Individual Psychotherapy Books
Sex and Sexuality: Questions and Answers
This book bridges the gap between the counsellor and the specialist sex therapist, by providing answers to questions raised by patients or clients about sex, gender and sexuality. It covers... (more)
Intricate Engagements - The Collaborative Basis of Therapeutic Change:
Frankel, an experienced psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, retraces his search for principles by which to determine the best approach to the practice; describes the relationship-unit model he found... (more)
A Handbook of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Short-term psychotherapy has become more and more popular in recent years and there is an increasing need for therapists to be able to offer help without entering into many years of therapy. This... (more)
Therapeutic Interventions for Forensic Mental Health Nurses:
This text explores the current and emerging interventions in forensic nursing and the care of the mentally-disordered offender, with an emphasis on clinical practice and competence. It explores the... (more)
Reflecting on Reality: Psychotherapists at Work in Primary Care
Primary care and psychotherapy are in some ways worlds apart. Yet both deal with the same human fundamentals: birth, and death, hope and disappointment, identity and uncertainty. This innovative book... (more)
The Seven Deadly Sins?: Issues in Clinical Practice and Supervision for Humanistic and Integrative Practitioners
The Seven Deadly Sins? grew out of a post-qualification training course of the same name. It aims to make more accessible some concepts from the world of psychoanalysis, self-psychology and affective... (more)
Psychological Therapies in Primary Care: Setting up a Managed Service
This book introduces the case for the management of psychological therapy services in the NHS as a result of the recent and very significant changes in primary care commissioning and mental health... (more)
What is Psychotherapeutic Research?
This book marks an important watershed in the development of psychotherapy. It provides examples of how psychotherapeutic research and the abilities to carry it out can help the practising... (more)
The Who You Dream Yourself: Playing and Interpretation in Psychotherapy and Theatre
'At the time of beginning my own therapy, I was teaching drama and theatre studies and become fascinated by the analogies between theatre and therapy, especially by how these set-apart space-times... (more)
Understanding Psychotherapy Change: A Practical Guide to Configurational Analysis
Mardi Horowitz provides a simplified discussion of his empirically supported, integrative approach to case formulation. He begins by tracing the roots of this approach and its refinements and... (more)
How Does Psychotherapy Work?
It is said that the question "how does psychotherapy work?" cannot be answered conclusively - that we cannot reach into the depths of a deeply private relationship and pluck out a precise truth about... (more)
Setting Out: The Importance of the Beginning in Psychotherapy and Counselling
The outcome of therapy is always to some extent determined by success of the initial session. In Setting Out the issues surrounding this subject are explored, providing valuable insights into the... (more)
Compassion: Conceptualisations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy
Compassion looks at the ways in which compassion can be harnessed in early life experiences, pro-social behaviour and in psychotherapy, and how it can be beneficial to the therapeutic relationship. (more)
Love and Death in Psychotherapy
While this book was written for all manner of mental health professionals, it also is of great importance to the general reader. The foucs is on a new way of understanding the human mind and the... (more)
Researching the Psychotherapy Process: A Practical Guide to Transcript-Based Methods
This hands-on introduction to psychotherapy process research methods takes the student clinician/researcher through the basic steps of developing a research project based on a transcript of a... (more)
Therapy: Intimacy Between Strangers
This book explores, through careful examination of theory and practice, what is likely to happen in the therapy room from the first encounter to the final session. It will be of use to therapists and... (more)
Foundations of Psychotherapy: An Introduction to Individual Therapy
This book comprehensively and clearly surveys the major theoretical schools of psychotherapy - including Freudian, Jungian, humanistic and cognitive. There is also some consideration of the impact of... (more)
The Essential Skills for Setting Up a Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice
Many practitioners consider setting up in private practice at some point in their career, whether full-time or alongside other employment. This book provides comprehensive yet accessible coverage of... (more)
Future of Training in Psychotherapy and Counselling:
John Rowan presents a challenging account of the current state of training. (more)
Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy
This book gathers together psychotherapists from divergent origins to show why they think the concepts of dialogue and intersubjectivity need to be incorporated into the therapeutic process and to... (more)
Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive-Behavioral Tradition
This volume examines a number of rapidly growing therapies that have emerged over the last decade and that share an emphasis on such nontraditional themes as mindfulness, acceptance, relationship,... (more)
Coping with Trauma: Hope Through Understanding
From the psychological perspective, the author discusses the impact of trauma on emotion, memory, the self, and relationships, as well as incorporating research from neuroscience to make the case... (more)
Problem Solving Treatment for Anxiety and Depression: A Practical Guide
Problem-solving treatment is a well researched, practical psychological intervention. The treatment is very much a here and now treatment, focusing on current difficulties and setting future goals.... (more)
The Psychotherapist's Own Psychotherapy: Patient and Clinician Perspectives
In this volume, clinicians explore both receiving and conducting psychotherapy with psychotherapists. The book gathers together personal narratives, clinical wisdom, and new research on subjects that... (more)
Supervision of Psychotherapists: The Discovery-Oriented Approach
Discovery-oriented supervision is a whole new dimension of supervision. It explores deep down inside the other person's ideas about psychotherapy; to discover their inner, probably unformed, deeper... (more)
Major Theories of Personality Disorders: Second Edition
Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this work brings together in one volume the most important current perspectives on personality pathology. (more)
Narrative Inquiry and Psychotherapy
An introduction to the purposes, possibilities and processes of narrative research methods in therapy practices. Merging social science and arts-based research methods, this book is ideal for therapy... (more)