Individual Psychotherapy Books
Therapeutic Communication: Knowing What to Say When: Second Edition
A uniquely practical guide and widely adopted text, this book shows precisely what therapists can say at key moments to enhance the process of healing and change. Paul Wachtel explains why some... (more)
Healing Intelligence: The Spirit in Psychotherapy - Working with Darkness and Light
Natural healing intelligence is one of the great mysteries of the psyche. It is inherently elusive yet lies at the core of all efforts to cure emotional wounds. Psychotherapy and counselling, when... (more)
Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy
A discussion of the self, both in and out of therapy.
For each of us, our thoughts, beliefs, desires, expectations, and fantasies constitute our own sense of a unique identity. Here, Jungian and... (more)
Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control is a practical, task-oriented, instructional manual designed to help therapists provide effective treatment for survivors of these... (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)
A Guide to Assessment for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts inevitably find themselves doing assessment in their work, both in private practice and in a clinical setting such as the NHS. The authors felt a... (more)
Tales of Unknowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective
Presents the lives of eight individuals whose experiences illuminate a variety of dilemmas and anxieties that most of us encounter at different points of our lives. According to Spinelli (psychology,... (more)
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
Psychological trauma profoundly affects the body, often disrupting normal physical functioning when left unresolved. Trauma and the Body provides a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma... (more)
To Be Met as a Person: The Dynamics of Attachment in Professional Encounters
This book is a thought-provoking read that sets out a framework for thinking about the way we interact with one another. It helps us make sense of the feelings we have when we are successful and not... (more)
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique
Traditionally, psychoanalytic treatment has been a lengthy endeavour, requiring a long-term commitment from patient and analyst, as well as vast financial resources. More recently, short-term... (more)
Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in Relationships: Hardcover
The authors of this book focus on the importance of relationship in psychotherapy. Relationships between people form the basis of our daily lives. It offers therapists a methodology for assisting... (more)
The Art and Science of Assessment in Psychotherapy
In this work twelve practitioners of psychotherapy describe the methods they use in their assessments, and how these have developed. The approaches covered include: psychoanalytic psychotherapy;... (more)
Gaining a Second Impression in Psychotherapy: Pivoting Toward a More Accurate Understanding of the Patient
Integrating psychotherapy with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this text offers therapists a way to reframe a client's understanding of their mental health issues through a holistic, dynamic lens.... (more)
The Temporal Dimension in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Journey in Time
The Temporal Dimension in Counselling and Psychotherapy looks at time as an intangible phenomenon that is culturally created, historically framed but only individually understood. Examining our... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration On Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel?
In dialogue with the most famous myth for the origin of different languages - The Tower of Babel - A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel? provides a series of timely... (more)
Essential Psychotherapies: Theory and Practice: Fourth Edition
Acclaimed for its clear writing and stellar contributors, this authoritative text is now in a revised and updated fourth edition. The book explains the history, assessment approach, techniques, and... (more)
Treating Psychosomatic Patients: In Search of a Transdisciplinary Framework for the Integration of Bodywork in Psychotherapy
Treating Psychosomatic Patients offers a conceptual and therapeutic framework for all therapists who have to deal with the psychosomatic 'conflicted' body, as presented in anxiety and depression,... (more)
Therapy with Substance: Psycholytic Psychotherapy in the Twenty-First Century
Psychedelics drugs were routinely used in clinical research and psychotherapy until the 1960s. Since then they have been illegal except for a short period in the 1990s in Switzerland. During this... (more)
Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction
Psychopathy is a personality disorder that has long captured the public imagination. Newspaper column inches have been devoted to murderers with psychopathic features, and we also encounter... (more)
Experiencing ACT from the Inside Out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Therapists
From leading acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) practitioners, this experiential training workbook invites therapists to broaden and strengthen their ACT skills through deep engagement with ACT... (more)
Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program: A Guide for Professionals
This is the authoritative guide to conducting the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program, which provides powerful tools for coping with life challenges and enhancing emotional well-being. MSC... (more)
Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy and Coaching: An Evidence-Based Framework
Based on over a decade of sustained longitudinal research with a broad range of different user groups, Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy and Coaching: An Evidence-Based Framework is an essential guide... (more)
Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes: Mindfulness Interventions from Education to Health and Therapy
The Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes: Mindfulness Interventions from Education to Health and Therapy offers the first comprehensive guide to all prominent, evidence-based mindfulness... (more)
Clinician's Thesaurus: The Guide to Conducting Interviews and Writing Psychological Reports
Hundreds of thousands of students and early-career professionals have relied on this authoritative report-writing tool, now updated for DSM-5/ICD-10-CM and newer types of evaluations. In a convenient... (more)
Psychotherapy, Anthropology and the Work of Culture
Anthropology and psychotherapy have a long and important historical relationship, and in this fascinating collection practitioners with experience in both fields explore how the concept of `culture'... (more)
Religion, Spirituality, and Masculinity: New Insights for Counselors
Religion, Spirituality, and Masculinity provides concrete, practical suggestions for mental health professionals. Drawing from decades of clinical experience working with men and interdisciplinary... (more)
Understanding Psychopathy: The Biopsychosocial Perspective
Understanding Psychopathy is an essential, accessible new guide on psychopathy and its development. Through the lens of the biopsychosocial model, Thomson explores a wide range of factors... (more)