Clinical Psychology Books
Chronic pain
The theme of this book is conquering pain and its related problems through proper management. It offers numerous tools and concepts with which to attack chronic pain. Thse include cognitive and... (more)
From subjects to subjectivities: A handbook of interpretive and participatory methods
From Subjects to Subjectivities profiles the recent debates about the role of qualitative and participatory methods in psychology, a discipline which has traditionally seen itself as a form of... (more)
Clinical audit in mental health
This text examines the purpose, methods and implementation of clinical audit programmes in mental health care. It reviews the historical development of audit in psychiatric/mental health,... (more)
Clinical trials: A practical approach
278 pages.
Mind and brain for beginners
Contrasting the seemingly bizarre consequences of head injury with the workaday triumphs of the healthy brain, this text invites the reader to take a fresh look at the nature of the mind,... (more)
Developing mental health services - A manual
A guide to mental health services, covering such topics as: Primary mental health; role of the psychiatrist and other mental health professionals in developing mental health services; use of drugs in... (more)
Paradoxes of gender
This feminist work draws on a wide range of critical, social and historical research, to suggest that today's gender system is a constructed institution, designed to produce a subordinate class... (more)
Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S. Tomkins
This volume of Silvan Tomkins' selected writings brings together writings over four decades. He established affect as a separate, biological system, and provided compelling data on discrete affective... (more)
The Suicidal Mind
This is a look into the minds of those who have tried, and in some cases succeeded, to commit suicide. The book studies the psychology and commonalities of suicide, as well as the roles of self and... (more)
Pain management psychotherapy: A practical guide
An up-to-date and comprehensive guide for treating chronic pain, this text features detailed instructions for assessing the patient's pain and implementing pain management techniques. It integrates... (more)
Treating anxiety disorders
Using case studies, examples, and up-to-date research, this guide offers a resource for the clinical treatment of anxiety disorders. The authors outline effective interventions for problems including... (more)
Taming the Tyrant
256 pages.
What emotions really are: The problem of psychological categories
Argues that much research of the emotions has been misguided. This text attempts to show that 'emotion' encompasses psychological states of very different - and thus not comparable - kinds. A... (more)
The transformation of meaning in psychological therapies
This text claims that theory and practice can be unified by focusing on the role that meaning plays both in modern psychological theory and in the practice of therapy. It explores a range of... (more)
White Gloves: how our memories tell us who we are
Ranges widely over the science of memory, with case studies, personal experience, and recent events and trials involving conflicting or repressed memories. 288 pages.
Healing the mind: A history of psychiatry from antiquity to the present
This text begins with 2500 years ago, and ends in the present, with DSM-IV. For each century and era the book outlines major trends, movements, and contributing forces which set the tone of the... (more)
Group therapy in clinical practice
480 pages.
Depression and its treatment
144 pages.