ABNORMAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Douglas Wardell, Ph.D., R. Psych.
Suggested Books of Readings (mostly paperbacks):
A. S. Bellack and M. Hersen (Eds.), Psychopathology in Adulthood. Wiley, and S.M. Turner and M. Hersen. Adult Psychopathology and Diagnosis, Wiley. and David Barlow (Ed.),
Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders, (latest editions).
Claude T. H. Friedman and Robert A. Faguet (Eds.), Extraordinary Disorders of Human Behavior. Plenum, 1982. M. D. Enoch and W. H. Trethowan, Uncommon Psychiatric
Syndromes. Butterworth/Heineman, 2001 (4th edition). See also Louis Franzini and John Grossberg. Eccentric and Bizarre Behaviors, Wiley, 1995.
A.C. Gaw (Ed.), Culture, Ethnicity and Mental Illness. APA, 1992.
Diane Hales and R.E. Hales Caring for the Mind: A Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health. Bantam, 1995. (See also A. Francis and M.B. First, Your Mental Health, 1999)
Harold I. Kaplan and Benjamin J. Sadock (Eds.), Synopsis of Psychiatry. Williams and Wilkins (latest edition) or Clinical Psychiatry, latest edition
(see also, Comprehensive Handbook of Psychiatry, latest edition and Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry, latest edition).
Cynthia Last and Michel Hersen (Eds.), Handbook of Child Psychiatric Diagnosis. Wiley; Robert T. Ammerman, C.G. Last and M. Hersen, Handbook
of Prescriptive Treatments for Children and Adolescents. Allyn & Bacon; W.G. Kronenberger & R.G. Meyers. The Child Clinician’s Handbook. Prentice-Hall; Charles Wenar,
Developmental Psychopathology, McGraw-Hil; and E. Walker (Ed.), Handbook of Clinical Child Psychology. Wiley, (latest editions).
J. Monahan and H. Steadman (Eds.), Violence and Mental Disorder. University of Chicago, 1996 and G. Pinard and L. Pagani (Eds.), Clinical Assessment of Dangerousness.
Cambridge, 2001.
Dale Peterson (Ed.), A Mad People's History of Madness. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982; Roy Porter, Madmen: A Brief History. Oxford, 2002; E. Fuller Torrey & Judy Miller, The
Invisible Plague: The Price of Mental Illness from 1950 to the Present. Rutgers, 2002 (also G. N. Grob. The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally
Ill. Harvard; 1995, E. Shorter, A History of Psychiatry. Free Press, 1996; Michael H. Stone, Healing the Mind. Norton, 1998, and books by Andrew Scull).
John M. Reisman. A History of Clinical Psychology, Hemisphere, (latest edition).
Comprehensive Clinical Psychology (12 volumes, U. of A. Coutts Library) and F.N. Watts, New Developments in Clinical Psychology. Wiley (Vols. 1 & 2).
M. Wierzbicki. Issues in Clinical Psychology. Allyn & Bacon, 1993 and J. A. Mindell (Ed.), Issues in Clinical Psychology. W.C. Brown, 1993 and Scott O. Lilienfeld. Seeing
Both Sides: Classic Controversies in Abnormal Psychology. Brooks/Cole, 1995. (See also D.K. Routh, Clinical Psychology Since 1917. Plenum, 1994; and D.K. Routh and
R.J. DeRubeis. The Science of Clinical Psychology, APA, 1998; and M. Wierzbicki. Introduction to Clinical Psychology. Allyn and Bacon, 2000).
Other Suggested Books (almost all paperbacks):
Richard Abrams, Electroconvulsive Therapy. Oxford (latest edition) and N.S. Endler and E. Persad ECT: Myths and Realities. Huber, 1988.
Steward Agras, Panic: Facing Fears, Phobias, and Anxiety. W. H. Freeman, 1985 (see also R. Baker, Panic Disorder, Wiley, 1992 and H.M. Zal, Panic
Disorder, Plenum, 1990. Also D. Barlow and J.A. Cerny, Psychological Treatment of Panic. Guilford, 1988).
Russell Barkley, Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment. Guilford, 1998 (2nd ed., see also Taking Charge of ADHD, 1995).
Susan Baur, Hypochondria: Woeful Imaginings. University of California Press, 1988. (see also, The Dinosaur Man: Tales of Madness and Enchantment from the Backward.
HarperCollins, 1991). Also, R.K. Siegel, Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia (1995) or Fire in the brain: Clinical tales of hallucination, 1992.
E.E. Beckham and W.R. Leber (Eds.) Handbook of Depression. Guilford, (latest edition) and Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. Touchstone, 2001.
Aaron Beck et al. Anxiety Disorders and Phobias, or Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders, or CognitiveTherapy of Depression, et al.
Max Birchwood et al., Schizophrenia: An Integrated Approach. Longman, and Psychological Management of Schizophrenia, Wiley. Also, I. Gottesman, Schizophrenia Genesis. W.H.
Freeman, 1990.
Kelly D. Brownell and C.G. Fairburn (Eds.), Eating Disorders and Obesity: A Comprehensive Handbook, 2002 (latest edition).
Hervey Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity. New American Library, 1988 (5th edition) and Christopher Patrick (Ed.), Handbook of Psychopathy. Guilford, 2006. (see also, Dennis Doren,
Understanding and Treating the Psychopath. Wiley, 1987; D.W. Black and C.L. Larson, Bad Boys, Bad Men. 1999, and books edited by W. H. Reid: The Psychopath, The
Treatment of Antisocial Syndromes and Unmasking of the Psychopath, along with R. Hare, Without Conscience, Pocket Books, 1993 and D.T. Lykken, The Antisocial
Personalities, Erlbaum, 1995). Also: James Blair et al. The Psychopath: Emotions and the Brain. Blackwell, 2005.
Reann Dumont. The Sky is Falling: Understanding and Coping with Phobias, Panic and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, 1995 (also J. Schwartz, Brainlock, 1996).
K. Evans and J. Michael Sullivan. Dual Diagnosis: Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser Guilford, 1990 (see also M.S. Gold & A.E. Slaby Dual Diagnosis
in Substance Abuse, 1991, K. Minkoff & R.E. Drake Dual Diagnosis, 1991 and G. Hussein Rassool, Dual Diagnosis. Blackwell, 2002).
Ronald R. Fieve, Moodswing: The Third Revolution in Psychiatry. Bantam (revised edition) (see also, F. K. Goodwin and K. R. Jamison, Manic-Depression Illness.
Oxford 1990, Diane & Lisa Berger, We Heard the Angels of Madness. Plenum, 1991, Patty Duke & Gloria Hochman, A Brilliant Madness. Bantam, 1992,
and K.R. Jamison, Touched with Fire: Manic-depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, Free Press, 1993 and An Unquiet Mind, Vintage, 1995).
E. Foa and R. Reid Wilson, Stop Obsessing. Bantam, 1991. (also Lee Bauer, Getting Control. Plume, 1991 and Gail Steketee, Treatment of OCD. Guilford, 1993).
Stephen B. Fried and G. Ann Schultis. The Best Self-Help and Self-Awareness Books: A Topic-By-Topic Guide to Quality Information. American Library Association, 1995.
Mark S. Gold, The Good News about Depression. Villard, 1995 (2nd edition. See also The Good News about Panic, Anxiety and Phobias. Bantam, 1990).
D.W. Goodwin and S.B. Guze, Psychiatric Diagnosis. Oxford, 1996 (latest edition).
R.G. Heimberg et al. (Eds.) Social Phobia, 1995 (also John R. Marshall Social Phobia, Basic, 1995).
J. L. Herman, Trauma and Recovery. Basic, 1992 (see also R. Janoff-Baulman Shattered Assumptions, APA, 1992; and J. Freyd, Betrayal Trauma. Harvard, 1996).
R. Kellner, Somatization and Hypochondriasis. Praeger, 1986 (see also M.D. Feldman and C.D. Ford, Patient or Pretender: Inside the Strange World of
Factitious Disorder. Wiley, 1994 and A.V. Levin and M.S. Sheridan (Eds.), Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Free Press, 1995).
Donald F. Klein and Paul H. Wender. Understanding Depression: A Complete Guide to its Diagnosis and Treatment. Oxford.
Jennifer Knopf and Michael Seiler, Inhibited Sexual Drive, Warner. (see also, John Bancroft. Human Sexuality and its Problems. Churchill Livingston, 1989, R. Leiblum
and Raymond C. Rosen, Sexual Desire Disorders, Guilford, and W. O’Donohue and James H. Geer. Handbook of Sexual Dysfunctions: Assessment and
Treatment. Allyn and Bacon, 1993). (see also M.L. Brown and C.A. Rounsley, True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism, Jossey-Bass, 1996.)
Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus, I Hate You - Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality. Avon, 1991. (see also J. Cauwels Imbroglio, Norton, 1992;
Richard A. Moskovitz, Lost in the Mirror, Taylor, 1996; and Michael H. Stone, The Borderline Syndromes, 1998).
D. Richard Laws and W.O. Donohue (Eds.) Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment and Treatment. Guilford, 1997, and R.S. Charlton (Ed.) Treating Sexual Disorders, 1997.
S.O. Lilienfeld (Ed.). Seeing Both Sides: Classic Controversies in Abnormal Psychology. Brooks/Cole, 1995.
S.O. Lilienfeld et al. Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology. Guilford, 2003.
Ken Magid and Carole A. McKelvey, High Risk: Children Without a Conscience. Bantam, 1987 (see also, Lee Robins and Michael Rutter, eds., Straight and Devious Pathways
from Childhood to Adulthood, Cambridge University Press, 1990 and other recent books by Rutter).
Jerrold S. Maxmen and N.G. Ward, Essential Psychopathology and its Treatment. Norton, 1995 (2nd ed.).
Paul Meehl, Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers. University of Minnesota Press, 1973 and H.N. Garb, Studying the Clinician: Judgement Research and Psychological Assessment,
APA, 1998 (see also, E. Gambrill Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice, and D.C. Turk and P. Salovey, eds., Reasoning, Inference and Judgment in Clinical Psychology; R.
Dawes House of Cards, 1994; and T. Dineen Manufacturing Victims, latest edition).
T. Millon et al. (Eds.) Psychopathy: Antisocial, Criminal and Violent Behavior. Guilford, 1998.
S. Misri, Shouldn’t I be Happy? Emotional Problems of Pregnant and Post-Partum Women. Free Press, 1995 (also K. Dalton, Depression after Childbirth, Oxford 1996 and Ian
Brockington, Motherhood and Mental Illness, et al.)
J. Monahan and H. Steadman. Rethinking Risk Assessment. Oxford, 2001.
F. M. Mondimore, Depression: The Mood Disease. Johns Hopkins, 1990 and David Cohn Out of the Blue, Norton, 1994.
John Money, Gay, Straight and In-Between. Oxford, 1988 (see also, D. McWhirter et al., eds., Homosexuality/Heterosexuality: Concepts of Sexual
Orientation. Oxford, 1990; M.S. Weinberg et al. Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality. Oxford, 1994; and Simon LeVay The Sexual Brain. MIT Press, 1993 and Queer
Science, 1996). Also see R.T. Michael et al. Sex in American: A Definitive Survey, Little, Brown 1994; and F.M. Mondimore, A Natural History of Homosexuality. Johns Hopkins,
1997.
John Money, Gendermaps, Continuum, 1995; Lovemaps. Irvington, 1986; and Vandalized Lovemaps. Prometheus, 1990 (see also, J. M. Reinisch et al., eds., Masculinity/-Femininity,
Oxford, 1987, and Ray Blanchard and Betty W. Steiner, eds., Clinical Management of Gender Identity Disorder in Children and Adults, APA, 1990; P.Burke, Gender Shock.
Anchor, 1996; K.S. Zucker & S.J. Bradley, Gender Identity Disorder. Guilford, 1995; and M. Rottnek, Sissies and Tomboys. New York University Press, 1999.)
Peter E. Nathan and Jack M. Gorman (Eds.) A Guide to Treatments that Work; Anthony Roth and Peter Fonagy, What Works for Whom: A Critical Review of
Psychotherapy Research, and M. Seligman, What You Can Change and What You Can’t. Knopf, (latest editions).
Fugen Neziroglu & Jose A. Yaryara-Tobias, Over and Over Again: Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders. Lexington, 1995.
J. D. Noshpitz and R. D. Coddington (Eds.), Stressors and the Adjustment Disorders. Wiley, 1990 (see also D.L. Araoz and M.A. Carrese, Solution-oriented Brief
Therapy for Adjustment Disorders, 1995).
J. M. Oldham and L. B. Morris, New Personality Self-Portrait [Personality Disorders]. Bantam, 1995. (Revised edition). See also Jan Derksen, Personality Disorders,
Wiley; W. John Livesley. The DSM-IV Personality Disorders. Guilford; and T. Millon and R.D. Davis, Disorders of Personality. Wiley, 1995 (latest editions).
J. Orford, Excessive Appetites. Wiley, 2001 (latest edition).
D. Orion, I Know That You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist’s Journal of Erotomania, Stalking and Obsessive Love. MacMillan, 1997.
E. Othmer and S. C. Othmer, Life on a Roller Coaster: Coping with the Ups and Downs of Mood Disorders. Berkley, 1991.
Demitri Papolos and Janice Papolos, Overcoming Depression. Harper and Row, 1997 (4th ed.).
Katherine Phillips, The Broken Mirror: Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Oxford, 1996.
Roy Porter, A Social History of Madness. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987 and Roy Porter, The Faber Book of Madness. Faber, 1991.
V. Quinsey et al. Violent Offenders: Appraising and Managing Risk. APA, 1998.
Judith L. Rapoport, The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Plume, 1990 (see also, S. J. Rachman and R. Hodgson,
Obsessions and Compulsions. Prentice-Hall, 1980, and Frederich Toates, Obsessional Thoughts and Behavior. Thorsons, 1990).
Norman F. Rosenthal. Winter Blues. Guilford (new ed.).
Colin A. Ross, Multiple Personality Disorder. Wiley, 1996 (2nd ed.) and Frank Putnam Multiple Personality Disorder, 1989.
R. M. Sapolsky. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases & Coping. Freeman, (2nd ed.) and The Trouble With Testosterone, Scribner (3rd ed.).
Michelle Sayette, Tracy Mayne and John C. Norcross, Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical Psychology. Guilford, (latest edition).
Julius Segal, Winning Life's Toughest Battles: The Roots of Human Resilience. Ballantine, 1986 (see also G. O. Higgins, Resilient Adults, Prentice-Hall, 1996 and Al Siebert
The Survivor Personality, Perigee, 1996).
Edward Shorter, From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era. Free Press, 1992 (and, From the Mind into the Body, 1994).
Elaine Fantle Shimberg, Depression: What Families Should Know. Ballantine, 1991. (see also V. Secunda, When Madness Comes Home. Hyperion, 1997).
R. Thompson and G. Remington, Paranoid Conditions. Clarke Inst., 1992.
E. Fuller Torrey, Surviving Manic Depression. Basic, 2002.
E. Fuller Torrey, Surviving Schizophrenia. Harper Collins, (latest edition), Nowhere to Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill. Harper and Row, 1988, and Out of the
Shadows: Confronting America’s Mental Illness Crisis. Wiley, 1996, along with Mary Ellen Walsh, Schizophrenia: Straight Talk for Family and Friends, Quill,; Kim T. Mueser and
Susan Gingerich, Coping With Schizophrenia, New Harbinger, 1994; and P. Backlar, The Family Face of Schizophrenia. Tarcher, 1994.
D. Wegner, White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts. Penguin, 1991 (see also J. Pennebaker, Opening Up and Wegner & Pennebaker, eds. Handbook
of Mental Control. Prentice-Hall, and I. Osborn Tormenting thoughts and secret rituals. Pantheon, 1998).
Paul Wender, Hyperactive Child, Adolescent and Adult. Oxford, 1987 (see also E.M. Hallowell and J. J. Ratey Driven to Distraction, 1994).
R. Reid Wilson, Don't Panic: Taking Control of Panic Attacks. Perennial Library, (latest edition). Also, George Clum, Coping With Panic. Brooks/Cole, 1990.
Peter Whybrow, A Mood Apart: Depression, Mania and Other Afflictions of the Self. Basic, 1997.
Note: also The Facts series (Oxford Press) on Alcoholism (Goodwin), Depression (Winokur), Schizophrenia (Tsuang), Down's Syndrome or Dyslexia (Selikowitz), ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder or Panic (DeSilva and Rachman) and Autism (Baron-Cohen and Bolton) and Eating Disorders (Abraham and Llewellyn-Jones), 1997.