Neuropsychology category: 992 books
by Janna M. Glozman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This work analyzes the interrelation and interdependence between personality changes, which differ in their nature and phenomenology, and disorders of certain aspects of communicative ability. The author's approach is an interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of neuropsychological, psychopathological...
Quest for Answers
A Primer of Understanding and Treating Severe Personality Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1994
Q & A format/discusses the 'as-if' personality/malignant narcissism/projective identification/cumulative trauma/etc.
The Varieties of Orthographic Knowledge
II: Relationships to Phonology, Reading, and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The role of orthography in reading and writing is not a new topic of inquiry. For example, in 1970 Venezky made a seminal contribution with The Structure of English Orthography in which he showed how both sequential redundancy (probable and permissible letter sequences) and rules of letter-sound correspondence...
Time Warped
Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, writer and broadcaster Claudia Hammond explores the mysteries of our perception of time in her book Time Warped.
Why does life seem to speed up as we get older? Why does the clock in your head move at a...
by Alan Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Read the story which made the top 100 in Neuroscience last year, about an unknown but common phobia, written from the view of a layman who suffers from the phobia.
Revival: Nerves and Personal Power (1922)
Some Principles of Psychology as Applied to Conduct and Personal Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The aim of this treatise is to give the public a much needed understanding of those factors in everyday living which on the one hand tend toward nervous weakness, and on the other make for personal power. From the author’s viewpoint, everybody at times suffers from symptoms which are popularly termed...
Dynamic Thinking
A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Dynamic Thinking: A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory introduces the reader to a new approach to understanding cognitive and neural dynamics using the concepts of Dynamic Field Theory (DFT). Dynamic Neural Fields are formalizations of how neural populations represent the continuous dimensions of perceptual...
by Michael T. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The Social Construction of Mental Illness and Its Implications for Neuroplasticity examines how the current concept of mental illness in society informs the dialogic skills and perspectives of psychotherapists. The common interpretation of unconventional behavior as a symptom of illness has marginalized...
by Margaret Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Addresses the flurry of questions about the practical application of neuroscience in clinical treatment.
Recent advances in research in the fields of attachment, trauma, and the neurobiology of emotion have shown that mind, brain, and body are inextricably linked. This new research has revolutionized...
Performing Neurology
The Dramaturgy of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This text provides a study of Jean-Martin Charcot, a founding figure in the history of neurology as a discipline and a colleague of Sigmund Freud. It argues that Charcot’s diagnostic and pedagogic models, explaining both how disease is recognized and described and how to teach the act of neurological...
The Neural Basis of Free Will
Criterial Causation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
A neuroscientific perspective on the mind–body problem that focuses on how the brain actually accomplishes mental causation.
The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific...
Dreams and Myths
A Study in Race Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Karl Abraham investigated child sexual trauma and, like Sigmund Freud, proposed that sexual abuse was common among psychotic and neurotic patients. Furthermore, he argued (1907) that dementia praecox is associated with child sexual trauma, based on the relationship between hysteria and child sexual...
From Sign to Symbol
Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In From Sign to Symbol: Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology, Joseph Newirth describes the evolution of the unconscious from the psychoanalytic concept that reflected Freud’s positivist focus on symptoms and repressed memories to the contemporary structure...