Individual Psychotherapy Books
Unbearable Affect: A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis
In this cohesive, dramatic, and highly readable book, David Garfield establishes a roadmap for the diagnosis and psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic disorders based on finding, understanding and... (more)
Using the Transference in Psychotherapy
"Using the Transference" centres around two dominant themes - the old versus the new models of transference, and the role of transference in psychotherapy. As background information the book provides... (more)
Contracts in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
This second edition of "Contracts in Counselling and Psychotherapy" continues to be one of the few texts to provide an accessible but highly informative introduction to what contracts are, why they... (more)
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
Psychological trauma profoundly affects the body, often disrupting normal physical functioning when left unresolved. Trauma and the Body provides a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma... (more)
A Handbook of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Short-term psychotherapy has become more and more popular in recent years and there is an increasing need for therapists to be able to offer help without entering into many years of therapy. This... (more)
The Seven Deadly Sins?: Issues in Clinical Practice and Supervision for Humanistic and Integrative Practitioners
The Seven Deadly Sins? grew out of a post-qualification training course of the same name. It aims to make more accessible some concepts from the world of psychoanalysis, self-psychology and affective... (more)
Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for our Age
In this classic text, originally published in 1986, Susie Orbach brilliantly examines the anorectic's struggle. Anorexia is a battle; a battle to be thin; a battle of wills, denial versus desire. It... (more)
Images of the Self: The Sandplay Therapy Process
Formerly out of print and unavailable for almost 20 years, this book has remained the foundational text on sandplay psychotherapeutic theory. The theoretical mechanics of how sandplay, an effective... (more)
How to Choose a Psychotherapist
The demand for psychotherapy and counselling is greater than ever. More and more people are enrolling on psychotherapy and counselling courses; the number of different associations in this industry... (more)
Infant-Parent Psychotherapy: A Handbook
This is a comprehensive handbook, full of vital information on the theory and practice of infant-parent psychotherapy, that will revolutionise the treatment of babies. It is essential reading for all... (more)
A Primer for Beginning Psychotherapy:
A practical primer of psychotherapy, aimed especially at students and mental health professionals starting their careers. This concise guide addresses virtually all the questions posed by new... (more)
The Supervisory Relationship: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach
Since the 1980s many psychodynamic therapists have begun to view the relational processes taking place between patient and therapist as a central source of transformation. This volume elaborates a... (more)
Psychodynamic-Interpersonal Therapy: A Conversational Model
This book presents for the first time, a practical manual for psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy. Drawing on forty years of research, teaching and practice, its expert authors guide you through the... (more)
Enactment: Toward a New Approach to Therapeutic Relationship
For many therapists, "enactment" has replaced previous action terms such as "acting in" and "acting out". This volume explores whether the concept adds clarity or a new perspective to the clinical... (more)
Ground Rules in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Robert Langs has long been one of the most individual and controversial psychoanalytic theorists. In this book, he concentrates on one of the most prominent areas of his thought: his insistence upon... (more)
Therapy Across Culture
The author argues in this work that therapists must examine the external world of the client before making an interpretation about the internal one. The culturally sensitive therapist - the author... (more)
Assessment in Psychotherapy
This book sets out to address the complexities of psychoanalytic assessment. Comprises a comprehensive review of relevant literature and contributions from various psychotherapists on the different... (more)
Introduction to Psychopathology
Assessment and referral skills are essential for counsellors and psychotherapists. Practitioners need to have an understanding of the clinical manifestations of severe emotional distress. They must,... (more)
Psychotherapy and Spirit: Theory and Practice in Transpersonal Psychotherapy
Brings together the major developments in the field of transpersonal psychotherapy. It reviews the major transpersonal models of psychotherapy, including Wilber, Jung, Grof, Ali and existential,... (more)
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, which continues to ravage the international community in ways great and small.
Drawing on his medical experiences... (more)
The Therapeutic Relationship: Second Edition
A coverage of the uses and abuses of the therapeutic relationship in counselling, psychology, psychotherapy and related fields. It provides a framework for integration, pluralism or deepening... (more)
Dependency and Denial: The Stories That Divide Us
Our connection to one another is our lifeline to the world. Yet, it also makes us vulnerable. To manage this difficult paradox, we turn away from our need for each other and instead seek security in... (more)
The Life and Work of Carl Rogers
This 2007 second edition of Howard Kirschenbaum's biography of Carl Rogers extends to over 700 pages and includes a more detailed personal and professional history, an evaluation of the Wisconsin... (more)
Disability Psychotherapy: What It Is and Why It Matters
Disability Psychotherapy explores the growing practice of working psychotherapeutically with people with disabilities.
Over three parts, the book explores the history of disability... (more)
Situation, Field Perspective and Formation of Forms in Gestalt Therapy: Social Change Begins with Two
This volume contains a collection of published and unpublished essays and conference lectures prepared by Jean-Marie Robine. Following the author in his line of thought, readers can learn how Robine... (more)
Talk To Me: Lessons from Patients and Their Therapist
Sharing the extraordinary stories of ten everyday people engaging in psychotherapy, this book takes the reader into the room, showing the realities of being in therapy and providing insight into the... (more)
A Phenomenology of Racism in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Using the experiential frameworks of phenomenology and existentialism, A Phenomenology of Racism in Counselling and Psychotherapy unveils the layers of relational intersectional racism which are... (more)
An Intersectional Guide for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Their Allies: Masculinity Reconnected
Few experiences carry more shame, stigma, and misunderstanding than the life-altering trauma of sexual abuse. Men who experience sexual abuse and rape, often find themselves marginalised and... (more)
Affairs: True Stories of Love, Lies, Hope and Desire
Psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld shares the secrets, lies and motivations behind real affairs, through the lens of five very different true stories.
We meet the man who left his wife in the... (more)
Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God: Using Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy
Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God discusses four distinct attachment relationships to the God of personal spiritual experience and considers how each of these... (more)