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Dr Kaye Gersch PhD
retired psychoanalytic psychotherapist | clinical supervisor | couples therapist


Being with Dying
“This compelling, brave and wise book draws from a lifetime of remarkable work with people at the end of life.”


A Good Life to the End
A Good Life to the End will embolden and equip us to ask about the options that doctors in hospital should offer us but mostly don’t.


Quiet
Quiet outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each temperament, emphasising the myth of the extrovert ideal that has dominated in the West since the early twentieth century.


Ecstasy
Robert explains that it is ecstasy we seek through drinking alcohol, for instance, or even in a thrilling football game. Or in sex. But the ultimate ecstatic experience is a spiritual experience or feeling at one with all creation.


Care of the Soul
This is one of Thomas Moore’s earliest books and was on the New York Times best-seller list. This book has staying power! Care of the Soul has been in print for more than 25 years – and for good reason. I am extremely glad that so many people have read this book because Thomas has spent his life learning about and living the soul – he is a true and expert guide to the soul.


12 Rules of Life
Peterson is described by the <em>New York Times</em> as being the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now. For once, I wholeheartedly agree. He is currently a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He’s taught mythology to lawyers, doctors and business people, consulted for the Secretary-General, and helped his clinical clients manage depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety.


Jung: The wisdom of the dream
This book arose from a compilation of interviews on SBS in the UK. Jung died in 1961. The SBS (UK) series, The Wisdom of the Dream, and this book which accompanies it, undertakes a journey in Jung’s footsteps through Switzerland, the US and Africa, and records the memories of those pupils, patients and followers of Jung who remember him well.


Boundaries of the Soul
Boundaries of the Soul</em> has become recognised as the classic introduction to Jung and the practice of Jung’s psychology. The book has been described as “the clearest and most coherent exposition of Jung’s total thought”


Inner Work
Robert A. Johnson has been guiding his readers through dream interpretation and active imagination since 1986.


Ageless Soul
Thomas Moore writes from his life experiences. In Dark Night of the Soul, it is absolutely clear that Thomas has experienced the depths. He fearlessly gives words to those depths so that we, the reader, are able to sustain ourselves through similar ordeals.


Dark Nights of the Soul
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Money-talk: yours, mine and ours
Here, in Money-talk: Yours, Mine, and Ours, I present a pragmatic approach to the money issues you encounter as a couple. However, I also include the psychology of those issues as well, and why they are important. Your attitudes around money will directly affect your direction or telos, as you discovered in Soul and Money.


Soul and money: what deep attitude does money reveal?
Before we get to Money-talk: Yours, Mine, and Ours, the companion article which follows this Insight, let us pause to consider why money is such a tricky business. To do this, I will explore soul and money.


Sameness or difference: Do you still love me when we don't agree?
In “Sameness or Difference: Do You Still Love Me When We Don’t Agree?”, you will discover the importance of apparently contradictory things: consensus, mirroring, individuation and difference. One of the benefits of a committed long-term relationship is that you have another point of view available to you at all times. Whether you like it or not!


Attachment style and your relationship
There is an intimate connection between attachment style and your style of relationship. Attachment style is about how you learned to love and trust as a child. What influence does your attachment style have on your relationships as an adult? Attachment style translates into how you love — that is, how you respond to your partner and how you treat your partner.


Is happiness aiming too low? Try meaning, flow and responsibility.
In this article, I look deeper into what brings satisfaction, contentment and meaning to our lives, especially as a couple. Happiness may just not do it. Happiness might be aiming too low.


Understand personality to solve communication difficulties!
<p>Having trouble understanding yourself? Having trouble understanding others? Understanding personality can solve many communication difficulties. Much misunderstanding between people is because we imagine that all people<span class="excerpt-hellip"> […]</span></p>


Who is lying? Truth in relationship.
<p>Robert Feldman in his book, “The Liar in your Life”, authored a famous study that found strangers lie to each other about three times in the<span class="excerpt-hellip"> […]</span></p>


Why contempt kills relationship
<p>Nothing kills a relationship as quickly as contempt. Contempt leads to the failure of any relationship; partners, parents, children, colleagues. John Gottman, in his extensive research into the causes<span class="excerpt-hellip"> […]</span></p>


Why take the most benevolent perspective?
How might you take the most benevolent perspective? When you have a benevolent perspective you concentrate on what works. When you are...
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