Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Impossibility of Sex
In these intriguing accounts, Susie Orbach, the celebrated author of Fat is a Feminist Issue, presents us with six imaginary clinical cases, including Adam, the serial seducer; Belle, the compulsive... (more)
Key Competencies in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy: Clinical Practice Beyond the Manual
This unique book identifies the core competencies shared by expert therapists and helps clinicians - specifically those providing brief dynamic/interpersonal therapy - to develop and apply these... (more)
Cultivating Intuition: A Personal Introduction to Psychotherapy: Second Edition
An expanded and updated second edition, the book is essentially an introduction to psychotherapy based on the belief that therapy is best considered as a personal undertaking in which the way of... (more)
Understanding NLP: Principles and Practice: Second Edition
Understanding NLP opens a doorway into a more imaginative and coherent way of understanding and using NLP. This completely revised edition unites the many strands of NLP using an elegant paradigm... (more)
The Psychology of Leadership:
In this book, leading scholars come together to describe their thinking and research on the topic of the psychology of leadership. The contributions span traditional social psychological areas, as... (more)
Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology
In psychology and other social sciences, narrative analysis has become a widely used technique for understanding people's accounts of their lives. Yet, the difference between narrative analysis and... (more)
Speaking as a Professional: Enhance Your Therapy or Coaching Practice Through Presentations, Workshops and Seminars
A toolkit for therapists, coaches and educators preparing presentations for conferences, seminars, workshops and community events. (more)
Katie's Diary: Unlocking the Mystery of a Suicide
It is not easy to understand why people kill themselves. This book examines this subject. (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)
Dangerous and Severe: Process, Programme and Person: Grendon's Work
HMP Grendon hosts the UK's only prison-based therapeutic community, inhabited by around 200 residents, almost all convicted of crimes against the person, and about half of whom have killed. This is... (more)
Somatic Psychology: Body, mind and meaning
Hartley views body psychotherapy and transpersonal psychotherapy as building bridges between the once separated processes of psyche, soma, and spirit. Today the field of somatic psychology is... (more)
Comprehensive Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry:
The standard reference work from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry containing 39 chapters, each written by a leader in the field. (more)
Talking Over the Years: A Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy with Older Adults
Drawing on a wealth of clinical material, 'Talking Over the Years' increases psychodynamic awareness helping professionals become more sensitive to their patient's needs and informing psychiatric... (more)
Therapist's Guide to Self-Care
Combining an informal, easy-to-read and entertaining style with useful information, this is an essential guide to anyone in the mental health profession with the desire to remain active and healthy... (more)
Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion
Laced with developmental insights and vivid illustrations of disgust-related syndromes, Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion incorporates cultural analysis that links disgust to images of illness and... (more)
To Be Met as a Person: The Dynamics of Attachment in Professional Encounters
This book is a thought-provoking read that sets out a framework for thinking about the way we interact with one another. It helps us make sense of the feelings we have when we are successful and not... (more)
Creative Energies: Integrative Energy Psychotherapy for Self-Expression and Healing
This text presents an integrative approach of three aspects of the human vibrational matrix - the biofield, the energy centres and the meridian pathways with their specific acupoints. The volume... (more)
Reshaping the Female Body:
This work attempts to make sense of women's involvement in cosmetic surgery. Whereas traditional explanations have tended to look to female narcissism, this book situates cosmetic surgery in a... (more)
Images of the Self: The Sandplay Therapy Process
Formerly out of print and unavailable for almost 20 years, this book has remained the foundational text on sandplay psychotherapeutic theory. The theoretical mechanics of how sandplay, an effective... (more)
Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy: A Framework for Clinical Practice
Drawing on contemporary relational thinking and new perspectives on gender and sexuality, this work describes and illustrates an affirmative approach to clinical work with lesbians at various stages... (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)
A Primer of Handling the Negative Therapeutic Reaction:
This work examines the possible deterioration of a client's condition during treatment. This primer suggests that the therapist's technique may not address the underlying nature of the... (more)
Life After Self-Harm: A Guide to the Future
"Life After Self-Harm" is written for individuals who have deliberately harmed themselves. Developed through a major research project, the contents of the manual have been informed and shaped by many... (more)
Biblical Stories for Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Sourcebook
This essential sourebook applies the age-old wisdom of stories from the Hebrew Bible to current psychological issues. From the familiar to the obscure, these stories can help us better understand... (more)
Asian Perspectives in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Illustrated by stimulating case studies, the theoretical knowledge and practical advice presented in Asian Perspectives in Counselling and Psychotherapy will be invaluable reading to all practising... (more)