Individual Psychotherapy Books
Sex and Sexuality: Questions and Answers
This book bridges the gap between the counsellor and the specialist sex therapist, by providing answers to questions raised by patients or clients about sex, gender and sexuality. It covers... (more)
Understanding NLP: Principles and Practice: Second Edition
Understanding NLP opens a doorway into a more imaginative and coherent way of understanding and using NLP. This completely revised edition unites the many strands of NLP using an elegant paradigm... (more)
Therapist's Guide to Self-Care
Combining an informal, easy-to-read and entertaining style with useful information, this is an essential guide to anyone in the mental health profession with the desire to remain active and healthy... (more)
A Primer of Handling the Negative Therapeutic Reaction:
This work examines the possible deterioration of a client's condition during treatment. This primer suggests that the therapist's technique may not address the underlying nature of the... (more)
The Embodied Psychotherapist: The Therapist's Body Story
The whole area of touch in psychotherapy has been given very little attention. "The Embodied Psychotherapist" uses accounts of therapists' own experiences to address this inadequacy in discourse, and... (more)
What's the Good of Counselling and Psychotherapy? The Benefits Explained
`There is much here to stir up the reluctant practitioner to explain themselves and their practice more ably and, better still, to promote and defend our profession' - The Revd John Eatock,... (more)
Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy: Promoting Change in Nonresponders
Leading scientist-practitioner Lorna Smith Benjamin provides both a comprehensive introduction to interpersonal reconstructive therapy (IRT) and clear, step-by-step guidelines for practice. (more)
A right result?:
As advocacy moves into the mainstream of health and social care provision, and the prospect of a legal right to advocacy inches closer, so the need to scrutinize key values in advocacy becomes... (more)
Recollections of Sexual Abuse: Treatment Principles and Guidelines
This text provides clinicians with information about the controversy surrounding delay/repressed memory of sexual abuse, as well as treatment principles and guidelines for working with these issues.... (more)
A Different Story: The Rise of Narrative in Psychology
A Different Story is the story of the emergence of the narrative approach to psychotherapy as seen through the eyes of a family therapist whose life and work have taken him across some of the great... (more)
The Pastoral Counselling Treatment Planner
This sourcebook provides a selection of treatment plan components (behavioral definitions, long-term goals, short-term objectives, therapeutic and DSM-IV diagnoses) for spiritual problems, and life... (more)
Inside Therapy: Illuminating Writings about Therapists, Patients and Psychotherapy
Everyone with an interest in the art and science of psychotherapy - practitioners, patients, students, and avid readers of Freud, Jung, et al - will find this lively anthology an engrossing read. A... (more)
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
In the summer of 1985 William Styron was overtaken by persistent insomnia and a troubling sense of malaise - the first signs of a deep depression that would engulf his life and leave him on the brink... (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)
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)
Deepening the Treatment
This text aims to help the therapist help the patient recognize that exploring ideas and feelings is worthwhile and that the therapist is a trustworthy guide. It introduces an application of... (more)
Doing Good?: Psychotherapy out of its Depth
This text argues that as psychotherapy enters the mainstream, therapists have become dependent on the technical aspects of their profession at the expense of the moral issues. It explores the... (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)
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)
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)
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 art of the question: A guide to short-term question-centered therapy
Explaining the basic principles of 'questioning' in the therapeutic context, and offering a strategic guide to clinical inquiries, this guide addresses a number of clinical situations, and provides... (more)
Handbook of Psychotherapy Supervision
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the essential Internet: A guide for psychotherapists and other mental health professionals
A guide to the Internet, written specifically for psychotherapists and other mental health professionals, which provides chapters on the essential features of the Internet, and includes an extensive... (more)