Individual Psychotherapy Books
Developments in Psychotherapy: Historical Perspectives
This comprehensive and accessible book charts the origins and development of the major non-psychoanalytic fields in counselling and psychotherapy. Leading British and North American psychotherapists... (more)
Manual of Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
This text suggests that psychodynamic approaches can aid both psycopharmacological and cognitive-behavioural treatments. It catalogues psychological factors commonly present in panic disorder... (more)
Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method - The Integrated Use of Mindfulness, Nonviolence and the Body
A must-read for anyone interested in the body-centered movement in psychotherapy. The Hakomi Method integrates the use of mindfulness, nonviolence, meditation, and holism into a highly original... (more)
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method
Examining the moment-to-moment process of therapy, this text offers ways to engender effective movement. It concentrates on the ongoing client therapist relationship and ways in which the therapist's... (more)
Treating the alcoholic: A developmental model of recovery
Designed especially for psychotherapists who have long had difficulty treating alcoholics, this developmental model translates the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous into psychological terminology,... (more)
The dually diagnosed: a therapist's guide to helping the substance abusing, psychologically disturbed patient.
This text seeks to address the therapeutic dilemma of the dually diagnosed. Challenging the conventional wisdom, Ortman argues that the clinician should be prepared to treat the entire patient in one... (more)
Working with traits: psychotherapy of personality disorders
Aiming to set significant yet attainable goals, this text presents an approach to the treatment of patients with personality disorders. These disorders are viewed as pathological amplifications of... (more)
The therapist is the therapy
Psychotherapy evolved as a way of liberating the human spirit from the constraints of neurosis - it was never meant to be a means of alleviating symptoms and improving social adjustment. This book... (more)
Psychotherapy of cocaine addiction: entering the interpersonal world of the cocaine addict
This work examines effective psychotherapy with people who are addicted to cocaine. While its emphasis is on the people themselves rather than on the drug or the phenomenon of addiction, the... (more)
Treatment of abuse and addiction: a holistic approach
Presenting a holistic model of psychotherapy for people suffering from addictions, abusive relationships, and poor self-esteem, this text combines group and individual therapy with supportive and... (more)
Mind-body problems: psychotherapy with psychosomatic disorders
Asthma, arthritis, eating and gastrointestinal disorders, are only a few of the many serious somatic problems that may be initiated or exacerbated by psychological stress. This book explores the... (more)
Life after psychotherapy
This work demonstrates how it is not always necessary to return to therapy when old symptoms return. Dealing with a variety of problems such as depression, anxiety, and excessive concerns with... (more)
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)
Constructing therapeutic narratives
Teaching the therapeutic principles of 'narrative reconstruction', this book shows how to do better what most therapists do automatically - that is, characterize, construct plots, develop themes, and... (more)
Doing Psychotherapy Effectively
Offers a unique method of evaluating psychotherapy which focuses not on a particular school or theory, but on the relationship between therapist and patient. The authors base their coding on patterns... (more)
Combating Destructive Thought Processes: Voice Therapy and Separation Theory
What keeps people from living in ways that satisfy their individual needs and priorities? This book explores psychotherapist Robert W Firestone's voice therapy technique, the goal of which is to... (more)
Solutions Step by Step: A substance abuse treatment manual
A practical guide introducing the solution-focused approach to clinicians working with substance abusers. Stressing solutions rather than pathology, clients strengths and their strategies for past... (more)
What You Never Learned in Graduate School: A Survival Guide for Therapists
Therapists are struggling to adapt both to the changing landscape of their profession, and to the demands on their profssional and personal success. This book explores many issues which are rarely... (more)
Carl Rogers on personal power
To anyone interested in psychology or sociology or politics or morality, Rogers will give a new dimension of awareness. The Month (more)
On Becoming a Person
In this book, one of America's most distinguished psychologists describes his experiences in helping people to discover the path to personal growth through an understanding of their own limitations... (more)
The Carl Rogers Reader
This volume stands as a splendid introduction to the life and work of a pioneering psychotherapist. Selections ranging from 1942 to 1987 provide a personal look at his early influences and marriage,... (more)
A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy: Second Revised Edition
Noting that spiritual perspectives have been excluded from psychological theory and practice of psychotherapy, this text proposes that the time is ripe for the inclusion of a spiritual strategy in... (more)
Psychotherapy and Society
Brings together psychotherapy and social science. Concentrates on the relationship between mental health and gender, class, race, age and profession. Further chapters explore the role of therapy in... (more)
Formulation as a Basis for Planning Psychotherapy Treatment
To help their patients, clinicians must make accurate diagnoses and devise effective treatment plans. These plans often involve psychotherapy with goals that include symptom reduction, the prevention... (more)
Serious shopping: Psychotherapy and consumerism
The phenomenon of addictive shopping is a popular subject for the media - especially when they are portraying relatively affluent, bored and slightly depressed women. This book presents a starker... (more)