Nick Totton

Books:

Reichian Growth Work (with Em Edmondson). Prism Press, 1988

Implausible Professions: Arguments for Pluralism and Autonomy in Psychotherapy and Counselling (edited, with Richard House)’ PCCS Books, 1997

The Water in the Glass: Body and Mind in Psychoanalysis. Karnac/Rebus Press, 1998

Psychotherapy and Politics. Sage, 2000.

Character and Personality Types (with Michael Jacobs). Open University Press 2001..

Psychoanalysis and the Paranormal: Lands of Darkness (edited) Karnac Books 2003.

Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction. Open University Press, 2003.

Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems. Salt, 2004.

New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy (edited). Open University Press 2006.

The Politics of Psychotherapy: New Perspectives (edited). Open University Press
2006

Reichian Growth Work: Second Edition (with Em Edmondson). PPCS Books, February 2009.

The Problem with Humanistic Therapies. Karnac, 2010.

Wild Therapy. PCCS Books, 2011.

Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis (co-edited with Mary-Jayne Rust). Karnac, 2011.

Not A Tame Lion: Writings on Therapy in its Social and Political Contexts. PCCS Books, 2012.

Book Chapters:

Inputs and outcomes: The medical model and professionalization. In R House and N Totton, eds., Implausible Professions: Arguments for Pluralism and Autonomy in Psychotherapy and Counselling. PCCS Books, 1997.

Not just a job: Psychotherapy as a spiritual and political practice. In R House and N Totton, eds., Implausible Professions: Arguments for Pluralism and Autonomy in Psychotherapy and Counselling. PCCS Books, 1997.

The Independent Practitioners Network: A new model of accountability. In R House and N Totton, eds., Implausible Professions: Arguments for Pluralism and Autonomy in Psychotherapy and Counselling. PCCS Books, 1997.

Learning by mistake: Client-practitioner conflict in a self-regulated network. In R House and N Totton, eds., Implausible Professions: Arguments for Pluralism and Autonomy in Psychotherapy and Counselling. PCCS Books, 1997.

Foreign bodies; Recovering the history of body psychotherapy. In T Staunton, ed., Body Psychotherapy. Brunner-Routledge 2002.

The future for body psychotherapy. In T Staunton, ed., Body Psychotherapy. Brunner-Routledge 2002.

The baby and the bathwater; ‘Professionalisation’ in psychotherapy and counselling. In Y Bates and R House, eds., Ethically

Challenged Professions: Enabling Innovation and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Counselling. PCCS Books, 2003.

Scapegoats and sacred cows: Towards good enough conflict resolution. In R. Casemore, ed., Surviving Complaints Against Counsellors and Psychotherapists. PCCS Books, 2001.

Embodied-relational therapy. In N Totton, ed., New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy. Open University Press, 2005.

Conflict, competition and aggression. In N Totton, ed., The Politics of Psychotherapy. Open University Press, 2006.

Power in the therapeutic relationship. In N Totton, ed., The Politics of Psychotherapy. Open University Press, 2006.

The institutions of psychotherapy. In N Totton, ed., The Politics of Psychotherapy. Open University Press, 2006.

‘Perversion’: A Reichian psychoanalytic view. In D. Nobus and L. Downing, eds., Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Karnac Books, 2006.

A body psychotherapist’s approach to touch. In G. Galton, ed., Touch Papers. Karnac Books, 2006.

In and out of the mainstream: Therapy in its social and political context. In S. Paul and S. Haugh, eds., The Therapeutic Relationship. PCCS Books, 2008.

Not a tame lion: Psychotherapy in a safety-obsessed culture. In L. Bondi, D. Carr, C. Clark and C. Clegg, eds., Towards Professional Wisdom. Ashgate, 2011.

‘Nothing’s out of order’: Towards an ecological therapy. In N. Totton and M-J. Rust, eds., Vital Signs. Karnac, 2011.

Selected Papers and Articles:

Independent Therapists Network founding conference: A personal view. Self and Society 22, 6, 1995.

The Turing test. Ps: Journal of the Universities Association for Psychoanalytic Studies 1, 2, 1998.

Death, sex and enlightenment. Self and Society 26, 6, 1999.

The baby and the bathwater: ‘Professionalisation’ in psychotherapy and counselling. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling 27, 3, 1999.

In search of the body. Self and Society 16, 2, 1998.IPN, UKCP and statutory regulation (with Heward Wilkinson). Self and Society 28, 3, 2000.

Beyond complaint: Client-practitioner conflict and the Independent Practitioners Network. Self and Society 28, 1, 2000.

‘A fair field full of folk’: Humanistic and psychodynamic therapy. Self and Society 28, 3, 2000.

Psychotherapy and politics: A crucial link. Psychodynamic Practice 9, 3, 2003.

The ecological self: Introducing ecopsychology. CPJ 14, 9, 2003.

Psychotherapy and politics. CPJ 14, 2, 2003.

Turning to the body. CPJ 14, 4, 2003.

Do bodies tell the truth? Association of Chiron Psychotherapists Newsletter 30, 2005.

Can psychotherapy help make a better future? Psychotherapy and Politics International 3, 2, 2005.

Wild at heart: another side of ecotherapy. Therapy Today 16, 10, 2005.

In defence of dependency. Therapy Today 17, 5, 2006.

Munching through the rainforest: Expertise and its resistance. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling 8, 4, 2006.

Democracy and therapy. Therapy Today, 2006.

Funny you should say that: Paranormality, at the margins and the centre of psychotherapy. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling 9, 4, 2006.

Therapy has no goal. Therapy Today, 2007.

Editing The Politics of Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 6, 2, 2008.

Body psychotherapy and social theory. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, 4, 3, 2009.

Being, having and becoming bodies. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, 5, 1, 2010.

Boundaries and boundlessness. Therapy Today, 2010.

Wild therapy. Therapy Today, 2011.

The body in the world, the world in the body. Therapy Today, 2012.