Individual Psychotherapy Books
Handbook of Emotion Regulation
Reviewing the state of the science in a dynamic, thriving field, this influential handbook integrates knowledge from multiple psychological subdisciplines. Foremost experts address the... (more)
The Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Unravelling the issues surrounding the therapeutic relationship, this book highlights the importance of the relationship itself, of the client as a proactive agent in the process, and of the need for... (more)
Making the Most of Counselling and Psychotherapy Placements
Struggling to secure the right counselling or psychotherapy placement for you? Unsure of how to deal with complex challenges or how to make sure you get the most out of your placement? Then you have... (more)
The Beginner's Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Are your students interested in the field of counselling and psychotherapy or just starting out in their training? If they are trying to get to grips with the many different approaches and decide... (more)
Thrive: The Power of Psychological Therapy
A ground-breaking argument for better treatment of mental health from Richard Layard (author of Happiness) and David M. Clark. Britain has become a world leader in providing psychological therapies.... (more)
Breathing as a Tool for Self-Regulation and Self-Reflection
The book describes how to use breathing as a medium for self-regulation and self-reflection and how balanced breathing thus helps to promote mental and physical health and alleviate symptoms... (more)
The Quest to Feel Good
Emotions, rather than simply being the result of random or disordered biochemical processes, are adaptive mechanisms that are often overly relied upon as a function of basic learning processes. The... (more)
In Search of Aphrodite: Women, Archetypes and Sex Therapy
What does it mean to be in search of Aphrodite? For most women, sex is complex, and more than a juxtaposition of body parts. Women sense the possibility of depth, meaning, even transcendence, but in... (more)
The Creative Therapist: The Art of Awakening a Session
In The Creative Therapist, Bradford Keeney makes the case that creativity is the most essential aspect of vibrant, meaningful, and successful therapy. No matter what therapeutic orientation one... (more)
Therapy and the Postpartum Woman: Notes on Healing Postpartum Depression for Clinicians and the Women Who Seek Their Help: 47821308729369781138872936
This book provides a comprehensive look at effective therapy for postpartum depression. Using a blend of professional objectivity, evidence-based research, and personal, straight-forward suggestions... (more)
Psychotherapist Revealed: Therapists Speak About Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy
In this edited volume, the real dialogue begins. Therapists speak openly and honestly about their self-disclosure practices, decisions and clinical dilemmas. Bloomgarden and Mennuti bring together... (more)
Sex in Psychotherapy: Sexuality, Passion, Love, and Desire in the Therapeutic Encounter
Sex in Psychotherapy takes a psychodynamic approach to understanding recent technological and theoretical shifts in the field of psychotherapy. Lawrence Hedges provides an expert overview and... (more)
Cyberbullying: From Theory to Intervention
The study of cyberbullying has exploded since its first appearance in a peer-reviewed journal article in 2005. Cyberbullying: From Theory to Intervention aims to make clear and practical sense of... (more)
When Psychological Problems Mask Medical Disorders: A Guide for Psychotherapists: Second Edition
Widely regarded as a standard clinical resource, this book helps practitioners think outside the mental health box and recognize when a client may urgently need a medical evaluation. Part I provides... (more)
Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems: Second Edition
This authoritative guide has given tens of thousands of clinicians proven tools for helping clients resolve ambivalence and mobilize their energy, commitment, and personal resources for change.... (more)
Sexual Dysfunction: A Guide for Assessment and Treatment: Third Edition
Highly regarded as a course text and practitioner resource, this book presents concise intervention guidelines for the most frequently encountered sexual dysfunctions in women and men. Following a... (more)
The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing
Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted based on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system... (more)
Interacting Selves: Systemic Solutions for Personal and Professional Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The counselling and psychotherapy professions have experienced a rapid growth and expansion throughout Europe, and internationally. State regulation of these professional practices has required... (more)
Making Research Matter: Researching for Change in the Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Making Research Matter is an original contribution to the growing field of work-based learning with a focus on research aimed at developing the practice of counselling and psychotherapy addressing... (more)
Nature in Mind: Systems Thinking and Imagination in Ecopsychology and Nature-Based Practice
In a time of apparent global crisis, ecopsychology is a rapidly emerging new field that attracts those concerned with the state of the planet and psychotherapists wanting to bring nature more fully... (more)
Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice
There is increasing concern about the growing state influences on the talking therapies. Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice is a response to that... (more)
The Content of Psychological Distress: Addressing Complex Personal Experience
The Content of Psychological Distress makes the case for focusing psychological attention on the content of people's distressing experience. The growing demand for counselling and therapy in... (more)
Mental Health Policy and Practice
This highly regarded text offers a clear and considered guide to modern mental health policy and practice. Completely up to date, it highlights key changes and developments for today's students and... (more)
Working with Self Harm and Suicidal Behaviour
An authoritative introduction to identifying and assessing suicidal behaviour, this highly informative text explores both therapeutic interventions and postvention issues. Aimed at front-line... (more)
The Snake in the Clinic: Psychotherapy's Role in Medicine and Healing
This book offers an alternative to the usual view of psychotherapy’s role in relation to medicine by proposing that psychotherapy is less an adjunct to mainstream medicine than it is co-partner in... (more)
Rethinking Therapeutic Culture
Social critics have long lamented America's descent into a culture of narcissism, as Christopher Lasch so lastingly put it fifty years ago. From first world problems to political correctness, from... (more)
Feeling Lonesome: The Philosophy and Psychology of Loneliness
Loneliness is much more than just feeling sad or isolated. It is the ultimate ground source of unhappiness - the underlying reality of all negative human behavior that manifests as anxiety,... (more)
The Interactive World of Severe Mental Illness: Case Studies of the U.S. Mental Health System
In our society, medication is often seen as the treatment for severe mental illness, with psychotherapy a secondary treatment. However, quality social interaction may be as important for the recovery... (more)
Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the Expressive Language of the Living
The body, of both the patient and the analyst, is increasingly a focus of attention in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice, especially from a relational perspective. There is a renewed... (more)
Emotional Schema Therapy
Over decades of practice of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), Robert L. Leahy has made important discoveries about the role that beliefs and expectations about emotions play in psychopathology.... (more)