Books

• A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters

  Steven Hayes's book for general readers on ACT's six flexibility skills and their science

• A Secure Base

  John Bowlby's 1988 lectures applying attachment theory to parenting and psychotherapy

• A Way of Being

  Carl Rogers' late essays on his life, empathy and the person-centered approach

• ACT Made Simple: An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

  Russ Harris's introductory textbook for therapists learning ACT

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change

  The founders' textbook of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), for clinicians

• Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families

  Sue Johnson extends emotionally focused therapy from couples to individuals and families

• Attachment and Loss

  John Bowlby's three-volume founding statement of attachment theory (1969, 1973, 1980)

• Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns: A Schema Therapy Self-Help and Support Book

  A schema therapy self-help book on modes, by Jacob, van Genderen and Seebauer

• Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

  Marsha Linehan's memoir: from suicidal teenager to the creator of DBT

• Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications, and Theory

  Carl Rogers' 1951 statement of client-centered therapy and his theory of personality

• Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

  Aaron Beck's 1976 case that emotional disorders run on how people interpret events

• Cognitive Therapy of Depression

  The 1979 treatment manual for Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy of depression; rewritten 2024

• Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders

  Beck, Davis and Freeman's clinician handbook of CBT for personality disorders, 1990–2015

• Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

  Marsha Linehan's 1993 textbook that first set out dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)

• Counseling and Psychotherapy: Newer Concepts in Practice

  Carl Rogers' 1942 book on non-directive counseling, with a full recorded case

• DBT Skills Training Manual

  Marsha Linehan's manual for teaching the four sets of DBT skills

• Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed

  Wendy Behary's schema-therapy-based guide to dealing with a narcissist in your life

• EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma

  Francine Shapiro and Margot Silk Forrest's case-based introduction to EMDR

• Ego, Hunger and Aggression: A Revision of Freud's Theory and Method

  Fritz Perls' first book, written in South Africa: the seeds of gestalt therapy

• Emotion-Focused Counselling in Action

  Robert Elliott and Les Greenberg's phase-by-phase introduction to EFT for counsellors

• Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power

  Greenberg and Goldman's couples model: attachment plus identity, power and attraction

• Emotion-Focused Therapy (2011)

  Les Greenberg's short introduction to emotion-focused therapy in APA's theories series

• Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings

  Les Greenberg's practical guide to emotion-focused therapy, framed as emotion coaching

• Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples

  The first manual of emotionally focused couples therapy, by Les Greenberg and Sue Johnson

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures

  Francine Shapiro's primary textbook on EMDR therapy and its eight phases

• Facilitating Emotional Change: The Moment-by-Moment Process

  The 1993 manual that founded process-experiential therapy, now emotion-focused therapy

• Father-Daughter Incest

  Judith Herman's 1981 study of 40 incest survivors and the families they grew up in

• Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive

  Kristin Neff on the active side of self-compassion: protect, provide, motivate

• Gestalt Therapy Verbatim

  Fritz Perls' 1969 talks and session transcripts, home of the "Gestalt prayer"

• Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality

  The 1951 book by Perls, Hefferline and Goodman that founded gestalt therapy

• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

  Steven Hayes's self-help workbook of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) skills

• Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy

  Francine Shapiro's self-help book on how unprocessed memories run our lives

• Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Step-by-Step Treatment Manual with Patient Workbook

  Farrell and Shaw's step-by-step manual and patient workbook for schema therapy in groups

• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

  Sue Johnson's guide for couples to the seven conversations of emotionally focused therapy

• How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

  Lisa Feldman Barrett's case that the brain constructs emotions instead of triggering them

• In and Out the Garbage Pail

  Fritz Perls' 1969 autobiography: his life and the making of gestalt therapy

• Infancy in Uganda: Infant Care and the Growth of Love

  Mary Ainsworth's 1967 field study of Ganda babies, the first empirical study of attachment

• Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse

  An IFS manual for therapists by Frank Anderson, Martha Sweezy and Richard Schwartz

• Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model

  Richard Schwartz's short introduction to IFS for laypeople, revised in 2023

• Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

  Freud's own 28-lecture overview of slips, dreams and neuroses for a general audience

• Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process-Experiential Approach to Change

  The training text for emotion-focused therapy: its tasks, markers and how to learn them

• Learning Process-Based Therapy: A Skills Training Manual for Targeting the Core Processes of Psychological Change in Clinical Practice

  Skills manual for process-based therapy: treat the processes behind problems, not labels

• Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships

  Sue Johnson's popular account of the science of love as an attachment bond

• Maternal Care and Mental Health

  John Bowlby's 1951 WHO report on what children lose when separated from a mother figure

• Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout: Tools to Help You Heal and Recharge When You're Wrung Out by Stress

  Neff and Germer apply Mindful Self-Compassion practices to burnout

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

  Richard Schwartz's book for general readers on Internal Family Systems (IFS)

• On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

  Carl Rogers' essays on therapy, growth and the "fully functioning person"

• Overcoming Depression

  Paul Gilbert's self-help guide to understanding depression and lifting mood

• Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation

  Ainsworth and colleagues' 1978 report of the Baltimore study and the Strange Situation

• Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again

  Young and Klosko's self-help book on the eleven 'lifetraps' behind schema therapy

• Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition

  The founding book of relational frame theory, the behavioral theory of language behind ACT

• Research Methods in Clinical Psychology: An Introduction for Students and Practitioners

  A plain guide to doing and judging clinical psychology research, from question to paper

• Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

  Arntz and van Genderen's treatment manual for schema therapy with borderline patients

• Schema Therapy in Practice: An Introductory Guide to the Schema Mode Approach

  Arntz and Jacob's practical introduction to schema therapy's mode approach

• Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide

  The founding clinical textbook of schema therapy, by Young, Klosko and Weishaar

• Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features

  A short introduction to schema therapy in 30 points, by Rafaeli, Bernstein and Young

• Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

  Kristin Neff's first book: treat yourself as you would a struggling friend

• Studies on Hysteria

  Breuer and Freud's 1895 case book that began psychoanalysis, Anna O. included

• Supervision Essentials for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

  Natasha Prenn and Diana Fosha on how AEDP is supervised and learned, from videotape

• Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program: A Guide for Professionals

  Germer and Neff's professional guide to teaching the eight-session MSC course

• The Anxiety and Worry Workbook: The Cognitive Behavioral Solution

  David A. Clark and Aaron Beck's CBT self-help workbook for anxiety, worry and panic

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

  Bessel van der Kolk's bestseller on trauma's effects on brain and body, and how to heal

• The Compassionate Mind: A New Approach to Life's Challenges

  Paul Gilbert's popular book on compassion as a way to calm an evolved threat system

• The Great Psychotherapy Debate: The Evidence for What Makes Psychotherapy Work

  Wampold and Imel's case that therapy heals through context and relationship, not technique

• The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living

  Russ Harris's self-help guide to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)

• The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice

  Neuroscientists and therapists on how emotion heals, edited by Fosha, Siegel and Solomon

• The Interpretation of Dreams

  Freud's 1899 book arguing every dream is a disguised wish, his first map of the mind

• The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive

  Neff and Germer's step-by-step workbook version of the eight-week MSC program

• The Mosaic Mind: Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors

  Goulding and Schwartz's 1995 book applying IFS to adult survivors of child abuse

• The Oxford Handbook of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

  Reference handbook surveying ACT's theory, six processes, uses and training, 33 chapters

• The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation

  Stephen Porges's 2011 collection of his research papers on the polyvagal theory

• The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection

  Sue Johnson's clinical manual of emotionally focused couple therapy, in three editions

• The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

  Freud's 1901 book reading slips of the tongue and forgotten names as hidden motives

• The Reality Slap

  Russ Harris's ACT self-help book for grief, loss, crisis and trauma

• The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change

  Diana Fosha's 2000 book that introduced AEDP, an emotion-centred dynamic therapy

• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

  Judith Herman's 1992 classic linking private and political trauma, and naming complex PTSD

• Trauma-Focused ACT: A Practitioner's Guide to Working with Mind, Body, and Emotion Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

  Russ Harris's textbook on using ACT across the whole range of trauma-related problems

• Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society

  1996 edited volume collating research on PTSD: biology, memory, culture and treatment

• Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

  Judith Herman asks 30 survivors of sexual and domestic abuse what justice would mean

• Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0

  Diana Fosha's edited update of AEDP twenty years on: healing, transformation, flourishing

• You Are the One You've Been Waiting For

  Richard Schwartz applies Internal Family Systems to couples and intimate relationships

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