101 Healing Stories
George W. Burns, an experienced Eriksonian psychotherapist, is indeed a master in the art of using stories for healing purposes. As Michael Yapko puts it…
A Clinician's Guide to Legal Issues in Psychotherapy
The conflict between legal methods of doing business and the aims of other professional disciplines can be a daunting morass for the individual trying to…
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A Map of the Mind
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A Primer for Beginning Psychotherapy
When I was beginning as a psychotherapist, I combed local bookstores searching for a therapy cookbook that would fill in the informational gaps left out…
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Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of Self
In this well written, original and highly specialized book authors are arguing for the importance of attachment and mentalization in the developing human…
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Bad Therapy
Bookstores around the country are filled with "how-to-do" therapy cookbooks. Few of these books fulfill their promise of "teaching"…
Before Forgiving
In Wally Lamb's novel I Know This Much is True (1998), Dominick recounts his memories of a turbulent family life of violence and mental illness.…
Betrayed as Boys
From the Guilford Web Site:````In the growing professional literature on child sexual abuse, few books focus specifically on the experience of victimized boys and men. Interweaving vital elements of psychodynamic and trauma-oriented clinical practice, thi
Body and Soul
In Body and Soul, Ellis Amdur gives us a profound understanding that therapy is first of all a dialogue where the therapist "attends to another." Amdur's 98 page book shows us the importance of existential and phenomenological psychology as it teaches us
Brain Science and Psychological Disorders
The connection between the brain and behavior is both fascinating and frustrating, and something about which mental health clinicians should care deeply.…
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Brief Adolescent Therapy Homework Planner
May the Focus be With You:``A Review of Three Brief Therapy Homework Planners -- Suitable for``Providers and Consumers````````Brief Therapy Homework Planner, by Gary M. Schultheis,``1998. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 240 + xi pages,.with disk (MS Word``fo
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Brief Child Therapy Homework Planner
May the Focus be With You:``A Review of Three Brief Therapy Homework Planners -- Suitable for``Providers and Consumers````````Brief Therapy Homework Planner, by Gary M. Schultheis,``1998. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 240 + xi pages,.with disk (MS Word``fo
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Brief Therapy Homework Planner
May the Focus be With You:``A Review of Three Brief Therapy Homework Planners -- Suitable for``Providers and Consumers````````Brief Therapy Homework Planner, by Gary M. Schultheis,``1998. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 240 + xi pages,.with disk (MS Word``fo
Care of the Psyche
Stanley Jackson is best known for his authoritative history Melancholia and Depression. His more recent book Care of the Psyche provides a…
Child and Adolescent Treatment for Social Work Practice
Dr. Aiello offers the beginning social work clinician a practice primer of pragmatic and theoretical value. She weaves situational practice technique tig…
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Choosing an Online Therapist
This book, by Gary Stofle, Secretary/Treasurer of the International Society of Mental Health Online (ISMHO), is the firs…
Clinical Dilemmas in Psychotherapy
Of all our cultural icons, of all the things that should be placed into a time capsule to remember our current society by, psychotherapy is one of those…
Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders
If you are a mental health professional, or are studying to be one, chances are good that you already own David Barlow’s Clinical Handbook of Psy…
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Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems
Judith Beck is a leading advocate of Cognitive Therapy, an approach which is currently widely used in both US and UK medical systems. One of the pe…
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Compassion
Susan Sontag once wrote that "life, when not a school for heartlessness, is an education in sympathy". We are constantly confronted with other…
Confidential Relationships
Nearly every essay in the dozen that make up this collection sheds genuinely fresh light on some aspect of the "confidential relationships" ref…
Confiding
The literary genre of therapists' tales is by now well established. Case histories of abnormal psychology have always had plenty of intrinsic interest beca…
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Counseling in Genderland
This is an excellent beginner's guide for any therapist who is working with a transgendered client for the very first time. It is comprehensive in its bread…
Counseling with Choice Theory
Dr. Glasser's work is a companion to his earlier work Choice Theory, a collection of case studies useful to practitioners already familiar with G…
Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion
The title is one to make most of us in the business cringe, and the APA is of course the 'big' APA, the psychology one, not the other. Consequently the…
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Critical Issues in Psychotherapy
Today, we live in an age when practicing psychotherapists are faced with increasing economic and administrative pressure to conform to the status quo. Ma…
Decoding the Ethics Code
Lets be honest, for most of us in the field of clinical psychology, learning ethics is boring. Certainly not because the material is unimportant, rather…
Dissociative Children
Everyone dissociates. Dissociation is a common defense mechanism that is available to all of us. Children quite commonly use dissociative def…
E-Therapy
Although nothing in life remains constant but change, change is something mankind resists. It is clear to most people that the parts of our world based o…
Early Warning
Early Warning contains 29 real cases involving ethical issues in presymptomatic testing for genetic disorders; all but six of them concern Hunting…
Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy
Secular psychotherapy has accomplished so much for those who seek its help. Yet in this, another of their professional works, James Griffith, M.D., a psy…
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Energy Psychology Interactive
Recent years have seen the emergence of astonishingly effective new therapies for psychological disturbances €“ and although there has been much media pu…
Ethics and Values in Psychotherapy
Among the recently increasing number of publications on ethics in psychotherapy, Alan Tjeltveit's Ethics and Values in Psychotherapy stands out as on…
Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling
I can understand why the first edition (1998) of this book received the many accolades it did. As the book’s sub title indicates, this is indeed a…
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Expectation
The ways in which most clients use therapy has long been at odds with the most popular theories of therapeutic change. As anyone who has been in th…
Expressing Emotion
Kennedy-Moore and Watson have teamed together to develop a text that is a supreme achievement in the psychological literature on emotion. The text, moreo…
Facing Human Suffering
Bringing psychology into the realm of science, out of the realm of softer, philosophical origins has not been easy. Double blind, intention to treat, ra…
Family Therapy
Author and family therapist Lynn Hoffman traces her journey as a therapist from 1963 to the present. The theme of this 294-page book is how the differen…
Favorite Counseling and Therapy Homework Assignments
A fantastic collection of "Homework Assignment," i.e. the work that goes on in between session by a fantastic group of therapists, following on fr…
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Flourishing
I Many of the chapters of this book are based on presentations given at the first Summit of Positive Psychology, held at The Gallup Organization…
Good Chemistry
Psychiatrist Julie Holland's Good Chemistry could equally be called In Praise of Psychedelics. She argues that when used in accordance with the evidence, drugs such as MDNA, cannabis, LSD and psilocybin can be psychologically helpful for people with many
Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
The Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients offers a brief introduction to the history of LGB activism an…
How Clients Make Therapy Work
The authors of How Clients Make Therapy Work are unrepentant optimists. Clients have within them, say Bohart and Tallman, the seeds of their own cur…
How Psychotherapists Develop
In their 15- year study Orlinsky and Rǿnnestad have given the therapeutic community a great insight into the development and experiences of psychoth…
How to Fail As a Therapist
The book consists of 109 pages across 12 chapters that address frequent habits of regimented therapists. Without a proper dose of personal, along w…
How to Go to Therapy
This is the best book about therapy I've read in quite awhile. Written by a journalist rather than a mental health professional, it is very informative w…
Hypnosis for Inner Conflict Resolution
PARTS work in hypnotherapy is of considerable interest to many practitioners and students of hypnosis. This book gives an operational account that any th…
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In Session
A member of an online group asked had anyone read this book; she having noticed it in a bookstore, wondered if it were worth buying. I read a few onl…
Incorporating Spirituality in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Let me start by questioning the wisdom of including Appendixes A-D (pp. 215-295) in the book. While this material is useful, it is available on line in…
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Its Your Hour
Michael Bettinger has written a book that he hopes will inform lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) people about psychotherapy. In many respects, Bettinger—himself a psychotherapist for 30 years—has succeeded. It’s Your Hour is…
Letters to a Young Therapist
We never regret reading letters from a well-traveled, earnest and thoughtful source. It is a year's correspondence to a young therapist named Laura, pres…
Love's Executioner
What do you want? This simple question generates some of the most intimate answers, even between perfect strangers. I want my to see m…
Metaphoria: Metaphor and Guided Metaphor for Psychotherapy and Healing
Our most cherished beliefs and deeply held convictions are the stories we tell ourselves that shape our world. In Metaphoria, Rubin Battino,…
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Mindfulness and Acceptance
This book is a compilation of chapters prepared within the context of the Nevada Conference on Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Relationship held in 2002. Le…
Moments of Engagement
This book, written by the author of Listening to Prozac, is just the sort of psychology book I enjoy reading. Each chapter is a set piece about "…
Momma and the Meaning of Life
It must have been nearly ten years ago when I read Irvin Yalom's earlier tales of psychotherapy,…
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People For Change
More than ten years have passed since Miller and Rollnick introduced the concept of Motivational Interviewing (MI) as an effective counselling style for…
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Multiculturalism and the Therapeutic Process
Most professional mental health associations in the developed world now have policies and procedures aimed at not only applying affirmative action in the…
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Our Inner World
In Our Inner World, the still-arid fields of psychodynamics and psychotherapy are watered refreshingly by the knowledge-laden, insightful stre…
Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors
In the 1950s, when psychotherapy told of dark, irrational things like repressed drives, the self or reflexes, psychologist Albert Ellis formed a rather u…
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Personality and Psychotherapy
A glaring deficit in clinical psychology today is the lack of a clear bridge between personology (the study of personality) and the application and admin…
Philosophical Counselling and the Unconscious
This book is a must read for all counselors. All too often counseling modalities become closed systems, rigid and stubbornly resistant to change or…
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Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and the Politics of Human Relationships
This is a book for anyone who has ever felt the slightest discomfort of doubt about psychotherapy. It's sure to raise the ire of practitioners and patie…
Psychotherapy Isn't What You Think
The title of James F. T. Bugental's Psychotherapy Isn't What You Think is a play on words. While not repudiating the normal course of psychotherapy,…
Rapid Cognitive Therapy
"Rapid Cognitive Therapy" is a practical guide for analytically-oriented therapists who want to help clients make the changes they need as quickly as pos…
Rent Two Films and Let's Talk in the Morning
Sometimes the most difficult step in the therapeutic process is “breaking the ice” – finding the inlet into the client’s primary psyc…
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Self-Determination Theory in the Clinic
It was William Miller in the 80's who began to investigate human motivation and ambivalence, the great leveler of motivated action. In essence, human be…
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Tales of Unknowing
Continuing the project begun in Demystifying Therapy, Tales of Unknowing seeks to demythologize the therapeutic process. Spinelli's…
Talk is Not Enough
The stated subject of this book is, "what it means to get help through psychotherapy." Early on, Dr. Gaylin, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at…
Telling Secrets
This is a book with drawings from a patient who was abused in both physical and sexual ways while growing up. She was gang raped at the age of 11. Her famil…
The Behavioral Medicine Treatment Planner
Includes disk with software. Also available in a version without disk.
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The Brief Couples Therapy Homework Planner with Disk
The verdict: Useful but … If you are a computer-owning clinician well versed in brief therapy who wants to immediately expand your reperto…
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The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
This is a well laid out treatment planner book with the potential of saving a clinician many hours of painstakingly writing a treatment plan. A clinician…
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The Clinical Child Documentation Sourcebook
This book is one in the Practice Planner Series, which contains many books geared towards various aspects of clinical care, treatment planning and…
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The Clinical Documentation Sourcebook
Smart Paperwork The Clinical Documentation Sourcebook delivers exactly what it promises on the cover - ready to use forms for managing e…
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The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner - Second Edition comes in two versions:…
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The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner may be just what you need if you are writing treatment plans for marital and family therapy. It is for…
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The Cure of Souls
In a time when clinical psychotherapy is becoming increasingly divided between biological psychiatry and new-age therapy, Robert Woolfolk's new book gives u…
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The Death of Psychotherapy
As psychotherapy turns the corner on its first century, it's being asked to ante up in the serious game of science. After ten decades of extraordinary (a…
The Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
Managed care is the bane of most therapists' lives. Our paperwork load has increased beyond belief. Our incomes have been cut in half or worse. And we are e…
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The Heart & Soul of Change
According to the editors of this book, the question of whether or not psychotherapy is effective has been positively settled in the affirmative by more…
The Heroic Client
Since it was published last year, The Heroic Client has already established itself as part of the psychotherapy canon. Barry Duncan and Scott Miller'…
The Making of a Therapist
Psychotherapy is a social phenomenon that is part of modern culture. In many cases it has little to do with academic or professional training. Some psyc…
The Mummy at the Dining Room Table
As indicated in the title, this book is the presentation of clinical examples 32 therapists found illustrative and interesting to the point of uniqueness…
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy
Louis Cozolino is professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, and a clinical psychologist in private practice. This book is part of a series edited…
The Older Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
This is a very well laid out treatment planner book. This book has the potential of saving a clinician many hours of writing a treatment plan. A clinicia…
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The Pastoral Counseling Treatment Planner
This book is written for a beginner, fresh out of Seminary. It is a good guidelines book, but in no way should it be used in a "one size fits all" manner…
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The Pornographer's Grief
The Pornographer's Grief is Joseph Glenmullen's first book; he later wrote…
The Portable Coach
The Portable Coach can play a unique role in the book market, since it has been written by an author who developed an interesting and original met…
The Problem of Evil
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The Psychotherapy Documentation Primer
The Psychotherapy Documentation Primer (2nd Edition) is part of Wiley's Practice management series. The series provides mental health practitioners a wealth of jargon-free, practical, hands-on information to aid in the vicissitudes of clinical p…
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The Psychotherapy Documentation Primer
The Psychotherapy Documentation Primer (2nd Edition) is part of Wiley's Practice management series. The series provides mental health…
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The Real World Guide to Psychotherapy Practice
As the title suggests, this series of essays seeks to provide up to date information concerning psychotherapy as it is currently practised 'in the real worl…
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Theory and Practice of Brief Therapy
To suggest that this book might have had problems in selling since 1988 when it was published, is probably reasonable, given a brief look at the chapter…
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Therapy's Delusions
The aim of Therapy's Delusions is to show that psychodynamic psychotherapy is unscientific, wasteful, ineffective and dangerous. The term "psychod…
Toward a Psychology of Awakening
John Welwood's book, Toward a Psychology of Awakening, is a gem. Several books have been written in recent years about the relationship betw…
Tracking Mental Health Outcomes
At this point in the history of psychotherapy, one of the most needed and yet most overlooked areas in outpatient mental health treatment is the measurement…
Treating Attachment Disorders
If you have been around long enough, you will remember the black and white films produced by Bowlby, who began looking at children left behind in hospita…
Treatment for Chronic Depression
As its title suggests, this book has a single, limited focus: a psychotherapeutic approach designed for one patient group (chronically depressed outpatien…
Troubled
Wilderness therapy programs are based on the idea that if you take a troubled teen out of their environment, away from corrupting influences, and put them in nature, so they gain skills to be independent and conquer challenges, they will then break out of
What the Buddha Felt
Epstein discusses the rise of his interest in psychotherapy and Buddhism, combining ideas from both approaches to human life. He explains how early in hi…
What Works for Whom? Second Edition
Roth and Fonagy have tackled an enormous and difficult question with all the nuance and intellectual muscle required in their second edition of What W…
Whispers from the East
Ambitious but … Whispers from the East: Applying the Principles of Eastern Healing to Psychotherapy attempts to answer a fascinating an…
Wise Therapy
Tim LeBon's Wise Therapy is an accessibly pitched and clearly written introductory book on the application of philosophy to counseling, a specialt…
Working Minds
Textbooks that introduce research methods to undergraduate and graduate students of psychology generally do not miss the opportunity to discuss the disti…