Individual Psychotherapy Books
Sex, Sexuality And Therapeutic Practice: A Manual for Therapists and Trainers
Sexuality is an important area of client's lives, yet it is often neglected, both in the consulting room and in training. This book examines issues of sexuality in a positive and affirming light and... (more)
Researching, Reflecting and Writing About Work: Guidance on Training Course Assignments and Research for Psychotherapists and Counsellors
A guide to the research skills and critical thinking required to complete a research project for professional learning courses in counselling and psychotherapy. Written at a level easily accessible... (more)
Personification: Using the Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Personification discusses the theory behind multiplicity of the person and considers the implications that the relationships between the different parts of the same person have in practice. Providing... (more)
Everyday Mysteries: Existential Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Second Edition
This book provides an in-depth introduction to existential psychotherapy. Presenting a philosophical alternative to other forms of psychological treatment, it emphasises the problems of living and... (more)
Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology: A Transdiagnostic Approach to Etiology and Treatment
Regardless of their specific diagnosis, many people seeking treatment for psychological problems have some form of difficulty in managing emotional experiences. This state-of-the-art volume explores... (more)
Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience: Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work
Explores the interface between spiritual and psychological care in the context of disaster recovery work, drawing upon various disasters. (more)
Constructivist Psychotherapy: A Narrative Hermeneutic Approach
Reviews the constructivist trends in psychotherapy, allowing the reader to enter a fresh dialogue and elaborating on Kelly's personal construct theory and the implications for psychotherapeutic... (more)
God Image Handbook for Spiritual Counseling and Psychotherapy: Research, Theory, and Practice
Learn seven clinical approaches to working with the God image in psychotherapy Each person has two ideas of God - the God concept and the God image. The God concept is intellectual in nature, while... (more)
Interviewing Clients Across Cultures: A Practitioner's Guide
Filled with practical pointers and examples, this guide helps professionals conduct productive interviews while building strong working relationships with culturally and linguistically diverse... (more)
On the Ground After September 11: Mental Health Responses and Practical Knowledge Gained
On the Ground after September 11 is an insightful compilation of over one hundred personal and professional first-hand accounts of the September 11 experience - from the moment the first plane... (more)
An Integrative Approach to Therapy and Supervision: A Practical Guide for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
This title is suitable for experienced, newly-qualified and trainee counsellors and psychotherapists and those responsible for their training and development. An Integrative Approach to Psychotherapy... (more)
Integrative Psychotherapy in Action
What is integrative psychotherapy? How effective is the integrative approach to therapy? And what are its limitations? Answering these and other significant questions, this insightful volume provides... (more)
The Creative Therapist: The Art of Awakening a Session
This book illustrates how creativity may be brought into therapy and prescribes various strategies for awakening clinical creativity as well as finding your own unique style of therapeutic presence.... (more)
The Therapist's Notebook on Strengths and Solution-based Therapies: Homework, Handouts, and Activities
Offers multiple pathways for those in helping relationships to employ strengths and solution-based (SSB) principles and practices as a vehicle for promoting positive change with individuals, couples,... (more)
Rediscovering Confession: The Practice of Forgiveness and Where it Leads
This book identifies four elements present in psychotherapy and confession: a state of heightened self-awareness, a growing realization that our predicament points in some meaningful direction beyond... (more)
Psychotherapy as a Developmental Process
This book provides a basis for improving psychotherapy practice, research, and training, offering therapists ways of improving their success rate by means of disciplined attention to and reflection... (more)
The Psychology of Courage: An Adlerian Handbook for Healthy Social Living
In this book, the authors discuss the theoretical basis of courage in combination with the assessment and change strategies of Adlerian psychology. The processes that bring out the courage of change... (more)
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
This wise, eloquent, and practical book illuminates the nature of self-compassion and offers easy-to-follow, scientifically grounded steps for incorporating it into daily life. Vivid examples and... (more)
Prime Time: Maximizing the Therapeutic Experience: A Primer for Psychiatric Clinicians
A primer intended to help the mental health clinician to do more (quality work) with less (time). One of the difficulties that all psychiatrists encounter when they see patients for less than fifty... (more)
Who is it That Can Tell Me Who I Am?
In this searingly honest memoir, Jane Haynes recalls to her psychotherapist her extraordinary story. Having overcome her strange childhood, overshadowed by her mother's absence and father's descent... (more)
Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy: Tales of Transformation and Astonishment
In Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy, well-known authors Kottler and Carlson have invited some of the world's most creative therapists and researchers to share stories that have resulted in... (more)
Ethics for Psychotherapists and Counselors: A Proactive Approach
Utilizes positive discussions accompanied by a variety of thought-provoking exercises, case scenarios, and writing assignments to introduce readers to all the major ethical issues in psychotherapy.... (more)
Being and Becoming: Psychodynamics, Buddhism, and the Origins of Selfhood
Presents an inquiry into the nature of being and selfhood. The book outlines an integrated paradigm with the aim of creating a comprehensive overview of the human condition - and to find ways to... (more)
The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management
In The Mindfulness Solution to Pain, the authors modify Jon Kabat-Zinn's original mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) program to create a new program they call mindfulness based chronic pain... (more)
Managing Managed Care: Psychotherapy and Medication Management in the Modern Era
The first comprehensive exploration of the many issues and challenges faced by both providers and patients who work under the auspices of managed care insurers. The distinctive conditions of managed... (more)
Evidence from Within: A Paradigm for Clinical Practice
This book squarely addresses the question: does psychotherapy work? It proposes an innovative model of psychological and psychiatric assessment and treatment. Having read this book, the practitioner... (more)
Male Sexuality: Why Women Don't Understand It - And Men Don't Either
At first glance the sexual male seems easy to understand, but beneath the surface lie complexities that disrupt lives and relationships. Why can men be so distant in bed? Why do many men love porn so... (more)
Lying, Cheating, and Carrying on: Developmental, Clinical, and Sociocultural Aspects of Dishonesty and Deceit
What constitutes a lie? What are the different types of lies? Why do people lie? Is dishonesty ubiquitous in human experience? And what should be done with individuals who seek psychotherapeutic help... (more)
Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Transition
This book will stimulate readers to cross borders: between theory and practice, between research and everyday therapy, between out-patient and in-patient psychotherapy, between the view of ones own,... (more)
Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide
Few tasks are more important - and daunting - than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. This book is a unique resource providing fresh... (more)