Individual Psychotherapy Books
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)
Writing Routes: A Resource Handbook of Therapeutic Writing
The use of creative writing as a route to personal or professional development is a powerful therapeutic tool, yet often the most difficult part is knowing how and where to begin. The experiences of... (more)
Solution Focused Therapy for the Helping Professions
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is an effective goal-focused therapeutic approach that involves working in partnership with the client, and empowers them by focusing on their strengths and... (more)
The Psychology of Spirituality: An Introduction
Spirituality is increasingly accepted as integral to human psychology, vital for physical and mental health. This is an accessible book that introduces the relationship between spirituality and... (more)
Introduction to Counseling: Voices from the Field: 7th Revised Edition
This student-centered overview of the counseling profession exposes you to real challenges faced by experienced practitioners and gives you an unparalleled look at what your professional future may... (more)
Therapy and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions to Therapeutic and Social Issues
Presents an overview of the origins, current practices, and potential future of the discipline of counselling psychology.
* Presents an up-to-date review of the knowledge base behind the discipline... (more)
Psychosis and Spirituality: Consolidating the New Paradigm: Second Edition
This new edition presents the most recent body of qualitative and quantitative research in its exploration of the interface between psychosis and spirituality. The book offers a fundamental... (more)
Essential Law for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
This book provides a user-friendly guide to the law for all those practising and training in the counselling profession. Barbara Mitchels and Tim Bond make legal issues relevant and bring them alive... (more)
Critical Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy
This innovative new textbook examines the critical debates around key topics in counselling and psychotherapy. In nine sections - including Everyday Counselling Practice, Training and Curriculum... (more)
Enchantments of the Clinic: Power, Eroticism, and Illusion in the Clinical Relationship
Reflecting on his experience in the clinical trenches, a pragmatic existential therapist offers a provocative study of power, erotic influence, and illusion in the clinical relationship. Written in a... (more)
The Compassionate Mind
Throughout history people have sought to cope with a life that is often stressful and hard. We have actually known for some time that developing compassion for oneself and others can help us face up... (more)
The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration
Bringing mindfulness techniques to your psychotherapeutic work with clients.
An integrated state of mindful awareness is crucial to achieving mental health. Daniel J. Siegel, an internationally... (more)
The Troubled Mind: A Handbook of Therapeutic Approaches to Psychological Distress
This comprehensive textbook discusses how trainees and busy practitioners can best respond therapeutically to clients' mental health problems. Grounded in the latest research, it is rich with case... (more)
The Injured Self: The Psychopathology and Psychotherapy of Developmental Deviations
The book examines the clinical implications of innate developmental individuality. The authors present a model of what they call "developmentally informed" therapy, based on the assumption that... (more)
Depression
A compact, practical guide to diagnosis, assessment, and empirically supported treatments of depression by one of the world's leading experts - for students and busy practitioners alike.
Based on... (more)
What is Counselling and Psychotherapy?
Written specifically for students on counselling and psychotherapy courses, this book gives an overview of the profession from its early beginnings in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis through the... (more)
Creating the Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy
At the centre of good counselling and psychotherapy practice is the relationship between therapist and client. This book is an essential guide for counselling and psychotherapy students who want to... (more)
Introduction to Psychotherapy: An Outline of Psychodynamic Principles and Practice: Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of Introduction to Psychotherapy builds on the success of the previous three editions and remains an essential purchase for trainee psychotherapists, psychiatrists and other... (more)
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)