Abnormal psychology Books

Are you seeking better strategies to handle ADHD in your professional and personal life?For many women, the struggles of undiagnosed ADHD can lead to eroded confidence and self-doubt in all aspects of life. Are you constantly battling feelings of...

Inside the mind of a Schizophrenic ScouserThis book tackles the stigmas surrounding mental illness with raw honesty and dark humour. From straitjackets to fearmongering, from serial killers to the boardroom, the protagonist navigates life under the...

By reading this text, readers will find essential information about how incorporating comparative psychology into understanding psychopathology can make that understanding stronger and how this approach can help psychology can help make for a truly...

Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress is a workbook of individual and group compassion-based practices that incorporate mindfully contemplative stress-reduction activities and arts-based practices.

The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and deconstructed. This book presents a synthesis of relational...

Patients suffering from psychosomatic disorders represent a formidable challenge. Psychosomatic disorders are common, and account for substantial personal discomfort, unnecessary medical expenditures, socioeconomic loss, and disability. They are...

Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions is the first book to provide a practical guide to using attachment theory in the assessment, formulation and treatment of a range of psychological problems that can arise as a...

In Depression and the Soul, John Peteet proves the old adage that the best physician is also a philosopher. He considers how to approach the problem of depression within a larger context, and reviews current concepts of successful living relative to the...

This book explores the controversial relationship between mental health and offending and looks at the ways in which offenders with mental health problems are cared for, coerced and controlled by the criminal justice and mental health systems. It...

Despite years of research, debate and changes in mental health policy, there is still a lack of consensus as to what recovery from psychosis actually means, how it should be measured and how it may ultimately be achieved. In Recovering from a First...

Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma offers clinicians a new framework for understanding the symptoms and coping mechanisms displayed by survivors of childhood abuse. This approach considers how characteristics such as suicidality,...

This book is a structured manual for the execution of FELT, an integrative play therapy that marries the analytic, relational, and psychodynamic aspects of traditional Play Therapy with the scientific rigor and replicability standards of clinical...

This fourth edition of Depression in New Mothers, Volume 2: Screening, Assessment, and Treatment Alternatives provides a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to understanding the assessment for treatment and treatment of postpartum depression.

This text offers a comprehensive portfolio of approaches to support young children with refugee backgrounds. It covers trauma informed pedagogies, transitioning to school, authentic inclusion, play, social and emotional learning, and intergenerational...

In the final instalment of her well-received Two White Feathers trilogy, Jenny Chapman describes a personal journey around the landscape of the Glastonbury Zodiac. Starting at the Girt Dog of Langport and reaching to Burrow Mump, she immerses herself in...

Welcome to our mindscape. It's a tragic, triumphant, and brutally hilarious place to be...Honeysuckle wants love any way she can get it. If that means constantly falling for predators, at least it feels good. And with her hell-bent on a stubborn...

"Oh Alice! I'd follow you anywhere!"A snazzy, glamorous, creative LondonerWith the help of Alice the Elephant, I came to the realization somewhat late in life that I was born to FREAK. It is my dream that by confessing my own strangeness and sharing...

"Wellspring of Compassion" by Sonia Connolly offers validation, support, and healing tools for sensitive people healing from childhood abuse and other trauma.Warm, inclusive language and practical exercises help survivors with the following topics: Find...

Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2010 BMA Medical Book Awards!Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses brings together professionals from around the world to provide an extensive overview of the treatment of schizophrenia...

ADHD and Asperger Syndrome in Smart Kids and Adults offers detailed examples of individuals who have above-average cognitive intelligence, but struggle with executive function impairments of ADHD and significant social-emotional impairments of Asperger...

During and after a traumatic experience, survivors experience a cascade of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, relational, and spiritual responses that can make them feel unbalanced and threatened. The second edition of Building Resilience to...

Using evidence-based creative mindfulness techniques (CMT), this book acts as a useful guide for clinical mental health practitioners seeking to build resilience levels in clients recovering from trauma. It examines the effectiveness of the CMT approach,...

Present-Centered Group Therapy for PTSD integrates theory, research, and practical perspectives on the manifestations of trauma, to provide an accessible, evidence-informed group treatment that validates survivors' experiences while restoring present-day...

The Invisible Brain Injury recounts, in her own words, the experience of Aurora Lassaletta, a clinical psychologist who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a traffic accident. Presenting her unique dual perspective as both a patient and a...

This is the inaugural volume of the new series: Critical Issues in Psychiatry: An Educational Series for Residents and Clinicians. It is an appropriate beginning, for this book represents a milestone in the evolution of...

Disorders of anxiety and substance use are, for some reason, rarely treated in an integrated fashion by professionals. This timely volume addresses this glaring omission with dispatches from the frontlines of research and...

Many counselors are not adequately prepared to help those suffering from complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). In this updated text, Heather Davediuk Gingrich provides an essential resource for Christian counselors, ably integrating the...

With clarity and eloquence, Trauma and Grief Assessment and Intervention comprehensively captures the nuance and complexity involved in counseling bereaved and traumatically bereaved persons in all stages of the life cycle. Integrating the various models...

A detailed guide to understanding and eliminating worry, fear, depression, and panic attacks. This guide will help you how to deal with your anxiety and the best practices to overcome it. Using medication to combat the issue comes with many...

Weebee is a young and beautiful woman who dearly loves her man Droney, but falls for his 'lookism.' She embraces his family like her own, weaves herself into their lives, and keeps her priorities at bay to meet his needs, just like a worker bee does for...

The Oxford Handbook of Obsessive Compulsive and Spectrum Disorders reviews current literature on obsessive compulsive disorder and its associated spectrum conditions -- body dysmorphic disorder, hoarding, trichotillomania, tic disorders, and...

Originally published in 1978, the contributors to this volume, including the leading figures in experimental psychopathology, were largely concerned with deducing the behaviour of schizophrenics from general psychological theories of language, learning...

In this volume, Loray Daws traces the life and work of Dr James F. Masterson, with a focus on the scientific development and later expansion of the six developmental stages of the Masterson Method.

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Day after day, night after night, desperate men come to sit in the black chair next to Charles Barber's desk in a basement office at Bellevue and tell of their travails, of prison and disease, of violence and the voices that plague them. Between the...

Thriving in College with ADHD uses cognitive-behavioral and psychoeducational techniques to address ADHD and related impairment in a way that is tailored to the needs of college students.

In Children of Bipolar Parents, twenty-seven moving stories of raw humanity compel the reader to bear witness to the suffering and triumphs of people with bipolar and the people who love them. The storytelling in this bold and...

Lately, are you feeling sad, lonely, or tired of always having to be locked in your house?The loss of loved ones affects you thanks to a certain virus that was prowling the planet causing havoc?If your answer is: Yes Let this book tell you if...

"The ADHD Handbook: Your Ultimate Guide to Understanding and Supporting People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" is a comprehensive and informative guide that provides readers with the tools and resources needed to better...

I know you desperately wish to wake up one day and no longer feel that hell called generalized anxiety. You're tired of all its symptoms and everything it entails. Don't worry, I know exactly how it feels, and fortunately, there is a solution. In this...