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Are the effects of hypnosis real or imagined?Is intelligence determined by nature or nurture?Will ordinary people perform acts of cruelty if ordered to do so by authority figures?Are anorexia and bulimia nervosa forms of depression?Why do some groups...

Decision theory is a uniquely interdisciplinary field of study with contributions from economics, statistics, mathematics, philosophy, operations research, and psychology. The 1970s had seen important changes in research on behavioral decision theory in...

The Talking Therapies offers a practical roadmap for clinicians and therapists. Drawing on the Contextual Modual Therapy Model (CMT), Dr Coral Brown presents a therapy approach that is as grounded in theory as it is in lived clinical experience. With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527255029Author James BrennanFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Modernity PressPublisher Modernity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782357288492Author Swami PanchadasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Discover the ultimate revision guide for psychology students to help you excel in your assessments! Psychology Express: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology, 2nd edition is a concise, comprehensive and engaging guide, packed with resources that...

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...

This book breaks down barriers between disciplines engaging with flow, by speaking from geography into psychology to establish geographical foundations for this psychological phenomenon. It frames and works with the multiple contradictions within the...

Why in the world not? aims to make daseinanalysis accessible to the English-speaking reader while retaining cross-references to the original texts, many of which were written in German. The author does not assume prior familiarity with daseinanalysis, a...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women's experiences within mental health services, demonstrating the need for a radical paradigm shift in how women's distress and experiences are understood. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on coercive...

In this text, the history of phenomenological research on learning is synthesized and brought forward into the areas of existential learning, the development of enthusiasm about learning (from childhood through adulthood), and paradigmatic creative...

Given the current climate of economic and environmental uncertainty, it is all too easy for individuals to feel hopeless about their lives and indifferent to the problems of others. But according to leading psychologist, James Garbarino, this is the peak...

In Unexplained Mysteries of Everyday Human Behavior, bestselling author, social science researcher, and noted psychologist Jeffrey Kottler helps readers to explore some of the most interesting aspects of the human experience that have yet to be fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639279739Author Acacia BettanyFormat HardbackPage Count 251Imprint American Medical PublishersPublisher American Medical PublishersWeight(grams)...

In Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State, originally published in 1950, Alex Comfort discusses the relationship between crime and power, and traces the mechanisms which may lead to delinquent behaviour by those in office. In the early twentieth...

This engaging text introduces readers to the sociology of cults. Covering the history and current state of cult studies, this book includes topics ranging from doomsday cults and new religious movements through to self-help cults, the cult of celebrity,...

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 *...

In the late 1980s football was in a state of crisis. Falling attendances and a genuine unease among potential spectators about going to live football matches suggested that, without radical changes, the game would soon become a minority spectator sport...

Nature and the Nurturing of Collaboration tells the wondrous story of how the natural forces of biological evolution gave way to the co-evolution of genes and a nurturing culture that gave rise to us. Several million years in the making, collaboration is...

Are the effects of hypnosis real or imagined?Is intelligence determined by nature or nurture?Will ordinary people perform acts of cruelty if ordered to do so by authority figures?Are anorexia and bulimia nervosa forms of depression?Why do some groups...

In presenting eight cases of children ranging in age from three to 16 years, Lewis ties the therapeutic process to the pertinent psychoanalytic, behavioural, existential and family literature. Believing that each of these therapies has value, she argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619426559Author Stephen A LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 185Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 408g

First published in 1931, the underlying assumption of The Will to Live is that of a psychological evolution in which mind is regarded not merely as developing in association with nervous and cerebral development, but as being itself the most important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594549144Author Marcus Lira BrandaoFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 804g

This is the first practitioner-oriented guide to basic psychometrics--the science behind test construction and validation. It can be used as a course text or clinical reference for anyone who needs to select and administer diagnostic tests or review test...

Originally published in 1925, when it was published, this book was intended to give an up to date, concise account of the aim and methods of science with regards to Psychology. It contains chapters on various scientific methods such as the Evolutionary...

The Tyranny of Identity is both a personal and highly interdisciplinary examination of the wide range of factors and disciplines at play in the formation of identity. It takes a novel and unique approach to this through use of metaphor, images, poetry...

The ongoing boom of applications for artificial intelligence (AI) is based on algorithms that were inspired by neuroscience discoveries in the 1960s. This is a timely book to introduce the new discoveries and ideas in neuroscience, for the next wave of...

Now in a revised and updated fifth edition, this gold-standard text and K-8 practitioner resource provides a roadmap for comprehensive literacy instruction informed by the science of reading. Rather than advocating one best approach, the book shows how...

Exposure to stressful life experiences can disrupt key regulatory systems in the body and contribute to a variety of negative health outcomes. This authoritative text takes a biopsychosocial approach to understanding the role of stress in alcohol use...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882145884Author James HillmanFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Spring PublicationsPublisher Spring PublicationsWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Psychologists from nineteen countries in Asia and Oceania report on the expansion of western psychology in the region at both the academic and the professional levels. With its own network of associations, conferences, and journals, the comminity of...

First published in 1939, Lytton combines the essence of Sophocles quote "I was not born to share men's hatred but their love" and draws on the work of Homer Lane to relate it back to Christian philosophy and teachings in this his homage to Christianity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912419432Author Renata SymondsFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

This volume provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on grit, its measurement, manifestation and development. Specifically, it provides a comprehensive and balanced response to critiques associated with the construct within the contemporary positive...

In applying psychology to the field of politics, the eminent British anthropologist and psychologist W.H.R. Rivers deals with social or collective psychology rather than with the psychology of the individual. This choice presents a number of problems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319030490Author Cynthia GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Macmillan Learning

*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2016* The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) have had a major influence on modern thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas...

In the last years of his life, from 1949 to 1951, Wittgensteina s writings focused upon knowledge and certainty (collected together in On Certainty), upon colour concepts (in Remarks on Colour) and upon the relation between the "inner" and...

Beloved for its engaging, conversational style, this valuable book is now in a fully updated second edition that presents the latest developments in longitudinal structural equation modeling (SEM) and new chapters on missing data, the random intercepts...