Individual Psychotherapy Books
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy After Child Abuse: The Treatment of Adults and Children Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse, Violence, and Neglect in Childhood
This book presents a coherent and readable narrative review of current views on the effects and role of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the treatment of children and adults who have experienced... (more)
Inclusive Cultural Empathy: Making Relationships Central in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Shows readers how to reach beyond the comfort zone of an individualistic perspective and increase competence in a relationship-centered context. This book helps readers learn how to help clients... (more)
Ego State Therapy
What lies in the dark unconscious expanse of our psyche? What causes the words we hear in our mind? What internal dynamic produces depression, panic attacks, and addiction? And, how can learning what... (more)
Becoming Dragon: Restoring Passion, Excellence, and Purpose in Your Therapeutic Work
Do you feel burnt out? Have you lost some of your enthusiasm for work? Are you becoming increasingly frustrated with clients, co-workers, yourself? Are you interested in being extraordinary instead... (more)
Brief Person-Centred Therapies
Brief Person-Centred Therapies explores the increasing demand for brief therapy - particularly in the public sector - and how the person-centred approach fits in to this changing world of counselling... (more)
The Therapeutic Relationship: Themes and Perspectives
The importance of the therapeutic relationship is explored within key modalities of psychotherapy: person-centred, psychodynamic, existential, gestalt, transactional analysis, cognitive behavioural... (more)
The Therapist's Notebook: Volume 3: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy
Includes clinician field-tested activities for therapists who work with individuals, children and adolescents, couples, families, and groups. The reproducible handouts are designed to be practical... (more)
Helping Students Overcome Depression and Anxiety: A Practical Guide: Second Edition
Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this popular guide provides expert information and clear-cut strategies for assessing and treating internalizing problems in school settings. More than... (more)
A Different Wisdom: Reflections on Supervision Practice: Guide to Supervision Volume 1
Britain has a fine tradition of writing about supervision practice. This book connects to this by organising reflection around the practice taken from the author's sixteen years experience as a... (more)
Psychotherapy Supervision: Theory, Research and Practice: Second Edition
A comprehensive, current, and accessible guide to psychotherapy supervision, this second edition is the highly- anticipated revision of the original best-seller. The book will help you understand... (more)
The Zen of Helping: Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice
Bring compassion, self-awareness, radical acceptance, practitioner presence, and caring to the relationships you have with you patients by utilizing the advice in "The Zen of Helping: Spiritual... (more)
On Justifying Psychotherapy: Essays on Phenomenology, Integration and Psychology
This book contains 20 previously published papers from internationally recognised journals. The original view of phenomenology is applied to understand behaviour, attachment, psychopathology,... (more)
The V-Spot: Healing the Vulnerable Spot from Emotional Abuse
Everyone knows what the "G-spot" is, of course. It is a woman's most sensitive and vulnerable physical area. Although men do not have a G-spot per se, both men and women have what Joan Lachkar calls... (more)
Psyche's Veil: Psychotherapy, Fractals and Complexity
Historically, the language and concepts within clinical theory have been steeped in linear assumptions and reductionist thinking. Because the essence of psychotherapy involves change, "Psyche's Veil"... (more)
Intellectual Disability, Trauma and Psychotherapy
People with intellectual disabilities have emotional and mental health needs just like anyone else. Until recently however there has been little research of effective psychological treatment or... (more)
Compassion Focused Therapy
Research into the beneficial effect of developing compassion has advanced enormously in the last ten years, with the development of inner compassion being an important therapeutic focus and goal.... (more)
Claude Steiner's Emotional Literacy: DVD
This two disc DVD set focuses on a weekend workshop held in Berkeley, California, when a group of fourteen people came together to study and train in 'Emotional Literacy' under the leadership of its... (more)
Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice
This book bridges psychoanalytic thought and sexual science. It brings sexuality back to the center of psychoanalysis and shows how important it is for students of human sexuality to understand... (more)
The Making of Psychotherapists: An Anthropological Analysis
Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. It expertly uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform... (more)
Listening to Music in Psychotherapy
This enlightening text promotes listening to music as a rewarding component in the psychotherapeutic consultation. It encourages the choice of music to come from the patient, rather than being... (more)
Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy
This important book explores a new direction that can enable therapists of any orientation to better understand and help their patients. While psychoanalysis has traditionally been seen as a world... (more)
Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy: Initial Assessment, Boundaries, Money, Disruptions and Suicidal Crises
'Putting aside the narcissistic-masochistic aspiration of authoring a text on all the intricacies of in-depth psychotherapy, I have chosen to address five areas of difficulty in this enterprise. This... (more)
Stress Management: From Basic Science to Better Practice
Stress managemnt examines documented pathways between stress and health and develops the scientific foundations for sound interventions. The book begins with a broad review of the term stress and its... (more)
Not Just Talking: Conversational Analysis, Harvey Sacks' Gift to Therapy
Good relationships depend, above all, on our skills in conversation. Harvey Sacks' method, Conversational Analysis, was the springboard for Jean Pain's research into psychotherapy as a social... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People: A Psychodynamic Approach: Second Revised Edition
This in-depth study of reflective therapeutic practice with older people is packed with clinical case studies and useful commentaries.It applies therapeutic skills through real life examples. Three... (more)
Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice
The importance of conducting empirical research for the future of psychodynamics is presented in this excellent new volume. In it, the editors provide evidence that supports this type of research for... (more)
Their Finest Hour: Master Therapists Share Their Great Success Stories
Therapists on the cutting edge of their profession detail their most professionally rewarding cases and share what they learnt from them. These outstanding therapists define achievement in their... (more)
Terminating Therapy: A Professional Guide to Ending on a Positive Note
The first book of its kind to provide an in-depth and practical approach to termination of therapy, "Terminating Therapy" guides mental health professionals through the practical, ethical, legal, and... (more)
The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Progress Notes Planner: Second Edition
This second edition is fully revised and updated. These time-saving resources now provide progress notes language consistent with the latest in evidence-based treatment as required by many... (more)
Making Hostile Words Harmless: A Guide to the Power of Positive Speaking For Helping Professionals and Their Clients
Inappropriate comments and bullying behaviours plague the lives of many adults, crushing their self-confidence and driving them to seek professional help. Random rudeness from strangers and cruel... (more)