Psychotherapy Books

Many foster and adoptive parents lose hope when they experience challenging and oppositional child behaviors. This book gives parents the tools and strategies to respond to these outbursts - particularly those that stem from a child's potentially...

Trauma is one of the hottest contemporary topics within psychoanalysis, whilst many psychoanalysts are increasingly interested in applying their skills outside the traditional setting of the consulting room, especially in response to disasters, wars and...

Distinct from other success or motivation books which emphasize skills, tactics, or pop gimmicks, Developing Relentless Drive and Determination digs deep into the theory and practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) to grow those qualities of...

This manual provides clinicians with guidance to conduct Compassion Focused Group Therapy with patients suffering from severe forms of mental illness.

In the intricate landscape of childhood emotional and behavioral challenges, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) stands as one of the most daunting. Characterized by intense irritability and explosive outbursts, DMDD can transform the journey...

This book explores how hope operates as an ambivalent force in relation to issues of sex and gender, power, and identity in both our private and public lives.

The fifth edition of Psychoeducational Groups builds on and extends the strategies and information from previous editions, describes and presents the basic and fundamental information needed to design, plan, organize structure and facilitate effective...

This book presents a novel, theoretically informed practical approach to voice hearing, which aims to help readers improve relational harmony, reduce distress related to voice hearing and improve experiences of supportive approaches.

Counseling for Eating Disorders in Women focuses on women whose eating patterns have generated side-effects on other aspects of their lives such as work, health and family. Women with problems connected with over-eating, under-eating, and poor eating...

Are psychodrama and psychoanalysis compatible theories? Contemporary Psychodrama presents the original concepts of a leading light of the Brazilian psychodrama movement.

Ethics in Mental Health-Substance Use aims to explore the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas occurring from Mental Health-Substance Use problems, and to inform, develop, and educate by sharing and pooling knowledge, and enhancing expertise, in this fast...

Bringing Systems Thinking to Life presents the breadth of applications of Bowen family systems therapy in a single volume. Presenting creative and innovative appications of Bowen theory, the book provides practitioners and stakeholders with a...

This book provides a balanced, up-to-date, state-of-the-art account of the scientific foundations surrounding the topic of complicated grief.

Controversial yet powerfully influential to this day, this classic collection of Bowlby's lectures offers important guidelines for child rearing based on the crucial role of early relationships.

Nonlinear Contingency Analysis is a guide to treating clinically complex behavior problems such as delusions and hallucinations.

Influential on those in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis as well as families, this book remains essential reading for anyone seeking a creative and compelling understanding of autism in children. Includes a new foreword by Maria Rhode.

This book explores the multitude of thoughts, theories, opinions, methods, and approaches to play therapy in order to highlight the unity and diversity of theory and perspective in the field.

Helping Clients Deal with Adversity by Changing Their Attitudes: A Concise Therapist Guide provides an outline for therapists wishing to help clients deal with life's adversities by encouraging them to change their attitudes.

At the core we are all vibrations, musical compositions in motion, and that is why we resonate in communion with the world of music. The human voice is the only instrument that sounds from within, and our singing voice is deeply connected to heart and...

This book explores the single-session work done by Irving Yalom and considers the implications of this work for the current theory and practice of single-session therapy (SST).

Examines how mystical practices and experiences are being applied in secular contexts today.Today is an exciting time for mysticism. Interest in mysticism today often involves what Aldous Huxley called "applied mysticism"-that is, taking mystical...

Doing Men's Work: Authentic Conversations with Men on Family, Stress, Loss, and Resiliency examines the intricacies of men's lives, mapping their journey through moments of vulnerability towards the cultivation of resilience. The book features...

Meditation can bring peace and mental stability, as described in ancient Buddhist texts. Meditation also gives us clear comprehension, which is an ability to see what's going on inside our minds. While at times this can be wonderful, for most people,...

The search for love is not linear, even for the expertsImagine being a Clinical Psychologist and couples therapist, helping others find love yet never finding it yourself. This was Phoebe Rogers until she discovered Schema Therapy and applied her...

This practical resource integrates family therapy theory with playful interventions and techniques to allow family therapists to successfully engage and include children in the session.

Esta obra, dirigida a psicólogos y psicoterapeutas, desarrolla en un lenguaje accesible y desde la óptica sistémica, el uso de cuentos e historias en contextos terapéuticos para el trabajo con niños y sus familias. El uso de historias en la terapia es...

Even as psychology becomes increasingly splintered and specialized, as evi­ denced by the growing number of special interest divisions of the American Psy­ chological Association, many psychologists are devoting their energies...

This work offers a psychodynamic insight into Thanatic behaviours and considers the implications for organizational studies. To further inform organizational leadership theory and praxis there is a requirement to uncover the origins of these destructive...

Couples counseling is distinct from individual and family therapy and, while ideas from these other formats may be overlapping, applying theoretical concepts to couples has distinctive challenges. Behavioral, Humanistic-Existential, and Psychodynamic...

In this remarkable survey of "the communicative repertory of humans," John Gedo demonstrates the central importance to theory and therapeutics of the communication of information.  He begins by surveying those modes of communication encountered in...

Narrative Therapies with Children and their Families introduces and develops the principles of narrative approaches to systemic therapeutic work, and shows how they can provide a powerful framework for engaging troubled children and their families...

Parents Are Our Other Client: Ideas for Therapists, Social Workers, Support Workers, and Teachers stands out among the vast literature on counseling children and families by finally giving therapists, social workers, support workers, and teachers the...

Originally published in 1983, this study describes the experience of severely deprived children referred for individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic in London, and at other clinics and schools.

Kate Tchanturia, is Reader of the Psychology of Eating Disorders and a Consultant Psychologist at King's College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Trust National Adult Eating Disorder Service, London, UK.

The separate arts therapies - drama, art, music and dance - are becoming available to increasing numbers of clients as mental health professionals discover their potential to reach and help people. But what are the arts therapies, and what do they offer...

Counsellors and psychotherapists are faced with ever-increasing complexity in their work with adolescents. In this book, Bronagh Starrs offers an understanding of developmental and therapeutic process from a relational-phenomenological Gestalt...

This practical, user-friendly manual shows mental health professionals how to implement play therapy with adolescents and adults and how to conceptualize client struggles using a wealth of creative approaches.Creative Play Therapy with Adolescents...

At the Interface of Transactional Analysis, Psychoanalysis, and Body Psychotherapy revolves around two intertwined themes: that of the critique and expansion of the theory and practice of transactional analysis and that of the generative richness...

Beginning Your Counseling Career provides a comprehensive overview of the counseling profession and equips students with the clinical and administrative skills they need to progress in the field. Helpfully organized into five sections, the text addresses...

Travels with the Self uses a hermeneutic perspective to critique psychology and demonstrate why the concept of the self and the modality of cultural history are so vitally important to the profession of psychology. Each chapter focuses on a theory,...