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  • Treating Personality Disorder

    Creating Robust Services for People with Complex Mental Health Needs

    Edited by Naomi Murphy, Des McVey ...
    This book considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment planning.Treating Personality Disorder offers contributions from professionals in psychiatry, nursing and psychology as well as prison officers and service managers and areas of discussion ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

    by James Fallon ...
    “Compelling, essential reading for understanding the underpinnings of psychopathy.” — M. E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a SociopathFor his first fifty-eight years, James Fallon was by all appearances a normal guy. A successful neuroscientist and professor, he’d been raised in a loving family, married his high school sweetheart, and had three kids and lots of friends. Then he learned a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Psychopath Whisperer

    The Science of Those Without Conscience

    by Kent A. Kiehl PhD ...
    A compelling journey into the science and behavior of psychopaths, written by the leading scientist in the field of criminal psychopathy.We know of psychopaths from chilling headlines and stories in the news and movies—from Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, to Hannibal Lecter and Dexter Morgan. As Dr. Kent Kiehl shows, psychopaths can be identified by a checklist of symptoms that includes ... Read more

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  • Histrionic Disorder

    by Jennifer King ...
    Histrionic Personality Disorder is characterized by shallow and labile affectivity, trend to exaggerate expression of emotions, suggestibility, egocentricity, self-indulgence and loss of consideration for others. These individuals may behave inappropriately seductive and show an excessive preoccupation with physical attractiveness. They are usually manipulative, vain and demanding. ... Read more

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  • Hard to Love

    Understanding and Overcoming Male Borderline Personality Disorder

    by Joseph Nowinski ...
    First book to address this under-recognized problem.Treatment techniques are tailored to the male psyche.Author is a respected, many-times published clinical psychologist.Writing is reader-friendly, yet authoritative.Grabs readers’ attention with anecdotes and case histories. ... Read more

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  • Schizotypal Disorder

    by Jennifer King ...
    The essential feature of Schizotypal Disorder is a "pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort and a reduced capacity for intimate relationships and cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior with inclination to create illogical theories that are eager, fickle, magical and mysterious. Often believe that they have extraordinary powers. ... Read more

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  • Interpersonal Process in Cognitive Therapy

    by Jeremy Safran, Zindel V. Segal ...
    Cognitive therapy, with its clear-cut measurable techniques, has been a welcome innovation in recent years. However, the very specificity that lends itself so well to research and training has minimized the role of the therapeutic relationship, making it difficult for therapists to respond flexibly to different clinical situations. What is needed is an approach that focuses on the underlying ... Read more

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  • The Clinical Interpretation of MMPI-2

    A Content Cluster Approach

    by Edward E. Gotts, Thomas E. Knudsen ...
    In a managed care era, the MMPI-2 is becoming an overloaded workhorse, required to generate more and more of the assessments that a battery of instruments once did. Though all now rely on the MMPI-2 for good reasons, and the MMPI has fallen out of use entirely, some important and clinically useful scales were lost in the transition.Edward Gotts and Thomas Knudsen have recovered these scales and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Electrodermal Activity

    by Wolfram Boucsein ...
    Electrodermal activity is one of the most frequently used psychophysiological evaluations in psychology research. Based on the 1992 edition of this work Electrodermal Activity covers advances in the field since the first publication in 1992. The current volume includes updated information on brain imaging techniques such as PET and fMRI, which provide further insight into the brain mechanisms ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Trauma, Ethics and the Political Beyond PTSD

    The Dislocations of the Real

    by G. Bistoen ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The contemporary psychiatric approach to trauma, encapsulated in the diagnostic category of PTSD, has been criticized for its neglect of the political dimensions involved in the etiology and treatment of trauma. By means of a philosophical and psychoanalytical analysis, the depoliticizing potential of the biomedical approach is tied to a more general 'ethical crisis' in post-traditional societies. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Changing Substance Abuse and Criminal Behavior Through Therapeutic Relationships

    by Debra H. Benveniste ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book approaches the treatment process from a new and yet old perspective. Eleven men who successfully desisted from substance abuse and offending were interviewed to determine how their significant therapeutic relationships facilitated this life change. Data is integrated with a new psychodynamic framework, relational analytic theory, which focuses clinical attention on the qualities and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Reality of Recovery in Personality Disorder

    by Heather Castillo ...
    Exploring the process of recovery from personality disorder, and how this can be achieved, this research-based but highly readable book describes successful community-based ways to support people after diagnosis and the wider implications for mental ill health.Taking a close look at what it means to be diagnosed with personality disorder, the author considers how people with mental health issues ... Read more

    $27.09 USD