Abnormal psychology

James "e;Jimmy"e; McReynolds was a rising star young minister when bipolar illness was diagnosed in his senior year of college.

Art Greer-Assistant to the General Presbyter, The Presbytery of New Covenant Presbyterian Church (U.

Levin examines what therapists can do to help the victims of narcissistic wounds to integrate, mourn, and heal them.

This is a comprehensive clinical resource for addiction counselors who want to learn about the psychological components of the problem, for individual therapists-dynamic, cognitive, and behavioral-who want to understand systems approaches in order to draw on a broader repertoire of useful interventions, and for couple and family therapists who want to learn more about the intrapsychic, biological, and pharmacological aspects of addiction.

Esther Menaker sees the ego as an evolutionary achievement emerging from the relational matrix of mother and child and the product of numerous psychosocial forces.

This book recounts the experiences of adults living successfully with attention deficit disorder.

People who directly injure their bodies are increasingly seeking help from psychotherapists.

The therapeutic process requires both the willingness to be vulnerable and the capacity to tolerate it despite the risks involved.

Depressive illness often becomes chronic or recurrent, and patients may recover only partially.

For many therapists it has replaced previous action terms such as acting in and acting out.

In an original integration of the medical model and therapeutic community approaches to hospital milieu treatment, Oldham and Russakoff present both a systematic theory for acute hospital treatment and its practical application, spelled out in great detail without lowering the high level of their narrative to a cookbook approach to treatment.

Detached, alienated people, many of them functioning with a pathologically developed false self, barely navigate life's challenges.

The basic text for the understanding of patients with pathological narcissism.

This book rectifies a much neglected area in the conceptualization and treatment of attachment disorders.

This book advances a new understanding of producing change in psychotherapy.

Clinical experiences are incorporated in this study of the dynamics, workings, and characteristics of the psychotherapeutic process.

This book describes in detail how to effectively treat severely ill but not psychotic patients, by careful psychotherapeutic work on the defenses and the superego.

How to Help People Who Have Only Their Minds to Love Can a person relate to his or her own mind as an object, depend upon it to the exclusion of other objects, idealize it, fear it, hate it?

'The third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 121 criminal men who used drugs and/or alcohol to excess.

This is the second of a three volume landmark study of the criminal mind.

The Criminal Personality presents a detailed description of criminal thinking and action patterns and convincingly argues that these patterns cannot be explained by sociologic or psychologic explanations alone.

This is a comprehensive statement about adolescent development, identity formation, and treatment.

Is there a genetic predisposition to crime?

In So the Witch Won't Eat Me Bloch draws on 25 years of psychoanalytic practice.

Editor Carolyn Lennox characterizes the redecision therapist as a director in an improvisational theater.

Inevitably, every psychotherapist has some experience with severely disturbed patients.

Management of Countertransference with Borderline Patients is an open and detailed discussion of the emotional reactions that clinicians experience when treating borderline patients.

In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr.

Depressive illness often becomes chronic or recurrent, and patients may recover only partially.

This book describes in detail how to effectively treat severely ill but not psychotic patients, by careful psychotherapeutic work on the defenses and the superego.

After decades of practice, psychotherapist Bryan C.

Life as author Melissa L.

Domestic violence can have crippling effects physically, mentallyand emotionally to the victim.

Acceptance is a first hand account of the author's life during which Dr.

Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder equips parents, educators and professionals with the knowledge and skills to assess, manage and prevent challenging behaviours in children who have been diagnosed with ADHD.

Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Oppositional and Defiant Behaviours equips parents, educators and professionals with the knowledge and skills to assess, manage and prevent challenging behaviours in children who have been diagnosed with anA OppositionalA and Defiant Disorder or are showing signs ofA oppositionalA and defiant behaviour persistently.

Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Anxious Behaviours equips parents, educators and professionals with the knowledge and skills to assess, manage and prevent challenging behaviours in children who have been diagnosed with an Anxiety Disorder or exhibit persistent anxious behaviours.

Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Oppositional and Defiant Behaviours equips parents, educators and professionals with the knowledge and skills to assess, manage and prevent challenging behaviours in children who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

The author/researcher explores the process of self-healing during his encounters with OCD using a unique self-search method and integral psychology framework.

Published both by major U.

Historically, sex addicts have had to rely on individual therapy and 12 Step support to enhance their recovery.

Those suffering from schizophrenia see the world in a different way, although they may share with others the same feelings, thoughts, and reactions to the world around them.

Linda Fairstein unmasks the true face of psychopathy, and reveals the warning signs that every woman should knowThe 2009 "e;Craigslist Killer"e; murder case shocked America, not just because of the heinous nature of the crimes but because their perpetrator a handsome young law student with an unsuspecting girlfriend seemed a very unlikely suspect.