Individual Psychotherapy Books
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)
Online Supervision: A Handbook for Practitioners
This book considers a range of aspects of online supervision and is suitable for therapists who already offer this means of delivering supervision as well as those who may be curious about it. As... (more)
Psychodynamic Treatment of Depression: Second Edition
Psychodynamic Treatment of Depression addresses the use of psychodynamic psychotherapy, both alone and in combination with cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and medication treatments, as a method... (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)
The Power of Inner Pictures: How Imagination Can Maintain Physical and Mental Health
This book is about inner pictures and how we can access and change these pictures through our imagination. It is written not only for specialists in the field of psychotherapy and coaching, but also... (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)
Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss in Retirement
Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss in Retirement explores the ambivalence the therapist may feel about letting go of a professional role which has sustained them.... (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)
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)
Nature and Therapy: Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy in Outdoor Spaces
Recent decades have seen an increasing interest in the healing and therapeutic potential of nature and interest in the potential of greencare interventions for the benefit of mental health. The field... (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)
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)
The Body Speaks: Body Image Delusions and Hypochondria
This book explores David Rosenfeld's pioneering work with severely disturbed patients, to show what it means to work and think as a psychoanalyst about transference and the internal world of a... (more)
Mindful Counselling and Psychotherapy: Practising Mindfully Across Approaches and Issues
This book breaks new ground by relating mindfulness to all of the other therapeutic approaches, across all the common presenting problems in counselling and psychotherapy. Mindfulness is increasingly... (more)
Co-Creative Transactional Analysis: Papers, Responses, Dialogues, and Developments
Co-creative transactional analysis is an approach to a particular branch of psychology which, as the phrase suggests, emphasises the “co-” (mutual, joint) aspect of professional relationships,... (more)
The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist: Private Life, Professional Practice
Therapists are often expected to be immune to the kind of problems that they help clients through. This book serves to demonstrate that this is certainly not the case: they are no more resistant to... (more)
How Master Therapists Work: Effecting Change from the First Through the Last Session and Beyond
How Master Therapists Work engages the reader in experiencing what really happens in therapy with master therapists: who they are, what they do, and how they bring about significant change in... (more)
A New Body-Mind Approach: Clinical Cases
Integrative psychosomatics is a new approach to explaining illnesses and how patients relate to their problems. This new discipline draws on psychoanalysis, medicine and the neurosciences, rather... (more)
Thinking Space: Promoting Thinking About Race, Culture and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Beyond
'Thinking Space' was set up to develop the capacity of staff and trainees at the Tavistock Clinic to think about racism, and other forms of hatred toward difference in ourselves and others. Drawing... (more)
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D.Yalom as he looks into the lives of ten of his patients - and through them into the minds of us all.... (more)
Psychodynamic Techniques: Working with Emotion in the Therapeutic Relationship
Helping therapists navigate the complexities of emotional interactions with clients, this book provides practical clinical guidelines. Master clinician Karen J. Maroda adds an important dimension to... (more)
Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness
Embodied self-awareness is the ability to feel our emotions and movements in the present moment, without the influence of judgmental thoughts (such as: Am I doing this right?). Body Sense offers a... (more)
Therapy for Dreams and Nightmares: Evidence-Based Practice: Second Edition
In this new edition (of Counselling with Dreams and Nightmares) Delia Cushway continues in her pursuit to show how dreamwork is not the prerogative of expert psychoanalysts, but a fruitful... (more)
Circular Therapeutics: Giving Therapy a Healing Heart
Internationally-recognized as elder healers, psychotherapists and authors, Hillary and Bradford Keeney invite therapists to open their hearts and journey back in time to discover ancient and... (more)