Clinical Psychology Books
The Sport Psych Handbook
Improve your individual or team sporting performance significantly with this research-based, field testing training guide for the mind. (more)
How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains?
In daily life, we take it for granted that our minds have conscious control of our actions, at least for most of the time. But, many scientists and philosophers deny that this is really the case,... (more)
Clinical Manual of Impulse-control Disorders
Changes in the nuclear and extended family, examples of impulse dyscontrol The impulse-control disorders (ICDs) have burst onto the scene in psychiatry, as well as in popular culture, in recent... (more)
Social Inclusion and Recovery
Although it is widely agreed that the experiences of service users have much to offer mental health professionals, the majority of books for this group focus on either conditions or different types... (more)
Insomnia: A Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Treatment
This study describes a concise treatment programme for insomnia intended for a range of health care providers. In a user-friendly manner it provides empirically-derived and clinically useful... (more)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Reasoning Processes in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Traditionally, obsessive-compulsive disorder has been classified as an anxiety disorder, but there is increasing evidence that it has schizotypal features - in other words it is a belief disorder.... (more)
Psychology of Medicine and Surgery: A Guide for Psychologists, Counsellors, Nurses and Doctors
This book provides a strong conceptual framework which unites contemporary knowledge with clinical contexts and problems. It should be useful to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses and... (more)
Insight in Psychiatry: Conceptual and Clinical Aspects
Examines the clinical and theoretical problems of insight across a range of mental disorders. Questions concerning the nature of insight in patients with mental illness have interested clinicians for... (more)
Exploring the Self - Philosophical and Psychopathological Perspectives on Self-experience:
This volume discusses research into self-experience and its disorders looking at what is self, what is the relation between the self-givenness of consciousness and the givenness of conscious self,... (more)
The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
This is a revised edition on body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a relatively common and sometimes debilitating disorder in which sufferers are obsessed with perceived appearance flaws. Four new... (more)
Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Schizophrenia: Theory and Practice
Could CRT provide the first structured method of alleviating cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia? Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Schizophrenia describes the background and development... (more)
Shell Shock to PTSD: Military Psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War
Provides a thought-provoking evaluation of the history and practice of military psychiatry, and places its findings in the context of advancing medical knowledge and the developing technology of... (more)
The Psychology of Reasoning - Theory and Historical Perspective:
Exploring the historical, philosophical and theoretical implications of the development of the psychology of reasoning, this text takes the unusual approach of engaging not only with empirical data... (more)
Cultural Psychology - Theory and Method:
This cultural analysis of psychology is twofold: it is a scientifically correct way to a deeper understanding of psychology and it can provide crucial insights for initiating and guiding the struggle... (more)
Positioning Theory - Moral Contexts of International Action:
In this text, the author gives a state-of-the-art overview of positioning theory via contributions from some of the world's leading experts in the field. (more)
Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis:
The public, mental health consumers, as well as mental health practitioners wonder about what kinds of values mental health professionals hold, and what kinds of values influence psychiatric... (more)
The Foundations of Mind: Origins of Conceptual Thought
This book offers a theory of how human conceptual life begins, and shows how perceptual information becomes transformed into concepts. Mandler describes the development of preverbal concept... (more)
Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety:
This spiral-bound reference for practitioners and instructors describes various measurement tools for assessing anxiety and related disorders. Produced in conjunction with the Association for... (more)
Psychology Beyond Western Perspectives:
This work discusses, explains and illustrates some of the potential of psychology beyond the strait-jakcet that has been imposed upon it by its intellectual and empirical roots, and provides positive... (more)
The Deja Vu Experience:
"The Deja Vu Experience" covers the recent scientific discoveries and theorizing in perception, cognition, and neurophysiology, which have the potential to help clarify the cause of the deja vu... (more)
The Psychology of Emotion
As emotion and emotional experience are a daily occurrence, they have always been key topics of study for psychologists. This textbook offers a comprehensive guide to all main theories and concepts... (more)
Essential Personality:
A systematic introduction to the major theoretical approaches for the understanding of human personality. End-of-chapter evaluation sections, summaries, further reading sections and applications of... (more)
Living Outside Mental Illness: Qualitative Studies of Recovery in Schizophrenia
"Living Outside Mental Illness" demonstrates the importance of listening to what people diagnosed with schizophrenia themselves have to say about their struggle, and shows the dramatic effect this... (more)