Clinical Psychology Books
Living with Schizophrenia
In the words of two individuals suffering from schizophrenia, this book gives first-hand insight into the process and effects of the disease. Kaplan and Harrow (psychotherapists who have worked with... (more)
Personality characteristics of the personality disordered
This monograph offers a new way to conceptualise personality disorders. It deals with a range of characteristics attributed to personality disorders: aggressiveness, anxiousness, emotional... (more)
Frames of Mind
Offers a cogent, multi-disciplined answer to the IQ testing fanatics, based on his theory that there exist many human 'intelligences', common to all cultures.
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Throughout the Lifespan: A Clinician's Guide to Treatment Considerations
A comprehensive guide for clinicians working with patients engaging in self-injury, this book provides information on clinical conceptualization, risk and protective factors, ways to assess for NSSI,... (more)
Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology: Developing a Professional Identity through Training and Beyond
Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology: Developing a Professional Identity through Training and Beyond offers insights from a range of trainee, recently qualified and experienced clinical... (more)
Palliative Care within Mental Health: Ethical Practice
Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Ethical Practice explores the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas that occur surrounding people experiencing mental health problems and disorders. Working beyond... (more)
Dying to be Ill: True Stories of Medical Deception
Most of us can recall a time when we pretended to be sick to reap the benefits that go along with illness. By playing sick, we gain sympathy, care, and attention, and were excused from our... (more)
Depression: A Primer for Practioners
A handy reference for health care providers and mental health professionals. A brief, practical guide that provides an introduction or refresher on depression that is research-based yet easy to read... (more)
The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolu
Nicholas Humphrey's writings about the evolution of the mind have done much to set the agenda for contemporary psychology. Here, in a series of riveting essays, he invites us to 'take another look'... (more)
Ethics in Mental Health-Substance Use
Ethics in Mental Health-Substance Use aims to explore the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas occurring from Mental Health-Substance Use problems, and to inform, develop, and educate by... (more)
Delivering CBT for Insomnia in Psychosis: A Clinical Guide
Individuals with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression with psychotic features usually experience insomnia, which can significantly impede with recovery,... (more)
How to Rethink Mental Illness: The Human Contexts Behind the Labels
The world of mental illness is typically framed around symptoms and cures, where every client is given a label. In this challenging new book, Professor Bernard Guerin provides a fresh alternative to... (more)
Intimate Coercion: Recognition and Recovery
This book explores the foundation and causes of intimate coercion, focusing specifically on the identification of the issue and subsequent healing process. Coerced by a relation, friend, or lover,... (more)
Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures
Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia - long the poster child for the biomedical... (more)
Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders
Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders aims to engage young caregivers in psychiatry, psychology, nursing and social work so that they will be able to become well informed about this... (more)
Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies
This edited collection introduces and explores radical alternatives to mainstream psychiatric practices that build on the knowledge of people with direct experience of extreme crisis and psychiatric... (more)
Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis: Current Trends and Future Directions
There have been exciting new developments in the treatment of schizophrenia and related psychoses in recent decades. Clinical guidelines increasingly recommend that patients be offered evidence-based... (more)
The Evolution of Forensic Psychiatry: History, Current Developments, Future Directions
Dr. Robert Sadoff's The Evolution of Forensic Psychiatry is extraordinarily unique in that it is not intended to be a textbook or a guide to forensic psychiatry. Instead, this book is a fascinating... (more)
Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships: A Clinician's Guide
The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult - but also one of the most common - factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical,... (more)
Schizotypy: New Dimensions
For several decades there has been an increasing move towards viewing the psychotic illnesses from a dimensional perspective, seeing them as continuous with healthy functioning. The idea,... (more)
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is one of the most common and disabling conditions affecting humankind. It is a leading cause of disability and mortality worldwide, affecting millions of people. The illness is... (more)
Depression
It has been estimated that depression may affect 12-18% of people at some point during their lifetime. This accessible introduction covers the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of clinical... (more)
Prevention and Management of Violence: Guidance for Mental Healthcare Professionals
This evidence-based book promotes good practice in the prevention and management of violence in patients with mental disorder and will be of practical use to a wide range of mental health... (more)
Casebook of Neuropsychiatry
Casebook of Neuropsychiatry is comprised of 38 clinical cases based on real patient interactions that straddle the domains of neurology and psychiatry. While scientifically rigorous and grounded in... (more)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dental Phobia and Anxiety
Intended for professionals and researchers in clinical psychology and dentistry as well as practicing dentists, this presents the first guide to evidence-based CBT treatment of dental anxiety. Author... (more)
A Guide to Psychological Understanding of People with Learning Disabilities: Eight Domains and Three Stories
Who are the people we describe as having learning or intellectual disability? Many clinical psychologists working in a mental health setting are now encountering people with learning disabilities, in... (more)