Individual Psychotherapy Books
Aggressivity, Narcissism and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship
A leading psychoanalytic clinician and theoretician presents his thoughts on the latest psychodynamic developments and insights related to treatment of severe personality disorders. Dividing his... (more)
The Art of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counselling and psychotherapy are effective to the extent that they promote the creativity of clients and patients. Creativity is both a lifestyle and a health resource. A creative lifestyle implies... (more)
The Supervisory Relationship: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach
Since the 1980s many psychodynamic therapists have begun to view the relational processes taking place between patient and therapist as a central source of transformation. This volume elaborates a... (more)
Assessment in Psychotherapy
This book sets out to address the complexities of psychoanalytic assessment. Comprises a comprehensive review of relevant literature and contributions from various psychotherapists on the different... (more)
Transforming the Pain: Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization
'Vicarious traumatization' is the traumatization of a helper's inner experience, which results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients. This workbook provides tools for self-assessment,... (more)
Essential Cognitive Therapy
Cognitve therapy, developed by Aaron Beck in the US in the 1960s, is a structured, time-limited, problem-focused and research based system of psychotherapy which seeks to identify, examine and modify... (more)
Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients: Watching Experience at Work
Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients is a collection of key case studies that provides a rich resource of information and inspiration for clinicians working psychoanalytically... (more)
Therapy with Displaced and Highly Mobile Individuals: A Guide for In-Person and Online Practitioners
This book provides therapists with an understanding of displacement-related issues to help them better serve potential clients such as emigrants, expats, migrants, digital nomads – all those who have... (more)
Polyvagal-Informed EMDR: A Neuro-Informed Approach to Healing
Polyvagal Theory and EMDR are two well-respected theoretical and practical models with immense implications for therapeutic practice. Polyvagal-Informed EMDR outlines a comprehensive approach for... (more)
Empathy and Mental Health: An Integral Model for Developing Therapeutic Skills in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Empathy and Mental Health shows mental health professionals how to employ a deeper understanding of subjective, objective, and interpersonal modalities of empathy in their practice.
Chapters are... (more)
Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation
In Unlocking the Emotional Brain, authors Ecker, Ticic, and Hulley equip readers to carry out focused, empathic therapy using the potent process of memory reconsolidation, the recently discovered and... (more)
Coaching Psychology for Mental Health: Borderline Personality Disorder and Personal Psychological Recovery
Traditionally, coaching psychologists have worked with people who aren't experiencing significant mental distress or have diagnosed mental illness. This book describes an innovative and challenging... (more)
Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy
Mentalization--the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states--is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better... (more)
Dreaming Healing and Imaginative Arts Practice
In Dreaming, Healing and Imaginative Arts Practice, Kathleen Anne Connellan brings dream theory together with art practice and art psychotherapy to demonstrate how releasing the imagination can... (more)
Mothers Accused and Abused: Addressing Complex Psychological Needs
Mothers Accused and Abused: Addressing Complex Psychological Needs brings together stories about mothers who are accused of harming, and in some cases killing, their children, children who... (more)
Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy
Mentalization--the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states--is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better... (more)
Freedom to Practise: Person-Centred Approaches to Supervision
This book is the first to focus exclusively on person-centred supervision. The editors explore the practice of supervision in the light of person-centred philosophy and theory, review and critique... (more)
Principles of Therapeutic Change That Work
This book transcends particular models of psychotherapy and treatment techniques and procedures, giving special attention to the empirical grounding of multiple contributors to change. The result is... (more)
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain: Third Edition
This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has brought an understanding of the social nature of people's brains to a therapeutic context. Louis Cozolino is a master... (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)
Handbook on Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs) are both prevalent and a source of significant impairment for patients who suffer from them, yet they remain underrecognized and underdiagnosed.... (more)
Speaking of Bodies: Embodied Therapeutic Dialogues
While the body has received significant attention in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the last couple of decades, this still focused primarily on the body of pathology – the body as speaking for... (more)
Clinical Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
In Clinical Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervisors from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, and dance movement therapy deal with the ambiguity and... (more)
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
This practical book has given tens of thousands of clinicians and students a comprehensive introduction to mindfulness and its clinical applications. Leading practitioners in the field present... (more)
Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution
This classic book, available in paperback for the very first time, explores why some people can successfully change their lives and others cannot. Here famed psychologist Paul Watzlawick presents... (more)
Relational Transactional Analysis: Principles in Practice
'Through different voices and styles of contributions, including papers, edited talks and panel discussion, this collection explores and applies the principles of relational transactional analysis.... (more)
Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Case-based knowledge forms an essential element of the evidence base for counselling and psychotherapy practice. This book provides the reader with a unique introduction to the conceptual and... (more)
Critical Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy
This innovative new textbook examines the critical debates around key topics in counselling and psychotherapy. In nine sections - including Everyday Counselling Practice, Training and Curriculum... (more)
Containment in the Community: Supportive Frameworks for Thinking about Antisocial Behaviour and Mental Health
This book is aimed at all practitioners working in healthcare and criminal justice community settings with individuals displaying antisocial, offending, and challenging behaviours, at times... (more)