Individual Psychotherapy Books
New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness
New Understandings of Twin Relationships takes an experience-based approach to exploring how twin attachment and estrangement are critical to understanding the push and pull of closely entwined... (more)
Psychodynamic Approaches for Treatment of Drug Abuse and Addiction: Theory and Treatment
This book provides clinicians and students with insights on the use of psychodynamic therapy to treat drug abuse and addiction, combining theory with clinical case material.
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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)
Hungers and Compulsions: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions
This book will help therapists understand and treat patients suffering from mild to dangerous forms of eating disorders, other compulsions and addictions, such as alcoholism, and even erotic... (more)
Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear
Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear explores the importance of listening, being able to speak, and those who are silenced, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular,... (more)
The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Listening for the Subtext
The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Listening for the Subtext outlines the core concepts that frame the reciprocal encounter between psychoanalytic therapist and patient, taking the... (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)
Mastering the Clinical Conversation: Language as Intervention
This compelling book provides psychotherapists with evidence-based strategies for harnessing the power of language to free clients from life-constricting patterns and promote psychological... (more)
Therapy in the Age of Neuroscience: A Guide for Counsellors and Therapists
Therapy in the Age of Neuroscience: A Guide for Counsellors and Therapists is an essential guide to key areas of neuroscience that inform the theory underlying psychotherapy, and how they can be... (more)
Theory and Practice of Online Therapy: Internet-delivered Interventions for Individuals, Groups, Families, and Organizations
This innovative new resource outlines the process of conducting individual, family and group therapy online with the use of video conferencing tools, and explores the unique concerns associated with... (more)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
Ever wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Times-bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of her practice - where her patients are... (more)
Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst
In Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst, Barnaby B. Barratt illuminates a new perspective on what it means to open our awareness to the depths of psychic life and restores the... (more)
Right Brain Psychotherapy
An exploration into the adaptive functions of the emotional right brain, which describes not only affect and affect regulation within minds and brains, but also the communication and iterative... (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)
Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health
Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health provides an overview of the development of CAT, and illuminates how the political context affects the way in which therapists consider... (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)
The Upside of Shame: Therapeutic Interventions Using the Positive Aspects of a Negative Emotion
There is much more to shame than its reputation as a negative emotional state. This clinical book delves into the role of shame in many complex issues such as personality disorders, anxiety,... (more)
Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders
A bold look at the body as a source of contention for those who suffer from personality disorders. People with personality disorders often attack their own bodies through eating disorders and other... (more)
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself Build Inner Strength and Thrive
Self-compassion is a powerful inner resource. More than a thousand research studies show the benefits of being a supportive friend to yourself, especially in times of need. This science-based... (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)
Men, Women, Passion and Power: Gender Issues in Psychotherapy
Making detailed use of case material, the reader is introduced to the contemporary debates about sexuality. Maguire explores them with sensitivity, from a feminist viewpoint. Topics looked at... (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)
Humanistic approach to psychotherapy:
Humanistic psychotherapy has been around since the 1960s, but there is still little understanding about what it represents. This text is a practical description of this form of therapy, based on the... (more)
Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction
Body psychotherapy is an holistic therapy which approaches human beings as united bodymind, and offers embodied relationship as its central therapeutic stance. (more)
Change for the Better: Personal Development Through Practical Psychotherapy: Fifth Edition
This fifth edition features up-to-date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and includes new content on Trauma, Mindfulness, Relational Mapping and Group Work. Lecturers can... (more)
Fat is A Feminist Issue
The original anti-diet book is back - in one volume, together with its best-selling sequel. When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today... (more)
Individual Psychological Therapies in Forensic Settings: Research and Practice
From the 'nothing works' maxim of the 1970s to evidence-based interventions to challenge recidivism and promote pro-social behavior, psychological therapy has played an important role in... (more)
Tough-to-Treat Anxiety: Hidden Problems and Effective Solutions for Your Clients
When anxiety is tough to treat, there may be unrecognised issues in the way. This clinical casebook identifies symptoms that may indicate specific treatment obstacles, helping mental health... (more)
