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A new attempt to acknowledge and rekindle interest in the experimental foundation of behavioral medicine, this volume focuses on the relevance of conditioning processes in the development of clinically relevant intervention strategies. It provides...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138875531Author W. R. BousfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 159g

Born in Vienna in 1864, Bernard Hollander was a London-based psychiatrist in the early twentieth century. He is best known for being one of the main proponents of the interest in phrenology at that time. This title, originally published in 1922 contains...

While Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs) provide promising avenues to support the positive development of all young people, research findings assessing the relation between CCIs and community-level child and youth outcomes have been mixed...

At the time of original publication psychobiology was one of the most rapidly developing areas of psychology. Its growth owed much to recent advances both in techniques for studying the physiological bases of behaviour and in major conceptual advances in...

This is a text-book of a branch of psychoanalysis, namely, the theory of special neuroses. It is designed primarily for the beginner in psychoanalysis, who might wish to consult a "Pathology" to look up the illness he happens to be treating...

Pavlov's fundamental theory of higher nervous activity concerns the adaptation to changing external environments of organisms such as dogs, apes, and humans. In the 1920s, Pavlov and his disciples used laboratory experimentation to study the etiology and...

Care-giving in dementia is a new speciality with its own rapidly growing body of knowledge. This second volume of contributions from leading practitioners and researchers around the world is a handbook for all those involved in hands on caring, or in...

This special issue is devoted to the topic of "risk and resilience" in human development, a topic that epitomizes the complexity of human development as a process of constancy and change throughout life. The three empirical papers in this issue...

Dr. Lovinger describes the initial contact and the initial session and discusses intake, setting, play themes, and issues of differential emotional and cognitive development from birth through age 12. Then, as her psychodynamic perspective unfolds, she...

This book deals with the link between the purpose of therapy and the boundaries of the therapeutic situation, which - the author argues - derive from the omnipresence of the anxiety surrounding separations and death. The theoretical framework of this...

This book focuses on the professional ethics of medicine and psychiatry, to know whether psychoanalysis differs from brainwashing. It addresses a divergence-a choice between repression and splitting, and examines how the findings concerning a divided...

This is a completely revised and enlarged edition of the well-known classic. In the twenty years since the previous edition was published much progress has been made in regard to the clinical concept of psychoanalysis, and this new edition brings the...

This book is a collection of preliminary reports from the systems-centered training (SCT) field, demonstrating its value, and introducing the ideas. It covers a range of applications that represent the SCT methods and the systems thinking that underlies...

This book discusses the problems of the sexual life of woman throughout the duration of her sexual maturity, i.e., from the beginning of puberty onwards. It reports all the new insights into the mental life of woman in her relations to the reproductive...

This work depicts clinical applications stemming from Dr Wilfred Ruprecht Bion's contributions to psychoanalysis. It may be used as a practical companion to The Language of Bion: A Dictionary of Concepts also by P.C. Sandler. Both constitute a natural...

When the first edition of Clinical studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis was published in 2000, it was hailed as a turning point in psychoanalytic research. It is now relied on as a model for the integration of neuroscience and psychoanalysis. It won the...

This book explores the W. R. Bion's capacity in the "potential space" when fantasy becomes imagination. It looks at what can be called Political Meritocracy-Bion's term for it was The Establishment-and Technical Meritocracy.Book InformationISBN...

This book is a selection of papers written over 25 years of practising psychoanalytic psychotherapy, of training and supervising psychotherapists, psychodynamic counsellors and supervisors. It reflects a preoccupation with the growth and diversification...

As a discipline, psychoanalysis began at the interface of mind and brain and has always been about those most basic questions of biology and psychology: loving, hating, what brings us together as lovers, parents, and friends and what pulls us apart in...

Originally published in 1906. How the mind of man can be strengthened, widened, and made a more efficient instrument through the application of modern scientific and physiological knowledge is a question of intense interest. It is now a universally...

In this book the author traces the way that early psychic development from birth up to three years is reflected throughout our lifespan, including adulthood, couplehood and parenthood. The inner child reverberating within us (consciously and...

This book provides contemporary perspectives concerning Freud's fundamental assumptions on the unconscious. It presents some of the original theoretical developments and the cogitations on the unconscious, from various world regions and different thought...

This book discusses how to write about the process of psychic change without betraying either love or science. It investigates the concepts of subjectivity and objectivity that are appropriate for psychoanalysts, the concepts of internalization and of...

This book focuses on one of D. W. Winnicott's most enduring and resonant formulations, the True and False Self. It is a salutary reminder of Winnicott's capacity as the acclaimed advocate of maternal "holding"-also for sharpness and for the...

This book advances an integrative approach to understanding the phenomenon of psychosocial maturation. Through a rigorous, dialectically-informed interpretation of psychoanalytic and humanistic-existential-phenomenological sources, Dr. Mufid James...

Functional specialization is a property of biological systems generally. A unifying theme that cuts across all research areas and techniques in the cognitive and brain sciences is whether there is specialization of function at levels of processing that...

Donald Hebb was one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century and the first version of this textbook was written in 1958. This 4th edition, co-authored with Donderi, was originally published in 1987 and the object of the book was to...

This volume features the complete text of the material presented at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. As in previous years, the symposium included an interesting mixture of papers on many topics from researchers with...

This special issue focuses on temporal dynamics in teams. Drawing on the distinction between differential and temporal (or variable vs. process) research, recent theories and research practices in the field of team research are discussed to better...

• A previously unpublished original manuscript from Edward Conze, first written in 1939, but with continued relevance to today’s media and society • Includes a new introduction by Conze’s Personal Secretary, which reflects on the legacy and impact of...

A step-by-step guide to reestablishing work-life balance Americans love a hard worker. The employee who toils eighteen-hour days and eats meals on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a combination of respect and awe. But for many, this...

This book traces the psychological journey of accident survivors with locomotor disability, as they move from processes of suffering to healing. It provides a holistic understanding of disability by looking into the embodied understanding of the body as...

Originally published in 1978, The Process of Question Answering examines a phenomenon that relies on many realms of human cognition: language comprehension, memory retrieval, and language generation. Problems in computational question answering assume a...

Originally published in 1981, this volume presents papers from the first Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology held at the University of Western Ontario from August 25-27, 1978. The general theme of the symposium was social cognition...

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138966062Author Christopher BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Psychology Press LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138875739Author H. WestmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 181g

First published in 1987. This book connects Adlerian theory, defined as a human systems approach, with the other systems theories of family therapy. By comparison and contrast with five other popular family therapy theories, the authors suggest that...

Originally published in 1988, this title presents a longitudinal research project 'Individual Development and Adjustment' (IDA), planned and implemented at the Department of Psychology, University of Stockholm. This title concerns the theoretical...

Originally published in 1976, the bibliography presented here was intended to provide a useful research tool for scholars and students of perception. The primary concentration of the authors' efforts has been on the philosophical literature during the...