Individual Psychotherapy Books
Critical Issues in Psychotherapy: Translating New Ideas into Practice
A landmark publication which movesthe discipline into the new millenium by addressing many of the field's new and revolutionary approaches. Through illustrative therapy cases and practitoner... (more)
Deepening Intimacy in Psychotherapy: Using the Erotic Transference and Countertransference
In this provocative volume, Dr. Florence W. Rosiello addresses erotic dynamics in the treatment relationship within the context of a two-person therapy, emphasizing the necessity of mutuality and... (more)
What Psychotherapists Should Know About Disability:
This comprehensive volume provides the knowledge and skills that mental health professionals need for more effective, informed work with clients with disabilities (more)
The Pastoral Counselling Treatment Planner
This sourcebook provides a selection of treatment plan components (behavioral definitions, long-term goals, short-term objectives, therapeutic and DSM-IV diagnoses) for spiritual problems, and life... (more)
Phobias: Fighting the fear
Common fears or phobias are often held by intelligent and sociable people. This book compares and assesses the latest scientific research on phobias, exploring their genetic and psychological... (more)
Inside Therapy: Illuminating Writings about Therapists, Patients and Psychotherapy
Everyone with an interest in the art and science of psychotherapy - practitioners, patients, students, and avid readers of Freud, Jung, et al - will find this lively anthology an engrossing read. A... (more)
Using DSM-IV: a clinician's guide to psychiatric diagnosis:
Intended for use in conjunction with the American Psychiatric Association's most recent revision of its diagnostic system, the DSM-IV (1994). This text places the DSM-IV in historical perspective and... (more)
Definition of Suicide
Mental, Physical, or sexual abuse in close personal relationships commonly results in trauma that is very different from the trauma of accidents, illness, or war. Little is more intellectually... (more)
Interpersonal Process in Cognitive Therapy
This text integrates findings from cognitive psychology, infant development research and emotion theory to show how change takes place in the interpersonal context of the therapeutic relationship.... (more)
Becoming a Constant Object in Psychotherapy with the Borderline Patient
Focuses on the first stage of therapy with borderline patients - the "preconstancy" stage during which a constant attachment must be formed between the patient and the therapist. It traces the issues... (more)
Psychotherapy and Mental Handicap
This thought-provoking book shows how psychotherapy can be an important and empowering resource for a client group that has frequently been denied such services - mentally handicapped people. The... (more)
Focused Psychotherapy: A Casebook of Brief Intermittent Psychotherapy Throughout the Life Cycle
Providing a strikingly clear description of this approach, the volume enables psychotherapists quickly to hone in on the client's true agenda, therefore avoiding unnecessarily long and drawn out... (more)
Relationship management of the borderline patient: From understanding to treatment
Offers guidelines for managing the therapist-patient relationship during crisis intervention and longer-term therapy with patients who exhibit borderline symptoms. Case examples are included which... (more)
On Being a Client: Understanding the Process of Counselling and Psychotherapy
There is a growing interest in what clients have to say about their experiences of counselling and psychotherapy. In a powerful analysis of this subject, David Howe identifies a number of clear and... (more)
Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
This text presents a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. The author traces how aesthetic alterations of the body have been used to "cure" dissatisfied... (more)
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)
