Applied Psychology category: 2264 books

For most of us, analyzing who is trustworthy or not, who can be a potential spouse or, on the contrary, a criminal or a psychopath, remains a very difficult task. The common person doesn’t really know how to detect psychopathic or sociopathic traits in others, and much less detect a highly moral...

Attraverso gli scritti più significativi che caratterizzano il lavoro di Adele Nunziante Cesàro – l’autrice che ha approfondito quanto le differenze psicosessuali contribuiscono a formare l’identità di genere dell’uomo e della donna dalle prime fasi della vita –, il volume ripercorre un iter teorico che restituisce valore alla peculiarità dell’universo femminile.

  Observe someone for 5 minutes and "figure them out" -- Know what a person is thinking and feeling just by analyzing them! This book will show you how to do it in five different ways!! 

In Pursuing Perfection, authors Margo Maine and Joe Kelly explore the emotional, social and cultural factors behind the ongoing epidemic of disordered eating and body image despair in adult women at midlife and beyond. Written from a biopsychosocial and feminist perspective, Pursuing Perfection describes...

Better Thinking for Better Chess, Vol. 1, Ed 5, 42 pages Struggling to improve your chess play? Learn how the mind works to elevate your game. Are you having difficulty rising above a novice level of chess despite your best efforts? The problem may lie in the way you think. Correspondence...

Does the sound of other people chewing fill you with rage? Do certain sights and sounds make you crazy when they don’t bother anyone else? If so, you are not alone. Although rarely known, misophonia is quite common, and there is hope.  Are you tired of misophonia ruining your life?  Are...

Today, under pressure from managed care companies as well as from patients who are demanding briefer and more focused treatments, therapists are creatively combining cognitive and psychodynamic approaches and obtaining unprecedented therapeutic results. In this volume, Robert Leahy describes Aaron...

In Who Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream? A Study of Psychic Presences, James Grotstein integrates some of his most important work of recent years in addressing fundamental questions of human psychology and spirituality. He explores two quintessential and interrelated psychoanalytic problems: the...

Psychology is a fascinating subject. It was to be expected that psychology would not only bring long-term techniques, but also short-term ones. And this happened. The science of the mind has discovered several simple tricks for small dilemmas that bother various people around the world. Many of...

More than a hundred years after its founding, psychoanalysis remains influential and controversial far outside its core sphere of activity in the 'clinic'. In a wide range of cultural and social disciplines, psychoanalytic ideas are drawn on to explain human subjectivity and its relationship with the...

Hailed on publication as "an impressive integration of postmodernism and relational psychoanalysis" (James Hansel) and "an intelligent and stimulating account of where the issues of identity, gender, and difference are joined" (Jessica Benjamin), Lynne Layton's Who's That Girl?...

Forced hospitalization of people with mental disorders has long been a critical issue in the mental health services. Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment is the first sustained description and analysis of what happens when `aggressive' treatment becomes `coerced' treatment. Mental health professionals...

Adjudicative competence remains an important topic of research and practice in psychology and law. In the five sections of Adjudicative Competence: The MacArthur Studies, the authors present not only a summary of the research of the MacArthur studies on competence but also an examination of the underlying...

We all want to be good people. But what does this actually mean and how do we move toward this goal? This book examines how the military defines “character,” “virtue,” and becoming a better person. It is NOT meant to be read by only the active duty military. Instead it attempts to take the...