Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Snake in the Clinic: Psychotherapy's Role in Medicine and Healing
This book offers an alternative to the usual view of psychotherapy’s role in relation to medicine by proposing that psychotherapy is less an adjunct to mainstream medicine than it is co-partner in... (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)
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)
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)
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)
Principles-Based Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Method of Levels Approach
Many current approaches to the treatment of psychological problems focus on specific disorders and techniques that are purported to be effective and distinct. Recent advances in knowledge and theory,... (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)
Treating Disruptive Disorders: A Guide to Psychological, Pharmacological, and Combined Therapies
Treating Disruptive Disorders is a practical book for busy clinicians - psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, clinical social workers, and more - as well as students, interns, or... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration: An Evolving Synergy
Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration traces the history of efforts to integrate psychoanalysis with other psychotherapeutic modalities, beginning with the early analysts, including... (more)
Teaching the World to Sleep: Psychological and Behavioural Assessment and Treatment Strategies for People with Sleeping Problems and Insomnia
Sleep problems are ubiquitous in the modern world, significantly impacting on quality of life, mental health, and performance at work and at home. More significantly, sleep problems accompany almost... (more)
The Secrets in Their Eyes: Transforming the Lives of People with Cognitive, Emotional, Learning, or Movement Disorders or Autism by Changing the Visual Software of the Brain
Vision therapy techniques can correct not only visual problems, but also cognitive, emotional and physical difficulties. Based on the pioneering work of Dr Melvin Kaplan, this research-based book... (more)
Introducing Mental Health: A Practical Guide: Second Edition
This popular and accessible introduction to mental health is written for students, mental health practitioners and non-qualified professionals. Fully revised, this second edition is up to date with... (more)
Healing for Adults Who Grew Up in Adoption or Foster Care: Positive Strategies for Overcoming Emotional Challenges
Positive and practical, this guide is designed to offer a route to recovery from grief and loss after adoption or long-term foster care. Children growing up in adoptive families or foster care often... (more)
Being With and Saying Goodbye: Cultivating Therapeutic Attitude in Professional Practice
At a time of increasing financial pressure on families - as well as the services that support them - children are doubly disadvantaged. The economical mass-provision of proven approaches appears to... (more)
Understanding Mental Disorders: Your Guide to DSM-5
Most of us know a friend, coworker, neighbor, or loved one suffering from a mental illness. This book provides valuable insight on what to expect from an illness and its treatment-and will help... (more)
Handbook on Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs) are both prevalent and a source of significant impairment for patients who suffer from them, yet they remain underrecognized and underdiagnosed.... (more)
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide presents a model of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its treatment that is based on contemporary... (more)
Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
All of us are creatures of a day, wrote Marcus Aurelius, rememberer and remembered alike. In his long-awaited new collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients'... (more)
Better Late than Never: The Reparative Therapeutic Relationship in Regression to Dependence
This book is concerned with an enigmatic set of experiences which theorists in the Object Relations tradition have characterised as regression to dependence, a return to a primitive, pre-verbal... (more)
Disability Psychotherapy: An Innovative Approach to Trauma-Informed Care
Much has been written about cognitive development in those who are cognitively impaired. Much is written about attachment for people who don’t have disabilities. Yet people with disabilities have... (more)
Integrative Mental Health Care: A Therapist's Handbook
In mental health care, as in medical care, more and more clinicians are turning to unconventional assessment and treatment approaches to evaluate and treat their patients in the most effective way... (more)
Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice
Hakomi is an integrative method that combines Western psychology and body-centered techniques with mindfulness principles from Eastern psychology. This book, written and edited by members of the... (more)
Solution-Oriented Spirituality - Connection, Wholeness, and Possibility for Therapist and Client
Although a growing number of Americans are turning to spirituality to help explain and supplement their lives, and a vast majority identify as religious, psychotherapy has long been reluctant to work... (more)
The Therapist's Ultimate Solution Book: Essential Strategies, Tips and Tools to Empower Your Clients
Clients go to therapy wanting to change, but often they have no inherent knowledge of how to change. It is up to the therapist to build a well-stocked toolkit of life skills and psychoeducational... (more)
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy - Bringing the Body into Treatment
When treating a client who has suffered from interpersonal trauma - whether chronic childhood abuse or domestic violence, for example - talk therapy isn't always the most effective course. For these... (more)