Individual Psychotherapy Books
Second Opinions: Sixty Psychotherapy Patients Evaluate their Therapists
This text arose out of interviews between Lee Kassan and 60 patients, who discussed with him their experiences in psychotherapy. The book covers the decision to enter treatment, the selection of a... (more)
Mad travellers: Reflections on the reality of transient mental illness:
This text uses the case of Albert Dadas, the first diagnosed "mad traveller", to weigh the legitimacy of cultural versus physical symptoms in the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. It also looks at... (more)
Treating Addiction as a Human Process
Individuals with addictive disorders feel either too much or too little; they are over-controlled or out-of-control. Focusing on a psychodynamic perspective, the author of this work believes it is... (more)
Intervention and Strategies in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Interventions and Strategies in Counseling and Psychotherapy acknowledges the important contributions of Alfred Adler and illustrates the many ways in which Adlerian ideas underpin and influence... (more)
The language of injury: Comprehending self-mutilation
The emphasis of this text is that persuading people to stop self-mutilation may be more harmful than the injuries themselves. The book discusses cultural and historical aspects, as well as the causes... (more)
Good Practice in Supervision: Statutory and Voluntary Organisations
This book is rich in background and overview material concerning the issue of supervision. It contains sample contracts, training exercises and record sheets and is an extremely valuable resource for... (more)
Sister Mary:
In this collaboration between psychotherapist and patient, Sister Mary relates her own story of abuse as a child by a much-loved father, and the three years of psychoanalytic psychotherapy she... (more)
Committed Uncertainty in Psychotherapy: Essays in Honour of Peter Lomas
This collection of essays is a tribute to the work of psychologist, Peter Lomas. Lomas trained as a Freudian psycho-analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, gradually becoming more... (more)
Modes of Therapeutic Action: Enhancement of Knowledge, Provision of Experience, and Engagement in Relationship
How do we position ourselves in relation to our patients? Do we participate as neutral object, as empathetic self-object, or as authentic subject? Do we strive to enhance the patient's knowledge, to... (more)
Personality development and psychotherapy in our diverse society: A sourcebook
This work aims to encompass the entire range of cultural influence in clinical work at present. It addresses mental health issues relevant to society, including assessment, treatment, specific... (more)
Fundamentals of an Integrated Model of Psychotherapy
A presentation of an integrated model of therapy. It offers a way of tailoring each clinical encounter to the needs of the particular patient, from the mildly-distressed anxiety-disordered to the... (more)
Body Process: Working with the Body in Psychotherapy
This work examines the therapeutic significance of posture, movements, and bodily experience for the psychotherapy patient. The author then provides a framework for incorporating these physical... (more)
Challenges to counselling and psychotherapy:
A radical challenge to the foundations of therapy. The author's ultimate target is not counselling, but the abuse of professionalization and our current deity - consumerism. 192 pages. (more)
Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Issues in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, counselling, clinical psychology and related therapies are not necessarily clear-cut. This work looks at theoretical, clinical, professional and social issues... (more)
Lifemaps of People with Learning Disabilities
The use of lifemaps with people who have learning disabilities has proved particularly effective for a better understanding of their emotional perspectives and needs. This book presents fourteen... (more)
Weathering the Storms: Psychotherapy for Psychosis
'In a series of fascinating supervisory case studies Jackson draws on Kleinian concepts and Scandinavian clinical experience to show how a psychotherapeutic approach can, through a combination of... (more)
The healing journey for couples: Journal of mutual discovery
Designed to develop and improve a relationship, this is one of first three books in the "Healing Journey" series. It features 45 guided journal entries to help couples increase communication, get in... (more)
The healing journey: A journal of self-discovery
Personal journals are sometimes an valuable adjunct to psychotherapy. This journal contains exercises designed to help people explore their background, personality, relationships, and goals for the... (more)
Cognitive Psychotherapy of Psychotic and Personality Disorders: Handbook of Theory and Practice
This volume covers the theories, models and practice of cognitive therapy with psychotic patients. It examines the assessment, formulation and treatment methods for a range of disorders, and includes... (more)
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)
The art of the psychotherapist
Unlike the brief, specific-solution oriented therapies that many people demand today, the goal of depth-therapy is life change. James Bugental has been practising, teaching, and writing about... (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)