FAB author Clare Hogan is the author of our blog post this week - she presents a short but fascinating examination of Free Will. The notion of free will is inextricably bound up with our sense of identity, and this generates an enquiry into the nature of the will that...

Based on her extensive experience working with clients with addiction problems, Sylvie Boulay (a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) has written Take Charge of Your Diet to show how the principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)...

Modern medicine and healthcare systems are in crisis. In the last decades, medicine has gained deep, scientific insights into the biological basis of health and disease, and while htis has led to many successes, it has brough about a dramatic change of medical focus....

With a foreword by Bob Hinshelwood, The Psychiatry of Resolving Schizophrenia Psychoanalytically integrates two approaches to treating schizophrenia.  Written by Dr. Gillian Steggles, this book outlines her own PPCC model and describes, meticulously, how it aligns...

Joanna Griffin used her experience as a parent of a disabled child alongside her work as a psychologist to write Day by Day - a book that explores what helps, and hinders, parent carers' emotional wellbeing. Research suggests that mental health, relationships, family...

Despite its ubiquity, revenge is a surprisingly understudied subject.  In her new book, Renée Danziger develops the concept of radical revenge to give meaning to what might otherwise appear to be senseless acts of violence. Read an exclusive extract here: Pondering...

Annette Byford is the author of A Wedding in the Family which offers a fascinating insight into the wedding experience from the mother's point of view.  Her book will not so much help readers to avoid wedding stress, but rather help them make sense of it.  Here, she...

In Fathom: An Uncovering of Trauma, Lisa Dart shares a long and difficult story.  It is a story of emotional breakdown, of hidden trauma, and of hidden memories, brought to the surface and explored through the work of psychoanalysis.  Through talk with a...

Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown is an experienced Jungian Analyst working in private practice in Melbourne, Australia.                                                                    She is the author of The Dreamer's Odyssey: A Guide to the Creative Unconscious, a 10 week...

#AreYouHereYet: How to STFU and Show Up For Yourself is the sequeal to Dr. Ortega's debut self-help title and continues his examination of the epidemic of perceived inadequacy in our universal quest for love and self-improvement.  Described as "the self-help book the...

Is there anything hopeful in going through depression?  While depression can be a serious illness and can have wide-reaching implications for a sufferer and their families, Wyn Bramley writes about some of the good things that can come out of hard times like these. ...

#AreYouHereYet? How to STFU and Show Up For Yourself by Dr. Tony Ortega was released in 2020.  Billed as 'the self-help book the world is missing,' Dr. Ortega helps readers explore the personal blocks and self-limiting beliefs that keep them stuck.  To mark the...

Jane Teverson is the author of Born Beautiful: How Counselling Theory Can Enrich Our Parenting, which is released on 30/11/2020.  It is written from the depths of experience, and with the hope that it will raise awareness of how completely our attitudes and actions...

In a second extract from Judy Bartkowiak's new book, we are sharing her thoughts on colour and how we can use it to access the subconscious mind, and to understand our children and what they need without asking direct questions.  In this extract, there is also a...

In our latest publication, Understanding Children and Teens, Judy Bartkowiak draws on her extensive experience as therapist to show parents, teachers and coaches how they can use Neuro Lingusitic Programming (NLP), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Art Therapy in...

With another lockdown looming for England tomorrow, Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown shares some insight into who we can interpret our dreams during the pandemic.  Our dreams can give us information about how we are doing, information we should know but don't. Here are some...

Esther Ramsay-Jones, author of Holding Time (2019), has written an accountof her mother's acceptance of, and struggle with, living and dying with an agressive cancer of the brain.  Esther is a specialist end-of-life psychotherapist and academic, and her book is about...

World Mental Health Day 2020.  Perhaps we should rename it World Mental Health YEAR to reflect the difficulties we have all faced since the start of the pandemic.  Wyn Bramley wrote her most recent title, Understanding the Depressions, before we had even heard of...

How much should the main carer discuss with the poorly individual how they are going to realte to each other until things are back to normal?  What rights, if any, does the carer have to share their reaction to having the carer role thrust upon them?  What's the...

by Lisa Findley It's now a familiar sight on the news: someone is conducting an interview from their home, and their kid bursts into the room to request a biscuit or an opinion on their drawing, and the interview is temporarily delayed while the parent tends to their...

Adam Jukes’ New Book Expands on ‘The Mad Hypothesis’ If you’re having a hard time in any aspect of your life (relationship, career, family), the last thing you want to hear is that your bad situation is exactly the situation you want to be in. But that’s just what...

'Most mothers, indeed parents, describe the experience of having a child as magical. In fact, in the days after my first baby was born, a friend told me, "It's a magical time, those first few days". I remember repeating this to my husband wryly: we shook our heads and...

This year sees the publication of perhaps FAB's most unique title: a memoir seen through a kaleidoscope of psychoanalysis, art appreciation, and family history. In The Studio, Gill Gregory, lecturer in literature and award-winning author, takes us through her Dulwich...