Clinical Psychology Books
Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation: An Empirical Approach: Second Edition
The authoritative text on psychiatric rehabilitation, this book covers everything from conceptual and empirical foundations to exemplary program models. Students and practitioners gain the knowledge... (more)
The Handbook of Adult Clinical Psychology: An Evidence Based Practice Approach: Second Edition
The second edition of the Handbook of Adult Clinical Psychology: An Evidence Based Practice Approach, like its predecessor, provides clinical psychologists in training with a comprehensive practice... (more)
Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder
The philosophy of psychiatry can be seen as a unique area of research because the nature of the subject matter leads to rather unique methodological challenges. This book is unique in focusing on... (more)
Case Conceptualization and Effective Interventions: Assessing and Treating Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders
With fully integrated DSM-5 criteria and current CACREP standards, Case Conceptualization and Effective Interventions examines case conceptualization and effective treatments across the most common... (more)
Tales from the Madhouse: An Insider Critique of Psychiatric Services
Current psychiatric practices are based on pseudo-scientific assumptions that are barely more valid than those of witchcraft and demonic possession that dominated society's approach to madness in... (more)
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation
Brilliantly synthesizing human insights with Christian dogma, Soren Kierkegaard presented, in 1844, The Concept of Anxiety as a landmark psychological deliberation, suggesting that our only hope in... (more)
Wisdom from the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside Out
A useful guide to understanding the mysteries of the mind and how we can change for the better. How can it be that perfectly intelligent people do such obviously counterproductive things so much of... (more)
The New Psychology of Money
An accessible and engrossing analysis of our psychological relationship to money in all its forms. Comprehensive and insightful, Adrian Furnham explores the role that money plays in a range of... (more)
Person-centered Diagnosis and Treatment in Mental Health: A Model for Empowering Clients
Clients with mental health conditions are often diagnosed and treated using a strictly medical model of diagnosis, with little input from the client themselves. This reference manual takes a... (more)
Social Selves: Theories of Self and Society: Second Revised Edition
This new, completely revised version builds on the popular success of the first edition. It seeks to answer the basic social question of 'who am I?' by developing an understanding of self-identity as... (more)
Psychological Adaptive Mechanisms: Ego Defense Recognition in Practice and Research
This book will demonstrate how to use novel, systematic method for recognizing psychological adaptive mechanisms (known in psychoanalytic theory as ego defenses) in clinical encounters. This clinical... (more)
International Perspectives on Mental Health
A unique collection of authoritative briefings from over 85 countries around the world. Each chapter covers demographics, mental health resources, undergraduate education, postgraduate training in... (more)
Playing with Fire: The Controversial Career of Hans J. Eysenck
Probably no other psychologist has aroused such contrary reactions from the public and from the scientific community as Hans Eysenck. To the public, he was some kind of noble IQ warrior or "that... (more)
Treatment Resistance and Patient Authority: The Austen Riggs Reader
The Austen Riggs Center is nationally recognised as the leading psychiatric hospital for "treatment resistant" patients, those who willingly seek help but just can not respond to treatment. Here,... (more)
Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorders
This is the first book to provide quantitative assessment of potential benefit (number needed to treat) and risk (number needed to harm) for all approved treatments for bipolar disorder, providing... (more)
Clinical Manual of Sexual Disorders
Sexuality is an integral part of gender identity, self-image, and overall well-being. Sexual problems have a high prevalence in the general population and also among patients with mental disorders.... (more)
Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology: A Transdiagnostic Approach to Etiology and Treatment
Regardless of their specific diagnosis, many people seeking treatment for psychological problems have some form of difficulty in managing emotional experiences. This state-of-the-art volume explores... (more)
Medical Illness and Schizophrenia: Second Edition
This book is the only clinical guide exclusively on the treatment of medical comorbidities among patients with schizophrenia. Like its best-selling predecessor, this new, expanded edition compiles... (more)
The Approach to the Psychiatric Patient: Case-Based Essays
Brain stimulation - focally applying electricity to the brain - is a field with a rapidly expanding and promising array of techniques, which already have proven efficacy in treating conditions... (more)
Recognition and Prevention of Major Mental and Substance Use Disorders
Recognizing that favorable clinical outcomes are associated with earlier initiation of treatment - and even more ideally with prevention - this volume addresses the current status of early... (more)
A Therapist's Guide to Understanding Common Medical Problems: Addressing a Client's Mental and Physical Health
Examining a variety of frequent medical conditions - diabetes, heart failure, cancer, obesity, and more - this handbook gives clinicians a better understanding of how physical health issues play out... (more)
Psychotherapies for the Psychoses: Theoretical, Cultural and Clinical Integration
Can biological and psychological interventions be integrated in the treatment of psychosis? Throughout the world, access to psychotherapeutic and psychosocial treatments for the psychoses varies... (more)
On Desire: Why We Want What We Want
A married person falls deeply in love with someone else. A man of average income feels he cannot be truly happy unless he owns an expensive luxury car. A dieter has an irresistible craving for ice... (more)
Body-subjects and Disordered Minds: Treating the Whole Person in Psychiatry
How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in... (more)
MindBody Medicine: Foundations and Practical Applications
"MindBody Medicine" encapsulates a variety of interventions designed to change, strengthen, or enhance a patients thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in order to promote improved health and wellness.... (more)
Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
Personality and Dangerousness traces the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder. In the aftermath of the Port Arthur shootings, Dunblane or the schoolyard killings in America,... (more)
A Casebook of Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis
Leading clinicians and researchers in the field of cognitive therapy for psychosis illustrate their individual approaches to the understanding of the difficulties faced by people with psychosis. (more)
Biology of Personality and Individual Differences
This is the first book to provide an overview of current research using cutting-edge genetic and neuroimaging methods in the study of personality. Integrating compelling lines of inquiry that until... (more)
Schizophrenia: Aspects of Care
This book brings together different views about living and working with schizophrenia. The discussions focus on the psychosocial aspects of care, and the book includes personal narratives from a... (more)
The Sport Psych Handbook
Improve your individual or team sporting performance significantly with this research-based, field testing training guide for the mind. (more)