Individual Psychotherapy Books
Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person: Improving Outcomes for That Minority of People Who are the Majority of Clients
In Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, Dr Elaine Aron redefines the term highly sensitive. She dispels common misconceptions about the relationship between being sensitive and other... (more)
Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery
A new analysis of the hearing voices experience outside the illness model, resulted in accepting and making sense of voices. This study of 50 stories forms the evidence for this successful new... (more)
The Compassionate Mind
Throughout history people have sought to cope with a life that is often stressful and hard. We have actually known for some time that developing compassion for oneself and others can help us face up... (more)
Introduction to Psychotherapy: An Outline of Psychodynamic Principles and Practice: Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of Introduction to Psychotherapy builds on the success of the previous three editions and remains an essential purchase for trainee psychotherapists, psychiatrists and other... (more)
Integrative Psychotherapy in Action
What is integrative psychotherapy? How effective is the integrative approach to therapy? And what are its limitations? Answering these and other significant questions, this insightful volume provides... (more)
Supervision in Counselling and Psychotherapy: An Introduction
Supervision is essential for counsellors and psychotherapists, but it can create emotional pressures and practical dilemmas. This book offers a sympathetic introduction to supervision that helps the... (more)
Core Competencies in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Becoming a Highly Competent and Effective Therapist
Core Competencies in Psychotherapy addresses the core competencies common to the effective practice of all psychotherapeutic approaches, and includes specific intervention competencies of the three... (more)
Psychosomatics: The Uses of Psychotherapy
The mind and body are in constant interaction, and it is increasingly recognized that any true understanding of illness must take this psychosomatic dimension into account. This timely book looks at... (more)
Murder: A Psychotherapeutic Investigation
'This book... shines a bright light on a murky world. The contributors attempt to understand the origins of murder, but they also deal with the detail of treatment and show us how professionals are... (more)
The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy
Somatic psychology and bodymind therapy examine the body and the mind as a whole, emphasising the reciprocal relationships between the two. This branch of psychotherapy focuses on the body, body... (more)
Conscious and Unconscious
All forms of psychotherapy deal with the limitations of our awareness. We have limited knowledge of our creative potential, of the details of our own behaviour, of our everyday emotional states, of... (more)
Invitation to psychodynamic psychology
Introduces the basic assumptions and concepts of psychodynamic psychology. Since the term psychodynamic can be applied to a number of diverse schools of thought, the book stresses the commonalities... (more)
Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics
This revised second edition offers a description of the technique of dynamic psychotherapy, and deals with both its theory and its practice. Practical applications - using different techniques - are... (more)
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the... (more)
Erotic Transference and Countertransference: Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy
Bringing together contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice, this text represents a spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives,... (more)
Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology
This exceptional book adds to the fast growing area of forensic psychotherapy and shows the relevance of Winnicott's work to therapy with some of the most deprived in our society.... (more)
How Much Is Enough?: Endings in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Looking at the reasons why therapy can go on for too long or can come to a destructively premature ending, this text offers advice on how to avoid either. Using examples and practical guidelines,... (more)
A Handbook of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Short-term psychotherapy has become more and more popular in recent years and there is an increasing need for therapists to be able to offer help without entering into many years of therapy. This... (more)
Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations
For therapists treating patients with borderline personality organization, transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) has proven to be a remarkably successful approach that effectively targets the... (more)
Short-Term Psychotherapy: A Psychodynamic Approach: Second Edition
This new edition reflects the growing use of short term therapy across a variety of settings. Packed with new material on key issues, the book explores the therapeutic relation, the length of therapy... (more)
Character and Personality Types
An examination of various systematic and non-systematic approaches to identifying different types of human being, exploring whether there are systematic ways in which humans vary, how we can assess... (more)
A Different Story: The Rise of Narrative in Psychology
A Different Story is the story of the emergence of the narrative approach to psychotherapy as seen through the eyes of a family therapist whose life and work have taken him across some of the great... (more)
The Self and Personality Structure
Two authors from separate schools of depth psychology (psychoanalytic and Adlerian) provide an overview of the self and how it is conceptualized across the psychotherapies within various theories of... (more)
Body of awareness: A somatic and developmental approach to psychotherapy
Explores the formation of infant movement experience and its influence upon the later adult. It shows how the organizing principles in early development are functionally equivalent to those of the... (more)
Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Trainee's Guide to Preparing Case Studies and Reports.
Trainee therapists need to show practical competence through the production of client reports and case studies. Using clinical examples and a detailed analysis of case study and process report... (more)
The Illustrated Manual of Sex Therapy: Second Edition
This work reviews the nature and causes of male and female sexual dysfunctions, and describes and portrays the various erotic techniques and exercises employed in sex therapy.... (more)
Supervisor Training: Issues and Approaches: Guide to Supervision Volume 2
Considering how much experience there now is in providing supervisor training in the UK, relatively little has been written about it. This book aims to create a lively and readable resource that will... (more)
Cultural Psychotherapy: Working With Culture in the Clinical Encounter
This innovative book provides therapists with a practical guide for treating patients from other cultures. Basing her material on extensive clinical work with patients from many ethnic backgrounds,... (more)
Envy, Competition and Gender: Theory, Clinical Applications and Group Work
"Envy Competition and Gender" provides a unique perspective on gender difference in relation to envy and competitiveness, reframing and de-demonising these difficult emotions and revealing their... (more)