Clinical Psychology Books
The Virtue of Defiance and Psychiatric Engagement
What is defiance, and when does defiant behaviour impede one's ability to aim at flourishing? People who are defiant can present perplexing challenges etiologically, diagnostically, and responsively.... (more)
Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
Recently there has been a growing awareness of the process of recovery from serious mental illness and the importance of coming to terms with the challenges resulting from the illness. Acceptance of... (more)
Schizophrenia and its Treatment: Where is the Progress?
This volume aims to explain why, despite profound advances in psychological science and neuroscientific analyses of schizophrenia, outcomes for the disorder have changed little over the past 100... (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)
The Bipolar Book: History, Neurobiology, and Treatment
As a major mainstay of clinical focus and research today, bipolar disorder affects millions of individuals across the globe with its extreme and erratic shifts of mood, thinking and behavior. Edited... (more)
Cognitive-Experiential Theory
In this volume, Epstein presents a new theory of personality, referred to as cognitive-experiential theory, that is integrative of all other major personality theories. This integration is... (more)
Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice: Stories of Mind and Soul
For people with mental illness, spirituality and faith are closely connected with questions of relationship, transcendence, and finding meaning and purpose in life - questions best approached by way... (more)
Madness: Ideas About Insanity
This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness. It is aimed at all of those who are curious about this subject whether out of general inquisitiveness or because it... (more)
Sanity, Madness and the Family: Classic Edition
In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the... (more)
Clinical Psychology: Psychopathology Through the Lifespan
This innovative textbook adopts a lifespan approach to mental health. Paul Bennett provides an overview of factors that influence risk for mental health problems throughout the life course and... (more)
Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders: A Motivational Systems Approach to Theory and Treatment
Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders draws on major theorists and the very latest research to help formulate and introduce the Relational/Multi-Motivational Therapeutic Approach (REMOTA),... (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)
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Case Study and Contemporary Perspective
The diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, remains controversial, despite its inclusion as an established diagnosis in psychiatry's Diagnostic... (more)
Beyond Schizophrenia: Living and Working with a Serious Mental Illness
The experience of living and working with schizophrenia is often fraught with challenges and setbacks. This book is a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculous advances in... (more)
Comparative Psychology for Clinical Psychologists and Therapists: What Animal Behavior Can Tell Us About Human Psychology
Featuring animal research, from pigeons to primates, this book explains how comparative psychology can enrich our insights into human psychological processes. Each chapter covers a different... (more)
Mentalization Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
Mentalizing - the ability to understand oneself and others by inferring mental states that lie behind overt behaviour - develops within the context of attachment relationships. It is crucial to... (more)
DSM-5 Pocket Guide for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Building on the best-selling Pocket Guide to the DSM-5(t) Diagnostic Exam, The DSM-5(R) Pocket Guide for Child and Adolescent Mental Health teaches readers how to formulate a diagnosis and treatment... (more)
DSM-5 Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health
DSM-5 Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health offers trainees and clinicians who provide mental health services to children and adolescents a concise but conceptually and clinically rich... (more)
Clinical Guide to Psychiatric Ethics
Emphasising clinical realities over abstract theories, A Clinical Guide to Psychiatric Ethics thoroughly illustrates and applies the ethics principles and practices that instruct psychiatric... (more)
Marijuana and Mental Health
Although other books have explored the medical cannabis and the neuroscience behind cannabis, no single source of comprehensive information on cannabis and mental health has existed to date.... (more)
Gun Violence and Mental Illness
Perhaps never before has an objective, evidence-based review of the intersection between gun violence and mental illness been more sorely needed or more timely. Gun Violence and Mental Illness,... (more)
The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times
The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's haunting memoir of her journey through the UK mental health system. A Radio 4 Book of The Week Shortlisted For The RBC Taylor Prize. In July 1988, Barbara Taylor,... (more)
Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of DSM 5 Personality Disorders: Attachment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatement: Third Edition
Since the publication of the acclaimed second edition of Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of DSM-IV Personality Disorders, much has changed in how the personality disorders are understood and... (more)
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)
Prevention in Mental Health Care: Time for a New Approach
Prevention in Mental Health Care: Time for a New Approach focuses on the limitations in current psychiatric practice and research. Many professionals working in mental health care, as well as... (more)
The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice: Second Edition
The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice will equip clinical psychologists in training with the skills necessary to complete a clinical placement in the field of... (more)
The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology: A Contextual Approach: Third Edition
The third edition of the hugely successful Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a reliable and accessible resource for clinical... (more)
The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice: Third Edition
Much has changed in the critical interval since the last edition of The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice was published. This new, third edition provides an up-to-date examination of the... (more)
A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders: Not Fully Bipolar but Not Unipolar-Practical Management
Clinicians know that people often present with a spectrum of symptoms, but the DSM discusses criteria in absolute terms - symptoms are either present or absent. This book offers treatment guidelines... (more)
The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist
The Skeleton Cupboard is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her years of training as a clinical psychologist, when trainees find themselves in the toughest placements of their careers. Through the... (more)