Behaviorism

Dyslogical children are commonly labelled as having one or more of a mix of conditions that include Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. The number of children who could be...

This influential book provides an innovative framework for understanding and treating intimate partner violence. Integrating a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, Donald G. Dutton demonstrates that male abusiveness is more than just a...

An occasional employee of a local gas company, Albert Dadas suffered from a strange compulsion that led him to travel obsessively, often without identification, not knowing who he was or why he travelled. He became notorious for his extraordinary...

How a handful of psychiatrists, with the help of the pharmaceutical industry, turned the ordinary emotion of shyness into an illness In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on their...

A bystander is someone who does not become involved when someone else needs help. This book investigates the meaning of bystanding behaviour in ordinary life as well as in counselling psychology and psychotherapeutic practice, its supervision and...

Wolfgang Koehler (1887-1967) was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology, the influential school that argues that perception is best understood as an organized pattern rather than as separate parts. Penetrating in its insights and lucid in...

Nonlinear Contingency Analysis is a guide to treating clinically complex behavior problems such as delusions and hallucinations. It's also a framework for treating behavior problems, one that explores solutions based on the creation of new or alternative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830828722Author Marjorie Lindne GunnoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 348gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131946Author Thomas LickonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912141135Author Prof. Robert WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Silverback PublishingPublisher Silverback PublishingWeight(grams)...

In this landmark book, the impulse toward self-destructiveness is examined as a misdirection of the instinct for survival, a turning inward of the aggressive behavior developed for self-preservation. "One of the most absorbing books I have read in recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912141029Author Prof. Susan MichieFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Silverback PublishingPublisher Silverback PublishingWeight(grams)...

Understanding Behaviorism is a classic textbook that explains the basis of behavior analysis and its application to human problems in a scholarly but accessible manner. * Now in its third edition, the text has been substantially updated to include the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307954800Author Sasha IssenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630512668Author Harry a WilmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393005035Author Sigmund FreudFormat HardbackImprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 617g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933029590Author Barbara HannahFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 13mm

Why do some people risk their lives regularly by placing themselves in extreme and challenging situations? For some, such as astronauts, the extreme environments are part of the job. For others, they involve the thrill and competition of extreme sports,...

This is the first comprehensive volume to bridge the gap between the science of behavior and applied behavior analysis (ABA). The book demonstrates how laboratory research informs real-world interventions to facilitate behavior change, and vice versa...

The exact definition of "madness" remains elusive. There are difficulties in distinguishing the criminal from the mad or, more euphemistically, the mentally ill. Controversy has centered on the frightening potential possessed by the state to deprive of...

Gain an understanding of human behavior, the factors that influence behavior and the strategies to change behavior with Miltenberger's BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES, 7E. This precise, step-by-step, scientific approach introduces the...

Why cooperate? This may be the most important scientific question we have ever, and will ever, face. The science of cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also where we might end up. Cooperation explains how strands of DNA gave rise to...

What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and who experiences it? Why do some people develop PTSD after a traumatic event, while others do not? What are the unique impacts of trauma on children? Are there effective treatments for traumatic stress...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912141036Author Prof. Susan MichieFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Silverback PublishingPublisher Silverback PublishingWeight(grams)...

"Two opposed points of view," John B. Watson wrote in 1925, "are still dominant in American psychological thinking: introspective or subjective psychology, and behaviorism or objective psychology." His statement is still true today. Reacting against...

A layperson's guide to Jungian theory shows how to apply the concepts to everyday life to promote self-awareness, enhance creativity, and improve relationships.Book InformationISBN 9780446392945Author PascalFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305017Author E A BennetFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 192g

Did you know that the way you eat your food will be sending subliminal messages out about your sexual habits? Or that the way you decorate your desk, could be helping your boss decide about that promotion or pay rise? We're all aware of the subtle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647801052Author Emory GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Modern Mind MediaPublisher Modern Mind MediaWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, Laing aims to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. He also offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.About the AuthorR.D. Laing, one of the best-known psychiatrists of...

Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this book shows, our species relies heavily on cooperation for survival as do many others - from wolves and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615773763Author Joost A.M. MeerlooFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 520g

In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B. F. Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society.Insisting that the problems of the world today can be solved...

A Programing Contingency Analysis of Mental Health presents Dr. Israel Goldiamond's reflections on various ways we formulate behavioral and emotional problems, most often in traditional terms of mental health disorders, mental diseases or illnesses,...

In this classic work on behavioral modification, Professor Dunlap explores the inter-relationship between habit making and breaking and the learning process, asserting that maladjustments are acquired by the process of learning and removed only by this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919123656Author Francoise O'KaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Inner City BooksPublisher Inner City Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600718Author Carl G. JungFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 191mm *...

Freud's major cultural books, Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism, have long been viewed as failed attempts at historical reconstruction. This book, by an anthropologist and practicing psychoanalyst, offers a brilliant reinterpretation of these...

This ia an account of the origins, influences and legacy of Jungian psychology. By delineating the social, personal, religious and cultural contexts of Jung's system of psychology, the author identifies the central role of depth psychology in the culture...

Ernest Dichter is famous as one of the founding fathers of motivational research. In applying the social sciences to a variety of problems, Dichter emphasized new approaches to problem solving, advertising, politics, and selling, and issues of social...