Clinical Psychology Books
Affect Regulation Theory: A Clinical Model
Affect regulation theory—the science of how humans regulate their emotions—is at the root of all psychotherapies. Drawing on attachment, developmental trauma, implicit processes, and neurobiology,... (more)
The dialectics of schizophrenia
Summarizes various approaches to schizophrenia and points to their weaknesses and strengths. To gain a better understanding of the condition, the text considers factors including deprivation,... (more)
Mental Health Worldwide: Culture, Globalization and Development
Mental Health Worldwide offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. The foundational concepts of the... (more)
Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World
How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the words conjure up images from television and newspapers of seemingly random, meaningless violence. It is something to be feared,... (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)
Critical Psychiatry: The Limits of Madness
Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities such as chemical imbalances in the brain. Critical psychiatry does not... (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)
The SCID-D Interview: Dissociation Assessment in Therapy, Forensics, and Research (Semi-structured Clinical Interview for Dissociative Symptoms and Disorders)
Systematic assessment of dissociation is essential for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment of trauma survivors. The SCID-D is an interactive, semi-structured interview for assessing... (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)
Hidden Twins: What Adult Opposite Sex Twins Have to Teach Us
'This pioneering book offers wonderful insight into the experience of opposite sex twins in adulthood. It is a very welcome addition to the literature and warmly recommended to all who know or work... (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)
The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
In this book, three leading researchers and clinicians share what they have learned from treating and studying chronically traumatized individuals across more than 65 years of collective experience.... (more)
Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning
Deftly combining contemporary theory with clinical practice, Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning is an invaluable resource for any clinician... (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)
Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment: Phased Recovery via Sensory & Autonomic Balance: Stabilization, Safety, & Nervous System Balance
Being able to monitor and modulate a trauma client's dysregulated nervous system is one of the practitioner's best lines of defence against traumatic hyperarousal going amok-risking consequences such... (more)
Clinical Perspectives on Multiple Personality Disorder
The diagnosis of multiple personality disorder (MPD) entered the clinical mainstream with a rapidity and in a manner atypical for new descriptions of psychiatric illness. This book contains the most... (more)
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism: A Handbook
Despite the growing cultural and empirical interest in narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder, therapists often feel confused and overwhelmed about how to help patients struggling with... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
This volume is the authoritative presentation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Linehan's comprehensive, integrated approach to treating individuals with borderline personality disorder. DBT -... (more)
Shame and Anger in Psychotherapy
This book examines shame and anger, their relationship with one another, and how mental health providers can work with each of them to produce therapeutic change.
Although very different... (more)
Trusting in Psychotherapy
Trusting in Psychotherapy is an important book that fills a lamentable void: although virtually everyone-therapists, students, and patients alike-believes that trust is the foundation of... (more)
Cognitive Therapy Across the Lifespan: Theory, Research and Practice
In this balanced and critical overview, an international team of experts examines systematically the evidence in support of the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral approaches to treating clinical... (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)
The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times
The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's haunting memoir of her journey through the UK mental health system. A Radio 4 Book of The Week Shortlisted For The RBC Taylor Prize. In July 1988, Barbara Taylor,... (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)
Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2): Second Edition
Now completely revised (over 90% new), this is the authoritative diagnostic manual grounded in psychodynamic clinical models and theories. Explicitly oriented toward case formulation and treatment... (more)
The Psychedelic Renaissance: Reassessing the Role of Psychedelic Drugs in 21st Century Psychiatry and Society: Third Edition
A path-defining exploration of the history, cultural influence, pharmacology, legal aspects, safety, research, and clinical applications of psychedelic drugs.
Psychedelics have played a part in... (more)
Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions
Attachment and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions is the first book to provide a practical guide to using attachment theory in the assessment, formulation and treatment of a range... (more)
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy: DSM-5 Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Third Edition
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy: DSM-5 Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Third Edition differs from other psychopathology and abnormal psychology books. While other books focus on... (more)
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychiatric Problems: A Practical Guide
Cognitive behaviour therapy is now established as the leading psychological treatment for many psychiatric conditions. This innovative book gives a guide to practising the therapy with patients... (more)