Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Therapeutic Relationship - Listening and Responding in a Multicultural World:
Aimed at beginning therapists and others entering the helping professions, this text describes listening and responding skills that form the foundation for understanding others. Practice exercises... (more)
Transformative Relationships: The Control-Mastery Theoryof Psychothera
The control-mastery theory is an attempt to integrate an understanding of how the mind works, how psychopathologies develop, and how psychotherapy can effectively help. (more)
How Connections Heal:
Richly textured chapters - all written especially for this volume - explain key concepts of RCT and demonstrate their application with diverse individuals, couples, families, and groups, as well as... (more)
Community mental health: A practical guide
In this revised edition, the authors focus on the "what" and "how" of effective community mental health. They present guidelines that should enable clinicians to provide services that are cost... (more)
Treating Suicidal Behavior: An effective time limited approach.
A look at treating suicidal behaviour including intervention techniques such as symptom management, restructuring a patient's suicidal belief system, and building skills such as assertiveness,... (more)
Culture and psychotherapy:
This text on culture and psychotherapy covers topics such as case presentation and analysis, lessons from folk healing practices, therapist- patient relations and ethnic transference; psychological... (more)
Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
This sourcebook provides counsellors with pre-written treatment plan components for gay and lesbian clients. It covers issues faced by homosexuals, such as adoption, abusive partners, coming-out,... (more)
Talking about therapy:
Written for mental health professionals and patients, this work reveals what patients say about why they sought therapy, what they think of the therapists to whom they entrusted their well-being, and... (more)
Martin Buber on psychology and psychotherapy: Essays, letters, and dialogue
This volume covers Martin Buber's views on psychology and psychotherapy, exploring the work of practitioners such as Freud and Jung. Contents include: distance and relation; healing through meeting;... (more)
Negotiating consent in psychotherapy:
There is an ethical requirement that psychotherapists inform clients about their treatment methods, alternative-treatment options, and alternative conceptions of the clients' problems. This is a... (more)
Zen Therapy: A Buddhist Approach to Psychotherapy
An excellent reference book for basic Buddhist teachings based on a therapeutic framework. Recommended for therapists and Buddhist practitioners alike. 282 pages. (more)
How to Build and Market your Mental Health Practice
Covers the practicalities of how to build and run a mental health business, and of how to market clinical and consulting services within - and outside - the managed care system. This guide offers... (more)
Knowing feeling: Affect, script and psychotherapy
Explores contemporary studies on affect, focusing on the work of Silvan Tomkins, and examining the impact of this work on the theory and practice of psychotherapy. Sections of the book cover research... (more)
Using Mental Imagery to Enhance Creative and Work-related Processes
In Using Mental Imagery to Enhance Creative and Work-Related Processes, Valerie Thomas explores the productive use of mental imagery skills to engage with the processes of creativity. Practical and... (more)
Between Sickness and Health: The Landscape of Illness and Wellness
Between Sickness and Health is about illness rather than disease, and recovery rather than cure. The book argues that illness is an experience, represented by the feeling that `I am not myself'. From... (more)
BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach
Marian Dunlea's BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach provides a theoretical and practical guide for working with early developmental trauma. This... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy after Domestic Violence: A Client View of What Helps Recovery
This is a refreshing and thought provoking book, presenting the views of female and male counselling clients about their experience of therapy after domestic violence. It brings together the existing... (more)
Therapy Stand-Up and the Gesture of Writing: Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry
Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing is a sharp, lively exploration of the connections between therapy, stand-up comedy, and writing as a method of inquiry; and of how these connections can... (more)
Mental and Emotional Healing Through Yoga: A Guiding Framework for Therapists and their Clients
Mental and Emotional Healing Through Yoga combines key research on the intersection of yoga and mental health with a client-centered, step-by-step framework that can be applied to a range of complex... (more)
Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques for Professionals
Helping the Suicidal Person provides a highly practical toolbox for mental health professionals. The book first covers the need for professionals to examine their own personal experiences and fears... (more)
A Guide to Inclusive Therapy: 26 Methods of Respectful Resistance-Dissolving Therapy.
In this practical yet light-hearted guide, Bill OHanlon synthesizes his vast experience in marriage and family therapy, counseling, hypnosis, and solution-focused therapies to form "inclusive... (more)