Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
More than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists offer their consensus view that Trump's mental state presents a clear and present danger to our nation and individual well-being. This is not... (more)
Helping Survivors of Authoritarian Parents, Siblings, and Partners: A Guide for Professionals
Helping Survivors of Authoritarian Parents, Siblings, and Partners considers the notion of the authoritarian personality in a family context and examines the extent to which authoritarians traumatize... (more)
The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
Beginning with the claim that we are all psychologically alive only in the now, this book invites readers to reconsider their day-to-day experiences. Stern shows how certain moments of shared... (more)
Psychotherapy and Counselling: A Professional Business
This title concerns the stresses a psychotherapist encounters over the course of his or her professional life and how these might be addressed. Cynthia Rogers has distilled her own and others'... (more)
Solution Oriented Therapy for Chronic and Severe Mental Illness
This book offers a new and hopeful way to think about and intervene with those who have tough psychiatric problems or long histories of treatment. It offers an approach to therapy that emphasises... (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)
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)
A Primer of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient
Treating borderline patients is one of the most challenging areas in psychotherapy because of the patient's extreme emotional expressions, the strain it places on the therapist, and the danger of the... (more)
Principles and Themes in Yoga Therapy: An Introduction to Integrative Mind/Body Yoga Therapeutics
Yoga has become increasingly popular in mainstream culture, with varied interpretations of how it should be taught and practiced, and increased awareness of its beneficial effects as a healing... (more)
The Recovery Letters: Addressed to People Experiencing Depression
In 2012, The Recovery Letters was launched to host a series of letters online written by people recovering from depression, addressed to those currently affected by a mental health condition.... (more)
Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness: Updated and Expanded Edition
Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate... (more)
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain: Third Edition
This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has brought an understanding of the social nature of people's brains to a therapeutic context. Louis Cozolino is a master... (more)
Skills in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Updated in a second edition, the book includes a new chapter on neuropsychology and its implications for theory and practice, new content on working in the NHS and other settings, additional case... (more)
The Trainee Handbook: A Guide for Counselling and Psychotherapy Trainees: Fourth Edition
Written by a team of leading trainers, practitioners and supervisors, this bestselling classic is the trainee therapist's best friend. It identifies and guides trainees through the practical skills... (more)
Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply
Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply provides a refreshing new look at the emerging field of Buddhist-informed psychotherapy. Marjorie Schuman presents a... (more)
Practicing Psychodynamic Therapy: A Casebook
This volume presents 12 highly instructive case studies grounded in the evidence-based psychodynamic therapy model developed by Richard F. Summers and Jacques P. Barber. Bringing clinical concepts... (more)
New Horizons in Forensic Psychotherapy: Exploring the Work of Estela V. Welldon
New Horizons in Forensic Psychotherapy: Exploring the Work of Estela V. Welldon, edited by Professor Brett Kahr, contains many rich contributions by some of Welldon’s most distinguished former... (more)
Why Therapy Works: Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains
That psychotherapy works is a basic assumption of anyone who sees a therapist. But why does it work? And why does it matter that we understand how it works? In Why Therapy Works, Louis Cozolino... (more)
The Handbook of Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy
A practical resource that your students can return to again and again to guide and coordinate their pluralistic practice, it provides:
*Hands-on guidance to developing pluralistic practice:... (more)
Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Psychotherapy
Body language, facial expression, and tone of voice are key components in therapeutic interactions, but for far too long psychotherapists have dismissed them in favor of purely verbal... (more)
Understanding Davanloo's Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Guide for Clinicians
The objective of this book is to update dynamic psychotherapists on the latest findings in Davanloo’s Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (IS-TDP). Previous authors have sometimes presented a... (more)
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide presents a model of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its treatment that is based on contemporary... (more)
Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
All of us are creatures of a day, wrote Marcus Aurelius, rememberer and remembered alike. In his long-awaited new collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients'... (more)
Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals
Much has changed for therapists in private practice over the past fifteen years, including the widespread encroachment by insurance and managed care into the marketplace, the density of new... (more)
Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes: The Fear of Feeling Real
Extensive and detailed casework is the backbone of this meticulous in-the-trenches exploration of dissociative processes and their relation to affect theory, attachment, neurobiology, and an emergent... (more)
How to Survive Without Psychotherapy
This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book’s aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the... (more)
The Origins of Unhappiness: A New Understanding of Personal Distress
It is the main argument of this book that emotional and psychological distress is often brought about through the operation of social-environmental powers which have their origin at a considerable... (more)
Supervising the Counsellor and Psychotherapist: A Cyclical Model: Third Edition
Supervising the Counsellor and Psychotherapist considers how to meet the supervision needs of trainee and experienced counsellors, psychotherapists and other helping professionals using an... (more)
When Hurt Remains: Relational Perspectives on Therapeutic Failure
In this book the editors have solicited the unique and unmediated voices of fifteen leading psychotherapists, who share intimate and revealing stories from their clinic of professional incidents that... (more)
Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence: Concepts and Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy
The introduction and the twenty-one chapters in this book reflect the ongoing development and refinement of Relational and Integrative Psychotherapy. Each chapter amalgamates ideas from several... (more)