Resources for our work

General Resources for Psychotherapy:

  • Schema Therapy: Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns

  • Leaflet Psychoanalytic Therapy

  • Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score

  • Addictions: Philip Flores: Addiction as an Attachment Disorder | 12 Step Groups - AA, CA, NA - Coda

  • Eating Disorders: CBT-E | Jean Petrucelli

  • Mindfulness: Jon Kabat-Zinn: Full Catastrophe Living - the original text for the 8 week MBSR program

www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

The Institute of Psychoanalysis is a leading analytic training organisation who also provide a low-cost therapy scheme. More analytic organisations can be found via the British Psychoanalytic Council www.bpc.org.uk

www.mind.org.uk

Mind is the UK's leading charity campaigning for mental health awareness and support. It provides information on mental health conditions, support available nationally and locally, and legal rights.

Charity Activism around mental health: Importantly, the discourse in our society around mental health is changing, making it much more normal and accepted to be open about mental health challenges.

BAATN are the UK's largest independent organisation to specialise in working psychologically, informed by an understanding of intersectionality, with People of Colour who are affected by oppression due to the colour of their skin and global white power.

Heads Together is a campaign by the Prince and Princess of Wales, bringing together leading experts in the field of mental health, to develop a targeted response, and to encourage wider discussion in the public of mental health related issues. (www.headstogether.org.uk)

INFORMATION FOR PARENTS

Resources for parents on developmental psychology and parenting, helping to break patterns with their own children:

Psychology and climate change

Information on Trauma:

A common cause for mental health problems in adulthood can be traumatic experiences during childhood. Childhood trauma can also be a significant contributor to developing many physical health problems, such as cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, obesity, addiction problems and chronic insomnia.

Importantly, trauma is not just caused by discrete and obvious events such as physical or sexual abuse, but can be insidious and hidden in many (family) dynamics and interactions: often people have learned to put up with it to the extent that its presence can be unconscious. This also applies to traumas of structural societal oppression, such as racism.

Helpful introductory books on trauma:

  • Van der Kolk, B. (2014) The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma. London: Penguin.

  • Broughton, V. (2013) The Heart of Things: understanding trauma, working with Constellations. Sussex: Green Balloon Publishing.

  • Ruppert, F. (2013) Trauma, Fear and Love. Hove: Green Balloon Publishing.

Literature:

These are some titles some clients have found helpful:

  • Cozolino, L. (2010) The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain. New York: Norton & Company.

  • Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist, E. L. & Target, M. (2002) Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self. New York: Other Press.

  • Gilbert, M. & Orlans, V. (2011) Integrative Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques. Hove: Routledge.

  • Ruppert, F. (2013) Trauma, Fear and Love. Hove: Green Balloon Publishing.

  • Van der Hart, O., Nijenhuis, R. S. and Steele, K. (2006) The Haunted Self. New York: Norton.

  • Van der Kolk, B. (2014) The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma. London: Penguin.

  • Verhaeghe, P. (2018) On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics. New York: Routledge.

  • Wilber, K. (2000) Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy. Boston: Shambhala.

  • Wallin, D. J. (2007) Attachment in Psychotherapy. New York: Guildford Press.

Other Contacts & Support: