Individual Psychotherapy Books
Skills in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Updated in a second edition, the book includes a new chapter on neuropsychology and its implications for theory and practice, new content on working in the NHS and other settings, additional case... (more)
Practitioner Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Power of Examples
This evocative and thought-provoking book calls for an overhaul of how counselling and psychotherapy research is framed and conducted. Packed full of first-hand examples from a wealth of different... (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)
Working with Self Harm and Suicidal Behaviour
An authoritative introduction to identifying and assessing suicidal behaviour, this highly informative text explores both therapeutic interventions and postvention issues. Aimed at front-line... (more)
Transforming Emotional Pain in Psychotherapy: An Emotion-Focused Approach
Emotion-focused therapy is a research-informed psychological therapy that to date has mainly been studied in the context of depression, trauma and couple distress. The evidence suggests that this... (more)
Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice
Hakomi is an integrative method that combines Western psychology and body-centered techniques with mindfulness principles from Eastern psychology. This book, written and edited by members of the... (more)
Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes: The Fear of Feeling Real
Extensive and detailed casework is the backbone of this meticulous in-the-trenches exploration of dissociative processes and their relation to affect theory, attachment, neurobiology, and an emergent... (more)
Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art
Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art provides an essential, accessible grounding in current psychodynamic theory and practice for a wide range of readers. For trainees, it offers a... (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)
Contemplative Psychotherapy Essentials: Enriching Your Practice with Buddhist Psychology
Both Western psychotherapy and the Buddhist spiritual path are journeys toward increased self-awareness, understanding, and well-being. Combining the two is what s known as contemplative... (more)
The Clinician's Guide to Bipolar Disorder: Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy
This much-needed volume gives clinicians essential strategies for managing the complexities of bipolar disorder and tailoring treatment to each patient's changing needs. Highly readable, accessible,... (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)
Emotions and the Therapist: A Systemic-Dialogical Approach
In recent years, systemic theory and practice adopted a dialogical orientation, centred on the persons of the therapist and client. This has led to a growing attention toward emotions, which, in this... (more)
The Narrative Practitioner
This book offers a clear and succinct introduction to narrative theory and practice across all professions. It not only describes the basic principles and methods in narrative therapy, but it also... (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)
Cradling the Chrysalis: Teaching and Learning Psychotherapy: Revised Edition
This book addresses the ethical and philosophical basis for the teaching/learning involved in becoming a psychotherapist. How can training prepare prospective psychotherapists, counsellors, and... (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)
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)
Being and Relating in Psychotherapy: Ontology and Therapeutic Practice
Clients who seek therapy often feel they are struggling with their whole being: their emotional, physical, relational and social selves. Understanding this is crucial to developing a successful... (more)
An Introduction to Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Introducing the basic principles of research theory and practice, this book is the ideal starter text for any counselling trainee or practitioner learning about the research process for the first... (more)
The Presenting Past: The Core Of Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy: Fourth Edition
A person's past is ever present, from infancy to old age, and it always affects the dynamics of therapy and the therapist-patient relationship. Written by one of the most-cited counselling authors in... (more)
The Business Of Therapy: How To Run A Successful Private Practice
"How could I engage with him as a therapist, there was a dead plant in the hall - if he can't even keep a plant alive, how could he possibly help me?" This practical, accessible guide, written by a... (more)
Beckett and Bion: The (Im)Patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature
This book focuses on Samuel Beckett’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W. R. Bion as a central aspect both of Beckett’s and Bion’s radical transformations of literature and psychoanalysis. The... (more)
The Developing Practitioner: Growth and Stagnation of Therapists and Counselors
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the professional development of counselors and therapists over the career lifespan. Drawing on their own extensive experience as psychotherapists,... (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)
An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton
In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychoanalytic psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In... (more)
How Money Talks
Money speaks in everyday life and in literature of our greed and our generosity, our pride and our humiliation and as it passes among us it shows our creativity and our ability to co-operate even... (more)
Psychodynamic Theory in Therapeutic Practice: Second Edition
This approachable text provides a brilliantly clear account of the major psychodynamic theories and their development. Vivid pen portraits and rich case examples show how key concepts first... (more)
A Practical Guide for the Humanistic Psychotherapist
'This book is not just a practical handbook; it is also the fruit of two exceptional people's experience: Serge and Anne Ginger. It reflects their long international experience in several methods... (more)
Money Talks: in Therapy, Society, and Life
Sometimes referred to as "the last taboo," money has remained something of a secret within psychoanalysis. Ironically, while it is an ingredient in almost every encounter between analyst and patient,... (more)