Individual Psychotherapy Books
Accelerated Ecological Psychotherapy: ETT Applications for Sleep Disorders, Pain, and Addiction
By means of drastically amplifying the effect of interpersonal dialog through the use of precise elements of client visual ecology, non-pharmaceutical breakthroughs for a variety of conditions have... (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)
Inside This Moment: A Clinician's Guide to Using the Present Moment to Promote Radical Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
In therapy, it is essential for both clinicians and their clients to pay attention to each moment in-session as an opportunity to create change. In addition, clients must be willing to experience... (more)
Psychotherapy and Counselling: Reflections on Practice
Psychotherapy and Counselling: Reflections on Practice provides a balance of engaging and in-depth stories and case studies from the inside of therapy. Representing the key practice modality sections... (more)
Ecotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
The idea of using nature to improve mental and emotional wellbeing has existed for many years, in many forms. However, growing levels of interest in holistic, reciprocal relationships with nature... (more)
The Challenge of Racism in Therapeutic Practice: Engaging with Oppression in Practice and Supervision
Racism exists in today's society in many different forms and, for a huge number of people, is a fact of everyday life. Inspired and informed by the author's own research, this uniquely engaging book... (more)
How to Deal with OCD: A 5-Step, CBT-Based Plan for Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCD, or obsessive compulsive disorder, is a common and difficult condition characterised by intrusive thoughts which produce worry and the compulsive desire to carry out repetitive behaviours aimed... (more)
Brief Psychoanalytic Therapy
In recent years, there has been a drive to develop briefer and more focal psychodynamic interventions, with the hope of satisfying the ever-increasing need for mental health support. This book... (more)
When Art Therapy Meets Sex Therapy: Creative Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Relationships
Appropriate for both sex therapists and art therapists, When Art Therapy Meets Sex Therapy explores sexuality and gender through the use of art making, connecting relevant theories and research from... (more)
The Therapeutic Imagination: Using Literature to Deepen Psychodynamic Understanding and Enhance Empathy
Use of the imagination is a key aspect of successful psychotherapeutic treatments. Psychotherapy helps clients get in touch with, awaken, and learn to trust their creative inner life, while... (more)
New Horizons in Forensic Psychotherapy: Exploring the Work of Estela V. Welldon
New Horizons in Forensic Psychotherapy: Exploring the Work of Estela V. Welldon, edited by Professor Brett Kahr, contains many rich contributions by some of Welldon’s most distinguished former... (more)
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege: A Guide to Therapeutic Work with Boarding School Survivors
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege discusses how ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists; even experienced therapists may unwittingly struggle to skilfully address the... (more)
Forgiveness and Spirituality in Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach
Forgiveness is a frequent challenge in life and a common concern of clients in psychotherapy. While it is easy to see the emotional benefits of forgiveness, actually forgiving a transgressor can be... (more)
Learning About Emotions in Illness: Integrating Psychotherapeutic Teaching into Medical Education
Good communication between the doctor and patient is essential for the patient to establish a trusting relationship with their doctor and to make the best use of the appropriate treatment.... (more)
Liberation Practices: Towards Emotional Wellbeing Through Dialogue
Liberation psychology is an approach that aims to understand wellbeing within the context of relationships of power and oppression, and the sociopolitical structure in which these relationships... (more)
Breathing as a Tool for Self-Regulation and Self-Reflection
The book describes how to use breathing as a medium for self-regulation and self-reflection and how balanced breathing thus helps to promote mental and physical health and alleviate symptoms... (more)
Sex in Psychotherapy: Sexuality, Passion, Love, and Desire in the Therapeutic Encounter
Sex in Psychotherapy takes a psychodynamic approach to understanding recent technological and theoretical shifts in the field of psychotherapy. Lawrence Hedges provides an expert overview and... (more)
Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the Expressive Language of the Living
The body, of both the patient and the analyst, is increasingly a focus of attention in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice, especially from a relational perspective. There is a renewed... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration: An Evolving Synergy
Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration traces the history of efforts to integrate psychoanalysis with other psychotherapeutic modalities, beginning with the early analysts, including... (more)
The Neuropsychology of the Unconscious: Integrating Brain and Mind in Psychotherapy
More than one hundred years after Freud began publishing some of his seminal theories, the concept of the unconscious still occupies a central position in many theoretical frameworks and clinical... (more)
Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: A Relational/Neurobiological Approach
Chronic shame is painful, corrosive, and elusive. It resists self-help and undermines even intensive psychoanalysis. Patricia DeYoung's cutting-edge book gives chronic shame the serious attention it... (more)
Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety
This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer. Instead, anxiety and depression are described as... (more)
Counselling for Depression: A Person-centred and Experiential Approach to Practice
This is the first book to take a humanistic - person-centred/experiential - approach to counselling to the most commonly presenting client issue, depression. A landmark text, it establishes... (more)
The Search for a Relational Home: An Intersubjective View of Therapeutic Action
In The Search for a Relational Home, Chris Jaenicke gives the reader an inside view of what actually happens in psychotherapy and how change occurs. He describes how both participants - the patient... (more)
DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets: Second Edition
Featuring more than 225 user-friendly handouts and worksheets, this is an essential resource for clients in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills training groups or individual therapy. All of the... (more)
DBT Skills Training Manual: Second Edition
From Marsha M. Linehan - the developer of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) - this comprehensive resource provides vital tools for implementing DBT skills training. The teaching notes and... (more)
Integrative Gestalt Practice: Transforming our Ways of Working with People
Integrative Gestalt Practice (IGP) is a new approach to understanding and working with complexity and wholeness in people’s lives. Amongst the many published books on the market today focusing on the... (more)
Conversations with Milton H. Erickson MD: v. 3: Changing Children and Families
Dr. Erickson presents many of his lively ways of doing therapy with children and presents his basic ideas about working with children and families. Sections include: Family Interview Techniques;... (more)
When Hurt Remains: Relational Perspectives on Therapeutic Failure
In this book the editors have solicited the unique and unmediated voices of fifteen leading psychotherapists, who share intimate and revealing stories from their clinic of professional incidents that... (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)