Individual Psychotherapy Books
Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
This text discusses how Eastern spirituality can enhance Western psychology. It argues that the contemplative traditions of the East help patients go beyond merely recognizing their problems to... (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)
The Broad Spectrum Psychotherapist
Preserves the best aspects of the psychoanalytic tradition while giving 'hands on' help to the modern, hard-pressed psychotherapist, who works in the mental health service. To ensure that the therapy... (more)
Fostering healing and growth: A psychoanalytic social work approach
In this work, a varied group of practitioners share their understanding of an ever-expanding body of psychoanalytic theory, and demonstrate the ways in which they have translated this theory into... (more)
Doubts and Certainties in the Practice of Psychotherapy
Jo Klein presents a picture of herself at work. A sense of vocation, backed up by years of experience, permeates not only the content of this book, but also its language, which is vivid, personal,... (more)
What is Effective in Psychoanalytic Therapy
Compares the psychoanalytic technique of the 1930s with today's more rational concept of therapeutic action based on a developmentally rooted, parent-child model. The author stresses that... (more)
The psychotherapeutic conspiracy
This work depicts modern psychotherapy as a hoax. It suggests that unconscious processes between therapist and patient lead to collusion, conspiracy, and confusion in the psychotherapeutic situation,... (more)
Mapping the Terrain of the Heart: Passion, Tenderness and the Capacity to Love
This work progresses along the metaphorical superhighways on the map of love by charting six easily-grasped skills necessary to a long-term, stable relationship: the capacities for erotic... (more)
True and False Experience: The human element in psychotherapy
A new edition of this text which discusses the factors that have made it difficult for therapists and patients to meet as equals in a natural and ordinary way. Lomas criticises the contributions made... (more)
Beyond technique: Psychotherapy for the 21st century
This work argues that much has been learnt about psychotherapy that is rarely, if ever, put into practice. It aims to show why the methods used do not always lead to the goals that patients desire. A... (more)
The Art and Science of Assessment in Psychotherapy
In this work twelve practitioners of psychotherapy describe the methods they use in their assessments, and how these have developed. The approaches covered include: psychoanalytic psychotherapy;... (more)
The Limits of Interpretation
In his ground-breaking book, Peter Lomas discusses the importance of the relationship between patient and therapist, and puts forward the merits of a more opn, honest, and personal engagement. 212... (more)
Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics: Second Edition
This revised second edition offers a description of the technique of dynamic psychotherapy, and deals with both its theory and its practice. Practical applications - using different techniques - are... (more)
Object relations and the developing ego in therapy
This work presents an account of the clinical application of the psychoanalytic viewpoint of object relations theory. It sets out to breathe new clinical life into these abstract principles.
Invitation to Psychodynamic Psychology
Introduces the basic assumptions and concepts of psychodynamic psychology. Since the term psychodynamic can be applied to a number of diverse schools of thought, the book stresses the commonalities... (more)