Individual Psychotherapy Books
Wherever You Go, There You are
Mindfulness is considered the heart of Buddhist meditation. But its essence is universal and of deep practical benefit to everyone. Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn maps out a simple... (more)
Transactional Analysis: A Relational Perspective
This volume provides an in-depth, comprehensive model of theory and practice. Aimed at postgraduates and professionals in the field of psychotherapy, the book presents the model, which reflects the... (more)
Infant-Parent Psychotherapy: A Handbook
This is a comprehensive handbook, full of vital information on the theory and practice of infant-parent psychotherapy, that will revolutionise the treatment of babies. It is essential reading for all... (more)
Integration in Psychotherapy: Models and Methods
Expounds the integrative currents in psychotherapy as they impact on the spectrum of contemporary psychological therapy. The contributors look at the links between their own approaches and those of... (more)
Recollections of Sexual Abuse: Treatment Principles and Guidelines
This text provides clinicians with information about the controversy surrounding delay/repressed memory of sexual abuse, as well as treatment principles and guidelines for working with these issues.... (more)
The New Private Practice: Successful Therapist-coaches Share Stories and Practical Advice
For therapists considering using coaching skills to diversify their practice, this text presents essays from successful therapist-coaches, offering personal narratives, trade secrets, honest... (more)
The Transpersonal Relationship in Psychotherapy: The Hidden Curriculum of Spirituality
This text aims to stimulate both psychotherapists or supervisors by inviting them into thinking and feeling in conversation with the author. (more)
The Collected Papers of Nicholas Cummings, Volume II: The Entrepreneur in Psychology
The Cummings legacy will be voluminous and manifold. His contributions to the field have spanned the many definitions of practicing psychology – from education to policy, from business to ongoing... (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)
Exploring the Unsaid: Creativity, Risks and Dilemmas in Working Cross-Culturally
The editors and contributing authors of this volume have taken a truly pioneering and courageously challenging look at the state of cross-cultural theory and practice. In confronting directly and... (more)
Challenges to Practice
The first title in the Practice of Psychotherapy Series that explores the limits of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Each of the five chapters in this book takes up an aspect of this challenge. In an... (more)
Therapeutic Mastery: Becoming a More Creative and Effective Psychotherapist
Unlike most books about psychotherapy, the emphasis here is on the relationship(s) between the therapist and the person with whom they are working. Each person's feelings and behaviours are regarded... (more)
A Different Story: The Rise of Narrative in Psychology
A Different Story is the story of the emergence of the narrative approach to psychotherapy as seen through the eyes of a family therapist whose life and work have taken him across some of the great... (more)
The Heart of Listening: Attentional Qualities in Psychotherapy
In response to recognition of the importance of the quality of attention and the sense of relatedness in therapeutic change, this book considers how relationships and change can be facilitated by... (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)
Becoming a Therapist
Indispensible to counsellors, couselling psychologists, and psychotherapists in training, becoming a Therapist is a thought provoking companion to personal and professional development. (more)
Self-Harm: A Psychotherapeutic Approach
This book explores the issues involved from the perspective of the psychoanalytic psychotherapist - with the conviction that there is more to the behaviour than the acts themselves. (more)
Working Through Setbacks in Psychotherapy: Crisis, Impasse and Relapse
Counsellors and psychotherapists often encounter difficult situations with clients for which they feel ill prepared. At any stage in the process a client may experience a crisis or setback in their... (more)
Beyond Individualism: Towards a New Undersanding of Self, Relationship
In this treatment of some of the oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler challenges the most basic tenet of the Western cultural tradition: the individualist self. (more)
The Therapist's Pregnancy: Intrusion in the Analytic Space
In this examination of the impact of pregnancy on the therapeutic process, the authors explore the variety of clinical, technical, and practical issues that arise out of the therapist's impending... (more)
The Problem of Evil
Directed toward therapists of all persuasions who deal with the most difficult issues in therapy, The Problem of Evil provides a practice-expanding vision of healing. When common notions of... (more)
Communication and Mental Illness: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
The text presents the key themes in the practice of speech therapy in psychiatry. It describes communication problems associated with different kinds of disorders, including the autistic spectrum... (more)
Return from madness: Psychotherapy with people taking new anti-psychotic medications and emerging from severe, lifelong, and disabling schizophrenia
Following the development of drugs which reduce psychotic effects in mentally-ill people, there is often a need for psychotherapy to regenerate development processes that were previously cut short.... (more)
The history of psychotherapy:
The author has placed each selection in its historical context and provided, where necessary, summaries of theoretical systems. The book explains the conflicting and seemingly paradoxical reports of... (more)
Rapid Cognitive Therapy: The Professional Therapists Guide to rapid ch
Presents a brief psychotherapeutic approach to working with clients. Nearly all the techniques described in the book can be used as adjuncts to conventional behaviourist and analytical approaches to... (more)