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Brief Therapy and Beyond is a collection of new and selected papers by prominent psychologist Michael Hoyt. Numerous clinical vignettes and informative discussions describe time-sensitive treatments to relieve psychological distress and/or promote growth...

This book has a practical purpose. It seeks to help the reader to understand himself and his problems, that he may increase his successes, his fruit, and his satisfactions. The discussion centers about the conditions that shape personality, but the...

Freud's development of psychoanalysis is one of the great fault lines of twentieth-century cultural history. The field as such provides one of the great professional dramas of our time: a classic struggle between a new, vital idea and the ignorance,...

In the 10 years prior to publication the quantity of research on eye movements as they pertain to psychological processes had been increasing at a rapid rate. Originally published in 1976, the editors' purpose was to bring together investigators...

Originally published in 1981, Workshops in Perception is designed to enable students to devise their own experiments in sensory processes or perception. The thirty workshops include over a hundred different possible student projects covering the full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924608063Author Baruch M. LazewnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Whitford Press,U.S.Publisher Whitford Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 0g

In a unique attempt to synthesize the patient experience in an era of revolutionary change in medication and psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia, this volume is founded on autobiographical accounts of persons suffering schizophrenia and related...

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780898596519Author Ethel TobachFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Lawrence Erlbaum Associates IncPublisher Taylor & Francis...

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780891169406Author Charles D. SpielbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Taylor & Francis IncPublisher Taylor & Francis...

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780805893816Author L. M. YoungbladeFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Psychology PressPublisher Taylor & Francis Inc

"Psychoanalysis is dead!" Again and again this obituary is pronounced, with ever-increasing conviction in newspapers and scholarly journals alike. But the ghost of Freud and his thought continues to haunt those who would seal the grave. The...

This book illuminates the progress of children's ideas about numbers in a way that would make clear both how it is that young children know as much as they do and how it is that they often have so much trouble with mathematics.Book InformationISBN...

Originally published in 1921, this introduction to psychology includes chapters on the definitions and methods related to psychology; organism and environnment; and instinct and intelligence.Book InformationISBN 9780367149901Author Susan S...

This book addresses five areas of difficulty in psychotherapy: initial assessment, boundaries, money, disruptions, and suicidal crises. It outlines the conceptual issues and the technical details of each of the concept in detail.Book InformationISBN...

This book describes the ways in which space can be created to strengthen the capacity to withstand suffering, as well as the application of systemic and narrative psychology to develop interventions at an individual, team, group, and organisational level...

This book resurrects the Franz Alexanderian legacy, reminding his behemoth contributions and offers the reader with a deeply tender and touching portrait. It also considers his personal and professional life, the role of family in his decisions, and how...

This book demonstrates how accomplished clinicians can promote the emergence of a richness and creativity that appeals to practitioners of systemic family therapy, not least because of the immediate relevance and usefulness of the ideas. It will be...

This book offers ten distinguished analysts' insights on shame from various perspectives, which include its developmental substrate, vicissitudes during adolescence, and manifestations in the course of aging and infirmity. It seeks to advance clinicians'...

This book aims to show that the function of day-dreams is to state a problem that has been disguised and then to solve it, the problem and the solution being the poles between which excitement flows.Book InformationISBN 9780367326838Author Robert J...

This is an original first novel of an accomplished poet: erotic, humorous, exotic and sensuous. It describes the adventures of two young writers, set in the midst of political repression, anti-Semitism and violence during the Latin American dictatorships...

This book offers a most interesting view of the application of the Winnicott squiggle game outside the context of therapeutic consultations. It concentrates on describing the inner mechanisms for coping which came to light in the psychoanalytical...

This book provides a comprehensive review of the existing perspectives and applications of narcissism as a psychoanalytic concept that has been extremely influential in the fields of psychotherapy, social science, arts and humanities. Ten authors from...

This book presents essays that consider the status and significance of the 'pictures of the mind', in Freud, and also in the work of the major psychoanalytic thinkers. It offers an unparalleled chance to compare and contrast the fundamental ideas and...

This clinical workbook stresses the details of sound clinical practice, invites the reader to engage in exercises related to these practices as he or she goes through the volume, and offers practice in techniques that are essential to sound psychotherapy...

Young people develop anorexia because they are unhappy. In the process of becoming anorexic they silence themselves and distance themselves from parental support. Family therapy can help patients by improving their communication with their parents...

This book is a collection of the works of Dr. Karl Abraham's writings. It covers the sexual trauma in childhood for the symptomatology of dementia praecox, the significance of intermarriage between close relatives in the psychology of the neuroses,...

These original essays, written by prominent scholars, pay tribute to the work of William Bevan. In the course of his distinguished career, Bevan has exhibited an almost unique capacity to focus a clear-eyed, critical gaze on operating assumptions and...

Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this title was to develop a conceptual framework for understanding individual humans as complex, functional entities. It was felt that a sound developmental theory of human personality and behaviour would help...

According to Jacques Andre, "the patient's encounter with the analyst is a scene of seduction, the seductive statement being that of the fundamental rule or the invitation to address that which is most intimate or personal to a complete stranger...

We propose this book as a celebration of the outstanding research and teaching career of Professor Barbara Coleman Etzel. The editors and authors are her students and her worldwide colleagues. She directed us toward the issues of antecedent control at a...

This book examines the role of the Oedipus complex in the psyche and relates it to urgent issues of social life, historical and current. It discusses the theory of sexual phallic monism and its most important consequences, and some essential points of...

This book considers experimental designs, alternatives to experimental designs, survey methods, and how systematic collection of information can minimize alternative explanations in social psychology. It discusses meta-analysis for interpreting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782201182Author Adrian StokesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Karnac BooksPublisher Karnac Books

Evolutionary psychology is an important and rapidly expanding area in the life, social, and behavioral sciences, and this Handbook represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference text in the field today. Chapters in this Handbook address...

To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780765700452Author Max RosenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 427Imprint Jason Aronson Inc. PublishersPublisher Jason Aronson Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832550264Author Anne ThalerFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

This volume brings together for the first time the papers which have shaped and defined the field of interpersonal development. It celebrates the maturation of the subject by bringing together the best work by scholars who have been instrumental in...

Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy explores how traumatic experience interacts with unconscious phantasy based in folklore, the supernatural, and the occult. Drawing upon psychoanalysis, anthropology, the arts, and esoteric philosophy, Alex...

This book utilizes a wealth of case studies to demonstrate the importance of using depth sport psychology to explore and understand athletes’ unconscious feelings and fears, and provides the knowledge needed to help athletes deal with pressures faced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875166148Author Thomas TrowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 0Imprint DeVorss & Co ,U.S.Publisher DeVorss & Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 0g