Psychologists’ Desk Reference (3rd edition)

Although called a “psychologists” desk reference, this book is in fact aimed specifically at one particular group of psychologists. Psychologists appear all over the place these days, but a psychologist involved in personnel selection, or an educational psychologist or a researcher looking into animal behaviour, will find little or nothing of relevance here. It would have been better titled “The Clinical Psychologist’s Desk Reference”. In fact I would even have preferred “The American Clinical Psychologist’s Desk Reference”: all the editors and all of the myriad contributors are American, and the content is entirely aimed at American readers. For the most...