Individual Psychotherapy Books
A Primer of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient
Treating borderline patients is one of the most challenging areas in psychotherapy because of the patient's extreme emotional expressions, the strain it places on the therapist, and the danger of the... (more)
The Mystical Power of Person-Centred Therapy: Hope Beyond Despair
This book takes the later work of Carl Rogers with the utmost seriousness and moves into unexpected and perhaps dangerously controversial terrain. Rogers discovered that he had greatly underestimated... (more)
Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice: A Narrative Framework
The many different therapeutic models in use today can lead to blind spots in clinical practice. This important and timely book gives a balanced synthesis, based on actual cases, evidence, practice... (more)
Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder: Response and Role of Psychiatry
If you have ever wanted to know what it is like to work in a high security psychiatric hospital, caring for some of the most difficult people in the country, this book will bring you face to face... (more)
After Words: The Personal in Gender, Culture and Psychotherapy
In this book, which draws on some of Stephen Frosh's most innovative work, the question of how to understand the 'personal' in contemporary social life is explored through three themes: 'troubled... (more)
The Therapist's Use of Self
This volume deals with what is perhaps the central question in therapy - who is the therapist? And how does that actually come across and manifest itself in the therapeutic relationship? A good deal... (more)
Racism and Mental Health: Prejudice and Suffering
This thought-provoking book investigates the impact of racism in mental health settings, covering individual clinical encounters and the broader picture of service provision. The authors look... (more)
Sand, Water, Silence: Explorations in Matter and Psyche
This book focuses on the theoretical aspects of sandplay therapy, presenting Dora M. Kalff's ideas and drawing out the significance of Kalffian sandplay for therapists. Building on Kalffian ideas of... (more)
Relating in Psychotherapy: The Application of a New Theory
Expanding on a new theory for a science of relating, this work explains how the relevance of this theory relates to the practice of psychotherapy. The theory cuts across all schools of therapy, and... (more)
Psychotherapy and Spirituality: Integrating the Spiritual Dimension in
This detailed study of the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality introduces professionally trained psychotherapists and mental health specialists to the subject of spirituality and the... (more)
Dictionary of Personal Development
This dictionary provides a guide to terms commonly used in various fields concerned with personal development, including counselling and psychotherapy, organizational consultancy and management... (more)
Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy: How to Talk with People about their Spiritual Lives
This book guides therapists in exploring the creative and healing possibilities in people's spiritual and religious experience, while countering ways it can do harm. Each chapter begins with a vivid... (more)
Preventing Workplace Violence: A Guide; for Employers and Practioners
The book summarizes the most up-to-date learning in this area and offers practical guidance and recommendations for assessing the risk of violence, steps for preventing workplace violence, and a... (more)
The Behavioral Medicine Treatment Planner
This invaluable sourcebook features pre-written treatment plan components for the field of behavioral medicine, including behavioral definitions, long-term goals, short-term objectives, therapeutic... (more)
Short-term Therapy for Long-term Change
In this time of rapidly changing expectations of psychological treatment, the authors address the following questions: Is it possible to effect deep, lasting, meaningful psychological change in a... (more)
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir
'I was born in Washington, DC, June 13, 1931, of parents who immigrated from Russia shortly after the first world war. Home was the inner city of Washington - a small apartment atop my parents'... (more)