This fourth edition of Introduction to Psychotherapy builds on the success of the previous three editions and remains an essential purchase for trainee psychotherapists, psychiatrists and other professionals. It has been revised and extended to capture some of the current themes, controversies and issues relevant to psychotherapy as it is practised today.

Bateman has added new chapters on attachment theory and personality disorder and has developed further the research sections on selection and outcome. His new chapter on further therapies covers a variety of therapeutic...

This collection of written pieces plots the work of an NHS psychiatrist, turning the science of psychiatry into human encounters. Jonathan Pedder could recast the ordinary everyday problems of the public service into an elegantly refined discourse on the Shakespeare, interweaving the psychoanalytic unconscious with the aesthetically creative. He had a career teaching and inspiring colleagues and students with psychoanalytic ways of thinking, encouraging and supporting them in the everyday chores, and challenges of contemporary psychiatry.