Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction

Author(s) : Tom Burns, Editor : Eva Burns-Lundgren

Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction

Book Details

  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Published : 2015
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 152
  • Category :
    Individual Psychotherapy
  • Catalogue No : 38009
  • ISBN 13 : 9780199689361
  • ISBN 10 : 0199689369

About the Author(s)

Tom Burns is Professor of Social Psychiatry at Oxford University. From the late 1980s he has conducted research, in addition his clinical and teaching work, and has produced nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles. His work into Assertive Community Treatment care for severe psychosis, home based care for general psychiatry, and services to help patients with schizophrenia return to work, has been internationally important. He is currently researching a number of aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, especially those which are experienced as unequal or coercive.

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Eva Burns-Lundgren trained as a social worker in Sweden in the 1970s, and went on to practise as a generic and mental health social worker in the UK, before retraining as a psychotherapist in the 1990s. She is accredited as psychotherapist in the UK with the UKCP and ACAT, and also with the European Association for Psychotherapy. She has practised within university and national health service settings and for 10 years ran the university accredited Cognitive Analytic Therapy course in Oxford. She is now retired from the NHS but continues to practise privately and in a trainer and examiner capacity.

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