Psychology

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.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937609859Author Annie SprinkleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Greenery PressPublisher Greenery Press

According to the popular imagination, psychoanalysis is about men wanting to sleep with their mothers and women wanting penises. Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Perspectives tells a different story about what has happened to sex in psychoanalysis over the past...

Object Relations Theory and Clinical Psychoanalysis is a collection of Kernberg's papers published or presented during the period from 1966 to 1975, with some new material included as well.About the AuthorOtto F. Kernberg, M.D., F.A.P.A., is associate...

Terrorism and radicalization have a long history, but in recent years their prominence has been a particularly conspicuous and influential feature of the global political landscape. This important book presents an overview of the processes involved in...

This book explores psychosis as knowledge cut off from history, truth that cannot be articulated in any other form. It gives a nuanced picture of delusion as a repair of language itself, following Freud and Lacan in historic and contemporary forms of...

- The most famous Russian psychologist, whose life and ideas are least known? - A pioneer of psychology who said virtually nothing new? - A simple man who became a genius after he died? This fundamentally novel intellectual biography offers a...

This volume looks at the reasons behind adolescent violence, and illuminates the earlier disturbances in the life history of the adolescent, which contribute to violent behaviour. The contributors look beyond the "why" of the behaviour and offer...

The Unconscious explores the critical interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and contemporary cognitive neuroscience. Characterised by Freud as 'the science of the unconscious mind', psychoanalysis has traditionally been viewed as a solely...

Praise for Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome "Providing an explanation of Asperger's based on a review of scientific research, Richard Bromfield describes how the characteristics of the syndrome affect the person's...

Imagine a setting in which a man wearing a dress might be as habitual as a woman in trousers. Where a woman exposing herself in public wasn't sexy, but as creepy as a male flasher. Where professional status and success presented the same prospects for...

Mattering, which is about feeling valued and adding value, is essential for health, happiness, love, work, and social well-being. We all need to feel valued by, and add value to, ourselves, others, co-workers, and community members. This book shows not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438486321Author Richard H. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

In this highly original and thought-provoking work the late Miller Mair puts forward his ideas for a new psychology. First published in 1989, he deals with issues of fundamental importance to the future of a psychology guided by genuine enquiry and...

How can a theory of the self be used to understand the psychotherapeutic process? The basic assumption of the 'dialogical self' is that there is no centralised 'headquarter' in the mind, but that the internal self is made up of a number of different...

This timesaving resource features: * Treatment plan components for 33 behaviorally based presenting problems * Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions plus space to record your own treatment plan options * A step-by-step...

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Great Britain ranked thirty-sixth in the medals table, finishing below countries like Algeria, Belgium and Kazakhstan. It was their worst ever record, a dismal performance labelled a national disgrace.But then something...

Understanding the psychodynamics of groups has derived from the two separate strands of theory and practice, resulting in two separate disciplines: group psychotherapy and group dynamics. Present-day group psychotherapy derives mainly from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544429Author Gary A. KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

What drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap a bomb to himself and walk into a crowded marketplace, blowing himself up at the same time as he kills and maims the people around him? Does suicide or...

Can you imagine not being able to recognize those you know if they wore glasses, changed their hairstyle, or perhaps put on a hat?Prosopagnosia is a severe facial recognition disorder that is thought to impact around two per cent of the population...

In May 1956, in his eighty-second year, Jung first discussed with Gerhard Adler the question of the publication of his letters. Over many years, Jung had often used the medium of letters to communicate his ideas to others and to clarify the...

What do we know about identity processes and how does this relate to the world we live in? This book answers this question by considering the contemporary major developments in identity process theory - a framework founded by the author in the 1980s...

Dramatherapy: Theory and Practice 2 provides both clinician and theatre artist with a basic overview of recent developments in dramatherapy. The international contributors, all practising dramatherapists or psychotherapists, offer a wide variety of...

Affect is a high-stakes topic in psychoanalysis, but there has long been a misperception that Lacan neglected affect in his writings. We encounter affect at the beginning of any analysis in the form of subjective suffering that the patient hopes to...