Individual Psychotherapy Books
Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
This book is the product of a Campaign Day organised by the Paracelsus Trust to raise awareness of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The Campaign Day brought people together, enabling individuals... (more)
Almost a Psychopath: Do I (or Does Someone I Know) Have a Problem with Manipulation and Lack of Empathy?
Do you know someone who is too manipulative and full of himself? Does someone you know charm the masses yet lack the ability to deeply connect with those around her?
Grandiosity and exaggerated... (more)
Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment: Third Edition
The Cross-Battery assessment approach - also referred to as the XBA approach-is a time-efficient assessment method grounded - solidly in contemporary theory and research. The XBA approach... (more)
Digging for Victory: Horticultural Therapy with Veterans for Post-Traumatic Growth
Horticultural Therapy is ideally suited to engage veterans alienated from traditional civilian healthcare routes who present with a range of complex and challenging healthcare needs. It presents, on... (more)
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Case Study and Contemporary Perspective
The diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, remains controversial, despite its inclusion as an established diagnosis in psychiatry’s Diagnostic... (more)
Language and Connection in Psychotherapy: Words Matter
Language plays a major role in our daily lives. Humans are specialized to live in a social environment, and our brains are designed to manage interactions with others which are, for the most part,... (more)
High Quality Psychotherapy Research: From Conception to Piloting to National Trials
Although psychotherapy research shares many of the same methodological issues that pharmacology trials do, psychotherapy research poses unique challenges, including the difficulty (if not near... (more)
Overcoming Masculine Depression: The Pain Behind the Mask: Second Edition
In Overcoming Masculine Depression, psychologists John Lynch and Christopher Kilmartin present a model that provides new ways of understanding men's behaviors. This unique book does not portray men... (more)
Infant Research and Neuroscience at Work in Psychotherapy: Expanding the Clinical Repertoire
By decoding the scientific data, this book explains how recent findings from brain and infant research can expand a clinician's understanding of the therapist-client relationship and, in turn,... (more)
Principles of Hypnotherapy
This introductory guide gives a definitive overview of hypnotherapy. It explains what hypnotherapy is, how it works, what its origins are, what to expect when you go for a treatment and how to find a... (more)
Becoming a Therapist: On the Path to Mastery
All practitioners start with the novice voyage involving excitement, intensity, anxiety, and challenge. A good beginning increases the chance for maximum professional functioning in later years.... (more)
Winter Blues: Everything You Need to Know to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder: Fourth Edition
In this enduring bestseller, Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal provides empowering information and guidance for the millions who suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Over 100,000 readers have learned... (more)
Therapist Stories of Inspiration, Passion, and Renewal: What's Love Got To Do With It?
Why do you practice psychotherapy? In this exciting volume, some of the field's leading therapists tell true stories which evoke the pleasures, joys, and satisfactions that inspire passion for... (more)
Counselling in Transcultural Settings: Priorities for a Restless World
Drawing on over 40 years experience, Patricia d'Ardenne provides the reader with a unique and practical introduction to counselling and psychotherapy in a world on the move, where ethnic, linguistic,... (more)
The Student Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy Approaches
This pocket guide to modality approaches in counselling and psychotherapy is a one-stop-shop for trainees on introductory counselling courses. It describes 12 models of therapy, as well as... (more)
Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Anxiety
This wise and practical book provides effective strategies for helping therapy clients with anxiety resolve ambivalence and increase their intrinsic motivation for change. The author shows how to... (more)
Refocused Psychotherapy as the First Line Intervention in Behavioral Health
Written by father-daughter psychologists Nick and Janet Cummings, this text provides proven patient-responsive interventions by practitioners who together have nearly a century of hands-on practice... (more)
The Therapist's Workbook: Self-Assessment Self-Care and Self-Improvement Exercises for Mental Health Professionals: Second Edition
Mental health professionals spend their days helping others, but who is there to help them when stress and burnout threaten their own well–being? Filled with self–assessments, journaling exercises,... (more)
Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts
Sexual boundary violations are considered the most series ethical infraction in the mental health profession, as well as in higher education and pastoral counseling. Recognized as unethical due to... (more)
Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice
Bringing together leading scholars, scientists, and mindfulness-oriented clinicians, this compelling volume explores how therapists can cultivate wisdom and compassion in both themselves and their... (more)
An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton
In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychoanalytic psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In... (more)
Beginnings: The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Utilizing a decade's worth of clinical experience gained since its original publication, Mary Jo Peebles builds and expands upon exquisitely demonstrated therapeutic approaches and strategies in this... (more)
The Silent Past and the Invisible Present: Memory, Trauma, and Representation in Psychotherapy
Drawing on research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience, as well as 20 years in forensic and private practice, Paul Renn deftly illustrates... (more)
Treating ADHD and Comorbid Disorders: Psychosocial and Psychopharmacological Interventions
Children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) frequently experience co-occurring problems with aggression, mood swings, tics, anxiety, or depression. Organized around... (more)
The Power of Specificity in Psychotherapy: When Therapy Works and When it Doesn't
Howard Bacal presents specificity theory, a contemporary process theory of psychotherapy that holds that therapy happens at the fit between the patient's particular therapeutic needs and the... (more)
Being a Therapist: A Practitioner's Handbook
Our contemporary world is one in which ‘the customer is always right’, and therapists, like many other professionals, are increasingly beset by rules and regulations that undermine their authority... (more)
A Guide to Psychotherapy
This book is about a personal journey, an adventure that has the potential to change one's entire outlook. It is an introduction to psychotherapy that provides clear and direct answers to commonly... (more)
Understanding Repeated Self-Injury: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Informative and insightful, this book explores the nature of self-injury and the experience of those who injure themselves. Covering psychological and physical aspects, the text draws on research,... (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)
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)