Individual Psychotherapy Books
Why Don't Psychotherapists Laugh?: Enjoyment and the Consulting Room
The capacity for humour is one of life's blessings. So why is it so lacking in the theory and even the practice of analysis and therapy? Why Don't Psychotherapists Laugh? is the first book of its... (more)
Treatment Plans and Interventions for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Providing clinicians with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that they can tailor to the needs of individual clients, this state-of-the-art treatment planner is filled with case examples and... (more)
Virtual Selves, Real Persons: A Dialogue Across Disciplines
How do we know and understand who we really are as human beings? The concept of 'the self' is central to many strands of psychology and philosophy. This book tackles the problem of how to define... (more)
Treating Traumatic Stress in Adults: The Practitioner's Expressive Writing Workbook
Treating Traumatic Stress in Adults is a resource for therapists of all disciplines for use in the treatment of adults suffering from post-traumatic stress. By reading this unique synthesization of... (more)
When Psychological Problems Mask Medical Disorders: A Guide for Psychotherapists: Second Edition
Widely regarded as a standard clinical resource, this book helps practitioners think outside the mental health box and recognize when a client may urgently need a medical evaluation. Part I provides... (more)
Transforming Emotional Pain in Psychotherapy: An Emotion-Focused Approach
Emotion-focused therapy is a research-informed psychological therapy that to date has mainly been studied in the context of depression, trauma and couple distress. The evidence suggests that this... (more)
Treating Disruptive Disorders: A Guide to Psychological, Pharmacological, and Combined Therapies
Treating Disruptive Disorders is a practical book for busy clinicians - psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, clinical social workers, and more - as well as students, interns, or... (more)
Integrative Mental Health Care: A Therapist's Handbook
In mental health care, as in medical care, more and more clinicians are turning to unconventional assessment and treatment approaches to evaluate and treat their patients in the most effective way... (more)
The Journal of Psychological Therapies in Primary Care - Volume 4 Number 2
Editorial – A Compassionate Conference With a Purpose? by Patrick Pietroni and John Ballatt
Articles
- The Compassionate Design of Therapeutic Space by Jessica Woolliscroft
- An Exploratory... (more)
Therapy with Men After Sixty: A Challenging Life Phase
Therapy with Men after Sixty is a breakthrough book for professionals that helps them open their clients' minds to new ways of thinking, behaving, and feeling about the aging process. The authors... (more)
Understanding Personality Through Projective Testing
The past forty years have revealed a myriad of theoretical advances to Freud's original conceptions of the personality. It has also witnessed the continued use of projective methods as a vital means... (more)
Handbook of Self and Identity: Second Edition
Widely regarded as the authoritative reference in the field, this volume comprehensively reviews theory and research on the self. Leading investigators address this essential construct at multiple... (more)
Choosing Therapy: A Guide to Getting What You Need
Like any decision that we make in life, making the choice to seek therapy involves mastering a large body of knowledge, sifting through the thousands of therapists in the field and finding the right... (more)
Therapy Talk: Conversation Analysis in Practice
Therapy Talk aims to help those who apply 'the talking cure' become better at their jobs by enabling them to understand how their verbal responses may channel the conversation partner into a... (more)
Common Presenting Issues in Psychotherapeutic Practice
Learning how to work effectively with a broad range of clients and their presenting issues is a vital part of a career as a therapist, but engaging with the often conflicting worlds of descriptive... (more)
Barriers to Loving: A Clinician's Perspective
Barriers to Loving is an intriguing exploration of the role of sexual love over the course of life. Beginning with the mental health professions' avoidance of the topic, Levine proposes a compendium... (more)
Therapy in the Real World: Effective Treatments for Challenging Problems
Helping beginning and experienced therapists cope with the myriad challenges of working in agencies, clinics, hospitals, and private practice, this book distills the leading theories and best... (more)
Falling Through the Cracks: Psychodynamic Practice with Vulnerable and Oppressed Populations
Psychodynamic theory and practice are often misunderstood as appropriate only for the worried well or for those whose problems are minimal or routine. Nothing could be further from the truth. This... (more)
Integrating 12 Steps and Psychotherapy: Helping Clients Find Sobriety and Recovery
This book is intended to helpastudents and clients integrate 12-step treatment with psychotherapy. The book is the first to do so in a systematic fashion. It covers issues of pre-treatment and then... (more)
The Life of Things: Therapy and the Soul of the World
What would psychology look like if we took the planet seriously? Ecopsychologists are, on the whole, more interested in our relations with the earth than our relations with each other. They find... (more)
The Cultural Context of Sexual Pleasure and Problems: Psychotherapy with Diverse Clients
Using rich case material and research presented by distinguished authorities in the fields of sex, couple, family, and psychotherapy, this edited book contributes to our efforts to help individuals... (more)
Therapy for Dreams and Nightmares: Evidence-Based Practice: Second Edition
In this new edition (of Counselling with Dreams and Nightmares) Delia Cushway continues in her pursuit to show how dreamwork is not the prerogative of expert psychoanalysts, but a fruitful... (more)
The Cultural Context of Sexual Pleasure and Problems: Psychotherapy with Diverse Clients
Using rich case material and research presented by distinguished authorities in the fields of sex, couple, family, and psychotherapy, this edited book contributes to our efforts to help individuals... (more)
Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy and Recovery
Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy and Recovery includes a unique mosaic of theoretical and practical clinical information, rich case studies, research findings, and a wealth of evidence-based practice... (more)
Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Practical Guide
Filled with vivid clinical vignettes and step-by-step descriptions, this book demonstrates the nuts and bolts of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). DBT is expressly designed for - and proven... (more)
Contemporary Psychotherapies for a Diverse World
This is the first book of its kind to cover the standard counseling theories and integrate multiculturalism into every theory chapter. In addition, every theory chapter is authored by an expert with... (more)
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Distinctive Features
How can I supercharge the therapy I currently use? This volume distils the core principles, methods, and vision of the approach. Each Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) principle is presented in... (more)
The Functional Dialectic System Approach to Therapy for Individuals, Couples, and Families
A comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to contemporary system-based therapy.
The functional dialectic system approach to therapy has been widely embraced and is now used internationally,... (more)