Individual Psychotherapy Books
Serious shopping: Psychotherapy and consumerism
The phenomenon of addictive shopping is a popular subject for the media - especially when they are portraying relatively affluent, bored and slightly depressed women. This book presents a starker... (more)
Therapists at Risk: Perils of the intimacy of the therapeutic relation
Therapists are becoming increasingly worried about being sued or brought before a licensing board, in the event that they are threatened with legal action by their patients. This work seeks to show... (more)
Close Encounters
This book takes its examples from psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and couple and family treatment. Experienced therapists Winer's humanizing text helpful in putting their own work and their own... (more)
The Many Faces of Deceit: Omissions, Lies, and Disguise in Psychotherapy
This work examines the concept of deceit and its ubiquity - both in everyday life and in various forms of psychopathology. It offers examples of clinical work with true impostors, those with... (more)
True and False Experience: The human element in psychotherapy
A new edition of this text which discusses the factors that have made it difficult for therapists and patients to meet as equals in a natural and ordinary way. Lomas criticises the contributions made... (more)
A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems
What causes mental health problems? Nature or nurture? Brain and biology? Genetic inheritance or social environment? Revised and updated, this concise book explains what we know today about the... (more)
A Therapist’s Guide to Private Practice: Building a Values-based Business
This book is a comprehensive guide to setting up, running and growing a successful private therapy practice that resonates with your values and professional goals.
Guiding you through every... (more)
Deliberate Practice in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Deliberate practice exercises help trainees achieve competence in essential psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy skills and apply them in a range of clinical situations while honing their own personal... (more)
Deliberate Practice in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Deliberate practice exercises help trainees achieve competence in essential psychodynamic therapy skills and apply them in a range of clinical situations while honing their own personal style and... (more)
The State of the Psychoanalytic Nation, Volume I
This book charts the ways in which psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been implemented, developed and researched within the public sectors of twelve different countries around the world. It discusses... (more)
The State of the Psychoanalytic Nation, Volume II
This book, the second of the two volumes, continues to chart the ways in which psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been implemented, developed and researched within the public sectors of six different... (more)
LoveSex and Relationships: An Integrative Model for Sexual Education (2nd Edition)
LoveSex and Relationships introduces a pleasure-focused rather than reproductive model of sex, exploring how our brains, minds, bodies and emotions interact to create our experience of... (more)
Embodied Approaches to Supervision: The Listening Body
Embodied Approaches to Supervision presents innovative approaches to working with the body in supervision.
The authors, who are all experts in their field, bring a wealth of experience and... (more)
Transforming Emotional Pain: An Emotion-Focused Workbook
Transforming Emotional Pain presents an accessible self-help approach to mental health based on Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).
Based on the principles of EFT, and developed by clinicians and... (more)
The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self
There is good and increasing evidence that cultivating compassion for one's self and others can have a profound impact on our physiological, psychological and social processes. In contrast, concerns... (more)
Neoliberalism, Ethics and the Social Responsibility of Psychology: Dialogues at the Edge
This volume encompasses deeply critical dialogues that question how the field of psychology exists within and is shaped by the current neoliberal political context. Spanning from psychoanalysis to... (more)
Nature and Nurture in Personality and Psychopathology: A Guide for Clinicians
Psychiatry and clinical psychology have long been divided about the roles of nature and nurture in the pathways to psychopathology. Some clinicians offer treatment almost entirely based on... (more)
Acceptance and Commitment Skills for Perfectionism and High-Achieving Behaviors: Do Things Your Way, Be Yourself, and Live a Purposeful Life
This book is essential for those who are prone to high-achieving, self-starting, and perfectionistic actions; people who relentlessly, persistently, and determinedly pursue their dreams, goals, and... (more)
Nonlinear Contingency Analysis: Going Beyond Cognition and Behavior in Clinical Practice
Nonlinear Contingency Analysis is a guide to treating clinically complex behavior problems such as delusions and hallucinations. It's also a framework for treating behavior problems, one that... (more)
Empowering Mindfulness for Women
Empowering Mindfulness for Women is centred around a a 5-day intensive mindfulness course attended by eight women from different backgrounds. The reader is invited to imagine they are actively... (more)
Helping People Overcome Suicidal Thoughts, Urges and Behaviour: Suicide-focused Intervention Skills for Health and Social Care Professionals
Helping People Overcome Suicidal Thoughts, Urges and Behaviour draws together practical and effective approaches to help individuals at risk of suicide.
The book provides a framework and... (more)
Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment
The Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment: Second Edition, builds on the first edition's comprehensive discussion of violence risk assessment instruments with an update of research on established... (more)
Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide
Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide provides user-friendly, empirically supported information about and answers to some of the most frequently encountered questions and... (more)
Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders: A New Conceptualization of Development, Reinforcement, Expression, and Treatment
This book provides a framework for scholars and clinicians to develop a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders, by seeing... (more)
Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self: Roads to Realization
In Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self, Anthony Korner demonstrates how important communication and resonance are to the development of a sense of self. This process of... (more)
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them
15-20% of children are Highly Sensitive - and they are often labelled shy, introverted, fussy or faddy. The real story is very different though and this intelligent, practical book helps parents know... (more)
A Practice Beyond Cultural Humility: How Clinicians Can Work More Effectively in a Diverse World
A Practice Beyond Cultural Humility offers specific guidance to support students and practitioners in providing on-going, culturally-attuned professional care.
The book introduces a... (more)
Psychotherapy and Aphasia: Interventions for Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships
Psychotherapy and Aphasia: Interventions for Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships is an exciting international collaboration among clinical neuropsychologists, speech and language therapists and... (more)