Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Fear of Doing Nothing: Notes of a Young Therapist
In the spirit of Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Young Doctor’s Notebook and Sandeep Jauhar’s Intern, this is a deeply honest, searching examination of psychotherapy based on the experiences of a young... (more)
Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Second Edition
This second revised edition of Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, the highly successful practice-oriented handbook designed to demystify psychoanalytic psychotherapy, is... (more)
How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist
How do you develop a truly rich and rewarding career in psychotherapy? How can you find joy in such painful work? How do you develop your skills and capacities in the field? How can you conquer your... (more)
Taming the Negative Introject: Empowering Patients to Take Control of Their Mental Health
In this book, Dr. Carol W. Berman describes how to help patients control the self-sabotaging element of their unconscious minds, often called the punitive superego, the negative introject, or the... (more)
The Search for Meaning in Psychotherapy: Spiritual Practice, the Apophatic Way and Bion
If, when a patient enters therapy, there is an underlying yearning to discover a deeper sense of meaning or purpose, how might a therapist rise to such a challenge? As both Carl Jung and Wilfred Bion... (more)
Right Brain Psychotherapy
An exploration into the adaptive functions of the emotional right brain, which describes not only affect and affect regulation within minds and brains, but also the communication and iterative... (more)
Learning Along the Way: Further Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Learning Along the Way sees Patrick Casement trace the development and application of his earlier key contributions to psychoanalytic technique. These include his observations about internal... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Buddhist Reflections on Gentleness: Sensitivity Fear and the Drive Towards Truth
Inspired by Buddhist teachings and psychoanalytic thought, this book explores gentleness as a way of being and a developmental achievement. It offers reflections on the unique position of "gentle... (more)
Ghosts in the Human Psyche: The Story of a “Muslim Armenian”
Vamik Volkan examines the impact of past and present historical events, cultural elements, political movements and their mental images on the psyche of individuals. Beginning with the history of the... (more)
Psychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience: The Two Minds of Cognition and Feeling
Psychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience: The Two Minds of Cognition and Feeling introduces new insights from the neurosciences into the nature of our emotions and feelings, and argues for a more... (more)
Therapy in the Age of Neuroscience: A Guide for Counsellors and Therapists
Therapy in the Age of Neuroscience: A Guide for Counsellors and Therapists is an essential guide to key areas of neuroscience that inform the theory underlying psychotherapy, and how they can be... (more)
Theory and Practice of Online Therapy: Internet-delivered Interventions for Individuals, Groups, Families, and Organizations
This innovative new resource outlines the process of conducting individual, family and group therapy online with the use of video conferencing tools, and explores the unique concerns associated with... (more)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
Ever wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Times-bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of her practice - where her patients are... (more)
Undressing
With a Foreword by Adam Phillips.
When therapist-in-training James O'Neill starts his placement at a therapy centre in west London, his first referral is Abraham, a silent and frightened young... (more)
The Good Enough Therapist: Futility, Failure, and Forgiveness in Treatment
The Good Enough Therapist is a guidebook-not an instruction manual-written for beginning, intermediate, and experienced clinicians. It encourages readers to explore, accept, and embrace their flaws... (more)
Mastering the Clinical Conversation: Language as Intervention
This compelling book provides psychotherapists with evidence-based strategies for harnessing the power of language to free clients from life-constricting patterns and promote psychological... (more)
Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst
In Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst, Barnaby B. Barratt illuminates a new perspective on what it means to open our awareness to the depths of psychic life and restores the... (more)
Interpretation and Interaction: Psychoanalysis or Psychotherapy?
In recent decades the relationship between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy has been a focal point for debate about the distinctiveness of analysis as a particular kind of therapeutic enterprise. In... (more)
The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Listening for the Subtext
The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Listening for the Subtext outlines the core concepts that frame the reciprocal encounter between psychoanalytic therapist and patient, taking the... (more)
The Supervisory Encounter: A guide for teachers of psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This text offers a theoretical and technical framework for understanding and deepening the supervisory process in therapist training. It includes descriptions of: the phases of supervision; its... (more)
Supervision in Clinical Practice: A Practitioners Guide
This fully updated edition of Supervision in Clinical Practice: A Practitioner's Guide is packed with practical examples from personal and professional experience. Since the publication of the first... (more)
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process: Encountering Well-Founded Fear
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process looks at the psychosocial assessment of asylum seekers from three perspectives: forensic, psychodynamic, and political and... (more)
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide presents a model of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its treatment that is based on contemporary... (more)
Between Sickness and Health: The Landscape of Illness and Wellness
Between Sickness and Health is about illness rather than disease, and recovery rather than cure. The book argues that illness is an experience, represented by the feeling that `I am not myself'. From... (more)
The Clinical Interview: Skills for More Effective Patient Encounters
The Clinical Interview offers a new perspective on the patient encounter. Interpreting decades of evidence-based psychotherapy and neuroscience, it provides 60 succinct techniques to help clinicians... (more)
The Fragmented Personality: An Integrative Dynamic and Personalized Approach to Personality Disorder
The Fragmented Personality presents new model for caring for patients with personality disorder in post-modern society. In contrast to the static classifications of personality pathology, the... (more)
Out of This World: Suicide Examined
This book is intended for anyone with either an interest in suicide or suicidal behaviour. It is not aimed solely at the professional psychotherapist but at a broad range of professionals who... (more)
Thinking Space: Promoting Thinking About Race, Culture and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Beyond
'Thinking Space' was set up to develop the capacity of staff and trainees at the Tavistock Clinic to think about racism, and other forms of hatred toward difference in ourselves and others. Drawing... (more)
Consultations in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
In the course of addressing the challenges of conducting assessment consultations in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, this book engages with many technical as well as theoretical issues. It includes ... (more)
The Seven Deadly Sins?: Issues in Clinical Practice and Supervision for Humanistic and Integrative Practitioners
The Seven Deadly Sins? grew out of a post-qualification training course of the same name. It aims to make more accessible some concepts from the world of psychoanalysis, self-psychology and affective... (more)