Individual Psychotherapy Books
On Being a Psychotherapist
This book explores the motivations of those who practise psychotherapy, emphasising the stresses of the job and ways of avoiding disillusionment, as well as offering practical advice on setting up... (more)
The Supervisory Couple in Broad-Spectrum Psychotherapy
Proposes an apprenticeship system for supervision which would enable all qualified therapists to participate. This book stresses the need to set up monitoring and evaluation for both supervisor and... (more)
Curative Factors in Dynamic Psychotherapy
A book in which therapists, clinicians, and researchers attempt to answer the following question: What are the seemingly intangible variables that enable patients to overcome symptomatology and... (more)
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)
Combining Individual and Group Therapy
An approach to combining individual and group psychotherapy by translating analytic theory and principles of treatment into interpersonal and behavioural terms, illustrating points with clinical... (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)
Within the wall of denial: Conquering addictive behaviors
Bridging the contrasting methods of confrontation and support, this book presents a perspective on the nature and function of denial. It provides advice on how to relate to people who are trapped by... (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)
