Individual Psychotherapy Books
Confluence: The Selected Papers of Jeffrey K. Zeig: Volume 1
A collection of some of the author's most pivotal contributions to psychotherapy together in a new volume that will be of interest to students and colleagues alike. And as the title implies, this... (more)
Cutting it Out: A Journey Through Psychotherapy and Self-Harm
Cutting it Out is a largely autobiographical account of a young woman's battle with self-harm. Carolyn's story documents her own challenging journey, offering unique insights into her feelings about... (more)
Personality Disorders and Community Mental Health Teams: A Practioner's Guide
Practitioners in Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) frequently find that traditional forms of support are ineffective when offered to patients with personality disorder. This book considers the... (more)
Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies
In this wonderfully illuminating sequel to A Spirit of Inquiry (Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage, 2002), Joseph Lichtenberg writes of the craft of exploratory psychotherapy, by which he means the... (more)
Training and Training Standards: Psychological Therapies in Primary Care
The surge of interest in psychological therapies in GP settings makes this book timely and important for the development of this field in the 21st century. As well as the suggested syllabus for... (more)
Bipolar Disorder Demystified - Mastering the Tightrope of Manic Depression:
Offers a guide to the nature of bipolar disorder, discussing symptoms, treatment, and the factors that complicate its diagnosis. (more)
The Therapeutic Frame in the Clinical Context: Integrative Perspectives
This book examines some of the key issues inherent in the intimate and very often intense therapeutic relationship. It addresses and clarifies perspectives on the creation of a therapeutic... (more)
Treating Depression
This key resource assists the clinician in deciding if it is appropriate to prescribe medication, if psychotherapy is the proper course of action, or if it is best to use a combination of medication... (more)
Becoming a Psychotherapist: A Clinical Primer
This well-respected guide to psychoanalytic psychotherapy addresses key issues for both beginning and practicing therapists, from the rhythm of the initial, middle, and final stages of therapy to the... (more)
Working Therapeutically with Women in Secure Mental Health Settings
A pressing need for the integration of current practice, research and service development is addressed in this comprehensive book, which explores the experience of work with women in secure mental... (more)
The Psychodynamic Approach to Therapeutic Change
Change is the central purpose of all counselling and psychotherapy, but how it is conceptualized and worked with varies according to the theoretical approach being used. This book explores the nature... (more)
Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism.
This volume is a collection of innovative interdisciplinary essays that explore the human capacity for experience. The authors address the postmodern debate in contemporary psychotherapy and... (more)
Overcoming Unintentional Racism in Counselling and Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide to Intentional Intervention: Second Revised Edition
Examines the dynamics and effects of racism in counseling with an emphasis on the insidiousness of unintentional racism. The Second Edition provides a new section on the policies and practices of... (more)
Gestalt Therapy
This remarkable exploration of the inner principles of Gestalt therapy originated over twenty years ago in the form of a completed book, written at Fritz Perls' request. Here it is joined by a... (more)
Freelance Counselling and Psychotherapy: Competition and Collaboration
. Freelance Counselling and Psychotherapy is an excellent guide on surviving and flourishing in a highly challenging field. (more)
A Primer for Beginning Psychotherapy:
A practical primer of psychotherapy, aimed especially at students and mental health professionals starting their careers. This concise guide addresses virtually all the questions posed by new... (more)
Invisible Men: Finding, Engaging and Inspiring Men in Therapy
Why is it so difficult to engage men in the therapy process when a family runs into difficulty? The reasons are many, but the upshot is singularly unproductive, even destructive. And yet it continues... (more)
Essential Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
A study of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT). Written in an easy-to- read style, it seeks to strip away the sophistication that can cause confusion and focuses on the essential elements of... (more)
Substance abuse: from principles to practice
An ideal book for anyone interested in the subject of or affected by substance abuse in any of its many forms. Covers the history, chemistry, biology, epidemiology, psychology and other salient... (more)
Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men
In the growing professional literature on child sexual abuse, few books focus specifically on the experience of victimized boys and men. Interweaving vital elements of psychodynamic and... (more)
Beyond Belief: Psychotherapy and Religion
The burden once put upon natural scientists is here shouldered by psychotherapists. This book asks whether psychotherapy can go beyond belief and gives various answers from a wide variety of people... (more)
Second Opinions: Sixty Psychotherapy Patients Evaluate their Therapists
This text arose out of interviews between Lee Kassan and 60 patients, who discussed with him their experiences in psychotherapy. The book covers the decision to enter treatment, the selection of a... (more)
The language of injury: Comprehending self-mutilation
The emphasis of this text is that persuading people to stop self-mutilation may be more harmful than the injuries themselves. The book discusses cultural and historical aspects, as well as the causes... (more)
Body Process: Working with the Body in Psychotherapy
This work examines the therapeutic significance of posture, movements, and bodily experience for the psychotherapy patient. The author then provides a framework for incorporating these physical... (more)
Heart and Soul: The Therapeutic Face of Philosophy
This book examines those concepts and questions which are at the heart of both psychotherapy and philosophy. These include: the nature of the self; motivation and subjectivity; the limits of... (more)
Past Trauma in Late Life: European Perspectives on Therapeutic Work with Older People
This study looks at the effects of early traumatic experiences on later life, in terms of behaviour displayed by older people, which is often viewed as part of the pathology of old age. As well as... (more)
Narrative and Psychotherapy
This text examines the role and significance of stories in psychotherapy, within a broad-based cultural and theoretical framework. It draws on research from psychology, anthropology and... (more)