Individual Psychotherapy Books
A finger in the wound: Body politics in quincentennial Guatemala
Many Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as "a finger in the wound". This text explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in a study of the civil war and its aftermath.... (more)
Erotic Transference and Countertransference: Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy
Bringing together contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice, this text represents a spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives,... (more)
Solution-Oriented Therapy for Chronic and Severe Mental Illness (Hardback)
See catalogue number 90552 for the paperback edition. Explaining how to use solution-oriented therapy to work with the severely mentally ill, this text uses case examples to illustrate how therapists... (more)
Life, Psychotherapy and Death: The End of Our Exploring
Exploring the subject of death from the point of view of a psychotherapist, this text aims to look at death and what it means, as a method of helping others to come to terms with it. It discusses... (more)
Zen and the heart of psychotherapy:
In this text, the author - a practicing psychotherapist - explores the challenges and joys of making our life a coherent whole. Each chapter takes a short Buddhist text and explores what it teaches... (more)
Nature guided therapy: Brief integrative strategies for health and well being
Exploring the relationship between nature-based acitivites and relaxation, this work provides an evolutionary history of the relationship between humans and their environment. Clinical applications... (more)
Psychodynamic psychotherapy: Learning to Listen From Multiple Perspectives
Designed to teach 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)
Ethics: Working with Ethical and Moral Dilemmas in Psychotherapy
The book brings together a wide range of theoretical perspectives on ethics and morality, from formal research studies to theoretical and philisophical explanations of the ethics of psychotherapy.... (more)
Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy
Beyond the Brain seriously challenges the existing neurophysiological models of the brain. After three decades of extensive research on those non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by... (more)
Carl Rogers' Helping System: Journey and substance
In this guide to person-centred therapy, from its earliest beginnings to the present day, the author - a working colleague of Carl Rogers - charts its origin and development, its central concepts and... (more)
From medicine to psychotherapy:
The papers brought together in this volume reflect the impetus towards diversity that resulted from the author's own training, which embraced many forms of psychotherapy, and the clinical necessity... (more)
Approaches to Case Study: A Handbook for Those Entering the Therapeutic Field
Draws on anthropological, biographical, and medical models of the case-study, and stresses ways of bridging the humanist and scientific approaches. This book emphasises the value of the... (more)
Pillar of salt: Gender, memory, and the perils of looking back
Recovered memory has become a contentious issue in therapy. This work moves beyond the poles of 'true' and 'false' memories to show how women's stories reveal layers of gendered and ambiguous... (more)
Deconstructing Psychotherapy
Taking the discursive and postmodern turn in psychotherapy a significant step forward, this book reflects on the role of psychotherapy in contemporary culture, develops critiques of language in... (more)
Creative Training: Sociodrama and Team-building
Looking at how to run staff training groups and at what to do with stuck teams, this 'how to do it' guide is aimed at people in the health and social services who want their training to be... (more)
Heart and Soul: The Therapeutic Face of Philosophy
This book examines those concepts and questions which are at the heart of both psychotherapy and philosophy. These include: the nature of the self; motivation and subjectivity; the limits of... (more)
How to use computers and cyberspace in the clinical practice of psychotherapy
This text explores computer-assisted therapeutic interventions for treating individuals and groups, based on accepted theories of practice. It explores issues such as: Internet Addiction Disorder,... (more)
New Psychotherapy for Men: A Case Study Approach
The culture of psychotherapy requires the expression of feelings and behaviours which conflict with aspects of the traditional male role. This text explores the psychological sources of men's... (more)
The Management of Counselling and Psychotherapy Agencies
The authors of this book provide clear guidelines on the many aspects of knowledge, skill and management expertise increasingly required by all counselling services. Due consideration and detailed... (more)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
The annual Review of Psychiatry now comprises separate monographs, bound and sold individually. There are six monographs for 1998. This volume covers some important developments of IPT as a research... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: The Controversies and the Future
In this, the sixth volume in the highly successful monograph series produced under the auspices of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Services (EFPP), the... (more)
From Impasse to Intimacy: How Understanding Unconscious Needs Can Transform Relationships
This text identifies the unconscious factors that influence the way people feel and behave in intimate relationships, covering the needs and fears that create and sustain dysfunctional patterns of... (more)
Ethics and values in psychotherapy
This text draws a philosophical understanding of ethics and psychological literature, in order to focus on the role of the therapist as ethicist, and on how the ethical convictions of both therapists... (more)
The Ancestor Syndrome
In this text the author explains and provides clinical examples of her psychogenealogical approach to psychotherapy. She shows how, as mere links in a chain of generations, we may have no choice in... (more)
The psychotherapy of Carl Rogers: Cases and commentary
This book explores in-depth the therapy of Carl Rogers. It contains edited therapy transcripts and associated commentary. 383 pages. (more)
Hearing the Voice of People with Dementia: Opportunities and Obstacles
Based on research into ten key areas relevant to dementia, this book offers practical advice and suggestions. It explores the idea that communication is not only possible, but also vital to the... (more)
Psychotherapy: an outline for trainee psychiatrists, medical students and practitioners:
The second edition of a straightforward introduction to psychotherapy. It outlines the essentials of a number of forms of psychotherapy, in language which aims to be accessible to the uninitiated.... (more)
Ground Rules in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Robert Langs has long been one of the most individual and controversial psychoanalytic theorists. In this book, he concentrates on one of the most prominent areas of his thought: his insistence upon... (more)