Individual Psychotherapy Books
To Be Met as a Person: The Dynamics of Attachment in Professional Encounters
This book is a thought-provoking read that sets out a framework for thinking about the way we interact with one another. It helps us make sense of the feelings we have when we are successful and not... (more)
Creative Energies: Integrative Energy Psychotherapy for Self-Expression and Healing
This text presents an integrative approach of three aspects of the human vibrational matrix - the biofield, the energy centres and the meridian pathways with their specific acupoints. The volume... (more)
Reshaping the Female Body:
This work attempts to make sense of women's involvement in cosmetic surgery. Whereas traditional explanations have tended to look to female narcissism, this book situates cosmetic surgery in a... (more)
Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy: A Framework for Clinical Practice
Drawing on contemporary relational thinking and new perspectives on gender and sexuality, this work describes and illustrates an affirmative approach to clinical work with lesbians at various stages... (more)
Working Therapeutically with Women in Secure Mental Health Settings
A pressing need for the integration of current practice, research and service development is addressed in this comprehensive book, which explores the experience of work with women in secure mental... (more)
A Primer of Handling the Negative Therapeutic Reaction:
This work examines the possible deterioration of a client's condition during treatment. This primer suggests that the therapist's technique may not address the underlying nature of the... (more)
Life After Self-Harm: A Guide to the Future
"Life After Self-Harm" is written for individuals who have deliberately harmed themselves. Developed through a major research project, the contents of the manual have been informed and shaped by many... (more)
Biblical Stories for Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Sourcebook
This essential sourebook applies the age-old wisdom of stories from the Hebrew Bible to current psychological issues. From the familiar to the obscure, these stories can help us better understand... (more)
Asian Perspectives in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Illustrated by stimulating case studies, the theoretical knowledge and practical advice presented in Asian Perspectives in Counselling and Psychotherapy will be invaluable reading to all practising... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
This book provides a framework for affirmative, empirically supported cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. Guidelines for competent assessment and treatment are... (more)
The Person-Centred Approach: A Contemporary Introduction
The highly regarded Temenos team present a new introduction to the person-centred approach for the twenty-first-century. Giving a broad and unbiased account, they illustrate how the approach has... (more)
The Psychodynamic Approach to Therapeutic Change
Change is the central purpose of all counselling and psychotherapy, but how it is conceptualized and worked with varies according to the theoretical approach being used. This book explores the nature... (more)
The Person-centred Approach to Therapeutic Change
The Person-Centred Approach to Therapeutic Change outlines the main theoretical cornerstones of the person-centred approach and then, applying these, describes why change occurs as a result of a... (more)
The Handbook of Narrative and Psychotherapy: Practice, Theory, and Research
The field of narrative-informed therapy began nearly a decade ago and has now matured to the point where a significant reference work is both timely and appropriate.This Handbook is the first to draw... (more)
Difference and Discrimination in Psychotherapy and Counselling:
Difference, prejudice and discrimination are issues which all counsellors and psychotherapists need to address as part of their personal and professional development. Designed to support training on... (more)
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique
Traditionally, psychoanalytic treatment has been a lengthy endeavour, requiring a long-term commitment from patient and analyst, as well as vast financial resources. More recently, short-term... (more)
Integrative Psychotherapy in Healthcare: A Humanistic Approach
This unique text provides students and practitioners of counselling and psychotherapy with a much-needed guide to working integratively in time-sensitive and healthcare settings. Drawing on the... (more)
Speaking Our Minds: An Anthology
A collection of writings by people who have experienced mental distress. The work includes: accounts of psychiatric treatment, psychotherapy and other treatments; stories of life in mental... (more)
Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A Relational Treatment Guide
A half-century of psychotherapy research has shown that the quality of the therapeutic alliance is the most robust predictor of treatment success. This unique book provides a systematic framework for... (more)
Power of Understanding: Essays in Honour of Veikko Tahka
Psychoanalysis keeps on evolving and rather than going over theories already vocalised, this collection of important papers introduces new ideas and theories along with valuable clinical material.... (more)
The Embodied Psychotherapist: The Therapist's Body Story
The whole area of touch in psychotherapy has been given very little attention. "The Embodied Psychotherapist" uses accounts of therapists' own experiences to address this inadequacy in discourse, and... (more)
The Therapist at Work: Personal Factors Affecting the Analytic Process
Dimitris Anastasopoulos and Evagelos Papanicolaou have gathered together a distinguished group of contributors to focus on the therapist's participation in therapy and the influence of personal... (more)
The Function of Assessment Within Psychological Therapies: A Psychodynamic View
There are various different psychological therapies but their shared aim is to help the sufferers of mental disorders. The role of assessment and the decisions following that are crucial in the... (more)
The Art of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counselling and psychotherapy are effective to the extent that they promote the creativity of clients and patients. Creativity is both a lifestyle and a health resource. A creative lifestyle implies... (more)
Unexpected Gains: Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a new development in the treatment of people with learning disabilities and mental health problems, which traditionally has utilised behavioural management and limited... (more)
Boys Who Have Abused: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Victim/Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse
John Woods presents a theoretical approach and practical suggestions for mental health practitioners working therapeutically with young people who have abused. Drawing on experience, he has developed... (more)
Traveller in Space: Gender, Identity and Tibetan Buddhism
Examines the female in the philosophy and symbolism of Tibetan Buddhism. This book approaches female identity through the context of archaic images of the female, and takes a psychoanalytical view on... (more)
What's the Good of Counselling and Psychotherapy? The Benefits Explained
`There is much here to stir up the reluctant practitioner to explain themselves and their practice more ably and, better still, to promote and defend our profession' - The Revd John Eatock,... (more)