Abnormal psychology Books

Bipolar In Order is based on a very simple premise: we can learn and grow to the point that we see our condition as an advantage in our lives. Wootton takes on the goals of treatment, basic misunderstandings, and assumptions that are in the way of...

From ABC to ADHD  is an understandable, reliable source of information for parents of a child with a developmental or behavioral problem. Written by an experienced team of physicians and neuropsychologists, this essential guide walks...

Children Recovering from Complex Trauma: From Wound to Scar draws on the latest knowledge and research on complex trauma in children, as well as the authors' expertise, in order to outline a trauma-sensitive approach to these children and their parents...

Practical, down to earth, clearly written, and easy for therapists to understand and apply, Virtual Reality Therapy for Anxiety is a useful guide for any clinician treating anxiety, regardless of setting (in-office or via telehealth), theoretical...

Treating Trauma in Trans People brings together key concepts from both gender-affirming treatment and trauma-focused care, with interventions focused on resolving physiological, intrapsychic, and interpersonal disruptions. Symptoms related to trauma and...

"Why are we so fascinated by beauty?" is a question many of us have asked ourselves, as have many who came before us. This book investigates the moment of ecstatic solitude in which everyone can experience emotions through films, works of art or natural...

Life Events and Emotional Disorder Revisited explores the variety of events that can occur, their inherent characteristics and how they affect our lives and emotions, and in turn their impact on our mental health and wellbeing.The book focuses on current...

This user-friendly workbook provides adults with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), the tools they need to move beyond their disorder using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and it also serves as compact text for clinicians/practitioners to use...

In recent years, the assumption that there is a significant connection between normal psychological and biological differences and the development of psychological disorders has grown and research in this area has developed rapidly.This textbook, written...

An attractive, highly successful Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer, Terri Cheney had been battling debilitating bipolar disorder for the better part of her life--and concealing a pharmacy's worth of prescription drugs meant to stabilize her moods and...

Discover groundbreaking findings on a hidden epidemic -- and why it so often is misdiagnosed.You peer into the mirror and have trouble recognizing yourself. You feel as if you're going through the motions of life or you're watching a movie of yourself...

Why do I feel so alone?Billions of people feel alone, lonely, and without hope - and that includes Christians. We know we are called to have a close relationship with the omnipresent Father, and that He loves us, but yet, sometimes, we feel as if we're...

Marina Lorca spent almost a year in a psychiatric rehab center. Unlike the other patients, however, she had no interest in getting high. She only used when one of her other personalities was in control.Upon release, Marina's counselor referred her to...

Viele geflüchtete Menschen sind traumatisiert, aber nur ein Bruchteil von ihnen erhält professionelle Hilfe. Als Begleiter, die nicht vom Fach sind, müssen wir jedoch nicht hilflos zusehen. Fachkräfte bestätigen, dass auch Laien viel dazu beitragen...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Beratung und Therapie, Note: sehr gut, Freie Universität Berlin (Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit vergleicht...

What happens when you mix faith in Jesus, a longing to serve in China, and moving to Israel with a dysfunctional family, abuse and the death of your dreams? Dvora responded to the call of her heritage, moved to Israel, developed a successful career, and...

DescriptionWhen Julie becomes so mentally ill she can no longer cope in society, she is put in a psychiatric hospital with the support of her friends. Once inside the hospital, Julie faces some terrible challenges; her main issue is trusting those in...

Is ADHD having a negative impact on your productivity and focus? Is ADHD holding you back from achieving your goals and desires? If you find it hard to prioritize and have a low frustration tolerance then this book is for you!ADHD Workbook for...

The long-awaited final installment of the Biocognitive Model SeriesHumanizing Psychiatrists is the third of a series directed at developing the Biocognitive Model of Psychiatry as the replacement for the three nineteenth century models of mental...

The impetus for this volume began with our research in the 1980's involving serial neuropsychological evaluation with various patient populations. At that time, reports on the practice effects associated with routinely utilized...

For the first time in history, behavioral health providers are expected to understand and participate in activities intended to access and improve the quality of services they provide. This handbook is designed as a general...

Over the past several decades the seeming escalation of crimes involving sexually deviant, coercive, and aggressive behavior has become an increasingly serious problem, manifested in costs to both victims and society at large...

""Notes On Asylums For The Insane In America"" is a book written by John Charles Bucknill in 1876. This book provides a thorough examination of the state of asylums for the mentally ill in the United States during the 19th century. Bucknill explores the...

Mania or the Holy Spirit?That is the main question Christian Browne found himself asking 12 years after his first manic episode (recounted in Bipolar in Barbados: A Memoir of My First Manic Episode).Was my experience of God within me, the Holy Spirit,...

Le livre ""Annales Medico-Psychologiques V5: Relatifs A L'Alienation Mentale Aux Nevroses Et A La Medecine Legale Des Alienes"" a �����t����� publi����� en 1887 par l'�����diteur Masson Et Cie. Il s'agit d'un recueil d'articles scientifiques sur...

Since the first edition of Culture and Psychopathology was published, a growing national and international interest in how culture impacts mental disorders and how psychopathology is influenced by culture has become a rising field of focus. In this...

Das Lehrbuch der Psychischen Krankheiten von Max Leidesdorf wurde im Jahr 1865 ver������ffentlicht und ist ein umfassendes Werk �����ber psychische St������rungen. Es behandelt Themen wie Depressionen, Angstst������rungen, Schizophrenie, Manie und andere...

""Die Neurasthenie beim Manne"" ist ein medizinisches Buch, das 1899 von Moritz Deutsch ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Neurasthenie, einer psychischen Erkrankung, die durch Ersch������pfung, Reizbarkeit und...

Die Pathologische Luge Und Die Psychisch Abnormen Schwindler ist ein Buch des deutschen Autors Anton Wolfgang Adalbert Delbruck aus dem Jahr 1891. Das Buch behandelt das Thema der pathologischen L�����ge und der psychisch abnormen Schwindler und...

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to genes, fetal development and early brain development. It integrates insights from typical and atypical development to reveal fundamental aspects of human growth and development, and common...

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to the key theoretical perspectives and methodologies in developmental psychology. It integrates insights from typical and atypical development to reveal fundamental aspects of human growth and...

Experiences and Explanations of ADHD: An Ethnography of Adults Living with a Diagnosis presents research on the lived experiences of those diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Drawing on in-depth interviews with adults...

This comprehensive and well-curated collection explores how neuroscience can be integrated into psychoanalytic thinking and practice, reexamining the biological science within psychological (sexuality, pleasure, and dreams), social (pornography), and...

METAFISICA E METAPSICHICA - Un viaggio affascinante nel mondo della parapsicologia. Testimonianze e recenti scoperte.

Alpha-Theta Neurofeedback in the 21st Century is a new handbook on neurofeedback treatment of emotional trauma and substance abuse, now in its expanded second edition featuring three new chapters, including an introduction to neurofeedback, brainwaves...

You may come to a time when you realize that you do not really understand the trauma that has occurred in your life or how it has affected you. This book contains sixty short thoughts that can be used as daily reflective meditations to help you unravel...

Mexican-Americans now constitute two thirds of what has become the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States, Hispanics. They have distinct cultural patterns and values that those who seek to serve them competently as clinicians and...

An estimated two to three million people in the United States today were raised by a schizophrenic parent. Brown and Roberts offer a unique book based on interviews with over forty adult children of mothers diagnosed as schizophrenic. Such topics as...

This book presents a psychotherapy intervention model called Multimodal Integrative Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (MICST). It is grounded in information processing and cognitive stimulation techniques and operates out of a positive psychology framework...

Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis is the first of two volumes that delves into the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning. The book uses clinical examples of people living in a state of liminality...

Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals:　 Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, José Saramago and John Nash.　 Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a...

The DSM-5 promises to be a major reformulation of psychopathology, and no section is likely to change diagnostic practice more than that of personality pathology. Unlike the DSM-IV, the DSM-5 personality disorders will be conceptualized as involving core...

This book examines the role of British object relations theory in order to explore our understanding and treatment of depression. It challenges current conceptualizations of depression while simultaneously discussing the complex nature of depression, its...

Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity provides psychoanalytic insights into dissociation, in particular Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), and offers a variety of responses to the questions of self, identity and dissociation. With contributions from a...

Behavioral Economics is a fascinating field that combines insights from psychology and economics to understand and predict human behavior in decision-making processes. It delves into the intricacies of why people make certain choices, often deviating...