Clinical Psychology Books
Epidemiology for the Uninitiated
This is an introduction to epidemiology in health care. This fifth edition provides the reader with the core elements of epidemiology needed in health care practice and research. The text has been... (more)
Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy
The goal of this new text is to bring together the latest thinking on the scientific study of closeness and intimacy from the most active and widely recognized relationship scholars in social and... (more)
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? David J.... (more)
The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain
Consistently portrayed in the media and popular culture as unusual, inhumane and emotionless creatures, psychopaths may seem far removed from our everyday lives. The reality, however, brings them... (more)
Attribution: An Introduction to Theories, Research and Applications
This significant text combines comprehensive coverage of the fundamental theoretical ideas and most influential research with an overview of more recent developments. Attribution concerns the... (more)
Personality: A Topical Approach - Theories, Research, Major Controversies and Emerging Findings
An alternative to, not a replacement for, the author's text on theories of personality ("An Introduction to Theories of Personality", 1993), this book describes and discusses an example of each major... (more)
Language in Psychiatry: A Handbook of Clinical Practice
This book is designed to enable clinicians and clinicians in training to become sensitive to a wide range of language phenomena that are important for the diagnosis, treatment and research of... (more)
Foundations of Psychology: An Introductory Text
This introduction to psychology spans the six central areas of the topic: cognitive psychology; individual and abnormal psychology; social psychology; developmental psychology; and comparative... (more)
Living with Schizophrenia: Video
This video offers information and guidance for individuals and families coping with a schizophrenia diagnosis. Depicting the elements of effective clinical management, the programme features... (more)
The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain
Consistently portrayed in the media and popular culture as unusual, inhumane and emotionless creatures, psychopaths may seem far removed from our everyday lives. The reality, however, brings them... (more)
Applied Exercise Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide to Improving Client Health and Fitness
Mental health practitioners (MHPs) often earn a trust that not many other professionals do with their patients. It is with this trust that MHPs are able to encourage and help their clients begin a... (more)
The Science of False Memory: An Integrative Approach
Weaves together the common threads of the four major topics that comprise the core of false memory research: theories of false memory, adult experimental psychology of false memory, false memory in... (more)
How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains?
In daily life, we take it for granted that our minds have conscious control of our actions, at least for most of the time. But, many scientists and philosophers deny that this is really the case,... (more)
Clinical Manual of Impulse-control Disorders
Changes in the nuclear and extended family, examples of impulse dyscontrol The impulse-control disorders (ICDs) have burst onto the scene in psychiatry, as well as in popular culture, in recent... (more)
Social Inclusion and Recovery
Although it is widely agreed that the experiences of service users have much to offer mental health professionals, the majority of books for this group focus on either conditions or different types... (more)
Insomnia: A Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Treatment
This study describes a concise treatment programme for insomnia intended for a range of health care providers. In a user-friendly manner it provides empirically-derived and clinically useful... (more)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Reasoning Processes in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Traditionally, obsessive-compulsive disorder has been classified as an anxiety disorder, but there is increasing evidence that it has schizotypal features - in other words it is a belief disorder.... (more)
Psychology of Medicine and Surgery: A Guide for Psychologists, Counsellors, Nurses and Doctors
This book provides a strong conceptual framework which unites contemporary knowledge with clinical contexts and problems. It should be useful to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses and... (more)
Insight in Psychiatry: Conceptual and Clinical Aspects
Examines the clinical and theoretical problems of insight across a range of mental disorders. Questions concerning the nature of insight in patients with mental illness have interested clinicians for... (more)
Exploring the Self - Philosophical and Psychopathological Perspectives on Self-experience:
This volume discusses research into self-experience and its disorders looking at what is self, what is the relation between the self-givenness of consciousness and the givenness of conscious self,... (more)
The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
This is a revised edition on body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a relatively common and sometimes debilitating disorder in which sufferers are obsessed with perceived appearance flaws. Four new... (more)
Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Schizophrenia: Theory and Practice
Could CRT provide the first structured method of alleviating cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia? Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Schizophrenia describes the background and development... (more)
The Psychology of Reasoning - Theory and Historical Perspective:
Exploring the historical, philosophical and theoretical implications of the development of the psychology of reasoning, this text takes the unusual approach of engaging not only with empirical data... (more)
Cultural Psychology - Theory and Method:
This cultural analysis of psychology is twofold: it is a scientifically correct way to a deeper understanding of psychology and it can provide crucial insights for initiating and guiding the struggle... (more)