Individual Psychotherapy Books
Living on the Edge: Breaking Up to Breakdown to Breakthrough
This book shows us how to have the courage to stop and explore the nature of our edges. It shows us how to develop inner practices to be alongside fear and darkness. These steps allow us to transform... (more)
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Theoretical Developments
Thought-provoking presentation of case studies and the latest theory revision give Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Theoretical Developments a distinctive slant: a challenging discussion of the... (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)
Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Trainee's Guide to Preparing Case Studies and Reports.
Trainee therapists need to show practical competence through the production of client reports and case studies. Using clinical examples and a detailed analysis of case study and process report... (more)
Post-Modernism for Psychotherapists: A Critical Reader
Post-modern ideas are now making an impact in psychotherapy and counselling. There is, however, nothing in the current literature that brings together thinking for those professionals who may not be... (more)
Disability, Counselling and Psychotherapy: Challenges and Opportunities
Addressing the felt experience of disabled people and the ways in which psychotherapy may be constructively employed, this text takes a life-span perspective and a psychoanalytic approach to explore... (more)
Personal construct perspectives on forensic psychology:
This volume provides a new approach to the three main areas of application of forensic psychology; rehabilitation of offenders, work with police, and research and consultation on legal issues and... (more)
Psychosynthesis: A Psychology of the Spirit
A comprehensive account of Roberto Assagiolis psychosynthesis, a type of therapy that addresses both spiritual development and psychological healing and growth.
Life-span development: Theories, Concepts and Interventions: Second Edition
This revision of the first edition offers the reader an account of human development throughout the lifespan. The lifespan approach emphasizes that development does not stop when we cease to be... (more)
Legal Issues in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counsellors and Psychotherapists are increasingly seeing the impact of legal issues on their practice and yet many feel under-prepared for the challenges they have to face. Legal Issues in... (more)
Bad Therapy: Master Therapists Share Their Worst Failures
This volume offers a rare and revealing glimpse into the mindset and actions of some of the profession's most seasoned and well-known authors, theoreticians and leaders. Kottler and Carlson guide us... (more)
A right result?:
As advocacy moves into the mainstream of health and social care provision, and the prospect of a legal right to advocacy inches closer, so the need to scrutinize key values in advocacy becomes... (more)
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities over the lifespan:
Over the last 15 years, psychological research regarding sexual orientation has seen explosive growth. This book brings together experts to offer a comprehensive overview of what has been discovered... (more)
Invitation to Possibility-Land: An Intensive Teaching Seminar with Bill O'Hanlon
In the context of a week-long training limited to 10 participants, the author of this work shares stories, metaphors, interchanges with participants, transcripts of therapy sessions during the week,... (more)
Elusive Elements in Practice
The third volume in the The Practice of Psychotherapy series, Elusive Elements in Practice brings together a collection of papers, examining their ideas and theories more commonly regarded as... (more)
Jacob's Ladder: Essays on Experiences of the Ineffable in the Context of Contemporary Psychotherapy
In this fascinating work, Josephine Klein considers mysticism - a world of ineffable experience - to see if it might have anything to teach those in the therapeutic world and invites the reader to... (more)
Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management
This thought-provoking new collection - the fourth volume in the Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series - investigates the inherent difficulties in risk assessment. We have all read the lurid... (more)
The Development of Psychopathology: Nature and Nurture
This text illuminates the interplay among biological processes and psychological and social-contextual factors in the development of such widely encountered problems as depression, schizophrenia,... (more)
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: An A-Z of Persuasive Arguments
Helping clients to develop alternative and more constructive viewpoints to tackle their problems lies at the heart of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). The aim of this text is to provide therapists... (more)
Revolutionary Connections: Psychotherapy and Neuroscience
For many years psychotherapy and neuroscience have been estranged; existing on opposite ends of the spectrum concerned with the investigation of the mind. However in recent years, these two opposing... (more)
Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Analysis of the Key Principles
In this book, Dr. Penny Rawson succeeds in showing short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy to be an authentic and accepted method of therapy. She roots the concept in tradition and also introduces the... (more)
Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance
'Clinical Effectiveness'; 'Clinical Governance'; 'Clinical Audit'; 'Clinical Guidelines': these are all vitally important to the UK government's quality agenda for the NHS; all are apparently about... (more)
Therapy Beyond Modernity: Deconstructing and Transcending Profession-Centred Therapy
This radical and provocative book challenges the very foundations of therapy itself. In examining the hidden assumptions of therapy, the author poses the question 'Is therapy more concerned with... (more)
Ideas in Practice
Comprising the second volume in the series The Practice of Psychotherapy, this volume brings together six contributors, all members of the London Centre for Psychotherapy, presenting psychoanalytic... (more)
Dilemmas in the Consulting Room
Every therapist is faced with dilemmas in the consulting room. While psychoanalysis has concentrated on the issues of theory and technique, there has not been much material available on the actual... (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)
Good practice in supervision with psychotherapists and counsellors
Supervision can be seen and described either as a way of learning or as a creative psychotherapeutic relationship, of mutual benefit, between supervisor and supervisee alike. This text examines the... (more)
Body Psychotherapy
This volume offers insights into a spectrum of approaches with body-oriented psychotherapy. A range of experienced contributors introduce new areas of development and emerging theory, showing how... (more)
Body of awareness: A somatic and developmental approach to psychotherapy
Explores the formation of infant movement experience and its influence upon the later adult. It shows how the organizing principles in early development are functionally equivalent to those of the... (more)
