Human beings are designed by evolution to form meaningful interpersonal relationships through verbal and nonverbal communication. This principle is the same whether the individual is male or female, an infant, a child, an adolescent, or an adult, or healthy or sick. The theme th…
Empathy has long been recognized as a key element of the healing professions, Yet it is not always clear how to define the concept, how to measure it, whether there are effective methods to enhance empathy, or whether empathy really helps make treatment more effective. Drawing o…
"This book offers a rigorous examination of a variety of therapeutic, assessment, and diagnostic techniques in clinical psychology, focusing on practices that are popular and influential but lack a solid grounding in empirical research. Featuring chapters from leading clinical r…
A young molecular biologist at the forefront of HIV research, Nathalia Holt tells the historic, multilayered, and compassionate story of two patients--each known in medical literature as the Berlin Patient--and their young research-minded doctors. The backdrop is nothing less th…
Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: nonpharmacologic treatments and their combination with medication / Stephen P. Hinshaw, Rachel G. Klein, Howard B. Abikoff -- Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: pharmacological treatments / Laurence L. Greenhil…
"The second edition of The Great Psychotherapy Debate has been updated and revised to include a history of healing practices, medicine, and psychotherapy, an expanded theoretical presentation of the contextual model, an examination of therapist effects, and a thorough review of …
"The second edition of The Great Psychotherapy Debate has been updated and revised to include a history of healing practices, medicine, and psychotherapy, an expanded theoretical presentation of the contextual model, an examination of therapist effects, and a thorough review of …
Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology
Introduction -- Clinical psychology : clinical evidence for a nonmedical model -- Attachment theory and social telationships research : the power of human connection and social interaction -- Neuroscience and evolutionary theory : how our brains are evolved to heal through socia…
""Insight" and "Change." The problematic relationship between these two concepts has dogged psychoanalysis for a century. Building on the integrative object relations model set forth in Transcending the Self (1999), Frank Summers turns to Winnicott's notion of "potential space" …