Individual Psychotherapy Books
Male Sexuality: Why Women Don't Understand It - And Men Don't Either
At first glance the sexual male seems easy to understand, but beneath the surface lie complexities that disrupt lives and relationships. Why can men be so distant in bed? Why do many men love porn so... (more)
Lying, Cheating, and Carrying on: Developmental, Clinical, and Sociocultural Aspects of Dishonesty and Deceit
What constitutes a lie? What are the different types of lies? Why do people lie? Is dishonesty ubiquitous in human experience? And what should be done with individuals who seek psychotherapeutic help... (more)
Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Transition
This book will stimulate readers to cross borders: between theory and practice, between research and everyday therapy, between out-patient and in-patient psychotherapy, between the view of ones own,... (more)
Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide
Few tasks are more important - and daunting - than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. This book is a unique resource providing fresh... (more)
Design for Nature in Dementia Care
Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia. The benefits of connecting the subjective experience of dementia... (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)
Exploring the Spiritual: Paths for Counselors and Psychotherapists
Gain solid empirical findings to understand your own spiritual development To significantly impact clients spirituality and use the spiritual strengths the client possesses to facilitate their move... (more)
Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) lags far behind other disorders such as schizophrenia in terms of research and treatment interventions. Debates about diagnosis, etiology, neurobiology,... (more)
Coming Out, Coming Home: Making Room for Gay Spirituality in Therapy
"Coming Out, Coming Home" increases the potential for spiritual growth and development in our society. Many books have been written and many opinions aired about gay rights and pro-gay theology, but... (more)
Schema Therapy
Schema therapy combines proven cognitive behaviour therapy techniques with elements of interpersonal, experiential and psychodynamic therapies in order to help people with long term mental health... (more)
When the Opposite Sex Isn't: Sexual Orientation in Male-To-Female Transgender People
When there is uncertainty about the gender identity or social gender role of an individual, determining exactly who the opposite sex is can be a complicated question for both the transgender person... (more)
Sex-Offender Therapy: A How-To Workbook for Therapists Treating Sexually Aggressive Adults, Adolescents, and Children
Sexual abuse, sexual addiction, and sexual offending have become a significant clinical problem. Successfully treating these disorders is the first step toward preventing future victims.... (more)
Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: In Forensic Settings
Comprehensively focuses on the integration of ethical, legal, and clinical issues for practicing mental health professionals dealing with legal processes in forensic settings. This unique text is... (more)
Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses: Past, Present and Future
Brings together professionals from around the world to provide an extensive overview of the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis. Divided into three parts - past, present and future - the book... (more)
Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities and ADHD: Assessment and Accomodation
Most of the literature on learning disabilities and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) focuses on the needs of elementary-age children, but older students with these conditions also... (more)
The Mending of Minds: Psychiatric Illness and Its Treatment: A Guide for Families and Patients
Written by a doctor specialising in psychiatry, this book will help the general reader to understand and sympathise with the mentally ill. Mental illness has many forms and many treatments; it can... (more)
Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self-Transformation
Using principles from hypnosis, biofeedback, object relations therapy and cognitive therapy, therapists learn how to help their clients calm themselves, remove stress and achieve goals. With a range... (more)
Meditation for Therapists and Their Clients
"Meditation for Therapists and Their Clients" offers an in-depth exploration of what meditation is, how to do it, and how to use it. This book is written for health care professionals to provide new... (more)
Reflections in Personal Construct Theory
This book examines different aspects of reflexivity. Twenty well known practitioners will reflect on how reflexivity has impacted on their work. Each chapter will cover an aspect of personal... (more)
Mental Health Across Cultures: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals
Every health professional interacts with patients from different cultures to their own, not just those from different countries, ethnic or religious groups, but also those with cultural differences... (more)
Being White in the Helping Professions: Developing Effective Intercultural Awareness
In this reflective yet practical book, the author challenges white helping professionals to recognize their own cultural identity and the impact it has when practising in a multicultural environment.... (more)
Recovery from Depression Using the Narrative Approach: A Guide for Doctors, Complementary Therapists and Mental Health Professionals
Explores people's experiences of depression, recovery and available treatments. The author explains how, by selecting a variety of narrative tools, such as talking therapies, yoga and complementary... (more)
Emerging Developments in Pre-Therapy: A Pre-Therapy Reader
Pre-Therapy is not only a theory an d technique of psychotherapy, but also a method of understanding psychological phenomena. Western humanistic psychology has traditionally focused on higher levels... (more)
Race and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings: A Manual for Professionals
"Race" and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings is a practical resource for trainers who wish to work with the issues raised by racial and cultural diversity in their own agency settings. It is... (more)
Principles and Practice of Stress Management: Third Edition
Structured for optimal use as a clinical reference and text, this comprehensive work reviews effective stress management techniques and their applications for treating psychological problems and... (more)
The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders; Healing the Body with the Mind
This fascinating book traces the roots of mindbody disorders, exploring the interaction between the reasonable, rational, conscious mind, and the repressed feelings of pain, hurt, sadness and anger... (more)
Psychotherapy with Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Fostering Autonomy Through Attachment
Adolescent girls and young women in therapy - even those who genuinely desire change - often are highly ambivalent and difficult to engage. This book provides fresh insights and powerful clinical... (more)
Relational Ethics in Practice: Narratives from Counselling and Psychotherapy
Presents a new collection of narratives on ethics in day-to-day therapeutic practice. Highly experienced professionals from a range of roles in the therapeutic professions explore ways of developing... (more)
Core Competencies in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Becoming a Highly Competent and Effective Therapist
Core Competencies in Psychotherapy addresses the core competencies common to the effective practice of all psychotherapeutic approaches, and includes specific intervention competencies of the three... (more)
Principles of Psychotherapy: Promoting Evidence-based Psychodynamic Practice: Third Edition
Generations of clinicians have valued "Principles of Psychotherapy" for its breadth of coverage and accessibility and the authors ability to gather many elements into a unified presentation. The... (more)