Clinical Psychology Books
Biological Bases of Clinical Anxiety
Anxiety and anxiety-related disorders (including OCD, panic disorder, phobias and PTSD) are among the most prominent problems reported by people in therapy. This book guides readers in an examination... (more)
MindBody Medicine: Foundations and Practical Applications
"MindBody Medicine" encapsulates a variety of interventions designed to change, strengthen, or enhance a patients thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in order to promote improved health and wellness.... (more)
The Descent of Madness: Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain
Drawing on evidence from across the behavioural and natural sciences, this book advances a radical new hypothesis: that madness exists as a costly consequence of the evolution of a sophisticated... (more)
Practical Management of Personality Disorder
This volume takes a multi-level approach to understanding and treating personality disorder, identifying core symptoms and problems that many patients share and providing a comprehensive framework... (more)
Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
Personality and Dangerousness traces the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder. In the aftermath of the Port Arthur shootings, Dunblane or the schoolyard killings in America,... (more)
Women and Psychiatric Treatment
"Women and Psychiatric Treatment" provides a practical guide to the challenge of preserving fairness in access and quality of provision of health care and argues that equity is only achievable... (more)
Treating Somatization: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
This lucidly written guide presents an innovative approach for treating somatization disorder and related problems, such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic fatigue syndrome. The... (more)
Conversations on Consciousness
"Conversations on Consciousness" is just that - a series of twenty lively and challenging conversations between Sue Blackmore and some of the world's leading philosophers and scientists. Written in a... (more)
Consciousness: Creeping Up on the Hard Problem
How does conscious experience arise out of the functioning of the human brain? How is it related to the behaviour that it accompanies? How does the perceived world relate to the real world? Between... (more)
Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies: A Guide for Research and Practice
At a time when healthcare organisations are increasingly emphasising the need for evidence-based interventions, this comprehensive and timely handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the current... (more)
Understanding Cross-Cultural Psychology: Eastern and Western Perspectives
Eloquently introducing students to international perspectives on cross-cultural psychology (both Eastern and Western cultures), this textbook contains many features to promote student learning. It... (more)
Key Concepts in Developmental Psychology
Perfect for courses in child development or developmental psychology and arranged thematically in sections corresponding to chapter headings usually found in textbooks, this book is ideal for... (more)
Family and Multi-family Work with Psychosis
"Family and Multi-Family Work with Psychosis" provides a practical step-by-step guide for professionals treating psychosis using family work. The authors draw on over ten years of experience working... (more)
Key Concepts in Health Psychology
"Key Concepts in Health Psychology" provides a detailed conceptual analysis of current issues and debates as well as theories and models in health psychology in a unique manner. Aimed at people... (more)
Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders: Exploring the Frontier
Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders explores and defines the multifaceted relationship between these two fields in a cogent synthesis of prevalence, etiology, and treatment. The book brings... (more)
Mad Tales from Bollywood
This book examines attitudes towards mental illness in Indian culture, how they are reflected in Hindi films, and how culture has influenced the portrayal of the psychoses. It is of interest to... (more)
Critical Psychiatry: The Limits of Madness
Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities such as chemical imbalances in the brain. Critical psychiatry does not... (more)
An Introduction to Mind, Consciousness, and Language
This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between the mind, consciousness and language,it examines the key concepts from both philosophy and linguistics, including the... (more)
Fifty Signs of Mental Illness: A User-Friendly Alphabetical Guide to Psychiatric Symptoms and What You Should Know About Them
This compelling book introduces a wide range of psychiatric symptoms and their treatments. Written for anyone concerned about his or her own mental health or about symptoms observed in family members... (more)
Moving On: A Guide to Good Health and Recovery for People with a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
About one person in a hundred will be diagnosed with schizophrenia at some time in their life. The condition can be severe and debilitating with symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations and the... (more)
Human Performance: Cognition, Stress and Individual Differences
Human Performance is a comprehensive textbook providing an accessible review of both performance in the real world and essential cognitive science theory. Provides the student and researcher with a... (more)
Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond
"Asylum to Action" offers an alternative history of a libertarian therapeutic community at Paddington Day Hospital in West London in the 1970s. Helen Spandler recaptures the radical aspirations, as... (more)
Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading
People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without... (more)
A Casebook of Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis
Leading clinicians and researchers in the field of cognitive therapy for psychosis illustrate their individual approaches to the understanding of the difficulties faced by people with psychosis. (more)
Biology of Personality and Individual Differences
This is the first book to provide an overview of current research using cutting-edge genetic and neuroimaging methods in the study of personality. Integrating compelling lines of inquiry that until... (more)
Schizophrenia: Aspects of Care
This book brings together different views about living and working with schizophrenia. The discussions focus on the psychosocial aspects of care, and the book includes personal narratives from a... (more)
Clinical Supervision in Mental Health Nursing
This book reports on an investigation on the practice of clinical supervision in mental health nursing. Incorporating three case studies, it illuminates the reciprocal interactions between clinical... (more)
Acute Mental Health Care in the Community: Intensive Home Treatment
DThis innovative text focuses on a key aspect of community mental health care - Intensive Home Treatment (IHT). It examines the issues surrounding the provision of home treatment to individuals as an... (more)
Mental Health Policy: Global policies and human rights
Mental health has become a global issue. Throughout both the developed and developing worlds, the treatment and care of the mentally disordered, and the need to improve the mental health of all... (more)
Brain Science and Psychological Disorders: Therapy, Psychotropic Drugs and the Brain
Readers with little background in neuroscience and physiology may find themselves at a loss trying to navigate between the knowns and the unknowns when it comes to understanding the intricacies of... (more)