Individual Psychotherapy Books
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)
The Spirit of Psychotherapy: A Hidden Dimension
In this highly personal yet empirically informed work, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Jeremy Holmes examines the parallels, contrasts, and overlaps between the secular world of psychotherapy and... (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)
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)
Skewed to the Right: Sport, Mental Health and Vulnerability
The demands of the high-performance athlete are huge, with many celebrated for their achievements, and put on a pedestal for admired personality traits such as discipline, sacrifice, commitment, and... (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 Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy: Third Edition
This is a step-by-step guide to the key skills and techniques of the psychodynamic approach used at each stage of the therapeutic process.
Updated in a third edition, the book includes 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)
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)
Anatomy and Physiology for Psychotherapists: Connecting Body and Soul
Providing a concise overview of human functional anatomy and physiology, relating to mental health, this book presents readable biological information to help to inform the practice of psychotherapy.g (more)
Introduction to Psychotherapy: An Outline of Psychodynamic Principles and Practice: Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of Introduction to Psychotherapy builds on the success of the previous three editions and remains an essential purchase for trainee psychotherapists, psychiatrists and other... (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)
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)
Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
This text discusses how Eastern spirituality can enhance Western psychology. It argues that the contemplative traditions of the East help patients go beyond merely recognizing their problems to... (more)
Embodied Psychedelic Therapy: A Somatic Guide
Body-centred practices for every stage of psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Embodied Psychedelic Therapy is a guide to holding space for clients taking psychedelics for personal exploration,... (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)
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)
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)
Reflecting on Therapy
Michael Jacobs is the author of key texts, such as Psychodynamic Counselling in Action and The Presenting Past. Looking back over fifty years’ experience as a therapist and reflecting on some forty... (more)
The Psychotherapist and the Professional Complaint: The Shadow Side of Therapy
The patient’s word was once easily dismissed against the word of the psychiatrist, doctor or therapist, leaving the patient vulnerable. Recognising this inherent risk in the relationship between... (more)
Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma: Second Edition
A masterful synthesis of relational and attachment theory, neurobiology, and contemporary psychoanalysis, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame has been internationally recognized as an essential... (more)
Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship: Transference and Countertransference Passions
Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship challenges the traditional belief that transference and countertransference are merely forms of resistance that jeopardize the therapeutic process. David Mann... (more)
Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy: Embodied Expressions of a Disembodied Psyche
With contributions from Gabrielle Brown, William F. Cornell, Raffaella Hilty, Brett Kahr, Mark Linington, Salvatore Martini, David O’Driscoll, Valerie Sinason, and Tom Wooldridge.
Every... (more)
Darkness Was My Candle: An Odyssey of Survival and Grace
Born into poverty and violence, Lora's early life was one of extreme vulnerability. She was prostituted for the first time at the age of nine and suffered unspeakable treatment from those who should... (more)
Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death
Climate Psychology offers ways to work with the unthinkable and emotionally unendurable current predicament of humanity. The style and writing interweave passion and reflection, animation and... (more)