Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Solution Lies Within: Towards a New Medicine for the Body and the Mind
In The Solution Lies Within, surgeon and psychotherapist Thierry Janssen examines the daunting task of "reconnecting": reconnecting our mind to our body, in order to gain a true sense of well-being,... (more)
Supervising the Reflective Practitioner: An Essential Guide to Theory and Practice
Development as a reflective practitioner has become an essential quality for practitioners in the fields of health, education and social care. Supervising the Reflective Practitioner provides... (more)
Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience: Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work
Explores the interface between spiritual and psychological care in the context of disaster recovery work, drawing upon various disasters. (more)
The Therapist's Notebook on Strengths and Solution-based Therapies: Homework, Handouts, and Activities
Offers multiple pathways for those in helping relationships to employ strengths and solution-based (SSB) principles and practices as a vehicle for promoting positive change with individuals, couples,... (more)
Treating Alcohol and Drug Problems in Psychotherapy Practice: Doing What Works
Written specifically for the office-based psychotherapist, this practical guide describes how to detect, assess, diagnose, and treat clients presenting with a range of alcohol and drug problems.... (more)
Helping Students Overcome Depression and Anxiety: A Practical Guide: Second Edition
Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this popular guide provides expert information and clear-cut strategies for assessing and treating internalizing problems in school settings. More than... (more)
The Zen of Helping: Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice
Bring compassion, self-awareness, radical acceptance, practitioner presence, and caring to the relationships you have with you patients by utilizing the advice in "The Zen of Helping: Spiritual... (more)
Making Hostile Words Harmless: A Guide to the Power of Positive Speaking For Helping Professionals and Their Clients
Inappropriate comments and bullying behaviours plague the lives of many adults, crushing their self-confidence and driving them to seek professional help. Random rudeness from strangers and cruel... (more)
What is Mental Disorder?: An Essay in Philosophy, Science, and Values
The effects of mental disorder are apparent and pervasive, in suffering, loss of freedom and life opportunities, negative impacts on education, work satisfaction and productivity, complications in... (more)
The Sister Knot: Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous and Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What
Relationships between women are often freighted with a rocky mix of emotions leading to anguish and confusion in the playground, in the home and in the boardroom. A woman's experience negotiating her... (more)
Psychotherapy for Neuropsychological Challenges
Amidst increasing awareness among clinicians of the impact that psychological factors and treatment of those factors have upon the progress of neurological disease, "Psychotherapy for... (more)
Object Relations Psychotherapy: An Individualized and Interactive Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
This book offers clinicians a different approach to psychotherapy, going beyond mere modification of existing techniques. Instead, the author shows how object relations theory can be used to specify... (more)
Into the Mountain Stream: Psychotherapy and Buddhist Experience
The lived relation between Buddhism and psychotherapy finds expression in the Buddhist's practice, the therapist's stance and response to those who seek help. Paul C. Cooper has gathered papers that... (more)
Dreaming: An Opportunity for Change
"Dreaming: An Opportunity for Change" is a practical guide for both therapist and dreamer that utilizes dream interpretation for the purpose of promoting clinical change. Myron Glucksman demonstrates... (more)
Journeys Through Mental Illness: Clients' Experiences and Understandings of Mental Distress
At a time when service users' perspectives are increasingly recognized in healthcare, this seminal book highlights the importance of clients' perceptions of all aspects of mental illness. It examines... (more)
Demystifying Love: Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional
Intended primarily for mental health professionals, "Demystifying Love" deals plainly with topics rarely written about for clinicians. The book discusses in a small package highly readable and useful... (more)
Resolving Difficult Clinical Syndromes: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach
Provides clinicians with a combination of conceptual background and step-by-step practical advice to guide their treatment of the clinical disorders listed under Axis I of the DSM-IV-TR: Substance... (more)
Interpersonal Rejection
Interpersonal rejection ranks among the most potent and distressing events that people experience. Romantic rejection, ostracism, stigmatisation, job termination, and other kinds of rejections have... (more)
Motivational Dialogue: Preparing Addiction Professionals for Motivational Interviewing Practice
"Motivational Dialogue" explores the application of motivational interviewing in various contexts, with a view to enhancing understanding and improving practice. The book describes the research and... (more)
The Madness of Our Lives: Experiences of Mental Breakdown and Recovery
What precipitates mental breakdown? How do people experience such extremes - and how do they see others' interpretations and interventions? Most important, how do people recover from these episodes... (more)
Symptom-focused Dynamic Psychotherapy
Traditionally, psychoanalytically oriented clinicians have eschewed a direct focus on symptoms, viewing it as superficial turning away from underlying psychopathology. But this assumption is an... (more)
CBT for Occupational Stress in Health Professionals: Introducing a Schema-Focused Approach
The costs of occupational stress in terms of sickness absence, ill-health-related retirement, litigation and lost productivity are increasing, putting strain on economies across the world. The fact... (more)
Dynamic Psychotherapy Explained: Second Edition
A comprehensive overview of Dynamic Psychotherapy. This book explains the links between psychotherapy and other psychiatric treatments, and between neurobiology and psychology. It spells out the... (more)
The Psychology of Demonization: Promoting Acceptance and Reducing Conflict
Throughout human history, the relationships of individuals and groups have been disrupted by what the authors sum up as "demonization," the attribution of basic destructive qualities to the other or... (more)
The Fear of Contamination: Assessment and Treatment
Deals with the topic of the fear of contamination. This book starts by defining the disorder, before considering the various manifestations of this fear, examining both mental contamination and... (more)
Readings in the Theory of Individual Psychology
Individual Psychology, a movement pioneered by Alfred Adler around the turn of the (20th) century, has gradually claimed its place as an established school of psychotherapy and counseling. However,... (more)
Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Time, Space, Number and State of Mind
This book explores the three basic elements of psychotherapy - time, space and number - summarising theory, setting it in context and bringing concepts to life with clinical illustrations. Michael... (more)
Handbook of Racial-cultural Psychology and Counseling:
This two-volume handbook offers a thorough treatment of the concepts and theoretical developments concerning how to apply cultural knowledge in theory and practice to various racial and cultural... (more)