Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
The Comprehensive Resource Model
Effective therapeutic techniques for the healing of complex trauma
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Traditional methods employed in psychotherapy have limited effectiveness when it comes to healing the psychological effects of trauma, in particular, complex trauma. While a client may seem to make significant breakthroughs in understanding their feelings and experiences on a rational level by talking...
Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy: An Integrated Approach is the first advanced clinical textbook for many years, written for psychotherapists and counsellors who use the theory and techniques of Transactional Analysis in their practice or who are interested in expanding their repertoire. Clarkson...
by Anthony Storr
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Anthony Storr's accessible and humane account of the art of psychotherapy has been widely read by practitioners in training and others in the helping professions, as well as many general readers. The second edition includes a thoroughly revised account of the obsessional personality, and a new chapter...
by Jeremy Holmes, Arietta Slade
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This is a concise, accessible introduction to the basic principles of attachment theory, and their application to therapeutic practice. Bringing together 70 years’ of theory and research, its expert authors provide a much-needed user-friendly guide to attachment-informed psychotherapy.
The...
Transactional Analysis
A Relational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Transactional analysis is growing in popularity as an approach to psychotherapy, and this book provides an in-depth, comprehensive model of theory and practice.
Transactional Analysis: A Relational Perspective presents a relational model of psychotherapy which reflects the theoretical and methodological...
Object Relations Psychotherapy
An Individualized and Interactive Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
"Glickauf-Hughes and Wells present a clear and well-organized review of personality development according to object relations theorists. They offer an explanation and critique of each major theorist, note issues on which there is disagreement (along with areas of investigation not fully explored),...
Simple Treatments for Complex Problems
A Flexible Cognitive Behavior Analysis System Approach To Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) is a set of techniques that has proven to be efficacious in the treatment of chronic depression. This book describes ways in which it can be extended in the treatment of patients with a wide variety of psychological disorders and difficulties,...
Imagining Animals
Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Imagining Animals explores the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy. It examines two contrasting primitive states of mind: the investing of the world about us with life through animism and participation mystique, and the lifeless world of autistic states of mind encountered...
Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders
Metacognition, States of Mind and Interpersonal Cycles
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
An accurate description of the problems associated with personality disorders can lead to psychotherapists providing better treatment for their patients, alleviating some of the difficulties associated with handling such disorders. The authors draw on existing therapeutic approaches and concepts to...
Reaching Across Boundaries of Culture and Class
Widening the Scope of Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
In a world that is forever fragmenting into divisions of ethnicity and class, this groundbreaking book offers an approach to therapy that reaches across the boundaries that usually divide us. Reaffirming psychotherapy's roots in a progressive approach to social change, the contributors show how contemporary...
Being and Relating in Psychotherapy
Ontology and Therapeutic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Clients who seek therapy often feel they are struggling with their whole being: their emotional, physical, relational and social selves. Understanding this is crucial to developing a successful therapeutic relationship.
Using psychodynamic, psychoanalytic and existential ideas, this book explores...
Personal Styles in Neurosis (RLE: Group Therapy)
Implications for Small Group Psychotherapy and Behaviour Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Originally published in 1981, the inadequacies of the ‘medical model’ for the understanding and psychological treatment of neuroses were widely recognized. A number of alternative approaches had arisen in response, but most of the models were theoretical, and little experimental support was documented.
One...
by Leslie Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
A mixture of theory and practice, this study of individual and group resistance in psychotherapy is illustrated by numerous clinical vignettes. Offering techniques for handling and resolving resistance within the group setting, it should appeal to clinicians and group therapists.
Professional Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Ethics and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Developing and maintaining a secure framework for professional practice is a core part of any counselling and psychotherapy training, as all therapists need to understand the key values, ethics and laws that underpin the profession today. But what does being a member of a 'profession’ actually mean,...