Individual Psychotherapy Books
Embodied Approaches to Supervision: The Listening Body
Embodied Approaches to Supervision presents innovative approaches to working with the body in supervision.
The authors, who are all experts in their field, bring a wealth of experience and... (more)
Making Sense Together: The Intersubjective Approach to Psychotherapy
As in raising children, in which each unique parent and child pair emerges from the ongoing, mutually influencing relationship, so it is with therapists and patients. Peter Buirski argues that... (more)
A Study of Malignant Narcissism: Personal and Professional Insights
A Study of Malignant Narcissism offers a unique insight into malignant narcissism, exploring both its personal and professional aspects and constructing a theoretical framework that renders its... (more)
Applications of a Psychospiritual Model in the Helping Professions: Principles of InnerView Guidance
This book brings together the historically separate domains of mental health and spiritual awareness in a holistic framework called InnerView Guidance. Building on strength-based and... (more)
The Race Conversation: An Essential Guide to Creating Life-Changing Dialogue
B-Format Edition
"This book has been written to help us take an honest look at who we really are. It is here to help us dig deep. It is here to heal the nation. I'm no psychotherapist, but I get... (more)
Perceptions and Possibilities: Strategic and Solution-Oriented Approaches to Working with Depression
This book will assist therapists in easily implementing the concepts of strategic and solution-oriented applications into one's therapeutic work with depressed clients. The focus of these brief... (more)
Forensic Psychology
Drawing on psychological theory and research, this text outlines the core roles of the forensic psychology profession, providing students with a broad overview of the field and bringing to life the... (more)
Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma: Second Edition
A masterful synthesis of relational and attachment theory, neurobiology, and contemporary psychoanalysis, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame has been internationally recognized as an essential... (more)
The Development of a Therapist: Healing Others - Healing Self
Louis Cozolino, one of our most compelling clinical writers, takes us inside the mind and heart of a seasoned therapist, carrying on the tradition of personal and professional writing begun in The... (more)
A Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework: An alternative to psychiatric diagnosis
The current mainstream way of describing psychological and emotional distress assumes it is the result of medical illnesses that need diagnosing and treating. This book summarises a powerful... (more)
Present with Suffering: Being with the Things that Hurt
What is the place of discontent and unhappiness in human experience and how best can we be with it?
There is something about everything that makes it not quite satisfactory. Even things we... (more)
Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth
Here is a trailblazing book on issues of vital interest to the future of humankind. Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth sheds light on humankind's most serious health challenge ever--how... (more)
Open Dialogue for Psychosis: Organising Mental Health Services to Prioritise Dialogue, Relationship and Meaning
This highly readable book provides a comprehensive examination of the use of Open Dialogue as a treatment for psychosis. It presents the basic principles and practice of Open Dialogue, explains the... (more)
Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach
In sharp contrast with the current top-down medicalized method to treating addiction, this book presents the felt sense polyvagal model (FSPM), a paradigm-shifting, bottom-up approach that considers... (more)
Psychotherapy Under the Influence of Georges Bataille: From Social Theory to Clinical Practice
This fascinating book applies social theorist Georges Bataille's revolutionary thinking to psychotherapy, offering clinicians a new and valuable context for practicing therapy.
In adding... (more)
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical... (more)
Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Mockingbird
Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy presents an in-depth understanding of the role of privilege, and of the unconscious experience of privilege and difference... (more)
New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness
New Understandings of Twin Relationships takes an experience-based approach to exploring how twin attachment and estrangement are critical to understanding the push and pull of closely entwined... (more)
Emotional Communication and Therapeutic Change: Understanding Psychotherapy Through Multiple Code Theory
In this book, Wilma Bucci applies her skills as a cognitive psychologist and researcher to the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, opening up new avenues for understanding the underlying... (more)
Reflective Practice and Personal Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Revised Edition
Reflective practice is a vital part of your counselling and psychotherapy training and practice. This book is your go-to introduction to what it is, why it is important, and how to use different... (more)
Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision: A Humanistic-Relational Approach
Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision addresses some of the challenges associated with sexual attraction in psychotherapy practice and supervision, as well as... (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)
Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction
Psychopathy is a personality disorder that has long captured the public imagination. Newspaper column inches have been devoted to murderers with psychopathic features, and we also encounter... (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)
Personal Development Groups for Trainee Counsellors: An Essential Companion
Personal development (PD) groups are a key feature of many counsellor training programmes. Personal Development Groups for Trainee Counsellors: An Essential Companion is a comprehensive and... (more)
Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear
Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear explores the importance of listening, being able to speak, and those who are silenced, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular,... (more)
A Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Exploration of a Continent: Europe on the Couch
This important book gathers a set of influential international contributors with psychoanalytic and group analytic knowledge to provide a wide-ranging critical analysis of the present state of... (more)