(Part 3) Top products from r/psychotherapy

No problem and thank you for the compliment. Overall, I love experiential and psychodynamic theories but I try to approach any theory as a means to an end. Any clinician that becomes too dogmatic risks missing the point (that is, helping the client and not serving your own ends). I like playing between affect and behavior with clients and attachment theory is behind it all for me.

In any case, why don't you ask an easier question? Haha. There is so much material out there for each modality that I could recommend plenty.

Strengths-focused

• 1001 Solution-Focused Questions by Fredrike Bannink
  
  
• Positive CBT by Fredrike Bannink
  
  
• Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
  
  Experiential
  
  
• Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy by Robert Elliott
  
  
• Emotion-Focused Therapy, 2nd ed. by Les Greenberg
  
  
• Focusing in Clinical Practice by Ann Cornell
  
  Attachment
  
  
• Attachment in Psychotherapy by David Wallin
  
  
• Affect Regulation Theory by Daniel Hill
  
  
• The Healing Power of Emotion by Diana Fosha, Daniel Siegel, & Martin Solomon, ed.
  
  Psychodynamic
  
  
• The Transforming Power of Affect by Diana Fosha
  
  
• Treating Affect Phobia by Leigh McCullough
  
  
• Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice by Richard Summers and Jacques Barber
  
  
• Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy by Hanna Levenson
  
  
• Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance by Jeremy Safran
  
  Hope that helps! Feel free to PM me too. I wonder if /u/evilqueenoftherealm would have any suggestions too.

Great question!

While I appreciate the person you respect's opinion, I completely disagree. You wrote:

"I recently was emphatically encouraged by someone I really respect to never ever to praise clients or make anything resembling a positive evaluation because it will take away from client's autonomy and put us in a position of power (to decide how good they and their actions are)."

We are already in a position of power. Clients are -- consciously or unconsiously -- coming to us to feedback on "how good they and their actions are". See:

https://www.amazon.com/Disabling-Professions-Ideas-Progress-Illich/dp/0714525103/ref=sr_1_13?crid=2OPIBTS3V0NUF&keywords=ivan+illich&qid=1554578467&s=books&sprefix=illich%2Cstripbooks%2C149&sr=1-13

... and ...

https://www.amazon.com/Witchdoctors-Psychiatrists-Common-Psychotherapy-Revised/dp/0060970243/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=torrey+psychotherapy&qid=1554578567&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Let's not pretend we are not in a position of power as therapists, for this way lies dragons. Let's recognize that power and use to for good.

See also:

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Helping-Professions-Adolf-Guggenbuhl-Craig/dp/0882143042

I was trained in psychodynamic perspectives, and I got the whole, "don't express praise for clients" thing in my training. While I value much of my psychodynamic training, for me personally this (praising clients) is an area I have come around 180 degrees quite strongly.

Life can be crushing for so many people we see. And (I began to ask myself) we're withholding praise?!? Further, I was taught to adopt a "neutral" stance. For many of us, we've been raised to recognize that "neutral" means "bad", so I would argue that it is impossible to for anyone to truly be neutral in therapy.

So yes, I praise. Always with sensitivity to client needs and dynamics, but I praise.

It seems to work ... both for me and my clients.

Then again, I might be wrong.

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The one I read most recently is Dare to Lead by Brene Brown. It’s pretty good. When I first got promoted I read Suddenly in Charge - it does a great job of helping understand the dynamics in both directions (managing up and managing down).

I’d recommend reading Dibs, it’s a great study on how being non directive can be effective and bring about change.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dibs-Search-Self-Personality-Development/dp/014013459X/ref=asc_df_014013459X/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310831412334&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=849136210028927961&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007450&hvtargid=pla-523738707030&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

Full disclosure: I have not read any of these books. They are all in my Amazon Smile wish list :) Also, some are specifically for transgender issues, but some are geared toward the client or LGBTQ community. You can read them and integrate the information to support your practice.

• Gender Quest Workbook
  
  
• Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients
  
  
• Counseling LGBTI Clients
  
  
• Nurturing Queer Youth: Family Therapy Transformed
  
  
• Handbook of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity in Counseling and Psychotherapy
  
  
• Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families
  
  
• Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community

I've found this small and easy digital recorder handy, and you can password-protect: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KBWN8L1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Best wishes!

https://www.amazon.com/Developing-Theoretical-Orientation-Counseling-Psychotherapy/dp/0133488934/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494603290&sr=8-1&keywords=theoretical+orientation+psychology

Came across this on Amazon today and thought of this thread. Seems like it would be pretty helpful for students just starting out developing their orientation.

I have been meaning to read these three books - https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0199977917/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=C6H928G6X7GFZR39VNF1&dpPl=1&dpID=41hjXWqrPnL (Destroying Sanctuary, Restoring Sanctuary, and Creating Sanctuary) - they seem really relevant to my own experience in community mental health - I just haven't managed to get my burned out self to the library with the documents that would allow me to get a library card. Anyway, I thought they might be useful to you, too.

Hi, I did a Masters in Mental Health and Philosophy at Warwick University, UK. It was super interesting and nearly all mental health practice is born from philosophy! This serves as a basic introduction : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Esssential-Philosophy-Psychiatry-International-Perspectives/dp/019922871X/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522493706&sr=1-7&keywords=International+Perspectives+in+Philosophy+and+Psychiatry

I can't remember if Graham's MMPI-2 book describes Welsh codes or not...but it's my preferred reference manual overall.

Other references that I know for a fact describe Welsh codes:

My second favorite reference, Friedman's MMPI-2 book.

Nichols' MMPI-2 book also describes Welsh codes, but I wouldn't recommend it as a resource overall...he tends to run with interpretations that are clearly outside the bounds of what the current research substantiates.

Edit: Graham does briefly mention Welsh coding, only to say that "...the usefulness of these coding systems diminished, and in the revised version of the MMPI-2 manual a coding system is no longer described or recommended."

If you want an updated version of person centered therapy (Roger's therapy), there is a handbook from 2013 (Handbook of Person centered therapy). It covers the classical approach as well as the new approaches like Greenberg's EFT, focusing etc...

Oh another interesting book is Women, Sex, and Addiction:


https://www.amazon.com/Women-Sex-Addiction-Search-Power/dp/0060973218

There are a couple books I think you may really jive with based on your question.

• The Structure of Psychotherapy
  https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Individual-Psychotherapy-Bernard-Beitman/dp/0898624614
  
  
• Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration
  https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Psychotherapy-Integration-Clinical-Psychology/dp/0195165799/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491861695&sr=1-1&keywords=handbook+of+psychotherapy+integration
  
  All of that being said, I consider myself a multimodal REBT Therapist. Along with what Arnold Lazarus lays out in the integration handbook and REBT, I also derive a lot of benefit from Frankl's Logotherapy and Stocism.
  
  I personally think that theoretical integration is an exercise in futility. Rather, I think that one can be theoretically grounded but add a technical integration of various processes and techniques.
  
  
  

Apologizes if you've already read it, but "The Explosive Child" by Rosse Green and the whole Collaborative Problem Solving approach was a game changer for me when I worked with behavioural kids.

https://www.amazon.ca/Explosive-Child-Understanding-Frustrated-Chronically/dp/0062270451

Here are some books that helped me starting out:

https://www.amazon.com/Therapy-101-Modern-Psychotherapy-Techniques/dp/1572245689/ref=nodl_


https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Counseling-Techniques-Beginning-Therapists/dp/1403383278


https://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Every-Counselor-Should-Know/dp/0134694899/ref=pd_aw_sbs_14_2/140-3603070-6736458?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0134694899&pd_rd_r=6244c735-a8ca-477d-b6da-c7479d997978&pd_rd_w=ApuBS&pd_rd_wg=P7EIR&pf_rd_p=1c5a26b5-ed76-40f7-b20c-b5d5bd4bc6be&pf_rd_r=CB0QXMR53WBGJ8149ZZ5&psc=1&refRID=CB0QXMR53WBGJ8149ZZ5


https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Therapy-Generation-Therapists-Patients/dp/0061719617/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_3/140-3603070-6736458_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0061719617&pd_rd_r=87c54203-1b24-4fc2-a300-c79a7561e18c&pd_rd_w=F5pJ4&pd_rd_wg=m066p&pf_rd_p=6e6afc8a-fbbd-4649-97cf-4e08f5113612&pf_rd_r=DXCB9181CMTWCT0EEPTM&psc=1&refRID=DXCB9181CMTWCT0EEPTM

There's a book that was just released:
https://www.amazon.com/Hakomi-Mindfulness-Centered-Somatic-Psychotherapy-Comprehensive/dp/0393710726

And also the website Ron Kurtz's widow runs has a bunch of material: https://hakomi.com/

And the Hakomi Institute: https://hakomi.com/

Carl Rogers' On Becoming a Person

I jav found this book to be useful in treating OCD in which obsessions are the main focus. The Treatment of Obsessions by S. Rachman - The Treatment of Obsessions (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Science and Practice Series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0198515375/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_oaK2BbAN7VXNW