 | My Therapy by Marian Davies
Buy new: £1.93 / Used from: £5.05 A powerful and honest account with deep insight into the process of therapy.
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 | Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy by Virginia M. Axline
Buy new: £3.63 / Used from: £3.37 A moving description of child psychotherapy.
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 | Poems from My Therapy by Marian Davies
Buy new: £1.86 / Used from: £1.74 Deeply expressive, readable poems of a clients' feelings during therapy.
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 | We Have Come Through: 100 Poems Celebrating Courage in Overcoming Depression and Trauma
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £3.48 A mixture of traditional and modern poems giving us hope.
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 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Buy new: £2.94 / Used from: £0.01 A classic story of an abusive life history
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 | Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl
Buy new: £3.02 / Used from: £3.23 Fundamental strenghths (and weaknesses) of humanity revealed
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 | The Art of Loving (Classics of Personal Development) by Erich Fromm
Buy new: £3.52 / Used from: £2.99 Gives an understanding of what real love is in relationships and clearly explains genuiness.
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 | An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame by Anne Gray
Buy new: £13.85 / Used from: £6.95 A clear description of each stage of counselling/psychotherapy and how to manage the practicalities.
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 | The Presenting Past: The Core of Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy by Michael Jacobs
Buy new: £19.96 / Used from: £20.93 Demystifies psychodynamic counselling through thoroughly exploring both theory and practice.
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 | Psychodynamic Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series) by Michael Jacobs
Buy new: £15.73 / Used from: £16.55 Step-by-step explanation of psychodynamic counselling techniques that complements 'The presenting Past' by Jacobs.
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 | Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner by J.William Worden
Buy new: £13.75 / Used from: £14.11 A thorough description of the process of grieving which is important for any loss.
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 | Person-centred Counselling in Action: Second Edition by Dave Mearns
Buy used from: £5.99 A concise and accessible text on person-centred counselling, which has interesting case examples throughout.
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 | Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Penguin Psychology) by Irvin D. Yalom
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £4.15 An opportunity to sit in the therapists chair and understand the complexities of the therapy session
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 | Inside Therapy: Illuminating Writings about Therapists, Patients, and Psychotherapy
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £7.32 Insight into pschoanalysis through a comprehensive introduction followed by case studies.
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 | The Therapeutic Relationship by Petruska Clarkson
Buy new: £24.98 / Used from: £25.52 The essential ingredient in any therapy, the relationship, is explored in detail.
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 | Eros (Ideas in Psychoanalysis) by Nicola Abel-Hirsch
Buy new: £0.64 / Used from: £0.16 A valuable and 'heavy' (psychoanalytical) introduction to the what love might mean to us
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 | An Introduction to Counselling by John McLeod
Buy new: £26.23 / Used from: £24.64 This is a like a 'cousellor hand book' because it covers the main theories and practice of couselling and psychotherapy.
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 | On Becoming a Person by Carl R. Rogers
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.00 An imoprtant text for person-centred cousellors as it gives the essentials (though sometimes challenging reading) of person-centred therapy.
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 | Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure by Robert De Board
Buy new: £8.05 / Used from: £8.05 A lighthearted introduction to counselling suitable for teenagers and young adults.
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 | Freud: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Anthony Storr
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £1.00 A very accessible introduction to the foundations of therapy to-day.
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 | The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Psychology) by R.D. Laing
Buy new: £3.44 / Used from: £2.80 A good book for understanding real self vs false self, though it can be very dense in places but it is worth persisting.
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 | Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin (Fireside/Parkside Recovery Book) by Anne Katherine
Buy new: £2.77 / Used from: £0.31 Explains clearly the importance of boundaries in relationships.
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 | Lucky by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Shows how a victim of rape survives and manages to fight back a get her rapist convicted.
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 | Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 An engaging novel which gives a history of psychiatric care in Europe ( makes you realise how far we've come in understanding mental health)
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 How can we survive in terrible conditions, our capacity for humanity explored in this novel.
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