For all trainee and practising psychological therapists, this integrative psychotherapy text tackles each of the major mental illnesses systematically and describes psychotherapeutic approaches to working with them in a scientific, clinically relevant, practical and authoritative way.

Originally published: 2005.

Section I. Major modalities. Major modalities : psychoanalytic/psychodynamic / Glen O. Gabbard -- Cognitive and behavioral therapies / Paul Grant, Paula R. Young, and Robert J. DeRubeis -- Interpersonal psychotherapy / Carlos Blanco and Myrna M. Weissman -- Group psychotherapy / Werner Knauss -- Cognitive-behavioral group interventions / David W. Coon [and others] -- Family therapy / Sidney Bloch and Edwin Harari -- Psychodynamic couple therapy / David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff -- Cognitive-behavior therapy with couples / Frank M. Dattilio -- The arts therapies / Joy Schaverien and Helen Odell-Miller -- Psychotherapy integration / Rutger Willem Trijsburg, Sjoerd Colijn, and Jeremy Holmes -- Section II. Psychotherapy in psychiatric disorders. Cognitive-behavior therapy for mood disorders / Willem Kuyken, Ed Watkins, and Aaron T. Beck -- The psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approach to depressive disorders / David Taylor and Phil Richardson -- Anxiety disorders / Robert L. Leahy [and others] -- Schizophrenia / D. Turkington, B. Martindale, and G.R. Bloch-Thorsen -- Eating disorders / Kelly M. Vitousek and Jennifer A. Gray -- Dissociative disorders / Giovanni Liotti, Phil Mollon, and Giuseppe Miti -- Paraphilias / Peter J. Fagan [and others] -- Sexual disorders / Michelle Jeffcott and Joseph LoPiccolo -- Individual psychotherapy and counseling for addiction / Delinda Mercer and George E. Woody -- Psychotheraphy of somatoform disorders / Don R. Lipsitt and Javier Escobar -- Section III. Psychotherapy of personality disorders. 'Cluster A' personality disorders / Paul Williams with the assistance of Rex Haigh and David Fowler -- 'Cluster B' antisocial disorders / Christopher Cordess [and others] -- Psychotherapy for the narcissistic personaltiy disorder / Theodore Millon and Seth D. Grossman -- Borderline personality disorder / Anthony W. Bateman, Sigmund Karterud, and Louisa M.C. Van Den Bosch -- Histrionic personality disorder / Arthur Freeman, Sharon Morgillo Freeman, and Bradley Rosenfield -- Psychotherapy for avoidant personality disorder / Cory F. Newman and Randy Fingerhut -- Dependent personality disorder / J. Christopher Perry -- Psychotherapy of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder / Glen O. Gabbard and Cory F. Newman. Section IV. Psychotherapy across the life cycle. Psychosocial therapies with children / Mary Target [and others] -- Psychotherapy with adolescents / Mark A. Reinecke and Stephen R. Shirk -- Psychotherapy during the reproductive years / Joan Raphael-Leff -- Psychotherapy with older adults / Joan M. Cook, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, and Jason Hepple -- Section V. Issues in specific populations. Psychotherapy for medical patients / C.A. White and P.M. Trief -- Gender issues in psychotherapy / Carol C. Nadelson, Malkah T. Notman, and Mary K. McCarthy -- Sexual orientation and psychotherapy / Sidney H. Phillips, Justin Richardson, and Susan C. Vaughan -- Cross-cultural psychotherapy / Pedro Ruiz [and others] -- Section VI. Special topics. Implications of research in cognitive neuroscience for psychodynamic psychotherapy / Drew Westen -- Psychotherapy research / Mark Aveline, Bernhard Strauss, and William B. Stiles -- Psychotherapy and medication / Jerald Kay -- Ethics and psychotherapy / Gwen Adshead -- Clinical-legal issues in psychotherapy / Robert I. Simon -- Psychotherapy supervision / James W. Lomax [and others] -- Brief and time-limited psychotherapy / Glenys Parry, Athony D. Roth, and Ian B. Kerr.