Clinical Psychology Books
Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies
Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of current perspectives on mental illness and how they have been shaped by historical trends and dominant... (more)
Clinical Psychology in the Mental Health Inpatient Setting: International Perspectives
This ground-breaking volume provides an encompassing and detailed account of clinical psychologists' highly varied work on the psychiatric ward in mental health inpatient settings. An international... (more)
Personal Experiences of Psychological Therapy for Psychosis and Related Experiences (The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series)
For those struggling with experiences of psychosis, therapy can be beneficial and even life changing. However, there is no single type of therapy, and a great range and diversity of therapeutic... (more)
Transcending Self-interest: Psychological Explorations of the Quiet Ego
For decades social scientists have observed that Americans are becoming more selfish, headstrong, and callous. Instead of lamenting a cultural slide toward narcissism, ""Transcending Self-Interest:... (more)
Metaphors in the History of Psychology
The volume provides a remarkably useful guide to the history, current orientations, and future prospects of modern psychology. (more)
The Limits of Social Cohesion: Conflict and Mediation in Pluralist Societies
Examines whether there are common characteristics of normative conflicts worldwide, which institutions polarize such conflicts and which can serve to mediate them. (more)
Face and Mind
Series of seminal research and review papers on face perception published by the author and his colleagues, which includes studies of the types of impairment to face perception which can follow brain... (more)
Psychodynamic Psychology: Classical Theory & Contemporary Research
Of all the many approaches to psychology, the psychodynamic comes closest to what the layperson expects from psychology. It tackles issues central to human experience including how our relationship... (more)
Learning to speak Alzheimers: The new approach to living positively with Alzheimer's disease
For over 30 years, Joanne Koenig-Coste has practised a communication-based form of care. This encouraging book shows how, by following a few straightforward and simple ideas, the quality of life of... (more)