Individual Psychotherapy Books
Person-centred Therapy in Focus
Provides a much-needed exploration of the criticisms levelled against one of the most widespread forms of therapeutic practice. Characterized by its critics as theoretically 'light', culturally... (more)
Narrative Means to Sober Ends: Treating Addiction and Its Aftermath
Working with clients who abuse drugs or alcohol poses formidable challenges to the clinician. Addicted persons are often confronting multiple, complex problems, from the denial of the addiction... (more)
Hidden Self-Harm: Narratives from Psychotherapy
This practical and accessible book of case studies takes a new look at self-harm, focusing particularly on the under-explored area of 'hidden' self-harming behaviour. These behaviours may not be... (more)
E-Therapy: Case Studies, Guiding Principles, and the Clinical Potential of the Internet
In this text, Dr Robert Hsiung - a provider of online mental health information - has gathered together a group of contributors to discuss clinical, ethical and legal issues in e-therapy. The text... (more)
Feminist Perspectives in Therapy: Empowering Diverse Women
This Second Edition is filled with valuable information on the latest developments in research and major issues faced by therapists treating women, along with clinical case studies that provide... (more)
A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis
Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place... (more)
Body Shame: Conceptualisation, Research and Treatment
In this book, researchers and therapists from a wide range of different disciplines and areas explore the role of shame in various physical and psychological disorders, and provide practical advice... (more)
The Treatment of Obsessions
In the past decade, important progress has been made in understanding the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorders; however, most advances in treatment have been directed at the compulsive element... (more)
Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling
A pathbreaking book looking at everyday storytelling as a twofold
Object Relations and Integrative Psychotherapy: Tradition and Innovation in Theory and Practice
This study explores how an object relations-integrative perspective may combine in-depth psychodynamic principles and theories with the flexibility afforded by an integrative framework. Object... (more)
Emotional Disorders and Metacognition
In a ground-breaking new approach to cognitive therapy, the author addresses limitations of cognitive theories and describes how metacognition, self-attentional processes and worry strategies are... (more)
Treating Compassion Fatigue
Compassion Fatigue is the latest in an evolving concept known in the field of traumatology as Secondary Traumatic Stress, or the stress experienced by caregivers. At focus in this volume are the... (more)
Loss of the Assumptive World: A Theory of Traumatic Loss
In the face of trauma, our assumptive world - the world experienced as normal or predictable - is seriously disrupted. This disruption functions as a metaphor for traumatic loss in this volume,... (more)
Out of Its Mind: Psychiatry in Crisis
In this important book, the authors explore the roots of severe mental illness and propose, for teh first time, the development of a more balanced approach to treatment - Neurodynamics - which... (more)
Beyond Technique in Solution-Focused Therapy
This volume adds a vital dimension to the solutioin-focused therapy literature, providing a rich theoretical framework to facilitate nonformulaic clinical decision making. (more)
Who is Sylvia? and Other Stories: Case Studies in Psychotherapy
In this innovative book, two leading practitioners tell the stories of the people they have met as clients, and how they, as therapists, tried to help them. (more)
On Training to be a Therapist: The Long and Winding Road to Qualification
On Training to be a Therapist has been designed for use as a standard text on training courses at all levels. It is aimed principally at psychotherapy and counselling students, but will also appeal... (more)
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)