Spinning Circle Press
Books for thinking, reflecting and making meaning.
An independent publishing imprint exploring stories, groups, symbolic life and the places where meaning is made.
Books
Reflective companions designed to be used as well as read.
Dr Libby Nugent
Into the Woods
A Fairy-Tale Companion for Reflection on Everyday Life
Familiar fairy tales become places to think about courage, inheritance, invisible labour, belonging, limits, rupture and repair. Each chapter leaves space for the reader’s own associations, memories and questions.
Paperback, hardback and ebook.
Dr Libby Nugent
Into the Woods at Work
A Fairy-Tale Companion for Reflective Practice
Familiar fairy tales become shared objects for thinking about professional life, teams, institutions and the pressures that shape how people work together.
Where does the reader enter?
Spinning Circle Press makes books that leave room for the reader. Three commitments shape the work of the press.
Participation
Reading can be an active process: writing, associating, remembering, questioning, interpreting, disagreeing and making meaning. The book does not need to complete the thought in advance.
Depth Psychology
We are drawn to the less visible layers of experience: symbol, fantasy, memory, repetition, conflict, defence, desire and the unconscious life of individuals and groups.
Rootedness
Meaning grows through place, relationship, inheritance, language, history and ordinary life. The press values work that remains connected to the worlds that form us.
About the press
Spinning Circle Press is an independent publishing imprint founded by clinical psychologist and group analyst Dr Libby Nugent. It publishes thoughtful books at the meeting point of story, psyche and group life.
Contact
Spinning Circle Press welcomes enquiries about its books, publications, events and stockists.
Publication enquiries and submissions
Submissions are considered, although the press typically publishes by invitation and does not operate a general open-submissions programme.