Abnormal psychology Books

New to the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Offence Paralleling Behaviour presents an original framework of individualised assessment and treatment methods for clinicians working in the forensic environment. Provides a framework that helps...

Depression Care across the Lifespan is a comprehensive, practical text that aims to increase knowledge and understanding of depression enabling professionals to enhance the care delivered to patients with depression.  This text explores depression...

In First Person Accounts of Mental Illness, case studies of individuals experiencing schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, substance use disorders, and other mental ailments will be provided for students studying the...

The first book of its kind to provide an in-depth approach to termination of therapy, Terminating Therapy guides you through the practical, ethical, legal, and emotional challenges of how and when to end therapy. Written for a wide range of practitioners...

Everything you need to know about the DSM-5™ in an organized and concise presentation Providing you with a quick and easy way to get up-to-speed on recent changes to the two main classification systems—DSM-5 Essentials highlights these changes in a...

Easy to read and unconventional, it is part workbook, self-help, nonfiction, and narrative; it also features funny comics to illustrate how to:Think in terms of chances and opportunities rather than problems and risks Motivate yourself, forge your own...

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Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink, recounts Nita Sweeney's transformation from a 49-year-old, chronically depressed, sometimes manic central Ohio woman who could barely jog for sixty seconds into a...

#1 New Release in Grief & Loss Learn to Laugh When You Feel Like CryingReaders ofWhen Breath Becomes Air,Present Over PerfectandFeeling Goodwill be inspired and encouraged byEmbracing Life after Loss.Work through the depression of grief and loss with...

Heal Psychological Wounds on Your OwnMove on from the emotional trauma of your past:Contrary to what many people believe, we can recover from emotional trauma relatively quickly and completely on our own, without thousands of dollars spent on therapists...

Become a Happy Person Through Positivity and Self-Care"A wonderful blend of motivation, inspiration, and explanation, The Happiness Makeover is a recipe for enjoying today and all your tomorrows."-David Nivenhe 100 Simple Secrets of Happy PeopleFrom M.J...

A manifesto for life: The poems in this book address the emotional contradictions of depression, anxiety, grief and loss, guiding the reader down a path to healing, fortitude, and life-sustaining joy.

A Spiritual Guide to Anxiety ReliefDo you find your usual approaches to anxiety (yoga, prayer, meditation) are not bringing the long-lasting, inner peace you truly desire? Awakening from Anxiety author and counselor, Connie Habash, has helped hundreds of...

"The Cliffs of Schizophrenia"At the age of 30, Jake found himself hospitalized, grappling with the weight of anxiety, depression, and paranoia. Soon, he received the life-altering diagnosis of schizophrenia. In this intimate and illuminating book, you...

First book-length work focusing on Russian-language literature on the Chechen wars. First book-length work incorporating trauma studies and the "literature of trauma" in contemporary Russian literature. Combines literary analysis with teaching...

What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere...

The start of your higher education can be an exciting time, full of opportunities to explore your interests and meet new people. However, it can also be a difficult transition between adapting to a new environment, keeping on top of deadlines and trying...

Everything and nothing changed once Emma Mahony was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 52. In Better Late Than Never she seeks to reduce the stigma around diagnosis as an adult, and provides support for anyone who finds themselves in the same situation or...

This volume comprehensively explores the life trajectories of nine child/adolescent Holocaust concentration camp survivors as recollected when the subjects were elders. Based on extensive face to face interview material, enduring psychological and...

"Chris Westoby's THE FEARTALKING is truly important, beautifully written, and urgently needed.Clancy Martin, author ofHow not to Kill Yourself A self-help memoir that takes an unflinching look at a young man's undiagnosed anxiety disorder and OCD.Chris...

What's the worst that can happen?Anxiety is the most prevalent mental disorder worldwide. But rumination, worry, and catastrophising don't have to hold you back at work. By understanding how anxiety works, you can better manage these...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION THEGLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023THEGLOBE AND MAILBEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION OF 2023 Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's...

A secret binds them together, the truth will unravel them.Jenny Ocean's life is already on shaky ground when a violent attack sparks a chain of events that leaves her with a terrible secret that she can share with no one, and which clouds her every...

What drives serial killers to commit their horrific crimes? Are sex crimes really motivated by sexual desire? Why do some killers stop killing, while others escalate?The science of personality theory has advanced dramatically in recent years, shedding...

'Wounds into Wisdom is for anyone who has suffered trauma, either directly or in a family whose generational trauma is buried. It helps readers uncover suffering and use it to help others-the final stage of healing...' - Gloria SteinemA...

Psycho-Spiritual Healing is the result of over 20 years of healing experience. It describes the various healing modalities used by the author in treating physical, energetic, and psycho-spiritual issues that result in illness, disease, and...

Something nasty is happening in American politics. You'd have to be in hibernation to be unaware of the bullying, incivility, and disrespect going on. Splitting America is a warning to voters and politicians that current poliarizations risks long-term...

Why do so many of us commit to the wrong person? Most believe that attraction and compatibility are the keys to relationship success when, in reality, these are red flags in 15-20% of the population. When it comes to love, the brain is irrational and...

"Evocative images, eloquent testimony-a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness."-Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to ProzacA tree's bare limbs against a grey sky, a young...

Unveiling a powerful and proven methodology for teens and young adults with ADHD, this guidebook offers complete instruction for professionals and parents on what ADHD coaching for young people is and how it can dramatically improve the lives of the...

More and more often, adults are realising that the reason they are struggling so much in their relationship is that they are impacted by previously undiagnosed adult ADHD. Learning how to interact around ADHD symptoms is often the difference between joy...

First printing: 6,000This is the third title in our successful "Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Series" for people who struggle with the disorder and their families (2015 and 2018)This book follows in the tradition of the top-selling Big Book...

When Women Rise is a timely, transformative, and inspiring guide for women who want to bring more joy, power, and peace into their lives. It invites every woman to nurture her inner wisdom and strength, transcend the prevailing fears of our time, and...

'Unsurprisingly, feminists have been at the forefront of writing illness narratives, from Virginia Woolf to Audre Lord and Susan Sontag. My family's inability to accommodate my mother's illness, the perniciousness of her particular subtype of...

"Each person can learn to recognize and resolve their shock experience, sometimes alone, other times with help. Mines' goal is to empower the reader to clear out the conditioning that decreases our freedom to live with buoyancy." -Psychology TodayHave...

From New York Times bestselling author and expert on neuroscience and human behavior, The Small Guide to Anxiety Disorders provides a comprehensive overview of anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias -- along with the latest treatment solutions from...

"Ms. Thompson takes a clear-eyed look at work as well as love, intertwining the success story of her journalistic career (she eventually becomes a reporter on The Washington Post) with her record of numb despair, suicide attempts and hospitalizations...

In this groundbreaking book, David H. Rosen, M.D., offers depressed individuals, their families, and therapists a lifesaving course in healing the soul through creativity. This is a book about transforming depression and its powerful pull toward suicide...

Recovered memory therapy, which has become a rapidly-growing industry in the past ten years, is based on the controversial theory that adults often suffer emotional problems because of forgotten childhood traumas. People who experience everyday...

In The Architecture of Madness, Carla Yanni tells a compelling story of therapeutic design, from America's earliest purpose-built institutions for the insane to the asylum construction frenzy in the second half of the century. At the centre of Yanni's...