Individual Psychotherapy Books
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)
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)