Psychology

Introducing the Special Interest Communication Theory (SICT) Facilitative Framework, this guide will help you to support autistic clients and meet their needs through special interests and pop culture.Turning away from a culture that has often sought to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786077470243Author Erich FrommFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V.Publisher Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V...

This is the first collection of essays to offer a comprehensive analysis of, and reflection on, the major themes emergent in Jacques Lacan's seminars of 1955-56 and 1956-57: Seminar IV - the object relation, and Seminar V - formations of the unconscious...

Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal draws on insights from leading neuroscientists and scholars in the humanities and the arts to probe creativity in its many contexts, in the everyday mind, the exceptional mind, the...

This book focuses on the emotional experience of imprisonment. In no uncertain terms: prisons seethe with emotions and feelings. Based on two empirically rigorous studies, this book analyses how prisoners attempt to adapt and control their emotions. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385425766Author Peggy OrensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316399265Author Ingrid Fetell LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher Little, Brown SparkWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

Our technologies are progressively developing into algorithmic devices that seamlessly interface with digital personhood. This text discusses the ways in which technology is increasingly becoming a part of personhood and the resulting ethical issues. It...

Now in a revised and expanded fourth edition, this definitive reference and text has more than 50% new material, reflecting a decade of theoretical and empirical advances. Prominent researchers describe major theories and review cutting-edge findings...

This text aims to be a comprehensive, practical, clearly illustrated examination of reality therapy. It includes an historically significant interview with William Glasser, MD, multicultural applications and research based studies. Its goal is to enhance...

Situational Judgment Tests advances the science and practice of SJTs by promoting a theoretical framework, providing an understanding of best practices, and establishing a research agenda for years to come. Currently, there is no other source that...

This thought-provoking new collection - the fourth volume in the Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series - investigates the inherent difficulties in risk assessment. We have all read the lurid headlines when things go wrong but what is it like for the...

Presents the life and work of one of the most influential psychological theorists of modern times, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. This examination of a psychologist and teacher of genius also provides an introduction to the philosophy of Gurdjieff. This...

Understanding Perversion in Clinical Practice is a volume in the eagerly anticipated clinical practice monograph series from the Society of Analytical Psychology. Aimed primarily at trainees on the psychotherapy and psychodynamic counselling courses,...

Intensive interaction is a valuable approach, with the potential to radically enhance the well-being of difficult-to-reach individuals, such as those with profound and severe learning disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions and emotional problems...

Memory is often the primary evidence in the courtroom, yet unfortunately this evidence may not be fit for purpose. This is because memory is both fallible and malleable; it is possible to forget and also to falsely remember things which never happened...

The essential resource to the most recent research and practice on offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilities The Wiley Handbook on Offenders with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is a comprehensive compendium to the research...

Rehabilitation provides a core concept around which to organise support, intervention and care for people with impairments in memory and other cognitive functions. This book introduces a conceptual framework and rationale for the application of a...

Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer is a critical survey of Donald Meltzer's central themes which simultaneously focuses on the most important concepts of his work. This detailed volume should not only spark the reader's interest in these...

The day of her mother's funeral, Harriet Brown was five thousand miles away. To say that Harriet and her mother had a difficult relationship is a wild understatement; the older Harriet grew, the more estranged they became. By the time Harriet's mom died...

Some children seem different, detached, disinterested in the games of other children. They prefer their hobbies to friends of their own age and if forced into community activities, as they often are at school, can become aggressive and difficult. In...

"Enthralling; it is well worth the trip." --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of...

This important book offers a critical and timely reassessment of one of the cornerstones of analytical psychology, Jung's concept of archetypes.Exploring not only Jung's original writings but also the range of interpretations used by Jungian scholars...

In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction-that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control-is wrong. Drawing on psychiatric epidemiology, addicts' autobiographies, treatment studies, and...

This book is a comprehensive revision of the notion of envy, suggesting that envy is not innate and proposing some fresh ideas about its relation to psychopathology. Its argument is that envy is not simply attributable to constitutional forces, as...

Just a few weeks old, Dasha the cat found herself in a family with an autistic child. The publication of Temple Grandin's book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour turned the household into a research...

The Therapeutic Relationship in Psychotherapy Practice: An Integrative Perspective explores the key components of the patient-therapist relationship in psychotherapy, as well as how these elements affect the treatment process and outcomes and what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912141036Author Prof. Susan MichieFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Silverback PublishingPublisher Silverback PublishingWeight(grams)...

At just the moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to the ash-heap of intellectual history, Sex on the Couch rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and gender. Richard Boothby...

International autism advocate and bestselling author Chantal Sicile-Kira provides this simple, concise explanation of one of the most prevalent disorders in America.Each year, 1 in every 100 children in America are diagnosed with autism. Although autism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571747129Author Allan L. BotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing CoWeight(grams) 0g

This book explores the importance of effective multi-agency and multi-disciplinary partnership work for the mental health of children and young people in care and adoption. It takes an overall systemic perspective, but the co-authors contribute different...

These exciting new GCE Psychology resources from Edexcel have been developed byan expert team of examiners and teachers to give you the most flexible, accessible and comprehensive materials to help you deliver the new specifications. Designed to mirror...

In Decoding Madness, forensic neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Richard Lettieri gives a behind-the-scenes look at criminal psychology through case studies from his over 30 years of experience as a court-appointed and privately retained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788425410901Author Viktor FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Herder & HerderPublisher Herder & Herder

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319324735Author Paul LevyFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Macmillan Learning

Positive Art Therapy Theory and Practice outlines a clear, systematic approach for combining positive psychology with art therapy's capacity to mobilize client strengths; induce engagement, flow and positive emotions; transform perceptions; build healing...

These days, many of us enjoy unrivalled freedom and equality when it comes to choosing and building a relationship. Yet new myths about how to live and love compromise that happiness. Kate Figes argues that, whether married or cohabiting, gay or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172749Author Cristien StormFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.