Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Mystery of Goodness
Explores the relationship between psychotherapy and goodness, the latter being defined as: altruism, responsibility, justice, egalitarianism and honesty. How can psychotherapy promote or diminish... (more)
Key Concepts in Psychotherapy
An updated edition of this work that outlines the historical development of concepts and terminologies currently used in the psychoanalytic process. It clarifies the ways in which terminology is used... (more)
Keeping Boundaries
Keeping Boundaries is an across-the-board review of the subject of boundary maintenance in psychotherapy. Using a comprehensive approach, this book examines the problem of therapeutic boundaries and... (more)
An Introduction to the Psychotherapies: 4th Revised Edition
The revised edition of this textbook for mental health professionals embarking on training in psychotherapy. It has been updated to include discussion of current practices, with two new chapters on... (more)
The Imaginative Body: Psychodynamic Therapy in Health Care
A collection of writing on psychodynamic theory, psychotherapy, and physical illness. Topics covered include: the links between biopsychosocial and psychodynamic approaches to health care, the... (more)
Forensic Psychotherapy: Crime, Psychodynamics and the Offender Patient
This compendium of forensic psychotherapy brings together the contributions of over 50 authors. It aims to cover all aspects - both theoretical and applied - of this field. 715 pages. (more)
Pink Therapy: A guide for counsellors and therapists working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients
Drawing on practical experience, the contributors to this book provide information on the contemporary experience of living as a lesbian, gay, or bisexual person. They provide an overview of lesbian,... (more)
Comparing Schools of Analytic Therapy
This work compares the ways in which different psychoanalytic theories interpret the same sample of material - that presented in Philip Roth's 'Portnoy's Complaint'. Some see Portnoy as neurotic,... (more)
Close Encounters
This book takes its examples from psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and couple and family treatment. Experienced therapists Winer's humanizing text helpful in putting their own work and their own... (more)
Intercultural Therapy: Themes, Interpretations and Practice: Second Edition
There are many problems in working psychotherapeutically across cultures, with numerous examples of failure to understand cultural issues. For example, the ignorance of traditional family structures... (more)
Beyond integration: One multiple's journey
This volume focuses on the difficulties and rewards of post-integration work with people with multiple personalities. Doris Bryant (the therapist) and Judy Kessler (the client) show how the adult can... (more)
The Situation is Hopeless, but not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness
This is a tongue-in-cheek look at the ways in which we turn ourselves into our own worst enemies. Using metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendoes and other "right-hemispheric" language games, Dr.... (more)
The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication
In this book, Paul Watzlawick undertakes to teach the language of the right hemisphere of the brain. Only by communicating in the bizarre language of the unconscious can the door be opened to genuine... (more)
The Psychotherapy Maze
A revised edition of this guide to the practicalities, perils, and rewards of psychotherapy. It offers advice on matters such as choosing a therapist, therapy for different groups, the therapy... (more)
A Psychoanalyst Explores the Alternate Therapies
The major non-psychoanalytic therapies are critically examined from the point of view of U.S. psychoanalysis. An interesting overview of the both the spectrum of therapies available and the future... (more)
Empowered Psychotherapy: Teaching Self-Processing
'Self-Processing' is Langs' development of self-analysis. He lays down a detailed technique and ground-rules for using this technique in everyday practice, in order to utilise the encoded impulses... (more)
Suicide and the unconscious
This text explores the role of the unconscious in suicidal behaviour. Case studies and examples of dreams and suicide notes are provided, and the assessment and treatment of suicidal patients are... (more)
The Many Faces of Deceit: Omissions, Lies, and Disguise in Psychotherapy
This work examines the concept of deceit and its ubiquity - both in everyday life and in various forms of psychopathology. It offers examples of clinical work with true impostors, those with... (more)
Breakdown and Breakthrough: Psychotherapy in a New Dimension.
This is an examination of the essential role of regression in the patient's recovery from mental illness, and a reassessment of the role of the therapist. The author traces psychotherapy back to its... (more)
What's Really Going On Here?
Here are fascinating articles on sex, jealousy, anger, intimacy, loss, food problems, parent/child relationships, sibling rivalry and much more...from Susie Orbach, truly innovative therapist and a... (more)
Object Relations Brief Therapy: The Therapeutic Relationship in Short-Term Work
This book combines practical techniques with the depth of object relations theory, the wisdom of previous brief therapy writers, and, most notably, an emphasis on the unique therapeutic relationship.... (more)
Essential Cognitive Therapy
Cognitve therapy, developed by Aaron Beck in the US in the 1960s, is a structured, time-limited, problem-focused and research based system of psychotherapy which seeks to identify, examine and modify... (more)