Individual Psychotherapy Books
Integrative Psychotherapy in Theory and Practice: A Relational, Systemic and Ecological Approach
Bringing together relational, systemic and ecological approaches, this pioneering book outlines a valuable integrative psychotherapeutic method and presents the core steps for implementing it into... (more)
Shamanic Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Healing through the Symbolic Process
In Shamanic Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Healing through the Symbolic Process, Robin van Loeben Sels uniquely and honestly recounts her personal journey towards a shamanic understanding of... (more)
Extending Horizons in Helping and Caring Therapies: Beyond the Liminal in the Healing Encounter
This vital new book examines how healing encounters might further the horizons of practice and extend innovation in professional interpersonal relationships. Highly qualified contributors explore... (more)
Strengths-Based Approaches to Crime and Substance Use: From Drugs and Crime to Desistance and Recovery
Although there is a strong and growing literature in the two areas of desistance and addiction recovery, they have developed along parallel pathways with little systematic assessment of the empirical... (more)
Evidence-Based Practice in Action: Bridging Clinical Science and Intervention
A growing number of empirically supported treatments are available to mental health practitioners, yet evidence-based practice requires knowledge and skills that are often overlooked in clinical... (more)
Working with Autobiographical Memories in Therapy: Assessment and Treatment
Aggregating 46 years of research, this book proposes a fresh approach on how to conduct assessment and therapy using autobiographical memories. It offers a system to identify and deconstruct major... (more)
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir
'Wonderful, compelling and as insightful about its subject and about the times he lived in as you could hope for. A fabulous read' Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone Irvin D. Yalom has... (more)
The Creative Therapist in Practice
In The Creative Therapist in Practice Hillary and Bradford Keeney present a radically innovative approach to the practice of therapy. Combining improvisational performing arts, action-oriented... (more)
BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach
Marian Dunlea's BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach provides a theoretical and practical guide for working with early developmental trauma. This... (more)
Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning: kjgt9781585624591
Deftly combining contemporary theory with clinical practice, Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning is an invaluable resource for any clinician... (more)
In Therapy Together: Family Therapy as a Dialogue
Families come in all shapes and sizes, and all have love at their roots; however, by the time a family requests help from a psychotherapist, resentment, fear and disappointment have often become the... (more)
Interpretation and Interaction: Psychoanalysis or Psychotherapy?
In recent decades the relationship between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy has been a focal point for debate about the distinctiveness of analysis as a particular kind of therapeutic enterprise. In... (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)
Single-Session Therapy (SST): 100 Key Points and Techniques
Even in one session a therapist can make a difference. Single Session Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques presents the 100 main features of this way of working, providing an accessible, succinct... (more)
Intellectual Disability and Psychotherapy: The Theories, Practice, and Influence of Valerie Sinason
Intellectual Disability and Psychotherapy: The Theories, Practice and Influence of Valerie Sinason charts the impact of the noted psychotherapist's work with children and adults with intellectual... (more)
Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy
Mentalization--the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states--is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better... (more)
Introduction to Countertransference in Therapeutic Practice: A Myriad of Mirrors
While transference has been fully described in the literature, countertransference has been viewed as its ugly sibling, and hence there are still not as many reflective accounts or guidance for... (more)
The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
Beginning with the claim that we are all psychologically alive only in the now, this book invites readers to reconsider their day-to-day experiences. Stern shows how certain moments of shared... (more)
Short-term Therapy for Long-term Change
In this time of rapidly changing expectations of psychological treatment, the authors address the following questions: Is it possible to effect deep, lasting, meaningful psychological change in a... (more)
The Access to Subjectivity: Phenomenology, Buddhism, and Psychotherapy
This book explores the conceptual and practical connections that exist between phenomenology, Buddhism, and psychotherapy. These three disciplines clearly have completely different origins,... (more)
Brief Psychoanalytic Therapy
In recent years, there has been a drive to develop briefer and more focal psychodynamic interventions, with the hope of satisfying the ever-increasing need for mental health support. This book... (more)
False Bodies, True Selves: Moving Beyond Appearance-Focused Identity Struggles and Returning to the True Self
False Bodies, True Selves explores the phenomenon of growing numbers of people in western society and beyond completely embedding their sense of identity in their appearance. Unlike other books which... (more)
Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss in Retirement
Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss in Retirement explores the ambivalence the therapist may feel about letting go of a professional role which has sustained them.... (more)
Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: A Relational/Neurobiological Approach
Chronic shame is painful, corrosive, and elusive. It resists self-help and undermines even intensive psychoanalysis. Patricia DeYoung's cutting-edge book gives chronic shame the serious attention it... (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)
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Transactional Analysis: Theory and Narration of a Living Experience
The main values and principles of Transactional Analysis, in its original psychodynamic matrix, become a concrete experience in this book thanks to the accurate description of the daily practice of a... (more)
An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame
Designed for psychotherapists and counsellors in training, An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame clarifies the concept of the frame - the way of working set out in the first meeting between... (more)
Managing Difficult Endings in Psychotherapy: It's Time
This book is about the difficulty of endings, but it is also about learning from the endings that we know have gone wrong as well as those that have worked well. It sets out how the psychological... (more)
Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice
Presenting a pragmatic, evidence-based approach to conducting psychodynamic therapy, this engaging and instructive guide is firmly grounded in contemporary clinical practice and research. The book... (more)