Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Well-managed Mental Health Practice: Your Guide to Building and Managing a Successful Practice, Group, or Clinic
The "Well-Managed Practice" is a comprehensive guide for private practices of any size, and at any stage of development, from start-up through mature business that provides indispensable tools for... (more)
Beyond Happiness: Deepening the Dialogue between Buddhism, Psychotherapy and the Mind Sciences
Contemporary mind sciences are revealing facts about the brain and its development that have much to teach us about health and happiness. For a greater part of the twentieth century, psychology and... (more)
Freud's Converts
This work is an exploration of the relationship between psychotherapy and religion. Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers were chosen for this exposition because both of them were seduced by the high status... (more)
Into the Mountain Stream: Psychotherapy and Buddhist Experience
The lived relation between Buddhism and psychotherapy finds expression in the Buddhist's practice, the therapist's stance and response to those who seek help. Paul C. Cooper has gathered papers that... (more)
Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy: Practicing Defensively: Second Edition
Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy offers ways for therapists of all persuasions to limit liability while continuing to practice effectively. Dr Hedges demonstrates how therapists can... (more)
Dreaming: An Opportunity for Change
"Dreaming: An Opportunity for Change" is a practical guide for both therapist and dreamer that utilizes dream interpretation for the purpose of promoting clinical change. Myron Glucksman demonstrates... (more)
Using the Transference in Psychotherapy
"Using the Transference" centres around two dominant themes - the old versus the new models of transference, and the role of transference in psychotherapy. As background information the book provides... (more)
Depression: A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments
This volume comprehensively compares and contrasts alternative models of and treatment approaches to clinical depression. Each contributor, a recognized expert in their modality, analyzes the same... (more)
Journeys Through Mental Illness: Clients' Experiences and Understandings of Mental Distress
At a time when service users' perspectives are increasingly recognized in healthcare, this seminal book highlights the importance of clients' perceptions of all aspects of mental illness. It examines... (more)
The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy
In recent years there has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences. In this rich, yet rigorous, multidisciplinary text, this movement is explored... (more)
Suicide: Strategies and Interventions for Reduction and Prevention
All practitioners working in the caring and helping professions face many challenges and questions when dealing with suicidal clients: Is this client being serious? Can I do more? What should I do?... (more)
Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice
This promises to be a landmark in the fields of psychotherapeutic theory and practice. A comprehensive revision of its predecessor, "The Psychology of Existence", co-edited by Kirk Schneider and... (more)
The Practitioner's Handbook
An essential guide to professional development written for qualified practitioners as well as those nearing the end of their training. Written in a friendly and informal style, this new text seeks to... (more)
Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law: Second Edition
This is the long-awaited second edition of Peter Jenkins' comprehensive introduction to legal issues in relation to counselling and psychotherapy in the UK. This text has been fully updated to... (more)
Attachment in Psychotherapy
This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as... (more)
Psychosomatics: The Uses of Psychotherapy
The mind and body are in constant interaction, and it is increasingly recognized that any true understanding of illness must take this psychosomatic dimension into account. This timely book looks at... (more)
Hands-on Help: Computer-aided Psychotherapy
"Hands-on Help" is a narrative review of the mushrooming field of computer-aided psychotherapy for mental health problems as a whole, from the time it began in the 1960's through to the present day.... (more)
The Dream Experience: A Systematic Exploration
The Dream Experience provides the mental health professional a systematic scientific basis for understanding the dream as a psychological event. Milton Kramer's extensive research, along with the... (more)
Demystifying Love: Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional
Intended primarily for mental health professionals, "Demystifying Love" deals plainly with topics rarely written about for clinicians. The book discusses in a small package highly readable and useful... (more)
Our Desire of Unrest: Thinking About Therapy
Knowledge is never static. It is always open to revolutionary thinking or to evolving development. Similarly an individual's knowledge is always moving, and indeed if the ability to think about ideas... (more)
Resolving Difficult Clinical Syndromes: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach
Provides clinicians with a combination of conceptual background and step-by-step practical advice to guide their treatment of the clinical disorders listed under Axis I of the DSM-IV-TR: Substance... (more)
Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach
"Personalized Psychotherapy: Overcoming Resistant Personality Cases" helps clinicians adjust their plans to personalities and treatment of the whole, complex person. Chapters cover personalized... (more)
Moderating Severe Personality Disorders: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach
Increasingly, therapists are concerned that treatment plans focus too much on prescriptive labels and syndromes and not enough on the individual patient's circumstances. "Personalized Psychotherapy"... (more)
Healing with Stories: Your Casebook Collection for Using Therapeutic Metaphors
George W. Burns, the master of therapeutic storytelling, has brought together a group of international therapists to describe why and how they use storytelling in their clinical practice and share... (more)
The Complete Women's Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
Covers nineteen of the most commonly seen presenting problems in treating women. This treatment planner provides therapists with guidance on diagnosis, and includes long-term goals, short-term... (more)
Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems
"Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems" provides the reader with many examples of thoughts, ideas and perspectives in a user-friendly, easily accessible format. The chapters are divided into... (more)
Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration
This unique handbook covers the consensuses and controversies surrounding traditional and nontraditional psychotherapeutic methodologies as related to individuals and specific subpopulations. It is... (more)
Interpersonal Rejection
Interpersonal rejection ranks among the most potent and distressing events that people experience. Romantic rejection, ostracism, stigmatisation, job termination, and other kinds of rejections have... (more)
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder: Second Edition
Social psychologist, James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller offers a sophisticated and comprehensive... (more)
Help Yourself Towards Mental Health
A comprehensive guide to how an individual can help themselves resolve a wide variety of ordinary, everyday life problems and improve their mental health.
'This is an extensive collection of... (more)