Selected Fiction, Biography and Memoir Books

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A Memoir of the Future: Volumes I,II & III

A Memoir of the Future: Volumes I,II & III

by Wilfred R. Bion

  • Paperback £69.99
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A Memoir of the Future, Bion's unorthodox attempt to cast psychoanalytic speculation in fictional form, is composed of three semi-autobiographical novels: The Dream (1975), The Past Presented (1977),... (more)

The Orpheus Project: A Novel

The Orpheus Project: A Novel

by Valerie Sinason

  • Paperback £12.99

A harrowing story of sexual abuse, privilege and trauma.

It's Christmas Eve, and a young woman with Down’s syndrome has just disclosed abuse by two men. The problem is she is a member of the... (more)

This Will Do…

This Will Do…

by Thomas Ogden

  • Paperback £15.99

Thomas Ogden is internationally recognized as one of the most creative analytic thinkers writing today. In this book he brings his original analytic ideas to life by means of his own method of... (more)

Scum

Scum

by Paul Williams

  • Paperback £12.99

'Scum is a masterfully written book in which Williams, by means of a particularly effective form of fragmentation of language, captures the disjunctive experience of a terrified boy. The life of the... (more)

War Memoirs 1917-1919: Second Edition

War Memoirs 1917-1919: Second Edition

by Wilfred R. Bion

  • Paperback £38.99

Bion's War Memoirs is perhaps the most exceptional piece of autobiography yet written by a psychoanalyst. The first section of the book is documentary, consisting of the entire text of the diaries... (more)

The Fifth Principle

The Fifth Principle

by Paul Williams

  • Paperback £12.99
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The Fifth Principle is the first of three books that take as their subject aspects of the author's life. This book reflects upon a period between birth and eight years of age; the second book will... (more)

Black Skin, White Masks

Black Skin, White Masks

by Frantz Fanon

  • Paperback £8.99 (RRP : £9.99 save £1.00)

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an... (more)

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

by Barbara Taylor

  • Paperback £10.99

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's haunting memoir of her journey through the UK mental health system. A Radio 4 Book of The Week Shortlisted For The RBC Taylor Prize. In July 1988, Barbara Taylor,... (more)

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom

  • Paperback £9.99

Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D.Yalom as he looks into the lives of ten of his patients - and through them into the minds of us all.... (more)

The Long Week-End 1897-1919: Part of a Life

The Long Week-End 1897-1919: Part of a Life

by Wilfred R. Bion

  • Paperback £56.99

The Long Week-End is a reminiscence of the first twenty-one years of Wilfred Bion's life: eight years of childhood in India, ten years at public school in England, and three years in the... (more)

The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis

The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis

  • Hardback £25.19 (RRP : £27.99 save £2.80)

A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.

Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's... (more)

Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir

Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir

by Irvin D. Yalom

  • Hardback £20.00

'I was born in Washington, DC, June 13, 1931, of parents who immigrated from Russia shortly after the first world war. Home was the inner city of Washington - a small apartment atop my parents'... (more)

Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst

Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst

by Adam Phillips

  • Paperback £10.99

Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud - Freud up until the age of fifty - that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological... (more)

Wilhelm Reich, Biologist

Wilhelm Reich, Biologist

by James E. Strick

  • Hardback £41.95

Psychoanalyst, political theorist, pioneer of body therapies, prophet of the sexual revolution all fitting titles, but Wilhelm Reich has never been recognized as a serious laboratory scientist,... (more)

Tales from the Therapy Room: Shrink-wrapped

Tales from the Therapy Room: Shrink-wrapped

by Phil Lapworth

  • Paperback £24.99

These ten fictional short stories give students of counselling and psychotherapy a unique insight into what actually goes on in therapy. Exploring aspects of the client-therapist relationship, the... (more)

Freud's Birds of Prey

Freud's Birds of Prey

by Robert Langs

  • Paperback £17.99

In a dramatic departure from his professional writing, Dr langs has written several plays. The audience is taken back to the rooms of Freud and his inner circle. As we are invited to listen in behind... (more)

Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy

Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom

  • Paperback £10.99
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An exceptionally compelling and beautifully written collection of psychological case studies. This classic medium, first popularised by Freud and, more recently, by Oliver Sacks and Yalom himself,... (more)

Touching the Jaguar

Touching the Jaguar

by John Perkins

  • Paperback £16.99

This eloquent book inspires us to create a new reality of what it means to be human on this magnificent planet, "Deepak Chopra"

When New York Times bestselling author John Perkins was a young... (more)

Conversations on Love

Conversations on Love

by Natasha Lunn

  • Paperback £10.99

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)

Patch Work

Patch Work

by Dorothy Judd

  • Paperback £9.99

Jane, a middle-aged woman with terminal cancer, seeks respite in rural France, and the space to paint, to swim, to eat ripe figs fresh from the tree. She also seeks space from her stale marriage, and... (more)

A Good Enough Mother

A Good Enough Mother

by Bev Thomas

  • Hardback £11.69 (RRP : £12.99 save £1.30)

Dr Ruth Hartland rises to difficult tasks. She is the director of a highly respected trauma therapy unit. She is confident, capable and excellent at her job. Today she is preoccupied by her son Tom's... (more)

The Hands of Gravity and Chance

The Hands of Gravity and Chance

by Thomas Ogden

  • Paperback £14.99

The Hands of Gravity and Chance is a spell-binding story in which parents find themselves promising and then rescinding what they do not have to give. The story opens with the fall of a... (more)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

  • Paperback £8.99

This is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths... (more)

The Enchanted Clock: A Novel

The Enchanted Clock: A Novel

by Julia Kristeva

  • Hardback £28.00

In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king's engineer, Claude-Simeon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements... (more)

The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test and the Power of Seeing

The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test and the Power of Seeing

by Damion Searls

  • Hardback £20.00

The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test, which has shaped our view of human personality and become a fixture in popular culture. In 1917, working alone in a... (more)

Reasons to Stay Alive

Reasons to Stay Alive

by Matt Haig

  • Paperback £9.99

What does it mean to be truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that... (more)

My Dear Ones: One Family and the Final Solution

My Dear Ones: One Family and the Final Solution

by Jonathan Wittenberg

  • Hardback £16.99

A family's story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the Jewish people. Growing up in the safety of... (more)

Dad's Not All There Any More: A Comic About Dementia

Dad's Not All There Any More: A Comic About Dementia

by Alex Demetris

  • Paperback £9.99

Louie what? John's dad, Pete, was already diagnosed with Parkinson's disease when he began to have some very strange experiences, not least of which was the little red-haired girl who followed him... (more)

When Anxiety Attacks: Seeking Out Therapy Even When Your Problems Seem Weird or Silly

When Anxiety Attacks: Seeking Out Therapy Even When Your Problems Seem Weird or Silly

by Terian Koscik

  • Paperback £8.99

Frank and full of gentle humor, Terian Koscik's graphic memoir shares her experiences of living with anxiety, finding the courage to see a therapist, and learning more than she could have imagined.... (more)

The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist

The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist

by Tanya Byron

  • Paperback £10.99

The Skeleton Cupboard is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her years of training as a clinical psychologist, when trainees find themselves in the toughest placements of their careers. Through the... (more)

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