Individual Psychotherapy Books
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)
An Intersectional Guide for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Their Allies: Masculinity Reconnected
Few experiences carry more shame, stigma, and misunderstanding than the life-altering trauma of sexual abuse. Men who experience sexual abuse and rape, often find themselves marginalised and... (more)
Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists
This book was written to meet the need of therapists: a succinct, thorough, practical, clear, down-to-earth handbook to which a therapist can refer as needed. Many, if not most, therapists have... (more)
From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis
As a clear and user-friendly guide for clinicians who work with patients affected by psychosis, this book challenges the false notion that psychosis is untreatable through talk therapy.
The... (more)
Withdrawal, Silence, Loneliness: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process
With contributions from Silvia Allari, Leigh Bettles, Dan Eastop, Richard G. Erskine, Amaia Mauriz Etxabe, Linda Finlay, Ray Little, Lynn Martin, Marye O'Reilly-Knapp, Eugenio Peiro... (more)
Ecotherapy: A Field Guide
Ecotherapy: A Field Guide presents an extensive review of the field of ecotherapy which unearths a number of ambiguities in the way this therapy is understood and described. The review explores six... (more)
Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in-Relationship
Written by leaders in the field of relational integrative psychotherapy, this book offers trainees and experienced therapists a methodology for assisting people in rediscovering their ability to... (more)
Present with Suffering: Being with the Things that Hurt
What is the place of discontent and unhappiness in human experience and how best can we be with it?
There is something about everything that makes it not quite satisfactory. Even things we... (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)
The Power of Talking: Stories from the Therapy Room
Reading The Power of Talking: Stories from the Therapy Room feels as though you have joined author Stelios Kiosses at his favourite coffee shop for a chat whilst enjoying a cappuccino and slice of... (more)
A Clinical Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
A Clinical Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy serves as an accessible and applied introduction to psychodynamic psychotherapy.
The book is a resource for psychodynamic psychotherapy that gives... (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)
Practical Ethics in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach
This highly engaging book introduces readers to the ethical dilemmas that therapists may face in their therapeutic practices. By mapping the counselling process from beginning to end, it focuses on... (more)
Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders
A bold look at the body as a source of contention for those who suffer from personality disorders. People with personality disorders often attack their own bodies through eating disorders and other... (more)
Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy
This practical guide to the gestalt approach has successfully introduced thousands of trainee therapists to the essential skills needed in gestalt practice. The authors offer practical guidance on... (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)
Working With Risk in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The wide-ranging contexts in which counselling and psychotherapy is now practiced means clients present with a range of risks that therapists have to respond to. Risk is an ever-present issue for... (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)
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)
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)
IDM Supervision: An Integrated Developmental Model for Supervising Counselors and Therapists
This book is an updated and expanded presentation of the widely used Integrated Developmental Model of Supervision (IDM). In contrast to other volumes on clinical supervision, Stoltenberg and McNeill... (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)
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 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)
Contemporary Developments in Supportive Therapy: Principles and Practice
This book explores Open-Ended Supportive Therapy, a psychoanalytically informed approach designed to offer a compassionate and flexible alternative to more rigid therapeutic methods. Supportive... (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)
Meditative Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Pathways to Healing and Transformation
Dr. Jeffrey Rubin's work - the culmination of four decades immersed in psychoanalysis and Eastern mind-body disciplines - introduces a unique method uniting these wisdom traditions. While both aim to... (more)
A Guilty Victim: Recovering Creativity after Trauma and Abuse
A Guilty Victim tells the true story of one man’s recovery from childhood trauma, grooming, and sexual abuse at a Catholic boarding school. This contemporary account of psychotherapy with an adult... (more)