Clinical Psychology Books
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)
Cognitive therapy in clinical practice: An illustrative casebook
Discusses the use of cognitive therapy in a number of clinical contexts, including work with the physically ill, hypochondriacs, obsessional patients and those with eating problems. The study... (more)
Changing the subject: Psychology, social regulation and subjectivity
A critique of psychology that examines the foundations of critical and feminist psychology. It appeals to psychologists to re-think the central problems of social psychology, and argues that... (more)
Cognitive analytic therapy and borderline personality disorder: The model and the method
Borderline personality disorder patients are impulsive, unstable and destructive, hurting themselves and those around them. This book aims to present the therapeutic approach of cognitive analytic... (more)
Managing Manic Depressive Disorders
Examining what can be done to help those who have manic depressive disorders, this study explores the subject from a wide range of viewpoints. Contributors include psychiatrists, psychologists,... (more)
Psychotherapy, psychological treatments and the addictions
Treatment of an ever-increasing variety of addictive behaviours owes much to a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches which have tended to roll continuously in and out of fashion. Over recent... (more)
Treatment Approaches for Alcohol and Drug Dependence: An Introductory Guide: Second Edition
The first edition of this book was based upon the recommendations of the Quality Assurance in the Treatment of Drug Dependence Project, and provided a step-by-step-guide for therapists working with... (more)
Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperement
The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers and musicians. Kay Jamison's... (more)
Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction. As well as presenting the case for seeing addiction as a brain disease, it brings together all the most cogent... (more)
Collaborative Consultation in Mental Health: Guidelines for the New Consultant
This book offers a practical guide for professionals working 'indirectly' with clients through consultation with staff. It introduces the principles of a collaborative approach to consultation with... (more)
Treating The Self: Elements of Clinical Self Psychology
Now available in paper for the first time, this classic text is about how an analyst analyzes. Rooted in the theory of psychoanalytic self psychology as put forth by Heinz Kohut and his colleagues,... (more)
Psychlogical Injuries: Forensic Assessment, Treatment and the Law
Focussing especially on posttraumatic stress disorder, it addresses the current status and empirical limitations of forensic assessments of psychological injuries and alerts readers to common... (more)
The First Interview: Fourth Edition
This trusted practitioner resource and course text is grounded in James Morrison's experience with more than 15,000 mental health patients. Morrison provides a complete framework for interviewing... (more)
Psychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment: Third Edition
The goal of psychotherapy as formulated in this revision of a classic text is to improve ego function of severely disturbed patients who are often hospitalized. This book shows why and how. It... (more)
Essential Abnormal and Clinical Psychology
This essential introduction to abnormal and clinical psychology explores the key areas, controversies and debates in the field and encourages students to think critically. The textbook includes: the... (more)
Race and Culture in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals)
As psychiatry has developed it has proved to be susceptible to the influence of contemporary social and political mores. With its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, psychiatry evolved as an... (more)
Psychologists on Psychology: Classic Edition
This is a Classic Edition of David Cohen's unique collection of interviews with eminent psychologists, first published in 1977. The book presents conversations with thirteen of the world's great... (more)
Drug Dreams: Clinical and Research Implications of Dreams about Drugs in Drug-addicted Patients
"Drug dreams", or the dreams in which drug-dependent patients use or attempt to use the drugs that they are addicted to, are a well-documented clinical phenomenon in various forms of drug addiction.... (more)
Depression: The Facts: Second Edition
The term "depression" covers a wide spectrum of conditions ranging from mild despondency to melancholia, the very deepest form of depression. Natural despondency is not a disease but simply a part of... (more)
The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience
Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain... (more)
Panic Disorder: The Facts: Third Edition
Panic disorder is a remarkably common psychological condition, characterized by sudden attacks of intense fear and panic. Approximately 3% of the population will experience some aspects of panic... (more)
Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930
Paul Lerner traces the intertwined histories of trauma and male hysteria in German society and psychiatry and shows how these concepts were swept up into debates about Germany's national health,... (more)
Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior
Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health, from... (more)
The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body: Second Edition
What are the causes of violence in women? What can be done to help these women and their victims? Why does society deny the fact of female violence? This book explores the nature and causes of female... (more)
Mentalizing in Clinical Practice
Mentalizing, the fundamental human capacity to understand behavior in relation to mental states such as thoughts and feelings, is the basis of healthy relationships and self-awareness. A growing... (more)
Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders: A Guide for Clinicians: Second Edition
"Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders" provides a thorough description of how to apply cognitive behavioural therapy to patients who are traditionally regarded as being difficult to treat;... (more)
Treating Somatization: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
This lucidly written guide presents an innovative approach for treating somatization disorder and related problems, such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic fatigue syndrome. The... (more)
Eating and Weight Disorders
Eating disorders refer to a range of problems characterized by abnormal eating behaviours and beliefs about eating, weight, and shape. Eating disorders, which are classified as psychiatric problems,... (more)
Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
This classic describes the cognitive approach to psychopatholgy and psychotherapy and how to apply it. (more)