Individual Psychotherapy Books
Therapeutic Mastery: Becoming a More Creative and Effective Psychotherapist
Unlike most books about psychotherapy, the emphasis here is on the relationship(s) between the therapist and the person with whom they are working. Each person's feelings and behaviours are regarded... (more)
A Different Story: The Rise of Narrative in Psychology
A Different Story is the story of the emergence of the narrative approach to psychotherapy as seen through the eyes of a family therapist whose life and work have taken him across some of the great... (more)
The Heart of Listening: Attentional Qualities in Psychotherapy
In response to recognition of the importance of the quality of attention and the sense of relatedness in therapeutic change, this book considers how relationships and change can be facilitated by... (more)
Freelance Counselling and Psychotherapy: Competition and Collaboration
. Freelance Counselling and Psychotherapy is an excellent guide on surviving and flourishing in a highly challenging field. (more)
Becoming a Therapist
Indispensible to counsellors, couselling psychologists, and psychotherapists in training, becoming a Therapist is a thought provoking companion to personal and professional development. (more)
Self-Harm: A Psychotherapeutic Approach
This book explores the issues involved from the perspective of the psychoanalytic psychotherapist - with the conviction that there is more to the behaviour than the acts themselves. (more)
Working Through Setbacks in Psychotherapy: Crisis, Impasse and Relapse
Counsellors and psychotherapists often encounter difficult situations with clients for which they feel ill prepared. At any stage in the process a client may experience a crisis or setback in their... (more)
Beyond Individualism: Towards a New Undersanding of Self, Relationship
In this treatment of some of the oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler challenges the most basic tenet of the Western cultural tradition: the individualist self. (more)
The Therapist's Pregnancy: Intrusion in the Analytic Space
In this examination of the impact of pregnancy on the therapeutic process, the authors explore the variety of clinical, technical, and practical issues that arise out of the therapist's impending... (more)
The Problem of Evil
Directed toward therapists of all persuasions who deal with the most difficult issues in therapy, The Problem of Evil provides a practice-expanding vision of healing. When common notions of... (more)
Communication and Mental Illness: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
The text presents the key themes in the practice of speech therapy in psychiatry. It describes communication problems associated with different kinds of disorders, including the autistic spectrum... (more)
Return from madness: Psychotherapy with people taking new anti-psychotic medications and emerging from severe, lifelong, and disabling schizophrenia
Following the development of drugs which reduce psychotic effects in mentally-ill people, there is often a need for psychotherapy to regenerate development processes that were previously cut short.... (more)
The history of psychotherapy:
The author has placed each selection in its historical context and provided, where necessary, summaries of theoretical systems. The book explains the conflicting and seemingly paradoxical reports of... (more)
Rapid Cognitive Therapy: The Professional Therapists Guide to rapid ch
Presents a brief psychotherapeutic approach to working with clients. Nearly all the techniques described in the book can be used as adjuncts to conventional behaviourist and analytical approaches to... (more)
Making Changes Last
Based on original research conducted by the author over the past 20 years, this book is an investigation of enduring change. Therapists, change agents and people who have either self-initiated... (more)
The angry heart: Overcoming borderline and addictive disorders
Directed at people with problems of borderline personality disorder and people struggling with addiction, this self-help guide aims to help them come to terms with their destructive lifestyle and to... (more)
Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition
Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition is written by an international group of authors to address the recent emergence of eating disorders in various areas of the world including countries in... (more)
The body image workbook: An 8-step program for learning to like your looks (2nd revised edition)
This workbook presents an eight-step programme to turn around negative images and attitudes, and to help people create a more positive, affirming and lasting relationship with their appearance. (more)
Understanding problem gamblers:
Gambling has become a major mainstream leisure activity. For most people it (more)
Supervising Psychotherapy
Supervising Psychotherapy examines the crucial role of supervision in the clinical, professional and personal development of therapists. Based on the view that supervision is in itself both a... (more)
The Therapist's Internet Handbook
An internet guide for therapists including cd rom. (more)
Contemporary Treatment of Psychosis: Healing Relationships in the 'Decade of the Brain'
Despite early optimism, drugs did not cure schizophrenia. Treatment of psychotic illness on the biological level is not sufficient. Based on the approach of the Menninger clinic, this book affirms... (more)
Wise Therapy
For therapists who may find philosophical approaches to therapy useful, this work addresses key philosophical topics - the emotions, free will, the meaning of life and ethics. It is jargon-free where... (more)
The Illustrated Manual of Sex Therapy: Second Edition
This work reviews the nature and causes of male and female sexual dysfunctions, and describes and portrays the various erotic techniques and exercises employed in sex therapy. (more)