Clinical Psychology Books
Schizotypy and Schizophrenia: The View from Experimental Psychopathology
This compelling book argues that all people with schizophrenia share a personality organization known as schizotypy. Presented is a novel framework for understanding schizophrenia through the study... (more)
Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia
Evidence-based interventions are increasingly being required by third-party payors. Edited by leaders in the field and featuring contributions by both seasoned clinicians and newer practitioners with... (more)
Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder: A Therapist's Guide to Concepts, Methods and Practice: Second Edition
A thoroughly updated version of a key practitioner text, this new edition includes an RCT-verified treatment manual and incorporates techniques recommended by the NICE guidelines for treating bipolar... (more)
Increasing Awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
In this volume, Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to contribute to advancing awareness of child and adolescent mental health within an international framework that gives special... (more)
Enchantments of the Clinic: Power, Eroticism, and Illusion in the Clinical Relationship
Reflecting on his experience in the clinical trenches, a pragmatic existential therapist offers a provocative study of power, erotic influence, and illusion in the clinical relationship. Written in a... (more)
Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self
Cutting and other forms of self-injury are often cries for help, pleas for someone to notice that the pain is too much to bear. As Plante discusses here, the threat of suicide must always be... (more)
Treating Sexual Desire Disorders: A Clinical Casebook
The loss or lack of interest in sex is a common complaint in sex therapy. Organized around in-depth case presentations, this book showcases effective treatment approaches for individuals and couples.... (more)
The Therapist's Guide to Psychopharmacology: Working with Patients, Families, and Physicians to Optimize Care
This indispensable book provides therapists and counselors with crucial knowledge about psychotropic medications: when and how to make medication referrals, how to answer patients questions and help... (more)
Social Psychological Foundations of Clinical Psychology
Uniquely integrative and authoritative, this volume explores how advances in social psychology can deepen understanding and improve treatment of clinical problems. (more)
Diagnostic Issues in Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depression (MD) form the largest group of common mental disorders. These two conditions often occur together, and emerging evidence suggests several... (more)
Addictive Behaviors: New Readings on Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment
Contains articles that describe a wide range of biological, psychological, and social approaches to researching and treating addictive behaviors. This book is of interest to clinical health... (more)
Clinical Manual for Treatment of Alcoholism and Addictions
In an extensively updated and reformatted third edition, the Clinical Manual for Treatment of Alcoholism and Addictions provides a concise overview of addiction treatment issues relevant to... (more)
Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy
Studies have proven that involving the family in psychiatric care is efficacious, and yet many clinicians lack the specific knowledge and skills to do this successfully. The Clinical Manual of... (more)
Reflections on Relationships with Self and Others
'Writing is a dialogue with oneself', says Dr Jerry M. Lewis in the opening pages of this new work. Fortunately, he has included the rest of us in on the conversation. For fifteen years, his words... (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)
Understanding Bipolar Disorder: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective
This is the first book to systematically examine the development and course of bipolar disorder across the lifespan, identifying important directions for evidence-based treatment and prevention. (more)
Treating Personality Disorder: Creating Robust Services for People with Complex Mental Health Needs
Considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment... (more)
Stress, Coping, and Development
Examines the nature of psychosocial stress and the implications of different coping strategies for adaptation and health across the lifespan. (more)
The Quest to Feel Good
This volume describes how emotions, rather than being the result of random or disordered biochemical processes, are adaptive mechanisms that are often over relied upon as a function of basic learning... (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)
Contemporary Directions in Psychopathology: Scientific Foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11
This forward-thinking volume grapples with critical questions surrounding the mechanisms underlying mental disorders and the systems used for classifying them. Edited and written by leading... (more)
Clinical Applications of the Personality Assessment Inventory
Clinical Applications of the Personality Assessment Inventory covers the various uses of a commonly employed multi-scale self-report inventory of psychological functioning. This book has gathered... (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)
Music and Mind in Everyday Life
Music pervades everyday life - in homes, on trains and planes, in cars and shops, at births and deaths, at weddings and war, in concert halls, clubs, stadiums, and fields. In so many ways, music... (more)
Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, Systems, and Practice
In the UK, we lock up more individuals per year than in any other part of Europe. Many of these are suffering from some form of treatable mental disorder, yet too often, prison is viewed as the only... (more)
Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self
Feeling Unreal is the first book to reveal what depersonalization disorder is all about. This important volume explores not only depersonalization, but the philosophical and literary implications of... (more)
The Mind-body Interface in Somatization: When Symptom Becomes Disease
The Mind-Body Interface in Somatization: When Symptom Becomes Disease represents a unique contribution to the clinician's tool chest for diagnosing and treating psychosomatic illness. This book... (more)
Mental Health Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Strategies and Solutions
This book considers how mental health services have evolved over the past three decades to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability, focusing on the ways that theories and policies have... (more)
An International Psychology of Men: Theoretical Advances, Case Studies, and Clinical Innovations
This text is the first to provide a contextual understanding of the clinical issues that affect men and masculinity across a wide range of cultural and national settings. It demonstrates that gender... (more)