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This manual offers therapists and patients a user-friendly guide to general principles of treatment via case examples, therapeutic conversations, and common comorbid problems. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) has a suicide rate similar to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964765009Author Flo ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 415Imprint Stillpoint PressPublisher Stillpoint Press

The Obsessive Mind offers a well-defined and comprehensive understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its treatment model. Based on the results of current research, the book offers a psychological perspective on the disorder, a complete...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394710341Author Janet MalcolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939261274Author Susanna MittermaierFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Access Consciousness Publishing CompanyPublisher Access Consciousness Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826175922Author Ann Beckley-ForestFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Springer Publishing Co IncPublisher Springer Publishing Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578580524Author Nicole Theresa LaborFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Laborhood Change Project, IncPublisher Laborhood Change Project,...

The line that separates those who kill from those who only think about it, and from those who injure themselves, is often thinner than we imagine. Convicted murderers serving life-sentences in England are among the subjects of this in-depth psychological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607960348Author American Psychiatric AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Clinical depression is an illness, a medical condition. This means two things. First, we do not need to blame ourselves. Second, we can get better' From Chapter 1 These encouraging thoughts are the starting point of this compassionate and practical...

This authoritative clinical reference and text--now revised and updated with 50% new content--presents the assessment tools and strategies that every evidence-based psychotherapy practitioner needs. Unlike most assessment texts, the volume is organized...

Through Durand, Barlow, and Hofmann's Essentials of Abnormal Psychology, you'll learn that psychological disorders are rarely caused by a single influence, but rooted in the interaction among multiple factors: biological, psychological, cultural, social,...

As interest in attachment theory continues to grow, misconceptions of the theory are becoming increasingly common. Important texts on major theoretical and empirical contributions are often too extensive for non-specialist readers or not readily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062007186Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 118g

The Loss of Sadness argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, but to the way that normal human sadness has been 'pathologised' since 1980. That year saw the publication of the...

The idea of insanity pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Thomas Szasz contends that the term actually functions as a euphemism for problems in living, as an excuse for crime and misbehaviour, as a stigma for invalidating adversaries - and,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977255662Author J Eric GentryFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 236g

In many criminal trials, forensic technical evidence is lacking and triers of fact must rely on the reliability of eyewitness statements, identifications, and testimony; however, such reports can be riddled with deceptive statements or erroneous...

Michael Langone and his colleagues provide practical guidelines for helping former cult members manage the problems they encounter when leaving cults.About the AuthorMichael Langone lives in southern Florida.Book InformationISBN 9780393313215Author...

Crisis workers make split-second decisions every day that affect the mental health and well-being of individuals, families, and entire communities. They support and guide people through health diagnoses, bankruptcies, sexual assaults, deaths of loved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434440884Author Nellie BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Several years after the first edition of Bad Boys, Bad Men was published, Donald W. Black, MD, brings us the Revised and Updated edition. Containing the same examination of antisocial personality disorder, Dr. Black continues to draw on case studies,...

Narcissists have been much maligned, but according to clinicians who study personality, there are many productive narcissists who succeed spectacularly well in life because they can articulate a vision and make others follow. Elsa Ronningstam, who has...

This "Essential Handbook" provides the critical elements from its companion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment, it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders,...

One of the most commonly reported emotions in people seeking psychotherapy is shame, and this emotion has become the subject of intense research and theory over the last 20 years. In Shame: Interpersonal Behavior, Psychopathology, and Culture, Paul...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369361714Author Alex KorbFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 156g

How Long Does It Hurt? is the revised and updated edition of the best--selling book written by an incest survivor for future survivors. This step--by--step guide speaks directly to victims of sexual abuse to help them come to grips with what is happening...

Dr. Ralph Ankenman presents new diagnoses and treatment options for children who have severe disruptive meltdowns at home or school. Referred to as Immature Adrenaline Systems Over reactivity (IASO), this approach is based on the relationship between...

A breakthrough approach to optimize your brain, change your habits, and succeed in school, from a renowned neuroscientist and bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life Do you feel like you should be getting better grades? Are you...

Forensic Psychological Assessment in Practice: Case Studies presents a set of forensic criminal cases as examples of a scientist-practitioner model for forensic psychological assessment. The cases involve a number of forensic issues, such as criminal...

This book addresses one of the fundamental, understudied issues of borderline personality disorder (BPD): dissociation and a lack of sense of self. Exploring dissociation from developmental, neurobiological, and behavioral perspectives, Russell Meares...

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...

For more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses's term "fetishism" has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to "magic" but nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brosses's term has proved...

Persecutory delusions, the unfounded beliefs that others intend harm to the individual, are a major psychiatric problem. They are a common feature of severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, delusional disorder and bipolar disorder, often lead to...

People with dementia have often played a passive role in the investigation of their condition. The contributors to this book look at ways of redressing the balance and involving them in the research process. They describe the skills that researchers and...

Informed by the latest clinical research, this is the first book to assemble a range of evidence-based protocols for treating the varied presentations associated with schizophrenia through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Deals with a wide range of...

Understanding Abnormal Psychology provides a thorough understanding of abnormal psychology with a focus on the integration of psychology, biology and health. It goes beyond a descriptive overview of clinical disorders to provide a critical appreciation...

An authoritative reference on depression and mood disorders, this volume brings together the field's preeminent researchers. All aspects of unipolar and bipolar depression are addressed, from genetics, neurobiology, and social-contextual risk factors to...

How do children emotionally heal and regain equilibrium after suffering trauma? How do adults understand and help them in a therapeutic relationship? These questions are at the heart of Violet Oaklander's approach to play therapy and her methods for...

Despite the currency of the notion of mental illness, its legal and medical legitimacy, and the panoply of psychiatry and other mental health services which claim to treat it, there are those who take the radical sceptical line that mental illness is a...