Psychotherapy

Women's issues

Brown, L., and Root, M. (1990) (eds.) Diversity and Complexity in Feminist Therapy. New York: Harrington Park Press.

Chernin, K. (1983) Womansize: The Tyranny of Slenderness. London: The Women's Press.

Ussher, J. (1991). Women's Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness? New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf. Chapter 1.

Worell, J. and Remer, P. (1992) Feminist Perspectives in Therapy. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.

Psychodynamic theory and practice

Anderson, R. (ed.) (1992) Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion. London: Routledge.

Bateman, A. and Holmes, J. (1995) Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.

Brown, D. and Pedder, J. (1979) Introduction to Psychotherapy: An Outline of Psychodynamic Principles and Practice. London: Routledge, Part 1.

Bruch, H. (1978) The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa. New York:

Casement, P. (1985) On Learning from the Patient. London: Tavistock.

Feldman, M. and Bott Spillius, E (eds.) (1989) Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers of Betty Joseph. London: Tavistock.

Frosh, S (1989) Psychoanalysis and Psychology: Minding the Gap. London: Macmillan.

Lax (ed.) (1989) Essential Papers on Character Neurosis and Treatment. New York: N.Y. University Press.

Malan, D. (1979) Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics . London: Butterworths .

Malcolm, J. (1982) Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession. London: Picador.

Sandler, J., Dare, C., and Holder, A. (1971) The Patient and the Analyst. London: George Allen & Unwin.

Segal, H. (1973) Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein. London: Hogarth.

Sinason, V. (1992) Mental Handicap and the Human Condition, New Directions in Psychoanalysis, London: Free Association Books.

Steiner, J. (1993) Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients. London: Routledge.

Self psychologies

Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. (1984) Structures of subjectivity: Explorations in psychoanalytic phenomenology. Hillsdale NJ: The Analytic Press.

Bacal, H. & Newman, K. (eds.) (1990) Theories of object relations: Bridges to Self Psychology. New York: Columbia University Press.

Goldberg, A. (ed.) Progress in Self Psychology, vols 1- . Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

Kohut, H. (1971) The analysis of the self. New York: International Universities Press.

Kohut, H. (1977) The restoration of the self. New York: International Universities Press.

Kohut, H. (1984) How does analysis cure? Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kohut, H. (1987) The Kohut seminars on Self Psychology and psychotherapy with adolescents and young adults. New York: Norton.

Lichtenberg, J, Lachmann, F. & Fosshage, J. (1992) Self and motivational systems: Towards a theory of psychoanalytic technique. Hillsdale NJ: The Analytic Press.

Stern, D. (1985) The interpersonal world of the infant. New York: Basic Books.

Stolorow, R., Brandchaft, B. & Atwood, G. (1987) Psychoanalytic treatment: An intersubjective approach. Hillsdale NJ: The Analytic Press.

Wolf, E. (1988) Treating the self: Elements of clinical Self Psychology. New York: Guildford Press.

Therapy modalities

Brighton-Cleghorn, J. (1987) `Formulations of Self and family systems.' Family Process, 26 , 185-201.

Copley, B and Forryan, B. (1987) Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People. London: Robert Royce, Chapters 9 and 10.

Minuchin, S. (1974) Families and Family Therapy. London: Tavistock.

Rutter, M. (1975) Treating Troubled Children. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Winnicott, D. (1974) Playing and Reality. London: Tavistock.

Assessment for psychotherapy

Crown, S (1983) `Contraindications and dangers of psychotherapy', British Journal of Psychiatry , 143, 436-441.

Compiled by
Assoc Prof Sally Swartz