The Handbook of Individual Therapy

The Cultural Context of British Psychotherapy - Colin Feltham
PART ONE: THE PSYCHODYNAMIC TRADITION
Psychodynamic Therapy: Contemporary Freudian Approach - Jessica Yakeley
Psychodynamic Therapy: The Independent Approach - Kevin Jones
Psychodynamic Therapy: Jungian and Post-Jungian Approaches - Ann Casement
Psychodynamic Therapy: The Kleinian Approach - Julia Segal
PART TWO: THE HUMANISTIC-EXISTENTIAL TRADITION
Person-Centred Therapy - Mike Worrall
Existential Therapy - Emmy van Deurzen
Gestalt Therapy - Dave Mann
Transactional Analysis - Charlotte Sills
PART THREE: THE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL TRADITION
Cognitive Therapy - Stirling Moorey
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - Windy Dryden
Compassion-Focused Therapy - Paul Gilbert and Chris Irons
Behavioural Activation - Pierce J. O'Carroll
PART FOUR: OTHER SPECIFIC APPROACHES
Cognitive Analytic Therapy - Mark Dunn
Solution-Focused Therapy - Alasdair J. Macdonald
Interpersonal Therapy - Susan Howard
PART FIVE: BROADER DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
Mindfulness in Individual Therapy - Jody Mardula and Frances Larkin
Narrative Therapy - Martin Payne
The Transpersonal in Individual Therapy - John Rowan
Integrative Therapy - Henry Hollanders
Pluralistic Therapy - John McLeod, Julia McLeod, Mick Cooper and Windy Dryden
PART SIX: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
Research in Individual Therapy - Andrew Reeves
The Training and Supervision of Individual Therapists - Greg Nolan, Jane Macaskie & Bonnie Meekums

Windy Dryden is Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies as well as being the Programme Co-ordinator of the MSc in Rational-Emotive and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Dr Andrew Reeves has worked as a counsellor and supervisor in various setting for over twenty years. Originally qualified as a social worker, he specialised in child protection and adult mental health before moving to working full-time as a counsellor at the University of Liverpool. Following the death by suicide of one of his clients early in his career, he undertook extensive research into ways in which counsellors and psychotherapists work with suicidal clients and he has written extensively about this since. His recent book with SAGE, Counselling Suicidal Clients (2010) has quickly become a popular title, as has Key Issues for Counselling in Action: Second Edition, which he co-edited with Prof Windy Dryden. His award-winning training DVD, Tight Ropes and Safety Nets: Counselling Suicidal Clients (with Jon Shears and Sue Wheeler) is now being used by many therapy training programmes throughout the UK. His new book, An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: From Theory to Practice (2012) has several aims: to help provide prospective students of counselling and psychotherapy with information to support their training decisions; to help integrate theory into their early steps in working with clients on a practice placement; and to help bridge the move from qualification into practice as a therapist. He has other new projects in the pipeline, including editing the new series, Essential Issues for Counselling and Psychotherapy in which he will be writing the new title, Working with Risk in Counselling and Psychotherapy, as well as working with Windy Dryden on the sixth edition of the bestselling SAGE text, The Handbook of Individual Therapy.

Dryden and Reeves' Handbook freshly maps the current status of psychotherapy in the UK. It is a compendium that can serve as an excellent reference point for an academic as well as practitioner. Its depth and breadth extend beyond UK borders and will be very much appreciated by an international reader. It is an exceptional achievement!