Individual Psychotherapy Books
Restoring Resilience: Discovering Your Clients' Capacity for Healing
Eileen Russell offers therapists a model for drawing on their clients' innate strengths to get the most out of therapy. Without minimizing pathology, she explains what is meant by resilience in a... (more)
The Origins of Unhappiness: A New Understanding of Personal Distress
It is the main argument of this book that emotional and psychological distress is often brought about through the operation of social-environmental powers which have their origin at a considerable... (more)
Taking Care: An Alternative to Therapy
Taking Care established David Smail as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work he develops the analysis of mental illness, and... (more)
Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety
This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer. Instead, anxiety and depression are described as... (more)
Nature and Therapy: Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy in Outdoor Spaces
Recent decades have seen an increasing interest in the healing and therapeutic potential of nature and interest in the potential of greencare interventions for the benefit of mental health. The field... (more)
On Becoming a Psychotherapist
Why do people want to become a psychotherapist? How do they translate this desire into reality? On Becoming a Psychotherapist explores these and related questions. Ten leading therapists write about... (more)
Disabling Perversions: Forensic Psychotherapy with People with Intellectual Disabilities
The book offers an overview of how to work with some of the most damaged members of society - children and adults with intellectual disabilities who abuse others. Drawing on insight from two decades... (more)
Mindful Counselling and Psychotherapy: Practising Mindfully Across Approaches and Issues
This book breaks new ground by relating mindfulness to all of the other therapeutic approaches, across all the common presenting problems in counselling and psychotherapy. Mindfulness is increasingly... (more)
The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist: Private Life, Professional Practice
Therapists are often expected to be immune to the kind of problems that they help clients through. This book serves to demonstrate that this is certainly not the case: they are no more resistant to... (more)
How Master Therapists Work: Effecting Change from the First Through the Last Session and Beyond
How Master Therapists Work engages the reader in experiencing what really happens in therapy with master therapists: who they are, what they do, and how they bring about significant change in... (more)
A New Body-Mind Approach: Clinical Cases
Integrative psychosomatics is a new approach to explaining illnesses and how patients relate to their problems. This new discipline draws on psychoanalysis, medicine and the neurosciences, rather... (more)
Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness
Embodied self-awareness is the ability to feel our emotions and movements in the present moment, without the influence of judgmental thoughts (such as: Am I doing this right?). Body Sense offers a... (more)
Circular Therapeutics: Giving Therapy a Healing Heart
Internationally-recognized as elder healers, psychotherapists and authors, Hillary and Bradford Keeney invite therapists to open their hearts and journey back in time to discover ancient and... (more)
Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression
Leslie S. Greenberg and Jeanne C. Watson, well-regarded scholars and leading figures in the field, provide a manual for the emotion-focused treatment (EFT) of depression. Their approach is supported... (more)
Moments of Uncertainty in Therapeutic Practice: Interpreting within the Matrix of Projective Identification, Countertransference, and Enactment
One of therapy's greatest challenges is the moment of transference, when a patient unconsciously transfers emotion or desire to a new and present object - in some cases the therapist. During the... (more)
Psychodynamic Theory in Therapeutic Practice: Second Edition
This approachable text provides a brilliantly clear account of the major psychodynamic theories and their development. Vivid pen portraits and rich case examples show how key concepts first... (more)
Theory and Practice of Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
The book opens with an introduction to and history of the experiential dynamic therapies (EDT) including the groundbreaking Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) of Habib Davanloo and... (more)
Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis
‘"Vital signs" are, of course, the basic physiological measures of functioning which health practitioners use to assess the gravity of a patient’s predicament. This anthology focuses not so much on... (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)
The Mirror Crack'd: When Good Enough Therapy Goes Wrong and Other Cautionary Tales for the Humanistic Practitioner
Revised edition. This title is as a wake-up call to take seriously the climate in which mental health professionals practice in which complaints and civil actions against psychotherapists and... (more)
Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy
A discussion of the self, both in and out of therapy.
For each of us, our thoughts, beliefs, desires, expectations, and fantasies constitute our own sense of a unique identity. Here, Jungian and... (more)
Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Case-based knowledge forms an essential element of the evidence base for counselling and psychotherapy practice. This book provides the reader with a unique introduction to the conceptual and... (more)
The How-To Book for Students of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This is a book that grew out of the many practical "how-to" questions that the author's psychotherapy students have asked him over the years. It is neither an evidence-based compendium nor an attempt... (more)
Forms of Vitality: Exploring Dynamic Experience in Psychology, the Arts, Psychotherapy, and Development
In his new book, eminent psychologist Daniel Stern, author of the classic The Interpersonal World of the Infant, explores the hitherto neglected topic of 'vitality' - that is, the force or power... (more)
Understanding Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice
Understanding Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice is a volume in the clinical practice monograph series from the Society of Analytical Psychology. This series is intended primarily for... (more)
The Past in the Present: Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma
Brings together for the first time contemporary ideas from both the psychoanalytic and humanist therapy traditions, looking at how trauma and enactments affect psychotherapeutic practice. Enactments... (more)
Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns
Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns is an exciting collection of contemporary writings on Life Script theory and psychotherapeutic methods. Each chapter... (more)
Ego State Therapy
What lies in the dark unconscious expanse of our psyche? What causes the words we hear in our mind? What internal dynamic produces depression, panic attacks, and addiction? And, how can learning what... (more)
Beginnings in Psychotherapy: A Guidebook for New Therapists
Every new therapist faces a first session, often with trepidation. How do they prepare for that first session? How do they know what tools to apply on that first day, and over those first few weeks?... (more)
Psychotherapy and Culture: Weaving Inner and Outer Worlds
This book explores cross-cultural relationships and the psychological journey of migration, drawing from the author's extensive experience in this field. Many complex theoretical and clinical... (more)