Skip to Content

Books by Subject

Psychological Disorders - Adult Books

You are currently browsing 11–20 of 685 new and published books in the subject of Psychological Disorders - Adult — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.

For books that are not yet published; please browse forthcoming books.

New and Published Books – Page 2

  1. Using Space: Critical Geographies of Drugs and Alcohol

    Edited by Christopher M. Moreno, Robert Wilton

    The consumption of drugs and alcohol, and the pleasures and problems arising from this consumption, can be understood as embedded and constitutive elements of social, family, and recreational life. At the same time, they are key sites of intervention for a broad array of state and non-state actors...

    Published April 21st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Semantic Polarities and Psychopathologies in the Family

    Permitted and Forbidden Stories

    By Valeria Ugazio

    The gap between psychotherapeutic practice and clinical theory is ever widening. Therapists still don’t know what role interpersonal relations play in the development of the most common psychopathologies. Valeria Ugazio bridges this gap by examining phobias, obsessive-compulsions, eating disorders,...

    Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Bizarre Behaviours (Psychology Revivals)

    Boundaries of Psychiatric Disorder

    By Herschel Prins

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    The most deviant forms of human behaviour can be disturbing, incomprehensible, and sometimes very frightening. Herschel Prins believes that even the most deviant-seeming behaviours have their counterparts in ‘normality’ and can often be seen as an extension of this. In Bizarre Behaviours he sets...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Human Destructiveness (Psychology Revivals)

    The Roots of Genocide and Human Cruelty

    By Anthony Storr

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    First published in 1972, this fully revised edition was originally published in 1991 and provides a classic study of humanity’s capacity for evil. The human species is capable of the most appalling cruelty. Why is this and where does our capacity for such destructiveness come from? In Human...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge

  5. The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep: A Relational Approach to Internalized Perpetration in Complex Trauma Survivors

    By Harvey L. Schwartz

    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 and archetypal psychology, trauma and...

    Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  6. Anorexia Nervosa

    A Recovery Guide for Sufferers, Families and Friends, 2nd Edition

    By Janet Treasure, June Alexander

    The highly respected and widely known Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Sufferers and Friends was written in 1997. This long-awaited new edition builds on the work of the first book, providing essential new and updated research outcomes on anorexia nervosa. It offers a unique insight and...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Women and Problem Gambling

    Therapeutic insights into understanding addiction and treatment

    By Liz Karter

    Addiction is much misunderstood. Women and addictive gambling even more so, and for many years women have suffered in silence. This book explores how lonely, troubled lives and damaging relationships lead to the trap of problem gambling, the anxiety and chaos whilst locked inside, and then offers...

    Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Personality Assessment in the DSM-5

    Edited by Steven Huprich, Christopher Hopwood

    The DSM-5 promises to be a major reformulation of psychopathology, and no section is likely to change diagnostic practice more than that of personality pathology. Unlike the DSM-IV, the DSM-5 personality disorders will be conceptualized as involving core deficits in interpersonal and...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Assessing Common Mental Health and Addiction Issues With Free-Access Instruments

    By Katie M. Sandberg, Taryn E. Richards, Bradley T. Erford

    As healthcare costs rise, so too do the costs of assessment instruments, critical tools for mental health professionals. While some traditional assessment instruments have become prohibitively expensive, as with many other fields, the Internet offers a host of more affordable and equitable...

    Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Changing Self-Destructive Habits

    Pathways to Solutions with Couples and Families

    By Matthew D. Selekman, Mark Beyebach

    For the first time in one volume self-harm, substance abuse, eating-disordered behavior, gambling, and Internet and cyber sex abuse—five crippling, self-destructive behaviors—are given a common conceptual framework to help with therapeutic intervention. Matthew Selekman and Mark Beyebach, two...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge