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This volume presents the first full integration of Native American Shamanic healing with psychodynamic therapy. Through an expansion of expressive therapy techniques guided by the author's broadening awareness, shamanic training and exposure to the...

Rather than approaching the art of precocious young artists with autism as enigmatic and symptomatic, their work is explored as having its origin in human physiology and in the intrinsic human need for meaning. The narrative images in these young...

The Rolling Stones (now in their 60s) have sung to us for years about what a drag it is getting old, but it doesn't have to be that way. Despite living in a youth-oriented society, many of the aged patients seen by Dr. Levine have kept their emotional...

We all know - have perhaps told a few - stories about mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. It seems the stories are nearly always about relationships filled with conflict and abrasive words or actions. But why is this relationship so difficult? And is it...

On the 26th, 27th, and 28th of February of 1988, a conference was held on the epistemological foundations of mathematical experience as part of the activities of NSF Grant No. MDR-8550463, Child Generated Multiplying and Dividing Algorithms: A Teaching...

In this book we take a fresh look at imitation. With the knowledge of some 20 years of research after Chomsky's initial critique of the behavioristic approach to language learning, it is time to explore imitation once again. How imitation is viewed in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061137792Author Darla ShineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ReganBooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 428g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061456503Author Daniel HollowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 282g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674428430Author Hanns SachsFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 481g

"Getting what you want" today is increasingly linked to buying something. But is the purchase always enough? Picking up where "simplifying" may not satisfy, Dematerializing acknowledges the pleasures, along with the pitfalls, of...

In the Spring of 1997, a remarkable group of social psychologists came together at Yosemite National Park to reflect upon the field which they have been so instrumental in creating. This edited collection brings together the reflections of the nine...

This work explains an increasingly popular view dubbed the Consistent Life Ethic, which holds that all life deserves reverence, so all social support for actions that destroy life should be withdrawn. The call is for opposition to abortion, capital...

This thoroughly intriguing volume explains the many ways our thoughts are manipulated through temptation, distraction, misdirection, and more. From politics to sales, education, romance, and parenthood, everyone plays-wittingly or not-the roles of...

This helpful guide to building lasting relationships focuses on the personalities of the partners and introduces ways to build enduring compatibility. Love is Not Enough: What It Takes to Make it Work explores why couples fall into the same types of...

This book is the product of many years' experience teaching behavioral science in a way that demonstrates its relevance to clinical medicine. We have been guided by the reactions and evaluations of many first-year medical students. The result is a...

One of the most crucial areas of education - the development of oral language and the acquisition of literacy - is examined here with an effective combination of theory and practice. The sociocultural perspective is illustrated through descriptions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921143000Author Everett OforiFormat PaperbackImprint Everett Ofori, Inc.Publisher Everett Ofori, Inc.Weight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893911911Author Robert W. RieberFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939266425Author Edward W. L. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Gestalt Journal Press,U.S.Publisher Gestalt Journal Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 210g

As a psychotherapist who focuses on working with the issues that challenge midlife and older men, Robert Schwalbe feels that the 60s and beyond can be the most rewarding or the most miserable period in a man's life. An aging male baby boomer looking at...

This work traces the origins and evolution of the concept of humor in psychology from ancient to modern times with an emphasis on an experimental/empirical approach to the understanding of humor and sense of humor. In addition to more than 3,000...

This book brings together research and theory about `New Learning', the term we use for new learning outcomes, new kinds of learning processes and new instructional methods that are both wanted by society and stressed in psychological theory in many...

What is it like to be a psychologist or a psychiatrist today? Professionals with different kinds of practices and training from around the country talk candidly about their work, the effect that clients have upon them, and the various professional...

With entries ranging from Alzheimer's disease to the Zeignarik effect, this unique dictionary provides information about the researchers, scholars, and scientists whose names have become part of terms in common use among psychologists. Over 800 eponyms...

East meets West in this fascinating exploration of conceptions of personal identity in Indian philosophy and modern Euro-American psychology. Author Anand Paranjpe considers these two distinct traditions with regard to historical, disciplinary, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992513580Author Peter BurowFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Neuropwer Group Pty LtdPublisher Neuropwer Group Pty LtdWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991619122Author M Eugene MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Nagrome, LLCPublisher Nagrome, LLCWeight(grams) 108g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953233236Author Joel Dr. AkandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Strategic Insight PublishingPublisher Strategic Insight PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088105337Author Basile SchofieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 254g

How Children Understand War and Peace is a landmark book that examines these two vital questions and provides a solid framework on which to build answers. Written by an international panel of experts in the fields of developmental, social, and...

In this volume, leading researchers and trainers in multicultural counselling and psychology address the issues of what makes a counsellor multiculturally competent and how to create more culturally competent counsellors. The contributors consider ways...

The Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research & Practice is intended to take the reader from program development theory through program activity analysis and selection, to immediate impact studies, and intermediate and long-term...

This volume introduces innovative ways of understanding and dealing with issues of multiculturalism in counselling. The author emphasizes that understanding the culture of clients is indispensable to the practice of good counselling. He includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674594531Author Robert G HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 635Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1061g

Depression, in varying degrees, affects the majority of people at some point in their lives. The sufferer feels exhausted, isolated, profoundly sad and very unwell. Sleep is both a stranger and an enemy when accompanied by nightmares; food has no taste;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893912031Author Wallace ChafeFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This volume shows how masculinity is a socially constructed entity with a definition that has evolved over time. Masculine icons/heroes and methods of male socialization allow for contextual examination of specific time periods, which is necessary to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313231643Author Andrew J. PavlosFormat HardbackPage Count 209Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

It was just over a century ago that the first stirrings began which led eventually to the separation of psychology from the parent stem of philosophy. To understand and to evaluate properly the work that psychologists are doing today one must understand...

This comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia explores the developmental nature of social interactions and is designed for a broad range of readers in college, institutional, and public library settings. The lifespan perspective illuminates how...