Clinical Psychology Books
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)
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 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)
Affect Regulation Theory: A Clinical Model
Affect regulation theory—the science of how humans regulate their emotions—is at the root of all psychotherapies. Drawing on attachment, developmental trauma, implicit processes, and neurobiology,... (more)
Borderline Personality Disorder and The Conversational Model: A Clinician's Manual
The accompanying manual to Dissociation Model of Borderline Personality Disorder (catalogue number 33673). This manual offers therapists and patients a user-friendly guide to general principles of... (more)
Introduction to Psychopathology
Assessment and referral skills are essential for counsellors and psychotherapists. Practitioners need to have an understanding of the clinical manifestations of severe emotional distress. They must,... (more)
Mentalizing in Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Basics, Applications, Case Studies
Mentalizing in Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy explains how mentalization-based therapy (MBT) can be used within the framework of depth psychology and analytical... (more)
Help for the Helper: Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma in an Ever-Changing World
Since the publication of the first edition of Help for the Helper in 2006, the world has changed. Significantly. Due to existing and growing threats of war, increasing areas of civil unrest, the... (more)
Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning
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)
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)
Experiences of Depression: A Study in Phenomenology
Experiences of Depression is a philosophical exploration of what it is like to be depressed. In this important new book, Matthew Ratcliffe develops a detailed account of depression experiences by... (more)
Changing Behavior in DBT: Problem Solving in Action
This book delves into problem solving, one of the core components of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). The authors are leading DBT trainers who elucidate the therapy's principles of behavior change... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Bipolar Disorder
This much-needed volume gives clinicians essential strategies for managing the complexities of bipolar disorder and tailoring treatment to each patient's changing needs. Highly readable, accessible,... (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)
The Poet's Voice in the Making of Mind
In The Poet’s Voice in the Making of Mind, Russell Meares presents a fascinating inquiry into the origin of mind. He proposes that the way in which mind, or self, evolved, may resemble the way it... (more)
Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for You & Your Loved Ones: Fourth Edition
Compassionate and comprehensive, Dr. Francis Mondimore's pathbreaking guide has helped thousands of people and their loved ones cope with bipolar disorder. Now in its fourth edition, Bipolar Disorder... (more)
Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders: Fifth Edition
The first major textbook to cover the treatments of DSM-5 disorders in one volume, Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders: Fifth Edition provides up-to-date, comprehensive information for the... (more)
Helping Children with Low Self-Esteem: A Guidebook
This is a guidebook to help children who: "don't like themselves or feel there is something fundamentally wrong with them"; "have been deeply shamed"; "have received too much criticism or haven't... (more)
On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World
In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts... (more)
Diagnosis and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions to Understanding Human Distress
Human distress is sometimes thought of as 'psychopathology', a thing separate to the person, that affects people; a thing that can be diagnosed, treated and hopefully cured. This mindset leads... (more)
Treating Sexual Desire Disorders: A Clinical Casebook
The loss or lack of interest in sex is a common complaint in sex therapy. Organized around in-depth case presentations, this book showcases effective treatment approaches for individuals and couples.... (more)
Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly known as the DSM, is published by the American Psychiatric Association and aims to list and describe all mental disorders. The... (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)
Treating Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Relational Approach
This book presents a research-based framework for understanding and treating children and adolescents with personality disorders. While these youngsters are notably challenging to engage, often... (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)
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)
The BFRB Recovery Workbook: Effective Recovery from Hair Pulling, Skin Picking, Nail Biting, and Other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors
So, you want to work on recovery from your body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB)? Chances are, this is not the first time you've thought about changing your BFRB. And it's probably not the first... (more)