Clinical Psychology Books
Get the Diagnosis Right: Assessment and Treatment Selection for Mental Disorders
In this remarkable book, Jerome Blackman allows all readers, from beginners through advanced analysts, to learn about the details of diagnosis of mental disturbance and specific recommendations for... (more)
Childhood Disorders: Second Edition
In this revised edition Philip C. Kendall and Jonathan S. Comer present current information about the full range of psychological disorders that occur in childhood, and discuss the major models that... (more)
Complete Mental Health: The Go-to Guide for Clinicians and Patients
Complete Mental Health is a handy desk reference for the clinician, and an illuminating overview of common mental health problems for anyone.
John Ingram Walker takes the reader through causes,... (more)
Clinical Pearls of Wisdom: 21 Leading Therapists Offer Their Key Insights
Pre-eminent psychotherapy clinicians offer advice on a variety of topics. This book collects the 'best of the best' in terms of leading therapists who are offering highlights from their years of... (more)
Understanding Intensive Interaction: Context and Concepts for Professionals and Families
Intensive interaction is a valuable approach, with the potential to enhance radically the well-being of difficult-to-reach individuals, such as those with profound and severe learning disabilities,... (more)
Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared
More than fifty years ago, Thomas Szasz showed that the concept of mental illness - a disease of the mind - is an oxymoron, a metaphor, a myth. Disease, in the medical sense, affects only the body.... (more)
Challenging Depression: The Go-to Guide for Clinicians and Patients
Here, both therapist and client will learn the causes of depression, how to recognize and diagnose the different iterations of depression, the wide variety of psychotherapeutic and... (more)
Deconstructing Psychosis: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
"Deconstructing Psychosis: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V" provides an all-important summary of the latest research about the diagnosis and pathophysiology of psychosis. This volume gives the... (more)
Successful Cognitive and Emotional Aging
Successful cognitive and emotional aging is not the same as successful physical aging, and yet, until recently, medical research and public health initiatives have focused solely on the latter. The... (more)
Clinical Manual of Sexual Disorders
Sexuality is an integral part of gender identity, self-image, and overall well-being. Sexual problems have a high prevalence in the general population and also among patients with mental disorders.... (more)
Sex, Sexuality And Therapeutic Practice: A Manual for Therapists and Trainers
Sexuality is an important area of client's lives, yet it is often neglected, both in the consulting room and in training. This book examines issues of sexuality in a positive and affirming light and... (more)
The Other Depression: Bipolar Disorder: Second Edition
Helps people understand and destigmatize those afflicted with bipolar disorder. This book discusses topics such as the genetic signature and environmental stresses and underpinnings of this disease,... (more)
Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders: Resolving Impasses to Symptom Remission
This book brings together leading cognitive behavioral therapists from major theoretical orientations to provide clinicians with a greatly needed source of information, skills, and strategies from a... (more)
Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology: A Transdiagnostic Approach to Etiology and Treatment
Regardless of their specific diagnosis, many people seeking treatment for psychological problems have some form of difficulty in managing emotional experiences. This state-of-the-art volume explores... (more)
The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology: Fourth Edition
"The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology" has become a byword for demystifying the language of this complex subject. Now fully updated for its fourth edition, this wide-ranging and accessible dictionary... (more)
Telling Stories?: Attachment-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Psychosis
Telling Stories? explores the contemporary state of affairs in the understanding and treatment of psychosis. An inclusive approach to mental distress requires that in order to truly understand... (more)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Facts: Fourth Edition
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a relatively common psychological problem. The symptoms - which can be seriously disabling in extreme cases - can include excessive hand-washing or other... (more)
Mapping the Edges and the In-between: A Critical Analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a diagnosis given to ten percent of all those seen in outpatient mental health facilities and twenty percent of those seen in inpatient psychiatric units.... (more)
Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments
Utilizing one specific case study of Antisocial Personality Disorder, this title presents experts in the field with various models of treatment to identify treatment goals, select assessment tools,... (more)
The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness: Second Edition
Forensic psychiatry is growing in popularity, and many a practitioner feels the urge to explore this fascinating realm of endeavor. The second edition of "The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness" is a... (more)
Medical Illness and Schizophrenia: Second Edition
This book is the only clinical guide exclusively on the treatment of medical comorbidities among patients with schizophrenia. Like its best-selling predecessor, this new, expanded edition compiles... (more)
Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
Sometimes described as the nemesis of the primary care physician, somatoform disorders are frustrating, expensive to treat, and under-investigated. Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders provides... (more)
Reaching Out: The Psychology of Assertive Outreach
Examines the application of psychological approaches in assertive outreach - a process which involves forming new relationships and offering hope to people who have been alienated from traditional... (more)
Prime Time: Maximizing the Therapeutic Experience: A Primer for Psychiatric Clinicians
A primer intended to help the mental health clinician to do more (quality work) with less (time). One of the difficulties that all psychiatrists encounter when they see patients for less than fifty... (more)
The Psychotic Wavelength: A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Psychiatry
The Psychotic Wavelength provides a psychoanalytical framework for clinicians to use in everyday general psychiatric practice and discusses how psychoanalytic ideas can be of great value when used in... (more)
Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930
Paul Lerner traces the intertwined histories of trauma and male hysteria in German society and psychiatry and shows how these concepts were swept up into debates about Germany's national health,... (more)
Clinical Manual for Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychotic Depression
Psychotic depression is a dangerous and debilitating illness that, tragically, often has fatal consequences. Studies indicate that between 16 per cent and 54 per cent of all depressed adults suffer... (more)
Casebook of Psychosomatic Medicine
Psychosomatic medicine plays a crucial role in the medical center, and its sound, sensitive practice is critical to patient care. "The Casebook of Psychosomatic Medicine" brings to life the patients... (more)
Essential Mental Health Law: A Guide to the New Mental Health Act
The new Mental Health Act, amending the 1983 Act, was passed in 2007 and came into operation only this year. The new Mental Capacity Act was passed in 2005 and came into operation in 2007. Together... (more)
Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880-1983
Madness in Buenos Aires examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offers a fresh interpretation of the... (more)