Clinical Psychology Books
Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture
Kevin Volkan and Vamik Volkan present a comprehensive study of schizophrenia using a psychoanalytic lens on the existing interdisciplinary research. Over the last seventy years, mainstream research... (more)
A Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework: An alternative to psychiatric diagnosis
The current mainstream way of describing psychological and emotional distress assumes it is the result of medical illnesses that need diagnosing and treating. This book summarises a powerful... (more)
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Complete yet concise, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder provides an up-to-date analysis of this widespread, multi-faceted disorder. Estimated to be twice as common as any other personality... (more)
Enhancing Clinical Case Formulation: Theoretical and Practical Approaches for Mental Health Practitioners
Clinical formulation lies at the heart of how mental health professionals understand psychological distress. It is the application of a framework that cohesively integrates scientific knowledge with... (more)
The Ways of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on Life, Death and Beyond
In pursuit of scientific credibility, psychiatry has neglected the spiritual dimension. Yet psychiatrists are daily confronted by problems of meaning and purpose that neither medical nor... (more)
A Clinician’s Guide to Mental Health Conditions in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Assessment and Interventions
This comprehensive and much-needed guide addresses the issues faced by clinicians in assessing and treating the range of mental health conditions, which can affect adults with Autism Spectrum... (more)
Non-Death Loss and Grief: Context and Clinical Implications
Non-Death Loss and Grief offers an inclusive perspective on loss and grief, exploring recent research, clinical applications, and current thinking on non-death losses and the unique features of the... (more)
Incorporating Psychotherapeutic Concepts and Interventions Within Medicine: With the Heart in Mind
This book provides doctors with insights into psychological and relational dynamics to better understand themselves and their patients, deepen their understanding of somatic and psychic dimensions of... (more)
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Throughout the Lifespan: A Clinician's Guide to Treatment Considerations
A comprehensive guide for clinicians working with patients engaging in self-injury, this book provides information on clinical conceptualization, risk and protective factors, ways to assess for NSSI,... (more)
Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions
Attachment and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions is the first book to provide a practical guide to using attachment theory in the assessment, formulation and treatment of a range... (more)
Personality Disorders
The new edition of Personality Disorders continues to provide an in-depth guide to personality disorders, assessment, and treatment, across varied patient groups and settings. Grounded in scholarly... (more)
Different Patients, Different Therapies: Optimizing Treatment Using Differential Psychotherapuetics
Different Patients, Different Therapies is a guide to choosing among the many psychotherapeutic options available to patients and therapists today. Offering a systematic approach, Deborah L.... (more)
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
TFrom insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration; those who suffered bipolar disorder endured dangerous, ineffective treatments for centuries until a breakthrough in the 1950s offered salvation.... (more)
Person-Centred Care in Psychiatry: Self-Relational, Contextual and Normative Perspectives
One of the paradoxes about psychiatry is that we have never known more about and better treated mental disorders, yet there exists so much unease about the practice of mental healthcare. Patients... (more)
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early... (more)
Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology: Developing a Professional Identity through Training and Beyond
Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology: Developing a Professional Identity through Training and Beyond offers insights from a range of trainee, recently qualified and experienced clinical... (more)
Handbook of Psychopathy: Second Edition
Widely considered the go-to reference--and now extensively revised with over 65% new material--this authoritative handbook surveys the landscape of current knowledge on psychopathy and addresses... (more)
Pilates and Parkinson's
This book is written for people with Parkinson's, especially in the early stages who are looking for an exercise regime that will keep them strong, flexible and as mobile as possible. This book is... (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)
Assessment and Treatment of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: A Clinical Perspective
Assessment and Treatment of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: A Clinical Perspective is the ideal primer for anyone who works with people who self-injure. Profiling who is affected as well as what their... (more)
The Clinical Guide to Fertility, Motherhood, and Eating Disorders: From Shame to Self-Acceptance
This book is a comprehensive guide to addressing, working with, and healing from emotional struggles related to fertility and eating disorders. Covering the emotional, psychological and physical... (more)
Identity in Adolescence: Fourth edition: The Balance between Self and Other
This fully revised fourth edition of Identity in Adolescence: The Balance Between Self and Other presents four theoretical perspectives on identity development during adolescence and young adulthood... (more)
How to Become a Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychology is a very popular and competitive career path for psychology students. This practical and accessible guide contains all the information and advice required by those considering... (more)
Rorschach Assessment of Senior Adults
This guide is a much-needed reference for clinicians on how to use the Rorschach Inkblot Test with senior adults, an essential tool for assessing personality functioning to better identify... (more)
Conducting School-Based Functional Behavioral Assessments: Third Edition: A Practitioner's Guide
Widely recognized as a gold-standard resource, this authoritative book has been revised and expanded with 50% new material. It provides a complete introduction to functional behavioral assessment... (more)
Clinician's Thesaurus: The Guide to Conducting Interviews and Writing Psychological Reports
Hundreds of thousands of students and early-career professionals have relied on this authoritative report-writing tool, now updated for DSM-5/ICD-10-CM and newer types of evaluations. In a convenient... (more)
The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia: whether it's the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have a view on. How we perceive it - and how we treat people living with it - is at the... (more)
Imagery-Based Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder and Mood Instability
People with bipolar disorder are particularly vulnerable to anxiety and intrusive mental imagery, which can contribute to mood swings and a heightened risk for relapse. This book presents a novel... (more)
Disaster Mental Health Case Studies: Lessons Learned from Counseling in Chaos
Disaster Mental Health Case Studies is a riveting collection of case studies by master clinicians that reveal how disaster mental health interventions must be tailored to meet the needs of survivors.... (more)
Group Therapy for Voice Hearers: Insights and Perspectives
Based on extensive interviews with expert facilitators from around the world and grounded in empirical evidence, Group Therapy for Voice Hearers includes numerous tips, strategies, case examples, and... (more)