Psychology category: 48213 books
Psychology as a Moral Science
Perspectives on Normativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
What does morality have to do with psychology in a value-neutral, postmodern world? According to a provocative new book, everything.
Taking exception with current ideas in the mainstream (including cultural, evolutionary, and neuropsychology) as straying from the discipline’s ethical foundations,...
Introduction to Forensic Psychology
Research and Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Written by authors with extensive experience in the field and in the classroom, Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Research and Application, Fifth Edition, by Curt R. Bartol and Anne M. Bartol, demonstrates how to analyze psychological knowledge and research findings and then apply these findings...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume brings together philosophical perspectives on emotions, imagination and moral reasoning with contributions from neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology, personality theory, developmental psychology, and abnormal psychology.
The book explores what we can learn about...
Cultural Psychology and Its Future
Complementarity in a New Key
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Cultural Psychology is a radical new look in psychology that studies how persons and socialcultural worlds mutually constitute one another. With the increase of globalization and multicultural exchanges, cultural psychology becomes the psychological science for the 21st century. Encounters with others...
Forensic Psychology
Crime, Justice, Law, Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Introduces forensic psychology to students and professionals who want to better understand psychology’s expanding influence on the study of law, crime and criminality
Forensic psychology is a constantly growing discipline, both in terms of student interest and as a profession for graduates....
Cultural Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Pathways to Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book explores how psychoanalysis can enrich and complement sociocultural psychology. It presents theoretical integrations of psychoanalytical notions in the sociocultural framework, analyzes the historical similarities, if not intricacies, of the two fields, and presents papers that have tried...
Visual Methods in Psychology
Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This comprehensive volume provides an unprecedented illustration of the potential for visual methods in psychology. Each chapter explores the set of theoretical, methodological, as well as ethical and analytical issues that shape the ways in which visual qualitative research is conducted in psychology....
Striving for the Whole
Creating Theoretical Syntheses
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This unusual collection explores the development of ideas in psychology's past, and shapes them into a valuable resource for ideas in the discipline's future, with particular emphasis on holistic traditions in psychology. Diriwochter and Valsiner focus on developmental holistic psychology as advocated...
by B. Zeigarnik
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years psychology has considerably expanded and en riched its relations with medical practice, first and foremost with psychiatry. This orientation toward experimental abnormal psy chology has been closely tied to the practical tasks of psychiatry: differential diagnosis, establishment...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 3
Frontiers in Self Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The third volume in the distinguished Progress in Self Psychology series brings together the most exciting issues in a rapidly expanding field. Frontiers in Self Psychology is highlighted by sections dealing with self psychology and infancy and self psychology and the psychoses. Clinical contributions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
In recent years, peace psychology has grown from a utopian idea to a means of transforming societies worldwide. Yet at the same time peacebuilding enjoys global appeal, the diversity of nations and regions demands interventions reflecting local cultures and realities. Peace Psychology in Asia shows...
Ecopsychology: Advances from the Intersection of Psychology and Environmental Protection [2 volumes]
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Ecopsychology: Advances from the Intersection of Psychology and Environmental Protection [2 volumes]
Advances from the Intersection of Psychology and Environmental Protection
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This anthology is a two-volume work that focuses on our relationship with the Earth and our future, examining the crossover between psychology and environmental studies in the emerging fields of ecopsychology and environmental psychology.
Addresses the "hot topic" of today: how psychology...
by Dr. Clyde C. Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Cases and Views from a General Practitioner in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
by Dr. Clyde C. Mayo
A unique text in the field of Industrial and Organizational psychology, Dr. Clyde C. Mayo’s Cases and Views from a General Practitioner in Industrial/Organizational...
Methodologies in Peace Psychology
Peace Research by Peaceful Means
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This volume looks at research methods through the lens of peace studies and peace values. Apart from reviewing established methods from peace psychology, it presents some innovative ideas for conducting research in the area of peace psychology. Many of these methods are drawn from the field, from...