Individual Psychotherapy Books
Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health
Somatic Maternal Healing introduces a cutting-edge understanding of the body into the growing field of perinatal mental health. Chapters lay out a complete trauma treatment model for maternal mental... (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)
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)
Meaning-Fullness: Developmental Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mental Health
With a Foreword by Nancy McWilliams
The purpose of Meaning-Fullness: Developmental Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mental Health is to show why current mental health practices are falling short... (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)
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)
Life after a Partner's Suicide Attempt
Life After a Partner's Suicide Attempt is the first publication to document in depth the lived experiences of the partners of individuals who have attempted to take their own lives. Although no one... (more)
The Divided Therapist: Hemispheric Difference and Contemporary Psychotherapy
This important new book explores the nature of the divided brain and its relevance for contemporary psychotherapy. Citing the latest neuroscientific research, it shows how the relationship between... (more)
A Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Exploration of a Continent: Europe on the Couch
This important book gathers a set of influential international contributors with psychoanalytic and group analytic knowledge to provide a wide-ranging critical analysis of the present state of... (more)
The Evolution of Relational Paradigms in Transactional Analysis: What's the Relationship Got to Do With It?
In this fascinating and robust volume, the editors have compiled a collection of articles that provides an account of their individual theoretical journeys as they trace the evolution of relational... (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)
The Search for Meaning in Psychotherapy: Spiritual Practice, the Apophatic Way and Bion
If, when a patient enters therapy, there is an underlying yearning to discover a deeper sense of meaning or purpose, how might a therapist rise to such a challenge? As both Carl Jung and Wilfred Bion... (more)
Right Brain Psychotherapy
An exploration into the adaptive functions of the emotional right brain, which describes not only affect and affect regulation within minds and brains, but also the communication and iterative... (more)
Integrating Counselling & Psychotherapy
This highly practical book presents a model for understanding distress and change in counselling and psychotherapy. It demonstrates the key similarity between different therapeutic approaches:... (more)
Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach
Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach offers the practitioner a novel framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues involved in assessing and managing risks related to violence and sexual... (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)
In Therapy: The Unfolding Story
In this complete and updated edition of the groundbreaking In Therapy, world-renowned therapist Susie Orbach reveals what really goes on in therapy. Worldwide, increasingly large numbers of people... (more)
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients: Revised Edition
The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr Irvin Yalom's forty-five years' work as a therapist, this book illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out... (more)
The Therapist's Use of Self
This volume deals with what is perhaps the central question in therapy - who is the therapist? And how does that actually come across and manifest itself in the therapeutic relationship? A good deal... (more)
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir
'I was born in Washington, DC, June 13, 1931, of parents who immigrated from Russia shortly after the first world war. Home was the inner city of Washington - a small apartment atop my parents'... (more)
The Fear of Doing Nothing: Notes of a Young Therapist
In the spirit of Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Young Doctor’s Notebook and Sandeep Jauhar’s Intern, this is a deeply honest, searching examination of psychotherapy based on the experiences of a young... (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)
Handbook of Therapeutic Storytelling
The book is intended to assist people in the healing professions to utilise storytelling, pictures and metaphor as interventions to help their patients. By communicating in parallel worlds and using... (more)
Maximizing Effectiveness in Dynamic Psychotherapy
The best therapists embody the changes they attempt to facilitate in their patients. In other words, they practice what they preach and are an authentic and engaged, as well as highly skilled,... (more)
The Fat Lady Sings: A Psychological Exploration of the Cultural Fat Complex and its Effects
In the analytic encounter, body meets body, yet rarely is body mentioned. Without a body, we become like the nymph Echo, a disembodied voice condemned to echo what she hears. Rooted in analytical... (more)
Out of This World: Suicide Examined
This book is intended for anyone with either an interest in suicide or suicidal behaviour. It is not aimed solely at the professional psychotherapist but at a broad range of professionals who... (more)
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege: A Guide to Therapeutic Work with Boarding School Survivors
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege discusses how ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists; even experienced therapists may unwittingly struggle to skilfully address the... (more)