Clinical Psychology Books
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
Asylums presents four interlinked essays that explore life in the 'total institutions': the closed systems of prisons, boarding schools, nursing homes and, most importantly, mental institutions.... (more)
Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness
Bridging the gap between neuroscience and clinical therapy.
Recent advances in affective neuroscience reveal long-held secrets of mental health and illness in the brain. However, the gap between... (more)
The Self Explained: Why and How We Become Who We Are
The idea of the self is immediately familiar to everyone, yet elusive to define and understand. From pioneering researcher Roy F. Baumeister, this volume synthesizes a vast body of knowledge to... (more)
Nature and Nurture in Personality and Psychopathology: A Guide for Clinicians
Psychiatry and clinical psychology have long been divided about the roles of nature and nurture in the pathways to psychopathology. Some clinicians offer treatment almost entirely based on... (more)
Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety: Sustainable Action for Your Mental Health and the Planet
It's hard to watch the news, scroll through social media, or listen to the radio without hearing or seeing something disturbing about the climate emergency. This can trigger all sorts of emotions:... (more)
Positive Psychology: The Science of Wellbeing and Human Strengths: Third Edition
The third edition of Positive Psychology is an accessible introduction to this rapidly growing field.
It covers all major positive psychology topics including wellbeing, character strengths,... (more)
Psychopathology and Philosophy of Mind: What Mental Disorders Can Tell Us About Our Minds
This book explores how the human mind works through the lens of psychological disorders, challenging many existing theoretical constructs, especially in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and... (more)
Handbook of Assessment and Treatment Planning for Psychological Disorders
This authoritative clinical reference and text--now revised and updated with 50% new content--presents the assessment tools and strategies that every evidence-based psychotherapy practitioner needs.... (more)
Understanding and Caring for People with Schizophrenia: Fifteen Clinical Cases
This book challenges professional and public misconceptions of schizophrenia as an illness with intractable symptoms and inexorable mental deterioration, educating clinicians and researchers on the... (more)
Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders: A New Conceptualization of Development, Reinforcement, Expression, and Treatment
This book provides a framework for scholars and clinicians to develop a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders, by seeing... (more)
OCD in Children and Adolescents: The "OCD Is Not the Boss of Me" Manual
In a large-size format for easy photocopying, this user-friendly manual presents a tested treatment protocol for children and adolescents (ages 6 to 18) struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder... (more)
Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies
Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of current perspectives on mental illness and how they have been shaped by historical trends and dominant... (more)
Positioning Theory - Moral Contexts of International Action:
In this text, the author gives a state-of-the-art overview of positioning theory via contributions from some of the world's leading experts in the field. (more)
Treatment of functional somatic symptoms
There is currently a great deal of interest in patients with functional somatic symptoms - physical complaints which are not explained by organic findings - but until now there has been little... (more)
Chronic fatigue and its syndromes:
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also known as M.E.) is an illness characterized by the symptom of chronic and severe fatigue. It has been the subject of media debate over recent years. Such interest has... (more)
Mental Healthcare Matters in Primary Care
This book provides the information and learning resources that allow those working in the Mental Health part of the NHS to develop their skills in their area of practice. The book bridges the gap... (more)
General practice: demanding work: Understanding patterns of work in primary care
A discussion of patterns of work in primary care. It shows how to monitor, understand and plan everyday services offered by practices. There is data describing what happens on a daily basis in... (more)
Delusions: Investigations into the psychology of delusional reasoning
This text presents a psychological model of delusions, employing the neglected strategy of single symptom research and the tools of cognitive psychology. (more)
Family system test: Manual
The Family System Test (FAST) is a versatile clinical and research tool which can be used in individual and family settings with respondents as young as six years. This is the manual to the test,... (more)
The mind and its discontents: An essay in discursive psychiatry
The author argues that to understand mental illness fully requires more than a study of biological models of mental processes and pathologies. As intensely social animals, he stresses, we need to... (more)
Understanding troubled minds: A guide to mental illness and its treatments
This text aims to provide a calm and authoritative guide to the full range of specific mental illnesses and available treatments. It deals with particular patterns of illness and stresses the value... (more)
Insight and psychosis
The cornerstone of any psychiatric evaluation - the mental status exam - requires an assessment of 'insight'. This is a term used to describe a patient's awareness of having a mental disorder. The... (more)
The Ways of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on Life, Death and Beyond
In pursuit of scientific credibility, psychiatry has neglected the spiritual dimension. Yet psychiatrists are daily confronted by problems of meaning and purpose that neither medical nor... (more)
Different Patients, Different Therapies: Optimizing Treatment Using Differential Psychotherapuetics
Different Patients, Different Therapies is a guide to choosing among the many psychotherapeutic options available to patients and therapists today. Offering a systematic approach, Deborah L.... (more)