Clinical Psychology Books
Treating Health Anxiety and Fear of Death: A Practitioner's Guide
Never has our culture been more aware of personal and global health hazards, from both within and without. While most people may feel some anxiety in this regard, some have an unbearable sense of... (more)
Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Changes within the interdisciplinary field of intellectual and developmental disabilities are evolving at a rapid pace. Clinicians, academics, administrators, and a variety of mental health providers... (more)
Emotion Regulation: Conceptual and Clinical Issues
An increasing number of studies have been conducted on the role of expression and regulation of emotion in health. "Emotion Regulation" addresses the question of these studies from diverse angles... (more)
From the Brink: Experiences of the Void from a Depth Psychology Perspective
A commonly encountered experience of both analyst and analysand is that of the void. It is spoken about at different stages of therapy and refers to experiences that have different origins. Sometimes... (more)
Mental Health Care for People of Diverse Backgrounds
Mental health care needs vary in different groups of people, but many healthcare professionals have a poor understanding of exactly how. From ethnicity to sexuality, family to religion, "Mental... (more)
Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health: The Challenge of the Person-centred Approach
'In this book I explore the philosophy, theory and practice of the person-centred approach in the context of both contemporary psychiatry and mental health services provided by the NHS. In so doing,... (more)
How Sadness Survived: The Evolutionary Basis of Depression
"What I am offering is a critical overview of ideas about depression, some new, some old, which fall under the discipline of 'evolutionary psychology' (EP). Do most types of depression represent an... (more)
Mental Health Matters: A Reader
An interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health. The work considers the social and historical dimensions of mental health, how to involve users in... (more)
Coping with Depression: From Catch-22 to Hope
Distilling years of experience in educating psychiatric patients and their families about depression, Jon Allen has written a practical book that addresses the challenges depressed patients face on... (more)
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
Newly available in paperback. Charting the intellectual history of the emerging biology of mind, Eric R. Kandel illuminates how behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and... (more)
Biological Bases of Clinical Anxiety
Anxiety and anxiety-related disorders (including OCD, panic disorder, phobias and PTSD) are among the most prominent problems reported by people in therapy. This book guides readers in an examination... (more)
MindBody Medicine: Foundations and Practical Applications
"MindBody Medicine" encapsulates a variety of interventions designed to change, strengthen, or enhance a patients thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in order to promote improved health and wellness.... (more)
The Descent of Madness: Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain
Drawing on evidence from across the behavioural and natural sciences, this book advances a radical new hypothesis: that madness exists as a costly consequence of the evolution of a sophisticated... (more)
Practical Management of Personality Disorder
This volume takes a multi-level approach to understanding and treating personality disorder, identifying core symptoms and problems that many patients share and providing a comprehensive framework... (more)
Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
Personality and Dangerousness traces the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder. In the aftermath of the Port Arthur shootings, Dunblane or the schoolyard killings in America,... (more)
Women and Psychiatric Treatment
"Women and Psychiatric Treatment" provides a practical guide to the challenge of preserving fairness in access and quality of provision of health care and argues that equity is only achievable... (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)
Conversations on Consciousness
"Conversations on Consciousness" is just that - a series of twenty lively and challenging conversations between Sue Blackmore and some of the world's leading philosophers and scientists. Written in a... (more)
Consciousness: Creeping Up on the Hard Problem
How does conscious experience arise out of the functioning of the human brain? How is it related to the behaviour that it accompanies? How does the perceived world relate to the real world? Between... (more)
Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies: A Guide for Research and Practice
At a time when healthcare organisations are increasingly emphasising the need for evidence-based interventions, this comprehensive and timely handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the current... (more)
Understanding Cross-Cultural Psychology: Eastern and Western Perspectives
Eloquently introducing students to international perspectives on cross-cultural psychology (both Eastern and Western cultures), this textbook contains many features to promote student learning. It... (more)
Key Concepts in Developmental Psychology
Perfect for courses in child development or developmental psychology and arranged thematically in sections corresponding to chapter headings usually found in textbooks, this book is ideal for... (more)
Family and Multi-family Work with Psychosis
"Family and Multi-Family Work with Psychosis" provides a practical step-by-step guide for professionals treating psychosis using family work. The authors draw on over ten years of experience working... (more)
Key Concepts in Health Psychology
"Key Concepts in Health Psychology" provides a detailed conceptual analysis of current issues and debates as well as theories and models in health psychology in a unique manner. Aimed at people... (more)
Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders: Exploring the Frontier
Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders explores and defines the multifaceted relationship between these two fields in a cogent synthesis of prevalence, etiology, and treatment. The book brings... (more)
Mad Tales from Bollywood
This book examines attitudes towards mental illness in Indian culture, how they are reflected in Hindi films, and how culture has influenced the portrayal of the psychoses. It is of interest to... (more)
Critical Psychiatry: The Limits of Madness
Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities such as chemical imbalances in the brain. Critical psychiatry does not... (more)
An Introduction to Mind, Consciousness, and Language
This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between the mind, consciousness and language,it examines the key concepts from both philosophy and linguistics, including the... (more)
Fifty Signs of Mental Illness: A User-Friendly Alphabetical Guide to Psychiatric Symptoms and What You Should Know About Them
This compelling book introduces a wide range of psychiatric symptoms and their treatments. Written for anyone concerned about his or her own mental health or about symptoms observed in family members... (more)
Moving On: A Guide to Good Health and Recovery for People with a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
About one person in a hundred will be diagnosed with schizophrenia at some time in their life. The condition can be severe and debilitating with symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations and the... (more)