Clinical Psychology Books
Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning
Deftly combining contemporary theory with clinical practice, Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning is an invaluable resource for any clinician... (more)
The DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders: Integrating Multiple Paradigms of Personality Assessment
The DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders reviews and advances this innovative and increasingly popular scheme for diagnosing and evaluating personality disorders. The authors identify... (more)
Zizek in the Clinic: A Revolutionary Proposal for a New Endgame in Psychotherapy
sychotherapist Eliot Rosenstock proposes a philosophical foundation for mental health treatment based on the writings and ideas of Slavoj Zizek. Zizek in the Clinic examines the state of the... (more)
Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender
Providing new approaches for exploring gender identity and expression, this book is ideal for clinical practice with transgender and gender nonconforming/diverse clients. Importantly, it moves beyond... (more)
An Introduction to Mental Health
Students need to understand the very basics of working with and within mental health (i.e. grasping the difference between primary and secondary care) and what governs mental health professionals and... (more)
Childhood Abuse Body Shame and Addictive Plastic Surgery: The Face of Trauma.
Childhood Abuse, Body Shame, and Addictive Plastic Surgery explores the psychopathology that plastic surgeons can encounter when seemingly excellent surgical candidates develop body dysmorphic... (more)
Justice for Children and Families: A Developmental Perspective
Children come into the world completely helpless, and require well-functioning families and schools to meet their needs, protect their interests and nurture their potential. This book argues that... (more)
Working with Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis: Opening to the Numinous
A mystical experience, no matter what else, is a subjective occurrence in psyche. However, when it appears in the psychoanalytic consulting room, its origin, content, and meaning are unknowable. Yet... (more)
The Obsessive Mind: Understanding and Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The Obsessive Mind offers a well-defined and comprehensive understanding of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its treatment model. Based on the results of current research, the book offers a... (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)
Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts Causes and Cures
Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures presents the concepts, etiology, assessment, prevention, and cessation of substance (tobacco, alcohol, other drugs, and food) and... (more)
Palliative Care within Mental Health: Ethical Practice
Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Ethical Practice explores the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas that occur surrounding people experiencing mental health problems and disorders. Working beyond... (more)
Becoming a Clinical Psychologist: Everything You Need to Know
Becoming a Clinical Psychologist: Everything You Need to Know brings together all the information you need to pursue a career in this competitive field. This essential guide includes up-to-date... (more)
Perspectives on Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Disease, Social and Cultural Context
Individuals and families face challenges at the end of life that can vary significantly depending on social and cultural contexts, yet more than ever is now known about the needs that cut across the... (more)
Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction
Tom Burns explores the nature of psychiatry today, focusing on what it can and cannot do, and considering the main disorders it covers. Discussing the philosophical issues of psychiatry, he reveals... (more)
The Making of Psychohistory: Origins, Controversies and Pioneering Contributors
Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy: A Clinicians Guide
Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy moves beyond stereotypes about video game addiction and violence to consider the role that games play in psychological experiences and mental health.... (more)
Treating Sex Offenders: An Evidence-Based Manual
This structured yet flexible manual presents an innovative group treatment approach that targets deficits in self-regulation-a central problem for sex offenders. Safe Offender Strategies (SOS)... (more)
CBT for Psychosis: Process-orientated Therapies and the Third Wave
Written by some of the leading figures in the world of CBT for psychosis, CBT for Psychosis: Process-orientated Therapies and the Third Wave provides the reader with a concise introduction to the... (more)
A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan
Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique,... (more)
Eating Disorders and Obesity, Third Edition: A Comprehensive Handbook
Acclaimed for its encyclopedic coverage, this is the only handbook that synthesizes current knowledge and clinical practices in the fields of both eating disorders and obesity. Like the prior... (more)
Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy
Mentalization--the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states--is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better... (more)
Loss of Self in Psychosis and CBT: Psychological Theory and Practice
In Loss of Self in Psychosis and CBT: Psychological Theory and Practice Simon Jakes takes a critical look at contemorary approaches to the psychology of psychosis. In doing so, he explores how these... (more)
Dying to be Ill: True Stories of Medical Deception
Most of us can recall a time when we pretended to be sick to reap the benefits that go along with illness. By playing sick, we gain sympathy, care, and attention, and were excused from our... (more)
Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Training Mental Health Professionals
Adult Transgender Care provides an overview of transgender health and offers a comprehensive approach to training mental health professionals in transgender care. The book takes an interdisciplinary... (more)
The Allan Schore Reader: Setting the Course of Development
Eva Rass, a leading expert on the work of Allan Schore, presents a collection that provides an overview of his core ideas and makes accessible the evolution of his thought. Including interviews and... (more)
Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas
As it entered the 1960s, American institutional psychiatry was thriving, with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961, The... (more)
Early Intervention for Trauma and Traumatic Loss:
Few dispute the importance of helping people cope with severe life stressors, but questions remain about how to identify those at risk of chronic problems and which interventions facilitate recovery.... (more)
The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide:
Research into suicide has expanded substantially in the last decade and has provided new insights in, for example, epidemiological, psychopathological and biological characteristics of suicidal... (more)
Stress: A Brief History
This look at the origins of the field of stress research explores different theories and models of stress, examines the contributions of different researchers, and identifies common themes and... (more)