Clinical Psychology Books
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Older People
Topics covered include the need to build a therapeutic relationship, dealing with stereotypical thinking about ageing, setting realistic expectations in the face of deteriorating medical conditions,... (more)
Managing Intense Emotions and Overcoming Self-Destructive Habits: A Self-Help Manual
The manual describes the problem areas, the skills needed to overcome them and how these skills can be developed. It is designed to be used with the help of professional mental health staff, ideally... (more)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Theory, Research and Treatment
Focusing on cognitive therapy methods of treatment, this text brings together many experts in the field to provide a state-of-the-art account of theory, assessment, and practice in treatment of... (more)
Supervision and Support in Primary Care
Supervision and Support in Primary Care provides practical information and guidance on the nature and purpose of clinical supervision. It uses examples and perspectives from the world of mental... (more)
Treating The Self: Elements of Clinical Self Psychology
Now available in paper for the first time, this classic text is about how an analyst analyzes. Rooted in the theory of psychoanalytic self psychology as put forth by Heinz Kohut and his colleagues,... (more)
Personality Disorder: Temperament or Trauma?
Drawing on extensive research carried out in conjunction with service users, Heather Castillo seeks to adjust this imbalance and looks at the classification and treatment of PD from the service... (more)
Treatment of Anxiety Disorders: Clinician Guides and Patient Manuals (2nd Edition)
The Clinician Guides describe how to create a treatment program, and by working through the Patient Treatment Manual together with the clinician enables each patient to understand and put into effect... (more)
Female Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse against females is a serious problem in society and there is a need for greater understanding of the presentation and treatment of adult survivors of sexual abuse. In this volume, Baker... (more)
Creating Mental Illness
A timely and provocative critique of modern psychiatry that argues that the notion of mental illness as a disease fits only a small number of serious psychological conditions and that most conditions... (more)
Depression: A Primer for Practioners
A handy reference for health care providers and mental health professionals. A brief, practical guide that provides an introduction or refresher on depression that is research-based yet easy to read... (more)
Neither Bad Nor Mad: Competing Discourses of Psychiatry, Law, Politics
This book looks at what happened when the government of Victoria, Australia, enacted special legislation to detain one person with a severe antisocial personality disorder on the grounds of his... (more)
Personality in Adulthood: A Five-Factor Theory Perspective: Second Edition
An ideal text for advanced students and a timely reference for researchers and clinicians, this influential work examines how enduring dispositions or traits affect the process of aging and shape... (more)
The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolu
Nicholas Humphrey's writings about the evolution of the mind have done much to set the agenda for contemporary psychology. Here, in a series of riveting essays, he invites us to 'take another look'... (more)
Psychlogical Injuries: Forensic Assessment, Treatment and the Law
Focussing especially on posttraumatic stress disorder, it addresses the current status and empirical limitations of forensic assessments of psychological injuries and alerts readers to common... (more)
A General Practitioner, his Patients and their Feelings: Exploring the Emotions Behind Physical Symptoms
The author, an experienced GP with psychotherapeutic skills, discusses the attitudes that allow the doctor and patient to learn from their emotions and develop a greater tolerance of them. In a... (more)
The Psychology of Stalking: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives
This is the first scholarly book on stalking ever published. Virtually every serious writer and researcher in this area of criminal psychopathology has contributed a chapter. These chapters explore... (more)
Recovering from a First Episode of Psychosis: An Integrated Approach to Early Intervention
Despite years of research, debate and changes in mental health policy, there is still a lack of consensus as to what recovery from psychosis actually means, how it should be measured and how it may... (more)
Subjective Darkness: Depression as a Loss of Connection, Narrative, Meaning, and the Capacity for Self-Representation
In this book, depression is explored as a form of loss that manifests itself as an inability to connect with others, to narrate one's own existence, to derive meaning from life experiences, and... (more)
The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled
Mental illness is many things at once: It is a natural phenomenon that is also shaped by society and culture. It is biological but also behavioral and social. Mental illness is a problem of both the... (more)
Management of Clinical Depression and Anxiety
Management of Clinical Depression and Anxiety provides a brief set of clinical guidelines for handling clinical depression and anxiety in cancer patients. Using a practical toolkit format, this... (more)
Could it be Adult ADHD?: A Clinician's Guide to Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment
One out of every 10 adult psychotherapy clients likely has ADHD. Due to high comorbidities with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and other mental disorders, along with considerable behavioral... (more)