NEW BOOKS
Welcome to our January – July 2022 new books list For more information: visit www.confer.uk.com/confer-books.html follow us on Twitter @ConferBooks book trade enquiries david@globalbooksales.co.uk media & review copies booksmarketing@confer.uk.com to discuss a new book idea christinawipfperry@confer.uk.com
Unlocked Online Therapy Stories
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Anastasia Piatakhina Giré
“Unlocked is an exquisitely compassionate and riveting window into our hearts and minds that will leave you thinking about these patients, yourself, and the lives of those you love long after you read the last word. The beauty of our messy humanity and the hope for redemption shine through on every page.” Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
January 2022 Paperback, £16.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-42-1
“This is first-rate storytelling; these tales of therapy entirely drew me in and left me wanting more. A most impressive debut collection.” Irvin Yalom, MD., author of Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy “This rich compilation of international online therapy tales prove that barriers and boundaries can be traversed by a skilled and caring clinician. A multilingual and courageous émigré and explorer, Piatakhina Giré offers no less than a dynamic clinical travelogue during the height of a global pandemic. Her storytelling unlocks the mysteries of the human experience directly from the heart of psychotherapy.” Lawrence Rubin, Ph.D., ABPP, Psychotherapist and Editor of Psychotherapy.net “A brilliant guide to therapy during the pandemic – or at any time … offers fascinating illustrations of an online therapist working with clients from all over the world. Unlocked reads like a suspense novel, but the thoughtful, respectful and profound interventions are just enough to help clients free themselves from the circumstances that have locked them up.” Monica McGoldrick, Director of the Multicultural Family Institute, New Jersey and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School “These wise stories bring to life the unexpected richness of online psychotherapy – unique sources of therapeutic insight offered by visual cues and physical intrusions from a patient’s ‘virtual’ life. More profoundly, Piatakhina Giré shows how unconscious shame locks down so many us; she models how an insightful, sensitive therapist may help them to break free of it, whether in person or online.”
Anastasia Piatakhina Giré is accredited with the UK Council for Psychotherapy and European Certificate of Psychotherapy. She has practised therapy for a decade, with clients online around the world and in four languages. She now lives and works in Paris, France and is finalising her DPsych at Middlesex University in London. She is also a faculty member of the Online Therapy Institute, London.
Joseph Burgo, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and author of Building Self-Esteem
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Analysis and Exile Boyhood, Loss and the Lessons of Anna Freud Vivian Heller
January 2022 Paperback, £18.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-36-0
Analysis and Exile tells the story of Peter Heller, a Jewish boy growing up in Vienna before the Nazis change the landscape of Europe during World War Two. As a little boy of eight or nine years old, Peter is subject to pavor nocturnus – night terrors. He is treated for his nightmares at the Hietzing School, where he is one of Anna Freud’s first child patients. Such nightmares become a reality when the Nazis descend on Vienna in 1938 and Peter leaves his home country for a precarious new life in exile abroad.
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“Analysis and Exile is not only a remarkable portrait of a young man’s development – it also gives an unusually intimate portrait of the early years of child psychoanalysis, the rise of fascism in Europe and the shameful treatment of Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution. This is both social history and a rich account of a young man’s struggle to make sense of his own place in the world, as that world transforms around him.”
Vivian Heller received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Modern Studies from Yale University. She is the author of Joyce, Decadence, and Emancipation (University of Illinois Press) which won the Choice Book Award, and The City Beneath Us: Building the New York Subway. Her essays have appeared in New Observations, the Journal of Literature and Medicine, and The Georgetown Review; her short fiction has been published in Confrontation, Bomb, and Fence. She works at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University.
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Nick Midgley, author of Reading Anna Freud and Co-director of the Child Attachment and Psychological Therapies Research Unit at The Anna Freud Centre “Heller weaves her remarkable resources of diaries, letters, Freud’s clinical notes, recorded conversations and drawings, into pure gold. In these delicious pages we enter Berggasse 19 through the perspective of a little boy, the son of a Viennese candy magnate in treatment with Anna Freud. We see the psychoanalytic work in action, but the delights of this book are not just for psychoanalysts; we are treated to so many and varied pleasures, a rich historical fabric, privileged access to figures of consequence, a remarkable family story, girded intellectual underpinnings, and incandescent prose.” Maura Spiegel, Co-director of The Division of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University “What Vivian Heller has accomplished in this book is little short of a miracle – it brings an incomprehensible story into the everyday. I am so gripped by the images – a balcony over a lake near Vienna, a drawing for Anna Freud, writing a journal in a Canadian concentration camp – that I want the words to go on and on ...” Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, social psychiatrist and author of Main Street: How a City’s Heard Connects Us All
Blue Diamond Healing Exploring Transpersonal and Transdimensional Aspects of Energy Psychotherapy Phil Mollon Blue Diamond healing, a development from energy psychotherapy, is the result of Phil Mollon’s many years spent exploring the deeper patterns in the human subtle energy system, working beyond the more familiar meridians and chakras. The book provides a sophisticated but concise outline of energy psychotherapy and the place of the Blue Diamond within it, including sections on best practice and the ethical aspects of this unique and powerful healing method.
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March 2022 Paperback, £39.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-63-6 eBook, £32.00 ISBN: 978-1-913494-64-3
“Dr. Mollon’s book has accomplished integrating the cutting edge of psychotherapy and clinical psychology with the advanced evolving world of physics and the quantum world. He has accomplished a work of genius that will be understood to be the dawning of a new age of psychotherapy and all that come with this shift in perspective ...” Dr. Richard Sherry, Clinical Neuropsychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist “For decades, Phil Mollon has been one of the most thoughtful and well-grounded voices within the field of energy psychology. So when Dr. Mollon says he is dabbling with powerful healing forces you’ve never heard of, it’s worth a listen … this book is so much more than just a listen, laying out a new take on the higher dimensions of human experience, integrating it with established psychological principles, and pointing to its implications for your life and practice.” David Feinstein, Ph.D., co-author of The Promise of Energy Psychology “Phil Mollon’s Blue Diamond Healing intertwines esoteric science and myth, alongside startling realities of multidimensional consciousness and related phenomenon … Precious divinely sourced gifts of healing from energy psychology are bestowed with clear instructions to release hidden and nefarious binds. Immerse and radically transform yourself in heavenly light and wisdom, by accessing ultimate source through the Blue Diamond.” Lori Chortkoff Hops, Ph.D. DCEP, President of The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology
Phil Mollon has been in full-time clinical practice for over 45 years. For the last 20 years, he has been deeply immersed in exploring and developing energy psychotherapy and has served as president of the ACEP, the leading international
professional
organisation
for
energy psychology. He has authored 12 books, including Pathologies of the Self (Confer, 2020) and teaches on Confer’s Diploma in Practising Energy Psychotherapy.
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Darkness Was My Candle An Odyssey of Survival and Grace Lora DeVore
April 2022 Paperback, £18.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-49-0
Born into poverty and violence, Lora’s early life was one of extreme vulnerability. She was prostituted for the first time at the age of nine and suffered unspeakable treatment from those who should have protected her. The impact of this early trauma led to her institutionalisation soon after she started college, an incarceration she survived thanks only to a courageous nurse who fought for her release. Darkness Was My Candle is DeVore’s profound and compelling memoir. Having experienced such horrifying and traumatic events, how did she survive? And to what purpose? Seeking the resolution to these unanswered questions, Lora’s experiences illuminate and validate the power of love and the strength of the indomitable human spirit that lives within each one of us.
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“Lora DeVore’s story reveals the transformative power of care and love, as well as the capacity of the human spirit to endure the unspeakable and to emerge whole. Lora calls to account the institutions that fail us and offers us a vision of a more conscious way to bring healing to the world ...”
Lora DeVore is a visionary leader, sought-after speaker and powerful storyteller. She integrates her experience as a psychotherapist and educator in her role at PrairieCare in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For the past twenty years, she has also been a senior faculty member with the Washington, D.C., internationally recognised Center for Mind-Body Medicine.
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Marci Shimoff, author of Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul “... Far from narrating only her personal history of abuse and exploitation, Lora DeVore reveals the shocking collective shadow in psychiatric institutions, pharmaceutical companies and the therapeutic profession. I highly recommend this memoir of a transformational process of dying and becoming.” Ursula Wirtz, Ph.D., author of Trauma and Beyond: The Mystery of Transformation “In captivating and lyrical prose, Lora DeVore speaks for those with no voice and illuminates the shortcomings of some of our medical systems today. She invites us to envision a more loving way of bringing healing to the world. The time is ripe for this message.” Dr. Sue Morter, bestselling author of The Energy Codes
Primitive Bodily Communications Embodied Expressions of a Disembodied Psyche Edited by Raffaella Hilty Every psychotherapist will be familiar with what it means to experience the hatred and despair of their most vulnerable patients in the midst of a psychotherapy session. Most often these patients will manage to express their feelings verbally, but what about those who never developed the capacity to speak? Or those who are capable of talking, but carry a complex range of unprocessed embodied feelings that cannot be verbally expressed? Some patients must rely on another type of language in order to communicate their dissociative states of mind.
May 2022 Paperback, £29.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-30-8
Primitive Bodily Communications explores how the ‘talking cure’ can still work when words fail and the body ‘talks.’ Non-verbal communication can be thought of as a form of body language and, even though this is a topic not frequently discussed, many practitioners have experienced working with people who communicate through the use of their bodies. The book does not refer to bodily communications as primitive because we see them as inferior to verbal language, but simply because they point to the beginnings of psychological development, to primary ways of being and relating, as well as to enduring aspects of ourselves. The contributors explore the topic of primitive bodily communications in the context of intellectual disability, eating disorders and bodily neglect, focusing on the communicative aspect of bodily expressions within the therapeutic relationship. A wide spectrum of clinical cases illustrates how these patients can reach a state of better physical and emotional containment and, when possible, of verbal communication.
Raffaella Hilty M.A. (Phil) is an attachmentbased
psychoanalytic
psychotherapist
with
The Bowlby Centre. She has worked as an
Contributors: Brett Kahr, Valerie Sinason, David O’Driscoll, Gabrielle Brown, Raffaella Hilty, Mark Linington, Tom Wooldridge, William F. Cornell, Salvatore Martini
Honorary Psychotherapist within the NHS for a number of years, and she now works in private practice in London.
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Resilience and Survival Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma Clara Mucci Resilience stands at the limits of what it is to be human. The opposite of vulnerability, it encompasses qualities that are both relational and innately enforced. In this unique book, Clara Mucci investigates how resilience can be fostered to create stronger individuals and societies. May 2022
Mucci explores human responses to intergenerational trauma and identifies the key principles that can foster resilience and healing. She looks not only through the prism of attachment theory and developmental neuroscience but also explores the power of art, memoir and other frameworks, showing that acts of compassion and forgiveness contribute to building and reinforcing resilience and solidarity.
Paperback, £12.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-10-0
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 RESILIENCE AND SURVIVAL: Understanding and healing intergenerationally transmitted trauma CHAPTER 2 THE HUMAN PACT: Trauma of human agency as the first reason for the break of trust among humans Clara Mucci teaches Dynamic Psychology at the University of Bergamo in Italy and is a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the author of several books including Beyond Individual
and
Collective
Trauma
and
Borderline Bodies.
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CHAPTER 3 ATTACHMENT: As interpersonal vehicle of transmission and mediation of trauma CHAPTER 4 ATTACHMENT AND TRANSMISSION OF TRAUMA OF THIRD LEVEL: Genocide CHAPTER 5 THERAPY WITH SURVIVORS OF HUMAN AGENCY: To heal and redeem the human pact
Contented Couples Magic, Logic or Luck? Anne Power What is the secret of a long and contented marriage? Anne Power interviews contented couples to discuss how they found each other and what made it work. As well as couples brought together by family arrangement or random romance, we meet those introduced deliberately by friends, through agencies and the internet. Almost all the couples interviewed had faced major challenges along the way – but their attachment grew and relationships survived. In this book they tell us why.
May 2022 Paperback, £19.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-46-9
The author uses some of the questions she puts to new couples in therapy: What does an argument look like? How has sex been across the years? What stopped them from becoming a divorce statistic? Woven through the book are expert, jargon-free explanations of how couples attach, how they fight and how they repair. Each chapter ends with questions inviting us to reflect on our own relationships and to benefit personally from this chance to eavesdrop on contented couples.
Anne Power has an MA in History and was a
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nurse before studying attachment theory at
THE COUPLES
CHAPTER 6: Selection
The Bowlby Centre. After qualifying in couples
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 7: Staying Power
Focused Couple Therapy (EFT). She is the author
CHAPTER 1: What makes a ‘Good Enough’ marriage?
CHAPTER 8: Support and Challenge
CHAPTER 2: Attachment and the couple bond
CHAPTER 9: Fighting, Money and Sex
CHAPTER 3: Random Romance
CHAPTER 10: Conclusion
CHAPTER 4: Arranged Marriage
APPENDICES
counselling with Relate, she trained in Emotion of Forced Endings: Attachment and loss in retirement. She has contributed to oral history projects and sees her interviewing and story-collecting as borrowing from that tradition. After working for twenty-five years with clients in difficulty she wanted to hear from contented couples.
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The Burden of Heritage Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives Aileen Alleyne The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives is a timely addition to the literature on inter- and transgenerational trauma. The book addresses black ancestral trauma passed down the generations, highlighting the ongoing impact on black lives. July 2022
Aileen Alleyne explores the unheeded dimensions of individual and collective identity trauma, paying particular attention to the themes and concepts of identity shame, black identity wounding and cultural enmeshment.
Paperback, £19.99 ISBN 978-1-913494-24-7
The author expands on her striking concept, the ‘internal oppressor’, that inhibits self-belief, full agency and potential. She reworks the psychoanalytic concept of ‘hauntings’, separating it from Freud’s interpretation as unconscious repression, and presents it as a living and conscious element of the black trauma burden. To break the cycle of generational trauma, Alleyne suggests an active process of separation from archaic attachments, and engagement in intentional modes of transformation.
Aileen
Alleyne
psychodynamic
is
a
UKCP
psychotherapist,
registered clinical
supervisor and organisational consultant in private practice. She is a visiting lecturer at training institutions and a consultant on race and cultural diversity. She is the author of several book chapters and journal papers exploring themes on black/white dynamics, shame and identity wounding, and working with issues of Difference and Diversity in the workplace.
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Alleyne makes use of her own experiences throughout, alongside therapeutic suggestions, approaches and theoretical handles for steadying the practitioner in the consulting room. The book weaves the personal, historical, socio-political and theoretical, and includes countless observational examples, clinical vignettes and case material. The Burden of Heritage offers effective tools to practitioners who work therapeutically with black and minority ethnic clients, and highlights ways to strengthen critical enquiry for deeper conceptual and theoretical understanding of generational trauma.
The Cure for Psychoanalysis
The Brain has a Mind of its Own
The Race Conversation
Adam Phillips
Jeremy Holmes
Eugene Ellis
ISBN: 978-1-913494-38-4
ISBN: 978-1-913494-02-5
ISBN: 978-1-913494-26-1
Present with Suffering
The Relational Revolution
Freud’s Pandemics
Nigel Wellings and Elizabeth Wilde McCormick
Steven Kuchuck
Brett Kahr
ISBN: 978-1-913494-14-8
ISBN: 978-1-913494-51-3
Candace Orcutt
Life after a Partner’s Suicide Attempt
How it Feels to be You
ISBN: 978-1-913494-32-2
Francis McGivern
Tamsin Cottis
ISBN: 978-1-913494-34-6
ISBN: 978-1-913494-28-5
ISBN: 978-1-913494-44-5
The Unanswered Self
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