Individual Psychotherapy Books
Our Desire of Unrest: Thinking About Therapy
Knowledge is never static. It is always open to revolutionary thinking or to evolving development. Similarly an individual's knowledge is always moving, and indeed if the ability to think about ideas... (more)
Resolving Difficult Clinical Syndromes: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach
Provides clinicians with a combination of conceptual background and step-by-step practical advice to guide their treatment of the clinical disorders listed under Axis I of the DSM-IV-TR: Substance... (more)
Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach
"Personalized Psychotherapy: Overcoming Resistant Personality Cases" helps clinicians adjust their plans to personalities and treatment of the whole, complex person. Chapters cover personalized... (more)
Moderating Severe Personality Disorders: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach
Increasingly, therapists are concerned that treatment plans focus too much on prescriptive labels and syndromes and not enough on the individual patient's circumstances. "Personalized Psychotherapy"... (more)
Healing with Stories: Your Casebook Collection for Using Therapeutic Metaphors
George W. Burns, the master of therapeutic storytelling, has brought together a group of international therapists to describe why and how they use storytelling in their clinical practice and share... (more)
The Complete Women's Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
Covers nineteen of the most commonly seen presenting problems in treating women. This treatment planner provides therapists with guidance on diagnosis, and includes long-term goals, short-term... (more)
Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems
"Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems" provides the reader with many examples of thoughts, ideas and perspectives in a user-friendly, easily accessible format. The chapters are divided into... (more)
Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration
This unique handbook covers the consensuses and controversies surrounding traditional and nontraditional psychotherapeutic methodologies as related to individuals and specific subpopulations. It is... (more)
Interpersonal Rejection
Interpersonal rejection ranks among the most potent and distressing events that people experience. Romantic rejection, ostracism, stigmatisation, job termination, and other kinds of rejections have... (more)
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder: Second Edition
Social psychologist, James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller offers a sophisticated and comprehensive... (more)
Help Yourself Towards Mental Health
A comprehensive guide to how an individual can help themselves resolve a wide variety of ordinary, everyday life problems and improve their mental health.
'This is an extensive collection of... (more)
The New Rational Therapy: Thinking Your Way to Serenity, Success, and Profound Happiness (Hardback)
See catalogue number 26614 for the paperback edition. Throughout the ages, great thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, and many others have had... (more)
Dialogue and Desire: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Linguistic Turn in Psychotherapy
Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian philosopher and cultural critic, was one of the pioneers of the 'linguistic turn' in philosophy and is now widely associated with the concept of the dialogical self and... (more)
Women in the Middle: Their Parent Care Years: Second Edition
"Women in the Middle" was so-named because daughters, who are the main caregivers to elderly disabled parents, most often in their middle years, are caught in the middle of multiple competing demands... (more)
Six Therapists and One Client: Second Edition
This volume demonstrates how six therapists working within the structures of six different major theoretical orientations would treat the same person. Approaches include: Ericksonian Hypnotherapy... (more)
Treatment Collaboration: Improving the Therapist, Prescriber, Client Relationship
Understanding the complex interactions among the mental health triumvirate. This is the first nuts-and-bolts guide to the relationship of non-medically trained mental health professionals,... (more)
The Anxious Brain: The Neurobiological Basis of Anxiety Disorders and How to Effectively Treat Them
When it comes to anxiety, knowledge is a calming power. Therapists and the clients they treat benefit from understanding how anxiety is generated in the brain, how it can become panic or unbounded... (more)
Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life: A Guide for the Puzzled Consumer
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is in every way a perplexing business. Through a frank dialogue between a former patient and her former therapist Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life introduces... (more)
My Therapy
An unflinching account of her years spent undergoing psychodynamic therapy. Working with her therapist, she recalls key incidents from her life history and gradually comes to attain greater insight... (more)
Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy: An Integrative, Personality-Based Treatment for Complex Cases
For individuals with chronic, complex problems that include multiple Axis I disorders comorbid with personality disorders, the barriers to change are significant. This book presents a powerful... (more)
Diversity, Discipline and Devotion in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Clinical and Training Perspectives
This book is a selection of papers written over 25 years of practising psychoanalytic psychotherapy, of training and supervising psychotherapists, psychodynamic counsellors and supervisors. It... (more)
Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide
Designed to bring about lasting change in clients with personality disorders and other complex difficulties, schema therapy combines proven cognitive-behavioral techniques with elements of... (more)
Motivational Dialogue: Preparing Addiction Professionals for Motivational Interviewing Practice
"Motivational Dialogue" explores the application of motivational interviewing in various contexts, with a view to enhancing understanding and improving practice. The book describes the research and... (more)
Living with Schizophrenia: DVD
This video offers essential information and guidance for individuals and families coping with a schizophrenia diagnosis. The program features illuminating first-hand accounts from three people with... (more)
Living Well with Bipolar Disorder: DVD
In this engaging video, six individuals of different ages and backgrounds candidly describe the impact bipolar disorder has had on their lives and the strategies they have learned for dealing with... (more)
Envy, Competition and Gender: Theory, Clinical Applications and Group Work
Envy Competition and Gender provides a unique perspective on gender difference in relation to envy and competitiveness, reframing and de-demonising these difficult emotions and revealing their... (more)
Emotional Safety: Viewing Couples Through the Lens of Affect
"Emotional Safety" is designed to help couple therapists identify and conceptualize the problems of their clients to provide solutions, focusing on the two central elements of emotion and attachment.... (more)
Behavioral Treatment for Substance Abuse in People with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals
The correlation between schizophrenia and substance abuse in psychology is recognized as a growing issue, yet it is one that many practitioners are often ill-prepared to address. "Behavioral... (more)
Moral Stealth: How Correct Behavior Insinuates Itself into Psychotherapeutic Practice
A psychiatrist writes a letter to a journal explaining his decision to marry a former patient. Another psychiatrist confides that most of his friends are ex-patients. Both practitioners felt they had... (more)
Meaning-Full Disease: How Personal Experience and Meanings Cause and Maintain Physical Illness
The book is grounded upon Brian Broom's extensive professional involvement with physical diseases that are a powerful expression of the patients' emotional themes and life-stories. They are... (more)