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- CR224 Role of the Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy (PDF)
- Psychotherapy survey: 2018 training report on 2016 survey data (PDF)
- Faculty report: Evidence in support of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PDF)
- Occasional paper: Learning from the Cradle to the Grave: the psychotherapeutic development of doctors from beginning to end of a career in medicine and psychiatry (PDF)
- Occasional paper: Using formulation in general psychiatric care: good practice (PDF)
- Faculty report: Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy Position on Electronic Patient Records (PDF)
- Faculty position paper: Outcome Measures for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Services (PDF)
Psychotherapy research: evidence and its discontents
Monday 13 July 2026, London - Find out more and book your place
Annual conference - Mind Body Integration
Thursday 3 and Friday 4 September 2026, Oxford - Find out more and book your place
Our faculty and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) have worked together to provide a pathway for medical psychotherapists wishing to become members of the UKCP.
If you hold GMC specialist registration in medical psychotherapy with a licence to practise you may be eligible to apply to become a member of the UKCP through the Accrediting Organisation for Medical Psychotherapy.
Read our briefing note about the Talking Therapies Taskforce (pdf), which is made up of six leading counselling and psychotherapy bodies.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Therapy for Depression: Basics and Beyond by J Beck and Aaron T Beck
- Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression by Adrian Wells
- An Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Skills and Applications by Helen Kennerley et al.
- Science and Practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy David edited by M Clark and Christopher G Fairburn
- Compassion Focused Therapy: Clinical Practice and Applications by Paul Gilbert and Greogoris Simos
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression by Zindel V Segal et al.
- Cambridge Guide to Schema Therapy by Robert M Brockman et al.
- Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A Relational Treatment Guide by Jeremy D Safran and J Christopher Muran
- Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders by Aaron T Beck , Denise D Davies and Arthur Freeman et al.
Psychodynamic therapy
- Becoming Psychodynamic: Getting The most From Your First Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Case by Matthew Rinaldi
- Inside Lives by Margot Waddell
- The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing by Mark Solms
- Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics by Susan Budd and Richard Rusbridger
- The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz
- On Learning From the Patient by Patrick Casement
- Introduction to The Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by Alessandra Lemma
Systemic/family therapy
- Family Therapy: An Intimate Story by Lynn Hoffman
- Pragmatics of Human Communication: Studies of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes by P Watzlawick, Janet Bavelas and Don Johnson
- Systems and Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy edited by Carmel Flaskas and David Pocock
- Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends by David Epston and Michael White
- Re-writing Family Scripts: Improvisations and Systems Change by John Byng-Hall
- Systems Thinkers by Magnus Ramage and Karen Shipp
- Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective by Barnett Pearce
- Dialogic Psychiatry by Russell Razzaque
Many of these books are available for members to borrow from the College Library.