Individual Psychotherapy Books
Psychosomatic Health: The Body and the Word
An exploration of the relationship between physical and psychological wellbeing. It draws on postmodern and narrative theory to consider the psychosomatic processes which underpin and enhance health.... (more)
The Supervisory Alliance: Facilitating the Psychotherapist's Learning Experience
This work presents thinking on supervision issues like creating an optimal learning environment, establishing a safe space, developing an atmosphere of reflectivity, attuning oneself to the emotional... (more)
Dangerous and Severe: Process, Programme and Person: Grendon's Work
HMP Grendon hosts the UK's only prison-based therapeutic community, inhabited by around 200 residents, almost all convicted of crimes against the person, and about half of whom have killed. This is... (more)
Reshaping the Female Body:
This work attempts to make sense of women's involvement in cosmetic surgery. Whereas traditional explanations have tended to look to female narcissism, this book situates cosmetic surgery in a... (more)
The Development of Psychopathology: Nature and Nurture
This text illuminates the interplay among biological processes and psychological and social-contextual factors in the development of such widely encountered problems as depression, schizophrenia,... (more)
Return from madness: Psychotherapy with people taking new anti-psychotic medications and emerging from severe, lifelong, and disabling schizophrenia
Following the development of drugs which reduce psychotic effects in mentally-ill people, there is often a need for psychotherapy to regenerate development processes that were previously cut short.... (more)
Rapid Cognitive Therapy: The Professional Therapists Guide to rapid ch
Presents a brief psychotherapeutic approach to working with clients. Nearly all the techniques described in the book can be used as adjuncts to conventional behaviourist and analytical approaches to... (more)
Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
This text presents a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. The author traces how aesthetic alterations of the body have been used to "cure" dissatisfied... (more)
The Therapist's Encounters with Revenge and Forgiveness
Examining the "exploited-repressive" and "vindictive" reactions to a patient's actual or perceived abuse, this study looks at the concepts of vengeance, revenge fantasy and the granting or... (more)
Choosing a counselling or psychotherapy training: A practical guide
This book takes the reader through all stages of the therapuetic training path, covering topics including: theoretical approaches to counselling and psychotherapy; starting a course; qualification,... (more)
Fundamentals of an Integrated Model of Psychotherapy
A presentation of an integrated model of therapy. It offers a way of tailoring each clinical encounter to the needs of the particular patient, from the mildly-distressed anxiety-disordered to the... (more)
Nature guided therapy: Brief integrative strategies for health and well being
Exploring the relationship between nature-based acitivites and relaxation, this work provides an evolutionary history of the relationship between humans and their environment. Clinical applications... (more)
How to use computers and cyberspace in the clinical practice of psychotherapy
This text explores computer-assisted therapeutic interventions for treating individuals and groups, based on accepted theories of practice. It explores issues such as: Internet Addiction Disorder,... (more)
The psychotherapist's interventions: a dual developmental perspective:
This work provides case materials which include verbatim dialogues between patient and therapist, and which provide a window on the therapist's rationale for his responses.
Counselling and Psychotherapy in Private Practice
Explores the conflicts of running a business which has to be ethical and responsive to clients' needs - but at the same time has to be successful and profitable. This book provides advice on... (more)
The dually diagnosed: a therapist's guide to helping the substance abusing, psychologically disturbed patient.
This text seeks to address the therapeutic dilemma of the dually diagnosed. Challenging the conventional wisdom, Ortman argues that the clinician should be prepared to treat the entire patient in one... (more)
Life after psychotherapy
This work demonstrates how it is not always necessary to return to therapy when old symptoms return. Dealing with a variety of problems such as depression, anxiety, and excessive concerns with... (more)
Memory quest: Trauma and the search for personal history
Discussing autobiographical memory and personal history, this text focuses on the impact of trauma on general levels of information-processing and memory organization. It considers controversies... (more)
Spiritual Presence in Psychotherapy: A Guide to Caregivers
Written for care-givers who want to accomodate a spiritual dimension in their work. The first part discusses the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality. In the second part, seven models for... (more)
Key Concepts in Psychotherapy
An updated edition of this work that outlines the historical development of concepts and terminologies currently used in the psychoanalytic process. It clarifies the ways in which terminology is used... (more)
Beyond technique: Psychotherapy for the 21st century
This work argues that much has been learnt about psychotherapy that is rarely, if ever, put into practice. It aims to show why the methods used do not always lead to the goals that patients desire. A... (more)