Individual Psychotherapy Books
Large-Group Psychology: Racism, Societal Divisions, Narcissistic Leaders and Who We Are Now
A new and updated exploration of large-group psychology from world-renowned psychoanalyst Dr Vamik D. Volkan. This timely book investigates the underlying psychology of the societal divisions... (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)
Change in Psychotherapy: A Unifying Paradigm
From an internationally acclaimed group of analysts, a selection of papers on the concept of change.
Since 1994, the Boston Change Process Study Group (BCPSG) has published articles on the most... (more)
Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns
Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns is an exciting collection of contemporary writings on Life Script theory and psychotherapeutic methods. Each chapter... (more)
Breathwork and Psychotherapy: Clinical Applications for Healing and Transformation
Breathing is at the center of our lives, yet we are only beginning to tap into its full potential as a tool for healing. Conscious breathing is a powerful mechanism for transforming our... (more)
Resilience and Survival: Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma
Resilience and Survival: Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma presents a unique combination of resilience theory with attachment, psychoanalysis, and developmental neuroscience, with a... (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)
Black Skin, White Masks
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an... (more)
The Person of the Therapist Training Model: Mastering the Use of Self
The Person of the Therapist Training Model presents a model that prepares therapists to make active and purposeful use of who they are, personally and professionally, in all aspects of the... (more)
Nature and Therapy: Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy in Outdoor Spaces
Recent decades have seen an increasing interest in the healing and therapeutic potential of nature and interest in the potential of greencare interventions for the benefit of mental health. The field... (more)
The Disintegrating Self: Psychotherapy of Adult ADHD, Autistic Spectrum, and Somato-psychic Disorders
Many psychotherapy clients have (undiagnosed) traits within the ADHD and autistic spectrums – two constellations of the “mistuned brain” that often overlap. The essence of ADHD is emotional... (more)
Disabling Perversions: Forensic Psychotherapy with People with Intellectual Disabilities
The book offers an overview of how to work with some of the most damaged members of society - children and adults with intellectual disabilities who abuse others. Drawing on insight from two decades... (more)
Psychodynamic Techniques: Working with Emotion in the Therapeutic Relationship
Helping therapists navigate the complexities of emotional interactions with clients, this book provides practical clinical guidelines. Master clinician Karen J. Maroda adds an important dimension to... (more)
Psychodynamic Theory in Therapeutic Practice: Second Edition
This approachable text provides a brilliantly clear account of the major psychodynamic theories and their development. Vivid pen portraits and rich case examples show how key concepts first... (more)
Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy
This important and innovative book explores a new direction in psychoanalytic thought that can expand and deepen clinical practice. Relational psychoanalysis diverges in key ways from the assumptions... (more)
Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control is a practical, task-oriented, instructional manual designed to help therapists provide effective treatment for survivors of these... (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)
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 Past in the Present: Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma
Brings together for the first time contemporary ideas from both the psychoanalytic and humanist therapy traditions, looking at how trauma and enactments affect psychotherapeutic practice. Enactments... (more)
Ego State Therapy
What lies in the dark unconscious expanse of our psyche? What causes the words we hear in our mind? What internal dynamic produces depression, panic attacks, and addiction? And, how can learning what... (more)
Disability, Counselling and Psychotherapy: Challenges and Opportunities
Addressing the felt experience of disabled people and the ways in which psychotherapy may be constructively employed, this text takes a life-span perspective and a psychoanalytic approach to explore... (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)
Emotional Armoring: An Introduction to Psychiatric Orgone Therapy
Though it is not a cure for all patients, psychiatric orgone therapy can effect significant changes in emotional disorders. The author was Wilhelm Reich's final pupil. He uses case studies and clear... (more)
Mystery, Hope and Reason: Faith in the Therapy Room
A practical, engaging, and honest look at an area of our lives that is often missed in therapy: the role of faith in psychotherapy for both therapist and client. Kate Graham embarks on a must-read... (more)
Principles of Emotion Change: What Works and When in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
This book of theory and practice offers an unprecedented exploration of the nature of emotion and the process by which it changes.
Written for mental health providers and psychotherapy... (more)
An Introduction to Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Foundations of Clinical Practice
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), covering its theoretical foundations, core techniques, and practical applications.
The author... (more)
Treating High-Risk Offenders with Personality Disorder: What Can Work When Prison Doesn’t
Individuals who have personality disorder and commit serious, violent offences present a particular challenge in terms of rehabilitation and risk management. Drawing from the experiences of those... (more)
Disability Psychotherapy: What It Is and Why It Matters
Disability Psychotherapy explores the growing practice of working psychotherapeutically with people with disabilities.
Over three parts, the book explores the history of disability... (more)
Rewilding Therapy: Ecosystemic Theory and Practice
This book is about doing therapy in Nature - with Nature as your co-therapist. The handbook provides you with an ecosystemic map which offers you guidance on how to use key systemic ideas to rewild... (more)
Practitioner's Guide to the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders
From pioneering scientist-practitioners, this book offers the first comprehensive guide to using the groundbreaking Alternative Model of Personality Disorders (AMPD) in clinical practice. The authors... (more)