Clinical Psychology Books
Taming the Negative Introject: Empowering Patients to Take Control of Their Mental Health
In this book, Dr. Carol W. Berman describes how to help patients control the self-sabotaging element of their unconscious minds, often called the punitive superego, the negative introject, or the... (more)
Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice: 2nd Revised Edition
This new edition of Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice reflects a vibrant field undergoing development along a number of dimensions important for mental health. As evidenced by the... (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)
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)
Identity in Adolescence: Fourth edition: The Balance between Self and Other
This fully revised fourth edition of Identity in Adolescence: The Balance Between Self and Other presents four theoretical perspectives on identity development during adolescence and young adulthood... (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)
The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia: whether it's the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have a view on. How we perceive it - and how we treat people living with it - is at the... (more)
Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice
Acclaimed for its wisdom and no-nonsense style, this authoritative guide has now been revised and expanded with 50% new content reflecting a decade of advances in the field. Distinguished... (more)
The Perception of Time: Your Questions Answered
Using a concise question and answer format, The Perception of Time: Your Questions Answered examines basic temporal processes and the ways in which our perception of time can be altered. Divided into... (more)
Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions
Attachment and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions is the first book to provide a practical guide to using attachment theory in the assessment, formulation and treatment of a range... (more)
Handbook of Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychopathology
Authoritative and comprehensive, this volume provides a contemporary psychodynamic perspective on frequently encountered psychological disorders in adults, children, and adolescents. Leading... (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)
Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender
Providing new approaches for exploring gender identity and expression, this book is ideal for clinical practice with transgender and gender nonconforming/diverse clients. Importantly, it moves beyond... (more)
Recovering from a First Episode of Psychosis: An Integrated Approach to Early Intervention
Despite years of research, debate and changes in mental health policy, there is still a lack of consensus as to what recovery from psychosis actually means, how it should be measured and how it may... (more)
Mentalization Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
Mentalizing - the ability to understand oneself and others by inferring mental states that lie behind overt behaviour - develops within the context of attachment relationships. It is crucial to... (more)
Mentalization-Based Group Therapy (MBT-G): A Theoretical, Clinical and Research Manual
Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) has gained international acclaim as an efficient treatment for patients with borderline personality disorder. The approach is also helpful for other personality... (more)
Clinical Supervision in the Real World: A Practical Guide to Ethics, Legal Issues, and Personal Development
This practical guide provides support for mental health practitioners as they develop their approach to clinical supervision, drawing on the authors' extensive experience of counseling and... (more)
Assessment and Treatment of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: A Clinical Perspective
Assessment and Treatment of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: A Clinical Perspective is the ideal primer for anyone who works with people who self-injure. Profiling who is affected as well as what their... (more)
Strictly Bipolar
Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological disorder of our times. If the post-war period was called the 'Age of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the 'Antidepressant Era', we now... (more)
Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning: kjgt9781585624591
Deftly combining contemporary theory with clinical practice, Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning is an invaluable resource for any clinician... (more)
The DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders: Integrating Multiple Paradigms of Personality Assessment
The DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders reviews and advances this innovative and increasingly popular scheme for diagnosing and evaluating personality disorders. The authors identify... (more)
The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe
This book distills that theory into practical clinical tips, explaining its relevance to the social engagement system and offering clinical examples, including cases of trauma and autism. (more)
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think: Second Edition
In this influential bestseller, Drs. Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky put the proven tools of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) into an accessible self-help framework that has already... (more)
Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice: Fifth Edition
It is difficult to improve on a classic, but the fifth edition of Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice does just that, offering the updates readers expect and a deft reorganization that... (more)
The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundatons of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation
This book compiles, for the first time, Stephen W. Porges's research. The world's leading expert on the autonomic nervous system, Porges is the mind behind the groundbreaking Polyvagal Theory, which... (more)
Understanding Personality Disorders: An Introduction
Misdiagnosed, misunderstood and oftentimes entirely overlooked, the obscurity surrounding personality disorders can debilitate as much as the disorders themselves. Using case study examples... (more)
Telling Stories?: Attachment-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Psychosis
Telling Stories? explores the contemporary state of affairs in the understanding and treatment of psychosis. An inclusive approach to mental distress requires that in order to truly understand... (more)
The Theory and Treatment of Depression: Towards a Dynamic Interactionism Model
Recent research indicates that depression, once believed to be relatively benign, is highly recurrent and does not respond well to treatment. The goal of this book is to facilitate the development of... (more)
Trauma: A Genealogy
Psychic trauma is one of the most frequently invoked ideas in the behavioural sciences and the humanities today. Yet bitter disputes have marked the discussion of trauma ever since it first became... (more)