Individual Psychotherapy Books
Alfred Adler Revisited
Alfred Adler was one of the most influential thinkers in psychotherapy - a physician, psychiatrist, author, and professor who wanted to answer the questions that plagued people during a significant... (more)
Implausible Professions: Arguments for Pluralism and Autonomy in Psychotherapy and Counselling: Extended Second Edition
The first edition of Implausible Professions, published in 1997, foretold many of the core issues around therapy 'professionalisation' that have come to dominate the field in recent years as the... (more)
Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (or Multiple Personality Disorder)
This book provides all of the information a practitioner needs in order to begin work with clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Drawing on experiences from her own practice and... (more)
Healing Intelligence: The Spirit in Psychotherapy - Working with Darkness and Light
Natural healing intelligence is one of the great mysteries of the psyche. It is inherently elusive yet lies at the core of all efforts to cure emotional wounds. Psychotherapy and counselling, when... (more)
The Power of Specificity in Psychotherapy: When Therapy Works and When it Doesn't
Howard Bacal presents specificity theory, a contemporary process theory of psychotherapy that holds that therapy happens at the fit between the patient's particular therapeutic needs and the... (more)
The Sibling Relationship: A Force for Growth and Conflict
This book focuses on the role that siblings play in each other's development, on the ways in which they may enrich or cast a shadow over each other's lives, and on how their internalized influence... (more)
Forgiving, Forgetting, and Moving On: Living a Less-Conflicted Life
How do we come to relative peace when we have behaved badly, or how do we come to grips with the misbehaviors of those around us? Forgiving oneself or others may not always be fitting, and forgetting... (more)
Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies: Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis
Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is... (more)
Essentials of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
This practical, easy-to-use book introduces the theory and practice of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a key contextual third wave CBT approach. The book takes the reader through the... (more)
Developing Your Counselling and Psychotherapy Skills and Practice
This book offers a helping hand to trainees wishing to make the transition to the next level in their counselling and psychotherapy training. With wide-ranging content closely aligned to actual... (more)
The Historical and Philosophical Context of Rational Psychotherapy: The Legacy of Epictetus
This book brings together the papers written by the authors over the last fifteen years on the historical and philosophical foundations of Albert Ellis' Rational Psychotherapy (later Rational Emotive... (more)
Being a Therapist: A Practitioner's Handbook
Our contemporary world is one in which ‘the customer is always right’, and therapists, like many other professionals, are increasingly beset by rules and regulations that undermine their authority... (more)
Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction: Two Languages, One Voice?
This book explores the similarities and differences between the practice of psychotherapy and spiritual direction and suggests that, whilst there may be distinctions between the two activities, the... (more)
Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities and ADHD: Assessment and Accommodation
Most of the literature on learning disabilities and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) focuses on the needs of elementary school-age children, but older students with these conditions... (more)
From Therapist to Coach: How to Leverage Your Clinical Expertise to Build a Thriving Coaching Practice
Therapists are increasingly attracted to the emerging field of personal coaching and its various specialties, yet few understand exactly what coaching is, how it is different from therapy, and how to... (more)
Supervision as Transformation: A Passion for Learning
Supervision provides a positive space for compassion, inquiry, reflection, and above all development. The chapters in this book are written from a wide range of perspectives, all of which take a... (more)
Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy
This important and innovative book explores a new direction in psychoanalytic thought that can expand and deepen clinical practice. Relational psychoanalysis diverges in key ways from the assumptions... (more)
Understanding Behaviour in Dementia That Challenges: A Guide to Assessment and Treatment
As people grow older, their physical and psychological needs become more complex. Unmet needs often result in challenging behaviour, particularly if the person suffers from dementia. Ian Andrew James... (more)
500 Tips for Communicating with the Public
This is a light-hearted, easily digestible guide with a wealth of handy hints and tips for communicating with the public. For those in the helping professions, communicating with the public can... (more)
What Do I Say? The Therapist's Guide to Answering Client Questions
Therapists are used to asking questions, not answering them. What Do I Say? shows how client questions-no matter how difficult or uncomfortable-can be used to support the therapeutic process rather... (more)
Playing with Fire: The Controversial Career of Hans J. Eysenck
Probably no other psychologist has aroused such contrary reactions from the public and from the scientific community as Hans Eysenck. To the public, he was some kind of noble IQ warrior or "that... (more)
The Little Psychotherapy Book: Object Relations in Practice
Aimed at beginning therapists and those new to object relations, this concise work introduces the reader to the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy from an object relations (O-R) perspective in a... (more)
Six Key Approaches to Counselling and Therapy: Second Edition
This updated and revised new edition of Six Key Approaches to Counselling and Therapy provides an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of six of the most popular contemporary... (more)
What Will You Do With My Story?
Psychoanalyst Elizabeth Meakins uses her popular columns from The Independent to explore the therapeutic process. Successful analysis, she argues, is less about following pre-formulated theory and... (more)
Anxiety Disorders: The Go-to Guide for Clients and Therapists
Anxiety disorders are the number-one psychiatric problem in the United States, yet many clients who suffer from anxiety do not get effective counselling, and they often end therapy without successful... (more)
Neurobiology Essentials for Clinicians: What Every Therapist Needs to Know
A primer on brain functionality as it relates to therapeutic work.
This book presents an overview of the latest theories of affect regulation and focuses on how these theories work in clinical... (more)
Poker Face in Mental Health Practice: A Primer on Deception Analysis and Detection
Using the latest techniques from poker players to detect when your patients are lying to you.
Forensic psychiatrists frequently deal with deceptive people. In these cases, malingering is the most... (more)
Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution
This classic book, available in paperback for the very first time, explores why some people can successfully change their lives and others cannot. Here famed psychologist Paul Watzlawick presents... (more)
Why Can't I Help this Child to Learn? Understanding Emotional Barriers to Learning
The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of their relationships on their learning. In addition,... (more)
Regulation in Action: The Health Professions Council Fitness to Practise Hearing of Dr Malcolm Cross - Analysis, History, and Comment
‘…if you feel that something is deeply wrong in the relationship between the state and civil society, and that there is too much interference in professional work, you will find this book both... (more)