Memoir Books
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London
March 1938: German soldiers are massing on the Austrian border, on the cusp of fulfilling Hitler's dream of absorbing the country in the Third Reich. Many Jews make frantic plans to flee to safety.... (more)
The Authority of Tenderness: Dignity and the True Self in Psychoanalysis
This insightful and beautifully written work explores non-linear processes of recovery of the loss of Self. The inherent healing power of hard-earned, wholehearted self-acceptance is conceived... (more)
The State of Disbelief: A therapist's story of love, death and mourning
When Juliet Rosenfeld's husband dies of lung cancer only seven months into their marriage, everything she has learnt about death as a psychotherapist is turned on its head.
As she attempts to... (more)
Head First: A Psychiatrist's Stories of Mind and Body
What does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective - something of the mind? In this profound collection of clinical stories, eminent psychiatrist Dr... (more)
Psychoanalytic Credo: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts
Developing a psychoanalytic credo, a set of beliefs that inform how you listen and approach the analytic enterprise with patients, is in many ways the scaffolding of psychoanalytic training. Drawing... (more)
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work
Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow with our pyjamas when we go to work. We bring all that we are.
In this collection of stories, Gabriella Braun shares insights... (more)
Thin Places
Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the space of a year Kerri’s family were forced out of two homes and when... (more)
Conversations on Love
After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn... (more)
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
"Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones... (more)
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to... (more)
When I Grow Up: conversations with adults in search of adulthood
When do we become adults? What does it mean to grow up? And what are the experiences that propel us forward - or keep us stuck?
These are the questions that journalist Moya Sarner sets out to... (more)
Don’t Turn Away: Stories of Troubled Minds in Fractured Times
Over the course of her 40-year career, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Penelope Campling has worked with patients from all walks of life, from survivors of abuse to ICU doctors struggling under the... (more)
A Matter of Death and Life: Love, Loss and What Matters in the End
Internationally renowned psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom has devoted his career to counselling those suffering from anxiety and grief. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his... (more)
A Different Path: An Emotional Autobiography
"Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my... (more)
The Fear of Doing Nothing: Notes of a Young Therapist
In the spirit of Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Young Doctor’s Notebook and Sandeep Jauhar’s Intern, this is a deeply honest, searching examination of psychotherapy based on the experiences of a young... (more)
Crying in H Mart
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing... (more)
When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster
Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call.
Lucy is a world-leading authority on recovering... (more)
Connections: The New Science of Emotion
Mental illness is one of the greatest causes of human suffering, its nature and origin a long-held mystery. But thanks to new science and technology, our understanding has reached a tipping point. In... (more)
All My Sins Remembered: Another Part of a Life & The Other Side of Genius: Family Letters
All My Sins Remembered is the continuation of Wilfred Bion's autobiography, The Long Week-end. Although it is by no means a full account of his thirty years following the First World War - and he... (more)
When They Came for Me: The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner
In 1969, while a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and eventually deported. Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote... (more)
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up: A Memoir
Evanna Lynch has long been viewed as a role model for people recovering from anorexia and the story of her casting as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films has reached almost mythic proportions.... (more)
The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour
The Colour of Madness is a groundbreaking collection of work that amplifies the voices of people of colour and their experiences with mental health.
Statistics show that people from Black and... (more)
A Matter of Death and Life: Love, Loss and What Matters in the End
Internationally renowned psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom has devoted his career to counselling those suffering from anxiety and grief. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his... (more)
Not Just a Tomboy: A Trans Masculine Memoir
Caspar Baldwin uses his experiences to open up wider debates about how we impose gender on children, what cis people don't understand about the transition process, and how to thrive as a trans... (more)
Growing Up?: A Journey with Laughter
This book, by a well established author previously writing in a quite different genre, that of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and counselling, is written for an entirely different readership. Patrick... (more)
Into the Woods and Out Again: A Memoir of Love, Madness, and Transformation
1971 was the year Dina Glouberman went mad. Now, for the first time, Dr Dina Glouberman, renowned psychotherapist and author, co-founder of the world–famous Skyros Holidays, creator of Imagework... (more)
Lost in translation
"A deep and lovely book. The author manages to capture the very essence of exile experience, in beautifully human terms against a background of keen and searching intellect. This is how tens, perhaps... (more)
Languages of Loss: A psychotherapist's journey through grief
'This is the most startlingly honest book about grief I have ever read. Its immediacy hits you on the first page and takes you on an unforgettable journey. No one has set out so clearly the stages we... (more)
My Mother's Story: Gone Too Soon
Following the success of My Mother's Story: The Originals and North Vancouver, actor and project founder Marilyn Norry, and Registered Therapeutic Counsellor Michelle Hohn, combine their experience... (more)
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a... (more)