Books & Articles Help Yourself Towards Mental Health First Contacts: Handbook For People in Crisis When the World Changed Under The Skin Body-Psychotherapy & Psychotherapy Articles Poetry
Published & Unpublished Books
Published Books  You can find more details about these books, if you click on the book titles (below) or follow the links. Help Yourself Towards Mental Health For people with Anxiety, Stress, Depression & Low Self-Esteem (Published by Karnac Books: 2010 - available here) or here. First Contacts with People in Crisis A Manual for Working with People in Crisis and Spiritual Emergencies. (Published by AuthorHouse: 2011 - available here) or here. The Historical Basis of Body Psychotherapy An edited book, being the 1st of a new series in a new imprimatur, published by Body Psychotherapy Publications. (available here) About the Science of Body Psychotherapy An edited book, being the 2nd of a new series in a new imprimatur, published by Body Psychotherapy Publications. (available here) About Relational Body Psychotherapy An edited book, being the 3rd of a new series in a new imprimatur, published by Body Psychotherapy Publications. (available here) Body Psychotherapy Case Studies An edited book, being the 4th of a new series in a new imprimatur, published by Body Psychotherapy Publications. (available here) About Touch in Body Psychotherapy An edited book, being the 5th in a new series in a new imprimatur, published by Body Psychotherapy Publications. (available here) The Body in Relationship: Self - Other - Society An edited book of articles by the presenters at the EABP-ISC 2014 Congress in Lisbon, Portugal (Published by Body Psychotherapy Publications, Sept 2014). (Available only here). R.D. Laing: 50 years since 'The Divided Self' A book co-edited with Theodor Itten (Published by PCCS Books, Sept 2012) - for more details, see here. This book is now remaindered and can be purchased at a discounted rate (see here). The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy & Somatic Psychology A massive book, co-edited with Gustl Marlock, Halko Weiss & Michael Soth (Published by North Atlantic Books, Dec. 2015): this is the up-dated and revised American-English edition of the German "Handbuch fur Körperpsychotherapie".  It has over 60 authors, 94 chapters, 1000 pages and about 500,000 words - for more details, see here. The 'New' Collected Papers of Biodynamic Massage & Psychotherapy: 2022 Another massive book, containing edited contributions from articles written over the last 40 years, about the Biodynamic work of Gerda Boyesen and all its different usages.  This book was published as a celebration 100 years after Gerda Boyesen's birth.  It has contributions from over 45 authors; and contains 172 chapters, with nearly 1600 pages and over 850,000 words - for more details, see here. Unpublished Books		For more details about these books, please contact Courtenay Young 'here'.
Under the Skin	A book on Psycho-physiology for Body Psychotherapists (unfinished)
When the World Changed	A book on how Spiritual Crises can affect us and turn our world upside down and inside out (unfinished)
How To Help Yourself Further Towards Better Mental Health	A follow-up volume to the 2010 book (unfinished).

Also:

For details of the fairly numerous articles that I have written, mostly about psychotherapy, please either go to the Articles page: or click here.
This 'Articles' page has been recently upgraded and many of the articles are now available as a PDF download.

For a selection of various poems that I have written, several with a theme connect with psychotherapy, please click here.
Many of these are available as a PDF download.

A 52-page memorial for my mother, June Brinley Young, entitled "A Life Well Lived", is also available here.