Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself Build Inner Strength and Thrive
Self-compassion is a powerful inner resource. More than a thousand research studies show the benefits of being a supportive friend to yourself, especially in times of need. This science-based... (more)
Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships
We live in a time of uncertainty about relationships. We search for The One but find ourselves staying single because nobody measures up. We long for a happily-ever-after but break-up after break-up... (more)
Solution Oriented Therapy for Chronic and Severe Mental Illness
This book offers a new and hopeful way to think about and intervene with those who have tough psychiatric problems or long histories of treatment. It offers an approach to therapy that emphasises... (more)
Psychotherapy in an Age of Neuroscience
Psychotherapy In an Age of Neuroscience is a critique of the neuroscience model that dominates contemporary psychiatric practice. It shows that while the neurosciences have made great advances, this... (more)
Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness: Updated and Expanded Edition
Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate... (more)
Depression and the Erosion of the Self in Late Modernity: The Lesson of Icarus
Depression is not a disease of the brain, a genetic disability or even a mood disorder. Rather, shutdown, numbness or sadness are non-pathological adaptations to adverse childhood and adult... (more)
Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Depressive Realism argues that people with mild-to-moderate depression have a more accurate perception of reality than non-depressives. Depressive Realism is a worldview of human existence that is... (more)
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege: A Guide to Therapeutic Work with Boarding School Survivors
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege discusses how ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists; even experienced therapists may unwittingly struggle to skilfully address the... (more)
Easy Ego State Interventions: Strategies for Working with Parts
Parts (otherwise known as ego states) work in therapy refers to helping clients integrate and reconcile different aspects of themselves (silly, serious, depressed, and so on). This book offers a grab... (more)
Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the Expressive Language of the Living
The body, of both the patient and the analyst, is increasingly a focus of attention in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice, especially from a relational perspective. There is a renewed... (more)
Positive Therapy: Building Bridges Between Positive Psychology and Person-Centred Psychotherapy: Second Edition
The applications of positive psychology are different from traditional interventions in therapy in that they are focused on building strength, resilience and well-being rather than being restricted... (more)
Visions in Psychotherapy Research and Practice: Reflections from Presidents of the Society for Psychotherapy Research
The Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) is devoted to the development and dissemination of research, as well as the integration of empirical, theoretical, and clinical knowledge in... (more)
Taking Care: An Alternative to Therapy
Taking Care established David Smail as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work he develops the analysis of mental illness, and... (more)
An Introduction to the Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The therapeutic relationship is considered to be the most significant factor in achieving positive therapeutic change. As such, it is essential that trainee and practising therapists are able to... (more)
Seeing the Unseen: A Past Life Revealed Through Hypnotic Regression
A guide to past-life regression therapy with explanatory clinical notes. The book accounts how a famous figure regressed to a past life as a well-travelled psychic investigator. It includes a... (more)
Perinatal Mental Health: The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) Manual: Second Edition
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is a questionnaire and is a simple means of screening for postnatal depression in health care settings. This is a practical guide to using the scale in... (more)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically-based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness processes, and commitment and behavior change processes to... (more)
Creative Therapeutic Technique: Skills for the Art of Bringing Forth Change
Performance. This is where it starts. The Keeneys' heretical perspective holds that professionals can fill up on theory - indeed, on many theories - at the expense of developing the performance... (more)
Touching the Relational Edge: Body Psychotherapy
The psychotherapeutic encounter is a meeting between embodied psyches, bodies present in the room, speaking with each another, impacting and impacted by one another; bodies who are waiting for us to... (more)
Mindfulness: Diverse Perspectives on its Meanings, Origins and Applications
Mindfulness-based approaches to medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, business leadership, and other major societal institutions have become increasingly common. New paradigms... (more)
Circular Therapeutics: Giving Therapy a Healing Heart
Internationally-recognized as elder healers, psychotherapists and authors, Hillary and Bradford Keeney invite therapists to open their hearts and journey back in time to discover ancient and... (more)
How Money Talks
Money speaks in everyday life and in literature of our greed and our generosity, our pride and our humiliation and as it passes among us it shows our creativity and our ability to co-operate even... (more)
Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy
Focuses on common problems such as anxiety and depression, exploring how different therapeutic approaches understand and work with them. Counselling and psychotherapy are considered within the wider... (more)
Supervision as Transformation: A Passion for Learning
Supervision provides a positive space for compassion, inquiry, reflection, and above all development. The chapters in this book are written from a wide range of perspectives, all of which take a... (more)
Six Key Approaches to Counselling and Therapy: Second Edition
This updated and revised new edition of Six Key Approaches to Counselling and Therapy provides an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of six of the most popular contemporary... (more)
Psychosis and Spirituality: Consolidating the New Paradigm: Second Edition
This new edition presents the most recent body of qualitative and quantitative research in its exploration of the interface between psychosis and spirituality. The book offers a fundamental... (more)
Constructing Stories, Telling Tales: A Guide to Formulation in Applied Psychology
Formulation remains one of the most important activities that those using psychological approaches undertake as part of their work. Arguably, however, formulation is an activity that remains poorly... (more)
Intellectual Disability, Trauma and Psychotherapy
People with intellectual disabilities have emotional and mental health needs just like anyone else. Until recently however there has been little research of effective psychological treatment or... (more)
A Guide to Assessment for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts inevitably find themselves doing assessment in their work, both in private practice and in a clinical setting such as the NHS. The authors felt a... (more)
Attachment in Psychotherapy
This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as... (more)