Clinical Psychology Books
The Psychosomatic Therapy Casebook: Stories from the Intersection of Mind and Body
Jean Benjamin Stora has worked as a psychoanalyst and psychosomatist for almost five decades. The aim of integrative psychosomatics is to heal the body and mind in relationship to one another rather... (more)
Mentalization Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
Mentalizing - the ability to understand oneself and others by inferring mental states that lie behind overt behaviour - develops within the context of attachment relationships. It is crucial to... (more)
The Psychology of Time
What is the meaning of time? Do we have an internal clock? Can time speed up or slow down?
The Psychology of Time considers how we define, describe, and experience time. From a discussion of how... (more)
Mentalization-Based Group Therapy (MBT-G): A Theoretical, Clinical and Research Manual
Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) has gained international acclaim as an efficient treatment for patients with borderline personality disorder. The approach is also helpful for other personality... (more)
Strictly Bipolar
Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological disorder of our times. If the post-war period was called the 'Age of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the 'Antidepressant Era', we now... (more)
Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)
A complete and practical guide offering a concise overview of mentalization-based treatment (MBT) and its application in different situations and with different groups of patients to help improve the... (more)
Help for the Helper: Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma in an Ever-Changing World
Since the publication of the first edition of Help for the Helper in 2006, the world has changed. Significantly. Due to existing and growing threats of war, increasing areas of civil unrest, the... (more)
Narcissism and Its Discontents: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Treatment Strategies With Narcissistic Patients
The definition of narcissism can be a moving target. Is it an excess of self-love? Profound insecurity? Low self-esteem? Too much self-esteem? Because of the multifaceted nature of narcissistic... (more)
Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice: 2nd Revised Edition
This new edition of Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice reflects a vibrant field undergoing development along a number of dimensions important for mental health. As evidenced by the... (more)
Group Therapy for Psychoses
Group therapy for patients with psychotic experiences is one of the least known of the group therapies; it is also one of the most diverse. This collection presents a range of methods, models and... (more)
The Mental Health Clinician's Workbook: Locking In Your Professional Skills
Rich with compelling case material, this hands-on workbook helps mental health practitioners and students build essential skills for clinical evaluation and differential diagnosis.
Renowned... (more)
The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe
This book distills that theory into practical clinical tips, explaining its relevance to the social engagement system and offering clinical examples, including cases of trauma and autism. (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)
Psychodynamic Neurology: Dreams, Consciousness, and Virtual Realty
Our brains plan conscious experience in our sleep using our waking experience only to correct a built-in, virtual reality model of the world that becomes more fully active when we sleep. We become... (more)
Clinical Case Formulation: Varieties of Approaches
Case formulation is a key skill for mental health practitioners, and this book provides examples of ten case formulations representing the most common mental health problems in a variety of... (more)
Clinical Topics in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Up to one in ten children may have a clinically significant psychiatric disorder. This book is a comprehensive update on the field of psychiatric disorders in children and young people. Conditions... (more)
Perverse Psychology: The Pathologization of Sexual Violence and Transgenderism
Psychology defines people who take pleasure in the suffering of others as having a form of mental illness, while media representations frame such behaviour as "evil". This is hotly contested... (more)
Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice: Fifth Edition
It is difficult to improve on a classic, but the fifth edition of Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice does just that, offering the updates readers expect and a deft reorganization that... (more)
Psychiatric Rehabilitation: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Recovery
Recovering from severe mental illness is one of the most terrifying human experiences in health care. Often conventional rehabilitation approaches focus on helping the patient with his or her... (more)
Borderline Personality Disorder and The Conversational Model: A Clinician's Manual
The accompanying manual to Dissociation Model of Borderline Personality Disorder (catalogue number 33673). This manual offers therapists and patients a user-friendly guide to general principles of... (more)
ADHD in Adults: What the Science Says
Providing a new perspective on ADHD in adults, this compelling book analyzes findings from two major studies directed by leading authority Russell A. Barkley. Groundbreaking information is presented... (more)
On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics
The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective relationships. Thus, the diagnosis of potential pathologies must... (more)
Treating Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders: A Guide for Practitioners
This unique book is a complete guide for mental health and school practitioners, pediatricians, and nurses. A current, multidisciplinary toolkit, it includes up-to-date data on meds, habit reversal... (more)
Evolving Psychosis: Different Stages, Different Treatments
Can early, need-adapted treatment prevent the long-terms effects of psychosis? How important is phase-specific treatment? 'Evolving Psychosis' explores the success of psycho-social treatments for... (more)
Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History
Throughout the world, schizophrenia is a diagnosis now in decline, representing a radical shift in our historical and medical understanding of madness and mental distress. But what does this medical... (more)
IntraConnected: MWe (Me + We) as the Integration of Belonging and Identity
Both a personal and general meditation on identity and belonging, Daniel J. Siegel's book combines personal reflections with scientific discussions of how the mind, brain and our relationships shape... (more)
Relating to Voices using Compassion Focused Therapy: A Self-help Companion
Relating to Voices helps people who hear voices to develop a more compassionate understanding and relationship with their voices.
In this book, authors Charlie and Eleanor create a warm and... (more)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Fifth Edition: Text Revision - DSM-5-TR
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Fifth Edition: Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to... (more)
Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture
Kevin Volkan and Vamik Volkan present a comprehensive study of schizophrenia using a psychoanalytic lens on the existing interdisciplinary research. Over the last seventy years, mainstream research... (more)
A Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework: An alternative to psychiatric diagnosis
The current mainstream way of describing psychological and emotional distress assumes it is the result of medical illnesses that need diagnosing and treating. This book summarises a powerful... (more)