Individual Psychotherapy Books
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method
Examining the moment-to-moment process of therapy, this text offers ways to engender effective movement. It concentrates on the ongoing client therapist relationship and ways in which the therapist's... (more)
The Carl Rogers Reader
This volume stands as a splendid introduction to the life and work of a pioneering psychotherapist. Selections ranging from 1942 to 1987 provide a personal look at his early influences and marriage,... (more)
People of the lie
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Transforming the Pain: Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization
'Vicarious traumatization' is the traumatization of a helper's inner experience, which results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients. This workbook provides tools for self-assessment,... (more)
The Therapeutic Relationship: Second Edition
A coverage of the uses and abuses of the therapeutic relationship in counselling, psychology, psychotherapy and related fields. It provides a framework for integration, pluralism or deepening... (more)
The Art and Science of Assessment in Psychotherapy
In this work twelve practitioners of psychotherapy describe the methods they use in their assessments, and how these have developed. The approaches covered include: psychoanalytic psychotherapy;... (more)
Neuroscience of Enduring Change: Implications for Psychotherapy
This book is unique in linking basic science concepts to clinical research and clinical application. Experts in each area address each of the basic science and clinical topics. (more)
Understanding Mental Health and Mental Illness: An Exploration of the Past, Present, and Future
The question of whether someone is psychologically healthy or mentally ill, and the fundamental nature of mental health underlying that question has been debated in cultural, academic, and clinical... (more)
Mother Tongue and Other Tongues: Narratives in Multilingual Psychotherapy
We are living in times where the issue of identity and difference has taken on a more defensive hue. The tide is turning towards an inward-looking nostalgia of sameness based on fear rather than on... (more)
Forensic Case Histories: Understanding Serious Offending Behaviour in Men
Forensic Case Histories: Understanding Serious Offending Behaviour in Men examines men's violent and sexual offending behaviours, outlined through a series of real offender narratives, from a... (more)
Using Relentless Empathy in the Therapeutic Relationship: Connecting with Challenging and Resistant Clients
With a refreshing approach to resistance in therapy, Using Relentless Empathy in the Therapeutic Relationship offers practical tools and tips to help therapists and clinicians across all modalities... (more)
Making an Impact on Mental Health: The Applications of Psychological Research
Advancements in research in psychological science have afforded great insights into how our minds work. Making an Impact on Mental Health analyses contemporary, international research to examine a... (more)
Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics
This collection of approximately twelve essays is a first to open the door for voices to emerge from African American, Indigenous, Latin American, and Asian embodiment traditions to impact Somatic... (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)
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)
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)
A Practice Beyond Cultural Humility: How Clinicians Can Work More Effectively in a Diverse World
A Practice Beyond Cultural Humility offers specific guidance to support students and practitioners in providing on-going, culturally-attuned professional care.
The book introduces a... (more)
Sexual Attraction in Therapy: Managing Feelings of Desire in Clinical Practice
This accessible book offers effective protocol for engaging in better sexual decision-making in clinical practice. It demonstrates that damaging sexual behaviors are often the result of a process in... (more)
Malignant Narcissism and Power: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Madness and Leadership
Using psychodynamic theory and riveting case material, this book dissects the figure of the malignant narcissist leader (MNL). Across the world today, individuals and societies are impacted by... (more)
The Dynamics of Power in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Ethics, Politics and Practice: 2nd Revised edition
This hard-hitting, impeccably referenced book draws on academic theories and analyses of power and the author's personal experience both as client and practitioner to critique power within the... (more)
Transformative Relationships: The Control Mastery Theory of Psychotherapy
The control-mastery theory, developed by Dr. Joseph Weiss over the second half of the twentieth century, is an attempt to integrate an understanding of how the mind works, how psychopathologies... (more)
Shame: Theory, Therapy, Theology
This work examines shame as a social control and discusses means of healing shame and integrating those whose lives are blighted by it. It considers how Christianity has responded to and used shame... (more)
Optimal aging: How to get over getting older
This text seeks to help readers recognize and combat the harmful ageist attitudes that hold them back and develop more productive attitudes. The methods and tools come from researched, practical... (more)
The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life:
Argues that the relationships are the integral source of psychological health. In so doing the authors offer a new understanding of human development that points a way to change in all our... (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)
Experiencing and the creation of meaning
This work examines the edge of awareness, where language emerges from non-language. In moving back and forth between what is already verbalized and what is as yet unarticulated, Eugene Gendlin shows... (more)