Clinical Psychology Books
On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics
The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective relationships. Thus, the diagnosis of potential pathologies must... (more)
The SCID-D Interview: Dissociation Assessment in Therapy, Forensics, and Research (Semi-structured Clinical Interview for Dissociative Symptoms and Disorders)
Systematic assessment of dissociation is essential for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment of trauma survivors. The SCID-D is an interactive, semi-structured interview for assessing... (more)
Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment: A Guide for Teams to Develop Systems of Care
Socially excluded youth with mental health problems and co-occurring difficulties (e.g. conduct disorder, family breakdown, homelessness, substance use, exploitation, educational failure) attract the... (more)
Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2): Second Edition
Now completely revised (over 90% new), this is the authoritative diagnostic manual grounded in psychodynamic clinical models and theories. Explicitly oriented toward case formulation and treatment... (more)
A Dissociation Model of Borderline Personality Disorder
This book addresses one of the fundamental, understudied issues of borderline personality disorder (BPD): dissociation and a lack of sense of self. Exploring dissociation from developmental,... (more)
How He Gets into Her Head: The Mind of the Male Intimate Abuser
Presenting some ground-breaking ideas, this book prompts a radical reappraisal of how we think about and understand male intimate abuse and violence. Over the last fifty years an array of resources... (more)
The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments
The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder is the definitive resource for empirically sound information on narcissism for researchers, students, and clinicians at a time when... (more)
Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Relational Approach
Building on the comprehensive theoretical model of dissociation elegantly developed in The Dissociative Mind, Elizabeth Howell makes another invaluable contribution to the clinical understanding of... (more)
The Psychotic Wavelength: A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Psychiatry
The Psychotic Wavelength provides a psychoanalytical framework for clinicians to use in everyday general psychiatric practice and discusses how psychoanalytic ideas can be of great value when used in... (more)
Hidden Twins: What Adult Opposite Sex Twins Have to Teach Us
'This pioneering book offers wonderful insight into the experience of opposite sex twins in adulthood. It is a very welcome addition to the literature and warmly recommended to all who know or work... (more)
Personality Disorder: The Definitive Reader
Offers a comprehensive and accessible collection of papers that will be practically useful to practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with patients who have personality disorders.... (more)
Minding the Body: Workbook
Having a serious illness can be incredibly difficult, especially when there is no cure. As your disease progresses, not only your physical health, but your entire well-being may be affected.... (more)
Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance
'Clinical Effectiveness'; 'Clinical Governance'; 'Clinical Audit'; 'Clinical Guidelines': these are all vitally important to the UK government's quality agenda for the NHS; all are apparently about... (more)
Making Us Crazy: DSM - the Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders
A powerful and challenging book which forces us to question the labels which are now commonly imposed on us by the American bible of mental syndromes. (more)
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism: A Handbook
Despite the growing cultural and empirical interest in narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder, therapists often feel confused and overwhelmed about how to help patients struggling with... (more)
Shame and Anger in Psychotherapy
This book examines shame and anger, their relationship with one another, and how mental health providers can work with each of them to produce therapeutic change.
Although very different... (more)
Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)
A complete and practical guide offering a concise overview of mentalization-based treatment (MBT) and its application in different situations and with different groups of patients to help improve the... (more)
Team-Based Shared Formulation for Psychosis: The SAFE Approach
Adding to the growing literature on shared formulation, the authors provide over two decades of practice-based evidence for the use of a Shared Assessment, Formulation and Education (SAFE) approach... (more)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Fifth Edition: Text Revision - DSM-5-TR
Spiral-bound edition. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Fifth Edition: Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical... (more)
The Psychedelic Renaissance: Reassessing the Role of Psychedelic Drugs in 21st Century Psychiatry and Society: Third Edition
A path-defining exploration of the history, cultural influence, pharmacology, legal aspects, safety, research, and clinical applications of psychedelic drugs.
Psychedelics have played a part in... (more)
The Ways of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on Life, Death and Beyond
In pursuit of scientific credibility, psychiatry has neglected the spiritual dimension. Yet psychiatrists are daily confronted by problems of meaning and purpose that neither medical nor... (more)
Non-Death Loss and Grief: Context and Clinical Implications
Non-Death Loss and Grief offers an inclusive perspective on loss and grief, exploring recent research, clinical applications, and current thinking on non-death losses and the unique features of the... (more)
Incorporating Psychotherapeutic Concepts and Interventions Within Medicine: With the Heart in Mind
This book provides doctors with insights into psychological and relational dynamics to better understand themselves and their patients, deepen their understanding of somatic and psychic dimensions of... (more)
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Throughout the Lifespan: A Clinician's Guide to Treatment Considerations
A comprehensive guide for clinicians working with patients engaging in self-injury, this book provides information on clinical conceptualization, risk and protective factors, ways to assess for NSSI,... (more)
Personality Disorders
The new edition of Personality Disorders continues to provide an in-depth guide to personality disorders, assessment, and treatment, across varied patient groups and settings. Grounded in scholarly... (more)
Different Patients, Different Therapies: Optimizing Treatment Using Differential Psychotherapuetics
Different Patients, Different Therapies is a guide to choosing among the many psychotherapeutic options available to patients and therapists today. Offering a systematic approach, Deborah L.... (more)
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
TFrom insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration; those who suffered bipolar disorder endured dangerous, ineffective treatments for centuries until a breakthrough in the 1950s offered salvation.... (more)
Person-Centred Care in Psychiatry: Self-Relational, Contextual and Normative Perspectives
One of the paradoxes about psychiatry is that we have never known more about and better treated mental disorders, yet there exists so much unease about the practice of mental healthcare. Patients... (more)
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early... (more)