New York State Psychological Association

Members in Print

NYSPA has many published authors within its membership, and we are proud to feature their work below. If you have been published and would like to list your publication below, please send an e-mail with the Title, author(s), publication date, publisher, and a brief description of the work.

A Gay Man's Guide to Prostate Cancer Gerald Perlman, Ph.D. & Jack Drescher, MD Haworth Medical Press, 2005 The book is for patients, medical and mental health workers with a special emphasis on the specific issues facing gay men dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. Details and purchase information.
A Healing Education George Bouklas, PhD 2005, Word Association Publishers: Tarentum, PA My story of participating in three landmark schools and how we used democratic education to encourage health in the most challenged learners. Details and purchase information
Applying to Graduate School in Psychology: Advice from Successful Students and Prominent Psychologists Frank J. Corigliano, Contributing Author & NYSPA member 2008, APA Books With its innovative way of helping potential graduate students through the application process by including the personal insights and stories of current graduate students as well as those of established psychologists, this book is the newest must-read for anyone thinking about applying to graduate school in psychology or for those who wish to encourage these future psychologists. Click here for details and purchase information
Courage, Heart & Wisdom: Essays on Autism Alan J. Barnett, PhD - Contributing author and NYSPA Member 2009, Outskirts Press, Denver, CO Detail and purchase information
Dealing with Anxiety and Related Disorders: Understanding, Coping, and Prevention Rudy V. Nydegger Ph.D. 2011, Praeger Every year, nearly one in five Americans—some 40 million men and women—must cope with an anxiety disorder, be it general, persistent anxiety (GAD); social phobia; obsessive-compulsive disorder; or life-altering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Yet, the sad fact is that the very large majority of these people will never get the help that is available. Details and Purchase information
Don't You Get It? Living with Auditory Learning Disabilities Loraine Alderman, PhD 2008 If you or someone you know has (APD), an Auditory Processing Disorder, this book can help you find answers. Until now, there has not been a book that specifically looks at how people with APD have lived and learned to overcome the disorder from childhood into adulthood. This book was written by those people who have lived with APD their entire lives. Details and purchase information
Finding Your Voice: A Woman’s Guide to Using Self-Talk for Fulfilling Relationships, Work and Life. Dorothy Cantor, Carol Goodheart, Sandra Haber, Ellen McGrath, Alice Rubenstein, Lenore Walker, and Karen Zager. 2004, Wiley Self-help book for women, co-authored by 7 psychologists, to help women combat defeating emotions, get unstuck, and move forward. Details and purchase information. .
Flow of Work and the Company's Fortunes: A Playbook for Productivity George Bouklas, PhD with Dan Berger, EdD and Peter Kanaris, PhD 2008, Word Association Publishers: Tarentum, Pennsylvania The use of direct observation in assessing company blocks and problems, with an emphasis on the impact of ecology on individual human behavior. Click here for details and purchase information.
Grief Therapy with Latinos: Integrating Culture for Clinicians Carmen Inoa Vazquez, PhD & Dinelia Rosa, PhD 2011, Springer Publishing Company This book serves as a clinical reference that helps in the understanding of relevant cultural values and their effect on the grieving process. This book also addresses the application of specific interventions in a culturally relevant manner, including the relevance of language in grief therapy, psychology and counseling with a Latino population. Details and purchase information
Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing: Analysis of Personality in the Psychological Report (4th Ed.) Anthony Burry, PhD & Henry Kellerman, PhD 2007, Springer Science, New York Details and purchase information
Initial Psychotherapy Interview: A Gay Man Seeks Treatment Charles Silverstein, PhD 2011, Elsevier Insight Publishers (eBook) This book provides comprehensive coverage of the initial interview with a gay male client. It first provides a transcript of the entire interview. It then covers in-depth a set of universal themes, and finally includes commentary on and analysis of the interview from a range of the most widely used theoretical perspectives. It is designed to teach the foundations of conducting an initial interview and therapists in training, as well as experienced mental health workers will find it invaluable. Details and purchase information
Inside the Session: What Really Happens in Psychotherapy Paul L. Wachtel, PhD 2011, APA Press Inside the Session presents full transcripts of three entire sessions, enabling readers to see not just what went right, but where the therapist may have missed a crucial detail or may have intervened at the wrong moment. It provides a rare opportunity to "look over the shoulder — and into the mind" of a renowned psychotherapist at work. Details and order information
Mindshifting Joshua Ehrlich, PhD Portal Books (January 13, 2012) For executives leading their organizations through change and growth Mindshifting provides a powerful tool kit. The book guides you through the seven attentional shifts a leader has to make, providing a logical framework for you to move from managing one's self to leading large organizations. Detail and purchase information
Multiple Minority Identities: Applications for Practice, Research, and Training Reginald Nettles, PhD & Rochelle Balter, PhD, JD 2011, Springer Publishing Company This important volume chronicles a shift from the old multicultural paradigm that depicts members of a minority group as being limited to racial and ethnic categories, to a modern definition of minorities. Moreover, many of these stigmatized individuals belong to more than one minority group, resulting in stigmatization not only outside of their identified primary group as well as within it. Details and order information
Outsmart Your Worry Tool Kit for Kids (Elementary School Ediition) Suzanne T. Reiffel, PhD, Erica S. Ross, PhD & Joel D. Haber, PhD 2008, Tool Kits for Kids LLC An award-winning cognitive-behavioral toolkit to help children manage worry and anxiety. Details, additional products and order information
Psychomaterialism, a chapter in The Handbook of Innovative Therapies George Bouklas, PhD, Editor 2001, Wiley and Sons: New York A foundational psychology reflecting advances in the physical sciences, along with its impact on technique. Detail and purchase information
Psychomaterialism, or How Psychotherapy Works George Bouklas, PhD with Leonard Schwartz, PhD 2003, Word Association Publishers: Tarentum, Pennsylvania Our successful hunt for an ur psychology and how we captured an additional dimension in all psychotherapeutic relationships. Details and purchase information.
Psychotherapy with the Elderly: Becoming Methuselah's Echo George Bouklas, PhD 1996, Jason Aronson Publishers: New Jersey Techniques and strategies in treating the elderly with an emphasis on joining and mirroring. Details and purchase information
Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis Karen E. Starr, PsyD 2008, Taylor & Francis, The Analytic Press Repair of the Soul examines transformation from the perspective of Jewish mysticism and contemporary psychoanalysis, addressing the question of how one achieves self-understanding that leads not only to insight but also to meaningful change. Details and purchase information.
Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide Lukas, C. & Henry Seiden, PhD 2007, Jessica Kingsley (original edition Scribners, 1987) Details and purchase information.