Clinical Psychology Books
Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
A book of great scope and lucid intelligence that integrates the work of many pioneers and captures the keen spirit of inquiry that animates this rapidly developing field. It is a comprehensive... (more)
Psychotherapy with Psychotherapists
Addresses the complex issues raised when psychotherapists themselves become patients. Each chapter describes how these issues are dealt with in different therapeutic modalities, including the... (more)
Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorders
Geared to the needs of mental health practitioners unfamiliar with dissociative disorders, this volume presents a comprehensive and integrated approach to diagnosis and treatment. Each step--from... (more)
Posttraumatic growth: Positive change in the aftermath of crisis
This work focuses on the research and theory on personal growth or strengthening that often occurs in persons who have faced traumatic events. It covers perspectives that span literatures in... (more)
Schizophrenia: A workbook for healthcare professionals
Aimed at nurses and all those in the primary healthcare team, this workbook (more)
What therapists learn about themselves and how they learn it: Autognosis
This work explores the self-help experiences of clinicians. It consists of personal accounts by psychiatrists who participated in the Autognosis Seminar at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and... (more)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:
By looking at recent research findings and talking to sufferers themselves, this book examines the condition Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, attempting to get to the bottom of this mysterious condition... (more)
Self-esteem: Research, theory and practice
An analysis of the recent exlposion of research and literature on the enhancement of self-esteem. On both theoretical and practical levels, the author defines self-esteem and how it can be developed... (more)
Psychological aproaches to dermatology:
This text is designed for specialists involved in the treatment of individuals with skin conditions associated with cuataneous disease. It provides an overview of the literature on psychological... (more)
Night thoughts: Reflections of a sex therapist
A collection of essays on the viscissitudes of sexuality and love. It deals with the familiar as well as the forbidden. Topics range from masturbation, orgasm and post-coital feelings, to... (more)
The addictive personality: Understanding the addictive process & compulsive behaviour
This is the second edition of a text that aims to explore how addiction starts, how society pushes people towards addiction, and what happens inside those who become addicted. It examines genetic... (more)
Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-destructive Behaviour
A statement of the conclusions of Professor Shneidman, a psychotherapist who has spent his working life specialising in the understanding of suicidal behaviour, and making direct implications for... (more)
Treatment of obsessive compulsive behaviours:
This work is a reprint of the text "The Obsessive Personality". The author makes clear that the mechanism of this disorder is as much a part of neurotic and psychotic functioning as it is of normal... (more)
Psychotic disorders in children and adolescents
This book will provide mental health professionals with a resource that contains specific information to better assess the exact nature of what is affecting their young patients, and to help to avoid... (more)
Clinical Psychology, ‘Race’ and Culture: A Training Manual
This book aims to sensitise mental health professionals, whether they are individual clinicians or groups and institutions, to the needs of people from ethnic minority backgrounds. It also seeks to... (more)
Personalities: Master Clinicians Confront the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorders
Thirteen experts, known for their treatment of severe personality disorders, come together in this book to discuss their work. Representing all the major approaches to the treatment of borderline... (more)
Introduction to chemical dependency counseling:
An introduction to alcoholism and drug addiction. It can be used by students preparing to take the Certified Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) exams; those on college courses in... (more)
Behavioral management guide: Essential treatment strategies for adult psychotherapy
This manual is designed to help therapists develop a comprehensive behavioural treatment plan for every adult client. It includes instructions for tracking patient sessions, knowing when reports are... (more)
The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry
When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition - universally known as DSM-III - embodied a radical new method for identifying... (more)
Madness and Murder
This book addresses questions such as 'Is there justifiable anxiety about dangerous mentally disordered people being 'loose' in the community?' and 'is there a genuine need to protect both society at... (more)
Rethinking Methods in Psychology
The recent widespread rejection of conventional theory and method has led to the evolution of different ways of gathering and analyzing data. This accessible textbook introduces key research methods... (more)
Psychology and Human Nature
This book provides a coherent account of many of the schools of psychology, including: psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology and discursive psychology. With each approach the author discusses the... (more)
Mixing methods in psychology: The integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in theory and practice
Can you combine qualitative and quantitative methods in psychology? What are the practical and theoretical issues involved? This volume looks in detail at the problems involved in attempting to... (more)
Handbook of Psychiatric Measures
The handbook provides clinicians working in mental health or primary care settings with a compendium of the available rating scales, tests and measures that may be useful for caring for patients with... (more)
The environment of schizophrenia: Innovations in practice, policy and communications
There is now a body of evidence suggesting that the occurrence and course of schizophrenia is affected by a variety of environmental factors. Examining environmental forces operating at the... (more)