Caversham Booksellers

Geart Ave Block Party - Sep 20 - graphic

Our new location at 262b Geary Ave won't be open yet for the Block Party on Saturday, Sep 20, but we'll be there, with a table and a selection of books. Swing by, say hello, and get a peek at the new space!
#gearyblockparty

Caversham Booksellers' 98 Harbord Street location: a glass bookstore window with a few bicycles locked to posts out front, and a red wooden bench. A sign in the window reads WE ARE MOVING.

It's official: our Harbord Street location is now CLOSED permanently. But don't be too sad: we will reopen soon at 262B Geary Ave! And web orders will continue as normal while our storefront is closed.

We're happy to be able to make this compelling title available!

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It's true! Thanks!

...and you should totally buy them at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social, @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social, @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social, or @cavershambooks.bsky.social.

If you see a lot of high-quality professional titles relating to their specific therapeutic modality, plus some interesting books on the social and ethical dimensions of therapy, it means they probably shop at Caversham and you're in good hands 😌

We're moving in September, and you know what that means: Sales! Our Rummage Sale, clearing out the books that have piled up in our basement over 36 years, is on now! Drop by and check it out!

Photo of Caversham Bookseller's shop window, with a sign saying "We are moving!", a map showing our new location at 262 Geary Avenue, and a bunch of books about moving, change, and transformation

Hey, have you heard our big news? After 36 years at our Harbord Street location, we'll be moving over the summer to a bright new space on up-and-coming Geary Avenue! We'll see you there in September!

Books have a much longer shelf life! 😀 And they're easier to ship. (We do free shipping anywhere in Canada for orders over $150.)

In support of the psychodynamic formulation of suicide, intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) reduced anger and suicidal ideation among patients who had previously attempted suicide. #AmJPsychotherapy bit.ly/425MQYH

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, April 26, 2025. Illustration of a woman riding a bike with a cat perched on the handlebars, flowers and books in the basket. Promo image provided by Canadian Independent Bookstore Association, drawn by artist and illustrator Josée Bisaillon

• Buy any book at our neighbours, @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social, then come over to Caversham and show us your receipt for a 10% discount off any regularly priced trade book. Or start here, and bring your Caversham receipt over there! (Some restrictions apply)
#cibd2025
#canadianindiebookstoresday
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Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, April 26, 2025. Illustration of a girl walking a dachshund and pulling a wagon full of books. Promo image provided by Canadian Independent Bookstore Association, drawn by artist and illustrator Josée Bisaillon

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is coming up, and we're planning a couple of in-store special promotions to celebrate!
For one day only, on April 26:
• Buy any new book, and choose a second-hand/clearance book from our famous Super Sale Cart for free!
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We love a good book recommendation thread! A reminder that if you're looking for a title we don't currently have in the store, we can order it for you, and we ship internationally. Our staff are great at tracking down hard-to-find books, as long as they're still in print somewhere.

Who Gets to Be a Therapist? | Jess McAllen Gatekeeping is meant to ensure that future therapists are suited to the work. Some students allege it amounts to discrimination.

The vetting process meant to protect therapy clients from unethical and boundary-crossing behavior might actually be shutting out the kind of practitioners the field needs most. @jessmcallen.bsky.social writes on “gatekeeping”:

Book Club: 52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life - World BEYOND War Book Club with Farzana Doctor. #WorldBEYONDWar

Are you an activist, caregiver, or community leader struggling with burnout? Join us for a 4-week virtual book club with me to explore practical self-care & community care strategies. worldbeyondwar.org/book-club-52...

My favorite bookshop in Portland is giving away free samples. Heh.

Rough Magic by Miranda Newman | Penguin Random House Canada INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER. A GLOBE AND MAIL READER'S FAVOURITE. A harrowing but ultimately uplifting memoir about living with borderline personality disorder—the most stigmatized diagnosis in mental...

Excited to discuss this book with @mirandanewman.bsky.social at our book club next week! Tuesday, March 4, 7 pm, in store and online. If you're not on our book club email list yet -- why not? Just email us at info [at] cavershambooksellers.com and we'll get you set up!

Alvin F. Poussaint, Pioneering Expert on Black Mental Health, Dies at 90 A psychiatrist at Harvard and an adviser to Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby, he challenged Black Americans to stand up to systemic racism.

Alvin F. Poussaint, Pioneering Expert on Black Mental Health, Dies at 90 At the invitation of Bob Moses, he moved to Jackson, Miss., where he became the Southern field director of the Medical Committee for Human Rights in the 1965 Selma march, carried medical supplies www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

We're at Reading for the Love of It! Drop by, say hi, browse our curated selection. #rftloi

A stack of 16 books on a wide range of topics: attachment theory, philosophy of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, BPD, CBT, violence risk assessment. There's also On Women by Susan Sontag, A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom, and the School of Life book on Self-Hatred

Magnificent #bookstack assembled today by a customer visiting from Calgary. "Came for Taylor Swift, spent more on books!" 😁

Pro-tip for out-of-town visitors: our offer of free shipping on purchases over $150 applies in-store as well as online. So no worries about luggage limits!

Anita Archer's "Archerisms" Explicit Instruction Teach the stuff and cut the fluff. How well I teach = How well they learn I do it. We do it. You do it. Learning is not a spectator sport. Everyone does Everything Look carefully. Listen carefully. Walk around. Look around. Talk around. FEEDBACK FEEDS FORWARD Perfected practice over time makes perfect and permanent. Predictability predicts ability If you expect it, pre-correct it. Avoid the void, for they will fill it. Teach with passion. Manage with compassion.

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Bakka-Phoenix Books Science Fiction and Fantasy specialty bookstore since 1972

This sounds like a job for our next-door neighbours @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social ! (Though you may have to wait till postal service is back up)
www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/browse/filte...

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

A photo Joe took of his Caversham book display outside Innis Town Hall.

Today we have brought books to the TICP registrants at UofT Innis Town Hall for a Day with Anthony Bass, Ph.D. (62 here and 56 online)

A pair of Freudian Slippers, which are just what they sound like: slippers that look like Sigmund Freud

A small white planter pot shaped like Sigmund Freud's head

A t-shirt riffing on the famous Pink Floyd prism/rainbow album cover design: the prism has a pink Sigmund Freud in it and the text reads Pink Freud

Gift shopping season is here, and we just received a shipment of delightfully ridiculous stocking stuffers for the analysts, analysands, and/or therapists on your list! The Pink Freud t-shirt is back in stock, as are the Freudian Slippers, both in a range of sizes!

A cute wolfhound-type dog with her front paws up on the sales counter. Her owner is wagging a finger at her, warning her not to get TOO excited

A cute wolfhound-type dog accepts a handful of liver treats from Neil at the Caversham bookstore sales counter

We love dogs around here! We even keep liver treats behind the counter, as this regular visitor knows
#dogsky

Point well taken, and of course some niche/academic titles are *only* available as POD. But our owner has been in the business for over 30 years and is very good at sourcing, even if legit copies sometimes take a few more days to get here!

Another good reason to order from us and not That Big Website: we won't sell you a sketchy POD copy!

Now seems like a good time to mention that our Super Sale Cart is dairy and gluten free!