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Hypnotherapy and NLP Counselling and Psychotherapy 
   
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Hypnotherapy and NLP  

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Analytical Hypnotherapy Volume 1: Theoretical Principles: Vol 1   
Morison & Philips -  Crown House Publishing
Recommended
 
Analytical Hypnotherapy Volume 2: Practical Applications: Vol 2
Morison & Philips -  Crown House Publishing
Recommended 

Analytical Hypnotherapy: Principles and Practice  
Barnett - Westwood Publishing
Highly Recommended 
 
Clinical Hypnosis with Children
Wester & O’Grady - Bremmer – Mazel


Contemporary Hypnosis Research
Fromm & Nash - Guilford 

Ericksonian Approaches: A Comprehensive Manual  
Battino - Crown House 

Group Hypnotherapy and Hypnodrama
Greenberg - Nelson Hill 

Guided Affective Imagery: Mental Imagery in Short-Term Psychotherapy 
Leuner, H. - Thieme-Stratton Corp - See www.amazon.co.uk 


Handbook of Hypnotic Suggestions and Metaphors
Hammond - Norton 
Recommended 

Hope and Resiliency: Understanding the Psychotherapeutic Strategies of Milton H. Erickson Short - Crown House

Hypnosis: A Practical Guide to the Health-giving Benefits 
of Hypnotherapy and Self-hypnosis

Roet - Piatkus Books Recommended for Beginners 

Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation: An NLP and Hypnotherapy Practitioner's Manual  
Bosford - Crown 

Hypnosis & Suggestion in the Treatment of Pain A Clinical Guide
Barber - Norton 


Hypnotherapy
Dave Elman - Westwood Publishing 
Recommended 

Hypnotherapy: A Handbook (Psychotherapy Handbooks)  
Heap & Dryden - Open University Press 


Hypnotherapy: An Exploratory Casebook
Erickson & Rossi - Irvington 

Introducing NLP Neuro-Linguistic Programming

O'Connor & Seymour -  HarperCollins
Recommended for Beginners 

Metaphoria: Metaphor and Guided Metaphor for Psychotherapy and Healing  
Battino - Crown House 

NLP: A Practical Guide to Achieving the Results You Want: 
Workbook
 
O'Connor - HarperCollins 


Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, MD: Volume 1
Grindler and Bandler - Metamorphous Press


Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy: The Complete Works
Allen -  Crown House Publishing
Recommended 

Self-Hypnosis and Other Mind Expanding Techniques

Tebbetts - Westwood Publishing 
 
Transforming Therapy: New Approach to Hypnotherapy
Gil Boyne - Westwood Publishing 
Recommended  

The User's Manual For The Brain: Vol 1
Bodenhammer - Crown House
Recommended 

The Weight, Hypnotherapy and YOU Weight Reduction Program: An NLP and Hypnotherapy Practitioner's Manual  
Pearson - Crown House
Recommended 

Unlock Your Mind and Be Free: Practical Approach to Hypnotherapy

Barnett - Westwood Publishing
Recommended for Beginners  

What Is Hypnosis?: Current Theories and Research
Naish - Open University Press 
 

 

Counselling and Psychotherapy

 
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Between Therapist and Client: The New Relationship
Michael Kahn - Owl Books 
Recommended for Beginners 

Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: To Join the Waiting Child  
Miller - Virago Press 

Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure
De Board - Routledge 
Recommended for Beginners 

 
Cognitive-Behavioural Counselling in Action
Trower, Dryden - Sage 

Dream Interpretation as a Psychotherapeutic Technique 
Coolidge - Radcliffe Publishing - See www.amazon.co.uk 


Embracing Our Selves: Voice Dialogue Manual  
Stone - Nataraj Publishing 

Further Learning from the Patient: The Analytic Space and Process
Casement - Routledge 

Gestalt Counselling in Action
Clarkson - Sage 

Integrative and Eclectic Counselling and Psychotherapy
Palmer - Sage 

Integrative Counselling Skills in Action (Counselling in Action)
Culley - Sage
Recommended

Introduction to Psychopathology  
Lemma - Sage 

Knowing Through Changing: The Evolution of Brief Strategic Therapy  
Nardone & Portelli - Crown House 


Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Yalom - Penguin 
Highly Recommended 

Man's Search for Meaning
Frankl - Rider & Co
Highly Recommended 

On Learning from the Patient
Casement - Routledge
 
Paradox and Passion in Psychotherapy
Van Deurzen - Wiley & Sons
Highly Recommended

Person-Centred Counselling in Action
Mearns & Thorne - Sage 

Practical Counselling & Helping Skills: Texts and Activities for the Lifeskills Counselling Model
Nelson-Jones - Cassell

Psychodynamic Counselling in Action
Jacobs - Sage

The Discovery of the Unconscious: History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
Ellenberger - Basic Books 

The Drama of Being a Child : The Search for the True Self
Miller - Virago


The New Primal Scream (Abacus Books)  
Janov - Abacus 

The Presenting Past: The Core of Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy
Jacobs - Open University Press


The Skilled Helper: A Problem-management and Opportunity Development Approach to Helping
Egan - Brooks/Cole 
Recommended 

Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action
Stewart - Sage 


Trauma and Recovery: From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror  
Herman - Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List 

Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy 
Mearns & Copper - Sage
Recommended 


  


Existential Psychotherapy

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Being and Nothingness: Essay on Phenomenological Ontology  
Jean Paul Satre - Routledge

Being and Time  
Martin Heidegger - WileyBlackwell

Existential Thought and Therapeutic Practice: An Introduction to Existential Psychotherapy  
Hans Cohn - Sage

Existential Psychotherapy  
Irvin Yalom - Basic Books
Recommended 

Everyday Mysteries: Existential Dimensions of Psychotherapy  
Emmy van Deurzen - Routledge
Recommended 

Existential Time-limited Therapy: The Wheel of Existence (Existential Perspectives on Psychotherapy & Counselling)  
Freddie Strasser - WileyBlackwell

Existential Perspectives on Human Issues: A Handbook for Therapeutic Practice  
Emmy van Deurzen - Palgrave Macmillan

Existential Counselling & Psychotherapy in Practice  
Emmy van Deurzen - Sage

Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy  
Irvin Yalom - Basic Books

Heidegger and the Roots of Existential Therapy (The School of Psychotherapy & Counselling)  
Hans Cohn - Sage

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Irvin Yalom - Penguin 
Recommended for Beginners 

Lying on the Couch: A Novel   
Irvin Yalom - HarperPerennial

Man's Search for Meaning
Frankl - Rider & Co
Recommended for Beginners 

Paradox and Passion in Psychotherapy
Van Deurzen - Wiley & Sons
Highly Recommended

Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics): An Introduction  
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Routledge

Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness  
Emmy van Deurzan - Sage
Highly Recommended

The Interpreted World: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychology 
Dr Ernesto Spinelli - Sage
Recommended 

The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy  
Viktor E. Frankl - Souvenir Press Ltd

The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Psychology)  
R. D. Laing - Penguin
Recommended 

The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients: Reflections on Being a Therapist Highly Recommended
Irvin Yalom - Piatkus Books

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Contact (Perennial library)  
Thomas Szasz - Harper Perennial

The Schopenhauer Cure  
Irvin Yalom - Harper Perennial

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession (Perennial Classics)  
Irvin Yalom - Perennial

 

 

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