Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
Carl R. Rogers · Mariner Books · 1980
Late Rogers, reflective and less programmatic, on presence as well as technique.
Viktor E. Frankl · Rider · 1946
The most widely read book on this list, and the origin of logotherapy.
R. D. Laing · Penguin Modern Classics · 1960
Psychosis rendered intelligible rather than merely classified.
Rollo May · W. W. Norton · 1969
The American existential tradition on the loss of both eros and intention.
Irvin D. Yalom · Basic Books · 1970
The standard text on group work anywhere in the world, in its sixth edition.
Irvin D. Yalom · Basic Books · 1980
Death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness treated as clinical material.
Eric Berne · Souvenir Press · 1961
The theory before the bestseller. Ego states set out as a clinical system.
Eric Berne · Penguin Life · 1964
The book that put a psychotherapy vocabulary into ordinary speech.
Eric Berne · Corgi · 1972
Script theory, published after Berne's death. The most substantial of the three.
B. F. Skinner · B. F. Skinner Foundation · 1938
Operant conditioning established experimentally. The behavioural half of CBT starts here.