Individual Psychotherapy Books
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)
Touch in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice
New paperback edition. This comprehensive compendium of theory, therapy, research and practice deals with touch in all situations. Such as how to make an ethical decision, how to factor patient and... (more)
The psychotherapy relationship: Theory, research and practice
This text describes the elements of the psychotherapeutic relationship, and offers a theoretical conception of the relationship. The author divides the relationship into three primary components: the... (more)
The psychotherapist's interventions: a dual developmental perspective:
This work provides case materials which include verbatim dialogues between patient and therapist, and which provide a window on the therapist's rationale for his responses.
Remorse and Reparation
A comprehensive attempt to bring together forensic clinicians and those working within the criminal justice system. This text examines the complex relationship between remorse, shame, guilt and... (more)
Past Trauma in Late Life: European Perspectives on Therapeutic Work with Older People
This study looks at the effects of early traumatic experiences on later life, in terms of behaviour displayed by older people, which is often viewed as part of the pathology of old age. As well as... (more)
Cognitive Psychodynamics: From Conflict to Character
Cognitive Psychodynamics offers an important new integration of cognitive science and psychodynamic psychology that provides a common language across disciplines while presenting an explicit... (more)
Eric Berne
Eric Berne is probably still best known as the author of the bestselling Games People Play, yet his professional writings on transactional analysis fill several books and his practice of... (more)
Time-Limited Therapy in a General Practice Setting
As general practitioners are increasingly capping provision of counselling sessions, time-limited therapy skills are becoming ever-more important to counsellors working alongside GPs. Time-limited... (more)
Therapists' Dilemmas
This collection of interviews examines crucial issues of uncertainty which leading British and American therapists have encountered during the course of their work. This revised edition includes a... (more)