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Caversham
Booksellers is an independent specialised bookshop whose doors
opened October 15th, 1989. The founders were Dr. Christine
Dunbar (psychiatrist and psychoanalyst) and Peter Heyworth (Professor of English for thirty years at University College, University of Toronto).
We specialise in providing books for mental health professionals
both through our store and by mail throughout the world.
We
offer books for a wide range of specialties including, psychoanalysis,
psychiatry, all (or at least all that we know of) forms of
psychotherapy, trauma, Jungian analysis, neuroscience and
many more. We also sell textbooks for many local schools and
training centres.
More
than that, though, Caversham is a community of often eccentric
but knowledgable staff and interesting, interested and indeed
often eccentric customers. Many of our customers we know personally
as local authors, or experts in their fields. Some of them
visit us two or three times a week, while others are afraid
to come to our store because of the dangerous appeal of many
of our books. Some of our best customers have never set forth
in our store ordering books over the phone instead, making
this website a logical extension of our service.
When
we first started, we published a very popular annual catalog
of all the books that we stocked. This endeavour quickly proved
far too time consuming and costly so we had to abandon it after
the fifth one, although the last one lived on for a while on
our old website. Now, after far too long a break, we offer our
catalog again, this time only on the web. Not all of the descriptions
have been entered yet, but as this site matures and grows, the
gaps will get smaller and smaller. Also, now we can offer information
on conferences in and around the city, provide links to schools,
organisations and other interesting sites related to the mental
sciences and keep you updated on new books and ideas as they
happen, all things that would not have been possible with our
printed catalog.
So
please, browse through our sections and titles - they are
are organised roughly how we organise our store. And don't
forget to check out the other sections of this site as they
are full of other useful information. And check back often
because this site is constantly growing and changing.
Thanks!
(oh, and if you have any questions, comments or suggestions,
feel free to e-mail us at
[email protected])
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