Individual Psychotherapy Books
Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply
Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply provides a refreshing new look at the emerging field of Buddhist-informed psychotherapy. Marjorie Schuman presents a... (more)
Therapy Over 50: Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life
Traditional training in counseling and psychotherapy makes minimal distinctions on the ages of the client and therapist in the treatment process. Therapy Over 50: Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and... (more)
Understanding Davanloo's Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Guide for Clinicians
The objective of this book is to update dynamic psychotherapists on the latest findings in Davanloo’s Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (IS-TDP). Previous authors have sometimes presented a... (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)
Being With and Saying Goodbye: Cultivating Therapeutic Attitude in Professional Practice
At a time of increasing financial pressure on families - as well as the services that support them - children are doubly disadvantaged. The economical mass-provision of proven approaches appears to... (more)
Disability Psychotherapy: An Innovative Approach to Trauma-Informed Care
Much has been written about cognitive development in those who are cognitively impaired. Much is written about attachment for people who don’t have disabilities. Yet people with disabilities have... (more)
The Meaning of Anxiety
When this important work was originally published in 1950 - the first book on anxiety published in the US - it was hailed as a work ahead of its time. Still just as relevant and illuminating, The... (more)
Psychotherapy for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: Specific Techniques
In this unique book, Andrew Lotterman describes a creative approach to the psychotherapy of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. Lotterman focuses on specific techniques... (more)
The Origins of Unhappiness: A New Understanding of Personal Distress
It is the main argument of this book that emotional and psychological distress is often brought about through the operation of social-environmental powers which have their origin at a considerable... (more)
Narrative Therapy Approaches for Physical Health Problems: Facilitating Preferred Change
Narrative therapy is an exciting and evolving psychotherapeutic approach. This book takes the reader on a journey across the territory of narrative therapy theories, principles and practices and its... (more)
Listening with Purpose: Entry Points into Shame and Narcissistic Vulnerability
This manual has been written for a wide range of dynamic practitioners involved in treating patients with narcissistically-infused issues. The treatment model and case material presented in Listening... (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)
Clinical Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
In Clinical Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervisors from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, and dance movement therapy deal with the ambiguity and... (more)
Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy: Fifth Edition
The leading clinical reference and text in the field, originally developed by the late Sandra Leiblum, this volume addresses the full range of sexual problems and concerns that lead men, women, and... (more)
Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide
Questions of sexuality and gender affect everyone and therefore have an inevitable relevance in the consulting room. Yet with interpretations and manifestations of both varying greatly from person to... (more)
Touching the Relational Edge: Body Psychotherapy
The psychotherapeutic encounter is a meeting between embodied psyches, bodies present in the room, speaking with each another, impacting and impacted by one another; bodies who are waiting for us to... (more)
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Mentalizing Tales of Dating and Marriage
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Mentalizing Tales of Dating and Marriage is about the dynamics of intimate interpersonal relationships (dating and marriage) - how and why human pairings occur, what... (more)
LoveSex: An Integrative Model for Sexual Education
This book looks at how our brains, minds, bodies, and emotions interact to create our experience of sexuality, and how we can create a sense of sexual self-esteem and a nutritious sexual diet for... (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)
Alone In the Mirror: Twins in Therapy
Twins face serious challenges when approaching adulthood, as they try to find their own voices and identities in the world. Author Barbara Klein, a practicing psychologist who is a twin herself,... (more)
Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy: A Clinician's Guide
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a brief psychodynamic psychotherapy developed for the treatment of mood disorders. It is being rolled out as part of the Improving Access to Psychological... (more)
The Impossibility of Knowing: Dilemmas of a Psychotherapist
This is a book that assembles and integrates Jackie Gerrard's clinical work and thinking over the many years of her working life. Part I focuses on patients with specific types of psychopathology and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy After Child Abuse: The Treatment of Adults and Children Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse, Violence, and Neglect in Childhood
This book presents a coherent and readable narrative review of current views on the effects and role of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the treatment of children and adults who have experienced... (more)
A Different Wisdom: Reflections on Supervision Practice: Guide to Supervision Volume 1
Britain has a fine tradition of writing about supervision practice. This book connects to this by organising reflection around the practice taken from the author's sixteen years experience as a... (more)
Murder: A Psychotherapeutic Investigation
'This book... shines a bright light on a murky world. The contributors attempt to understand the origins of murder, but they also deal with the detail of treatment and show us how professionals are... (more)
Lives Transformed: A Revolutionary Method of Dynamic Psychotherapy
The world has long awaited compelling and unmistakable evidence for the validity of dynamic psychotherapy. A review in the present book shows that such evidence has been accumulating over the past... (more)
Good Goodbyes: Knowing How to End in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Good Goodbyes highlights the crucial importance of how the end of therapy is structured and experienced. Bad endings can destroy good therapies. Good endings can consolidate the work accomplished,... (more)
EMDR and the Relational Imperative: The Therapeutic Relationship in EMDR Treatment
Over the past sixteen years, since its initial introduction to professional circles, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has become increasingly popular among practitioners dealing... (more)
Psychological Therapies in Primary Care: Setting up a Managed Service
This book introduces the case for the management of psychological therapy services in the NHS as a result of the recent and very significant changes in primary care commissioning and mental health... (more)
The Impossibility of Sex: Stories of the Intimate Relationship between Therapist and Client
In these intriguing accounts, Susie Orbach, the celebrated author of Fat is a Feminist Issue, presents us with six imaginary clinical cases, including Adam, the serial seducer; Belle, the compulsive... (more)