Individual Psychotherapy Books
Women's Mental Health Across the Lifespan: Challenges, Vulnerabilities, and Strengths
Women's Mental Health Across the Lifespan examines women's mental health from a developmental perspective, looking at key stressors and strengths from adolescence to old age. Chapters focus in detail... (more)
Inside the Session: What Really Happens in Psychotherapy
Unlike many presentations of clinical material, Inside the Session does not offer carefully selected examples of therapeutic dialogue that are conveniently chosen to conform to the therapist's views.... (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)
Perfectionism: A Relational Approach to Conceptualization, Assessment and Treatment
Grounded in decades of influential research, this book thoroughly examines perfectionism: how it develops, its underlying mechanisms and psychological costs, and how to target it effectively in... (more)
Boundaries, Power and Ethical Responsibility in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The boundaries of the therapeutic relationship are a crucial part of effective therapy. But understanding them, and the effects of power and responsibility, can be intimidating to trainee or... (more)
Depression and the Erosion of the Self in Late Modernity: The Lesson of Icarus
Depression is not a disease of the brain, a genetic disability or even a mood disorder. Rather, shutdown, numbness or sadness are non-pathological adaptations to adverse childhood and adult... (more)
Tough-to-Treat Anxiety: Hidden Problems and Effective Solutions for Your Clients
When anxiety is tough to treat, there may be unrecognised issues in the way. This clinical casebook identifies symptoms that may indicate specific treatment obstacles, helping mental health... (more)
Psychosocial Assessment in Mental Health
Psychosocial and holistic approaches to assessment have become a central feature for modern mental health care. This practical and comprehensive book guides students through the theory and practice... (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)
Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy: A Framework for Clinical Practice
Recent contributions to the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature have moved beyond traditional views of lesbianism, but they have tended to address lesbian identity from one theoretical... (more)
The Access to Subjectivity: Phenomenology, Buddhism, and Psychotherapy
This book explores the conceptual and practical connections that exist between phenomenology, Buddhism, and psychotherapy. These three disciplines clearly have completely different origins,... (more)
Speaking, Actually: Towards a New 'Fluid' Common-Sense Understanding of Relational Becomings
This is a philosophy book for psychotherapists, psychologists, organisational consultants and scholars who are interested in the construction of each other, how we make meaning together and move with... (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)
The Resilient Mental Health Practice: Nourishing Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself
The Resilient Mental Health Practice is a fundamental resource for mental health professionals, designed to serve as a comprehensive yet parsimonious handbook to inspire and inform novice,... (more)
Towards a Mental Health System That Works: A Professional Guide to Getting Psychological Help
Research has established that there are efficacious psychological therapies for most common mental disorders. In Towards a Mental Health System That Works, psychologist Michael J Scott details the... (more)
The Art of Holding in Therapy: An Essential Intervention for Postpartum Depression and Anxiety
First conceptualized by D.W. Winnicott, holding in this book refers to a therapist's capacity to respond to postpartum distress in a way that facilitates an immediate and successful therapeutic... (more)
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: Wellness Perspectives on Behaviors, Symptoms, and Diagnosis
Grounded in a wellness, strengths-based, and developmental perspective, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury is the ideal guide for counselors and other clinicians seeking to understand self-injurious behaviors... (more)
Collaborative Therapy and Neurobiology: Evolving Practices in Action
Collaborative Therapy and Neurobiology is the book many clinicians have been waiting for: an integration of twenty years of scientific and therapeutic cutting-edge ideas into concrete clinical... (more)
Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: The Illustrated Manual
Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: The Illustrated Manual is an illustrated manual that provides health professionals with specific information on the use of the structured touching opportunities used... (more)
Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists: A Guide to Improving Clinical Effectiveness
This text explores how psychotherapists can use deliberate practice to improve their clinical effectiveness. By sourcing through decades of research on how experts in diverse fields achieve skill... (more)
Interpersonal Conflict: An Existential Psychotherapeutic and Practical Model
Interpersonal Conflict provides a psychotherapeutic and philosophical understanding of the nature of interpersonal conflict. Arguing that facilitating conflict resolution has little to do with... (more)
Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide and Manual
Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis describes a new psychological intervention, which for the first time applies emerging research from the field of positive psychology specifically to psychosis.... (more)
Multiple Relationships in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Unavoidable, Common, and Mandatory Dual Relations in Therapy
This first-of-a-kind analysis will focus exclusively on unavoidable and mandated multiple relationships between clients and psychotherapists. The book will cover the ethics of a range of venues and... (more)
Working with Sex Offenders: A Guide for Practitioners
Working with Sex Offenders is a unique book which brings together leading practitioners in the field to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date distillation of relevant guidance to assist anyone who... (more)
Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tataihono - Stories of Maori Healing and Psychiatry
This book examines a collaboration between traditional Maori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural... (more)
Hope and Resiliency: Understanding the Psychotherapeutic Strategies of Milton H. Erickson
Milton H. Erickson is recognised as one of the most innovative clinicians of our time. Known as the father of modern hypnosis and the source of inspiration for many forms of family therapy and brief... (more)
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual
An updated and expanded new edition of a widely-used guide to the theory and practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy, Cabaniss Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual, 2nd Edition provides... (more)
Mini-Max Interventions: 15 Simple Therapeutic Interventions That Have Maximum Impact
Mini-Max interventions are therapeutic communication strategies designed to achieve a lot with just a few linguistic tweaks: maximum results for minimal effort. If you want to improve your... (more)
Words That Touch: How to Ask Questions Your Body Can Answer - 12 Essential 'Clean Questions' for Mind/Body Therapists
The use of Clean Language in therapeutic practice emphasises a simple but highly effective questioning style between patient and practitioner. The author of this practical guide explains the... (more)