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This Volume of Annals of Theoretical Psychology highlights the fact that the flourishing aftermath of both Freud’s and Lacan’s ideas still exist. This is done in different ways. Some papers focus on rereading core texts of Freud and Lacan. Others apply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111206110Author Ferencz NopcsaFormat HardbackPage Count 265Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 640g

Two big name thinkers tackle a great question: why are we so often oblivious to things around us, from pollution and lying to bias and corruption? The useful human ability to adapt to all circumstances can lead to blindspots. Here's how to break the...

This important book provides a much-needed exploration and examination of honor abuse, violence, and killings from psychological perspectives. Written by a leading authority on the subject, the book draws on a wide range of research and theory on victims...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761346378Author Anastasia HronisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, around 284 million people aged between 15 and 64 years used drugs in the year 2020. In addition, it is estimated that over 11 million people were injecting drugs and half of these were living...

This inspiring text unveils the storms and triumphs of coaching in the form of case studies. It explores coaches’ stories from across the globe through a scientific lens and translates them back into coaching practice, offering essential guidance on how...

Psybersecurity: Human Factors of Cyber Defence is a clarion call to action in the face of a stark reality: over 90% of cyber attacks exploit human vulnerabilities, as highlighted by the 2022 Global Risks Report from the World Economic Forum. This gap...

Using the works and theories of Carl Gustav Jung and the astrologers Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, this volume provides a cultural history of psychological astrology in the twentieth century, demonstrating the prevalence of ‘magic’ in modern...

This edited collection is a follow-up to Algoma University's inaugural conference on mental health and addiction held at the Brampton campus in Ontario, Canada. We live in a society where many marginalized communities continue to bear a historically...

Status Defense Myths: Understanding How Power and Privilege Go Unpunished investigates the role of status in the decision to punish or permit violence in society. Whether sexual, racial, political or financial, powerful factors work to maintain the...

An in-depth look at some of the newest issues in psychology and how they can shape our lives, at home and at work - from AI and eco-psychology, to the psychology of social media. Psychologists have always shone a torch into many dark corners of the...

When Face Recognition Goes Wrong explores the myriad ways that humans and machines make mistakes in facial recognition.Adopting a critical stance throughout, the book explores why and how humans and machines make mistakes, covering topics including...

This carefully revised third edition of Criminal Psychology offers a vital, up-to-date account of the wide range of psychological contributions to the understanding of criminals and crime, its investigation, the legal processes of dealing with offenders,...

A revised edition of Madness Explained, Richard Bentall's groundbreaking classic on mental illness In Madness Explained, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis. Is madness purely a medical...

International migration and the social diversity it creates constitute one of the key global challenges of the early 21st century. Language and communication barriers can compromise equitable access in diverse societies, and where socioeconomic...

An expert's inspiring, deeply personal account of how childhood trauma can be overcome.In recent years the word 'trauma' has become ubiquitous. Yet it remains widely misunderstood. In Trauma Proof international expert Benjamin Perks redefines how we see...

An expert's inspiring, deeply personal account of how childhood trauma can be overcome.In recent years the word 'trauma' has become ubiquitous. Yet it remains widely misunderstood. In Trauma Proof international expert Benjamin Perks redefines how we see...

This important book provides a much-needed exploration and examination of honor abuse, violence, and killings from psychological perspectives. Written by a leading authority on the subject, the book draws on a wide range of research and theory on victims...

This book presents a comprehensive theory of human psycho-bio-physical relations and consequent routes through disruptions, changes, and harmonic equilibria, with applications in clinical psychology, social sciences and human interfaces. It clarifies how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349144559Author Frank TallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint AbacusPublisher Little, Brown Book Group

This inspiring text unveils the storms and triumphs of coaching in the form of case studies. It explores coaches’ stories from across the globe through a scientific lens and translates them back into coaching practice, offering essential guidance on how...

This new edition of this bestselling handbook offers a comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.Now in its third edition, the book provides a full update of its highly successful...

Now available in paperback.Life is hard. But it gets a whole lot easier when you start to talk it out. In How Am I Doing?, you're invited into a series of conversations with yourself to improve your mental health as you discover your purpose, honor your...

Originally published in 1978, the main task of this book was to consider the psychology of thinking in relation to the various perspectives from which thought processes were studied at the time. It provided an up-to-date and critical evaluation of...

Originally published in 1932, Adolescent Girlhood set out to give a general view of the more everyday problems a girl might encounter during adolescence. Both at home and at school and those problems that had, despite their prevalence, not gained as much...

The transition from school to work is recognized by developmental psychologists as a significant phase in maturation of young people. In the 1990s the likelihood that the transition might be delayed by a period of prolonged unemployment was greater than...

Based on the study of a large number of young people ranging in age from eleven to seventeen, Relationships in Adolescence, originally published in 1974, proposes a new model of adolescent development, described as the ‘focal’ model, which makes a...

Originally published in 1993, Adolescent Drinking and Family Life portrays teenage drinking, not as a symptom of pathology, but as a perfectly normal developmental phase within the context of the home environment. Drinking is predominantly social...

Originally published in 1948, The Adolescent Child provided vital information on adolescence for parents, teachers, club leaders, social and religious workers and welfare supervisors in factories at the time. With research from both the UK and the US the...

The condition known as ‘adolescence’ is largely an artefact of advance industrial societies. How, then, do those who are labelled as ‘adolescent’ conduct their everyday lives, and what are their values? Originally published in 1980, this book seeks to...

Originally published in 1983, this book elucidates the urgent problems of disadvantaged and delinquency-prone post-adolescents at the time by providing a comprehensive theoretical framework and a pragmatic outlook based on recent rehabilitation...

This book offers a new look at well-being from a multidisciplinary standpoint. Research from industry clearly indicates that factors such as creativity, critical awareness, well-being, interdisciplinary understanding of positive psychology, and the...

Dieses einzigartige Lehrbuch ist unverzichtbar für Psychologie-Studierende sowie für Professionals, die sich mit der psychologischen Gutachtenerstellung beschäftigen. Darin finden Sie eine systematische Übersicht und Anleitung zur Gutachtenerstellung in...

This book is a guide for nurses who plan to incorporate psychotherapy into their field of work. Mental illness continues to be on the rise with increases in anxiety disorders, suicidality, and depression among others. Psychotherapy is a well researched...

This book explores the meaning of love and intimacy from a variety of perspectives, specifically philosophical, psychological and cultural. This volume is a focussed study on what makes them and what may break love and intimacy.Love and intimacy are...

This book acknowledges the significant changes in the context and contours of the traditional employee-employer relationship over the last several decades and highlights the emergence of exciting new directions for the study of psychological contracts...

This text outlines the relative merits of qualitative interviewing to new and emerging scholars in an accessible way. This is achieved not by providing an exhaustive ‘how to…’ guide but in introducing researchers to the interview technique and using...

First Published in 1958, Thinking Introduces a number of simple experiments which can all be repeated by anybody who is interested. They show that the thinker is all the time trying to fill up gaps in information that is available to him in such a manner...

This book provides a conceptual introduction to regression and machine learning and its applications in education research. The book discusses its diverse applications, including its role in predicting future events based on the current data or...