Individual Psychotherapy Books
Skewed to the Right: Sport, Mental Health and Vulnerability
The demands of the high-performance athlete are huge, with many celebrated for their achievements, and put on a pedestal for admired personality traits such as discipline, sacrifice, commitment, and... (more)
Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders: A New Conceptualization of Development, Reinforcement, Expression, and Treatment
This book provides a framework for scholars and clinicians to develop a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders, by seeing... (more)
Object Relations and Intersubjective Theories in the Practice of Psychotherapy
The evolution of psychoanalytic/psychodynamic psychotherapy has been marked by an increasing disconnect between theory and technique. This book re-establishes a bridge between the two. In presenting... (more)
Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy
Mentalization--the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states--is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better... (more)
Hungers and Compulsions: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions
This book will help therapists understand and treat patients suffering from mild to dangerous forms of eating disorders, other compulsions and addictions, such as alcoholism, and even erotic... (more)
The Good Enough Therapist: Futility, Failure, and Forgiveness in Treatment
The Good Enough Therapist is a guidebook-not an instruction manual-written for beginning, intermediate, and experienced clinicians. It encourages readers to explore, accept, and embrace their flaws... (more)
Mastering the Clinical Conversation: Language as Intervention
This compelling book provides psychotherapists with evidence-based strategies for harnessing the power of language to free clients from life-constricting patterns and promote psychological... (more)
Taming the Negative Introject: Empowering Patients to Take Control of Their Mental Health
In this book, Dr. Carol W. Berman describes how to help patients control the self-sabotaging element of their unconscious minds, often called the punitive superego, the negative introject, or the... (more)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
Ever wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Times-bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of her practice - where her patients are... (more)
Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer
Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer offers a comprehensive overview of the theory of Intersubjective Self Psychology and its clinical applications. Readers will gain an in depth understanding... (more)
The Journal of Psychological Therapies: Volume 4 Number 1
The Journal of Psychological Therapies (formerly the Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology Reflections) is sponsored by Regent’s University London’s School of Psychotherapy. It is for... (more)
Integrating Technology into Modern Therapies: A Clinician's Guide to Developments and InterventionsIntegrating Technology into Modern Therapies: A Clinician's Guide to Developments and Interventions
Integrating Technology into Modern Therapies provides clinicians with an innovative, research-based foundation for incorporating technology into clinical practice. It offers an overview of current... (more)
Mothers Accused and Abused: Addressing Complex Psychological Needs
Mothers Accused and Abused: Addressing Complex Psychological Needs brings together stories about mothers who are accused of harming, and in some cases killing, their children, children who... (more)
Generative Trance: The experience of creative flow
Stephen Gilligan's Generative Trance offers a framework for developing a more creative consciousness and lays out the step-by-step processes by which this can be done. William James used to say that... (more)
Single-Session Therapy (SST): 100 Key Points and Techniques
Even in one session a therapist can make a difference. Single Session Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques presents the 100 main features of this way of working, providing an accessible, succinct... (more)
Whole Therapist Whole Patient: Integrating Reich Masterson and Jung in Modern Psychotherapy
Integrating the work of Reich, Masterson, and Jung, Whole Therapist, Whole Patient is a step-by-step guidebook for professionals to learn about the psychology of their patients and conduct treatment... (more)
Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders
A bold look at the body as a source of contention for those who suffer from personality disorders. People with personality disorders often attack their own bodies through eating disorders and other... (more)
Therapy With a Coaching Edge: Partnership Action and Possibility in Every Session
Using the skills outlined in this book, clinicians learn to advance the pace of therapy by bringing in a coaching mindset as they ask clients to do and be more. Therapists will learn how to challenge... (more)
Mindfulness-Oriented Interventions for Trauma: Integrating Contemplative Practices
Grounded in research and accumulated clinical wisdom, this book describes a range of ways to integrate mindfulness and other contemplative practices into clinical work with trauma survivors. The... (more)
Writing Cures: An Introductory Handbook of Writing in Counselling and Therapy
Writing Cures demonstrates the power of expressive and reflective writing in the context of therapy, whether online or text-based, enabling counsellors and psychotherapists to undertake writing... (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)
Evolving Thought Field Therapy: The Clinician's Handbook of Diagnoses, Treatment, and Theory
Rooted in applied kinesiology and traditional Chinese medicine, evolving thought field therapy (EvTFT) has become an alternative psychotherapy of choice. Organized as a handbook, the authors instruct... (more)
Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction
Body psychotherapy is an holistic therapy which approaches human beings as united bodymind, and offers embodied relationship as its central therapeutic stance. (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)
On Psychotherapy 2: Including the 7-Level Model
Beyond schoolism; working with countertransference; existentialism and five relational modes; intersubjectivity and recovered memory; Heraclitus; as within, so without; supervision - an invariant... (more)
Uncovering the Resilient Core: A Workbook on the Treatment of Narcissistic Defenses, Shame, and Emerging Authenticity
Uncovering the Resilient Core provides a comprehensive and inclusive methodology that guides the therapist into the nuances and complexities of the therapeutic relationship throughout the... (more)
Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Healing and Transformation
Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers mental health professionals of all disciplines and orientations the most comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the state of the art and science 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)
Professional Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Ethics and the Law
Developing and maintaining a secure framework for professional practice is a core part of any counselling and psychotherapy training, as all therapists need to understand the key values, ethics and... (more)