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This edited volume is an anthology of institutional ethnography (IE) inquiries into psychiatry-the first ever to be written. It focuses on a large variety of different geographic locations and constitutes a major contribution to anti/critical psychiatry,...

The use and misuse of IQ tests has long been a subject of contention in the scientific and social communities, particularly because these evaluations favor intelligence at the expense of other valuable human qualities. This is the first book of its kind...

The current volume presents new empirical data on well-being of youth and emerging adults from a global international perspective. Its outstanding features are the focus on vast geographical regions (e.g., Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America),...

This practical guide is a must read for students interested in developing the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and values that foster positive relationships with people from diverse cultures both within and outside of the workplace. It contains real-life...

This open access book presents an integrative and transdisciplinary conceptualization of hope and brings together cross-cultural studies based on quantitative data from around the globe. It incorporates state-of-the-art theories of hope from psychology,...

This volume brings together trends and their prospects to understand the complexity of metacognitive phenomena, with emphasis on the interactions of metacognition with affect. It discusses the three perspectives in understanding these interactions: the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030645397Author Margaret L KernFormat PaperbackPage Count 808Imprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher Palgrave MacMillanWeight(grams) 1111g

This book critically examines the development of mindfulness, tracing its development from Buddhist meditation to its variety of popular applications today, including the treatment of mental disorders, wellbeing and improvement of performance. The book...

This book offers a collection of scholarly writing on the meanings of happiness in relation to consumption.The concept of happiness in relation to consumption deserves critical attention. While administrative marketing scholars might take for granted the...

This is an international and interdisciplinary volume that provides a new look at the general background of the social sciences from a philosophical perspective and provides directions for methodology. It seeks to overcome the limitations of the...

This book draws on transpersonal anthropology and psychology in order to explore mild altered states of consciousness (ASCs) experienced in everyday life. While research into consciousness and particularly ASCs is growing, this book focuses on a...

This volume provides innovative perspectives on the scholarly connection between the humanities and happiness, and considers the narrative expressions of happiness and recent investigations about happiness, its metrics, and objective insights about human...

This book offers a compelling critical analysis of American society by examining the role of psychotherapy within social policy and the culture that has fashioned it. It takes a deeply critical look at 'the social clinic,' defined here as a ubiquitous...

This book builds on a critique of Slavoj Zizek’s work to outline a new theory of psychoanalytic rhetoric. It turns to Zizek because not only is he one of the most popular intellectuals in the world, but, this book argues, his discourse is shaped by a set...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of of the logotherapy of Viktor Frankl and delves into the spiritual depths of an inherent search for meaning in life. Written by a highly experienced and competent logotherapist trained by Frankl himself, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991024711Author SteingartFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Livia SteingartPublisher Livia SteingartWeight(grams) 336g

It was Erich Fromm's conviction that psychoanalysis needs to retain Freud's essential insight into the unconscious while replacing his mechanistic-materialistic philosophy with a humanistic one. In this book, never before published in English, Fromm...

This volume brings together researchers in motivation from around the world to address new directions in measures and methods for motivational research. There has been a great deal of reliance on self-report measures in motivational research, but the...

Thinking and memory are inextricably linked. However, a "divide and rule" approach has led cognitive psychologists to study these two areas in relative isolation. With contributions from some of the leading international researchers on working memory and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228810506Author Pearl E GregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988706729Author S.R. AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Gnostiko LlpPublisher Gnostiko LlpWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228802297Author Pearl E GregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Positivism needs further scrutiny. In recent years, there has been little consensus about the nature of positivism or about the precise forms its influence has taken on psychological theory. One symptom of this lack of clarity has been that ostensibly...

Using work produced from the critical and postmodern arena in social sciences, this book examines three key areas - representation, identities and practice - to explore and interrogate how body and weight management, subjectivities, experiences and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780387964447Author Donald R. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Weight(grams)...

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Psychology on the Web: A Student Guide is directed at those who want to be able to access psychology Internet resources quickly and efficiently without needing to become IT experts. The emphasis throughout is on the location of high quality psychology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504310321Author Kate DowneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Balboa Press AuPublisher Balboa Press AuWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806529998Author Fay B KarpfFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528980258Author John WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943350414Author Henrique Guilherme ScatolinFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Globalsouth PressPublisher Globalsouth PressWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782357288508Author Swami PanchadasiFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987574508Author Leland W HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Earth Wisdom Harmonics, LLCPublisher Earth Wisdom Harmonics, LLCWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528960601Author John WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636160764Author Ladonna D RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Opportune Independent Publishing Co.Publisher Opportune Independent Publishing Co...

Unlike other texts for undergraduate sociological social psychology courses, Individual and Society covers each of the three research traditions in sociological social psychology-symbolic interactionism, social structure and personality, and group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944473665Author Jonathan D RaskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944473573Author Jonathan D RaskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams)...

The story of mesmerism in nineteenth-century America is the story of how, for the first time, a psychological theory arose to meet the everyday religious and intellectual needs of Americans. Robert Fuller gives us the first complete history of American...

This book approaches the field of positive psychology from a post-modern perspective. It explores the consequences of combining current trends and models with supplementary participatory and transformative methods. The book brings a more collective,...