Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist: Private Life, Professional Practice
Therapists are often expected to be immune to the kind of problems that they help clients through. This book serves to demonstrate that this is certainly not the case: they are no more resistant to... (more)
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D.Yalom as he looks into the lives of ten of his patients - and through them into the minds of us all.... (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)
Relational Transactional Analysis: Principles in Practice
'Through different voices and styles of contributions, including papers, edited talks and panel discussion, this collection explores and applies the principles of relational transactional analysis.... (more)
Introduction to Psychotherapy: An Outline of Psychodynamic Principles and Practice: Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of Introduction to Psychotherapy builds on the success of the previous three editions and remains an essential purchase for trainee psychotherapists, psychiatrists and other... (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)
Understanding Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice
Understanding Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice is a volume in the clinical practice monograph series from the Society of Analytical Psychology. This series is intended primarily for... (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)
Supervision in Counselling and Psychotherapy: An Introduction
Supervision is essential for counsellors and psychotherapists, but it can create emotional pressures and practical dilemmas. This book offers a sympathetic introduction to supervision that helps the... (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)
Psychosomatics: The Uses of Psychotherapy
The mind and body are in constant interaction, and it is increasingly recognized that any true understanding of illness must take this psychosomatic dimension into account. This timely book looks at... (more)
My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: Making and Breaking Sibling Bonds
Stories about siblings abound in literature, drama, comedy, biography, and history. We rarely talk about our own siblings without emotion, whether with love and gratitude, or exasperation,... (more)
Maps of Narrative Practice
Narrative therapy is one of the most commonly practised forms of therapy. In the first major book from this leader in the field, each chapter provides an overview of a main area of narrative therapy... (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)
What Works for Whom? A Critical Review of Psychotherapy Research: Second Edition
Meeting the growing demand for resources on evidence-based practice, this acclaimed work has now been fully revised and expanded with the latest treatment data. Like its predecessor, the second... (more)
The Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling: Second Edition
In this new edition of 'The Transpersonal', John Rowan takes account of the growing interest in spirituality, assessing the many new developments in the field and providing an essential overview of... (more)
A Handbook of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Short-term psychotherapy has become more and more popular in recent years and there is an increasing need for therapists to be able to offer help without entering into many years of therapy. This... (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)
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique
Traditionally, psychoanalytic treatment has been a lengthy endeavour, requiring a long-term commitment from patient and analyst, as well as vast financial resources. More recently, short-term... (more)
Body of awareness: A somatic and developmental approach to psychotherapy
Explores the formation of infant movement experience and its influence upon the later adult. It shows how the organizing principles in early development are functionally equivalent to those of the... (more)
Issues in Therapy with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clients: Pink Therapy 3.
With volume three of "Pink Therapy" the editors have collated articles on twelve further issues of particular concern to non-heterosexual clients. Professionals from various fields of therapy offer... (more)
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine... (more)
Erotic Transference and Countertransference: Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy
Bringing together contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice, this text represents a spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives,... (more)
The Carl Rogers Reader
This volume stands as a splendid introduction to the life and work of a pioneering psychotherapist. Selections ranging from 1942 to 1987 provide a personal look at his early influences and marriage,... (more)
Pink Therapy: A guide for counsellors and therapists working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients
Drawing on practical experience, the contributors to this book provide information on the contemporary experience of living as a lesbian, gay, or bisexual person. They provide an overview of lesbian,... (more)
What's Really Going On Here?
Here are fascinating articles on sex, jealousy, anger, intimacy, loss, food problems, parent/child relationships, sibling rivalry and much more...from Susie Orbach, truly innovative therapist and a... (more)
Shame Matters: Attachment and Relational Perspectives for Psychotherapists
Understanding shame as a relational problem, Shame Matters explores how people, with support, can gradually move away from the relentless cycle of shame and find new and more satisfying ways of... (more)
Compulsive Sexual Behaviours: A Psycho-Sexual Treatment Guide for Clinicians
Compulsive Sexual Behaviours offers a unique approach to the struggles people face with their out-of-control sexual behaviours.
This comprehensive guide is deeply rooted in the science of... (more)
Creating The World We Want To Live In: How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future
This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in. Our hope is to provoke conversation, and gently challenge possibly long-held views, beliefs, and... (more)
Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Serious Mental Health Conditions
From pioneering treatment developers, this book describes recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R). This evidence-based approach empowers people given a serious mental health diagnosis such as... (more)