Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology

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The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit Bruce Alexander Addiction is increasing all around the world, and the conventional remedies don't work. The Globalisation of Addiction argues that the cause of this failure to control addiction is that past treatments have focused too single-mindedly on the afflicted individual addict. This book presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction. 3 July 2008 | £34.95 | Hardback | 488 pages More details and ordering information

Persecutory Delusions Assessment, Theory, and Treatment Edited by Daniel Freeman, Richard Bentall, and Philippa Garety Delusions of persecution are common in conditions such as schizophrenia, but they also affect 10-20% of the general population. In this landmark book, the three major authorities in the field bring together the current knowledge about the assessment, understanding, and treatment of persecutory delusions. 17 July 2008 | £32.95 | Paperback | 456 pages More details and ordering information

Feelings of Being Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of reality Matthew Ratcliffe Feelings of Being is the first philosophical account of the nature, role and variety of existential feelings in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. These include feelings of familiarity, unfamiliarity, estrangement, isolation, emptiness, belonging, etc. It will be valuable for all philosophers and psychiatrists interested in emotion. 26 June 2008 | £32.95 | Paperback | 320 pages More details and ordering information

Emergencies in Psychiatry Basant Puri and Ian Treasaden This essential handbook provides a practical, accessible guide to all emergency situations encountered in psychiatry. It enables readers to understand how to assess and manage such cases and how to manoeuvre successfully through the practical difficulties that may arise whilst avoiding medical, psychiatric and legal pitfalls. 15 May 2008 | £19.95 | flexicover | 256 pages More details and ordering information

Talking Cures and Placebo Effects David A. Jopling Psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have had to defend themselves from a barrage of criticisms throughout their history. In this book David Jopling argues that the changes achieved through therapy are really just functions of placebos that rally the mind's native healing powers. It is a bold new work that delivers yet another blow to Freud and his followers. 29 May 2008 | £29.95 | Paperback | 336 pages More details and ordering information

The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis Edited by Michael Nash and Amanda Barnier The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis is the successor to Fromm and Nash's Contemporary Hypnosis Research (Guilford Press), which has been regarded as the field's authoritative scholarly reference for over 35 years. For postgraduates, researchers, and clinicians, this book will be the definitive reference text in the field for many years. 27 March 2008 | £65.00 | hardback | 568 pages More details and ordering information

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