Individual Psychotherapy Books
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy: DSM-5 Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Third Edition
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy: DSM-5 Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Third Edition differs from other psychopathology and abnormal psychology books. While other books focus on... (more)
Core Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Core Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive guide to the four main psychological approaches (Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Behavioural and Cognitive) and introduces several of... (more)
Supervising the Counsellor and Psychotherapist: A Cyclical Model: Third Edition
Supervising the Counsellor and Psychotherapist considers how to meet the supervision needs of trainee and experienced counsellors, psychotherapists and other helping professionals using an... (more)
Mental Health Worldwide: Culture, Globalization and Development
Mental Health Worldwide offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. The foundational concepts of the... (more)
The Trouble with Psychotherapy: Counselling and Common Sense
With regulation imminent, counsellors need to demystify their work to the outside world. This ground-breaking text focuses on experiential engagement as a rich source of unity for very different... (more)
Speaking of Bodies: Embodied Therapeutic Dialogues
While the body has received significant attention in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the last couple of decades, this still focused primarily on the body of pathology – the body as speaking for... (more)
Transference and Countertransference in Non-Analytic Therapy: Double-Edged Swords
Each meditation gives the reader an intimate, meaningful, and uplifting devotional reading and encourages reflection through scriptures, poems, and inspiring quotes to refresh the reader. (more)
Love and Therapy: In Relationship
Sigmund Freud noted the importance of love in the healing of the human psyche. So many of life's distresses have their origins in lack of love, disruption of love, or trauma. People naturally seek... (more)
Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence: Concepts and Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy
The introduction and the twenty-one chapters in this book reflect the ongoing development and refinement of Relational and Integrative Psychotherapy. Each chapter amalgamates ideas from several... (more)
Inner Dialogue in Daily Life: Contemporary Approaches to Personal and Professional Development in Psychotherapy
Connecting to our inner lives can foster healing, self-development and self-awareness. This unique book looks in depth at ten major contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches which all use inner... (more)
Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Innovative Theory and Applications
Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy brings together some of the world's most influential contemporary psychotherapists in the field to look at the future of Focusing-oriented... (more)
Theory and Practice of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Beyond the Talking Cure
This comprehensive introduction to Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy lays out the background and fundamentals of the approach covering theory and practice. Much has changed since Eugene Gendlin first... (more)
Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide
Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide bridges the gap between the traditional medical model of problem-focused assessment and treatment and the newer, increasingly popular... (more)
Handbook of Self and Identity: Second Edition
Widely regarded as the authoritative reference in the field, this volume comprehensively reviews theory and research on the self. Leading investigators address this essential construct at multiple... (more)
Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy
This practical guide helps therapists from virtually any specialty or theoretical orientation choose and adapt mindfulness practices most likely to be effective with particular patients, while... (more)
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders: Key Concepts, Insights, and Interventions
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders is an integrated and practical approach to treating anxiety disorders for general psychotherapists. What is new and exciting is its focus on... (more)
Competence and Self-Care in Counselling and Psychotherapy
What is it that makes a counsellor or psychotherapist competent? In Competence and Self-Care in Counselling and Psychotherapy Gerrie Hughes offers a framework for understanding what being competent... (more)
Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and Reappraisals
Therapy's relational turn is something to celebrate. It is a major world-wide trend taking place in all the therapy traditions. But up to now appreciation of these developments has not been twinned... (more)
On Becoming a Psychotherapist
Why do people want to become a psychotherapist? How do they translate this desire into reality? On Becoming a Psychotherapist explores these and related questions. Ten leading therapists write about... (more)
Effortless Mindfulness: Genuine Mental Health Through Awakened Presence
Effortless Mindfulness promotes genuine mental health through the direct experience of awakened presence-an effortlessly embodied, fearless understanding of and interaction with the way things truly... (more)
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Psychotherapy Research
In this collection, international contributors come together to discuss how qualitative and quantitative methods can be used in psychotherapy research. The book considers the advantages and... (more)
Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression: An Underground Stream that Guides and Heals
This book describes how dreamwork can help alleviate depression, in both long-term and time-limited psychotherapy, and in self-treatment. The author shows how dreams shed light on issues contributing... (more)
Therapy with Tough Clients: Exploring the Use if Indirect and Unconscious Techniques
Whether you're fairly new to therapy or you've practiced for many years, no doubt at times you've found yourself stumped with certain clients who leave you feeling perplexed and discouraged with that... (more)
The Therapeutic Imagination: Using Literature to Deepen Psychodynamic Understanding and Enhance Empathy
Use of the imagination is a key aspect of successful psychotherapeutic treatments. Psychotherapy helps clients get in touch with, awaken, and learn to trust their creative inner life, while... (more)
Philosophical Issues in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Encounters with Four Questions about Knowing, Effectiveness, and Truth
To become a counselor or psychotherapist, one must learn a confusing and conceptually disconnected array of theories, techniques, and ideologies. For instance, CBT, humanistic, and psychodynamic... (more)
Life Witness: Evolution of the Psychotherapist
In Life Witness: Evolution of the Psychotherapist, T. Byram Karasu demonstrates how a young therapist can become an expert clinician by transcending his own school of therapy. Every young therapist... (more)
Philosophy's Role in Counseling and Psychotherapy
In Philosophy's Role in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Peter Raabe argues that philosophy is an effective method in treating mental illness. Calling for a paradigm shift away from the standard belief... (more)
Choosing Therapy: A Guide to Getting What You Need
Like any decision that we make in life, making the choice to seek therapy involves mastering a large body of knowledge, sifting through the thousands of therapists in the field and finding the right... (more)
Winter Blues Survival Guide: A Workbook for Overcoming SAD
Using the engaging tools in this skillfully crafted workbook, sufferers of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) can create their own blueprint for greater well-being all year long. Simple checklists,... (more)
Cultural Psychotherapy: Theory, Methods, and Practice
Written by a leading expert in the field of culturally competent psychotherapeutic practice, this book presents an integrated psychotherapeutic framework designed to help students and practitioners... (more)