Individual Psychotherapy Books
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
In the summer of 1985 William Styron was overtaken by persistent insomnia and a troubling sense of malaise - the first signs of a deep depression that would engulf his life and leave him on the brink... (more)
Brief versus long psychotherapy: when, why, and how:
This work deals with the questions of which patients benefit most from long- term treatment, which do better in short-term treatment and which may even degenerate when seen in a long-term... (more)
Therapeutic Partnership: Ethical concerns in psychotherapy.
This text views psychotherapy as a collaborative endeavour jointly undertaken by two informed and intelligent adults. It spells out the technical and theoretical issues that this position implies,... (more)
Dynamic psychotherapy with the borderline patient
Presenting analytic-dynamic psychotherapy with the borderline patient, this volume discusses aspects of this type of psychotherapy, which is still one of the most useful approaches to borderline... (more)
The Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy
An introduction to the practice of analytic therapy. This text deals with the basic phenomena of therapy: transference, unconscious fantasy, character and regression. (more)
The talking cure: Women and daytime talk shows
This text examines four talk shows - Donahue, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo and Sally Jessy Raphael - which are primarily devoted to feminine culture and issues. It discusses the tension between... (more)
Women who hurt themselves: A book of hope and understanding
In this compassionate book, Dusty Miller tells the moving stories of women living under the shadow of self-mutilation, compulsive cosmetic surgery and chronic eating disorders. (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)
Art as Language
This accessible text explores the assessment and treatment practices long- associated with Rawley Silver. Through the use of case studies and more than 150 illustrations of patient artwork, the... (more)
A Bright Red Scream: Self-mutilation and the language of pain
An investigation of why so many people self-mutilate and what can be done to help them. The illness, "outed" on a global scale when Princess Diana admitted hurting herself deliberately, is practised... (more)
Transforming Aggression: Psychotherapy with the Difficult-to-Treat Patient
This volume argues that aggression can be vitally needed to confirm a sense of integrity, as a source of pride, and as an antidote to shame and depression. The author demonstrates how to use the... (more)
The psychotherapist as healer:
This text introduces a universal view of healing psychic pain to therapists of different disciplines, backgrounds, allegiances, specialities and areas of expertise. Using clinical exchanges, the... (more)
The real world guide to psychotherapy practice:
Managed care has radically reshaped health care in the United States, and private long-term psychotherapy is increasingly a thing of the past. The corporatization of mental health care often puts... (more)
Psycho/Analytic Psychotherapy Trainings: A Guide
This title explores the evolutionary history of training in psychotherapy, the institutions they came from, and the main ideas that supported them. It also explores the professionalization of... (more)
Counseling and psychotherapy with religious persons: A rational emotive behavior therapy approach
This guide should be of use to mental health professionals treating religious persons. The authors detail how their manual-focused approach aims to overcome emotional distress. (more)
Tales of solutions: Tales of hope-inspiring stories
Clients and solution-focused therapists often accomplish remarkable results under seemingly hopeless conditions. In this book mental health and social service professionals from throughout the world... (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)
Active Treatment of Depression
Richard O'Connor, a therapist who suffers from depression, shows that depressed people have trouble digging themselves out of one episode or warding off the next because they have become adept at the... (more)
Client Centered Therapy and the Person Centered Approach.
An important contribution to the current literature on a person-centered approach. It demonstrates the increasingly broad and dynamic application of this perspective to a variety of fields. Of... (more)
Recreating brief therapy: Preferences and possibilities
Details a move away from a language of problem and solution to therapy as a personal consultation, a mutual inquiry of client preferences and possibilities. Containing examples of consultant-client... (more)
The Invisible Matrix: An Exploration of Professional Relationships in the Service of Psychotherapy
Does therapy involve only one patient, one therapist and no-one else, or does it involve many people? This book explores the complex web of inter-relationships within which both the therapist and the... (more)