For understanding the therapeutic process, emotions, shame and recurring patterns in how we relate to ourselves and others.

Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy, by Philippa Perry, illustrated by Junko Graat

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy, by Irvin Yalom

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves, by Stephen Grosz

The Gift of Therapy, by Irvin Yalom

Healing the Shame that Binds You, by John Bradshaw

For exploring trauma, emotions and our embodied experience, drawing on psychology, neuroscience and somatic approaches.

The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel Van Der Kolk

In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, by Peter A. Levine

When the Body Says No, by Gabor Maté

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter A. Levine

For intimacy, attachment, parenting and the ways our earliest relationships continue to shape us.

Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic & the Domestic, by Esther Perel

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity, by Esther Perel

Tell Me the Truth About Love, by Susanna Abse

Attached: Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love, by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

For exploring the decision to become a parent, the transition into motherhood, and the ways motherhood can reshape our identity and inner life.

The Baby Decision, by Merle Bombardieri (On ambivalence and the decision of whether to become a parent)

Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself, by Lisa Marchiano (On motherhood as an inner, developmental and transformative journey)

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will be Glad That You Did), by Philippa Perry (On how our own childhood experiences can shape the way we parent)

Why Love Matters, by Sue Gerhardt (On how our earliest relationships shape emotional development)

For experiences of culture, migration, home and living between different worlds.

Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds, by David Pollock, Ruth Van Reken and Michael Pollock

East Side Voices, edited by Helena Lee

Wild Swans, by Jung Chang

For grief, endings, uncertainty and finding our way through periods of change.

The Wild Edge of Sorrow, by Francis Weller

Designing Your Life: Build a life that works for you, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

For exploring archetypes, the inner world, and deeper questions of meaning and becoming.

Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World, by Carol S. Pearson

On the Way to the Wedding, by Linda Schierse Leonard

The Heroine's Journey, by Maureen Murdock

Grace Unfolding: Psychotherapy in the Spirit of Tao-te Ching, by Greg Johanson and Ron Kurtz

Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self, by Anodea Judith

A smaller collection of podcasts, talks and films.

* Where Should We Begin? Podcast by Esther Perel

* The Power of Vulnerability, TED talk by Brene Brown

* The Philosophy of Kintsugi, Video by The School of Life

* But Where Are You From?, by Besea.n, (Britain's East and South East Asian Network)