Individual Psychotherapy Books
Handbook on Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs) are both prevalent and a source of significant impairment for patients who suffer from them, yet they remain underrecognized and underdiagnosed.... (more)
Better Late than Never: The Reparative Therapeutic Relationship in Regression to Dependence
This book is concerned with an enigmatic set of experiences which theorists in the Object Relations tradition have characterised as regression to dependence, a return to a primitive, pre-verbal... (more)
Disability Psychotherapy: An Innovative Approach to Trauma-Informed Care
Much has been written about cognitive development in those who are cognitively impaired. Much is written about attachment for people who don’t have disabilities. Yet people with disabilities have... (more)
Integrative Mental Health Care: A Therapist's Handbook
In mental health care, as in medical care, more and more clinicians are turning to unconventional assessment and treatment approaches to evaluate and treat their patients in the most effective way... (more)
Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice
Hakomi is an integrative method that combines Western psychology and body-centered techniques with mindfulness principles from Eastern psychology. This book, written and edited by members of the... (more)
Solution-Oriented Spirituality - Connection, Wholeness, and Possibility for Therapist and Client
Although a growing number of Americans are turning to spirituality to help explain and supplement their lives, and a vast majority identify as religious, psychotherapy has long been reluctant to work... (more)
The Therapist's Ultimate Solution Book: Essential Strategies, Tips and Tools to Empower Your Clients
Clients go to therapy wanting to change, but often they have no inherent knowledge of how to change. It is up to the therapist to build a well-stocked toolkit of life skills and psychoeducational... (more)
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy - Bringing the Body into Treatment
When treating a client who has suffered from interpersonal trauma - whether chronic childhood abuse or domestic violence, for example - talk therapy isn't always the most effective course. For these... (more)
The Neuropsychology of the Unconscious: Integrating Brain and Mind in Psychotherapy
More than one hundred years after Freud began publishing some of his seminal theories, the concept of the unconscious still occupies a central position in many theoretical frameworks and clinical... (more)
The Therapeutic "Aha!": 10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients Unstuck
All clinicians want to be effective and avoid burnout or boredom, particularly in the face of stalling therapy. Here, 10 practical, creative strategies are delivered like invoking inspirational... (more)
Simple Self-Care for Therapists: Restorative Practices to Weave Through Your Workday
For mental health professionals who must regularly guard against compassion fatigue and secondary traumatisation, intentional self-care isn't just essential; it's a survival tool. If therapists don't... (more)
Restoring Resilience: Discovering Your Clients' Capacity for Healing
Eileen Russell offers therapists a model for drawing on their clients' innate strengths to get the most out of therapy. Without minimizing pathology, she explains what is meant by resilience in a... (more)
The Meaning of Anxiety
When this important work was originally published in 1950 - the first book on anxiety published in the US - it was hailed as a work ahead of its time. Still just as relevant and illuminating, The... (more)
Integrative Psychotherapy: A Feedback-Driven Dynamic Systems Approach
This book introduces a new, integrative, systemic approach to psychotherapy and counseling and shows how the principles of dynamic complex systems can guide everyday clinical work. Our mental,... (more)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Adults
This volume opens with an overview of the diagnosis and assessment of OCD in adults and delineates an evidence-based conceptual framework for understanding the development, maintenance, and treatment... (more)
Horticulture as Therapy: Principles and Practice
Did you know that plants and plant products can be used to improve people's cognitive, physical, psychological, and social functioning? Well, they can, and Horticulture as Therapy is the book to show... (more)
Race and Culture in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals)
As psychiatry has developed it has proved to be susceptible to the influence of contemporary social and political mores. With its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, psychiatry evolved as an... (more)
Handbook of Mindfulness: Theory, Research, and Practice
An authoritative handbook, this volume offers both a comprehensive review of the current science of mindfulness and a guide to its ongoing evolution. Leading scholars explore mindfulness in the... (more)
Extraordinary Sex Therapy: Creative Approaches for Clinicians
How do we help our clients discover the depth and breadth of sexual healing? Extraordinary Sex Therapy offers a range of innovative health-based approaches and models to explore the complexities... (more)
Thinking About Thinking: Cognition, Science, and Psychotherapy
This book examines cognition with a broad and comprehensive approach. Drawing upon the work of many researchers, McDowell applies current scientific thinking to enhance the understanding of... (more)
A Casebook of Psychotherapy Practice with Challenging Patients: A Modern Kleinian Approach
Most contemporary psychoanalysts and psychotherapists see each patient once or twice a week at most. As many patients have reached a marked state of distress before seeking treatment, this gives the... (more)
Yoga Therapy: Theory and Practice
Yoga Therapy: Theory and Practice is a vital guidebook for any clinician or scholar looking to integrate yoga into the medical and mental health fields. Chapters are written by expert yoga therapy... (more)
Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art
Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art provides an essential, accessible grounding in current psychodynamic theory and practice for a wide range of readers. For trainees, it offers a... (more)
What Therapists Say and Why They Say it: Effective Therapeutic Responses and Techniques: Second Edition
What Therapists Say and Why They Say It is one of the most practical and flexible textbooks available to counseling students. The new edition includes more than one hundred techniques and more than a... (more)
Video and Filmmaking as Psychotherapy: Research and Practice
While film and video has long been used within psychological practice, researchers and practitioners have only just begun to explore the benefits of film and video production as therapy. This volume... (more)
Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy for Personality Disorders: A Treatment Manual
Patients with personality disorders need targeted treatments which are able to deal with the specific aspects of the core pathology and to tackle the challenges they present to the treatment... (more)
The Great Psychotherapy Debate: The Evidence for What Makes Psychotherapy Work: Second Edition
The second edition of The Great Psychotherapy Debate has been updated and revised to expand the presentation of the Contextual Model, which is derived from a scientific understanding of how humans... (more)
Handbook of Anger Management and Domestic Violence Offender Treatment: Second Edition
Ronald T. Potter-Efron consciously connects anger management and domestic violence, two long separated fields, and addresses treatment options and intervention methods that meet the needs of... (more)
Innovations in Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis: Working with the Hard to Reach
Despite the steady acceptance of psychological interventions for people with psychosis in routine practice many people continue to experience problems in their recovery. The need to develop new... (more)