Individual Psychotherapy Books
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)
Counseling with Choice Theory: The New Reality Therapy
In Counseling with Choice Theory, Dr. William Glasser takes readers into his consulting room and illustrates, through a series of conversations with his patients, exactly how he puts his popular... (more)
Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide (Hardback)
See catalogue number 25063 for paperback edition. Designed to bring about lasting change in clients with personality disorders and other complex difficulties, schema therapy combines proven... (more)
Treating Affect Phobia: A Manual for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Reflecting the ongoing evolution of the approach, the manual emphasizes "affect phobia," or conflict about feelings. It shows how such proven behavioral techniques as systemic desensitization can be... (more)
Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy: Promoting Change in Nonresponders
Leading scientist-practitioner Lorna Smith Benjamin provides both a comprehensive introduction to interpersonal reconstructive therapy (IRT) and clear, step-by-step guidelines for practice. (more)
Interprofessional Collaboration: From Policy to Practice in Health and Social Care
Interprofessional Collaboration highlights the benefits and factors arising from working together for patients, service users and carers through a review of theoretical models illustrated by relevant... (more)
Spirit and Psyche: A New Paradigm for Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This book explores the expanding literature on spirituality as an important dimension of psychology, and explains the relationship between psychological treatment and spiritual healing. The author... (more)
Adlerian Psychotherapy: An Advanced Approach to Individual Psychology
Adlerian Psychotherapy gives an account of Adlerian therapy and counselling from its origins to the present day, and proposes an advanced version of the theory.
Fundamentals of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: A Training Handbook
This text presents the fundamentals of REBT in the form of a training handbook where important REBT skills are described and exemplified and training exercises are suggested. A feature of this book... (more)
Narrative therapy in practice: The archaeology of hope
Narrative therapy is based on the theory that problems are manufactured in a social, cultural and political context. This book shows that this approach requires the therapist and client to work in... (more)
Lives Elsewhere: Migration and Psychic Malaise
Born from the author's desire to write a clear and simple account of complex material based on ethnopsychotherapy and migrations, this book aims to clarify some key questions, rather than serve as a... (more)
Living on the Edge: Breaking Up to Breakdown to Breakthrough
This book shows us how to have the courage to stop and explore the nature of our edges. It shows us how to develop inner practices to be alongside fear and darkness. These steps allow us to transform... (more)
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Theoretical Developments
Thought-provoking presentation of case studies and the latest theory revision give Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Theoretical Developments a distinctive slant: a challenging discussion of the... (more)
Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism.
This volume is a collection of innovative interdisciplinary essays that explore the human capacity for experience. The authors address the postmodern debate in contemporary psychotherapy and... (more)
Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Trainee's Guide to Preparing Case Studies and Reports.
Trainee therapists need to show practical competence through the production of client reports and case studies. Using clinical examples and a detailed analysis of case study and process report... (more)
Post-Modernism for Psychotherapists: A Critical Reader
Post-modern ideas are now making an impact in psychotherapy and counselling. There is, however, nothing in the current literature that brings together thinking for those professionals who may not be... (more)
Personal construct perspectives on forensic psychology:
This volume provides a new approach to the three main areas of application of forensic psychology; rehabilitation of offenders, work with police, and research and consultation on legal issues and... (more)
Psychosynthesis: A Psychology of the Spirit
A comprehensive account of Roberto Assagiolis psychosynthesis, a type of therapy that addresses both spiritual development and psychological healing and growth.
Life-span development: Theories, Concepts and Interventions: Second Edition
This revision of the first edition offers the reader an account of human development throughout the lifespan. The lifespan approach emphasizes that development does not stop when we cease to be... (more)
Legal Issues in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counsellors and Psychotherapists are increasingly seeing the impact of legal issues on their practice and yet many feel under-prepared for the challenges they have to face. Legal Issues in... (more)
Bad Therapy: Master Therapists Share Their Worst Failures
This volume offers a rare and revealing glimpse into the mindset and actions of some of the profession's most seasoned and well-known authors, theoreticians and leaders. Kottler and Carlson guide us... (more)
A right result?:
As advocacy moves into the mainstream of health and social care provision, and the prospect of a legal right to advocacy inches closer, so the need to scrutinize key values in advocacy becomes... (more)