Individual Psychotherapy Books
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
This book provides a framework for affirmative, empirically supported cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. Guidelines for competent assessment and treatment are... (more)
The Person-Centred Approach: A Contemporary Introduction
The highly regarded Temenos team present a new introduction to the person-centred approach for the twenty-first-century. Giving a broad and unbiased account, they illustrate how the approach has... (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)
The Person-centred Approach to Therapeutic Change
The Person-Centred Approach to Therapeutic Change outlines the main theoretical cornerstones of the person-centred approach and then, applying these, describes why change occurs as a result of a... (more)
The Handbook of Narrative and Psychotherapy: Practice, Theory, and Research
The field of narrative-informed therapy began nearly a decade ago and has now matured to the point where a significant reference work is both timely and appropriate.This Handbook is the first to draw... (more)
Difference and Discrimination in Psychotherapy and Counselling:
Difference, prejudice and discrimination are issues which all counsellors and psychotherapists need to address as part of their personal and professional development. Designed to support training on... (more)
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique
Traditionally, psychoanalytic treatment has been a lengthy endeavour, requiring a long-term commitment from patient and analyst, as well as vast financial resources. More recently, short-term... (more)
Integrative Psychotherapy in Healthcare: A Humanistic Approach
This unique text provides students and practitioners of counselling and psychotherapy with a much-needed guide to working integratively in time-sensitive and healthcare settings. Drawing on the... (more)
Speaking Our Minds: An Anthology
A collection of writings by people who have experienced mental distress. The work includes: accounts of psychiatric treatment, psychotherapy and other treatments; stories of life in mental... (more)
Power of Understanding: Essays in Honour of Veikko Tahka
Psychoanalysis keeps on evolving and rather than going over theories already vocalised, this collection of important papers introduces new ideas and theories along with valuable clinical material.... (more)
The Embodied Psychotherapist: The Therapist's Body Story
The whole area of touch in psychotherapy has been given very little attention. "The Embodied Psychotherapist" uses accounts of therapists' own experiences to address this inadequacy in discourse, and... (more)
The Therapist at Work: Personal Factors Affecting the Analytic Process
Dimitris Anastasopoulos and Evagelos Papanicolaou have gathered together a distinguished group of contributors to focus on the therapist's participation in therapy and the influence of personal... (more)
The Function of Assessment Within Psychological Therapies: A Psychodynamic View
There are various different psychological therapies but their shared aim is to help the sufferers of mental disorders. The role of assessment and the decisions following that are crucial in the... (more)
The Art of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counselling and psychotherapy are effective to the extent that they promote the creativity of clients and patients. Creativity is both a lifestyle and a health resource. A creative lifestyle implies... (more)
Unexpected Gains: Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a new development in the treatment of people with learning disabilities and mental health problems, which traditionally has utilised behavioural management and limited... (more)
Boys Who Have Abused: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Victim/Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse
John Woods presents a theoretical approach and practical suggestions for mental health practitioners working therapeutically with young people who have abused. Drawing on experience, he has developed... (more)
Traveller in Space: Gender, Identity and Tibetan Buddhism
Examines the female in the philosophy and symbolism of Tibetan Buddhism. This book approaches female identity through the context of archaic images of the female, and takes a psychoanalytical view on... (more)
What's the Good of Counselling and Psychotherapy? The Benefits Explained
`There is much here to stir up the reluctant practitioner to explain themselves and their practice more ably and, better still, to promote and defend our profession' - The Revd John Eatock,... (more)
Counseling with Choice Theory: The New Reality Therapy
In Counseling with Choice Theory, Dr. William Glasser takes readers into his consulting room and illustrates, through a series of conversations with his patients, exactly how he puts his popular... (more)
Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide (Hardback)
See catalogue number 25063 for paperback edition. Designed to bring about lasting change in clients with personality disorders and other complex difficulties, schema therapy combines proven... (more)
Treating Affect Phobia: A Manual for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Reflecting the ongoing evolution of the approach, the manual emphasizes "affect phobia," or conflict about feelings. It shows how such proven behavioral techniques as systemic desensitization can be... (more)
Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy: Promoting Change in Nonresponders
Leading scientist-practitioner Lorna Smith Benjamin provides both a comprehensive introduction to interpersonal reconstructive therapy (IRT) and clear, step-by-step guidelines for practice. (more)
Interprofessional Collaboration: From Policy to Practice in Health and Social Care
Interprofessional Collaboration highlights the benefits and factors arising from working together for patients, service users and carers through a review of theoretical models illustrated by relevant... (more)
Spirit and Psyche: A New Paradigm for Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This book explores the expanding literature on spirituality as an important dimension of psychology, and explains the relationship between psychological treatment and spiritual healing. The author... (more)
Adlerian Psychotherapy: An Advanced Approach to Individual Psychology
Adlerian Psychotherapy gives an account of Adlerian therapy and counselling from its origins to the present day, and proposes an advanced version of the theory.
Fundamentals of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: A Training Handbook
This text presents the fundamentals of REBT in the form of a training handbook where important REBT skills are described and exemplified and training exercises are suggested. A feature of this book... (more)
Narrative therapy in practice: The archaeology of hope
Narrative therapy is based on the theory that problems are manufactured in a social, cultural and political context. This book shows that this approach requires the therapist and client to work in... (more)
Lives Elsewhere: Migration and Psychic Malaise
Born from the author's desire to write a clear and simple account of complex material based on ethnopsychotherapy and migrations, this book aims to clarify some key questions, rather than serve as a... (more)