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This handbook brings together crucial information related to mental illness among black Americans by examining the impact of social structures and conditions on the mental health of blacks. Choice ...

Leaders of all kinds, in all fields, need to be methodical and logical, but also strategic, innovative, and intuitive. Yet the two different styles require different modes of thinking, or what author Mary Lou Decosterd describes as shifts to right brain,...

This guidebook has been developed as a skill-training package to teach psychologists, counselors, social workers, and other applied mental-health professionals a model for the delivery of behavioral interventions through a behavioral consultation...

How do emotions change over time? When is hate honorable? What happens when "love" is translated into different languages? Such questions are now being addressed by historians who trace how emotions have been expressed and understood in...

Unruly Spirits connects the study of seances, telepathy, telekinesis, materializations, and other parapsychic phenomena in France during the age of Sigmund Freud to an epistemological crisis that would eventually yield the French adoption of...

How can child care be structured to protect both the interests of children and the rights of women? Must children suffer the "loss" of their childhood through institutional care? Polakow uses her observations of pre-school centers--including...

In this volume, Dr. Rawlins traces and investigates the varieties, tensions, and functions of friendship for males and females throughout the life course. Using both conceptual and illustrative chapters, the book portrays the degrees of involvement,...

This volume adopts a unique, multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development of the human brain and early behavior. It includes chapters by researchers from several disciplines whose work addresses specific aspects of brain-behavioral...

This book is the first attempt to validate behavior modification techniques in a carefully controlled experimental treatment environment for emotionally disturbed children. Such special settings permit carefully conducted research experiments can be...

This book focuses on those special circumstances in which men (alone or in groups) are isolated or confined for periods of time long enough to affect the way in which they think and behave. Active research in these phenomena initially grew out of a...

An individual's understanding of himself must begin with an appreciation of his origin. Thus, the concern of modern man to understand his behavior has led to an investigation of the forces that influence human development. Investigation encompasses many...

The renaissance in the field of mental retardation since World War II has been expressed both in research and in renewed practical concern for the plight of the retarded. The 1958 monograph by Masland, Sarason, and Gladwin entitled Mental Subnormality:...

This book details the first comparative study under controlled conditions of the three major schools of psychotherapy-client-centered therapy, behavioral or systematic desensitization therapy, and rational-emotive therapy. The study was organized to...

Mirrors of Madness depicts the social-psychological processes and institutional consequences of psychiatric staffs experience of "closet insanity" (private worries about theirown social and psychological competence) and "reverse role...

Frank Ochberg - one of the pioneers in the field - has brought together nationally and internationally recognized experts who have treated thousands of victims in such subspecialty areas as rape, incest and battering, as well as Vietnam veterans and...

This book considers the place for analytic thinking in the world of psychiatry with its emphasis on an organic approach to major psychiatric disorders. It is the result of a conference that was held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis entitled 'The...

Writing in a lively straightforward tone and offering numerous examples, Polansky demonstrates that verbal communication plays a major role in mental health and is essential to preventing and curing emotional disorders. He shows why the inability to...

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138179240Author Edward E. CuretonFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Psychology Press LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138164536Author Raymond F. PaloutzianFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Psychology Press LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis...

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138143364Author Elizabeth R. ValentineFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

A fast-moving, fascinating alternative history of twentieth century analytic philosophy. Using many examples, Sorenson explains how problems are dissolved rather than solved. This is a fine example of what philosophical analysis should be.Book...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138005198Author Bruce YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 363g

First published in 1987. These Collected Papers, covering a period of almost 30 years, will allow the reader to trace the developing thought of one of the world's seminal family therapists and theoreticians.Book InformationISBN 9781138009462Author Ivan...

This book focuses on how Freudian concepts have been incorporated into modern or contemporary psychoanalytic thought, introducing Freud's papers on technique and presenting his views on the place of the dream in psychoanalytic treatment.Book...

This book focuses on the psychoanalytic theory of object relations in order to integrate certain pertinent elements of Fairbairn's theory of object relations, to achieve the proposed revision by Perls et al. of Gestalt therapy's theory of the Self.Book...

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138004702Author Richard A. KulkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119586203Author Paul E. SpectorFormat PaperbackImprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons IncWeight(grams) 942g

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415210881Author David ForsythFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 318g

This book is an outcome of the fourteenth John Bowlby Memorial Conference held in London. The conference covers the theme of understanding and treatment of the extreme state experienced in psychosis and major dissociative disorders by clients who have...

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138159037Author LeslieFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint Psychology Press LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

&lt&gt&lt&gtAbout the AuthorT. Berry Brazelton, M.D., founder of the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital Boston, is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Pediatrics and Human...

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138178991Author David WinterFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138462953Author Philip O. HwangFormat HardbackImprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138141469Author Kenneth J. DokaFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint CRC PressPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Herbert Rosenfeld makes a powerful case both for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms and the potential benefits of their treatment by psychoanalytic means.Reviews"This book is as valuable to the author's critics as it is to the many people who have...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415758024Author Charles PlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 395g

This book portrays a range of individuals who seek nourishment from poisons or, to variable extents, are poisoned by the nourishment they seek. It describes the analyses leading to de-programming the patients from their toxins and intoxicators.Book...

This book is an extended reverie, reflection, confession, assessment, engagement with psychic reality. It offers further invitation into the mystery at the heart of the human experience that is, at its core, also at the heart of the psychoanalytic...

In this book, the authors share an interest in and experience of migration in relation to stressed or traumatised patients whom they have treated or through their areas of expertise through the developmental life cycle.Book InformationISBN...

The book will serve as a helpful reference for undergraduate and post-graduate students of Psychology and Education. Understanding the nature of a child or learner, the context in which they live and grow, and building perspective on the process of...