Individual Psychotherapy Books
My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: Making and Breaking Sibling Bonds
Stories about siblings abound in literature, drama, comedy, biography, and history. We rarely talk about our own siblings without emotion, whether with love and gratitude, or exasperation,... (more)
Reproductive Trauma: Psychotherapy With Clients Experiencing Infertility and Pregnancy Loss
This second edition gives mental health professionals the tools they need to treat patients who suffer from infertility or pregnancy loss, as well as new guidance for processing their own... (more)
Mentalization with Neglected and Traumatized Children
Mentalization with Neglected and Traumatized Children provides a comprehensive walkthrough of the impact on child development as a result of neglect and trauma, and how theories of mentalization can... (more)
Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)
A complete and practical guide offering a concise overview of mentalization-based treatment (MBT) and its application in different situations and with different groups of patients to help improve the... (more)
Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
Filling a crucial gap in the clinical literature, this book provides a contemporary view of pathological narcissism and presents an innovative treatment approach. The preeminent authors explore the... (more)
Meaning-Fullness: Developmental Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mental Health
With a Foreword by Nancy McWilliams
The purpose of Meaning-Fullness: Developmental Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mental Health is to show why current mental health practices are falling short... (more)
The Psychotherapist and the Professional Complaint: The Shadow Side of Therapy
The patient’s word was once easily dismissed against the word of the psychiatrist, doctor or therapist, leaving the patient vulnerable. Recognising this inherent risk in the relationship between... (more)
Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy: Embodied Expressions of a Disembodied Psyche
With contributions from Gabrielle Brown, William F. Cornell, Raffaella Hilty, Brett Kahr, Mark Linington, Salvatore Martini, David O’Driscoll, Valerie Sinason, and Tom Wooldridge.
Every... (more)
Shame Matters: Attachment and Relational Perspectives for Psychotherapists
Understanding shame as a relational problem, Shame Matters explores how people, with support, can gradually move away from the relentless cycle of shame and find new and more satisfying ways of... (more)
The Power of Talking: Stories from the Therapy Room
Reading The Power of Talking: Stories from the Therapy Room feels as though you have joined author Stelios Kiosses at his favourite coffee shop for a chat whilst enjoying a cappuccino and slice of... (more)
A Healing Relationship: Individual Psychotherapy
A Healing Relationship is about a relationally focused psychotherapy, how the author works, and why. The first couple of chapters provide a brief orientation to relationally focused aspects of an... (more)
An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy
This bestseller provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with new research, examples from... (more)
Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders
A bold look at the body as a source of contention for those who suffer from personality disorders. People with personality disorders often attack their own bodies through eating disorders and other... (more)
Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text: Third Edition
Because it provides clear instruction for getting started in the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy, this book has found a grateful audience of psychiatric residents and other mental health... (more)
Mentalization Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
Mentalizing - the ability to understand oneself and others by inferring mental states that lie behind overt behaviour - develops within the context of attachment relationships. It is crucial to... (more)
Online Supervision: A Handbook for Practitioners
This book considers a range of aspects of online supervision and is suitable for therapists who already offer this means of delivering supervision as well as those who may be curious about it. As... (more)
The Body Speaks: Body Image Delusions and Hypochondria
This book explores David Rosenfeld's pioneering work with severely disturbed patients, to show what it means to work and think as a psychoanalyst about transference and the internal world of a... (more)
Working with Teenage Parents: Handbook of Theory and Practice
Includes DVD of Observation clips.
For practitioners working with pregnant teenagers, young parents and their children.
Parenting, like adolescence, is a profoundly disturbing experience,... (more)
Systems Psychodynamics: Theorist and Practitioner Voices from the Field
Through a series of in-depth interviews with Tavistock thinkers across three generations, this volume illustrates the practice and application of the systems psychodynamics paradigm to organisational... (more)
Systems Psychodynamics: Innovative Approaches to Change, Whole Systems and Complexity
In the second of this three-volume series, the authors expand on the theory and practice of systems psychodynamics – which integrates psychoanalytic thinking, open systems theory and complexity... (more)
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice
An essential work that centers colonial and historical trauma in a framework for healing, Decolonizing Therapy illuminates that all therapy is-and always has been- inherently political. To better... (more)
Peter Pan, the Lost Child
Originally published in 1992 in French as Peter Pan ou l'Enfant Triste, the book was translated into English in 1997 and released as Peter Pan: The Story of Lost Childhood. This new English language... (more)
A Psychotherapist Paints: Insights from the Border of Art and Psychotherapy
A Psychotherapist Paints is a unique account of an internationally known psychotherapist and group analyst’s struggle to bring together his psychological experience and his interests and talent as an... (more)
Darkness Was My Candle: An Odyssey of Survival and Grace
Born into poverty and violence, Lora's early life was one of extreme vulnerability. She was prostituted for the first time at the age of nine and suffered unspeakable treatment from those who should... (more)
The Unanswered Self: The Masterson Approach to the Healing of Personality Disorders
James F. Masterson pioneered an innovative clinical approach to the dynamic psychotherapy of personality disorder, based on a steadily evolving synthesis of his own theory and interchange with other... (more)
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy after Domestic Violence: A Client View of What Helps Recovery
This is a refreshing and thought provoking book, presenting the views of female and male counselling clients about their experience of therapy after domestic violence. It brings together the existing... (more)
Ghosts in the Human Psyche: The Story of a “Muslim Armenian”
Vamik Volkan examines the impact of past and present historical events, cultural elements, political movements and their mental images on the psyche of individuals. Beginning with the history of the... (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)