Mental Health Books

New and Published Books

1. The State of Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals)

   Essays and addresses

   By Aubrey Lewis

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   To mark his retirement in 1966 from the Professorship of Psychiatry at the University of London, and the directorship of the Institute of Psychiatry, the Maudsley Hospital, Professor Lewis’s students edited and prepared an edition of his collected papers, in two volumes. Originally published in...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Inquiries in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals)

   Clinical and social investigations

   By Aubrey Lewis

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   To mark his retirement in 1966 from the Professorship of Psychiatry at the University of London, and the directorship of the Institute of Psychiatry, the Maudsley Hospital, Professor Lewis’s students edited and prepared an edition of his collected papers, in two volumes. Originally published in...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. Positive Psychology in Higher Education

   Edited by Acacia Parks

   Positive psychology – the scientific study of happiness – is a rapidly burgeoning field, and in no area more so than education. More departments than ever are offering courses in positive psychology, and demand for these courses is consistently high. Graduate programs offering concentrations in...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep: A Relational Approach to Internalized Perpetration in Complex Trauma Survivors

   By Harvey L. Schwartz

   The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and deconstructed. This book presents a synthesis of relational and archetypal psychology, trauma and...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. The Darkening Spirit

   Jung, spirituality, religion

   By David Tacey

   The twenty-first century could well be Jung's century, just as the twentieth century was Freud's. Jung predicted the demise of secular humanism and claimed we would search for alternatives to science, atheism and reason. We would experience a new and even unfashionable appetite for the sacred....

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
6. Human Destructiveness (Psychology Revivals)

   The Roots of Genocide and Human Cruelty

   By Anthony Storr

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   First published in 1972, this fully revised edition was originally published in 1991 and provides a classic study of humanity’s capacity for evil. The human species is capable of the most appalling cruelty. Why is this and where does our capacity for such destructiveness come from? In Human...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
7. Young People and the Care Experience

   Research, Policy and Practice

   By Julie Shaw, Nick Frost

   Series: Adolescence and Society

   The care system looks after the most vulnerable young people in society – those who are, for a variety of reasons, unable to live with their parents. Young People and the Care Experience examines what can be done to support young people to remain at home, and if this is not possible, how they can...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Rhetorical Investigations

   G. B. Vico and C. G. Jung

   By Leslie Gardner

   Rhetorical analysis of texts exposes plausible ‘truths’ and presumptions implied by the writer’s presentation. In this volume, Leslie Gardner analyses the master psychologist Jung, who claimed to be expert at uncovering personal, psychological truths. In his theoretical writings, his rhetoric...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
9. Love and Loss in Life and in Treatment

   By Linda B. Sherby

   Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

   Have you ever wondered what a therapist really thinks? Have you ever wondered if a therapist truly cares about her patients? Have you tried to imagine the unimaginable, the loss of the person most dear to you? Is it true that `tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all? `...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction

    The Syndrome Syndrome

    Edited by James Peacock, Tim Lustig

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

    The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge