Pathological Psychology category: 903 books
by Rochelle G. K. Kainer
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Collapse of the Self and Its Therapeutic Restoration is a rich and clinically detailed account of the therapeutic restoration of the self, and speaks to the healing process for analysts themselves that follows from Rochelle Kainer's sensitive integration of heretofore dissociated realms of psychoanalytic...
by Zari Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Developing a codependency to a partner who has a narcissistic or psychopathic personality will cause nothing but turmoil in our lives. We stay in the relationship, thinking that we can "fix" this person and love them out of their bad behavior, but the truth is that narcissists - just like...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 12
Basic Ideas Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Volume 12 of the Progress in Self Psychology series begins with reassessments of frustration and responsiveness, optimal and otherwise, by MacIsaac, Bacal and Thomson, the Shanes, and Doctors. The philosophical dimension of self psychology is addressed by Riker, who looks at Kohut's bipolar theory...
by Adele Fabbri
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
The term obsession, in common parlance, means a thought that comes to mind with a certain insistence. Although it is normal that in certain conditions, marked by real difficulties, thinking back with a certain insistence on the particular problem that torments us, obsessions are different from normal...
The Psychopath Whisperer
The Science of Those Without Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A compelling journey into the science and behavior of psychopaths, written by the leading scientist in the field of criminal psychopathy.
We know of psychopaths from chilling headlines and stories in the news and movies—from Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, to Hannibal Lecter and Dexter Morgan....
100 Red Flags in Relationships
Spot Liars, Cheaters, Psychopaths, and Narcissists Before They Spot YOU
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Cheaters, liars, psychopaths, and narcissists are often pathological liars with secret lives. Learn how to identify red flags.
Recognize a cheater before he or she sucks you in.
Avoid relationship nightmares by trusting your gut instinct.
If something doesn't "feel right"...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
The Schreber Case is distinctive from the other case histories in that it's based on the memoirs of a conjectural patient. Schreber was a judge and doctor of law who lived according to a strict set of principles. His nervous illness first manifested itself as hypochondria and insomnia - which he put...
Synesthesia
Psycho-neurologically Approaching a Field Theory Understanding of Schizophrenia via Research of a Non-normative, Non-pathological Syndrome: Synesthesia, and the need for more information
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2012
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In past years the study, control, and understanding of schizophrenia has been greatly hampered by lack of information, inappropriate tools (like no computers of sufficient complexity for handling of compilation and dissemination of data), obviously a lack...
by Stuart Hontree
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Parental alienation is a severe and growing form of pathological parenting and child psychological abuse that inhibits child development, often resulting in poor mental health profiles in childhood and adult life. It is a widespread and effective psychological and legal strategy for establishing total...
by Marquis de Sade
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Originally published in 1800, Crimes of Passion contained eleven stories and an essay on the novel. The present book contains three abridged tales. In “Florville and Courval” we find not only a reinterpretation and elaboration of the Oedipus myth, but an unforgettable illustration of Donatien...
Classifying Psychopathology
Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement.
In this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, including...
by Mauro De Santis
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Humor is a basic tone of affection, and as such is a constant feature of the personality traits of durability and relative independence from the situations and by environmental stimuli, is a mood that varies for the same person from moment to time depending on the thoughts and life situations from...
Anxiety and Its Disorders, Second Edition
The Nature and Treatment of Anxiety and Panic
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This landmark work is indispensable for anyone studying anxiety or seeking to deliver effective psychological and pharmacological treatments. David H. Barlow comprehensively examines the phenomena of anxiety and panic, their origins, and the roles that each plays in normal and pathological functioning....
The Mind Object
Precocity and Pathology of Self-Sufficiency
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
How to Help People Who Have Only Their Minds to Love
Can a person relate to his or her own mind as an object, depend upon it to the exclusion of other objects, idealize it, fear it, hate it? Can a person live out a life striving to attain the elusive power of the mind's perfection, yielding...