Individual Psychotherapy Books
Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change: Third Edition
This is the authoritative, bestselling guide that professionals and students turn to for a complete introduction to motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. The... (more)
Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression
Leslie S. Greenberg and Jeanne C. Watson, well-regarded scholars and leading figures in the field, provide a manual for the emotion-focused treatment (EFT) of depression. Their approach is supported... (more)
The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation
How much of our identity or 'self' is truly representative of our own wants, needs, and goals in life and how much does it reflect the desires and priorities of someone else? Are we following our own... (more)
An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton
In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychoanalytic psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In... (more)
Positions and Polarities in Contemporary Systemic Practice: The Legacy of David Campbell
This book provides a rich collection of the work that has been informed by the ideas of the eminent family therapist and clinical psychologist, Dr David Campbell who died in August 2009. Contributors... (more)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change: Second Edition
Since the original publication of this seminal work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has come into its own as a widely practiced approach to helping people change. This book provides the... (more)
Self Awareness and Personal Development: Resources for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
In counselling and psychotherapy, the professional's self understanding strongly governs the healing potential of the therapeutic relationship.Grounded in humanistic, psychodynamic and integrative... (more)
Psychodynamic Theory in Therapeutic Practice: Second Edition
This approachable text provides a brilliantly clear account of the major psychodynamic theories and their development. Vivid pen portraits and rich case examples show how key concepts first... (more)
Transforming Clinical Practice Using the MindBody Approach: A Radical Integration
This book assumes that it is no longer tenable to work in healthcare without considering the person as a whole being constituted by a rich weaving of mind, body, culture, family, spirit and ecology.... (more)
Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis
‘"Vital signs" are, of course, the basic physiological measures of functioning which health practitioners use to assess the gravity of a patient’s predicament. This anthology focuses not so much on... (more)
Healing Intelligence: The Spirit in Psychotherapy - Working with Darkness and Light
Natural healing intelligence is one of the great mysteries of the psyche. It is inherently elusive yet lies at the core of all efforts to cure emotional wounds. Psychotherapy and counselling, when... (more)
Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy
This important and innovative book explores a new direction in psychoanalytic thought that can expand and deepen clinical practice. Relational psychoanalysis diverges in key ways from the assumptions... (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)
Personality Pathology: Developmental Perspectives
Personality pathology is rooted in early development and affects a wide range of affects, behaviours and cognitive processes. Every year thousands of articles about the etiology pf personality... (more)
Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy
A discussion of the self, both in and out of therapy.
For each of us, our thoughts, beliefs, desires, expectations, and fantasies constitute our own sense of a unique identity. Here, Jungian and... (more)
Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy
A ground-breaking text which identifies the ease with which individuals can be disadvantaged merely on the basis of their gender, race, culture, age, sexuality or ability. Examining these and other... (more)
Handbook of Psychotherapy Case Formulation: Second Edition
This indispensable practitioner guide and text serves as a comprehensive primer on case formulation within all of the major therapeutic approaches. Prominent experts offer step-by-step guidelines for... (more)
The Fertile Body Method: A Practitioner's Manual: The Applications of Hypnosis and Other Mind-body Approaches for Fertility
The Fertile Body Method is a complete guide to working with fertility and related issues using hypnosis and other mind-body approaches. It offers in-depth information about infertility and its... (more)
Creating the Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy
At the centre of good counselling and psychotherapy practice is the relationship between therapist and client. This book is an essential guide for counselling and psychotherapy students who want to... (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)
Therapeutic Journal Writing: An Introduction for Professionals
Writing a journal is not just about keeping a record of daily events - journal writing provides a unique therapeutic opportunity for personal and professional development. Kate Thompson guides the... (more)
The Power of Silence: Silent Communication in Daily Life
Colum Kenny explores the significance of silence in the arts, business, personal relationships, therapy, faith, politics, and other areas of daily life.
This book demonstrates that silence is... (more)
Why Therapists Choose to Become Therapists: A Practice-Based Enquiry
Almost two decades ago, the psychoanalyst Sussman concluded that the therapist's motivation for practicing was a neglected area. Is this maybe a question best left alone?
This book revisits the... (more)
George Kelly: The Psychology of Personal Constructs
This book Explores Kelly's belief that our thoughts, actions and emotions lies in our idiosyncratic interpretations of things. It provides a highly readable and accessible account of one of the... (more)
Containment in the Community: Supportive Frameworks for Thinking about Antisocial Behaviour and Mental Health
This book is aimed at all practitioners working in healthcare and criminal justice community settings with individuals displaying antisocial, offending, and challenging behaviours, at times... (more)
Integrative Psychotherapy in Action
What is integrative psychotherapy? How effective is the integrative approach to therapy? And what are its limitations? Answering these and other significant questions, this insightful volume provides... (more)
Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies
Whether they are supervisees entering analytic training or veteran analysts with twenty years of private practice, many capable psychoanalysts express frustration or doubt when trying to locate their... (more)
Lying, Cheating, and Carrying on: Developmental, Clinical, and Sociocultural Aspects of Dishonesty and Deceit
What constitutes a lie? What are the different types of lies? Why do people lie? Is dishonesty ubiquitous in human experience? And what should be done with individuals who seek psychotherapeutic help... (more)
Contented Dementia: 24-hour Wraparound Care for Lifelong Well-being
Dementia is a little understood and currently incurable illness, but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. Contented Dementia - by clinical psychologist and... (more)
Treating Severe Depressive and Persecutory Anxiety States: To Transform the Unbearable
This book serves two purposes. First, it provides the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist with a more flexible method of practicing psychoanalysis. This is the clinical approach of "analytic contact", a... (more)