Clinical Psychology Books
Evolutionary explanations of human behaviour:
This work is an introductory level book covering the topic of evolutionary psychology, a relatively new and controversial area of psychology. It deals with aspects of human reproductive behaviour,... (more)
Social and Personality Development
This volume is an introduction to the important contributions psychology has made towards understanding personality and the related areas of gender development and adolescence. Key theories in each... (more)
Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
This text is a guide for the treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder. (more)
Life review in health and social care: The process of knowing yourself
This work presents the everyday process of life review, a therapeutic approach to helping clients make sense of their past and plan for the future. This work shows how professionals can use the... (more)
Mental Health in Primary Care: A New Approach
This book brings together the best of contemporary psychiatry with a deep understanding of the realities, challenges, and opportunities of general practice. It is an essential vade-mecum for all... (more)
The Practice of Psychology: The Battle for Professionalism
The impressive list of contributors to this volume constitutes a virtual 'who's who' of professional psychology. This volume is an invaluable resource for the practitioner who wishes to understand... (more)
Genes on the Couch: Explorations in Evolutionary Psychotherapy
New in paperback. The contributors to this book illuminate how an evolution-focused approach to psychopathology can offer new insights for different schools of therapy and provide a rationale for... (more)
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Guide for the Practicing Clinician: Volume 1
The treatment developments in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) constitute the heart of this book. It focuses on clinical practice and treatment techniques for a variety of specific disorders... (more)
Skills Training Manual for Diagnosing and Treating Chronic Depression
This manual provides a step-by-step guide to the clinical strategies and tools presented in "Treatment for Chronic Depression". Each chapter summarizes one step of the CBASP technique and details... (more)
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type - 2nd Edition
Every year over 2.5 million people take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment, the most widely used personality measure in history. "Gifts Differing" describes the ground-breaking insights... (more)
Psychopathology: Atypical development and abnormal behaviour
This text is a psychologically based account of the major mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety and mood disorders. (more)
Schizophrenia - A Scientific Delusion?
Mary Boyle offers an original analysis of the origins, development, and maintenance of the concept of schizophrenia, and points out the need to ask searching questions about the labelling of some... (more)
Deconstructing Psychopathology
This accessible text provides a critical perspective on the institutions, practices and presuppositions that underlie the study of "psychopathology". The authors, coming from backgrounds in clinical... (more)
Primitive Experiences of Loss: Working with the Paranoid-Schizoid Patient
Taking as his starting point Melanie Klein's concept of the paranoid-schizoid position, and succinctly reviewing subsequent developments within the Kleinian perspective, Robert T. Waska formulates a... (more)
Mind and Nature: Essays on Time and Subject
This collection of essays extends the microgenetic theory of the mind/brain state to basic problems in process psychology and philosophy of mind. The authora s microtemporal model of brain activity... (more)
Violence and Mental Disorder
Violence and Mental Disorder takes the debate about violence into new territory by increasing our understanding of the wide range of factors associated with the commission of violence. (more)
Cognitive Rehabilitation in Dementia:
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation provides an international forum for the publication of well designed and properly evaluated intervention strategies, survays, and observational procedures which are... (more)
Judgment and decision making: Neo-Brunswikian and process-tracing approaches
This text provides a comprehensive overview of the Neo-Brunswikian and process-tracing approaches to research on judegment and decision-making. It also summarizes Swedish research on judgement and... (more)
Moral Development in the Professions: Psychology and Applied Ethics
This work covers psychological studies relevant to applied ethics for many professionals, including accountants, college students and teachers, counsellors, dentists, doctors, journalists, nurses,... (more)
Lost in the mirror: An inside look at borderline personality disorder (2nd Edition)
Discusses the signs and symptoms of borderline personality disorder, explores the possible causes, and offers encouragement for patients undergoing treatment for the disorder. (more)
Trauma: A Genealogy
Psychic trauma is one of the most frequently invoked ideas in the behavioural sciences and the humanities today. Yet bitter disputes have marked the discussion of trauma ever since it first became... (more)
Depression in Context: Strategies for Guided Action
Behavioural activation is a positive approach to treating depression. Within this framework, the therapist helps clients to see depression, not as something inside them but as a natural consequence... (more)
Handbook of the psychology of interviewing
The interview is one of the most commnly used methods within psychology, and effective interviewing skills are one of the most useful qualities a professional can possess. This text on the psychology... (more)
Psychology for psychiatrists
Written principally with "psychiatrists in training in mind", this work covers such areas as behaviourism and learning theory; understanding the psychology of personality; neuro-psychology;... (more)
American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
This guideline provides assistance to psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who care for patients with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Lewy body disease, Pick's disease and... (more)
Postmodern psychologies
This volume brings together a group of respected contributors to discuss the postmodern debate in psychology. Their chapters reflect on achievements and limitations of attempts to develop postmodern... (more)