Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
Naissance et connaissance
La cognition néonatale
Language: French
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Quelles compétences neuropsychologiques sont acquises ou innées ?De quelles compétences psychologiques dispose le nouveau-né humain ? La question n'a cessé de préoccuper les psychologues du 20e siècle. Elle s'inscrit dans la problématique encore débattue de l'inné et de l'acquis, et est cruciale...
Unhappiness, Sadness and 'Depression'
Antidepressants and the Mental Disorder Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This book examines existing treatments, legislation and research methodology of depression and exposes their limitations, championing psycho-social support as an alternative. Depression, affecting 350 million people according to the World Health Organisation, is almost invariably diagnosed by the...
Masochism
Current Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Just as psychoanalytic interest in masochism dates from the earliest days of psychoanalysis, the various approaches to its understanding have reflected the developmental vicissitudes of psychoanalytic theory as it moved from its early focus on instinct to considerations of psychic structure and oedipall...
When the Body Is the Target
Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2002
In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr. Sharon K. Farber provides an invaluable resource for the mental health professional who is struggling to understand self-harm and its origins. Using attachment theory to explain how addictive connections to pain and suffering develop, she discusses various...
Multidisciplinary Management of Chronic Pain
A Practical Guide for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
"This book is a 'must have' resource in every physician/clinician practice setting."--Martin Grabois, M.D., Professor of PM&R, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,TX.
Dr. Vasudevan draws upon an accumulated reservoir of clinical expertise to provide readers with an up-to-date...
Parents as Therapeutic Partners
Are You Listening to Your Child's Play?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
This book teaches parents how to conduct play therapy with their own young children. Teaching parents to be play therapists enhances the efforts of the mental health professional, who now becomes a consultant to the parent-therapist.
Trancework
An Introduction to the Practice of Clinical Hypnosis
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
For nearly four decades, Trancework has been the definitive textbook for thousands of professionals undergoing training in the art and science of clinical hypnosis. Now in its 5th edition, this classic text continues its legacy of encouraging sound clinical practice based in established scientific...
by Richard A. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
A comprehensive treatise on the dynamic and adaptive problems which children and families encounter in their experiences of separation and divorce. The book offers guidelines for therapeutic treatment of these problems.
The Mark of Cain
Psychoanalytic Insight and the Psychopath
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Mark of Cain makes available for the first time the accumulated psychoanalytic understanding of the psychopathic mind. Editor Reid Meloy, a leading authority on the psychology of the psychopath, has brought together in a single collection the most historically important psychoanalytic papers on...
Portraits of the Artist
Psychoanalysis of Creativity and its Vicissitudes
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Gedo's pathbreaking exploration of the psychology of creativity incorporates first-hand material drawn from his extensive clinical work with artists, musicians, and other exceptionally creative individuals. Using this body of clinical knowledge as conceptual anchorage, he then offers illuminating...
Beginnings
The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
How does the therapist begin psychotherapy? How, that is, does she conceptualize the needs of the patient while simultaneously enlisting him or her as an active partner in formulating an individualized working plan? And how should supervisors teach the skills needed to make the intake procedure...
Early Development and Leadership
Building the Next Generation of Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Today we often look to our leaders in business, government, or the social sector, to make effective decisions in a complex world. Whether they are asked what steps to take to improve competitiveness in a global economy or to make tough ethical choices, well-trained leaders are critical to organizational...
Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat
Clinial and Theoretical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The analytic literature has heretofore been silent about the issues inherent in the nuclear threat. As a groundbreaking exploration of new psychological terrain, Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat will function as a source book for what, it is hoped, will be the continuing effort of analysts and...
Motivating Cooperation and Compliance with Authority
The Role of Institutional Trust
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This volume explores the various ways in which trust is thought about and studied in contemporary society. In doing so, it aims to advance both theoretical and methodological perspectives on trust. Trust is an important topic in this series because it raises issues of both motivation and emotion....