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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138005020Author Ralph EarleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 249g

A recent area of interest in the Artificial Intelligence community has been the application of massively parallel algorithms to enhance the choice mechanism in traditional AI problems. This volume provides a detailed description of how marker-passing --...

This comprehensive reference organizes extensive definitions and examples of key concepts in quantitative research into a single, convenient source. Alphabetically arranged and cross-referenced, The Handbook of Research and Quantitative Methods In...

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780898596366Author D.F. KendrickFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Lawrence Erlbaum Associates IncPublisher Taylor & Francis...

The internet has dramatically transformed social space and time for many people in many different contexts. This dramatic warping of the social fabric has happened slowly over time as digital technologies have evolved and internet speeds have increased...

A Journey into Open Science and Research Transparency in Psychology introduces the open science movement from psychology through a narrative that integrates song lyrics, National Parks, and concerns about Diversity, Social Justice, and Sustainability...

Martial Arts and Well-Being explores how martial arts as a source of learning can contribute in important ways to health and well-being, as well as provide other broader social benefits. Using psychological and sociological theory related to behaviour,...

Over the course of a 50-year career, James T. McLaughlin has sought to open the playing field of psychoanalytic exploration by treating unconscious processes as the very material from which we fashion meaningful lives. His unique, iconoclastic...

Volume 15 of Progress in Self Psychology conveys the rich pluralism of contemporary self psychology with respect to a central theoretical and clinical issue: the nature of the self and the manner in which is can best be studied. This topic is initially...

The Mark of Cain makes available for the first time the accumulated psychoanalytic understanding of the psychopathic mind. Editor Reid Meloy, a leading authority on the psychology of the psychopath, has brought together in a single collection the most...

Psychology and the social sciences are in need of a new foundation, one that provides a better model for understanding complex behavior. Chaos theory and its newest permutation, complexity theory, offers an innovative, exciting and potentially...

A guide for clinicians from all disciplines to help conceptualize and control stress in clients in a clinical setting. Presents a definition of stress that is operational in a therapeutic context, and suggests ways of translating this understanding into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952390565Author Silvia FlechnerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint IPA PublicationsPublisher IPA PublicationsWeight(grams) 454g

This is the second volume of the works of Karl Abraham, whose "Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis" (catalogue number 2483) is one of the most widely read and highly valued classics on the subject. The first part of this book contains short clinical...

A French analyst discusses the interface between psychoanalysis and psychology. A Skin for Thought takes the form of ten transcribed discussions between Didier Anzieu and Gilbert Tarrab, recorded in Montreal during Anzieu's lecture tour there. A...

Otto Weininger illustrates the manifestations of unconscious phantasy in children - normal, neurotic or psychotic - in various settings such as playgroups, ordinary schools or special schools for disturbed children, the family milieu or play therapy. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893914707Author Allen D. GrimshawFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

A collection of papers concerning the Individual and the Community, Clinical Problems and Men and Their Ideas.Book InformationISBN 9780946439348Author Michael BalintFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Karnac BooksPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Being an "interactionist" approach to social psychology, Society and Personality deals with people, not as isolated individuals, but as participants in groups. The aim of the book is to help the reader develop an orderly perspective-a...

Thoroughly grounded in contemporary developmental research, A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place...

How, asks Geoff Goodman in The Internal World and Attachment, can we progress further in integrating the fruits of attachment research with the accumulated clinical wisdom of psychoanalytic theorizing about the internal world of object representations?...

In Who Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream? A Study of Psychic Presences, James Grotstein integrates some of his most important work of recent years in addressing fundamental questions of human psychology and spirituality. He explores two quintessential...

In Psychoanalytic Participation: Action, Interaction, and Integration, Kenneth Frank argues that the gulf between analysis and what he terms "action-oriented" or cognitive-behavioral techniques is anachronistic and has unnecessarily limited the...

Humor, a topic that engaged Sigmund Freud both early and late in his career, is richly intertwined with character, with creativity, and with the theory and practice of psychoanalytic therapy. Yet, until very recently, analysts ignored Freud's lead and...

The Dream Frontier is that rare book that makes available the cumulative wisdom of a century's worth of clinical examination of dreams and then reconfigured that wisdom on the basis of research in cognitive neuroscience. Drawing on psychodynamic...

Volume 25 of The Annual is dedicated to the memory of Michael Franz Basch, who achieved distinction as both a psychoanalytic theorist of the first rank and an authority on the nature and conduct of dynamic psychotherapy. A wide range of original...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780876309995Author Richard GistFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Brunner-Mazel IncPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 522g

Presents the fundamentals of theory and technique of psychoanalytic treatment, valuable for psychotherapists and students. Begins with a review of Freud's theory of personality and its modifications, and discusses transference and countertransference...

A systematic framework for a low-stress dissertation Writing a dissertation is the graduate students' Everest; organizing the results of years of research is daunting, and constructing a defendable argument leaves students in a perpetual state of...

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780866565653Author Linda Berg CrossFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis GroupPublisher Taylor...

Spatial neglect is a profound clinical problem as well as intriguing scientific problem. In the last ten years, there has been an explosion of interest in this disorder, which as a result is no longer viewed as a single entity, but rather as a number of...

This book discusses individual differences in how people react to uncertainty. The authors show that while some people are relatively comfortable dealing with uncertainty and strive to resolve it (uncertainty-oriented), others are more likely to avoid...

The influence of culture on mental illness has been the subject of considerable academic investigation and debate in recent years. This debate has provoked concerns about the validity and reliability of older methodologies which emphasised either...

Organizational processes and the organization-environment interaction are discussed in this volume of the Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology. Both organizational and environmental characteristics affect the behaviour of individuals and...

Personnel Psychology (or Human Resource Management) examines individual differences and their consequences for the organization. Attention is paid to choice processes, abilities and capabilities, needs and need fulfilment, commitment, selection methods,...

As Nixon's unpopularity increased during Watergate, his nose and jowls grew to impossible proportions in published caricatures. Yet the caricatures remained instantly recognizable. Caricatures can even be superportraits, with the paradoxical quality of...

In this capstone work, Arthur Staats synthesizes more than four decades of research, theory, and study into a new generation of behaviorism that offers insights and future directions for researchers, professionals, and students. Staats's unified theory...

Use these interventions and treatments to help people with mental health problems and their families!Family Therapy and Mental Health: Innovations in Theory and Practice explores the application of family therapy approaches to the treatment of a variety...

Examine the dynamic role of creativity in therapy! Creativity in Psychotherapy: Reaching New Heights with Individuals, Couples, and Families examines the nature, role, and importance of creative thinking in counseling and therapy. Authors David K. Carson...

Help your clients gain access to the transformative grace of God through Christ! All too often, psychology and spirituality are kept in separate boxes, lessening the power of each to work effective changes. Christ-Centered Therapy: Empowering the Self...