Individual Psychotherapy Books
How to Survive Without Psychotherapy
This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book’s aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the... (more)
Self Psychology and Psychosis: The Development of the Self During Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and other Psychoses
In this groundbreaking volume, David Garfield and Ira Steinman bring us into the immediacy of the analyst’s consulting room in direct confrontation with the thought disorder, delusions and... (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)
Love and Therapy: In Relationship
Sigmund Freud noted the importance of love in the healing of the human psyche. So many of life's distresses have their origins in lack of love, disruption of love, or trauma. People naturally seek... (more)
Co-Creative Transactional Analysis: Papers, Responses, Dialogues, and Developments
Co-creative transactional analysis is an approach to a particular branch of psychology which, as the phrase suggests, emphasises the “co-” (mutual, joint) aspect of professional relationships,... (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)
Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
This book is the product of a Campaign Day organised by the Paracelsus Trust to raise awareness of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The Campaign Day brought people together, enabling individuals... (more)
Endings and Beginnings: On Terminating Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Second Edition
In this second edition Herbert J. Schlesinger explores endings and beginnings within psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy; both the obvious main endings and beginnings of any course in... (more)
Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making Sense of People's Problems
The first edition of Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy caught the wave of growing interest in formulation in a clinical context. This completely updated and revised edition summarises... (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 Techniques: Working with Emotion in the Therapeutic Relationship
Helping therapists navigate the complexities of emotional interactions with clients, this book provides practical clinical guidelines. Master clinician Karen J. Maroda adds an important dimension to... (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)
Transforming Clinical Practice Using the MindBody Approach: A Radical Integration
This book assumes that it is no longer tenable to work in healthcare without considering the person as a whole being constituted by a rich weaving of mind, body, culture, family, spirit and ecology.... (more)
Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis
‘"Vital signs" are, of course, the basic physiological measures of functioning which health practitioners use to assess the gravity of a patient’s predicament. This anthology focuses not so much on... (more)
The How-To Book for Students of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This is a book that grew out of the many practical "how-to" questions that the author's psychotherapy students have asked him over the years. It is neither an evidence-based compendium nor an attempt... (more)
The Impossibility of Knowing: Dilemmas of a Psychotherapist
This is a book that assembles and integrates Jackie Gerrard's clinical work and thinking over the many years of her working life. Part I focuses on patients with specific types of psychopathology and... (more)
Managing Vulnerability: The Underlying Dynamics of Systems of Care
Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society.
In this book... (more)
Change in Psychotherapy: A Unifying Paradigm
From an internationally acclaimed group of analysts, a selection of papers on the concept of change.
Since 1994, the Boston Change Process Study Group (BCPSG) has published articles on the most... (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)
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)
Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy: Initial Assessment, Boundaries, Money, Disruptions and Suicidal Crises
'Putting aside the narcissistic-masochistic aspiration of authoring a text on all the intricacies of in-depth psychotherapy, I have chosen to address five areas of difficulty in this enterprise. This... (more)
Overcoming Problematic Alcohol and Drug Use: A Guide for Beginning the Change Process
"Overcoming Problematic Alcohol and Drug Use" is a workbook for use with clients in treatment, informed by the most current research and literature in the substance abuse field. The book introduces a... (more)
Psychotherapy and Culture: Weaving Inner and Outer Worlds
This book explores cross-cultural relationships and the psychological journey of migration, drawing from the author's extensive experience in this field. Many complex theoretical and clinical... (more)
Object Relations Psychotherapy: An Individualized and Interactive Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
This book offers clinicians a different approach to psychotherapy, going beyond mere modification of existing techniques. Instead, the author shows how object relations theory can be used to specify... (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)
The Seven Deadly Sins?: Issues in Clinical Practice and Supervision for Humanistic and Integrative Practitioners
The Seven Deadly Sins? grew out of a post-qualification training course of the same name. It aims to make more accessible some concepts from the world of psychoanalysis, self-psychology and affective... (more)
How Does Psychotherapy Work?
It is said that the question "how does psychotherapy work?" cannot be answered conclusively - that we cannot reach into the depths of a deeply private relationship and pluck out a precise truth about... (more)
The Psychodynamic Approach to Therapeutic Change
Change is the central purpose of all counselling and psychotherapy, but how it is conceptualized and worked with varies according to the theoretical approach being used. This book explores the nature... (more)
Transference and Projection: Mirrors to the Self
This work describes, defines and demonstrates the clinical applications of transference and projection and how they are used by psychotherapists as "mirrors to the self" - as reflections of a... (more)
Supervising Psychotherapy
Supervising Psychotherapy examines the crucial role of supervision in the clinical, professional and personal development of therapists. Based on the view that supervision is in itself both a... (more)