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Useful reading
These are some of the books that have inspired, challenged and informed me over the years. In my recommendations you will catch a flavour of me as a therapist. Families and How to Survive Them by Robin Skynner & John Cleese  I read this in the 1980s when I first became interested in counselling. It was very illuminating then, and it remains a very readable book, written in everyday language as a question-and-answer dialogue between family therapist Robin Skynner and his former client, comedian John Cleese. For anyone new to personal therapy, it's a great introduction to the psychological dynamics of relationships and the social development of children. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran  A spiritual discourse on love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and death. A beautiful and simple book where every line seems to offer opportunity for thought and reflection. Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia  A profound book in which Camille Paglia charts the development of attitudes towards sexuality in western civilisation by reference to art, literature and mythology. Essential and challenging reading for anyone with a personal, therapeutic or social interest in sexuality and sexual politics. Iron John by Robert Bly  In modern times fathers have become increasingly sidelined, and post-feminism the whole concept of masculinity seems to have fallen into disrepute. Robert Bly examines male wounding and draws on mythology and Jungian psychology to establish a new paradigm for masculinity that is neither weak nor abusive. Aphrodite by Isabel Allende  In this part memoir, part multicultural history and part cookbook, Isabel Allende takes a slow sensual stroll through "the love of food and the food of love." A timely counterpoint to a world where newspapers juxtapose articles about the dangerous rise of obesity, the novel eating disorder orthorexia, and the issue of size zero catwalk models. ![]() | |