Clinical Psychology Books
The Allan Schore Reader: Setting the Course of Development
Eva Rass, a leading expert on the work of Allan Schore, presents a collection that provides an overview of his core ideas and makes accessible the evolution of his thought. Including interviews and... (more)
The Mentalization Guidebook
The Mentalization Guidebook is a tool for professionals working with traumatisted and neglected people who want to use mentalization in their work. The intention of the book is to show the best... (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)
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)
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)
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)
Group Therapy for Psychoses
Group therapy for patients with psychotic experiences is one of the least known of the group therapies; it is also one of the most diverse. This collection presents a range of methods, models and... (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)
Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision
The standard for clinical supervision. Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision, 5/e offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary presentation that makes it the most highly cited publication in the field.... (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)
Treating the 'Untreatable': Heal
Treating the 'Untreatable' offers the hope of recovery, healing and cure for the most severe psychotic disturbances, schizophrenia and delusional disorder. Through a psychotherapeutic exploration of... (more)
The Mental Health Clinician's Workbook: Locking In Your Professional Skills
Rich with compelling case material, this hands-on workbook helps mental health practitioners and students build essential skills for clinical evaluation and differential diagnosis.
Renowned... (more)
Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena: Clinical, Conceptual, and Empirical Developments
Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena takes the reader beyond where James Kleiger's original work, Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach, left off. This new book offers readers a number of... (more)
The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times
The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's haunting memoir of her journey through the UK mental health system. A Radio 4 Book of The Week Shortlisted For The RBC Taylor Prize. In July 1988, Barbara Taylor,... (more)
Self Psychology and Psychosis: The Development of the Self During Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and other Psychoses
In this groundbreaking volume, David Garfield and Ira Steinman bring us into the immediacy of the analyst’s consulting room in direct confrontation with the thought disorder, delusions and... (more)
Consulting to Chaos: An Approach to Patient-Centred Reflective Practice
In clinical work, an awareness of patients’ subjective experiences, particularly their perceptions of interpersonal relationships, is indispensable. The aim of this book is to improve care and... (more)
A New Body-Mind Approach: Clinical Cases
Integrative psychosomatics is a new approach to explaining illnesses and how patients relate to their problems. This new discipline draws on psychoanalysis, medicine and the neurosciences, rather... (more)
Drug Dreams: Clinical and Research Implications of Dreams about Drugs in Drug-addicted Patients
"Drug dreams", or the dreams in which drug-dependent patients use or attempt to use the drugs that they are addicted to, are a well-documented clinical phenomenon in various forms of drug addiction.... (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 Your Borderline Personality Disorder: A Workbook
Offers basic information about borderline personality disorder. The book is interactive so that clients can explore their own attitudes and concerns about their diagnosis and tackles some of the... (more)
The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
In this book, three leading researchers and clinicians share what they have learned from treating and studying chronically traumatized individuals across more than 65 years of collective experience.... (more)
Anxiety at 35,000 Feet: An Introduction to Clinical Aerospace Psychology
Fear of flying is a growing problem among both passengers and airline crews. Recent terrorist attacks have heightened the levels of anxiety and fear when boarding a plane. In this volume, one of... (more)
Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy
Mentalization--the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states--is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better... (more)
Treating The Self: Elements of Clinical Self Psychology
Now available in paper for the first time, this classic text is about how an analyst analyzes. Rooted in the theory of psychoanalytic self psychology as put forth by Heinz Kohut and his colleagues,... (more)
Human Aggression (2nd Edition)
The fully revised edition of this successful book offers a brief introduction to the psychology of human aggression. (more)
Personality Disorder
A practical guide to personality disorders, this pocketbook is written with clinical utility in mind. Case examples and a focus on evidence based treatments will give busy health professionals... (more)
The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice: Third Edition
Much has changed in the critical interval since the last edition of The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice was published. This new, third edition provides an up-to-date examination of the... (more)
Handbook of PTSD: Science and Practice: Second Edition
Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this handbook brings together foremost authorities on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Diagnostic, conceptual, and treatment issues are reviewed in... (more)
Using Drawings in Clinical Practice: Enhancing Intake Interviews and Psychological Testing
Clinicians are always in need of enticing techniques to engage clients on a daily basis, especially those who are nonverbal or initially opposed to feedback. Using Drawings in Clinical Practice... (more)
Behavioral Addictions: DSM-5 and Beyond
This book explains the rationale for changes in the DSM-5(R) related to incorporating behavioral addictions alongside substance use disorders; it also illuminates the significance of including the... (more)