Individual Psychotherapy Books
Core Competencies in the Solution-Focused and Strategic Therapies: Becoming a Highly Competent Solution-Focused and Strategic Therapist
In the Solution-Focused and Strategic Therapy field this is a landmark book, the first to address all of the core and clinical competencies involved in running a practice, including learning and... (more)
Mindfulness and Hypnosis: The Power of Suggestion to Transform Experience
In recent years mindfulness has become integrated into many clinicians' private practices, and become a staple of hospital and university based treatment programs for stress reduction, pain, anxiety... (more)
Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy
When unmourned experiences of helplessness and disavowed desires turn into a passive fatalism, people stop hoping for the best and fear the worst, despairing that the real world has anything good to... (more)
The Sibling Relationship: A Force for Growth and Conflict
This book focuses on the role that siblings play in each other's development, on the ways in which they may enrich or cast a shadow over each other's lives, and on how their internalized influence... (more)
A Comprehensive Guide to Suicidal Behaviours: Working with Individuals at Risk and Their Families
Over a million people commit suicide every year, making it the tenth leading cause of death worldwide. For this reason and many others besides, an understanding of the act is vital, especially for... (more)
Restoration Therapy: Understanding and Guiding Healing in Marriage and Family Therapy
Restoration Therapy introduces the reader to the essential elements of its namesake and from there guide clinicians to a systemic understanding of how certain forces lead to destructive cycles in... (more)
Encouragement Makes Good Things Happen
This book is an English translation of the bestselling German book Mut Tut Gut (literally "Courage Does Well"), which is now in its 16th printing. It describes a courageous and encouraging style of... (more)
Expressions of Drunkenness (Four Hundred Rabbits)
The goal of this book is to contribute to ongoing scholarly discussion on the very serious topic of drunkenness. The phrase 'four hundred rabbits' is one of many illustrations of the deep cultural,... (more)
Therapy and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions to Therapeutic and Social Issues
Presents an overview of the origins, current practices, and potential future of the discipline of counselling psychology.
* Presents an up-to-date review of the knowledge base behind the discipline... (more)
A Guide to Integral Psychotherapy: Complexity, Integration, and Spirituality in Practice
A therapist's guide to psychotherapy, spirituality, and self-development. This book provides a practical introduction to Integral Psychotherapy, which positions itself as the most comprehensive... (more)
Emotions in the Field: The Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience
As emotion is often linked with irrationality, its no surprise researchers tend to underreport the emotions they experience in the field. This book explores the idea that emotion is not antithetical... (more)
Psychotherapy Is Worth It: A Comprehensive Review of Its Cost-Effectiveness
Surveys the medical, psychiatric and psychological literature from 1984 to 2007 that is relevant to the cost-effectiveness of all kinds of psychotherapy. The volume explores the cost of providing... (more)
The Assassin and the Therapist: An Exploration of Truth in Psychotherapy and in Life
Many therapists have likely worked with a client who has caused the therapist to confront his most cherished beliefs, or has changed the therapist in ways that forever altered the way he performs... (more)
The Creative Therapist: The Art of Awakening a Session
This book illustrates how creativity may be brought into therapy and prescribes various strategies for awakening clinical creativity as well as finding your own unique style of therapeutic presence.... (more)
The Psychology of Courage: An Adlerian Handbook for Healthy Social Living
In this book, the authors discuss the theoretical basis of courage in combination with the assessment and change strategies of Adlerian psychology. The processes that bring out the courage of change... (more)
Male Sexuality: Why Women Don't Understand It - And Men Don't Either
At first glance the sexual male seems easy to understand, but beneath the surface lie complexities that disrupt lives and relationships. Why can men be so distant in bed? Why do many men love porn so... (more)
Design for Nature in Dementia Care
Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia. The benefits of connecting the subjective experience of dementia... (more)
Psychotherapist Revealed: Therapists Speak About Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy
In this edited volume, the real dialogue begins. Therapists speak openly and honestly about their self-disclosure practices, decisions and clinical dilemmas. Bloomgarden and Mennuti bring together... (more)
The Mending of Minds: Psychiatric Illness and Its Treatment: A Guide for Families and Patients
Written by a doctor specialising in psychiatry, this book will help the general reader to understand and sympathise with the mentally ill. Mental illness has many forms and many treatments; it can... (more)
Mental Health Across Cultures: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals
Every health professional interacts with patients from different cultures to their own, not just those from different countries, ethnic or religious groups, but also those with cultural differences... (more)
A User's Guide to Therapy: What to Expect and How You Can Benefit
For clients who want to know how to get the most out of a therapeutic relationship, this book explains what therapy is (and isnt), how therapy works (what makes change happen) and elaborates on... (more)
Psychotherapy Supervision: Theory, Research and Practice: Second Edition
A comprehensive, current, and accessible guide to psychotherapy supervision, this second edition is the highly- anticipated revision of the original best-seller. The book will help you understand... (more)
Stress Management: From Basic Science to Better Practice
Stress managemnt examines documented pathways between stress and health and develops the scientific foundations for sound interventions. The book begins with a broad review of the term stress and its... (more)
Practicing Counseling and Psychotherapy: Insights from Trainees, Supervisors, and Clients
This book provides an insiders view and understanding of the process of psychotherapy from the perspectives of actual psychotherapy trainees, their clients, and their supervisors. The authors offer a... (more)
Divorced, Without Children: Solution Focused Therapy with Women at Midlife
This book explores the experience, meaning, and impact of divorce at mid-life for women without children, and provides insights into the unique stressors and issues confronting these individuals so... (more)
The New Rational Therapy: Thinking Your Way to Serenity, Success, and Profound Happiness
Throughout the ages, great thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, and many others have had incredibly useful things to say about overcoming the... (more)
Practitioner-Based Research: Power, Discourse and Transformation
Practitioner-Based Research is concerned, in particular, with the research which is undertaken by healthcare practitioners and the evidence which they generate as a result of investigating their... (more)
Women's Rites of Passage: How to Embrace Change and Celebrate Life
Relying on a research study involving over 50 women, Brenner shows how women today understand the need to take responsibility for their lives and for directing their own paths, and are beginning to... (more)
The Well-managed Mental Health Practice: Your Guide to Building and Managing a Successful Practice, Group, or Clinic
The "Well-Managed Practice" is a comprehensive guide for private practices of any size, and at any stage of development, from start-up through mature business that provides indispensable tools for... (more)
Emotional Safety: Viewing Couples Through the Lens of Affect
"Emotional Safety" is designed to help couple therapists identify and conceptualize the problems of their clients to provide solutions, focusing on the two central elements of emotion and attachment.... (more)