Individual Psychotherapy Books
Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control is a practical, task-oriented, instructional manual designed to help therapists provide effective treatment for survivors of these... (more)
Change in Psychotherapy: A Unifying Paradigm
From an internationally acclaimed group of analysts, a selection of papers on the concept of change.
Since 1994, the Boston Change Process Study Group (BCPSG) has published articles on the most... (more)
Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy: A Clinician's Guide: Second Edition
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a brief psychodynamic psychotherapy developed for the treatment of mood disorders. It is now offered in the UK in NHS for the treatment of depression and has... (more)
Mentalizing in Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Basics, Applications, Case Studies
Mentalizing in Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy explains how mentalization-based therapy (MBT) can be used within the framework of depth psychology and analytical... (more)
Withdrawal, Silence, Loneliness: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process
With contributions from Silvia Allari, Leigh Bettles, Dan Eastop, Richard G. Erskine, Amaia Mauriz Etxabe, Linda Finlay, Ray Little, Lynn Martin, Marye O'Reilly-Knapp, Eugenio Peiro... (more)
Peter Pan, the Lost Child
Originally published in 1992 in French as Peter Pan ou l'Enfant Triste, the book was translated into English in 1997 and released as Peter Pan: The Story of Lost Childhood. This new English language... (more)
Meaning-Fullness: Developmental Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mental Health
With a Foreword by Nancy McWilliams
The purpose of Meaning-Fullness: Developmental Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mental Health is to show why current mental health practices are falling short... (more)
The Art and Science of Relationship: The Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy
This is an easy-to-read explication of relationally focused integrative psychotherapy/counselling that will be enjoyed by novice and experienced mental health professionals worldwide. Richard Erskine... (more)
Shame Matters: Attachment and Relational Perspectives for Psychotherapists
Understanding shame as a relational problem, Shame Matters explores how people, with support, can gradually move away from the relentless cycle of shame and find new and more satisfying ways of... (more)
Towards an Ecopsychotherapy
Psychotherapy invites us to tell the story of our human relationships; ecopsychotherapy expands this to include our earth story, the context or continuum in which our human relationships sit. ... (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)
Black Skin, White Masks
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an... (more)
Ghosts in the Human Psyche: The Story of a “Muslim Armenian”
Vamik Volkan examines the impact of past and present historical events, cultural elements, political movements and their mental images on the psyche of individuals. Beginning with the history of the... (more)
Treating The Self: Elements of Clinical Self Psychology
Now available in paper for the first time, this classic text is about how an analyst analyzes. Rooted in the theory of psychoanalytic self psychology as put forth by Heinz Kohut and his colleagues,... (more)
Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text: Third Edition
Because it provides clear instruction for getting started in the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy, this book has found a grateful audience of psychiatric residents and other mental health... (more)
Mentalization Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
Mentalizing - the ability to understand oneself and others by inferring mental states that lie behind overt behaviour - develops within the context of attachment relationships. It is crucial to... (more)
Taking Care: An Alternative to Therapy
Taking Care established David Smail as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work he develops the analysis of mental illness, and... (more)
Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety
This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer. Instead, anxiety and depression are described as... (more)
Working with Teenage Parents: Handbook of Theory and Practice
Includes DVD of Observation clips.
For practitioners working with pregnant teenagers, young parents and their children.
Parenting, like adolescence, is a profoundly disturbing experience,... (more)
The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy
For decades Allan Schore has been a leader in developing an overarching model of people’s social and emotional development, integrating work from psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, attachment... (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)
Anatomy and Physiology for Psychotherapists: Connecting Body and Soul
Providing a concise overview of human functional anatomy and physiology, relating to mental health, this book presents readable biological information to help to inform the practice of psychotherapy.g (more)
Invitation to Psychodynamic Psychology
Introduces the basic assumptions and concepts of psychodynamic psychology. Since the term psychodynamic can be applied to a number of diverse schools of thought, the book stresses the commonalities... (more)
Practitioner's Guide to the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders
From pioneering scientist-practitioners, this book offers the first comprehensive guide to using the groundbreaking Alternative Model of Personality Disorders (AMPD) in clinical practice. The authors... (more)
The Mind Movement: Integrating Body, Breath and Movement
The Mind Movement consists of two main areas of social change: 1) a social movement for individuals to talk about and learn to take accountability for their mental health, and 2) motivating people to... (more)
Shame and Anger in Psychotherapy
This book examines shame and anger, their relationship with one another, and how mental health providers can work with each of them to produce therapeutic change.
Although very different... (more)
Understanding Mechanisms of Change in Psychotherapies for Personality Disorders
This book presents a holistic approach to treating patients with personality disorders that seeks to inspire psychotherapists and encourage innovation.
Focusing on core mechanisms of change... (more)
Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice: Second Edition
Firmly grounded in contemporary clinical practice and research, this pragmatic guide for professionals and students is now in a revised and expanded second edition. The book explains the theory... (more)
Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients: Watching Experience at Work
Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients is a collection of key case studies that provides a rich resource of information and inspiration for clinicians working psychoanalytically... (more)
Developments in Field Theory for Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts and Counsellors
This book explores developments in psychoanalytic field theory internationally, and their relevance for therapeutic theory and practice. The roots of psychoanalytic field theory can be traced back... (more)