Individual Psychotherapy Books
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)
Basic Skills in Psychotherapy and Counseling
This accessible text aims to prepare students for beginning mental health practice by helping to develop an overall appreciation of counselling and psychotherapy. It discusses the basic skills needed... (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)
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)
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)