Clinical Psychology Books
The World in My Mind, My Mind in the World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines
Aspects of consciousness explored by a leading researcher of Artificial Intelligence for a general audience. Igor Aleksander is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Imperial College,... (more)
Advanced Family Work for Schizophrenia: An Evidence-based Approach
This book is a companion volume to the popular Family Work for Schizophrenia and gives more detailed explanations of how to work with difficult cases. It describes nineteen families with more complex... (more)
Psychosocial Interventions for People with Schizophrenia: A Practical Guide for Mental Health Workers
This title provides an overview and practical guidelines for helping people with schizophrenia using psychosocial interventions. It explains these interventions within the context of current... (more)
Contesting Psychiatry: Social Movements in Mental Health
Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Contesting Psychiatry, focusing largely on the UK, examines 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)
Psychoses: An Integrative Perspective
"Psychoses" provides a unique perspective on the challenges associated with understanding and treating psychoses, bringing together insights and developments from medicine and psychology to give a... (more)
Gesture and Thought
Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and... (more)
Personality Disorders and Community Mental Health Teams: A Practioner's Guide
Practitioners in Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) frequently find that traditional forms of support are ineffective when offered to patients with personality disorder. This book considers the... (more)
Worry and its Psychological Disorders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment
Anxiety-based disorders are among the most common mental health problems experienced in the population today. Worry is a prominent feature of most anxiety-based disorders including generalized... (more)
Readings in the Theory of Individual Psychology
Individual Psychology, a movement pioneered by Alfred Adler around the turn of the (20th) century, has gradually claimed its place as an established school of psychotherapy and counseling. However,... (more)
The Psychology of Gender (Second Edition)
To what extent does gender influence our behavior, thoughts, and feelings? How do "nature" and "nurture" interact to shape our identities as female or male? And what are the effects of gender on the... (more)
Advances in Personality Psychology: Volume 2
The second volume in the Advances in Personality Psychology series, this book presents an authoritative collection of works by leading experts in the field. It focuses on three of the major issues in... (more)
Standards and Expectancies: Contrast and Assimilation in Judgments of Self and Others
This book examines how standards and expectancies affect judgments of others and the self. Standards are points of comparison; expectancies are beliefs about the future, and both serve as frames of... (more)
Working Memory Capacity: Essays in Cognitive Psychology
The idea of one's memory 'filling up' is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it is actually thought to have no capacity limit. However, the idea of a 'full brain'... (more)
Recovery Beyond Psychiatry
David Whitwell's thesis is that it is not conventional psychiatric treatment that is key to recovery but non-specific aspects of care such as support, safety, general health, good relationships. The... (more)
Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction
This volume concentrates on the fundamental issues raised by the application of modern Darwinism to psychology. It also offers a non-technical account of new findings about the roles that conflicting... (more)
Shell Shock to PTSD: Military Psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War
Provides a thought-provoking evaluation of the history and practice of military psychiatry, and places its findings in the context of advancing medical knowledge and the developing technology of... (more)
The Thinking - Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning Judgment and Decision Making:
A collection of original chapters by researchers in the field of reasoning and decision making. These chapters have been selected with the intention to reflect the convergence of theory and research... (more)
Principles of Rorschach Interpretation:
This second edition of Irving Weiner's comprehensive, clinician-friendly guide to utilizing the Rorschach for personality description has been revised to reflect both modifications in the Rorschach... (more)
Self-awareness Deficits in Psychiatric Patients: Neurobiology, Assessment, and Treatment
Addressing psychiatric disorders of self-awareness, the authors present interventions for improving patients' daily functioning and a review of the neuronal circuitry involved with these disorders. (more)
Social Perspectives in Mental Health: Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress
Social Perspectives in Mental Health offers practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. This volume promotes a... (more)
Community Mental Health Teams: A Guide to Current Practices
Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) have evolved over the last 30-40 years to serve patients with mental illnesses who would previously have been treated in large mental hospitals. They play a... (more)
Opening Skinner's Box - Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century:
This title provides an account of the 20th century's key psychological experiments, by the author of 'Prozac Diary'. (more)
Culture and Self-Harm - Attempted Suicide in South Asians in London:
Culture and Self-Harm considers the factors that attribute to the increased rate of self-harm and suicide among south Asians in London. It offers a new preventative strategy that will be of great... (more)
Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies - The Psychopathology of Common Sense:
How can we better understand and treat those suffering from schizophrenia and manic-depressive illnesses? Using self descriptions, this book's emphasis is not on how mental health professionals view... (more)
Mind, Meaning and Mental Disorder - The Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology and Psychiatry:
This edition of Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder addresses key issues in the philosophy of psychiatry, drawing on both philosophical and scientific theory. The main idea of the book is that causal... (more)