The Talking Cure by Joseph Lichtenberg
This book looks at psychodynamic/psychoanalytic treatment from the vantage point of the person looking for help and needing a better understanding of how the relational aspects of dynamic treatment are healing.

A User’s Guide to Therapy: What to Expect and How You Can Benefit by Tamara Kaiser
This book reviews all the major theories/practices.  She uses client-therapist dialogue to illustrate these, including unconscious processes.

Therapy Demystified by Kate Scharff
The author does a great job of explaining how the psychotherapy process works by including how to know when therapy is needed; how to find a therapist that works for you; identifying the various types of therapy; how to get the most out of it; and how to know when you are winding down in the process.

Here’s a link to the book on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Therapy-Demystified-Insiders-Getting-Without/dp/1569244235/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272043564&sr=1-1

Persuasion and Healing:  A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy by Jerome D. Frank, MD & Julia B. Frank, MD
A very nice book that is a good crossover for both professional and lay readers.

www.thecouplesinstitute.com
A wonderful website for couples who want to get additional help with issues that they are trying to manage.  There are reading materials and web seminars that you can listen to.

Tell Me No Lies: How to Face the Truth and Build a Loving Marriage by Drs. Ellyn Bader and Peter T. Pearson
Written by two psychologists who specialize in marriages and relationships, the book focuses on how we inadvertently or deliberately lie to our partners to avoid conflict. The authors bring their own marriage to the text as well as sample couples who illustrate the choices couples make that result in strengthening or weakening relationships and intimacy.