Individual Psychotherapy Books
Clinical Psychotherapy for Health Professionals
An account of the talking treatments employed by the medical profession. It covers the management of psychotic illness and criminal states, and the use of the cognitive-analytic model. The final... (more)
Rent two films and let's talk in the morning: The practice of psychotherapeutic videowork
This text offers an introduction to using video in therapy and provides a ready-reference for therapists who want to assign videos as homework but need some guidance about what films to select in... (more)
How Much Is Enough?: Endings in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Looking at the reasons why therapy can go on for too long or can come to a destructively premature ending, this text offers advice on how to avoid either. Using examples and practical guidelines,... (more)
Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in Relationships: Hardcover
The authors of this book focus on the importance of relationship in psychotherapy. Relationships between people form the basis of our daily lives. It offers therapists a methodology for assisting... (more)
A Clinician's Guide to Legal Issues in Psychotherapy or Proceed With Caution
In clear, accessible language, William Reid lays out potential legal dangers in mental health practice and explains how to recognize and deal with them. (more)
Person-Centred Therapy: A Revolutionary Paradigm
The author presents the work in five sections, covering: theory and philosophy; the basics of practice; applications of practice; research; Implications. (more)
Therapeutic perspectives on working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients: Pink therapy 2
Following the text "Pink Therapy" as a practical guide for therapists, counsellors and others working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients, this volume addresses how this can be approached from ten... (more)
Understanding depression: Feminist social constructionist approaches
A critical examination of mainstream approaches to understanding and treating depression from a feminist perspective. This work argues that late-1990s approaches give only partial accounts of women's... (more)
Psychotherapy and Spirituality: Crossing the line between therapy and religion
This thoughtful and intelligent book encourages psychotherapists and counsellors to consider seriously the relationship between spiritual experiences and therapeutic practice. 152 pages. (more)
A Psychodynamic Approach to Brief Therapy
Illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes, this book is a comprehensive guide to psychodynamic brief counselling and psychotherapy. It is ideal for those looking for a practical introduction to... (more)
Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
An exceptionally compelling and beautifully written collection of psychological case studies. This classic medium, first popularised by Freud and, more recently, by Oliver Sacks and Yalom himself,... (more)
Comprehensive Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Since its introduction as a brief, empirically validated treatment for depression, Interpersonal Psychotherapy has broadened its scope to include disorders of behaviour, personality and mood. This... (more)
Good Practice in Psychotherapy and Counselling: The Exceptional Relationship
Despite differing emphases of approach, trianee psychotherapists face very similar problems of practice when they move actively into the field of counselling. This work aims to address their needs,... (more)
Older people and their needs: A multi-disciplinary perspective
Offers a resource of debate and practical ideas on how to prepare for dignity and quality of life during the final decades of life. As well as discussing physical independence, mobility, nutrition,... (more)
The Therapist's Encounters with Revenge and Forgiveness
Examining the "exploited-repressive" and "vindictive" reactions to a patient's actual or perceived abuse, this study looks at the concepts of vengeance, revenge fantasy and the granting or... (more)
Choosing a counselling or psychotherapy training: A practical guide
This book takes the reader through all stages of the therapuetic training path, covering topics including: theoretical approaches to counselling and psychotherapy; starting a course; qualification,... (more)
Personality Disorders: Recognition and Clinical Management
With detailed coverage of recognition, assessment and management, this text provides an account of those aspects of personality disorders which are of relevance to psychiatrists, clinical... (more)
Cutting: Understanding and overcoming self-mutilation
This work, written for self-mutilators, parents, friends, therapists, explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviour and describes how the self-mutilator can be helped. 256 pages. (more)
Motivating Clients in Therapy: Values, Love and the Real Relationship
In this book, the author emphasizes the practitioner's role in enhancing client motivation, stressing the need for the therapist to be relationally active, directive and flexible. 352 pages (more)
Evolving Possibilities: Selected Papers of Bill O'Hanlon
A collection of twenty papers written or co-written by O'Hanlon from 1986 to the present. They cover four different approaches to psychotherapy: Ericksonian approaches, Solution-oriented therapy,... (more)
Why I Became a Psychotherapist
Mentoring intersects with memoir in this volume, as 31 psychotherapists share the origins of their professional ambitions and, mixing authority with levity, describe their professional odysseys. The... (more)
Deepening the Treatment
This text aims to help the therapist help the patient recognize that exploring ideas and feelings is worthwhile and that the therapist is a trustworthy guide. It introduces an application of... (more)
Reaching Across Boundaries of Culture and Class: Widening the Scope of Psychotherapy
This volume shows how contemporary methods can be used to treat patients often previously thought unresponsive to psychodynamic therapy. Cultural values, countertransference guilt, immigration,... (more)
Enactment: Toward a New Approach to Therapeutic Relationship
For many therapists, "enactment" has replaced previous action terms such as "acting in" and "acting out". This volume explores whether the concept adds clarity or a new perspective to the clinical... (more)
Doing Good?: Psychotherapy out of its Depth
This text argues that as psychotherapy enters the mainstream, therapists have become dependent on the technical aspects of their profession at the expense of the moral issues. It explores the... (more)
Person-centred Therapy: A European Persective
Brings together the thoughts of the proponents in Europe of the person- centred approach. Contributors from Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway and the UK cover a range of person-centred issues,... (more)
Witness and Vision of the Therapists
This work demonstrates the link between individual, clinical work and its wider social significance, and shows how society's problems inevitably find their way into the private "confessions" of... (more)
Social therapy: A guide to social support for mental health practitioners
Building on psychological concepts of coping, problem solving and social intervention, this text outlines practical methods for helping mental health clients in the community through the enhancement... (more)
Complementary Therapies in Context: The Psychology of Healing
This study covers shamanism, mysticism, ancient Egyptian and Greek medicine, Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese, Indian and Japanese medicine, yoga, Galenism and the divorce of psychology and medicine. It... (more)