Clinical Psychology Books
Principles of abilities and human learning:
This text is about human abilities and the ways in which people acquire and extend them. It contains facts about people's learning and the mental processes that make it possible. The aim is to help... (more)
Pain management psychotherapy: A practical guide
An up-to-date and comprehensive guide for treating chronic pain, this text features detailed instructions for assessing the patient's pain and implementing pain management techniques. It integrates... (more)
Taming the Negative Introject: Empowering Patients to Take Control of Their Mental Health
In this book, Dr. Carol W. Berman describes how to help patients control the self-sabotaging element of their unconscious minds, often called the punitive superego, the negative introject, or the... (more)
Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health
Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health provides an overview of the development of CAT, and illuminates how the political context affects the way in which therapists consider... (more)
Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis: A Formulation-Based Approach
"Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis" provides clinicians with a comprehensive cognitive model that can be applied to all patients with schizophrenia and related disorders in order to aid the development... (more)
Supervision and Support in Primary Care
Supervision and Support in Primary Care provides practical information and guidance on the nature and purpose of clinical supervision. It uses examples and perspectives from the world of mental... (more)
The Behavioral Addictions Casebook
The Behavioral Addictions is the first American Psychiatric Publishing title to explore the diagnosis and treatment of patients who suffer from behavioral addictions, extreme forms of which share... (more)
Innovations in Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis: Working with the Hard to Reach
Despite the steady acceptance of psychological interventions for people with psychosis in routine practice many people continue to experience problems in their recovery. The need to develop new... (more)
Psychotherapy for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: Specific Techniques
In this unique book, Andrew Lotterman describes a creative approach to the psychotherapy of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. Lotterman focuses on specific techniques... (more)
Clinical Guide to Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
Clinical Guide to Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders is a complete, comprehensive overview of OCD and related disorders (trichotillomania, excoriation disorder, hoarding disorder, body... (more)
Helping Children with Low Self-Esteem: A Guidebook
This is a guidebook to help children who: "don't like themselves or feel there is something fundamentally wrong with them"; "have been deeply shamed"; "have received too much criticism or haven't... (more)
Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry
Relative to some other medical specialties, psychiatry is a new and still scientifically underdeveloped field - as a result practitioners can be influenced by attractive but unproven ideas. Since... (more)
Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology: Fourth Edition
This popular and critically acclaimed text, using movies to help learn about mental illness, is being fully updated with DSM-5 and ICD-10 diagnoses, dozens of evocative and informative frame grabs, a... (more)
Insanity and Divinity: Studies in Psychosis and Spirituality
How close is spirituality to psychosis? Covering the interrelation of psychosis and spirituality from a number of angles, Insanity and Divinity will generate dialogue and discussion, aid critical... (more)
Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change: Selecting and Planning Interventions: Second Edition
A widely adopted practitioner resource and course text, this book shows how to apply knowledge about behavior change in general-and the stages-of-change model in particular-to make substance abuse... (more)
Pathologies of the Mind/Body Interface: Exploring the Curious Domain of the Psychosomatic Disorders
Patients suffering from psychosomatic disorders represent a formidable challenge. Psychosomatic disorders are common, and account for substantial personal discomfort, unnecessary medical... (more)
Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Inference-Based Therapy
This book is the first to compile and present the latest clinical strategies and offer a hands–on clinical guide to inference based therapy (IBT) for individuals with all types of obsessive... (more)
Cognitive Therapy for Command Hallucinations: An Advanced Practical Companion
Auditory hallucinations rank amongst the most treatment resistant symptoms of schizophrenia, with command hallucinations being the most distressing, high risk and treatment resistant of all. This new... (more)
Integrative Assessment of Adult Personality: Third Edition
A complete, thorough, and pragmatic guide to clinical assessment, this authoritative book meets a key need for both students and practitioners. The authors describe how to construct a moving picture... (more)
Breaking Free from Depression: Pathways to Wellness
Leading psychiatrist/researcher Jesse Wright and his daughter Laura McCray, a family physician, have seen thousands of depressed patients in their practices -- and have learned that a range of... (more)
Metacognition and Severe Adult Mental Disorders: From Research to Treatment
Many adults who experience severe mental illness also suffer from deficits in metacognition - put simply, thinking about one's own thought processes - limiting their abilities to recognize, express... (more)
Successful Cognitive and Emotional Aging
Successful cognitive and emotional aging is not the same as successful physical aging, and yet, until recently, medical research and public health initiatives have focused solely on the latter. The... (more)
Telling Stories?: Attachment-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Psychosis
Telling Stories? explores the contemporary state of affairs in the understanding and treatment of psychosis. An inclusive approach to mental distress requires that in order to truly understand... (more)
Oxford Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent of psychological disorders. A scholarly, exhaustive work, the Oxford Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders reviews current research and clinical... (more)
Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective: Explorations at the Outer Reaches of Human Experience: Second Edition
This fully revised second edition uses biographical sketches and essays to discuss schizophrenia and related conditions, providing advice on methods of coping, routes to growth, recovery and... (more)
Coping with Breast Cancer: Workbook for Couples
As a couple coping with early stage breast cancer, it is important that you face the stresses and challenges together. To support each other during this difficult time, you and your partner may... (more)
ADHD in Adults: What the Science Says
Groundbreaking information is presented on the significant impairments produced by the disorder across major functional domains and life activities, including educational outcomes, work,... (more)
Treating Bipolar Disorder: A Clinician's Guide to Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy
This innovative manual presents a powerful approach for helping people manage bipolar illness and protect against the recurrence of manic or depressive episodes. Interpersonal and social rhythm... (more)
The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion
This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry. The contributors aim to define this... (more)
The Psychology of Gender (Second Edition)
To what extent does gender influence our behavior, thoughts, and feelings? How do "nature" and "nurture" interact to shape our identities as female or male? And what are the effects of gender on the... (more)