Clinical Psychology Books
The Poet's Voice in the Making of Mind
In The Poet’s Voice in the Making of Mind, Russell Meares presents a fascinating inquiry into the origin of mind. He proposes that the way in which mind, or self, evolved, may resemble the way it... (more)
The Mentalization Guidebook
The Mentalization Guidebook is a tool for professionals working with traumatisted and neglected people who want to use mentalization in their work. The intention of the book is to show the best... (more)
Integrated Treatment for Personality Disorder: A Modular Approach
Rather than arguing for one best approach for treating personality disorder, Integrated Treatment emphasizes the benefits of weaving together multiple well-established intervention strategies to meet... (more)
Assessing Pain and Communication in Disorders of Consciousness
Recent advances in medicine for resuscitation and care have led to an increased number of patients that survive severe brain damage but who are poorly responsive and non-communicative at the bedside.... (more)
Schizophrenia Research: Recent Advances
Schizophrenia is a relatively common disease whose lifetime prevalence in the general population is reported to be about 1%. From the perspective of public health, the illness has been associated... (more)
Mental Health in the Digital Age
The internet can now be reached by a fingertip on a smart phone and has changed our lives on a fundamental level. However, is mental health enhanced or diminished by this digitisation of our world?... (more)
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety affects millions, manifesting as generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, phobias, post-traumatic-stress disorder (PTSD), and social anxiety... (more)
The Evolution of Forensic Psychiatry: History, Current Developments, Future Directions
Dr. Robert Sadoff's The Evolution of Forensic Psychiatry is extraordinarily unique in that it is not intended to be a textbook or a guide to forensic psychiatry. Instead, this book is a fascinating... (more)
Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder
The philosophy of psychiatry can be seen as a unique area of research because the nature of the subject matter leads to rather unique methodological challenges. This book is unique in focusing on... (more)
The Psychopath Whisperer: Inside the Minds of Those Without a Conscience
Are psychopaths 'evil' and untreatable, or do they suffer from a form of mental illness comparable to schizophrenia? Do they have free will? Do we?
In this at once terrifying and exhilarating... (more)
Falling into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
A woman habitually self-harms, eating light bulbs, a box of nails, zips, and a steak knife. A new mother is admitted with incessant visions of hurting her child. A recent university graduate, dressed... (more)
Mental Health User Narratives: New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery
In Mental Health User Narratives, sociologist Bruce Cohen argues that the real experts on 'mental illness' - namely, service users - continue to be marginalised and silenced by health professionals.... (more)
Psychosomatic Medicine
Psychosomatic Medicine (PM) is a rapidly developing subspecialty of psychiatry focusing on psychiatric care of patients with other medical disorders. PM specialists diagnose and manage psychiatric... (more)
Case Conceptualization and Effective Interventions: Assessing and Treating Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders
With fully integrated DSM-5 criteria and current CACREP standards, Case Conceptualization and Effective Interventions examines case conceptualization and effective treatments across the most common... (more)
Tales from the Madhouse: An Insider Critique of Psychiatric Services
Current psychiatric practices are based on pseudo-scientific assumptions that are barely more valid than those of witchcraft and demonic possession that dominated society's approach to madness in... (more)
Psychological Assessment: A Problem-Solving Approach
This authoritative clinical reference and text provides a complete guide to conducting empirically based assessments to support accurate diagnoses and better clinical care. The book builds crucial... (more)
Essential Abnormal and Clinical Psychology
This essential introduction to abnormal and clinical psychology explores the key areas, controversies and debates in the field and encourages students to think critically. The textbook includes: the... (more)
Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders: Resolving Impasses to Symptom Remission
Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders: Resolving Impasses to Symptom Remission brings together leading cognitive behavioral therapists from major theoretical orientations to provide clinicians with a... (more)
Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships: A Clinician's Guide
The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult - but also one of the most common - factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical,... (more)
Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems: Second Edition
This authoritative guide has given tens of thousands of clinicians proven tools for helping clients resolve ambivalence and mobilize their energy, commitment, and personal resources for change.... (more)
Imagery for Pain Relief: A Scientifically Grounded Guidebook for Clinicians
Imagery for Pain Relief, the first book of its kind, familiarizes the reader with basic scientific information about pain and mental imagery and shows why imagery is a valuable tool for pain... (more)
Cognitive Behavior Therapy of DSM-5 Personality Disorders: Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Third Edition
The first edition of Cognitive Behavior Therapy of DSM-IV Personality Disorders broke new ground. It differed from other CBT books by offering brief but thorough user-friendly resources for... (more)
Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience
The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is still limited in the professional literature available. This is, however, beginning to change, with a new 'recovery' focus in mental... (more)
Offenders, Deviants or Patients?: An Introduction to Clinical Criminology: Fifth Edition
Offenders, Deviants or Patients? provides a practical approach to understanding both the social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Taking into account the current public concern,... (more)
The Psychology of Terrorism
The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and... (more)
Psychosis, Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in Post War USA: On the Borderland of Madness
Covering the last four decades of the 20th century, this book explores the unwritten history of the struggles between psychoanalysis and psychiatry in post war USA, inaugurated by the neo-somatic... (more)
Schizotypy: New Dimensions
For several decades there has been an increasing move towards viewing the psychotic illnesses from a dimensional perspective, seeing them as continuous with healthy functioning. The idea,... (more)
The Bipolar Workbook: Tools for Controlling Your Mood Swings: Second Edition
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong challenge, but it doesn't have to rule a person's life. Many tens of thousands of readers have used the science-based tools in this book to recognize the early warning... (more)
Geriatric Depression: A Clinical Guide
Written for a broad range of mental health professionals, this book explains why depression can be challenging to treat in older adults and describes the most effective interventions. Noted geriatric... (more)
What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today
This book covers the diagnoses that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) failed to include, along with diagnoses that should not have been included, but were. Psychiatry as... (more)