Applied Psychology

The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland provides the first comprehensive review of W.R.D. Fairbairn and John Sutherland's theories on psycho-social development. It reviews Fairbairn and Sutherland's ideas, traces the philosophical roots of their thinking,...

Over the past century psychoanalysis has gone on to establish training institutes, professional societies, accreditation procedures, and models of education, thus bringing into uneasy alliance all three impossible pursuits. In Impossible Training: A...

The world is simultaneously facing many crises that humanity is failing to solve. Yet, at the same time, humans are smarter (with IQs on average thirty points higher than a century ago) and more knowledgeable (with the world's knowledge base at our...

Professionals such as medical doctors, aeroplane pilots, lawyers, and technical specialists find that some of their peers have reached high levels of achievement that are difficult to measure objectively. In order to understand to what extent it is...

Achieving Peak Performance in Music: Psychological Strategies for Optimal Flow is a unique and comprehensive exploration of flow in music performance. It describes the optimal performance experiences of great musicians and outlines ten psychological...

Psychoanalysis is an intimate clinical experience and the concepts that it explores aim to grapple with the specific phenomena that unfold when a patient speaks and an analyst listens. This book aims to give concrete examples of how these concepts take...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578757247Author Marlin ClutsFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Marlin ClutsPublisher Marlin ClutsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

This intervention manual for improving athletic mental health and performance introduces The Optimum Performance Program for Sports (TOPPS). TOPPS provides structured protocols to assist with recruitment, engagement, screening, assessment, and...

Positive psychology (PP) is a fast-developing area of research that emphasises personal growth and the positive qualities of life. This is the first book to apply the principles and practice of PP to sport and physical activity. In attempting to help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624910791Author Gerald Loren FishkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Parkhurst Brothers Publishers IncPublisher Parkhurst Brothers Publishers...

Media & Youth: A Developmental Perspective provides a comprehensive review and critique of the research and theoretical literature related to media effects on infants, children, and adolescents, with a unique emphasis on development. The only textbook...

The Fifth Edition of Health Psychology: Well-Being in a Diverse World guides students through the key determinants of behavior, such as family, environment, ethnicity, and religion. Each chapter delves into the biological foundations of health, presents...

Aging, Health and Technology takes a problem-centered approach to examine how older adults use technology for health. It examines the many ways in which technology is being used by older adults, focusing on challenges, solutions and perspectives of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648431395Author Heyong ShenFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Texas A&M University PressPublisher Texas A&M University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593497944Author Ellen J. LangerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 403g

Becoming a Psychologist is an invaluable practical guide for students contemplating a psychology career. It is designed to give them an overview of the opportunities open to them within the discipline, advice on how to develop a career - what is involved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637630235Author Nabil FanousFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 476g

Positive psychology (PP) is a fast-developing area of research that emphasises personal growth and the positive qualities of life. This is the first book to apply the principles and practice of PP to sport and physical activity. In attempting to help...

In recent years, memories and reconstructions of incestuous child abuse have become common features of psychoanalytic treatment. Among some clinicians, such abuse is suspected even when there is little evidence. How does the analyst distinguish between...

In those moments when focus on creative work overrides input from the outside world, we are in a creative trance. This psychologically significant altered state of consciousness is inherent in everyone. It can take the form of daydreams generating...

The common denominator of a growing number of hard decisions facing modern societies is the need to determine 'how safe is safe enough?'. The authors begin by defining acceptable-risk problems and analysing why they are so difficult to resolve,...

This comprehensive update of the now classic text applies the most current findings across disciplines to the treatment of pathogenic human stress arousal. New and revised chapters bring together the art and science of intervention, based in up-to-date...

From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever.Why do some people achieve so much...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101904640Author Daniel G. AmenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)...

In Face to Face with Body Dysmorphic Disorder, BDD expert Arie Winograd shares his unique insights as a psychotherapist who has spent thousands of hours treating patients with this uniquely complex disorder. By specifically focusing on the...

As seen in The New York Times Illuminates the roots and consequences of and offers solutions to the widespread alienation and disconnection that beset modern society Since the beginning of the 21st century, people have become increasingly...

Gestalt Therapy: Perspectives and Applications is a classic text which, when it was first released in 1992, signaled a renaissance of Gestalt scholarship throughout the world. In this volume, Edwin Nevis, one of the foremost Gestalt writers, thinkers,...

This book is about a trait describing variations in the universal need for novel and intense stimulation and its expressions in various risky kinds of behaviour (including driving habits, health, gambling, financial risk, alcohol and drug use and abuse,...

Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis!The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its...

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...

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...

Men, It's Time to Master your EmotionsToo often Men are told to bottle up how they feel which leads to emotional numbness. Men, take the reins back and master your emotions with this guide to emotional healing.Every man has a deep bed of emotions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111078Author John TierneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781096250685Author Brandon CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963791443Author Dennis William HauckFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint AthanorPublisher AthanorWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 2mm

The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology is the definitive new reference for the field, providing a state-of-the-art review of PCP which focuses on the theory and its philosophy, methodology, areas of application and future horizons A...

The Psychology of Wisdom: An Introduction is the first comprehensive coursebook on wisdom, providing an engaging, balanced, and expert introduction to the psychology of wisdom. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the psychological...

The New Psychology of Money is an accessible and engrossing analysis of our psychological relationship to money in all its forms. Comprehensive and insightful, Adrian Furnham explores the role that money plays in a range of contexts, from the family to...

This valuable book combines psychological theories of health with the lived experience of coping with chronic health conditions, focusing on the "ill person" as an actor of their own development. It draws on perspectives from developmental and health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999360705Author G C DilsaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Imago Dei PressPublisher Imago Dei PressWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...