Individual Psychotherapy Books
Letters from the clinic: Letter writing in clinical practice for mental health professionals
Applies detailed literary and psychological analysis to over forty letters, highlighting why certain words or phrases were used, how they could have been put better. 130 pages. (more)
Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Relevance, Dismissal and Self-Definition
The themes of relevance and dismissal are central to our relations with other people and, therefore to our concept of identity. These themes of relevance and dismissal prevade the author's... (more)
Learning to Listen From Multiple Perspectives: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
This text teaches 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)
The essence of psychotherapy: Reinventing the art for the new era of data
This work identifies the practices that make for excellence in psychotherpay. With the current emphasis on data-based tratment, the art of psychotherapy is in danger of being lost according to the... (more)
Exploring and Treating Acquisitive Desire: Living in the Material World
This book demonstrates how what we own can control us - the terminal stage of the social disease of acquisitive desire for material things. Topics covered include: what acquisitive desire means in... (more)
Philosophy for Counselling and Psychotherapy: Pythagoras to Postmodernism
This work provides a philosophical background for counsellors, therapists and healthcare workers looking for broader, deeper foundations in the struggle to help and make sense of others. 400 pages. (more)
Becoming an Effective Supervisor: A Workbook for Counselors and Therapists
A practical, hands-on workbook designed to help clinical counsellors and therapists create effective supervision programmes of their own, and to address the individual needs of their students. 300... (more)
Issues in Therapy with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clients: Pink Therapy 3.
With volume three of "Pink Therapy" the editors have collated articles on twelve further issues of particular concern to non-heterosexual clients. Professionals from various fields of therapy offer... (more)
Deep Journeys: Experiential Psychotherapy with Dreams, Personal Archetypal Tales & Trance States
This deep journey system of psychotherapy strives for personal transformation, not mere adjustment of its clients. This provocative book describes proceduress that are innoavative and... (more)
The Social Nature of Mental Illness:
An objective and philosophical critique of the theories of mental illness as a social construct. Covers the debate over the true nature of mental illness, and the argument about whether treatment... (more)
Linguistics, Pragmatics and Psychotherapy: A Guide for Therapists
This work offers a guide to semantics, syntax and discourse analysis specifically for those working with psychotic patients. It covers such areas as the characteristics and diagnosis of schizophrenic... (more)
Therapeutic action: A guide to psychoanalytic therapy
This text clarifies interventions that are derived from a psychoanalytic perspective and have found their way into the broad culture of psychotherapy. Many therapists rely on these approaches without... (more)
Opening gambits: The first session of psychotherapy
The first session of psychotherapy is vital in determining the course of successful treatment. This book presents a set of guidlines that aim to enhance the clinician's ability to conduct an... (more)
Essential Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
A study of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT). Written in an easy-to- read style, it seeks to strip away the sophistication that can cause confusion and focuses on the essential elements of... (more)
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)
Humour on the Couch: Exploring Humour in Psychotherapy and in Everyday Life
The aim of this book is primarily to highlight humour's communicative, relational and innovative value in everyday life, and in the privileged space, carved out of everyday life, that is... (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)
