Clinical Psychology Books
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)
Self and Relationships: Connecting Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Processes
This volume brings together leading investigators who integrate two distinct research domains in social psychology - people's internal worlds and their close relationships. Contributors present... (more)
Eating and Weight Disorders
Eating disorders refer to a range of problems characterized by abnormal eating behaviours and beliefs about eating, weight, and shape. Eating disorders, which are classified as psychiatric problems,... (more)
Tackling Mental Health Crises
How can medical, psychological and social approaches to tackling crises be integrated? How best to manage clients who present in crisis is a vital but much neglected area of clinical practice.... (more)
The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia
Do people with schizophrenia ever get better? With the vast majority of those with the disorder dependent on their families for care, close relatives often grapple with that question. "The Complete... (more)
The Psychology of Demonization: Promoting Acceptance and Reducing Conflict
Throughout human history, the relationships of individuals and groups have been disrupted by what the authors sum up as "demonization," the attribution of basic destructive qualities to the other or... (more)
Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology
Details twenty court cases that turned, at least in part, on the expertise of forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. This casebook also includes cases involved in psychological issues such as:... (more)
A Life Worth Living: Contributions to Positive Psychology
Brings together thoughts on postive psychology. This work includes historical, philosophical, and empirical views of what matter for personal happiness and well-being. This book agrees on principles... (more)
The Metaphor of Mental Illness
Despite the currency of the notion of mental illness, its legal and medical legitimacy, and the panoply of psychiatry and other mental health services which claim to treat it, there are those who... (more)
The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life
Taking on the concept of denial, this work explains the ways in which people, both as individuals and collectively, consciously refrain from acknowledging things of which they are quite clearly aware. (more)
An Argument for Mind
In this elegantly written book, Jerome Kagan melds the history of the field of psychology during the past 50 years with the story of his own research efforts of the same period and an analysis of... (more)
Argumentative and Aggressive Communication: Theory, Research, and Application
"Argumentative and Aggressive Communication" is the first book entirely devoted to the theory-building, research and application issues on aggressive communication. In addition to fully describing... (more)
Ethical Reasoning for Mental Health Professions
A textbook that considers ethical and legal issues in mental health work by providing numerous case studies that encourage students to develop their own framework for ethical reasoning. The author... (more)
The Sport Psych Handbook
Improve your individual or team sporting performance significantly with this research-based, field testing training guide for the mind. (more)
Staying Well After Psychosis: A Cognitive Interpersonal Approach to Recovery and Relapse Prevention
Relapse rates are high in people who experience psychosis, with serious personal, family, social and financial costs. While interest in the psychological treatment is growing, there has been no book,... (more)
Early Detection and Cognitive Therapy for People at High Risk of Developing Psychosis: A Treatment Approach
The only practical and easy book for clinicians on the prevention of psychosis. This disorder has only recently become the subject of interventions using cognitive behaviour therapy. It is recognised... (more)
Beating the Blues: New Approaches to Overcoming Dysthymia and Chronic Mild Depression
Shows how chronic mild depression can be relieved by learning strategies that help us to recognize negative and distorted thinking patterns that lead to a downward spiral of pessimism. This book... (more)
Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment
Pioneering research has been carried out over the last decade on mentalization and the promotion of mentalizing capacity - the ability to interpret the behavior of oneself and others as based on... (more)
Person Based Cognitive Therapy for Distressing Psychosis
This book provides a practical framework for using a person based cognitive therapy approach for addressing the range of problems experienced by people with psychosis. Chapters 1-4 provide a context... (more)
The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder: New Developments and Research Strategies
Bipolar disorder (BPD) is a severe mental illness which has a substantial impact on the sufferer, carers, and mental health services. This volume presents an overview of the psychological and... (more)
The Anger Control Workbook: Simple, Innovative Techniques for Managing Anger and Developing Healthier Ways of Relating
Written by two well-regarded experts in the field, "The Anger Control Workbook" introduces a new and radically simplified approach to anger control. Step-by-step exercises aid readers in identifying,... (more)
The World in My Mind, My Mind in the World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines
Aspects of consciousness explored by a leading researcher of Artificial Intelligence for a general audience. Igor Aleksander is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Imperial College,... (more)
Advanced Family Work for Schizophrenia: An Evidence-based Approach
This book is a companion volume to the popular Family Work for Schizophrenia and gives more detailed explanations of how to work with difficult cases. It describes nineteen families with more complex... (more)
Psychosocial Interventions for People with Schizophrenia: A Practical Guide for Mental Health Workers
This title provides an overview and practical guidelines for helping people with schizophrenia using psychosocial interventions. It explains these interventions within the context of current... (more)
Contesting Psychiatry: Social Movements in Mental Health
Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Contesting Psychiatry, focusing largely on the UK, examines the... (more)
Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World
How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the words conjure up images from television and newspapers of seemingly random, meaningless violence. It is something to be feared,... (more)
Psychoses: An Integrative Perspective
"Psychoses" provides a unique perspective on the challenges associated with understanding and treating psychoses, bringing together insights and developments from medicine and psychology to give a... (more)
Gesture and Thought
Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and... (more)