Individual Psychotherapy Books
Working with dreams in psychotherapy:
This book offers a wealth of practical ideas and guidance for understanding the meaning of dreams in psychotherapy, thus enhancing the therapeutic process. 262 pages. (more)
Philosophy practice: An alternative to counselling and psychotherapy
A description of the practice of philosophical counselling, which is emerging as an alternative to psychotherapy. It discusses the main theoretical aspects of this practice, based on a dialogue... (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)
When madness comes home: Help and hope
362 pages. (more)
Persuasion and healing: A comparative study of psychotherapy
Focuses on "psychological healing": a belief system and its effects on the healing process. This study examines such topics as religious revivalism, magical healing, contemporary psychotherapies, the... (more)
Living with Grief
Published in association with the Hospice Foundation of America, this book aims to help in the education and research of people who cope either personally or professionally with terminal illness,... (more)
Meditative Therapy: Facilitating Inner-Directed Healing:
A book for therapists on the procedures that facilitate inner-directed healing. Meditative therapy explains the therapist's role in guiding the client's growth psychologically and spiritually. 304... (more)
Working With the Core Relationship Problem in Psychotherapy: A Handbook for Clinicians:
'A clinician's Rosetta Stone for understanding and treating presenting problems'. The author expands her developmental object relational model, based on very recent findings in developmental... (more)
Virtuous Therapist: Ethical Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Even with the development of codes of ethics and laws, counselling professionals are often unsure when questions of ethics arise. This book provides a systematic, philosophical approach to mental... (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)
From violence toward love: One therapist's journey
This is the story of one therapist's experiences with violence. It demonstrates to the reader what it feels like to work with people who are violent, and with those who have been violated. It also... (more)
Treating Mind and Body: Essays in the History of Science, Professions and Society Under Extreme Conditions
As historians rediscover human society to be as much about desire, fantasy, and irrationality as it is about interest, reality, and reason, the history of psychoanalytic thought takes on an... (more)
Shocks to the system: Psychotherapy of traumatic disability syndromes
Designed to help those suffering from the lasting effects of accidents, assaults, injuries and disasters, this book guides trauma victims in getting medical, psychological and legal help, and... (more)
Insane therapy: Portrait of a psychotherapy cult
This work recounts the stories of former members of a cult, and addresses the question of how personal identity is formed and the power of social influences. The book aims to provide an understanding... (more)
Psychotherapy, Counselling and Primary Mental Health Care - Assessment for Brief or Longer-term treatment
This book is aimed at psychotherapists, counsellors, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists in primary care, as well as general practitioners and service managers with a serious interest in... (more)
Facilitating Emotional Change: The Moment-by-Moment Process
The authors put forward the case that emotions are organizing processes that enhance adaptation and problem solving. The book contains practical clinical examples and instruction. (more)
Mental health, racism and sexism
512 pages.
Working with Emotions in Psychotherapy
This book shows clinicians how to identify a given emotion, discern its role in a client's self-understanding, and understand how its expression is furthering or inhibiting a client's progress. 303... (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)
Manual of panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy
This text suggests that psychodynamic approaches can aid both psycopharmacological and cognitive-behavioural treatments. It catalogues psychological factors commonly present in panic disorder... (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)
The influence of race and racial identity in psychotherapy: Toward a racially inclusive model
This book defines the decisive role of racial identity in personality development. It presents a racially inclusive model of psychotherapy and describes how this model is applied in a clinical... (more)