Individual Psychotherapy Books
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)
Single-Session Therapy: Distinctive Features
Single-Session Therapy: Distinctive Features provides a general introduction to the field of Single-Session Therapy (SST). Written by eminent clinician and author Windy Dryden, this book... (more)
Anti-Oppressive Counseling and Psychotherapy
In Anti-Oppressive Counseling and Psychotherapy, Jason D. Brown examines the impact of structural inequality on mental health and provides a framework for an anti-oppressive practice that recognizes... (more)
Practical Ethics in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach
This highly engaging book introduces readers to the ethical dilemmas that therapists may face in their therapeutic practices. By mapping the counselling process from beginning to end, it focuses on... (more)
Nietzsche and Psychotherapy
Drawing on over a century of international Nietzschean scholarship, this groundbreaking book discusses some of the unexplored psychological reaches of Nietzsche's thought, as well as their... (more)
The Affect Theory of Silvan Tomkins for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Recasting the Essentials
The Affect Theory of Silvan Tomkins for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy explores central issues in current clinical work, using the theories put forward by Silvan Tomkins and presenting them in... (more)
An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy
This bestseller provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with new research, examples from... (more)
Systems Theories for Psychotherapists: From Theory to Practice
Systems Theories for Psychotherapists explores three key theories that underpin many of the models of psychotherapy: general systems theory, natural systems theory, and language systems theory. The... (more)
Therapist Self-Disclosure: An Evidence-Based Guide for Practitioners
Therapist Self-Disclosure gives clinicians professional and practical guidance on how and when to self-disclose in therapy. Chapters weave together theory, research, case studies, and applications to... (more)
The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
The ability to offer the safe sanctuary of presence is central to treating trauma and therapeutic practice. This book offers brain- and body-based insights and skills for the reader to heal, not only... (more)
Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach
Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach offers the practitioner a novel framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues involved in assessing and managing risks related to violence and sexual... (more)
Art Therapy and Psychology: A Clinical Guide
This book offers a thorough and well-rounded clinical guide to utilising the depth of the unconsciousness through art when working with clients in psychotherapy. As a psychologist and art therapist,... (more)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide
Building on the enormous popularity of her two previous texts on diagnosis and case formulation, this important work from Nancy McWilliams completes the trilogy by addressing in detail the art of... (more)
Becoming a Therapist: What Do I Say, And Why?
A unique, combined perspective on how therapy is conducted, what works and what doesn't work in treatment, and how to take care of oneself as a clinician. (more)
Transforming Emotion: Conversations in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Starting from the position that there is no universal story of emotion necessarily acceptable to all cultures, Fredman offers a repertoire of possibilities to talk about feelings, share understanding... (more)
Conscious and Unconscious
All forms of psychotherapy deal with the limitations of our awareness. We have limited knowledge of our creative potential, of the details of our own behaviour, of our everyday emotional states, of... (more)
Freedom to Practise: Person-Centred Approaches to Supervision
This book is the first to focus exclusively on person-centred supervision. The editors explore the practice of supervision in the light of person-centred philosophy and theory, review and critique... (more)
The Therapist's Use of Self
This volume deals with what is perhaps the central question in therapy - who is the therapist? And how does that actually come across and manifest itself in the therapeutic relationship? A good deal... (more)
Could it be Adult ADHD?: A Clinician's Guide to Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment
One out of every 10 adult psychotherapy clients likely has ADHD. Due to high comorbidities with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and other mental disorders, along with considerable behavioral... (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)
Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text: Third Edition
Because it provides clear instruction for getting started in the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy, this book has found a grateful audience of psychiatric residents and other mental health... (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)
The End of the Sentence: The Future of Psychotherapy with Female Offenders
HMP Holloway was the biggest women's prison in Europe, historically holding many infamous female criminals and eliciting intrigue and fascination from the public. The End of the Sentence documents... (more)
Depression and the Erosion of the Self in Late Modernity: The Lesson of Icarus
Depression is not a disease of the brain, a genetic disability or even a mood disorder. Rather, shutdown, numbness or sadness are non-pathological adaptations to adverse childhood and adult... (more)
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)
Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply
Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply provides a refreshing new look at the emerging field of Buddhist-informed psychotherapy. Marjorie Schuman presents a... (more)
Holistic Therapy for People with Dissociative Identity Disorder
This book puts forward a model of therapy and support for people with DID that provides individual therapy, staff support, and a safe place to live. It relies upon the ideas of Bowlby by providing a... (more)
Handbook of Therapeutic Storytelling
The book is intended to assist people in the healing professions to utilise storytelling, pictures and metaphor as interventions to help their patients. By communicating in parallel worlds and using... (more)