Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling: Second Edition
In this new edition of 'The Transpersonal', John Rowan takes account of the growing interest in spirituality, assessing the many new developments in the field and providing an essential overview of... (more)
The Origins and Course of Common Mental Disorders
The Origins of Common Mental Disorders describes the nature, characteristics and causes of common emotional and behavioural disorders across the lifespan, providing a clear and concise account of... (more)
Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Time, Space, Number and State of Mind
This book explores the three basic elements of psychotherapy - time, space and number - summarising theory, setting it in context and bringing concepts to life with clinical illustrations. Michael... (more)
Training and Training Standards: Psychological Therapies in Primary Care
The surge of interest in psychological therapies in GP settings makes this book timely and important for the development of this field in the 21st century. As well as the suggested syllabus for... (more)
Setting Up and Maintaining an Effective Private Practice: A Practical Workbook for Mental Health Practitioners
Counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists are proud to belong to the helping professions. They will have invested much time, money and effort into becoming well-trained in their chosen... (more)
Dual Realities: The Search for Meaning: Psychodynamic Therapy with Physically Ill People
Little has been written about psychotherapy with the seriously physically ill and this book seeks to remedy that. The title Dual Realities refers to the inner reality of the individuals internal... (more)
Dialogical Meetings in Social Networks
This book describes and analyses two dialogic network practices: 'Open Dialogues' - developed for use in psychiatric crisis situations - and 'Anticipation Dialogues' - used in less acute situations... (more)
Therapeutic Impasses - The Integrity Model of Existential Psychotherapy with the 'Difficult Patient':
Dealing with the therapeutic impasse is one of the most challenging tasks faced by therapists. This book presents the potential solutions offered by the integrity model of psychotherapy. Dealing with... (more)
Tidal Model:
Based on extensive research, 'The Tidal Model' charts the development of this model of care, outlining its theoretical basis and including clinical examples to show the benefits of encouraging the... (more)
Speaking the Unspeakable: The Ethics of Dual Relationships in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Are dual relationships always detrimental? "Speaking the Unspeakable" provides an in-depth exploration of client-practitioner dual relationships, offering critical discussion and sustained narrative... (more)
Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality
Narcissists have been much maligned, but according to clinicians who study personality, there are many productive narcissists who succeed spectacularly well in life because they can articulate a... (more)
Therapists in Court: Providing Evidence and Supporting Witnesses
Therapists in Court is the first in a series of handbooks providing legal guidance for practitioners from all the talking therapies, including counselling, psychotherapy and psychology. For many... (more)
Guided Imagery: Creative Interventions in Counselling and Psychotherapy
"Guided Imagery" is a unique, practical guide to using imagery in one-to-one therapeutic work with clients. Through numerous examples drawn from their own experience, the authors show how the... (more)
Handbook of Racial-cultural Psychology and Counseling:
This two-volume handbook offers a thorough treatment of the concepts and theoretical developments concerning how to apply cultural knowledge in theory and practice to various racial and cultural... (more)
Bipolar Disorder Demystified - Mastering the Tightrope of Manic Depression:
Offers a guide to the nature of bipolar disorder, discussing symptoms, treatment, and the factors that complicate its diagnosis. (more)
Sex and Sexuality: Questions and Answers
This book bridges the gap between the counsellor and the specialist sex therapist, by providing answers to questions raised by patients or clients about sex, gender and sexuality. It covers... (more)
Intricate Engagements - The Collaborative Basis of Therapeutic Change:
Frankel, an experienced psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, retraces his search for principles by which to determine the best approach to the practice; describes the relationship-unit model he found... (more)
Therapeutic Interventions for Forensic Mental Health Nurses:
This text explores the current and emerging interventions in forensic nursing and the care of the mentally-disordered offender, with an emphasis on clinical practice and competence. It explores the... (more)
Reflecting on Reality: Psychotherapists at Work in Primary Care
Primary care and psychotherapy are in some ways worlds apart. Yet both deal with the same human fundamentals: birth, and death, hope and disappointment, identity and uncertainty. This innovative book... (more)
Psychological Therapies in Primary Care: Setting up a Managed Service
This book introduces the case for the management of psychological therapy services in the NHS as a result of the recent and very significant changes in primary care commissioning and mental health... (more)
What is Psychotherapeutic Research?
This book marks an important watershed in the development of psychotherapy. It provides examples of how psychotherapeutic research and the abilities to carry it out can help the practising... (more)
The Who You Dream Yourself: Playing and Interpretation in Psychotherapy and Theatre
'At the time of beginning my own therapy, I was teaching drama and theatre studies and become fascinated by the analogies between theatre and therapy, especially by how these set-apart space-times... (more)
Understanding Psychotherapy Change: A Practical Guide to Configurational Analysis
Mardi Horowitz provides a simplified discussion of his empirically supported, integrative approach to case formulation. He begins by tracing the roots of this approach and its refinements and... (more)
How Does Psychotherapy Work?
It is said that the question "how does psychotherapy work?" cannot be answered conclusively - that we cannot reach into the depths of a deeply private relationship and pluck out a precise truth about... (more)
Setting Out: The Importance of the Beginning in Psychotherapy and Counselling
The outcome of therapy is always to some extent determined by success of the initial session. In Setting Out the issues surrounding this subject are explored, providing valuable insights into the... (more)
Compassion: Conceptualisations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy
Compassion looks at the ways in which compassion can be harnessed in early life experiences, pro-social behaviour and in psychotherapy, and how it can be beneficial to the therapeutic relationship. (more)
Love and Death in Psychotherapy
While this book was written for all manner of mental health professionals, it also is of great importance to the general reader. The foucs is on a new way of understanding the human mind and the... (more)
Researching the Psychotherapy Process: A Practical Guide to Transcript-Based Methods
This hands-on introduction to psychotherapy process research methods takes the student clinician/researcher through the basic steps of developing a research project based on a transcript of a... (more)