Clinical Psychology Books
The Skeptical Professional’s Guide to Psychiatry: On the Risks and Benefits of Antipsychotics, Antidepressants, Psychiatric Diagnoses, and Neuromania
This text critically examines the shortcomings of psychiatry; the flawed development of the diagnostic system, including the DSM-5; and the failure to advance the effectiveness of antipsychotics and... (more)
Youth Mental Health: A Paradigm for Prevention and Early Intervention
Experts discuss the potential of early intervention to transform outcomes for people with mental disorders.
Mental illness represents one of the largest disease burdens worldwide, yet treatments... (more)
Reflections of a Cynical Clinical Psychologist
Presenting first-hand accounts from the 'front line', Reflections of a Cynical Clinical Psychologist provides the reader with a participant experience of the daily ups and downs of a US mental health... (more)
Enhancing Clinical Case Formulation: Theoretical and Practical Approaches for Mental Health Practitioners
Clinical formulation lies at the heart of how mental health professionals understand psychological distress. It is the application of a framework that cohesively integrates scientific knowledge with... (more)
The Limits of Social Cohesion: Conflict and Mediation in Pluralist Societies
Examines whether there are common characteristics of normative conflicts worldwide, which institutions polarize such conflicts and which can serve to mediate them. (more)
The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain
Consistently portrayed in the media and popular culture as unusual, inhumane and emotionless creatures, psychopaths may seem far removed from our everyday lives. The reality, however, brings them... (more)
Applied Exercise Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide to Improving Client Health and Fitness
Mental health practitioners (MHPs) often earn a trust that not many other professionals do with their patients. It is with this trust that MHPs are able to encourage and help their clients begin a... (more)
The Deja Vu Experience:
"The Deja Vu Experience" covers the recent scientific discoveries and theorizing in perception, cognition, and neurophysiology, which have the potential to help clarify the cause of the deja vu... (more)
Psych ER: Psychiatric Patients Come to the Emergency Room
Drawing on the experience of evaluating over 2000 emergency room patients, Rene Muller explores the important role of psychiatry in emergency room medicine. In a series of brief essays, he discusses... (more)
Overcoming Resistance in Cognitive Therapy
Despite the efforts of therapists and patients, many patients in cognitive- behavioural therapy do not improve. This book is designed to help the clinician better understand and work with patients... (more)
The difficult-to-treat psychiatric patient:
A clinical guide to treating psychiatric patients after all basic treatment options, such as medication and psychotherapy, have failed. It offers a blend of evidence-based recommendations, detailed... (more)
Frontal-subcortical circuits in psychiatric and neurological disorders:
Contemporary research on the links between brain, mind and human behaviour has revealed the key role of the frontal-subcortical circuits. This volume reviews current knowledge on the anatomy of these... (more)
Everyday Thinking: Memory, Reasoning and Judgement in the Real World
The subjects in this work include: the value and appeal of research on everyday thought; forming and remembering impressions of people; placing faces; remembering everyday events and actions; and... (more)
Cognitive behaviour therapy for chronic illness: A guide to assessment and treatment in practice
This title offers a general introduction to methods and clinical experience of CBT for a wide range of medical conditions, specifically focusing on chronic illness. 300 pages. (more)
Developmental neuropsychiatry: Volume 2: Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of developmental disorders
James Harris's two volume work offers a comprehensive approach to developmental neuropsychiatry. Grounded in neuroscience but enriched by clinical realities, this text provides a review of the... (more)
Developmental neuropsychiatry: Volume 1: Fundamentals
In the late 1990s, advances in neuroscience have begun to impact developmental psychiatry. James Harris's two-volume work on developmental neuropsychiatry reviews this emerging clinical speciality.... (more)
Memory: A guide for professionals
This text should aims to assist professionals concerned with assessing and treating False Memory and Fake Memory syndromes, with a clear overview of the way that memory works from a scientific... (more)
Psychology in Human Context: Essays in Dissidence and Reconstruction
xThis collection of essays places psychological and philosophical issues in the context of twentieth-century thought and provides intellectual and moral signposts for future travellers in what Koch... (more)
The transformation of meaning in psychological therapies
This text claims that theory and practice can be unified by focusing on the role that meaning plays both in modern psychological theory and in the practice of therapy. It explores a range of... (more)
Psychological symptoms
288 pages.
Rebuilding therapy: Overcoming the past for a more effective future
Based on the belief that a person is basically the product of his or her past, this work's primary focus is for the patient to clinically re-live major abusive, rejecting, traumatic or negative life... (more)
Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia
Psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and nurses are increasingly involved in treatments which include psychological therapy for serious mental disorders. The aim of this book is to guide... (more)