Clinical Psychology Books
Healing Stories: Narrative in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
The aim of this work is to rehabilitate stories and story telling within medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy and to consider a narrative approach both as a theoretical paradigm and a practical,... (more)
Assessing competence to consent to treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals
One of the most challenging tasks facing clinicians today is the assessment of patients' capacities to consent to treatment. The protection of a patient's right to decide, as well as the protection... (more)
Adversity, stress and psychopathology:
"Adversity" involves exposure to unpropitious or calamitous circumstances and it varies with gender, ethnic or racial background and socioeconomic status. In this volume, investigators review... (more)
Principles of psychopathology: Two worlds, two minds, two hemispheres
Psychopathology is the study of the signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders - delusions, hallucinations, phobias and depression, for example. This text gives an account of the terms currently in... (more)
Expressing Emotion: Myths, Realities, and Therapeutic Strategies
Drawing on extensive theory and research, the authors provide coherent guidelines to help clinicians, researchers, and students identify, conceptualize, and treat problems in emotional behaviour. 365... (more)
The Maladapted Mind: Classic Readings in Evolutionary Psychopathology
This book pioneers a Darwinian understanding of psychopathology and aims to show how evolution shaped normal minds and brains. This sheds new light on various psychyatric conditions such as anxiety,... (more)
Independent Practice for the Mental Health Professional:
A valuable resource for therapists thinking of entering private practice, and beginning and experienced therapists hoping to improve their practice. Covers marketing, office planning, managed care... (more)
Categorization in Social Psychology:
This major new work looks at the study of categorization, especially in relation to cognitive and social psychology. 293 pages. (more)
Treating Complex Cases: The Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Approach
The term "complex cases" refers to patients with difficult, serious and often multiple mental health problems. Patients with such serious problems are often left out of clinical trials and the... (more)
General psychopathology: Volume 2
In "General Psychopathology", perhaps his most important contribution to the Heidelberg school, Jaspers critiques the scientific aspirations of psychotherapy, arguing that the realm of the human must... (more)
Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Secure Psychiatric Practice: Working with Difference
People from ethnic minorities are overrepresented in secure psychiatric care, and have been reported to receive differential treatment from staff. This text questions whether Western, white-oriented... (more)
Advances in field theory:
374 pages. (more)
A primer of clinical intersubjectivity:
Intersubjectivity is a way of understanding therapeutic relationships which has changed the way therapists view the therapeutic encounter. This text addresses these changes, using a question and... (more)
Pathology and the postmodern: Mental illness as discourse and experience
This book explores the relationship between mental distress and social constructionism using new work from eminent scholars in the fields of sociology, psychology and philosophy. 271 pages. (more)
ADHD in Adulthood: A Guide to Current Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment
How does ADHD manifest itself in adult life? In general, the authors write, hyperactivity tends to diminish with age, impulsivity changes quality, and attention problems remain the same although they... (more)
Stigma and Sexual Orientation: Understanding Prejudice Against Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals
Psychological perspectives on lesbian and gay issues. 278 pages. (more)
Schizophrenia: Its Origins and Need-Adapted Treatment
This book includes memorable case vignettes along with research findings and is recommended for clinicians, students, teachers of mental health and those in public policy involved in creating... (more)
Representing reality: Discourse, rhetoric and social construction
An overview of the different traditions in constructionist thought. This book provides an integrated account, both showing how descriptions are made factual by the use of specific procedures and... (more)
Performing psychology: A postmodern culture of the mind
This volume addresses tensions that exist between two opposing approaches to psychology, the experimental/empirical and the cultural/humanistic approach. The author analyzes a series of writings by... (more)
Care of the psyche: A history of psychological healing
A survey of the basic elements that have constituted psychological healing over the centuries. Dr Stanley Jackson seeks to show that healing practices, whether they come from the world of medicine,... (more)
Madness in its place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997
This book describes life stories of patients and workers at a large British psychiatric hospital and through these stories presents an extraordinary social history of psychiatric care in the... (more)
Clinical Psychology and People with Intellectual Disabilities: Second Edition
This is a guide for clinical psychologists and other therapists working with people who have children, and also adults with learning disabilities. It provides an overview of the definitions, causes... (more)
Best practice: Developing and promoting empirically validated interventions
This book is about basing psychological interventions and mental health treatments on empirically validated 'best practice'. (more)
The Anti-Depressant Era
An account of the phenomenon of antidepressants. The book chronicles the history of psychopharmacology and the current debate over drugs replacing psychotherapy, and explores the regulation of drug... (more)
Qualitative evaluation
An excellent practical introduction to the strategies and methods of qualitative evaluation. 226 pages. (more)
Key ideas in Psychology
This introductory text introduces the reader to major areas of psychology, covering such topics as: individual differences; cognition; social psychology; developmental psychology; evolution and the... (more)