Booksplease Price: £18.07Why do not more client-centred therapists work in psychiatric settings? Whatever the answer, this book is a solid attempt to pave the way for a greater involvement. Lisbeth Sommerbeck brings over 25... -
Therapist Limits in Person-Centred Therapy: 2015 by Lisbeth Sommerbeck 9781906254810
Booksplease Price: £16.22There are many reasons why the practice of person-centred therapy can become difficult. An issue that is frequently brought to supervision is when the therapist's limits are challenged. It is... -
Why Not CBT?: Against and for CBT Revisited by Gillian Proctor 9781910919347
Booksplease Price: £28.13This comprehensively revised and updated second edition of the 2008 classic Against and for CBT has lost none of its passion or power. Those `against' argue that CBT has been used by governments and... -
The Life and Work of Carl Rogers by Howard Kirschenbaum
Booksplease Price: £35.09Available for the first time in paperback, this 2007 second edition of Howard Kirschenbaum's biography of Carl Rogers extends to over 700 pages and includes a more detailed personal and professional... -
Different Bodies: Deconstructing normality Nick Totton 9781915220318
Booksplease Price: £22.30'A revolution is underway in how we think about human variation. It has the potential to transform the social and political landscape, sweeping away walls and fences that stop so many people from... -
A Straight Talking Introduction to Emotional Wellbeing: From mental illness to Mad Studies by Peter Beresford 9781915220356
Booksplease Price: £15.29This book is a revised and retitled second edition of A Straight Talking Introduction to Being a Mental Health Service User (2010). This updated second edition offers a cohesive basis for collective... -
Questioning Psychology: Beyond theory and control by Brian E. Levitt 9781910919484
Booksplease Price: £20.45What gets in the way of our understanding other people? So asks psychologist Brian Levitt in this challenging and reflective book questioning much that is taken for granted in his profession. Levitt... -
Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery by Marius Romme 9781906254223
Booksplease Price: £23.99This book is a groundbreaking development in modern mental health because it recognises the importance of the first hand experience and argues that hearing voices is not a sign of madness but a... -
The Focusing-Oriented Counselling Primer (second edition): A concise introduction by Campbell Purton 9781915220004
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.87Freshly updated, this contribution to the PCCS Books popular 'Primer' series is written by one of the UK's leading authorities on focusing-oriented counselling. Developed by Eugene Gendlin from Carl... -
The CBT Companion: CBT-based models and worksheets for practitioners and clients by Benjamin E. Cook 9781915220189
Booksplease Price: £25.06This comprehensive workbook brings together in one handy volume a wealth of easy-to-apply CBT-based models and worksheets to help your clients move on. Maybe they're stuck in a pattern of... -
The Pluralistice Therapy Primer: A concise introduction by Kate Smith 9781910919866
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.87Pluralistic therapy offers an open, inquiring, flexible framework for client-centred practice. It was introduced in response to the schoolism that emerged from the growing numbers of competing... -
Counselling Pathways: Developing your career by Rick Hughes 9781915220431
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.84A counselling qualification can open doors to a wealth of career opportunities in a wide choice of specialist settings. But for the newly qualified practitioner, or those considering a change of... -
The Integrative Counselling Primer by Richard Worsley 9781898059813
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.99The new "Counselling Primer" series from PCCS Books, supplementary to the bestselling "Steps in Counselling" series, is suitable for beginners and higher level students who want a succinct boost to... -
Psychogeography and Psychotherapy: Connecting pathways by Chris Rose 9781910919477
Booksplease Price: £19.53`Identity is tied to place. The environment is not the backdrop; it is woven through our identity.' So writes Chris Rose in her introduction to this insightful collection on the mutually enriching... -
Counselling, Class and Politics: Undeclared influences in therapy by Anne Kearney 9781910919361
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.85Anne's motivation for writing Counselling, Class and Politics back in 1996, was `to persuade readers to the view that politics and political ideas matter in counselling'. This new edition of the work... -
People Not Pathology: Freeing therapy from the medical model by Pete Sanders 9781915220233
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.15It is only in the last two or three decades that the medical model has come to dominate psychological theory and practice. This book considers the evidence that points us towards freeing ourselves... -
Counseling Across the Cultural Divide: The Clemmont E. Vontress Reader by Roy Moodley 9781906254490
Booksplease Price: £31.92Collected for the first time, 16 pioneering papers by the most influential theorist and practitioner in the field of cross-cultural therapy.Book InformationISBN 9781906254490Author Roy MoodleyFormat... -
Online Counselling: An essential guide by Sarah Worley-James
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.17After many years on the fringe, online counselling has rapidly become mainstream practice, propelled by the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet too often practitioners assume they can transition from in-person... -
The Person-Centred Counselling Primer: A Steps in Counselling Supplement by Pete Sanders
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.99The new "Counselling Primer" series from PCCS Books, supplementary to the bestselling "Steps in Counselling" series, is suitable for beginners and higher level students who want a succinct boost to... -
The Single-Session Counselling Primer: principles and practice by Windy Dryden
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.87This bestselling series presents unparalleled, comprehensive descriptions of key counselling approaches in the twenty-first century. Ideal for students requiring a theory bridge between introductory,... -
Outside the Box: Everyday stories of death, bereavement and life by Liz Rothschild
Booksplease Price: £22.30We live in a society where people struggle to look death in the eye. Death has become the territory of professionals and we rarely see a dead body, unless it is someone very close to us. Death has... -
Wild Therapy (second edition): Rewilding our inner and outer worlds by Nick Totton
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.94In today's Western, industrialised society, 'wild' has come to mean dangerous, savage, crazy, out of control. This book celebrates wildness, both in global ecosystems and in the human psyche. Totton... -
Living with the "Gloria Films": A Daughter's Memory by Pamela J Burry 9781906254025
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.55In 1964 Dr Everett Shostrom, a psychologist from California, produced a series of educational films titled "Three Approaches to Psychotherapy", therein filming complete psychotherapy sessions for the... -
Embracing Nondirectivity: Reassessing Person-centred Theory and Practice in the 21st Century by Brian E. Levitt 9781898059684
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.85Non-directivity is the distinguishing feature of the revolutionary, anti-authoritarian approach to psychotherapy and human relations developed by Carl Rogers. The book brings together an impressive... -
First Steps in Practitioner Research: A Guide to Understanding and Doing Research in Counselling and Health and Social Care by Pete Sanders 9781898059738
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.25It is widely acknowledged that research is an essential component of the counselling and psychotherapy core curriculum. Therapists and all care practitioners not only need to be able to understand... -
In Love With Supervision: Creating transformative conversations by Robin Shohet 9781910919514
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.99Robin and Joan Shohet are pioneers in supervision training for the helping professions. Much more than a manual, this book embodies the heart, soul, spirit and values of their training courses - a... -
The Humanity Test: Disability, therapy and society by John Barton 9781915220127
Booksplease Price: £19.53John Barton used to live in the non-disabled world. Then he developed symptoms of an obscure inherited condition that affected his mobility, closely followed by Parkinson's disease. And suddenly he... -
Carl Rogers Counsels a Black Client: Race and Culture in Person-Centred Counselling Roy Moodley 9781898059448
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.24This book investigates and explores the issues of race and culture in 'a single case study' of one of Rogers' own demonstration films: Carl Rogers Counsels an Individual. Part 1: Right to be... -
Empathy by Sheila Haugh 9781898059301
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.69What is empathy? Is it a basic human characteristic? Is there a biological basis for it? How does it work in therapy? Is it a necessary condition for therapeutic change? Sheila Haugh and Tony Merry...