Psychology

Techniques for the Couple Therapist features many of the most prominent psychotherapists today, presenting their most effective couple therapy interventions. This book provides clinicians with a user-friendly quick reference with an array of techniques...

In Natural Solutions to PMS Marilyn Glenville shows you simple nutritional and lifestyle changes you can make that will balance your hormones and relieve your PMS symptoms. From breast pain to fluctuating moods, and from weight gain to fatigue, Marilyn...

These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity Erich Neumann belong in the context of the depth psychology of culture and reveal a prescient concern about the one-sidedness of patriarchal Western civilization. Neumann...

Developed from years of teaching psychiatry to medical students and residents, this comprehensive text meets a need in the teaching of literature and will be valuable to both students first learining about the MSE and seasoned clinicians seeking an...

This volume provides a positive and productive model for helping people to move out of static positions or difficult relationships in the workplace. Informed by systemic thinking and social constructionism, the authors discuss how it is possible to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896124704Author Lori CarpenosFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dragon Hill PublishingPublisher Dragon Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm)...

Language Acquisition: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the must-know issues in child language development. Covering key topics drawn from contemporary psychology, linguistics and neuroscience, readers are introduced to fundamental concepts,...

Type 1 diabetes is a challenging, frustrating and relentless condition to manage. Diabetes Burnout provides clear information on what burnout is, quotes from people who have experienced burnout, and self-assessment tools for people living with diabetes...

The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains workWe see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062564429Author Torey HaydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 318g

From the author of BEING 14 and FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS comes a book that shares what your daughter needs you to know about her shift from child to teenager - how she feels, what she thinks, what worries her and what you can do to help.Science tells us...

Drawing on clinical practice, this book explores how the Black feminist idea of intersectionality is vital to all group work practices, including group analysis.Intersectionality enables exploration of power, position, and privilege in group work; this...

Once therapist and client are focused on investigating solutions rather than problems, therapy inevitably becomes brief-sometimes only one session. Engaging cases, often with surprising twists, illustrate this practice-based theory of brief therapy with...

Betty Joseph's work has become an outstanding influence in the development and theory of psychoanalytic technique in the Kleinian tradition.This collection of her most important papers examines the development of her thought and shows why a crucial part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062896377Author Joseph TelushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint William Morrow PaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

This book sets out a clear theoretical framework for Gestalt Play Therapy, giving examples of questions the therapists might ask the child at certain stages, and offering the whole gamut of play therapy and travelling through the therapeutic journey.'-...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641520638Author Peter ForsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Althea PressPublisher Althea PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 12mm

Dogs have become the subject of increasing scientific study over the past two decades, chiefly due to their development of specialized social skills, seemingly a result of selection pressures during domestication to help them adapt to the human...

Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa M. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire...

In the fifty years since its inception, John Bowlby's attachment theory has been powerfully influential on developmental psychology and, more recently, mental health. Bringing together the experience of a diverse range of mental health practitioners and...

An increasing number of people are seeking to develop an understanding of psychoanalytic concepts in order to apply them to the ordinary situations that they encounter as they go about their work, family and social lives. Some of these people are...

This textbook presents a fresh look at mental health, following on from the hugely popular Mental Health Matters. It provides new and exciting user perspectives across the full range of mental health issues. This is a rich and diverse resource for all...

Childhood sexual abuse (or child sexual abuse/CSA) is not only an assault on the body-it is an assault on the mind and on the spirit. It is an insult to the victim's integrity, her self-esteem, his very being. Besides imposing a significantly higher risk...

*Winner of the Parapsychological Association Book Award 2021*Outlining the scientific evidence behind psi research, Dark Cognition expertly reveals that such anomalous phenomena clearly exist, highlighting that the prevailing view of consciousness,...

Have you ever found yourself re-reading the same sentence four or five times and thought 'I should get more sleep'? Are you clueless as to why one paragraph just seems to 'flow' while you simply can't recall the contents of another? Guess what: you are...

"With calm and compassionate power, Yasmine is helping us to find our way back home-back to our own selves." -Layla Saad, New York Times bestselling author of Me & White Supremacy "Yasmine's work is monumental, and I am in much better...

A growing body of research shows that social networks and identities have a profound impact on mental and physical health. With such mounting evidence of the importance of social relationships in protecting health, the challenge we face is explaining why...

Panic disorder and phobia are difficulties that are commonly encountered in our consulting rooms. There is an ongoing debate concerning the lack of provision within the NHS to help those with mental health problems. This book puts forward a different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984047406Author Mark JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Raven Dreams PressPublisher Raven Dreams PressWeight(grams) 366g

Collaborative Writing and Psychotherapy delves into the relationship that develops between client and therapist as they embark on a collaborative autoethnographic writing practice.The book explores the notion that both client and therapist change as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826199638Author Frances S. WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Springer Publishing Co IncPublisher Springer Publishing Co Inc

Many of us grapple with how to stay happy, calm and focused in a world that seems to get more complex by the minute. How do we keep our wits about us, our mood stable and our memory intact when our brains and bodies are bombarded with information and...

Increasingly boys and men are suffering with eating disorders and related body image problems. Some have full-blown conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, compulsive exercising or bigorexia. Others are distressed by slightly lesser...

What if you aren't who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be ... wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher and journalist Eleanor Gordon-Smith...

Stanley Milgram revolutionized our understanding of human nature with his classic research on obedience to authority - but the obedience experiments form just a small part of an extraordinary wealth of ground-breaking research that made him one of the...

Following a life shattering experience, a child enters upon a confusing emotional journey that can be likened to a prism of many colors of dark feelings like sadness and fear, but also warm feelings of love and courage. The way they deal with these...

Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma is a guide to recognizing the many ways shame and pride lie at the heart of psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma. In these pages, readers learn how to differentiate shame and pride as emotional processes...

In this important new collection of essays, Jonathan Sklar argues that the founding tension between Freud's commitment to interpretation and Ferenczi's extra parameter of 'being in the experience' has a central place/key role to play in contemporary...

A Marginal Revolution Book of the YearAfter tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world's preeminent psychologists reveal what they have learned about how humans develop.Does temperament in childhood predict adult...

We want to believe that break-up and divorce may be tough in the short term, but that time will heal all. But is it a dangerous myth? Breaking Up Blues presents evidence of the risks of remaining caught in bitter battle; of failing to learn from past...