Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Essential Handbook of Treatment and Prevention of Alcohol Problems
The last three decades have seen an explosion of social, psychological and clinical research to identify effective strategies to prevent and treat alcohol-related problems. This Essential Handbook... (more)
Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age
Drawing on developments in popular culture, political and social life, the author provides a path-breaking analysis of the therapeutic turn. He questions the widely accepted thesis that the... (more)
Doing Better: Improving Clinical Skills and Professional Competence
This volume is intended to help practicing therapists and counselors, as well as students of these professions, to explore more fully and systematically the processes of self-improvement in their... (more)
The Future of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy faces multiple challenges in the new millennium. How can it organize, teach and offer therapy in ways that are relevant to the diverse complex and social and cultural... (more)
Dual Relationships in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Exploring the Limits
The issue of dual relationships with clients, trainees and supervisees affects most counsellors or psychotherapists at some point in their careers. Many practitioners are unclear about such boundary... (more)
Personal construct perspectives on forensic psychology:
This volume provides a new approach to the three main areas of application of forensic psychology; rehabilitation of offenders, work with police, and research and consultation on legal issues and... (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)
Borderline Personality Disorder: A Patient's Guide to Taking Control
Rather than a single disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a complex constellation of feelings, actions and thoughts that often create difficult or life-threatening situations for the... (more)
Borderline Personality Disorder: A Therapist's Guide to Taking Control
Rather than a single disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a complex constellation of feelings, actions and thoughts that often create difficult or life-threatening situations for the... (more)
Twelve Months to Your Ideal Private Practice
This book is a year-long, progressive practice-building program offering therapists an abundance of information, ideas, and strategies for working successfully in private practice. It provides a... (more)
Nature and narrative: An introduction to the new philosophy of psychiatry
Our ability to decipher mental disorders depends on both the sciences and the humanities: science provides insight into "causes" and the humanities provides insight into "meanings". This text aims to... (more)
Borderline Personality Disorder: A Practical Guide to Treatment
See catalogue number 27002 for the paperback edition. "Borderline Personality Disorder: A Practical Guide for Treatment" draws on the latest research and clinical experience to provide an accessible... (more)
A Guide to Inclusive Therapy: 26 Methods of Respectful Resistance-Dissolving Therapy.
In this practical yet light-hearted guide, Bill OHanlon synthesizes his vast experience in marriage and family therapy, counseling, hypnosis, and solution-focused therapies to form "inclusive... (more)
The Stories We Live by: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self
'Who am I?' 'How do I fit in the world around me?' From early childhood, we are all faced with key questions of human identity. This revealing and innovative book demonstrates that each of us... (more)
Integrating Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy: Dissolving the Mind-Brain Barrier.
Both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy can help people with psychiatric disorders. This book summarises research in combined treatments and discusses the manner in which each can aid the other. (more)
Solution-Focused Treatment of Domestic Violence Offenders: Accountability for Change
This book describes a cutting-edge treatment approach that creates effective, positive changes in domestic violence offenders. Solution-focused therapy focuses on holding offenders accountable and... (more)
Freedom to Practise: Person-Centred Approaches to Supervision
This book is the first to focus exclusively on person-centred supervision. The editors explore the practice of supervision in the light of person-centred philosophy and theory, review and critique... (more)
Depression: The Way out of Your Prison: Third Edition
Depression is the experience of a terrible isolation, of being alone in a prison. However, by understanding how we build the prison of depression we can dismantle it forever. This text contains... (more)
Time Limited Therapy in Primary Care: A Person-Centred Dialogue
''This book delineates the foundations and clinical work of person-centred counsellors in a practice setting. Six sessions are the maximum number of sessions typically available to clients in this... (more)
Person-Centred Therapy: A Clinical Philosophy
The person-centred approach is one of the most popular, enduring and respected approaches to psychotherapy and counselling. Person-Centred Therapy returns to its original formulations to define it as... (more)
New Approaches to Integration in Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is an area that has seen huge growth in prominence and practice. The range of theoretical schools that have emerged means that practitioners are striving to amalgamate and synthesise... (more)
Principles of Therapeutic Change That Work
This book transcends particular models of psychotherapy and treatment techniques and procedures, giving special attention to the empirical grounding of multiple contributors to change. The result is... (more)
Introducing Psychotherapy: A Graphic Guide
Here is a unique and valuable summary of this complex profession, focussing on the main types of therapies: the "talking cures" of psychoanalysis; behavioural and cognitive techniques; somatic... (more)
Core Processes in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Advancing Effective Practice
Many students enter graduate programmes with little or no experience of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Efforts to impart clinical skills have often been less than systematic and beginning... (more)
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients: Revised Edition
The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr Irvin Yalom's forty-five years' work as a therapist, this book illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out... (more)
Affirmative Psychotherapy and Counseling for Lesbians and Gay Men
For practising therapists, as well as students, this book gives practical and usable information on how to provide affirmative therapy to lesbians and gay men. Research examples and numerous case... (more)