Individual Psychotherapy Books
A Guide to Assessment for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts inevitably find themselves doing assessment in their work, both in private practice and in a clinical setting such as the NHS. The authors felt a... (more)
No Five Fingers are Alike: What Exiled Kurdish Women in Therapy Told Me
This is probably the only book of it kind that focuses exclusively on refugee women, and one of the few that limit their scope only to one group of refugees - the Kurds, in this case. Although the... (more)
Strategies of Psychotherapy: Second Edition
This classic work deals with the strategies of both psychotherapists and clients as they maneuver each other in the process of treatment. How a therapist induces a client to change is described... (more)
Alcohol Use Disorders
This volume provides therapists and students with practical and evidence-based guidance on diagnosis and treatment of alcohol problems, and does so in a uniquely "reader-friendly" manner. The book is... (more)
Object Relations Psychotherapy: An Individualized and Interactive Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
This book offers clinicians a different approach to psychotherapy, going beyond mere modification of existing techniques. Instead, the author shows how object relations theory can be used to specify... (more)
Women's Rites of Passage: How to Embrace Change and Celebrate Life
Relying on a research study involving over 50 women, Brenner shows how women today understand the need to take responsibility for their lives and for directing their own paths, and are beginning to... (more)
Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy
Once a journey for self understanding has begun, there is inevitably a struggle against real change. Inner roadblocks on both sides of the couch impede the journey of psychoanalytic psychotherapy,... (more)
Treatment of Depression and Related Moods: A Manual for Psychotherapists
Daniel Badal discusses the many changes that have occurred in the field of depression and related mood disorder treatment in recent years in this accessible yet comprehensive volume. This book... (more)
Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals: Second Edition
Every chapter in this second edition has been revised, reflecting the growth of the coaching field and its increasing appeal to therapists and all helping professionals. New material includes an... (more)
Now it All Makes Sense: Recovery Through Self-Knowledge
The author, an experienced clinician, describes psychotherapy work as a creative, courageous, healing patient/doctor endeavour that he terms 'self-knowledge', or 'self-understanding' therapy. In so... (more)
Insight in Psychotherapy
Insight, or the acquisition of new understanding, is recognized as an important vehicle of change across a variety of theoretical approaches in psychotherapy. While it has been associated with... (more)
Critical Review of the Current Trends in Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology
This work reviews the main literature but also areas that have been 'under-researched'. This book is designed to provide a forum, guided by a critical rationalism perspective, for leading scholars,... (more)
The Well-managed Mental Health Practice: Your Guide to Building and Managing a Successful Practice, Group, or Clinic
The "Well-Managed Practice" is a comprehensive guide for private practices of any size, and at any stage of development, from start-up through mature business that provides indispensable tools for... (more)
Beyond Happiness: Deepening the Dialogue between Buddhism, Psychotherapy and the Mind Sciences
Contemporary mind sciences are revealing facts about the brain and its development that have much to teach us about health and happiness. For a greater part of the twentieth century, psychology and... (more)
Freud's Converts
This work is an exploration of the relationship between psychotherapy and religion. Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers were chosen for this exposition because both of them were seduced by the high status... (more)
Into the Mountain Stream: Psychotherapy and Buddhist Experience
The lived relation between Buddhism and psychotherapy finds expression in the Buddhist's practice, the therapist's stance and response to those who seek help. Paul C. Cooper has gathered papers that... (more)
Dreaming: An Opportunity for Change
"Dreaming: An Opportunity for Change" is a practical guide for both therapist and dreamer that utilizes dream interpretation for the purpose of promoting clinical change. Myron Glucksman demonstrates... (more)
Depression: A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments
This volume comprehensively compares and contrasts alternative models of and treatment approaches to clinical depression. Each contributor, a recognized expert in their modality, analyzes the same... (more)
Journeys Through Mental Illness: Clients' Experiences and Understandings of Mental Distress
At a time when service users' perspectives are increasingly recognized in healthcare, this seminal book highlights the importance of clients' perceptions of all aspects of mental illness. It examines... (more)
The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy
In recent years there has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences. In this rich, yet rigorous, multidisciplinary text, this movement is explored... (more)
Suicide: Strategies and Interventions for Reduction and Prevention
All practitioners working in the caring and helping professions face many challenges and questions when dealing with suicidal clients: Is this client being serious? Can I do more? What should I do?... (more)
Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice
This promises to be a landmark in the fields of psychotherapeutic theory and practice. A comprehensive revision of its predecessor, "The Psychology of Existence", co-edited by Kirk Schneider and... (more)
The Practitioner's Handbook
An essential guide to professional development written for qualified practitioners as well as those nearing the end of their training. Written in a friendly and informal style, this new text seeks to... (more)
Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law: Second Edition
This is the long-awaited second edition of Peter Jenkins' comprehensive introduction to legal issues in relation to counselling and psychotherapy in the UK. This text has been fully updated to... (more)
Attachment in Psychotherapy
This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as... (more)
Psychosomatics: The Uses of Psychotherapy
The mind and body are in constant interaction, and it is increasingly recognized that any true understanding of illness must take this psychosomatic dimension into account. This timely book looks at... (more)
Hands-on Help: Computer-aided Psychotherapy
"Hands-on Help" is a narrative review of the mushrooming field of computer-aided psychotherapy for mental health problems as a whole, from the time it began in the 1960's through to the present day.... (more)
My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: Making and Breaking Sibling Bonds
Stories about siblings abound in literature, drama, comedy, biography, and history. We rarely talk about our own siblings without emotion, whether with love and gratitude, or exasperation,... (more)
The Dream Experience: A Systematic Exploration
The Dream Experience provides the mental health professional a systematic scientific basis for understanding the dream as a psychological event. Milton Kramer's extensive research, along with the... (more)
Demystifying Love: Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional
Intended primarily for mental health professionals, "Demystifying Love" deals plainly with topics rarely written about for clinicians. The book discusses in a small package highly readable and useful... (more)