Memoir Books
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)
Growing Up Alexander: My Life with a Psychoanalytic Pioneer
Franz Alexander was the first trained psychoanalyst in the world and attended the Berlin Institute, where his training analyst was Hanns Sachs. Freud considered Alexander to be the best analyst to go... (more)
Love and Survival in Budapest: The Memoir of Artur Renyi
This book was written by Artur Renyi in the late 1940s as a memoir and gift to his only child, Dr Alfred Renyi, noted Hungarian mathematician and the father of probability theory. The memoir is... (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)
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)
The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist
This book is a memoir of the author's professional life as a psychologist and psychotherapist. It shows his progression from a hard-nosed behaviour therapist with a strong commitment to science to a... (more)
The Rustle of a Wing: Finding Hope Beyond Anorexia
‘That’s the catch when you stop eating – food starts to eat you.’
Sophia Gore was thirteen years old when she began starving herself. She had no idea that nearly two decades later she would... (more)
Laughing Star: A Story of Tough Love
The story begins on the night that two security guards arrive at a house in Los Angeles, USA, to take the author's fourteen-year-old daughter Emily away to a ‘Brat Camp' in Utah. Emily had become so... (more)