Clinical Psychology Books
First Person Accounts of Mental Illness and Recovery: Case Examples of Living with a Mental Disorder
In First Person Accounts of Mental Illness, case studies of individuals experiencing schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, substance use disorders, and other mental... (more)
A Research Guide for Health and Clinical Psychology
This must-have, practical guide for trainee psychologists working towards their British Psychological Society (BPS) qualification in either health psychology or clinical psychology is designed to... (more)
Understanding Depression: A Translational Approach
Depression is a major cause of morbidity throughout the world. Given that between 8 and 12% of the population (in most countries) will suffer from depression at some point in their lives, it is... (more)
Rationality and Compulsion: Applying Action Theory to Psychiatry
Presents a unique examination of mental illness - derived from philosophical action theory. Delusion is common to many mental disorders, resulting in actions that, though perhaps rational to the... (more)
Preventing Boundary Violations in Clinical Practice
What do you do when you run into a patient in a public place? How do you respond when a patient suddenly hugs you at the end of a session? Do you accept a gift that a patient brings to make up for... (more)
Pathologies of the Mind/Body Interface: Exploring the Curious Domain of the Psychosomatic Disorders
Patients suffering from psychosomatic disorders represent a formidable challenge. Psychosomatic disorders are common, and account for substantial personal discomfort, unnecessary medical... (more)
The Psychology of Feeling Sorry: The Weight of the Soul
Can feeling genuinely sorry enable an important healing experience? Can relieving the weight of guilt restore a general sense of self-worth? Can an individual's dawning awareness give birth to... (more)
Psychology in the Bathroom
Excretion is a universal part of the human experience that is veiled in taboo. The toilet is a focus of intense emotions, unseemly interests, strange afflictions and earthy humour. Psychology in the... (more)
Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine
'Another masterpiece. Szasz has produced a strong philosophical, psychiatric, forensic, sociological, and ethical analysis of suicide. I emphasize sociological, as it is a worthy heir to Durkheim’s... (more)
Unmasking Psychological Symptoms: How Therapists Can Learn to Recognize the Psychological Presentation of Medical Disorders
More than 100 medical diseases - many common ailments - are capable of masquerading as mental disorders. This book shows clinicians how to identify patients who are most likely to have an underlying... (more)
Seminars in Liaison Psychiatry: Second Edition
This is an up-to-date overview of a wide range of common clinical areas involving the interface between physical and psychological health, that fall within the liaison psychiatry sub-specialty. It... (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)
The Psychology Book
All the big ideas, simply explained - an innovative and accessible guide to the study of human nature
The Psychology Book clearly explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in this fascinating... (more)
Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Inference-Based Therapy
This book is the first to compile and present the latest clinical strategies and offer a hands–on clinical guide to inference based therapy (IBT) for individuals with all types of obsessive... (more)
Clinical Manual of Neuropsychiatry
Clinical Manual of Neuropsychiatry focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the full spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as those conditions that have significant... (more)
Clinical Manual for Treatment of Schizophrenia
The Clinical Manual for the Treatment of Schizophrenia provides a wide-ranging, empirically based review of assessment and treatment issues in schizophrenia, offered from a multicultural and... (more)
Psychology's Ghosts: The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back
This book is the product of long thought and profound concern about the state of contemporary psychology. Jerome Kagan, a brilliant thinker and leading researcher in the field, examines current... (more)
Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice
For an endeavour that is largely based on conversation it may seem obvious to suggest that psychotherapy is discursive. After all, therapists and clients primarily use talk, or forms of discourse, to... (more)
Depression: The Facts: Second Edition
The term "depression" covers a wide spectrum of conditions ranging from mild despondency to melancholia, the very deepest form of depression. Natural despondency is not a disease but simply a part of... (more)
The Sublime Object of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory
The Sublime Object of Psychiatry is the first book to study representations of schizophrenia across a wide range of disciplines and discourses: biological and phenomenological psychiatry,... (more)
Professionalism in Psychiatry
Physicians and psychiatrists typically see themselves as true professionals. But in the past, some displayed behavior far beneath the confines of professionalism, including exploding at nurses, not... (more)
Clinical Psychology: An Introduction
Clinical Psychology is for students studying clinical psychology as part of an undergraduate programme in psychology, nursing, sociology or social and behavioural sciences. Undergraduate students who... (more)
Cognitive Therapy for Command Hallucinations: An Advanced Practical Companion
Auditory hallucinations rank amongst the most treatment resistant symptoms of schizophrenia, with command hallucinations being the most distressing, high risk and treatment resistant of all. This new... (more)
Henry's Demons: A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness
On a cold February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry waded into the lethally cold Newhaven estuary and almost drowned. The trees, he said, had told him to do it. In Afghanistan, Patrick... (more)
Integrative Assessment of Adult Personality: Third Edition
A complete, thorough, and pragmatic guide to clinical assessment, this authoritative book meets a key need for both students and practitioners. The authors describe how to construct a moving picture... (more)
Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders
This widely used book is packed with indispensable tools for treating the most common clinical problems encountered in outpatient mental health practice. Chapters provide basic information on... (more)
Breaking Free from Depression: Pathways to Wellness
Leading psychiatrist/researcher Jesse Wright and his daughter Laura McCray, a family physician, have seen thousands of depressed patients in their practices -- and have learned that a range of... (more)
Working in Mental Health: Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment
A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening - both for service users, and for professional mental healthcare workers. A more influential service user... (more)
Clinical and Neuropsychological Foundations of Schizophrenia
This volume is the first practitioner-oriented source of information on the neuropsychology of schizophrenia that conveys the growth in the field in terms of what is known about cognition in... (more)
The Bipolar Spectrum: Diagnosis or Fad?
Joel Paris discusses the over-diagnosis of bipolar disorder and the negative impact of this trend on clinical care. The book opens with a careful review of scientific evidence that verifies that... (more)