Individual Psychotherapy Books
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)
A Primer for Beginning Psychotherapy:
A practical primer of psychotherapy, aimed especially at students and mental health professionals starting their careers. This concise guide addresses virtually all the questions posed by new... (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)
Transforming Aggression: Psychotherapy with the Difficult-to-Treat Patient
This volume argues that aggression can be vitally needed to confirm a sense of integrity, as a source of pride, and as an antidote to shame and depression. The author demonstrates how to use the... (more)
The psychotherapist as healer:
This text introduces a universal view of healing psychic pain to therapists of different disciplines, backgrounds, allegiances, specialities and areas of expertise. Using clinical exchanges, the... (more)
The real world guide to psychotherapy practice:
Managed care has radically reshaped health care in the United States, and private long-term psychotherapy is increasingly a thing of the past. The corporatization of mental health care often puts... (more)
Psycho/Analytic Psychotherapy Trainings: A Guide
This title explores the evolutionary history of training in psychotherapy, the institutions they came from, and the main ideas that supported them. It also explores the professionalization of... (more)
Counseling and psychotherapy with religious persons: A rational emotive behavior therapy approach
This guide should be of use to mental health professionals treating religious persons. The authors detail how their manual-focused approach aims to overcome emotional distress. (more)
Tales of solutions: Tales of hope-inspiring stories
Clients and solution-focused therapists often accomplish remarkable results under seemingly hopeless conditions. In this book mental health and social service professionals from throughout the world... (more)
Active Treatment of Depression
Richard O'Connor, a therapist who suffers from depression, shows that depressed people have trouble digging themselves out of one episode or warding off the next because they have become adept at the... (more)
Client Centered Therapy and the Person Centered Approach.
An important contribution to the current literature on a person-centered approach. It demonstrates the increasingly broad and dynamic application of this perspective to a variety of fields. Of... (more)
Recreating brief therapy: Preferences and possibilities
Details a move away from a language of problem and solution to therapy as a personal consultation, a mutual inquiry of client preferences and possibilities. Containing examples of consultant-client... (more)
The Invisible Matrix: An Exploration of Professional Relationships in the Service of Psychotherapy
Does therapy involve only one patient, one therapist and no-one else, or does it involve many people? This book explores the complex web of inter-relationships within which both the therapist and the... (more)
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)
Therapeutic strategies for treating addiction: From slavery to freedom
Each of the chapters in this book is about the journey from addiction to recovery and how to take patients on that journey. Some are how-to chapters, others are narratives. Some are dramatizations... (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)