Individual Psychotherapy Books
Therapeutic Journal Writing: An Introduction for Professionals
Writing a journal is not just about keeping a record of daily events - journal writing provides a unique therapeutic opportunity for personal and professional development. Kate Thompson guides the... (more)
Best Practice in Professional Supervision: A Guide for the Helping Professions
It is the job of a good supervisor to adequately support the supervisee in decision-making, help them with their professional development, provide a supportive environment and above all guarantee the... (more)
A Psychotherapy of Love: Psychosynthesis in Practice
Illuminates the role of empathic love in psychotherapy. This book shows what psychosynthesis looks like in the empirical practice of psychotherapy. Originally conceived by Italian psychiatrist... (more)
A Guide to Integral Psychotherapy: Complexity, Integration, and Spirituality in Practice
A therapist's guide to psychotherapy, spirituality, and self-development. This book provides a practical introduction to Integral Psychotherapy, which positions itself as the most comprehensive... (more)
Multicultural Therapy Over Time (DVD)
In Multicultural Therapy Over Time, Melba J. T. Vasquez demonstrates this important and influential model, one that has recently infused a number of approaches to psychotherapy. Multicultural therapy... (more)
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders: A Clinical Handbook
This handbook is intended for clinicians with a range of expertise who employ a psychodynamic orientation in the assessment and/or treatment of patients with personality pathology. Well documented... (more)
The Talking Cure: Wittgenstein's Therapeutic Method for Psychotherapy
One of Freud's central claims is that our words and actions reveal unrecognised confusions lying at the heart of our relationships with others and the world. Taking Freud at his word and sharing his... (more)
Biofeedback for the Brain: How Neurotherapy Effectively Treats Depression, ADHD, Autism, and More
"Neurofeedback" is a cutting-edge, drug-free therapeutic technique used by over a thousand licensed therapists in North America to treat a range of conditions from attention deficit and hyperactivity... (more)
Psychotherapy Integration
In Psychotherapy Integration George Stricker discusses the history, theory, and practice of this approach to therapy. Although no single therapeutic model claims a majority of practitioners, the most... (more)
Person-Centered Psychotherapies
In Person-Centered Psychotherapies David J. Cain discusses the history, theory, research and practice of this seminal approach whose basic premises have influenced the practice of most therapeutic... (more)
Experimentation and Innovation in Psychotherapy
After a long period of relatively slow change and development, the practice of psychotherapy entered a phase of vigorous experimentation in the 1960s. Greatly increased public recognition of the role... (more)
Emotions in the Field: The Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience
As emotion is often linked with irrationality, its no surprise researchers tend to underreport the emotions they experience in the field. This book explores the idea that emotion is not antithetical... (more)
Post-existentialism and the Psychological Therapies: Towards a Therapy without Foundations
A valuable contribution to the field by a professor of psychotherapy and author and editor of many titles in this area. (more)
The Power of Silence: Silent Communication in Daily Life
Colum Kenny explores the significance of silence in the arts, business, personal relationships, therapy, faith, politics, and other areas of daily life.
This book demonstrates that silence is... (more)
The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy
Somatic psychology and bodymind therapy examine the body and the mind as a whole, emphasising the reciprocal relationships between the two. This branch of psychotherapy focuses on the body, body... (more)
Psychotherapy Is Worth It: A Comprehensive Review of Its Cost-Effectiveness
Surveys the medical, psychiatric and psychological literature from 1984 to 2007 that is relevant to the cost-effectiveness of all kinds of psychotherapy. The volume explores the cost of providing... (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)
Mental Health, Race and Culture: Third Edition
This powerful text offers a unique analysis of the impact of race and culture on contemporary issues in mental health. Drawing on extensive international experience, Fernando challenges the... (more)
The Solution Lies Within: Towards a New Medicine for the Body and the Mind
In The Solution Lies Within, surgeon and psychotherapist Thierry Janssen examines the daunting task of "reconnecting": reconnecting our mind to our body, in order to gain a true sense of well-being,... (more)
Why Therapists Choose to Become Therapists: A Practice-Based Enquiry
Almost two decades ago, the psychoanalyst Sussman concluded that the therapist's motivation for practicing was a neglected area. Is this maybe a question best left alone?
This book revisits the... (more)
Mastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Roadmap to the Unconscious
Over two decades, on two continents, Josette ten Have-de Labije and Robert J. Neborsky have struggled to define and perfect the therapeutic methods of Habib Davanloo. Between the two of them, they... (more)
Techniques of Hypnotic Induction
One of the most challenging parts of the practice of clinical hypnosis is the creation and use of hypnotic inductions. The therapy phase of the hypnotic process can consist of a story, an age... (more)
Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery
A new analysis of the hearing voices experience outside the illness model, resulted in accepting and making sense of voices. This study of 50 stories forms the evidence for this successful new... (more)
Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person: Improving Outcomes for That Minority of People Who are the Majority of Clients
In Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, Dr Elaine Aron redefines the term highly sensitive. She dispels common misconceptions about the relationship between being sensitive and other... (more)
Treating Personality Disorder: Creating Robust Services for People with Complex Mental Health Needs
Considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment... (more)
Therapy with Young Men: 16-24 Year Olds in Treatment
Young adult men in their late teens and early twenties are statistically the least happy of any group of males surveyed. What's more, scholarly research tells us that adolescent boys and young men... (more)
Supervising the Reflective Practitioner: An Essential Guide to Theory and Practice
Development as a reflective practitioner has become an essential quality for practitioners in the fields of health, education and social care. Supervising the Reflective Practitioner provides... (more)
Stress, Coping, and Development
Examines the nature of psychosocial stress and the implications of different coping strategies for adaptation and health across the lifespan. (more)
Mental Health and Later Life: Delivering an Holistic Model for Practice
The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing. This textbook will make it much easier for health, social care and third... (more)