Handbook of Individual Therapy

by Windy Dryden (Editor)

"[This is] a book which accepts and even celebrates the diversity of ideas in the field. It stimulates interest and informs. It stirs up debates, and leaves the reader to continue to think about them ... an important book, not to be missed by any serious counselling student or practitioner."
—British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

This major new edition of the highly successful Individual Therapy: A Handbook presents an authoritative overview of 12 key approaches to individual therapy. All chapters have been updated or completely rewritten.

A distinguished team assembled from among Britain's leading counsellors and psychotherapists introduces the principles and methods of each appro

Genres: Psychology

432 pages, Paperback

First published August 22, 1996

About the author

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT and has trained with Drs. Albert Ellis, Aaron T. Beck, and Arnold Lazarus.

He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey, and Israel.

He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Reviews

[Denise Aitken · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really good book covering lots of different theraputic approaches, with information about the theory, a biography of the theorist and sections on the acquisition and perpetuation of psychological disturbance in each modality.

It can be very wordy at times the language is almost impenetrable but overall is one of the most useful resources I have used in my counselling studies.