Individual Psychotherapy Books
Making the Most of Counselling and Psychotherapy Placements
Struggling to secure the right counselling or psychotherapy placement for you? Unsure of how to deal with complex challenges or how to make sure you get the most out of your placement? Then you have... (more)
The Beginner's Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Are your students interested in the field of counselling and psychotherapy or just starting out in their training? If they are trying to get to grips with the many different approaches and decide... (more)
Thrive: The Power of Psychological Therapy
A ground-breaking argument for better treatment of mental health from Richard Layard (author of Happiness) and David M. Clark. Britain has become a world leader in providing psychological therapies.... (more)
Breathing as a Tool for Self-Regulation and Self-Reflection
The book describes how to use breathing as a medium for self-regulation and self-reflection and how balanced breathing thus helps to promote mental and physical health and alleviate symptoms... (more)
The Quest to Feel Good
Emotions, rather than simply being the result of random or disordered biochemical processes, are adaptive mechanisms that are often overly relied upon as a function of basic learning processes. The... (more)
The Creative Therapist: The Art of Awakening a Session
In The Creative Therapist, Bradford Keeney makes the case that creativity is the most essential aspect of vibrant, meaningful, and successful therapy. No matter what therapeutic orientation one... (more)
Therapy and the Postpartum Woman: Notes on Healing Postpartum Depression for Clinicians and the Women Who Seek Their Help
This book provides a comprehensive look at effective therapy for postpartum depression. Using a blend of professional objectivity, evidence-based research, and personal, straight-forward suggestions... (more)
Psychotherapist Revealed: Therapists Speak About Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy
In this edited volume, the real dialogue begins. Therapists speak openly and honestly about their self-disclosure practices, decisions and clinical dilemmas. Bloomgarden and Mennuti bring together... (more)
Sex in Psychotherapy: Sexuality, Passion, Love, and Desire in the Therapeutic Encounter
Sex in Psychotherapy takes a psychodynamic approach to understanding recent technological and theoretical shifts in the field of psychotherapy. Lawrence Hedges provides an expert overview and... (more)
Cyberbullying: From Theory to Intervention
The study of cyberbullying has exploded since its first appearance in a peer-reviewed journal article in 2005. Cyberbullying: From Theory to Intervention aims to make clear and practical sense of... (more)
When Psychological Problems Mask Medical Disorders: A Guide for Psychotherapists: Second Edition
Widely regarded as a standard clinical resource, this book helps practitioners think outside the mental health box and recognize when a client may urgently need a medical evaluation. Part I provides... (more)
Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems: Second Edition
This authoritative guide has given tens of thousands of clinicians proven tools for helping clients resolve ambivalence and mobilize their energy, commitment, and personal resources for change.... (more)
Sexual Dysfunction: A Guide for Assessment and Treatment: Third Edition
Highly regarded as a course text and practitioner resource, this book presents concise intervention guidelines for the most frequently encountered sexual dysfunctions in women and men. Following a... (more)
The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing
Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted based on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system... (more)
Interacting Selves: Systemic Solutions for Personal and Professional Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The counselling and psychotherapy professions have experienced a rapid growth and expansion throughout Europe, and internationally. State regulation of these professional practices has required... (more)
Making Research Matter: Researching for Change in the Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Making Research Matter is an original contribution to the growing field of work-based learning with a focus on research aimed at developing the practice of counselling and psychotherapy addressing... (more)
Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss in Retirement
Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss in Retirement explores the ambivalence the therapist may feel about letting go of a professional role which has sustained them.... (more)
Nature in Mind: Systems Thinking and Imagination in Ecopsychology and Nature-Based Practice
In a time of apparent global crisis, ecopsychology is a rapidly emerging new field that attracts those concerned with the state of the planet and psychotherapists wanting to bring nature more fully... (more)
Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice
There is increasing concern about the growing state influences on the talking therapies. Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice is a response to that... (more)
Mental Health Policy and Practice
This highly regarded text offers a clear and considered guide to modern mental health policy and practice. Completely up to date, it highlights key changes and developments for today's students and... (more)
Working with Self Harm and Suicidal Behaviour
An authoritative introduction to identifying and assessing suicidal behaviour, this highly informative text explores both therapeutic interventions and postvention issues. Aimed at front-line... (more)
Rethinking Therapeutic Culture
Social critics have long lamented America's descent into a culture of narcissism, as Christopher Lasch so lastingly put it fifty years ago. From first world problems to political correctness, from... (more)
Feeling Lonesome: The Philosophy and Psychology of Loneliness
Loneliness is much more than just feeling sad or isolated. It is the ultimate ground source of unhappiness - the underlying reality of all negative human behavior that manifests as anxiety,... (more)
The Interactive World of Severe Mental Illness: Case Studies of the U.S. Mental Health System
In our society, medication is often seen as the treatment for severe mental illness, with psychotherapy a secondary treatment. However, quality social interaction may be as important for the recovery... (more)
Emotional Schema Therapy
Over decades of practice of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), Robert L. Leahy has made important discoveries about the role that beliefs and expectations about emotions play in psychopathology.... (more)
Treatment Plans and Interventions for Insomnia: A Case Formulation Approach
Poor sleep is a significant source of distress and is also a symptom of other problems, such as anxiety and depressive disorders. From leading experts in cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia... (more)
How to Help Clients Get the Most Out of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide
This book aims to assist therapists in helping their clients decide if Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is for them and, if so, how to get the most out of the model.
It does not seek... (more)
Relational Psychotherapy: A Primer: Second Edition
The new edition of Relational Psychotherapy offers a theory that's immediately applicable to everyday practice, from opening sessions through intensive engagement to termination. In clear, engaging... (more)
A Rumor of Empathy: Resistance, Narrative and Recovery in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Empathy is an essential component of the psychoanalyst's ability to listen and treat their patients. It is key to the achievement of therapeutic understanding and change. A Rumour of Empathy explores... (more)
Transforming Emotional Pain in Psychotherapy: An Emotion-Focused Approach
Emotion-focused therapy is a research-informed psychological therapy that to date has mainly been studied in the context of depression, trauma and couple distress. The evidence suggests that this... (more)