Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Mending of Minds: Psychiatric Illness and Its Treatment: A Guide for Families and Patients
Written by a doctor specialising in psychiatry, this book will help the general reader to understand and sympathise with the mentally ill. Mental illness has many forms and many treatments; it can... (more)
Men in Therapy: New Approaches for Effective Treatment
How men deal with social and emotional pressures has long been inadequately addressed by therapists. Many traditionally masculine values are antithetical to therapy's goals. This book equips... (more)
Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self-Transformation
Using principles from hypnosis, biofeedback, object relations therapy and cognitive therapy, therapists learn how to help their clients calm themselves, remove stress and achieve goals. With a range... (more)
Meditation for Therapists and Their Clients
"Meditation for Therapists and Their Clients" offers an in-depth exploration of what meditation is, how to do it, and how to use it. This book is written for health care professionals to provide new... (more)
Reflections in Personal Construct Theory
This book examines different aspects of reflexivity. Twenty well known practitioners will reflect on how reflexivity has impacted on their work. Each chapter will cover an aspect of personal... (more)
Mental Health Across Cultures: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals
Every health professional interacts with patients from different cultures to their own, not just those from different countries, ethnic or religious groups, but also those with cultural differences... (more)
Being White in the Helping Professions: Developing Effective Intercultural Awareness
In this reflective yet practical book, the author challenges white helping professionals to recognize their own cultural identity and the impact it has when practising in a multicultural environment.... (more)
Recovery from Depression Using the Narrative Approach: A Guide for Doctors, Complementary Therapists and Mental Health Professionals
Explores people's experiences of depression, recovery and available treatments. The author explains how, by selecting a variety of narrative tools, such as talking therapies, yoga and complementary... (more)
Emerging Developments in Pre-Therapy: A Pre-Therapy Reader
Pre-Therapy is not only a theory an d technique of psychotherapy, but also a method of understanding psychological phenomena. Western humanistic psychology has traditionally focused on higher levels... (more)
Race and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings: A Manual for Professionals
"Race" and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings is a practical resource for trainers who wish to work with the issues raised by racial and cultural diversity in their own agency settings. It is... (more)
Principles and Practice of Stress Management: Third Edition
Structured for optimal use as a clinical reference and text, this comprehensive work reviews effective stress management techniques and their applications for treating psychological problems and... (more)
The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders; Healing the Body with the Mind
This fascinating book traces the roots of mindbody disorders, exploring the interaction between the reasonable, rational, conscious mind, and the repressed feelings of pain, hurt, sadness and anger... (more)
Psychotherapy with Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Fostering Autonomy Through Attachment
Adolescent girls and young women in therapy - even those who genuinely desire change - often are highly ambivalent and difficult to engage. This book provides fresh insights and powerful clinical... (more)
Relational Ethics in Practice: Narratives from Counselling and Psychotherapy
Presents a new collection of narratives on ethics in day-to-day therapeutic practice. Highly experienced professionals from a range of roles in the therapeutic professions explore ways of developing... (more)
Core Competencies in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Becoming a Highly Competent and Effective Therapist
Core Competencies in Psychotherapy addresses the core competencies common to the effective practice of all psychotherapeutic approaches, and includes specific intervention competencies of the three... (more)
Principles of Psychotherapy: Promoting Evidence-based Psychodynamic Practice: Third Edition
Generations of clinicians have valued "Principles of Psychotherapy" for its breadth of coverage and accessibility and the authors ability to gather many elements into a unified presentation. The... (more)
Contented Dementia: 24-hour Wraparound Care for Lifelong Well-being
Dementia is a little understood and currently incurable illness, but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. Contented Dementia - by clinical psychologist and... (more)
The 3-Point Therapist
An ambitious trainee therapist, determined to make her mark in the therapy world, seeks supervision and guidance. In her meetings with the 3-Point Therapist she gains much more than she had bargained... (more)
Working with Ethnicity, Race and Culture in Mental Health: A Handbook for Practitioners
This book enables front line practitioners to understand why it is important to consider the specific needs of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in mental health settings. It... (more)
Supervision in Counselling and Psychotherapy: An Introduction
Supervision is essential for counsellors and psychotherapists, but it can create emotional pressures and practical dilemmas. This book offers a sympathetic introduction to supervision that helps the... (more)
Eleven Blunders That Cripple Psychotherapy in America: A Remedial Unblundering
After a period of economic success and high regard in society, clinical psychology has fallen onto hard times, assert authors Nicholas Cummings and William O'Donohue. In the 1960s, clinical... (more)
Culture and the Therapeutic Process: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
While there are numerous resources for practitioners on the subject, the ambiguity remains of what actually constitutes effective multicultural counseling and psychotherapy and how it should be... (more)
Treating Alcohol and Drug Problems in Psychotherapy Practice: Doing What Works
Written specifically for the office-based psychotherapist, this practical guide describes how to detect, assess, diagnose, and treat clients presenting with a range of alcohol and drug problems.... (more)
Being Human: Reflections on Mental Distress in Society
An array of critical voices from across various disciplines in the humanities- including philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, history and literature - are brought to bear upon the subject of mental... (more)
Contemporary Body Psychotherapy: The Chiron Approach
This book looks at the groundbreaking work of the London based Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, a training centre recognised worldwide by professionals in the field. It brings together Chiron... (more)
Anger, Rage and Relationship: An Empathic Approach to Anger Management
Presents a radically new way to understand and work with anger and rage issues. Taking a relational approach to anger and rage, the book presents a positive view of human nature, supported by recent... (more)
What Works with Children, Adolescents and Adults? A Review of Research on the Effectiveness of Psychotherapy
Provides an up-to-date review of research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy and psychological interventions with children, adolescents, adults, people in later life, and people with intellectual... (more)
Psychodynamic Therapy: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations
The purpose of this book is to reintroduce psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory to the practice of clinical psychology in ways that are easily understandable, practical and immediate in their... (more)
Treating Severe Depressive and Persecutory Anxiety States: To Transform the Unbearable
This book serves two purposes. First, it provides the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist with a more flexible method of practicing psychoanalysis. This is the clinical approach of "analytic contact", a... (more)
Psychotherapy of Severe and Mild Depression
This work on depression offers information and conclusions drawn from case studies. The authors challenge biological reductionism in the mental health industry, but do not deny the contribution of... (more)