| Crisis-Proof Your Practice: How to Survive and Thrive in an Uncertain Economy
By Lynn Grodzki Publisher's Comments:
This book explains why psychotherapy practices are especially vulnerable to a recession and how to keep yours viable. It offers concrete steps for practices in trouble, guidelines on when and how to grow or cut back, and a look at the most future-forward practice models in use today.
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| Spirituality and Psychiatry
Edited by Chris Cook, Andrew Powell, and Andrew Simms Publisher's Comments:
Spirituality is a crucial but sometimes overlooked aspect of mental well-being. This book explores the nature of spirituality, its relationship to religion, and the reasons for its importance in clinical practice.
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| Clocking the Mind
By Arthur R. Jensen Publisher's Comments:
Mental chronometry describes techniques for measuring the speed at which the brain processes information. Jensen reviews times for intake of visual and auditory information, accessing short-term and long-term memory, and other cognitive skills at yearly intervals in subjects ages 3 to 80. Have you read this book?
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| Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference
By Harlene Anderson, PhD, and Diane R. Gehart, PhD Publisher's Comments:
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| Creativity
By Mark A. Runco Publisher's Comments:
Creativity addresses theories of creativity (person, product, process, place), whether creativity is influenced by nature or nurture, what research shows about creative individuals’ personality and style, and how social context affects creativity. The book covers gender differences, creativity’s relationship with poor mental or physical health, whether creativity can be enhanced, and other issues.
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| EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing
Edited by Robin Shapiro Publisher's Comments:
Readers are introduced to key techniques based in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). The inventor of each technique explains his or her method using a variety of case examples.
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| Preventing boundary violations in clinical practice
By Thomas G. Gutheil, MD, and Archie Brodsky Publisher's Comments:
Highly practical and engaging, this authoritative book prepares clinicians of any orientation to navigate the clinical and ethical dilemmas involved in maintaining appropriate therapeutic boundaries. The authors explain what boundary violations are, their harmful impact on both patient and therapist, and how to avoid them. Along with sexual misconduct, areas such as role reversal, gifts, self-disclosure, out-of-office encounters, and physical contact are covered.
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| Promoting Well-Being: Linking Personal, Organizational, and Community Change
By Isaac Prilleltensky, PhD, and Ora Prilleltensky, EdD Publisher's Comments:
Promoting Well-Being shows how treatment, prevention, counseling, advocacy, personal and community change, and social justice can work in unison to enhance the well-being of individuals and the community.
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| Psychology and the Internet, 2nd ed.
By Jayne Gackenbach Publisher's Comments:
Gackenbach examines how the Internet affects communication and work patterns. She describes how normal and pathologic behavior differ with respect to Internet use; how we use the Internet for dating, business, education and other purposes; and how Internet use defines our reality and consciousness.
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| Psychology of Academic Cheating
By Eric M. Anderman and Tamera B. Murdock Publisher's Comments:
A look at personality variables of persons likely to cheat and the circumstances that predict cheating. Research on motivations behind cheating—and how to prevent it—is discussed across student populations, ages, and settings.
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| R.D. Laing: A Life
By Adrian Laing Publisher's Comments:
A brutally honest biography of pioneering psychiatrist Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) by his son. Dr. Laing's book The Divided Self is still regarded as a seminal work on the inner world of a patient with schizophrenia. He also co-founded London's Kingsley Hall therapeutic community and became famous for experimenting with therapeutic use of LSD.
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| Textbook of Men’s Mental Health
Edited by Jon E. Grant, MD, MPH, JD, and Marc N. Potenza, MD, PhD Publisher's Comments:
This work addresses issues ranging from difficulties in diagnosing male depression to strategies for engaging men in marital therapy. Chapters address male developmental issues specific to childhood, adolescence, and old age; presents treatment options for a range of men’s psychiatric disorders; and discusses psychosocial issues as they apply uniquely to men.
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| The Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment Planner
By Jack Klott, MSSA, and Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr., PhD Publisher's Comments:
This volume provides the elements needed to quickly develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payers, and state and federal review agencies.
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| The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
By Jack El-Hai Publisher's Comments:
The story of Dr. Walter Freeman, whose tireless advocacy led to 50,000 lobotomies in the United States.
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| The Psychology of Humor
By Rod A. Martin Publisher's Comments:
This monograph summarizes the information needed to study the psychology of humor. The material, though scholarly, is suitable for persons unfamiliar with the subject and for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses.
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| Thought Suppression
By Eric Rassin Publisher's Comments:
Is it possible to ban unwanted thoughts from consciousness? This book provides an up-to-date overview of thought suppression literature.
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| Trust
By Guido Möllering Publisher's Comments:
This book reviews a broad range of research and examines three main perspectives for understanding trust: reason, routine, and reflexivity.
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| Working Memory and Education
By Susan J. Pickering and Gary D. Phye Publisher's Comments:
This book brings together information from leading researchers in working memory and education, and provides up-to-date evidence on how different aspects of working memory affect academic performance.
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