Spirituality and Psychotherapy (co-edited with Craig Newnes), published in 2001 by PCCS Books. The book expanded on a special issue of the journal Changes that came out in the previous year, which in turn came about after a public debate between David Smail (the sharp-eyed sceptic) and myself organized by the now-defunct Psychology and Psychotherapy Association, or PPA. It is a collection of contributions with no unifying theme beyond that stated in the title (none the worse for that I felt, but it annoyed John Rowan, who only gave it two stars on Amazon – his review has mysteriously but pleasingly vanished).

The book can be found on the PCCS website here. My chapter (titled The Place of Spirituality in Psychotherapy), David Smail’s response (On Not Being Able to Eff the Ineffable), and my response to his response (Relative Effability) which was in the journal but not included in the book , are here (with thanks to David’s estate).

Miller Mair’s Another Way of Knowing: The Poetry of Psychological Inquiry, self-published by the Miller Mair Estate in 2014, was edited from a manuscript draft of a book he was working on at the time of his death in 2011. I owed a great debt of gratitude to Miller for his encouragement of my own various enquiries when I worked in his clinical psychology department in Dumfries, and editing the manuscript (though no small task) was far from an adequate repayment.

The book draws on Miller’s whole life as the Scarlet Pimpernel of British clinical psychology (as his friend Don Bannister called him), smiling quietly as he stepped with mannerly charm through a deeply inimical world. He was on the sides of civilization against all kinds of old and new barbarism, of interplay rather than cause and effect, of tentatively inquiring tendrils rather than the anatomizing scalpel. He moved a long way from his base in George Kelly’s personal construct therapy without ever seceding from it. Perhaps his most important contribution to therapy was his exploration of subpersonalities and how to work with them.

Look for a copy on Bookfinder here. Excerpts from my Introduction are here. Here is a telling passage on Miller’s discovery of Kelly.