Clinical Psychology Books
Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading
People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without... (more)
A Casebook of Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis
Leading clinicians and researchers in the field of cognitive therapy for psychosis illustrate their individual approaches to the understanding of the difficulties faced by people with psychosis. (more)
Biology of Personality and Individual Differences
This is the first book to provide an overview of current research using cutting-edge genetic and neuroimaging methods in the study of personality. Integrating compelling lines of inquiry that until... (more)
Schizophrenia: Aspects of Care
This book brings together different views about living and working with schizophrenia. The discussions focus on the psychosocial aspects of care, and the book includes personal narratives from a... (more)
Clinical Supervision in Mental Health Nursing
This book reports on an investigation on the practice of clinical supervision in mental health nursing. Incorporating three case studies, it illuminates the reciprocal interactions between clinical... (more)
Acute Mental Health Care in the Community: Intensive Home Treatment
DThis innovative text focuses on a key aspect of community mental health care - Intensive Home Treatment (IHT). It examines the issues surrounding the provision of home treatment to individuals as an... (more)
Mental Health Policy: Global policies and human rights
Mental health has become a global issue. Throughout both the developed and developing worlds, the treatment and care of the mentally disordered, and the need to improve the mental health of all... (more)
Brain Science and Psychological Disorders: Therapy, Psychotropic Drugs and the Brain
Readers with little background in neuroscience and physiology may find themselves at a loss trying to navigate between the knowns and the unknowns when it comes to understanding the intricacies of... (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)
Self and Relationships: Connecting Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Processes
This volume brings together leading investigators who integrate two distinct research domains in social psychology - people's internal worlds and their close relationships. Contributors present... (more)
Eating and Weight Disorders
Eating disorders refer to a range of problems characterized by abnormal eating behaviours and beliefs about eating, weight, and shape. Eating disorders, which are classified as psychiatric problems,... (more)
Tackling Mental Health Crises
How can medical, psychological and social approaches to tackling crises be integrated? How best to manage clients who present in crisis is a vital but much neglected area of clinical practice.... (more)
The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia
Do people with schizophrenia ever get better? With the vast majority of those with the disorder dependent on their families for care, close relatives often grapple with that question. "The Complete... (more)
The Psychology of Demonization: Promoting Acceptance and Reducing Conflict
Throughout human history, the relationships of individuals and groups have been disrupted by what the authors sum up as "demonization," the attribution of basic destructive qualities to the other or... (more)
Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology
Details twenty court cases that turned, at least in part, on the expertise of forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. This casebook also includes cases involved in psychological issues such as:... (more)
A Life Worth Living: Contributions to Positive Psychology
Brings together thoughts on postive psychology. This work includes historical, philosophical, and empirical views of what matter for personal happiness and well-being. This book agrees on principles... (more)
The Metaphor of Mental Illness
Despite the currency of the notion of mental illness, its legal and medical legitimacy, and the panoply of psychiatry and other mental health services which claim to treat it, there are those who... (more)
The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life
Taking on the concept of denial, this work explains the ways in which people, both as individuals and collectively, consciously refrain from acknowledging things of which they are quite clearly aware. (more)
An Argument for Mind
In this elegantly written book, Jerome Kagan melds the history of the field of psychology during the past 50 years with the story of his own research efforts of the same period and an analysis of... (more)
Argumentative and Aggressive Communication: Theory, Research, and Application
"Argumentative and Aggressive Communication" is the first book entirely devoted to the theory-building, research and application issues on aggressive communication. In addition to fully describing... (more)
Ethical Reasoning for Mental Health Professions
A textbook that considers ethical and legal issues in mental health work by providing numerous case studies that encourage students to develop their own framework for ethical reasoning. The author... (more)
The Sport Psych Handbook
Improve your individual or team sporting performance significantly with this research-based, field testing training guide for the mind. (more)
Staying Well After Psychosis: A Cognitive Interpersonal Approach to Recovery and Relapse Prevention
Relapse rates are high in people who experience psychosis, with serious personal, family, social and financial costs. While interest in the psychological treatment is growing, there has been no book,... (more)
Early Detection and Cognitive Therapy for People at High Risk of Developing Psychosis: A Treatment Approach
The only practical and easy book for clinicians on the prevention of psychosis. This disorder has only recently become the subject of interventions using cognitive behaviour therapy. It is recognised... (more)
Beating the Blues: New Approaches to Overcoming Dysthymia and Chronic Mild Depression
Shows how chronic mild depression can be relieved by learning strategies that help us to recognize negative and distorted thinking patterns that lead to a downward spiral of pessimism. This book... (more)
Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment
Pioneering research has been carried out over the last decade on mentalization and the promotion of mentalizing capacity - the ability to interpret the behavior of oneself and others as based on... (more)
Person Based Cognitive Therapy for Distressing Psychosis
This book provides a practical framework for using a person based cognitive therapy approach for addressing the range of problems experienced by people with psychosis. Chapters 1-4 provide a context... (more)
The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder: New Developments and Research Strategies
Bipolar disorder (BPD) is a severe mental illness which has a substantial impact on the sufferer, carers, and mental health services. This volume presents an overview of the psychological and... (more)
The Anger Control Workbook: Simple, Innovative Techniques for Managing Anger and Developing Healthier Ways of Relating
Written by two well-regarded experts in the field, "The Anger Control Workbook" introduces a new and radically simplified approach to anger control. Step-by-step exercises aid readers in identifying,... (more)