Clinical Psychology

Bipolar disorder is a lifelong challenge, but it doesn't have to rule your life. Join the many tens of thousands of readers who have used the scien...

The bold memoir from a diagnosed sociopath. Shocking but funny, Confessions of a Sociopath is a fascinating insight into the mind of a self-confess...

This volume advances a uniquely Afro-centric, sociocultural understanding of health maintenance and risk reduction in African cultural heritage pop...

Suicide is a serious public health problem worldwide, accounting for more loss of life annually than all forms of war and interpersonal violence co...

Mental Epidemics: From Mobbing to Terrorism Handbook focuses on a new research area: mental medicine as a psychiatric paradigm of integrative medic...

Suicide is the cause of death for nearly one million people per year. Attempts at suicide, estimated to be ten times more frequent than completed s...

Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial Psychiatry in Modern Medicine is a comprehensive collection of essays by leading experts in the field, and provi...

Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities offers concrete guidelines and evidence-based best practices for addressing racial inequities and ...

Women have unintentionally become their own worst enemies through their engagement in fat talk--critical dialogue about one's own physical appearan...

The main aspects of developmental psychology can be found in Section I; it includes the concept of attachment, which is a central construct of deve...

Health and Illness in Close Relationships provides an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health trajectories an...

Close relationships are a vital part of people's daily lives; thus family members, friends, and romantic partners play an integral role in people's...

Alternatives to Domestic Violence, 4th Edition is an interactive treatment workbook designed for use with a wide variety of accepted curricula for ...

Clinical psychology makes a significant contribution to mental health care across the world. The essence of the discipline is the creative applicat...

What are the physical paths towards consciousness? How do humans transition out of deep anesthesia, deep sleep, or traumatic brain injury? This boo...

The concept of the locus of control is one of the most influential in all of the psychological sciences. Initially proposed by Julian Rotter in 196...

Body image is a subjective multidimensional construction that has an early and continuous influence on ones emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Thro...

'A really clear, funny, useful guide to mental health.' Keith Stuart, author of A Boy Made of Blocks'Warm, welcoming and wise.' Red magazine'This i...

According to the World Health Organisation, pathological addiction is the psychic, and sometimes even physical, condition arising from the interact...

Do you have any insights into the cause and therapeutic treatments of disorders that are available and present for some individuals on the autism s...

Lost enough loves for three lifetimes? Want to break bad habits and replace them with good ones that last? Whether you are male or female, single o...

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) affects millions of people each year. But it can be treated effectively with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT...

An analysis of the cultural and economic drivers of the growing phenomenon of FGCS, written by cross-disciplinary experts, this book challenges the...

Bipolar disorder is equally prevalent in men and women and is found across all cultures and ethnic groups. Not everyone''''s symptoms are the same,...

In Neuropsychological Practice with Veterans, Bush endeavors to compile a comprehensive account of how neuropsychological research, assessment, and...

Understanding Mental Disorders: Your Guide to DSM-5 is a consumer guide for anyone who has been touched by mental illness. Most of us know someone...

The classical Roman poet, Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99 BC c. 55 BC), described the clinamen, or swerve, as an occurrence that we now call singular...

Psychological distress has become a very relevant and highly debated topic as a result of the increasing volume of information available. In fact, ...

Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is the third most prevalent condition among psychiatric disorders, which has a chronic and disabling course and is hi...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the gender differences, socio-cultural influences and health implications of bod...

The aim of this work is to show that certain acts related to the body (sport, tattoo, clothing), when practiced to excess, go beyond sanity and aes...

This book examines the psychology of trauma. The authors present current research including the topics of traumatic attachment as adaptation; traum...

Psychopathy is a popular construct at present, especially in forensic psychiatry and forensic psychology, yet it is a controversial construct. A nu...

Francoise Davoine has been investigating psychotic phenomena and trauma for over thirty years, in collaboration with Jean-Max Gaudilliere. In this ...