Individual Psychotherapy Books
Socratic Questioning for Therapists and Counselors: Learn How to Think and Intervene Like a Cognitive Behavior Therapist
This book presents a framework for the use of Socratic strategies in psychotherapy and counseling.
The framework has been fine-tuned in multiple large-scale cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)... (more)
The Disordered Mind
The Disordered Mind: Third Edition, is a wide-ranging introduction to the philosophy of mental disorder or illness. It examines and explains, from a philosophical standpoint, what mental disorder is:... (more)
The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients
The Leather Couch provides a comprehensive overview of the BDSM and kink community and guides clinicians on how to meet the unique relational and mental health needs of its members.
The text... (more)
Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders: A New Conceptualization of Development, Reinforcement, Expression, and Treatment
This book provides a framework for scholars and clinicians to develop a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders, by seeing... (more)
Addressing Race-Based Stress in Therapy with Black Clients: Using Multicultural and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Techniques
Despite Black Americans being at high risk for negative mental health symptoms due to racism and other chronic stresses, disparities persist in the provision of mental health services to this... (more)
Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapy: Treating Anxiety and Related Challenges
Developed over decades of ongoing clinical research, acceptance-based behavioral therapy (ABBT) is a flexible framework with proven effectiveness for treating anxiety disorders and co-occurring... (more)
Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision: A Humanistic-Relational Approach
Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision addresses some of the challenges associated with sexual attraction in psychotherapy practice and supervision, as well as... (more)
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country... (more)
Psychiatry, Politics and PTSD: Breaking Down
Integrating critical and feminist psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, this text offers a distinct perspective of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a clinical and social... (more)
Integrating Postmodern Therapy and Qualitative Research: Guiding Theory and Practice
This book gathers from postmodern theories of therapeutic research and practice to demonstrate how these approaches can be effectively integrated into methods of data collection and analysis. ... (more)
Therapeutic Ethics in Context and in Dialogue
The standard view of psychotherapy as a treatment for mental disorders can obscure how therapy functions as a social practice that promotes conceptions of human well-being. Building on the philosophy... (more)
The Ethical Visions of Psychotherapy
The standard view of psychotherapy as a treatment for mental disorders can obscure how therapy functions as a social practice that promotes conceptions of human well-being. Building on the philosophy... (more)
Contextual Transactional Analysis: The Inseparability of Self and World
Contextual Transactional Analysis: The Inseparability of Self and World offers a novel and comprehensive reworking of key concepts in transactional analysis, offering insight into the causes of... (more)
Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy: Body, Imagery and Change
Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy (MIT) remains unique in providing instruments for dealing with clients with prominent emotional inhibition and suppression, a population for whom treatment options... (more)
Transactional Analysis of Schizophrenia: The Naked Self
In Transactional Analysis of Schizophrenia: The Naked Self, Zefiro Mellacqua presents a full assessment of the relevance and value of transactional analysis in understanding, conceptualizing and... (more)
Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self: Roads to Realization
In Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self, Anthony Korner demonstrates how important communication and resonance are to the development of a sense of self. This process of... (more)
Case Conceptualization: Mastering This Competency with Ease and Confidence
Integrating recent research and developments in the field, this revised second edition introduces an easy-to-master strategy for developing and writing culturally sensitive case conceptualizations... (more)
Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests: A Practitioner's Guide
Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests: A Practitioner’s Guide provides a thorough review of atypical sexual interests and offers various ways through which they can be measured and... (more)
The Highly Sensitive Parent: How to care for your kids when you care too much
The Highly Sensitive Parent is the only book of its kind, written specifically for parents who think deeply about every issue affecting their kids, experiencing strong emotions as a result, and face... (more)
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them
15-20% of children are Highly Sensitive - and they are often labelled shy, introverted, fussy or faddy. The real story is very different though and this intelligent, practical book helps parents know... (more)
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive when the World Overwhelms You
In this groundbreaking classic, Dr. Elaine Aron, a research and clinical psychologist as well as an HSP herself, shows the reader how to identify the HSP trait and make the most of it in everyday... (more)
Handbook of Professional and Ethical Practice for Psychologists, Counsellors and Psychotherapists: Third Edition
This exciting new edition provides an overview of the main professional, ethical and research issues that are required knowledge for counsellors, therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists engaging... (more)
Solution Focused Practice Around the World
Solution Focused Practice Around the World provides an exploration of the diverse uses of SF and offers fascinating insights into how the Solution Focused approach is currently used in many... (more)
Whiteness and White Privilege in Psychotherapy
This unprecedented, interdisciplinary collection focuses on gender, whiteness, and white privilege, and sheds light on this understudied subject matter in the context of clinical psychology, in both... (more)
Working with Stress and Tension in Clinical Practice: A Practical Guide for Therapists
Working with Stress and Tension in Clinical Practice is a practical toolkit that sets out a wide range of approaches for reducing stress and anxiety in clients so that they are mentally prepared for... (more)
Principle-Guided Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: The FIRST Program for Behavioral and Emotional Problems
Presenting a fresh approach to child and adolescent therapy, this book identifies five principles at the heart of the most potent evidence-based treatments--and shows how to apply them. Clinicians... (more)
The Science and Practice of Wellness: Interventions for Happiness, Enthusiasm, Resilience, and Optimism (HERO)
Wellness is rapidly becoming an issue of great importance in clinical practice. Wellness-centric clinicians look to improve various traits known to be beneficial to patients-traits such as happiness,... (more)
Adventure Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice: Second Edition
This revised textdescribes the theory substantiating adventure therapy, demonstrates best practices in the field, and presents research validating the immediate and long-term effects of adventure... (more)
Gaining a Second Impression in Psychotherapy: Pivoting Toward a More Accurate Understanding of the Patient
Integrating psychotherapy with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this text offers therapists a way to reframe a client's understanding of their mental health issues through a holistic, dynamic lens.... (more)