Individual Psychotherapy Books
Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach
The Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) approach has garnered a strong evidence base and has been implemented by thousands of therapists from a range of orientations in... (more)
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
This practical book has given tens of thousands of clinicians and students a comprehensive introduction to mindfulness and its clinical applications. The book describes the philosophical... (more)
Face to Face with Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Psychotherapy and Clinical Insights
In Face to Face with Body Dysmorphic Disorder, BDD expert Arie Winograd shares his unique insights as a psychotherapist who has spent thousands of hours treating patients with this uniquely complex... (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)
On Attachment: The View from Developmental Psychology
Attachment theory occupies an integrative position between psychodynamic therapy and various perspectives within empirical psychology. Since therapy began, its way of thinking has been to interpret... (more)
The Person of the Therapist Training Model: Mastering the Use of Self
The Person of the Therapist Training Model presents a model that prepares therapists to make active and purposeful use of who they are, personally and professionally, in all aspects of the... (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)
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)
Better Late than Never: The Reparative Therapeutic Relationship in Regression to Dependence
This book is concerned with an enigmatic set of experiences which theorists in the Object Relations tradition have characterised as regression to dependence, a return to a primitive, pre-verbal... (more)
Disability Psychotherapy: An Innovative Approach to Trauma-Informed Care
Much has been written about cognitive development in those who are cognitively impaired. Much is written about attachment for people who don’t have disabilities. Yet people with disabilities have... (more)
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy - Bringing the Body into Treatment
When treating a client who has suffered from interpersonal trauma - whether chronic childhood abuse or domestic violence, for example - talk therapy isn't always the most effective course. For these... (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)
Psychotherapy for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: Specific Techniques
In this unique book, Andrew Lotterman describes a creative approach to the psychotherapy of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. Lotterman focuses on specific techniques... (more)
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)
The Origins of Unhappiness: A New Understanding of Personal Distress
It is the main argument of this book that emotional and psychological distress is often brought about through the operation of social-environmental powers which have their origin at a considerable... (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)
Confidentiality and Record Keeping in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
This indispensible text is your students' first point of reference when faced with a situation or dilemma of a legal nature regarding record keeping or confidentiality issues. Reflecting changes in... (more)
Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice
Bringing together leading scholars, scientists, and clinicians, this compelling volume explores how therapists can cultivate wisdom and compassion in themselves and their clients. Chapters describe... (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 Disintegrating Self: Psychotherapy of Adult ADHD, Autistic Spectrum, and Somato-psychic Disorders
Many psychotherapy clients have (undiagnosed) traits within the ADHD and autistic spectrums – two constellations of the “mistuned brain” that often overlap. The essence of ADHD is emotional... (more)
The Trauma of Everyday Life
Trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people; it is the bedrock of our psychology. Death and illness touch us all, but even the everyday sufferings of loneliness and fear are traumatic. In The... (more)
The Body Speaks: Body Image Delusions and Hypochondria
This book explores David Rosenfeld's pioneering work with severely disturbed patients, to show what it means to work and think as a psychoanalyst about transference and the internal world of a... (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)
Digging for Victory: Horticultural Therapy with Veterans for Post-Traumatic Growth
Horticultural Therapy is ideally suited to engage veterans alienated from traditional civilian healthcare routes who present with a range of complex and challenging healthcare needs. It presents, on... (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)
On Minding and Being Minded: Experiencing Bion and Beckett
On Minding and Being Minded explores links between depictions of lived experience written by Samuel Beckett and the experience of psychoanalytic psychotherapy pioneered in the writings of W.R. Bion.... (more)
Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Technique: Second Edition
Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Technique is a revised edition of the popular technical guide to the conduct of psychodynamic psychotherapy written by Sarah Fels Usher, published in 1993.... (more)
Beyond the Frustrated Self: Overcoming Avoidant Patterns and Opening to Life
This book foregrounds the life struggles of an individual, Brenda, in such a way that argument and theoretical exploration arise organically out of experience. The “frustration” of the title is... (more)
Psychotherapy 2.0: Where Psychotherapy and Technology Meet
The digital age is both exciting and challenging for psychotherapy, opening the door to clients groups previously not able to access psychological help, whilst also providing the challenges caused by... (more)