Individual Psychotherapy Books
Removing the Mask of Kindness: Diagnosis and Treatment of the Caretaker Personality Syndrome
Examines the transformation of selflessness into the Caretaker Personality Syndrome, and how it is not always better to give than receive, that being good can go bad, and that the disease to please... (more)
The Aphasia Therapy File, Vol ll
"The Aphasia Therapy Files" represent a practical resource for people who work with individuals with aphasia, either as therapists or as researchers. An overview of issues associated with current... (more)
The Purpose of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Michael Bennett argues that the theory and practice of these fields have failed to live up to their therapeutic and social/political promise. An increased concern with professionalization and other... (more)
Emotion Rituals: A Resource for Therapists and Clients
Cognitive behavior therapy does not typically include the use of emotion in its treatment protocols. This work addresses this omission with a discussion of the interplay between thoughts and emotions... (more)
Tidal Model:
Based on extensive research, 'The Tidal Model' charts the development of this model of care, outlining its theoretical basis and including clinical examples to show the benefits of encouraging the... (more)
Therapeutic Interventions for Forensic Mental Health Nurses:
This text explores the current and emerging interventions in forensic nursing and the care of the mentally-disordered offender, with an emphasis on clinical practice and competence. It explores the... (more)
Cultivating Intuition: A Personal Introduction to Psychotherapy: Second Edition
An expanded and updated second edition, the book is essentially an introduction to psychotherapy based on the belief that therapy is best considered as a personal undertaking in which the way of... (more)
Comprehensive Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry:
The standard reference work from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry containing 39 chapters, each written by a leader in the field. (more)
Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion
Laced with developmental insights and vivid illustrations of disgust-related syndromes, Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion incorporates cultural analysis that links disgust to images of illness and... (more)
Speaking Our Minds: An Anthology
A collection of writings by people who have experienced mental distress. The work includes: accounts of psychiatric treatment, psychotherapy and other treatments; stories of life in mental... (more)
Lives Elsewhere: Migration and Psychic Malaise
Born from the author's desire to write a clear and simple account of complex material based on ethnopsychotherapy and migrations, this book aims to clarify some key questions, rather than serve as a... (more)
The history of psychotherapy:
The author has placed each selection in its historical context and provided, where necessary, summaries of theoretical systems. The book explains the conflicting and seemingly paradoxical reports of... (more)
Understanding problem gamblers:
Gambling has become a major mainstream leisure activity. For most people it (more)
The Therapist's Internet Handbook
An internet guide for therapists including cd rom. (more)
Phobias: Fighting the fear
Common fears or phobias are often held by intelligent and sociable people. This book compares and assesses the latest scientific research on phobias, exploring their genetic and psychological... (more)
A Bright Red Scream: Self-mutilation and the language of pain
An investigation of why so many people self-mutilate and what can be done to help them. The illness, "outed" on a global scale when Princess Diana admitted hurting herself deliberately, is practised... (more)
The psychotherapist as healer:
This text introduces a universal view of healing psychic pain to therapists of different disciplines, backgrounds, allegiances, specialities and areas of expertise. Using clinical exchanges, the... (more)
Counseling and psychotherapy with religious persons: A rational emotive behavior therapy approach
This guide should be of use to mental health professionals treating religious persons. The authors detail how their manual-focused approach aims to overcome emotional distress. (more)
Therapeutic strategies for treating addiction: From slavery to freedom
Each of the chapters in this book is about the journey from addiction to recovery and how to take patients on that journey. Some are how-to chapters, others are narratives. Some are dramatizations... (more)
Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Relevance, Dismissal and Self-Definition
The themes of relevance and dismissal are central to our relations with other people and, therefore to our concept of identity. These themes of relevance and dismissal prevade the author's... (more)
Therapeutic action: A guide to psychoanalytic therapy
This text clarifies interventions that are derived from a psychoanalytic perspective and have found their way into the broad culture of psychotherapy. Many therapists rely on these approaches without... (more)
Good Practice in Psychotherapy and Counselling: The Exceptional Relationship
Despite differing emphases of approach, trianee psychotherapists face very similar problems of practice when they move actively into the field of counselling. This work aims to address their needs,... (more)
Cutting: Understanding and overcoming self-mutilation
This work, written for self-mutilators, parents, friends, therapists, explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviour and describes how the self-mutilator can be helped. 256 pages. (more)
Motivating Clients in Therapy: Values, Love and the Real Relationship
In this book, the author emphasizes the practitioner's role in enhancing client motivation, stressing the need for the therapist to be relationally active, directive and flexible. 352 pages (more)
Witness and Vision of the Therapists
This work demonstrates the link between individual, clinical work and its wider social significance, and shows how society's problems inevitably find their way into the private "confessions" of... (more)