Clinical Psychology Books
Metaphors in the History of Psychology
The volume provides a remarkably useful guide to the history, current orientations, and future prospects of modern psychology. (more)
Community as Doctor: New perspectives on a therapeutic community
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social... (more)
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? David J.... (more)
Clinical Manual of Impulse-control Disorders
Changes in the nuclear and extended family, examples of impulse dyscontrol The impulse-control disorders (ICDs) have burst onto the scene in psychiatry, as well as in popular culture, in recent... (more)
Insomnia: A Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Treatment
This study describes a concise treatment programme for insomnia intended for a range of health care providers. In a user-friendly manner it provides empirically-derived and clinically useful... (more)
Psychoneuroendocrinology:
Written by researchers and practising clinicians, this volume reviews empirical findings, highlights the clinical significance of these findings and offers clinical guidelines for treating patients.... (more)
Personality and psychological disorders:
Written by psychologists in areas of abnormal and differential psychology, this text aims to integrate evidence and ideas from healthy personality and temperament on the one hand and psychological... (more)
Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology Vol.18: Partnerships in research, clinical, and educational settings
Compares partnerships to traditional relationships between professionals and patients, students and research participants. The editors and contributors believe there are multiple interpretations of... (more)
Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology Vol.20: The Guided acquisition of first language skills:
Aimed at researchers and remedial practitioners in language acquisition, this text explains methods for language training and linked learning, most of which require no special academic training. It... (more)
Measuring Psychopathology
This study describes the methods by which the signs and symptoms of mental disorder are elicited, examined and evaluated. A historical perspective explains why and how mental disorders are classified... (more)
Agency, health and social survival: The ecopolitics of rival psychologies
This text addresses the interface of sociology and psychology which, it argues, is the key to political change. Offering a comparison of a range of psychotherapeutic theories of human nature, the... (more)
Mechanisms of Cortical Development
This approach, combining the fundamentals of developmental neurobiology with accessible neural modelling, is intended for postgraduates and researchers in neuroscience generally and developmental... (more)
Women and Schizophrenia:
A comprehensive review of this complex area which encompasses the social and psychological aspects, amongst others, of schizophrenia as experienced by women. 112 pages. (more)
Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
Reviews established and emerging aspects of conduct disorder, highlighting its complexity and likely heterogeneity, including biological, neuropsychological and cognitive factors, and the role of... (more)
Girl Interrupted
In 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen was sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression and spent most of the next two years there. In this, her memoir of her time there, she questions our... (more)
Anxiety sensitivity: Theory, research, and treatment of the fear of anxiety
Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is the fear of anxiety sensations, which arises from beliefs that these sensations have harmful somatic, social, or psychological consequences. This volume addresses the... (more)
Anxiety disorders: Psychological approaches to theory and treatment:
Combining theoretical-research developments with a discussion of the nature and treatment of anxiety disorders, this textbook is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as... (more)
Depression and its treatment
144 pages.