Individual Psychotherapy Books
Committed Uncertainty in Psychotherapy: Essays in Honour of Peter Lomas
This collection of essays is a tribute to the work of psychologist, Peter Lomas. Lomas trained as a Freudian psycho-analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, gradually becoming more... (more)
Modes of Therapeutic Action: Enhancement of Knowledge, Provision of Experience, and Engagement in Relationship
How do we position ourselves in relation to our patients? Do we participate as neutral object, as empathetic self-object, or as authentic subject? Do we strive to enhance the patient's knowledge, to... (more)
Personality development and psychotherapy in our diverse society: A sourcebook
This work aims to encompass the entire range of cultural influence in clinical work at present. It addresses mental health issues relevant to society, including assessment, treatment, specific... (more)
Fundamentals of an Integrated Model of Psychotherapy
A presentation of an integrated model of therapy. It offers a way of tailoring each clinical encounter to the needs of the particular patient, from the mildly-distressed anxiety-disordered to the... (more)
Body Process: Working with the Body in Psychotherapy
This work examines the therapeutic significance of posture, movements, and bodily experience for the psychotherapy patient. The author then provides a framework for incorporating these physical... (more)
Challenges to counselling and psychotherapy:
A radical challenge to the foundations of therapy. The author's ultimate target is not counselling, but the abuse of professionalization and our current deity - consumerism. 192 pages. (more)
Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Issues in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, counselling, clinical psychology and related therapies are not necessarily clear-cut. This work looks at theoretical, clinical, professional and social issues... (more)
Lifemaps of People with Learning Disabilities
The use of lifemaps with people who have learning disabilities has proved particularly effective for a better understanding of their emotional perspectives and needs. This book presents fourteen... (more)
Weathering the Storms: Psychotherapy for Psychosis
'In a series of fascinating supervisory case studies Jackson draws on Kleinian concepts and Scandinavian clinical experience to show how a psychotherapeutic approach can, through a combination of... (more)
The healing journey for couples: Journal of mutual discovery
Designed to develop and improve a relationship, this is one of first three books in the "Healing Journey" series. It features 45 guided journal entries to help couples increase communication, get in... (more)
The healing journey: A journal of self-discovery
Personal journals are sometimes an valuable adjunct to psychotherapy. This journal contains exercises designed to help people explore their background, personality, relationships, and goals for the... (more)
Cognitive Psychotherapy of Psychotic and Personality Disorders: Handbook of Theory and Practice
This volume covers the theories, models and practice of cognitive therapy with psychotic patients. It examines the assessment, formulation and treatment methods for a range of disorders, and includes... (more)
A finger in the wound: Body politics in quincentennial Guatemala
Many Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as "a finger in the wound". This text explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in a study of the civil war and its aftermath.... (more)
Erotic Transference and Countertransference: Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy
Bringing together contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice, this text represents a spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives,... (more)
Solution-Oriented Therapy for Chronic and Severe Mental Illness (Hardback)
See catalogue number 90552 for the paperback edition. Explaining how to use solution-oriented therapy to work with the severely mentally ill, this text uses case examples to illustrate how therapists... (more)
Life, Psychotherapy and Death: The End of Our Exploring
Exploring the subject of death from the point of view of a psychotherapist, this text aims to look at death and what it means, as a method of helping others to come to terms with it. It discusses... (more)
Zen and the heart of psychotherapy:
In this text, the author - a practicing psychotherapist - explores the challenges and joys of making our life a coherent whole. Each chapter takes a short Buddhist text and explores what it teaches... (more)
Nature guided therapy: Brief integrative strategies for health and well being
Exploring the relationship between nature-based acitivites and relaxation, this work provides an evolutionary history of the relationship between humans and their environment. Clinical applications... (more)
Psychodynamic psychotherapy: Learning to Listen From Multiple Perspectives
Designed to teach therapists how to listen and intervene from multiple perspectives. Through study and analysis of session transcripts, the reader learns how to listen and formulate interpretations... (more)
Ethics: Working with Ethical and Moral Dilemmas in Psychotherapy
The book brings together a wide range of theoretical perspectives on ethics and morality, from formal research studies to theoretical and philisophical explanations of the ethics of psychotherapy.... (more)
Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy
Beyond the Brain seriously challenges the existing neurophysiological models of the brain. After three decades of extensive research on those non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by... (more)
Carl Rogers' Helping System: Journey and substance
In this guide to person-centred therapy, from its earliest beginnings to the present day, the author - a working colleague of Carl Rogers - charts its origin and development, its central concepts and... (more)
From medicine to psychotherapy:
The papers brought together in this volume reflect the impetus towards diversity that resulted from the author's own training, which embraced many forms of psychotherapy, and the clinical necessity... (more)
Approaches to Case Study: A Handbook for Those Entering the Therapeutic Field
Draws on anthropological, biographical, and medical models of the case-study, and stresses ways of bridging the humanist and scientific approaches. This book emphasises the value of the... (more)
Pillar of salt: Gender, memory, and the perils of looking back
Recovered memory has become a contentious issue in therapy. This work moves beyond the poles of 'true' and 'false' memories to show how women's stories reveal layers of gendered and ambiguous... (more)
Deconstructing Psychotherapy
Taking the discursive and postmodern turn in psychotherapy a significant step forward, this book reflects on the role of psychotherapy in contemporary culture, develops critiques of language in... (more)
Creative Training: Sociodrama and Team-building
Looking at how to run staff training groups and at what to do with stuck teams, this 'how to do it' guide is aimed at people in the health and social services who want their training to be... (more)
Heart and Soul: The Therapeutic Face of Philosophy
This book examines those concepts and questions which are at the heart of both psychotherapy and philosophy. These include: the nature of the self; motivation and subjectivity; the limits of... (more)