Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
The Meanings of Menopause
Historical, Medical, and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In this scholarly compilation of a major event in the life of every woman, editor Ruth Formanek has adopted an avowedly multidisciplinary mandate: to illuminate menopause as both an event and a stage of life by gathering together a variety of discipline-specific meanings and research perspectives....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Neuroscientific research on emotion has developed dramatically over the past decade. The cognitive neuroscience of human emotion, which has emerged as the new and thriving area of 'affective neuroscience', is rapidly rendering existing overviews of the field obsolete. This handbook provides a comprehensive,...
Psychoanalytic Treatment
An Intersubjective Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach fleshes out the implications for psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adopting a consistently intersubjective perspective. In the course of the study, the intersubjective viewpoint is demonstrated to illuminate a wide array of clinical...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Volume 19 of The Annual of Psychoanalysis turns to the ever-intriguing relationship between "Psychoanalysis and Art." This introductory section begins with Donald Kuspit's scholarly reflections on the role of analysis in visual art and art criticism, and then proceeds to a series of topical studies...
Arguments, Stories and Criminal Evidence
A Formal Hybrid Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
In this book a theory of reasoning with evidence in the context of criminal cases is developed. The main subject of this study is not the law of evidence but rather the rational process of proof, which involves constructing, testing and justifying scenarios about what happened using evidence and commonsense...
Salutogenic organizations and change
The concepts behind organizational health intervention research
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
New and current approaches to organizational health intervention research are the main focus of this comprehensive volume. Each chapter elaborates on the respective intervention researcher’s concept of a healthy organization, his/her approach to changing organizations, and how to research these...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1976. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Meeting of Minds
Mutuality in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this richly nuanced assessment of the various dimensions of mutuality in psychoanalysis, Aron shows that the relational approach to psychoanalysis is a powerful guide to issues of technique and therapeutic strategy. From his reappraisal of the concepts of interaction and enactment, to his examination...
Teenage Pregnancy
The Interaction of Psyche and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Unwed teenage pregnancy is a national problem - and a puzzle for clinicians and social psychologists. For how are we to understand a pattern of behavior that is strongly motivated and yet likely to end in unfortunate outcomes? Moreover, why does the pattern of unwed teenage pregnancy repeat in successivegenerations...
by Marylou Lionells, John Fiscalini, Carola Mann
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A decade in the making, the Handbook is the definitive contemporary exposition of interpersonal psychoanalysis. It provides an authoritative overview of development, psychopathology, and treatment as conceptualized from the interpersonal viewpoint.
Managing Addictions
Cognitive, Emotive, and Behavioral Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
People who suffer from addictive disorders present an incredible challenge to therapists. This book offers hope and specific techniques designed to address the complexity of treatment. Dr. F. Michler Bishop stresses the need for therapists to be flexible, to recognize that different people have different...
Behavioral Economics and Healthy Behaviors
Key Concepts and Current Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The field of behavioural economics can tell us a great deal about cognitive bias and unconscious decision-making, challenging the orthodox economic model whereby consumers make rational and informed choices. But it is in the arena of health that it perhaps offers individuals and governments the most...
Corruption and Norms
Why Informal Rules Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book focuses on the role of norms in the description, explanation, prediction and combat of corruption. It conceives corruption as a ubiquitous problem, constructed by specific traditions, values, norms and institutions. The chapters concentrate on the relationship between corruption and social...
The Texture of Treatment
On the Matter of Psychoanalytic Technique
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In simple, jargon-free language, Herbert Schlesinger sets out to demystify technique, to show how it is based on basic principles that are applicable both to psychoanalysis and to the psychotherapies that derive from it. He has little need for conventional theory; rather, he reframes essential...