Individual Psychotherapy Books
Understanding Personality Through Projective Testing
The past forty years have revealed a myriad of theoretical advances to Freud's original conceptions of the personality. It has also witnessed the continued use of projective methods as a vital means... (more)
Listening with Purpose: Entry Points into Shame and Narcissistic Vulnerability
This manual has been written for a wide range of dynamic practitioners involved in treating patients with narcissistically-infused issues. The treatment model and case material presented in Listening... (more)
The Therapeutic Process: A Clinical Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
The Therapeutic Process attempts to present an informative, sequential, well-defined, and clinically rich guide to the process of psychodynamic psychotherapy. The book was specifically designed to... (more)
Emotional Transformation Therapy: An Interactive Ecological Psychotherapy
Emotional Transformation Therapy: An Interactive Ecological Psychotherapy describes an entirely original approach to psychotherapy that drastically accelerates therapeutic outcomes in terms of speed... (more)
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War: Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions - spanning developments for more than one hundred years - may affect... (more)
Perinatal Mental Health: The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) Manual: Second Edition
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is a questionnaire and is a simple means of screening for postnatal depression in health care settings. This is a practical guide to using the scale in... (more)
Healing for Freedom: A Christian Perspective on Personhood and Psychotherapy
In the midst of anti-religious sentiment, how are Christians to accept the type of freedom offered by modern psychology? This book presents a Christian view of the human person's call to true... (more)
Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Christian Perspective
This text combines cutting-edge expertise with deeply rooted Christian insights to offer a comprehensive survey of ten major counseling and psychotherapy approaches. (more)
Empowering Therapeutic Practice: Integrating Psychodrama into Other Therapies
This book explores the exciting areas of overlap between psychodrama and other therapeutic schools and presents opportunities for their creative interaction and integration. Psychodramatists, to... (more)
Archetypal Imagery and the Spiritual Self: Techniques for Coaches and Therapists
Combining psychology and spirituality, this practical book considers archetypes from Asian, Middle Eastern and European myths and explains how they can be used in therapeutic practice to help clients... (more)
The Clinician's Guide to Bipolar Disorder: Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy
This much-needed volume gives clinicians essential strategies for managing the complexities of bipolar disorder and tailoring treatment to each patient's changing needs. Highly readable, accessible,... (more)
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy: DSM-5 Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Third Edition
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy: DSM-5 Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Third Edition differs from other psychopathology and abnormal psychology books. While other books focus on... (more)
Core Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Core Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive guide to the four main psychological approaches (Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Behavioural and Cognitive) and introduces several of... (more)
Emotions and the Therapist: A Systemic-Dialogical Approach
In recent years, systemic theory and practice adopted a dialogical orientation, centred on the persons of the therapist and client. This has led to a growing attention toward emotions, which, in this... (more)
Mental Health Worldwide: Culture, Globalization and Development
Mental Health Worldwide offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. The foundational concepts of the... (more)
The Narrative Practitioner
This book offers a clear and succinct introduction to narrative theory and practice across all professions. It not only describes the basic principles and methods in narrative therapy, but it also... (more)
The Trouble with Psychotherapy: Counselling and Common Sense
With regulation imminent, counsellors need to demystify their work to the outside world. This ground-breaking text focuses on experiential engagement as a rich source of unity for very different... (more)
Speaking of Bodies: Embodied Therapeutic Dialogues
While the body has received significant attention in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the last couple of decades, this still focused primarily on the body of pathology – the body as speaking for... (more)
Transference and Countertransference in Non-Analytic Therapy: Double-Edged Swords
Each meditation gives the reader an intimate, meaningful, and uplifting devotional reading and encourages reflection through scriptures, poems, and inspiring quotes to refresh the reader. (more)
Love and Therapy: In Relationship
Sigmund Freud noted the importance of love in the healing of the human psyche. So many of life's distresses have their origins in lack of love, disruption of love, or trauma. People naturally seek... (more)
Inner Dialogue in Daily Life: Contemporary Approaches to Personal and Professional Development in Psychotherapy
Connecting to our inner lives can foster healing, self-development and self-awareness. This unique book looks in depth at ten major contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches which all use inner... (more)
Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Innovative Theory and Applications
Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy brings together some of the world's most influential contemporary psychotherapists in the field to look at the future of Focusing-oriented... (more)
Theory and Practice of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Beyond the Talking Cure
This comprehensive introduction to Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy lays out the background and fundamentals of the approach covering theory and practice. Much has changed since Eugene Gendlin first... (more)
Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide
Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide bridges the gap between the traditional medical model of problem-focused assessment and treatment and the newer, increasingly popular... (more)
Handbook of Self and Identity: Second Edition
Widely regarded as the authoritative reference in the field, this volume comprehensively reviews theory and research on the self. Leading investigators address this essential construct at multiple... (more)
Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy
This practical guide helps therapists from virtually any specialty or theoretical orientation choose and adapt mindfulness practices most likely to be effective with particular patients, while... (more)
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders: Key Concepts, Insights, and Interventions
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders is an integrated and practical approach to treating anxiety disorders for general psychotherapists. What is new and exciting is its focus on... (more)
Competence and Self-Care in Counselling and Psychotherapy
What is it that makes a counsellor or psychotherapist competent? In Competence and Self-Care in Counselling and Psychotherapy Gerrie Hughes offers a framework for understanding what being competent... (more)
Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and Reappraisals
Therapy's relational turn is something to celebrate. It is a major world-wide trend taking place in all the therapy traditions. But up to now appreciation of these developments has not been twinned... (more)
On Becoming a Psychotherapist
Why do people want to become a psychotherapist? How do they translate this desire into reality? On Becoming a Psychotherapist explores these and related questions. Ten leading therapists write about... (more)