Individual Psychotherapy Books
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)
Design for Nature in Dementia Care
Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia. The benefits of connecting the subjective experience of dementia... (more)
Psychotherapist Revealed: Therapists Speak About Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy
In this edited volume, the real dialogue begins. Therapists speak openly and honestly about their self-disclosure practices, decisions and clinical dilemmas. Bloomgarden and Mennuti bring together... (more)
Exploring the Spiritual: Paths for Counselors and Psychotherapists
Gain solid empirical findings to understand your own spiritual development To significantly impact clients spirituality and use the spiritual strengths the client possesses to facilitate their move... (more)
Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) lags far behind other disorders such as schizophrenia in terms of research and treatment interventions. Debates about diagnosis, etiology, neurobiology,... (more)
Coming Out, Coming Home: Making Room for Gay Spirituality in Therapy
"Coming Out, Coming Home" increases the potential for spiritual growth and development in our society. Many books have been written and many opinions aired about gay rights and pro-gay theology, but... (more)
Schema Therapy
Schema therapy combines proven cognitive behaviour therapy techniques with elements of interpersonal, experiential and psychodynamic therapies in order to help people with long term mental health... (more)
When the Opposite Sex Isn't: Sexual Orientation in Male-To-Female Transgender People
When there is uncertainty about the gender identity or social gender role of an individual, determining exactly who the opposite sex is can be a complicated question for both the transgender person... (more)
Sex-Offender Therapy: A How-To Workbook for Therapists Treating Sexually Aggressive Adults, Adolescents, and Children
Sexual abuse, sexual addiction, and sexual offending have become a significant clinical problem. Successfully treating these disorders is the first step toward preventing future victims.... (more)
Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: In Forensic Settings
Comprehensively focuses on the integration of ethical, legal, and clinical issues for practicing mental health professionals dealing with legal processes in forensic settings. This unique text is... (more)
Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses: Past, Present and Future
Brings together professionals from around the world to provide an extensive overview of the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis. Divided into three parts - past, present and future - the book... (more)
Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities and ADHD: Assessment and Accomodation
Most of the literature on learning disabilities and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) focuses on the needs of elementary-age children, but older students with these conditions also... (more)
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
New in paperback. From Love's Executioner to The Gift of Therapy, over the past quarter century Irvin Yalom has established himself as the world's leading group psychotherapist. In this new work Dr... (more)