Individual Psychotherapy Books
Ten Lectures on Psychotherapy and Spirituality
This volume is a much-needed exploration of contemporary theories on psychotherapy and spirituality, moving away from the more traditional, non-spiritual aspects of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.... (more)
A Primer of Handling the Negative Therapeutic Reaction:
This work examines the possible deterioration of a client's condition during treatment. This primer suggests that the therapist's technique may not address the underlying nature of the... (more)
Life After Self-Harm: A Guide to the Future
"Life After Self-Harm" is written for individuals who have deliberately harmed themselves. Developed through a major research project, the contents of the manual have been informed and shaped by many... (more)
The Psychodynamic Approach to Therapeutic Change
Change is the central purpose of all counselling and psychotherapy, but how it is conceptualized and worked with varies according to the theoretical approach being used. This book explores the nature... (more)
Integrative Psychotherapy in Healthcare: A Humanistic Approach
This unique text provides students and practitioners of counselling and psychotherapy with a much-needed guide to working integratively in time-sensitive and healthcare settings. Drawing on the... (more)
Treating Affect Phobia: A Manual for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Reflecting the ongoing evolution of the approach, the manual emphasizes "affect phobia," or conflict about feelings. It shows how such proven behavioral techniques as systemic desensitization can be... (more)
Lives Elsewhere: Migration and Psychic Malaise
Born from the author's desire to write a clear and simple account of complex material based on ethnopsychotherapy and migrations, this book aims to clarify some key questions, rather than serve as a... (more)
Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism.
This volume is a collection of innovative interdisciplinary essays that explore the human capacity for experience. The authors address the postmodern debate in contemporary psychotherapy and... (more)
Bad Therapy: Master Therapists Share Their Worst Failures
This volume offers a rare and revealing glimpse into the mindset and actions of some of the profession's most seasoned and well-known authors, theoreticians and leaders. Kottler and Carlson guide us... (more)
Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management
This thought-provoking new collection - the fourth volume in the Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series - investigates the inherent difficulties in risk assessment. We have all read the lurid... (more)
How to Choose a Psychotherapist
The demand for psychotherapy and counselling is greater than ever. More and more people are enrolling on psychotherapy and counselling courses; the number of different associations in this industry... (more)
Body of awareness: A somatic and developmental approach to psychotherapy
Explores the formation of infant movement experience and its influence upon the later adult. It shows how the organizing principles in early development are functionally equivalent to those of the... (more)
Gestalt Therapy
This remarkable exploration of the inner principles of Gestalt therapy originated over twenty years ago in the form of a completed book, written at Fritz Perls' request. Here it is joined by a... (more)
Exploring the Unsaid: Creativity, Risks and Dilemmas in Working Cross-Culturally
The editors and contributing authors of this volume have taken a truly pioneering and courageously challenging look at the state of cross-cultural theory and practice. In confronting directly and... (more)
The Heart of Listening: Attentional Qualities in Psychotherapy
In response to recognition of the importance of the quality of attention and the sense of relatedness in therapeutic change, this book considers how relationships and change can be facilitated by... (more)
Working Through Setbacks in Psychotherapy: Crisis, Impasse and Relapse
Counsellors and psychotherapists often encounter difficult situations with clients for which they feel ill prepared. At any stage in the process a client may experience a crisis or setback in their... (more)
The Art of Psychotherapy
Here is perhaps the most human, common sense and revealing account of psychotherapy available: what it is; how it should be practiced; what it can achieve. Anthony Storr here presents the fruit of... (more)
Interpersonal Process in Cognitive Therapy
This text integrates findings from cognitive psychology, infant development research and emotion theory to show how change takes place in the interpersonal context of the therapeutic relationship.... (more)
Becoming a Constant Object in Psychotherapy with the Borderline Patient
Focuses on the first stage of therapy with borderline patients - the "preconstancy" stage during which a constant attachment must be formed between the patient and the therapist. It traces the issues... (more)
Character and Personality Types
An examination of various systematic and non-systematic approaches to identifying different types of human being, exploring whether there are systematic ways in which humans vary, how we can assess... (more)
Person-centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
Person-Centred Therapy Today represents a significant contribution to the development of the person-centred approach. It will be read by teachers and students of counselling and psychology who wish... (more)
Ambiguous loss: Learning to live with unresolved grief
New in paperback. Frozen sadness - what we have when we cannot really know what we have lost. This is what Pauline Boss illuminates, explores, and helps to ease. The loss could be a loved one still... (more)
Psychodynamic-Interpersonal Therapy: A Conversational Model
This book presents for the first time, a practical manual for psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy. Drawing on forty years of research, teaching and practice, its expert authors guide you through the... (more)
Psychodynamic Approaches to Sexual Problems
Covers topics including: How do we currantly understand sexual dysfunction? How can psychodynamic theories contribute to an understanding of sexual difficulties? And how can we treat sexual problems... (more)
Issues in Therapy with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clients: Pink Therapy 3.
With volume three of "Pink Therapy" the editors have collated articles on twelve further issues of particular concern to non-heterosexual clients. Professionals from various fields of therapy offer... (more)
A Psychodynamic Approach to Brief Therapy
Illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes, this book is a comprehensive guide to psychodynamic brief counselling and psychotherapy. It is ideal for those looking for a practical introduction to... (more)
Why I Became a Psychotherapist
Mentoring intersects with memoir in this volume, as 31 psychotherapists share the origins of their professional ambitions and, mixing authority with levity, describe their professional odysseys. The... (more)
The art of the psychotherapist
Unlike the brief, specific-solution oriented therapies that many people demand today, the goal of depth-therapy is life change. James Bugental has been practising, teaching, and writing about... (more)
From Impasse to Intimacy: How Understanding Unconscious Needs Can Transform Relationships
This text identifies the unconscious factors that influence the way people feel and behave in intimate relationships, covering the needs and fears that create and sustain dysfunctional patterns of... (more)
Ethics and values in psychotherapy
This text draws a philosophical understanding of ethics and psychological literature, in order to focus on the role of the therapist as ethicist, and on how the ethical convictions of both therapists... (more)