Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Arena

Anger, Rage and Relationship

An Empathic Approach to Anger Management

• By Sue Parker Hall.

Published September 2008

Anger, Rage and Relationship presents a radically new way to understand and work with anger and rage issues. Taking a relational approach to anger and rage, the book presents a positive view of human nature, supported by recent research findings and illustrated with case studies, with individuals…
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The Psychology of Female Violence

Crimes Against the Body

• By Anna Motz.
• Foreword by Estela Welldon.

Published January 2008

What are the causes of violence in women? What can be done to help these women and their victims? Why does society deny the fact of female violence? This book explores the nature and causes of female violence from the perspectives of psychodynamic theory and forensic psychology. This fully…
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Men's Violence Against Women

Theory, Research, and Activism

• By Christopher Kilmartin, and Julie Allison.

Published March 2007

This text offers a balance of clinical and social psychological theory and research, as well as prevention and intervention techniques with the purpose of understanding and ultimately ending gender-based violence. The authors address several forms of violence, including rape, intimate partner…
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Aggression and Destructiveness

Psychoanalytic Perspectives

• Edited by Celia HARDING.

Published April 2006

Why, when and how does aggression go wrong? How can we make sense of apparently meaningless destructiveness and violence Aggression is a part of human nature that energises our relationships, acts as an impetus for psychic development, and enables us to master our world. More often, we focus on…
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Treating Sexual Offenders

An Integrated Approach

• By William L. Marshall, Liam E. Marshall, Geris A. Serran and Yolanda M. Fernandez.

Published January 2006

Through extensive consideration of current research, theory and practice, Treating Sexual Offenders provides a guide to the assessment, treatment, and evaluation of a number of different disorders. Provides therapists with the means to have a continued positive impact on the sex offender, from…
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The Dynamics of Human Aggression

Theoretical Foundations, Clinical Applications

• By Ana-Maria Rizzuto, W.W. Meissner and Dan H. Buie.

Published October 2003

This book seeks to resolve an issue that has divided psychoanalysts and other scholars of aggression for decades, namely the nature of aggression. The work expands and unifies the Freudian drive-based explanation of aggression into contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice and brings Freudian…
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Bullying in Adulthood

Assessing the Bullies and their Victims

• By Peter Randall.

Published November 2001

Peter Randall's first book, Adult Bullying, was one of the first books to examine the various situations in which adult bullying occurs, the forms it takes, and how it can be identified and dealt with more efficiently, particularly in workplace settings. Since that title was published, there has…
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Managing Aggression

• By Ray Braithwaite.

Published September 2001

How to manage and respond to escalating violence towards staff working in the human services is a pressing professional problem. This workbook: empowers individuals by providing a range of useful useful skills that can help in managing aggression enables staff placed in difficult or dangerous…
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The Social Psychology of Aggression

• By Barbara Krahe.

Published April 2001

This book provides an up-to-date overview of social-psychological research in the field of aggression. It presents a balanced account of both theoretical and applied issues and explores strategies designed to control, reduce and prevent aggression on both an individual and a societal level. The…
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The Psychology of Female Violence

Crimes Against the Body

• By Anna Motz.
• Foreword by Estela Welldon.

Published November 2000

Explores the psychology of violent and criminal women from a psychodynamic and criminological rspective, also examining the link between childhood experience and adult behaviour. The book uses illustrative case material throughout.…
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