Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary: Finding Happiness Right Where You Are
Did I sound stupid? Should I have sent that email? How do I look? Many of us spend a lot of time feeling self-conscious and comparing ourselves to others. Why do we judge ourselves so relentlessly?... (more)
Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation
In Unlocking the Emotional Brain, authors Ecker, Ticic, and Hulley equip readers to carry out focused, empathic therapy using the potent process of memory reconsolidation, the recently discovered and... (more)
Therapeutic Interviewing: Essential Skills and Contexts of Counseling
This newly updated introductory textbook is designed to help students of psychotherapy and counseling at all levels build the foundational strategies, skills, and tools essential for engaging clients... (more)
Teaching Contemporary Yoga: Physical Philosophy and Critical Issues
Teaching Contemporary Yoga provides a novel look at how modern yoga is understood, practiced, and taught globally. Utilising perspectives from several academic disciplines, the authors offer an... (more)
Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy
Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma is a guide to recognizing the many ways shame and pride lie at the heart of psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma. In these pages, readers learn how to... (more)
Psychological Type Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide to Strengthening Relationships
This book uses psychological type as a model for organizing mental health interventions, including assessing how a client's personality is affected within a specific relationship using the... (more)
How Psychotherapists Live: The Personal Self and Private Life of Professional Healers
How Psychotherapists Live is a landmark study of thousands of mental health practitioners worldwide. It significantly advances our understanding of psychotherapists and counselors by focusing on... (more)
Highly Effective Therapy: Effecting Deep Change in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Trainees and practitioners need a trusted resource for mastering the essential skills and competencies necessary for effecting deep, lasting change in their clients. This second edition of Highly... (more)
Positive Psychology Across the Lifespan: An Existential Perspective
Positive Psychology Across the Life Span provides an insight into how we are affected by the different stages of adult development and gives us the opportunity to change through choice rather than... (more)
Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook
This second edition of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook has been fully revised by expert therapists with advances in attachment science and emotionally focused therapy (EFT)... (more)
Nature and Nurture in Personality and Psychopathology: A Guide for Clinicians
Psychiatry and clinical psychology have long been divided about the roles of nature and nurture in the pathways to psychopathology. Some clinicians offer treatment almost entirely based on... (more)
On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life
The rich inner world of a human being is far more complex than either/or. You can love and hate, want to go and want to stay, feel both joy and sadness. Psychologist William Miller--one of the... (more)
Trauma and Intellectual Disability: Acknowledgement, Identification and Intervention: Acknowledgement, Identification & Intervention
This book is about Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) for people who have intellectual disabilities (ID). The provision of health and social care services is becoming more trauma informed, including in... (more)
Film Therapy: Practical Applications in a Psychotherapeutic Context
Unlike any book on the market, Film Therapy introduces a new paradigm in exploring the subtexts of movies and their potential therapeutic dimensions. The book illuminates how feature films can... (more)
Perspectives on a Young Woman's Suicide: A Study of a Diary
Perspectives on a Young Woman's Suicide is a unique and updated analysis of a diary left behind by Katie, a young woman who took her own life.
By drawing on clinicians, researchers,... (more)
A Clinician's Guide to Gender Actualization: An Approach to Gender Affirming Therapy
A Clinician's Guide to Gender Actualization provides an essential guide for mental health professionals working with gender diverse clients, delivering material that challenges clinicians to provide... (more)
Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma: Second Edition
A masterful synthesis of relational and attachment theory, neurobiology, and contemporary psychoanalysis, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame has been internationally recognized as an essential... (more)
Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship: Transference and Countertransference Passions
Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship challenges the traditional belief that transference and countertransference are merely forms of resistance that jeopardize the therapeutic process. David Mann... (more)
Outcome Measures and Evaluation in Counselling and Psychotherapy
This book sets in context the role of outcome measurement research - taking you step-by-step through the research process and beyond to consider the wider professional and ethical issues involved.... (more)
Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy: Embodied Expressions of a Disembodied Psyche
With contributions from Gabrielle Brown, William F. Cornell, Raffaella Hilty, Brett Kahr, Mark Linington, Salvatore Martini, David O’Driscoll, Valerie Sinason, and Tom Wooldridge.
Every... (more)
Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma, Nature, and the Body
The classic edition of Rhythms of Recovery sheds light on rhythm, one of the most important components of our survival and well-being. It governs the patterns of our sleep and respiration and is... (more)
The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety
Science, technology and western liberal democracy have all had a dramatic impact on our quality of life. Compared to previous generations, we have unprecedented access to information, increased... (more)
The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety
'Tallis writes with clarity and wit' Sebastian Faulks.
Science, technology and western liberal democracy have all had a dramatic impact on our quality of life. Compared to previous... (more)
Black Identities and White Therapies: Race, Respect and Diversity
This vibrant new book springs from the continued failure of the counselling and psychotherapy profession to adequately prepare trainees to meet the needs of today's multi-ethnic, multiracial and... (more)
Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death
Climate Psychology offers ways to work with the unthinkable and emotionally unendurable current predicament of humanity. The style and writing interweave passion and reflection, animation and... (more)
Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults
The significantly revised second edition of this unique practitioner guide features 65% new material and a new organizing structure. The authors show how to use motivational interviewing (MI) to have... (more)
Working with Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy: From Research to Practice
Does my life have any deeper meaning? Does God really care about me? How can I find and follow my moral compass? What do I do when my faith is shaken to the core? Spiritual trials, doubts, or... (more)
Understanding Emotional Problems and their Healthy Alternatives: The REBT Perspective
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is an approach to counselling and psychotherapy rooted in the CBT tradition, and one that has a distinctive perspective on emotional problems. ... (more)
Nonlinear Contingency Analysis: Going Beyond Cognition and Behavior in Clinical Practice
Nonlinear Contingency Analysis is a guide to treating clinically complex behavior problems such as delusions and hallucinations. It's also a framework for treating behavior problems, one that... (more)
How Compassion can Transform our Politics, Economy and Society
How Compassion can Transform our Politics, Economy and Society draws together experts across disciplines - ranging from psychology to climate science, philosophy to economics, history to business -... (more)