Essays on Integrative Psychotherapy vividly illustrates the interpsychic struggle of clients who engage in the schizoid process of relational withdrawal and live in loneliness, and will be essential reading for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in practice and in training.

Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence presents a comprehensive integrative theory and style of therapeutic involvement that reflects a relational and non-pathological perspective.

This informative and therapeutically useful work presents a guide to the schizoid process and offers thoughtful ideas of how to engage a client’s sense of self.

In his latest book, Dr Richard Erskine draws upon years of his research and valuable clinical experience to provide an in-depth analysis of clients suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder.

A Healing Relationship is about a relationally focused psychotherapy, how the author works, and why. The first couple of chapters provide a brief orientation to relationally focused aspects of an integrative psychotherapy. The heart of the book are the transaction-by-transaction examples of what actually occurred in the psychotherapeutic dialogue. It is composed of three verbatim transcripts along with annotations about what the author was thinking and feeling when he engaged in psychotherapy with each client.

The Art and Science of Relationship: The Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy offers a clear and accessible explanation of relationally oriented integrative psychotherapy and counselling. It is designed for both newcomers and seasoned professionals in the mental health field. Authors Richard Erskine and Janet Moursund emphasize the importance of the therapeutic relationship—and human relationships more broadly—in promoting healing and sustaining psychological well-being. They argue that this relationship is fundamental to helping clients achieve a sense of integration and wholeness, illustrating their perspective through both theoretical discussion and practical application.

What is integrative psychotherapy? How effective is the integrative approach to therapy? And what are its limitations? Answering these and other significant questions, this insightful volume provides the working clinician with a practical guide to using an integrative approach to psychotherapy.

After fifty years of development and refinement in Transactional Analysis (TA), the theory of methods and the actual methods have changed considerably from those originally published by Eric Berne

This book contains an exciting collection of contemporary writings on Life Script theory and psychotherapeutic methods. Each chapter describes an evolution of Eric Berne's original theory and brings together a stimulating range of international perspectives, script theories, clinical experiences and psychotherapy practices, as well as a psychotherapy story that illustrates the theory.

Written by pioneers in relational integrative psychotherapy, this book provides both students and experienced clinicians with practical methods to help clients rebuild authentic connections and enhance emotional well-being. The updated edition includes a new preface by Richard G. Erskine reflecting on developments in the field since its original release.

Integrating ideas from Rogers’ client-centered therapy, Berne’s transactional analysis, Perls’ Gestalt therapy, Kohut’s self-psychology, and British object relations theory, the authors introduce their distinctive Keyhole Theory through real therapist–client dialogues. The second section demonstrates the theory in practice with transcripts from seven therapy sessions, illustrating approaches to relational work, regression, couple therapy, and more.

This 264-page volume contains 28 articles published between 1976 and 1997 that demonstrate the evolution of Erskine's ideas from his early days in transactional analysis to his eventual integration of concepts from transactional analysis, Gestalt therapy, and psychoanalytic theories such as object relations, self psychology, and the intersubjective approach.