Useful books

Here are range of books that are beneficial for exploring analytic psychotherapy.

Jung: An Introduction by Ann Casement

This book is an introduction to the ideas of the Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst, C. G. Jung.

Trauma and the Soul: A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption by Donald Kalsched

In Therapy: The Unfolding Story by Susie Orbach

Susie Orbach has been a psychotherapist for over forty years. Here, she explores what goes on in the process of therapy – what she thinks, feels and believes about the people who seek her help – through five dramatised case studies. 

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world’s experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.

The Book Of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images by The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism

Jung’s Shadow Concept: The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves by Christopher Tower and Rupert Perry

This insightful volume is designed as a series of invitations towards living attentiveness, examining how we all make the “other”, through “projection” (blaming and shaming the other outside ourselves), our enemy with whom we prefer not to dialogue.