Individual Psychotherapy Books
Empowering Therapeutic Practice: Integrating Psychodrama into Other Therapies
This book explores the exciting areas of overlap between psychodrama and other therapeutic schools and presents opportunities for their creative interaction and integration. Psychodramatists, to... (more)
The Body Speaks: Body Image Delusions and Hypochondria
This book explores David Rosenfeld's pioneering work with severely disturbed patients, to show what it means to work and think as a psychoanalyst about transference and the internal world of a... (more)
Being and Relating in Psychotherapy: Ontology and Therapeutic Practice
Clients who seek therapy often feel they are struggling with their whole being: their emotional, physical, relational and social selves. Understanding this is crucial to developing a successful... (more)
The Psyche in the Modern World: Psychotherapy and Society
The Psyche in the Modern World sets out to open consulting room doors and bring the concept of the Psyche, and its main advocate, the psychotherapy discipline, into public space and into the realm of... (more)
Becoming a Published Therapist: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Your Book
In this practical, witty, and no-nonsense book, Bill O'Hanlon provides all the essential information for readers interested in writing their own books. He discusses all the big issues: writer's... (more)
Carl Rogers: The China Diary
In 1922, at just 20 years of age, farm boy Carl Rogers embarked on a journey halfway around the world. His China diary provide an intimate portrait of a young man exploring his faith, his purpose,... (more)
Personal Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy
There is an increased emphasis on self awareness and self care in counselling and psychotherapy training, with a focus on how the therapist as a person affects the therapeutic outcome. This timely... (more)
The Developing Practitioner: Growth and Stagnation of Therapists and Counselors
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the professional development of counselors and therapists over the career lifespan. Drawing on their own extensive experience as psychotherapists,... (more)
Transforming Clinical Practice Using the MindBody Approach: A Radical Integration
This book assumes that it is no longer tenable to work in healthcare without considering the person as a whole being constituted by a rich weaving of mind, body, culture, family, spirit and ecology.... (more)
Group and Individual Work with Older People: A Practical Guide to Running Successful Activity-based Programmes
Being active is fundamental to a person's sense of physical and mental wellbeing, and the need to engage in purposeful and meaningful activity does not diminish with age. However, common effects of... (more)
Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach
This is an accessible and user friendly guide to the theory and practice of relational counselling and psychotherapy. It offers a meta-theoretical framework for the integration of the three most... (more)
Voices of Experience: Narratives of Mental Health Survivors
Voices of Experience contains a wide range of stories written by mental health survivors. The narratives illustrate how survivors have developed self-management techniques and strategies for living... (more)
Introduction to Counseling: Voices from the Field: 7th Revised Edition
This student-centered overview of the counseling profession exposes you to real challenges faced by experienced practitioners and gives you an unparalleled look at what your professional future may... (more)
Theories of Counselling and Psychotherapy: An Introduction to the Different Approaches: Second Revised Edition
This concise and effective text provides a clear comparative approach to the main models of therapy for students of counselling, psychotherapy and mental health. Drawing on case examples, it shows... (more)
The Impossibility of Knowing: Dilemmas of a Psychotherapist
This is a book that assembles and integrates Jackie Gerrard's clinical work and thinking over the many years of her working life. Part I focuses on patients with specific types of psychopathology and... (more)
Existential Perspectives on Supervision: Widening the Horizon of Psychotherapy and Counselling
Supervision is an essential part of counselling and psychotherapy practice. It is increasingly recognised as a tool for ensuring high professional standards. In an era of regulation and tightening... (more)
When the Opposite Sex Isn't: Sexual Orientation in Male-To-Female Transgender People
When there is uncertainty about the gender identity or social gender role of an individual, determining exactly who the opposite sex is can be a complicated question for both the transgender person... (more)
Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses: Past, Present and Future
Brings together professionals from around the world to provide an extensive overview of the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis. Divided into three parts - past, present and future - the book... (more)
Race and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings: A Manual for Professionals
"Race" and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings is a practical resource for trainers who wish to work with the issues raised by racial and cultural diversity in their own agency settings. It is... (more)
Listening to Music in Psychotherapy
This enlightening text promotes listening to music as a rewarding component in the psychotherapeutic consultation. It encourages the choice of music to come from the patient, rather than being... (more)
Terminating Therapy: A Professional Guide to Ending on a Positive Note
The first book of its kind to provide an in-depth and practical approach to termination of therapy, "Terminating Therapy" guides mental health professionals through the practical, ethical, legal, and... (more)
Managing Self-Harm: Psychological Perspectives
Self-harm often arises at moments of despair, or intensity and its reasons are not necessarily available to the conscious mind. "Managing Self Harm" explores unconscious meanings for self-harming and... (more)
Severe Personality Disorders
This book is about understanding and managing patients with severe personality disorders. It covers biological, psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioural approaches and provides a pragmatic guide to... (more)
Using the Transference in Psychotherapy
"Using the Transference" centres around two dominant themes - the old versus the new models of transference, and the role of transference in psychotherapy. As background information the book provides... (more)
Behavioral Treatment for Substance Abuse in People with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals
The correlation between schizophrenia and substance abuse in psychology is recognized as a growing issue, yet it is one that many practitioners are often ill-prepared to address. "Behavioral... (more)
Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives
This edited volume introduces students to the history and theory of narrative therapy. Authors Catrina Brown and Tod Augusta-Scott situate this approach to theory and practice within the context of... (more)
Integrative Therapy: Second Edition
For many therapists it is clear that no one approach can offer everything they and their clients need. However, by combining elements from different models, a more flexible and potentially more... (more)
Impact Techniques for Therapists
Impact Therapy, developed by Ed Jacobs in 1992, is a form of counseling that uses multisensory techniques and tools in order to integrate therapist-client exchanges on not only a verbal but also... (more)
Reflecting on Reality: Psychotherapists at Work in Primary Care
Primary care and psychotherapy are in some ways worlds apart. Yet both deal with the same human fundamentals: birth, and death, hope and disappointment, identity and uncertainty. This innovative book... (more)
Setting Out: The Importance of the Beginning in Psychotherapy and Counselling
The outcome of therapy is always to some extent determined by success of the initial session. In Setting Out the issues surrounding this subject are explored, providing valuable insights into the... (more)