Individual Psychotherapy Books
Philosophy for Counselling and Psychotherapy: Pythagoras to Postmodernism
This work provides a philosophical background for counsellors, therapists and healthcare workers looking for broader, deeper foundations in the struggle to help and make sense of others. 400 pages. (more)
Becoming an Effective Supervisor: A Workbook for Counselors and Therapists
A practical, hands-on workbook designed to help clinical counsellors and therapists create effective supervision programmes of their own, and to address the individual needs of their students. 300... (more)
Issues in Therapy with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clients: Pink Therapy 3.
With volume three of "Pink Therapy" the editors have collated articles on twelve further issues of particular concern to non-heterosexual clients. Professionals from various fields of therapy offer... (more)
Deep Journeys: Experiential Psychotherapy with Dreams, Personal Archetypal Tales & Trance States
This deep journey system of psychotherapy strives for personal transformation, not mere adjustment of its clients. This provocative book describes proceduress that are innoavative and... (more)
The Social Nature of Mental Illness:
An objective and philosophical critique of the theories of mental illness as a social construct. Covers the debate over the true nature of mental illness, and the argument about whether treatment... (more)
Linguistics, Pragmatics and Psychotherapy: A Guide for Therapists
This work offers a guide to semantics, syntax and discourse analysis specifically for those working with psychotic patients. It covers such areas as the characteristics and diagnosis of schizophrenic... (more)
Therapeutic action: A guide to psychoanalytic therapy
This text clarifies interventions that are derived from a psychoanalytic perspective and have found their way into the broad culture of psychotherapy. Many therapists rely on these approaches without... (more)
Opening gambits: The first session of psychotherapy
The first session of psychotherapy is vital in determining the course of successful treatment. This book presents a set of guidlines that aim to enhance the clinician's ability to conduct an... (more)
Essential Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
A study of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT). Written in an easy-to- read style, it seeks to strip away the sophistication that can cause confusion and focuses on the essential elements of... (more)
Clinical Psychotherapy for Health Professionals
An account of the talking treatments employed by the medical profession. It covers the management of psychotic illness and criminal states, and the use of the cognitive-analytic model. The final... (more)
Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in Relationships: Hardcover
The authors of this book focus on the importance of relationship in psychotherapy. Relationships between people form the basis of our daily lives. It offers therapists a methodology for assisting... (more)
A Clinician's Guide to Legal Issues in Psychotherapy or Proceed With Caution
In clear, accessible language, William Reid lays out potential legal dangers in mental health practice and explains how to recognize and deal with them. (more)
Person-Centred Therapy: A Revolutionary Paradigm
The author presents the work in five sections, covering: theory and philosophy; the basics of practice; applications of practice; research; Implications. (more)
Therapeutic perspectives on working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients: Pink therapy 2
Following the text "Pink Therapy" as a practical guide for therapists, counsellors and others working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients, this volume addresses how this can be approached from ten... (more)
Understanding depression: Feminist social constructionist approaches
A critical examination of mainstream approaches to understanding and treating depression from a feminist perspective. This work argues that late-1990s approaches give only partial accounts of women's... (more)
Psychotherapy and Spirituality: Crossing the line between therapy and religion
This thoughtful and intelligent book encourages psychotherapists and counsellors to consider seriously the relationship between spiritual experiences and therapeutic practice. 152 pages. (more)
A Psychodynamic Approach to Brief Therapy
Illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes, this book is a comprehensive guide to psychodynamic brief counselling and psychotherapy. It is ideal for those looking for a practical introduction to... (more)
Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
An exceptionally compelling and beautifully written collection of psychological case studies. This classic medium, first popularised by Freud and, more recently, by Oliver Sacks and Yalom himself,... (more)
Comprehensive Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Since its introduction as a brief, empirically validated treatment for depression, Interpersonal Psychotherapy has broadened its scope to include disorders of behaviour, personality and mood. This... (more)
Humour on the Couch: Exploring Humour in Psychotherapy and in Everyday Life
The aim of this book is primarily to highlight humour's communicative, relational and innovative value in everyday life, and in the privileged space, carved out of everyday life, that is... (more)
Good Practice in Psychotherapy and Counselling: The Exceptional Relationship
Despite differing emphases of approach, trianee psychotherapists face very similar problems of practice when they move actively into the field of counselling. This work aims to address their needs,... (more)
Older people and their needs: A multi-disciplinary perspective
Offers a resource of debate and practical ideas on how to prepare for dignity and quality of life during the final decades of life. As well as discussing physical independence, mobility, nutrition,... (more)
The Therapist's Encounters with Revenge and Forgiveness
Examining the "exploited-repressive" and "vindictive" reactions to a patient's actual or perceived abuse, this study looks at the concepts of vengeance, revenge fantasy and the granting or... (more)
Choosing a counselling or psychotherapy training: A practical guide
This book takes the reader through all stages of the therapuetic training path, covering topics including: theoretical approaches to counselling and psychotherapy; starting a course; qualification,... (more)
Personality Disorders: Recognition and Clinical Management
With detailed coverage of recognition, assessment and management, this text provides an account of those aspects of personality disorders which are of relevance to psychiatrists, clinical... (more)
Cutting: Understanding and overcoming self-mutilation
This work, written for self-mutilators, parents, friends, therapists, explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviour and describes how the self-mutilator can be helped. 256 pages. (more)
Overcoming addictions: Skills training for people with schizophrenia
The combination of schizophrenia and drug or alcohol addiction is common, devastating and difficult to treat. With a focus on skills training this manual seeks to help the therapist teach... (more)
Motivating Clients in Therapy: Values, Love and the Real Relationship
In this book, the author emphasizes the practitioner's role in enhancing client motivation, stressing the need for the therapist to be relationally active, directive and flexible. 352 pages (more)
Evolving Possibilities: Selected Papers of Bill O'Hanlon
A collection of twenty papers written or co-written by O'Hanlon from 1986 to the present. They cover four different approaches to psychotherapy: Ericksonian approaches, Solution-oriented therapy,... (more)