Category: Mental Health Books

Book: Psychology – The Science of Mind and Behaviour

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Book Title:

Psychology – The Science of Mind and Behaviour.

Author(s): Nigel Holt, Andy Bremner, Ed Sutherland, Michael Vliek, Michael Passer, and Ronald Smith.

Year: 2019.

Edition: Sixth (6th).

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education.

Type(s): Paperback.

Synopsis:

Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect new developments in the field. Its celebrated pedagogical design has been reinforced with key research, issues and offers an exciting and engaging introduction to the study of psychology.
The scientific approach brings together international research, practical application and the levels of analysis framework to encourage critical thinking about psychology and its impact on our daily lives.
Key features:

  • Brand new! Psychology at Work interviews from Psychologists in the field provide a glimpse of their day-to-day work and the career path they have taken since completing a psychology degree.
  • Research Close Ups reflect new research and literature as well as brand new critical thinking questions to increase analysis and evaluation of the findings.
  • Core subject updates such as DSM-5 for psychological disorders.
  • Current issues and hot topics such as, social media, prosociality, critical perspectives of positive psychology and coverage of the replication crisis to prompt debates on the questions facing psychologists today.
  • Focus Arrow Boxes encourage critical analysis and application of the text.

Book: Psychoanalysis And The Cinema – The Imaginary Signifier

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Book Title:

Psychoanalysis And The Cinema – The Imaginary Signifier.

Author(s): Christian Metz.

Year: 1984.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan.

Type(s): Hardcover and Paperback.

Synopsis:

In the first half of the book Metz explores a number of aspects of the psychological anchoring of cinema as a social institution…In the second half, he shifts his approach…to look at the operations of meaning in the film text, at the figures of image and sound concatenation. Thus he is led to consideration of metaphor and metonymy in film, this involving a detailed account of these two figures as they appear in psychoanalysis and linguistics.

Book: On Attachment – The View From Developmental Psychology

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Book Title:

On Attachment – The View From Developmental Psychology.

Author(s): Ian Rory Owen.

Year: 2017.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Routledge.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Attachment theory occupies an integrative position between psychodynamic therapy and various perspectives within empirical psychology.

Since therapy began, its way of thinking has been to interpret mental processes in relation to meaningful psychological objects between children and parents, partners, friends, and within individual therapy.

This volume summarises the research literature relating to attachment theory in developmental psychology in order to clarify conclusions that support practice.

  • Part 1 considers the received wisdom about attachment, and summarises the literature and what it means for understanding relationships and defences as part of development.
  • Part 2 considers attachment in relation to emotional regulations.
  • Part 3 applies the clarified understanding of attachment processes to inform assessment and therapy, and more broadly, mental health work in general.

The ideas of Sigmund Freud and John Bowlby are used to reinvigorate psychodynamic practice.

Book: The Mindfulness Workbook For OCD

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Book Title:

The Mindfulness Workbook For OCD.

Author(s): Jon Hershfield (MFT) and Tom Corboy (MFT).

Year: 2014.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: New Harbinger.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you might have an irrational fear of being contaminated by germs, or obsessively double-check things. You may even feel like a prisoner, trapped with your intrusive thoughts. Despite the fact that OCD can have a devastating impact on a person’s life, getting real help can be a challenge.

If you have tried medications without success, it might be time to explore further treatment options. You should know that mindfulness-based approaches have been proven-effective in treating OCD and anxiety disorders.

They involve developing an awareness and acceptance of the unwanted thoughts, feelings, and urges that are at the heart of OCD. Combining mindfulness practices with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD offers practical and accessible tools for managing the unwanted thoughts and compulsive urges that are associated with OCD.

Book: Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling & Psychotherapy

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Book Title:

Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling & Psychotherapy.

Author(s): Colin Lago and Barbara Smith (Editors).

Year: 2010.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Type(s): Paperback and EPUB.

Synopsis:

Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking text which identifies the ease with which individuals can be disadvantaged merely on the basis of their gender, race, culture, age, sexuality or ability. Examining these and other areas of discrimination, leading experts highlight how vital it is for counsellors, psychotherapists – and others in the helping professions – to be aware of and engage with their own social, political and cultural attitudes, and how they must develop their skills as culturally sensitive, reflective practitioners if counselling is to be truly accessible to all members of society.

This substantially revised and updated second edition now also includes chapters on working within an anti-discriminatory approach with:

  • Refugees;
  • People with mental health difficulties; and
  • People with disfigurement or visible differences.

While each thought-provoking chapter now:

  • Links theory to practice by providing case studies and extracts from therapeutic dialogues;
  • Assesses the most recent research findings;
  • Provides exercises for enhancing awareness and skills within each different domain or care setting; and
  • Presents references for further recommended reading.

Clearly written and accessible, Anti-discriminatory Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy is an indispensable addition to the toolkit of everyone either training to be or practising in the counselling and psychotherapeutic professions.

Book: Critical Suicidology

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Book Title:

Critical Suicidology: Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century.

Author(s): Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, and Jonathan Morris (Editors).

Year: 2015.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: UBC Press.

Type(s): Paperback and EPUB.

Synopsis:

This book is a must-read for practitioners, policy makers, and researchers working in mental health services, psychology, counselling, social work, psychiatry, medicine, philosophy, sociology, suicidology, feminism, anthropology, critical disability studies, and cultural studies.

Book: Depression in Japan

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Book Title:

Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress.

Author(s): Junko Kitanaka.

Year: 2011.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Princeton University Press.

Type(s): Paperback and EPUB.

Synopsis:

Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. In a nation that has traditionally been uncomfortable addressing mental illness, what factors have allowed for the rising medicalisation of depression and suicide? Investigating these profound changes from historical, clinical, and sociolegal perspectives, Depression in Japan explores how depression has become a national disease and entered the Japanese lexicon, how psychiatry has responded to the nation’s ailing social order, and how, in a remarkable transformation, psychiatry has overcome the longstanding resistance to its intrusion in Japanese life.

Questioning claims made by Japanese psychiatrists that depression hardly existed in premodern Japan, Junko Kitanaka shows that Japanese medicine did indeed have a language for talking about depression which was conceived of as an illness where psychological suffering was intimately connected to physiological and social distress. The author looks at how Japanese psychiatrists now use the discourse of depression to persuade patients that they are victims of biological and social forces beyond their control; analyzes how this language has been adopted in legal discourse surrounding “overwork suicide”; and considers how, in contrast to the West, this language curiously emphasizes the suffering of men rather than women. Examining patients’ narratives, Kitanaka demonstrates how psychiatry constructs a gendering of depression, one that is closely tied to local politics and questions of legitimate social suffering.

Drawing upon extensive research in psychiatric institutions in Tokyo and the surrounding region, Depression in Japan uncovers the emergence of psychiatry as a force for social transformation in Japan.

Book: Recovery of People with Mental Illness

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Book Title:

Recovery of People with Mental Illness: Philosophical and Related Perspectives.

Author(s): Abraham Rudnick.

Year: 2012.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

Type(s): Paperback and EPUB.

Synopsis:

It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of ‘recovery’ from mental health has been more widely considered and researched.

Before then, it was generally considered that ‘stability’ was the best that anyone suffering from a mental disorder could hope for. But now it is recognised that, throughout their mental illness, many patients develop new beliefs, feelings, values, attitudes, and ways of dealing with their disorder. The notion of recovery from mental illness is thus rapidly being accepted and is inserting more hope into mainstream psychiatry and other parts of the mental health care system around the world.

Yet, in spite of conceptual and other challenges that this notion raises, including a variety of interpretations, there is scarcely any systematic philosophical discussion of it. This book is unique in addressing philosophical issues – including conceptual challenges and opportunities – raised by the notion of recovery of people with mental illness. Such recovery – particularly in relation to serious mental illness such as schizophrenia – is often not about cure and can mean different things to different people.

For example, it can mean symptom alleviation, ability to work, or the striving toward mental well-being (with or without symptoms).

The book addresses these different meanings and their philosophical grounds, bringing to the fore perspectives of people with mental illness and their families as well as perspectives of philosophers, mental health care providers and researchers, among others.

The important new work will contribute to further research, reflective practice and policy making in relation to the recovery of people with mental illness.It is essential reading for philosophers of health, psychiatrists, and other mental care providers, as well as policy makers.

Book: Rethinking Psychiatry

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Book Title:

Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience.

Author(s): Arthur Kleinman, MD.

Year: 2008.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Free Press.

Type(s): Paperback and EPUB.

Synopsis:

In this book, Kleinman proposes an international view of mental illness and mental care.

Arthur Kleinman, M.D., examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cultures, how clinicians make their diagnoses, and how they heal, and the educational and practical implications of a true understanding of the interplay between biology and culture.