Individual Psychotherapy Books
The End of the Sentence: The Future of Psychotherapy with Female Offenders
HMP Holloway was the biggest women's prison in Europe, historically holding many infamous female criminals and eliciting intrigue and fascination from the public. The End of the Sentence documents... (more)
Perfectionism: A Relational Approach to Conceptualization, Assessment and Treatment
Grounded in decades of influential research, this book thoroughly examines perfectionism: how it develops, its underlying mechanisms and psychological costs, and how to target it effectively in... (more)
Boundaries, Power and Ethical Responsibility in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The boundaries of the therapeutic relationship are a crucial part of effective therapy. But understanding them, and the effects of power and responsibility, can be intimidating to trainee or... (more)
Depression and the Erosion of the Self in Late Modernity: The Lesson of Icarus
Depression is not a disease of the brain, a genetic disability or even a mood disorder. Rather, shutdown, numbness or sadness are non-pathological adaptations to adverse childhood and adult... (more)
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain: Third Edition
This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has brought an understanding of the social nature of people's brains to a therapeutic context. Louis Cozolino is a master... (more)
Tough-to-Treat Anxiety: Hidden Problems and Effective Solutions for Your Clients
When anxiety is tough to treat, there may be unrecognised issues in the way. This clinical casebook identifies symptoms that may indicate specific treatment obstacles, helping mental health... (more)
Psychosocial Assessment in Mental Health
Psychosocial and holistic approaches to assessment have become a central feature for modern mental health care. This practical and comprehensive book guides students through the theory and practice... (more)
Professional Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Ethics and the Law
Developing and maintaining a secure framework for professional practice is a core part of any counselling and psychotherapy training, as all therapists need to understand the key values, ethics and... (more)
Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy: A Framework for Clinical Practice
Recent contributions to the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature have moved beyond traditional views of lesbianism, but they have tended to address lesbian identity from one theoretical... (more)
The Access to Subjectivity: Phenomenology, Buddhism, and Psychotherapy
This book explores the conceptual and practical connections that exist between phenomenology, Buddhism, and psychotherapy. These three disciplines clearly have completely different origins,... (more)
Speaking, Actually: Towards a New 'Fluid' Common-Sense Understanding of Relational Becomings
This is a philosophy book for psychotherapists, psychologists, organisational consultants and scholars who are interested in the construction of each other, how we make meaning together and move with... (more)
The Resilient Mental Health Practice: Nourishing Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself
The Resilient Mental Health Practice is a fundamental resource for mental health professionals, designed to serve as a comprehensive yet parsimonious handbook to inspire and inform novice,... (more)
Towards a Mental Health System That Works: A Professional Guide to Getting Psychological Help
Research has established that there are efficacious psychological therapies for most common mental disorders. In Towards a Mental Health System That Works, psychologist Michael J Scott details the... (more)
The Art of Holding in Therapy: An Essential Intervention for Postpartum Depression and Anxiety
First conceptualized by D.W. Winnicott, holding in this book refers to a therapist's capacity to respond to postpartum distress in a way that facilitates an immediate and successful therapeutic... (more)
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: Wellness Perspectives on Behaviors, Symptoms, and Diagnosis
Grounded in a wellness, strengths-based, and developmental perspective, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury is the ideal guide for counselors and other clinicians seeking to understand self-injurious behaviors... (more)
Collaborative Therapy and Neurobiology: Evolving Practices in Action
Collaborative Therapy and Neurobiology is the book many clinicians have been waiting for: an integration of twenty years of scientific and therapeutic cutting-edge ideas into concrete clinical... (more)
Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: The Illustrated Manual
Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: The Illustrated Manual is an illustrated manual that provides health professionals with specific information on the use of the structured touching opportunities used... (more)
Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists: A Guide to Improving Clinical Effectiveness
This text explores how psychotherapists can use deliberate practice to improve their clinical effectiveness. By sourcing through decades of research on how experts in diverse fields achieve skill... (more)
Interpersonal Conflict: An Existential Psychotherapeutic and Practical Model
Interpersonal Conflict provides a psychotherapeutic and philosophical understanding of the nature of interpersonal conflict. Arguing that facilitating conflict resolution has little to do with... (more)
Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide and Manual
Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis describes a new psychological intervention, which for the first time applies emerging research from the field of positive psychology specifically to psychosis.... (more)
Multiple Relationships in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Unavoidable, Common, and Mandatory Dual Relations in Therapy
This first-of-a-kind analysis will focus exclusively on unavoidable and mandated multiple relationships between clients and psychotherapists. The book will cover the ethics of a range of venues and... (more)
Working with Sex Offenders: A Guide for Practitioners
Working with Sex Offenders is a unique book which brings together leading practitioners in the field to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date distillation of relevant guidance to assist anyone who... (more)
Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tataihono - Stories of Maori Healing and Psychiatry
This book examines a collaboration between traditional Maori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural... (more)
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual
An updated and expanded new edition of a widely-used guide to the theory and practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy, Cabaniss Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual, 2nd Edition provides... (more)
Mini-Max Interventions: 15 Simple Therapeutic Interventions That Have Maximum Impact
Mini-Max interventions are therapeutic communication strategies designed to achieve a lot with just a few linguistic tweaks: maximum results for minimal effort. If you want to improve your... (more)
Words That Touch: How to Ask Questions Your Body Can Answer - 12 Essential 'Clean Questions' for Mind/Body Therapists
The use of Clean Language in therapeutic practice emphasises a simple but highly effective questioning style between patient and practitioner. The author of this practical guide explains the... (more)
Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change: A Clinician's Guide
Although the environmental and physical effects of climate change have long been recognised, little attention has been given to the profound negative impact on mental health. Leslie Davenport... (more)
Creative Ideas for Solution Focused Practice: Inspiring Guidance, Ideas and Activities
Exploring creative ways to implement solution focused practice, this book is packed full of ideas to inspire ways of working with clients which focus on their strengths as a means to finding... (more)
The Theory and Practice of Democratic Therapeutic Community Therapy
Democratic therapeutic communities have been set up all over the world, but until now there has not been a manual that sets out the underlying theories, and describes successful practice. Based on... (more)