Clinical Writing
Papers, short books and workbooks for therapists, trainees and supervisors. Each one starts in the therapy room and works back towards theory, within relational Transactional Analysis and the psychoanalytic thinking it draws on. All of them are free to read and download.
Writing for men and the people close to them is in the Knowledge Library. Training, supervision and the full list of free books are on Writing and Training.
Was It Deconfusion?
What a client’s silent tears taught me about decontamination, deconfusion and the words we choose.
The Mountain Path: Treatment Planning in Relational Transactional Analysis
When I first heard the phrase treatment plan, I flinched a little. This short book is about holding a plan as a compass rather than a map.
Reclaiming Survival Processes in Psychotherapy
Beneath every adaptation sits an attempt to preserve something psychologically vital. This book repositions Personality Adaptations as living relational processes rather than types.
Seeing the Adaptations: Reflective Exercises for Practitioners
I see an adaptation in a client most clearly when I have already met something of it in myself. Reflective exercises on the six personality adaptations, for you first and then for the room.
When Men Become Fathers: A Guide for Therapists
Some of the men I work with arrive in therapy within months of becoming fathers. A short guide for therapists on what tends to stir, and how to work with it.
Before I Had a Theory, I Had a Feeling
Rather than asking whether a client was really ADHD or really passive aggressive, I became interested in what happened within me before I arrived at either formulation.