Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
Selving
A Relational Theory of Self Organization
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In Selving: A Relational Theory of Self Organization, Irene Fast invokes the basic distinction between the self as "me" and the self as "I" in order to develop a contemporary theory of the self as subject. In a return to Freud's clinical finding that all psychological processes...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Resources for rehabilitation specialists tend to follow a straight line: injury—disability—limitation—intervention. The International Handbook of Occupational Therapy Interventions breaks with this tradition, organized by type of intervention (based on recommendations in the International Classification...
by Warren Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Individual mental efficiency is an absolute prerequisite to any notable personal achievement or any great individual success. Your mental energies are the forces with which you must wage your battles in this world. Are you fully equipped to take a valiant part in the work of the coming years?
The Psychiatrist in the Courtroom
Selected Papers of Bernard L. Diamond, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Over the course of an illustrious career, the late Bernard Diamond established himself as the preeminent forensic psychiatrist of the century. The Psychiatrist in the Courtroom brings together in a single volume Diamond's pivotal contributions to a variety of important issues, including the nature...
The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity
Our Predictive Brain
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Joaquín M. Fuster is an eminent cognitive neuroscientist whose research over the last five decades has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the neural structures underlying cognition and behaviour. This book provides his view on the eternal question of whether we have free will....
Meaning Marketplace Book 1
Meaning Basics
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
This series of booklets will help you identify, nurture, and create meaning in your life. This series declares that it is meaning that makes the world go around. We dedicate our lives to survival, education, earning a living, passions, entertainment, and the pursuit of chocolate, I mean happiness. ...
Body Language
The Signals You Don’t Know You’re Sending, and How To Master Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
From interviews to dates, the boardroom to the stage, being aware of the non-verbal signals you, and others, send can have a huge impact on your relationships and success in life – for better or worse. This fun and friendly guide will show you how to ‘read’ the body language of others, and how...
by Laura Pedrinelli Carrara
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Handbook of psychological exercises to improve your self-knowledgde The book was intended to improve the psychological well-being with oneself, while putting an emphasis on oneself and improving the relationships with oneself and the others. It helps the participant reader because apart from reading,...
by B.A. Weiner, R. Wettstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
I. OVERVIEW Legal Issues in Mental HeaIth Care is aimed at the mental health clinician who provides services on either an inpatient or an outpatient basis. It is written for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and other therapists to help them understand and manage legal issues in...
Trust and Distrust
Sociocultural perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The dynamics of trust and distrust are central to understanding modern society. These dynamics are evident at all levels of society, from the child’s relation to caregivers to the individual’s relation to the state, and they span from taken for granted trusting relationships to highly reflective...
Back To the Beanstalk
Enchantment and Reality for Couples
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Robert Alan Prentky, Ann Wolbert Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Over the past several decades the seeming escalation of crimes involving sexually deviant, coercive, and aggressive behavior has become an increasingly serious problem, manifested in costs to both victims and society at large. The long-term psychological impact of sexual assault on adult and child...
The Reproduction of Evil
A Clinical and Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Why is it that victims of abuse so often become perpetrators, and what can psychoanalysis offer to these survivor-perpetrators, whose criminal conduct seems to transcend the possibilities of empathic psychoanalytic inquiry. In The Reproduction of Evil, Sue Grand engages these deeply troublesome issues...
The Optimal Personality
An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
The terms mental health, maturity, personality integration, self-actualization have been used by psychologists to represent the realm of the ideal or optimal personality. Originally published in 1974, Professor Richard Coan here describes a method of analysing this domain, and examines the important...