Individual Psychotherapy Books
The use of the telephone in psychotherapy:
Once confined to handling crisis situation, telephone contact now serves a multitude of therapeutic functions. This text addresses all aspects of the clinical impact of telephone use with specific... (more)
Self injury: Psychotherapy with people who engage in self-inflicted violence
This volume offers compassionate guidelines to clinicians working with people who injure themselves. Among the issues addressed are understanding the various forms of self-injuring behaviour and... (more)
Doing More With Less: Applying Long-Term Skills in Short-Term Psychotherapy
A guide to conducting short-term psychotherapy, designed for clinicians trained in long-term practice. The short-term treatment framework presented offers therapeutic tools and addresses in detail... (more)
Managing Anger: Second Edition
The technique of anger management has become a widely used intervention in a variety of forensic, general mental health and non-clinical settings. The development of this manual reflects both... (more)
Person-centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
Person-Centred Therapy Today represents a significant contribution to the development of the person-centred approach. It will be read by teachers and students of counselling and psychology who wish... (more)
Invisible Men: Finding, Engaging and Inspiring Men in Therapy
Why is it so difficult to engage men in the therapy process when a family runs into difficulty? The reasons are many, but the upshot is singularly unproductive, even destructive. And yet it continues... (more)
Ambiguous loss: Learning to live with unresolved grief
New in paperback. Frozen sadness - what we have when we cannot really know what we have lost. This is what Pauline Boss illuminates, explores, and helps to ease. The loss could be a loved one still... (more)
Doing what works in brief therapy: A strategic solution focused approach, 2nd Ed
This guide to strategic focused therapy explains how the strategic emphasis on clarification of the problem, and interruption of what does not work, can complement and enhance the solution focused... (more)
Radical feminist therapy: Working in the context of violence
With an emphasis on violence against women and on women's responses to it - such as depression, splitting and eating disturbances - this volume furthers the radicalization of feminist therapy. It... (more)
The Crucible of Experience: R.D. Laing and the Crisis of Psychotherapy
One of the great rebels of psychiatry, R.D. Laing challenged prevailing models of madness and the nature and limits of psychiatric authority. In this book, Laing's widely praised biographer distils... (more)
Some stories are better than others: Doing what works in brief therapy and managed care
Exploring a variety of post-modern, social constructionist, and solution- focused ideas in therapy, these essays try to offer ideas and reflections on doing what works to improve mental health. (more)
Letters from the clinic: Letter writing in clinical practice for mental health professionals
Applies detailed literary and psychological analysis to over forty letters, highlighting why certain words or phrases were used, how they could have been put better. 130 pages. (more)
Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Relevance, Dismissal and Self-Definition
The themes of relevance and dismissal are central to our relations with other people and, therefore to our concept of identity. These themes of relevance and dismissal prevade the author's... (more)
Learning to Listen From Multiple Perspectives: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
This text teaches therapists how to listen and intervene from multiple perspectives. Through study and analysis of session transcripts, the reader learns how to listen and formulate interpretations... (more)
The essence of psychotherapy: Reinventing the art for the new era of data
This work identifies the practices that make for excellence in psychotherpay. With the current emphasis on data-based tratment, the art of psychotherapy is in danger of being lost according to the... (more)
Psychodynamic-Interpersonal Therapy: A Conversational Model
This book presents for the first time, a practical manual for psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy. Drawing on forty years of research, teaching and practice, its expert authors guide you through the... (more)
Exploring and Treating Acquisitive Desire: Living in the Material World
This book demonstrates how what we own can control us - the terminal stage of the social disease of acquisitive desire for material things. Topics covered include: what acquisitive desire means in... (more)
Philosophy for Counselling and Psychotherapy: Pythagoras to Postmodernism
This work provides a philosophical background for counsellors, therapists and healthcare workers looking for broader, deeper foundations in the struggle to help and make sense of others. 400 pages. (more)
Becoming an Effective Supervisor: A Workbook for Counselors and Therapists
A practical, hands-on workbook designed to help clinical counsellors and therapists create effective supervision programmes of their own, and to address the individual needs of their students. 300... (more)
Issues in Therapy with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clients: Pink Therapy 3.
With volume three of "Pink Therapy" the editors have collated articles on twelve further issues of particular concern to non-heterosexual clients. Professionals from various fields of therapy offer... (more)
Deep Journeys: Experiential Psychotherapy with Dreams, Personal Archetypal Tales & Trance States
This deep journey system of psychotherapy strives for personal transformation, not mere adjustment of its clients. This provocative book describes proceduress that are innoavative and... (more)
The Social Nature of Mental Illness:
An objective and philosophical critique of the theories of mental illness as a social construct. Covers the debate over the true nature of mental illness, and the argument about whether treatment... (more)
Linguistics, Pragmatics and Psychotherapy: A Guide for Therapists
This work offers a guide to semantics, syntax and discourse analysis specifically for those working with psychotic patients. It covers such areas as the characteristics and diagnosis of schizophrenic... (more)
Therapeutic action: A guide to psychoanalytic therapy
This text clarifies interventions that are derived from a psychoanalytic perspective and have found their way into the broad culture of psychotherapy. Many therapists rely on these approaches without... (more)
Opening gambits: The first session of psychotherapy
The first session of psychotherapy is vital in determining the course of successful treatment. This book presents a set of guidlines that aim to enhance the clinician's ability to conduct an... (more)
Essential Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
A study of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT). Written in an easy-to- read style, it seeks to strip away the sophistication that can cause confusion and focuses on the essential elements of... (more)