Individual Psychotherapy Books
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism: A Handbook
Despite the growing cultural and empirical interest in narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder, therapists often feel confused and overwhelmed about how to help patients struggling with... (more)
Telling the Truth: The Therapist’s Dilemma
‘Speak the truth here’ is a therapist’s invitation to their client – but is the same true for the therapist? Can and should psychotherapists speak honestly with clients and share the difficult truths... (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)
Shame and Anger in Psychotherapy
This book examines shame and anger, their relationship with one another, and how mental health providers can work with each of them to produce therapeutic change.
Although very different... (more)
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)
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)
Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in-Relationship
Written by leaders in the field of relational integrative psychotherapy, this book offers trainees and experienced therapists a methodology for assisting people in rediscovering their ability to... (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)
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)
A Clinical Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
A Clinical Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy serves as an accessible and applied introduction to psychodynamic psychotherapy.
The book is a resource for psychodynamic psychotherapy that gives... (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)
Creative Methods in Schema Therapy
Creative Methods in Schema Therapy captures current trends and developments in Schema Therapy in rich clinical detail, with a vividness that inspires and equips the reader to integrate these new ways... (more)
Towards an Ecopsychotherapy
Psychotherapy invites us to tell the story of our human relationships; ecopsychotherapy expands this to include our earth story, the context or continuum in which our human relationships sit. ... (more)
A Healing Relationship: Individual Psychotherapy
A Healing Relationship is about a relationally focused psychotherapy, how the author works, and why. The first couple of chapters provide a brief orientation to relationally focused aspects of an... (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)
Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatment
In this innovative book, master clinician Michael Garrett shows how to weave together cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy to support the recovery of persons suffering from... (more)
Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program: A Guide for Professionals
This is the authoritative guide to conducting the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program, which provides powerful tools for coping with life challenges and enhancing emotional well-being. MSC... (more)
Black Skin, White Masks
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an... (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)
The Affect Theory of Silvan Tomkins for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Recasting the Essentials
The Affect Theory of Silvan Tomkins for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy explores central issues in current clinical work, using the theories put forward by Silvan Tomkins and presenting them in... (more)
Ghosts in the Human Psyche: The Story of a “Muslim Armenian”
Vamik Volkan examines the impact of past and present historical events, cultural elements, political movements and their mental images on the psyche of individuals. Beginning with the history of the... (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)
Experiencing Compassion-Focused Therapy from the Inside Out
For therapists wishing to build their skills in compassion-focused therapy (CFT), this powerful workbook presents a unique evidence-based training approach. Self-practice/self-reflection (SP/SR)... (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)
Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text: Third Edition
Because it provides clear instruction for getting started in the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy, this book has found a grateful audience of psychiatric residents and other mental health... (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)
Human Nature and Suffering: Classic Edition
Human Nature and Suffering is a profound comment on the human condition, from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. Paul Gilbert explores the implications of humans as evolved social animals,... (more)