Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
The Psychology of Imagination
History, Theory and New Research Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This book offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. Fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity to distance oneself from the here?and?now situation in order to return to it with new possibilities....
Deep Experiencing
Dialogues Within the Self
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This Brief brings together empirical accounts that contribute to the investigation of the cultural phenomena of deep personal experiences. It examines everyday life experiences and its influence on the development of successful social interactions. Issues of silence, the subjective feelings of opportunities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
The Psychology of Music serves as an introduction to an interdisciplinary field in psychology, which focuses on the interpretation of music through mental function. This interpretation leads to the characterization of music through perceiving, remembering, creating, performing, and responding to music.
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Attention in Vision
Perception, Communication and Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Attention in Vision is an important work which aims to identify, address and solve some major problems and issues in the psychology of visual perception, attention and intentional control. The central aim is to investigate how people use their visual perception in the performance of tasks and to explore...
Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders
An Evidence-Based Approach to Enhancing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Mindfulness and Hypnotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders applies a systematic integrative approach, Cognitive Hypnotherapy (CH), to the psychological treatment of anxiety disorders; it demonstrates how simple techniques can be used to create a therapeutic context within which CBT is more effective.
An evidence-based...
Making Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Work, Third Edition
Clinical Process for New Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
"What should I do when a client asks me personal questions?" "How do my client's multiple problems fit together, and which ones should we focus on in treatment?" This engaging text--now revised and updated--has helped tens of thousands of students and novice cognitive-behavioral...
The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking
How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
In this witty and perceptive debut, a former editor at Psychology Today shows us how magical thinking makes life worth living.
Psychologists have documented a litany of cognitive biases- misperceptions of the world-and explained their positive functions. Now, Matthew Hutson shows us that even...
by Jonathan St B. T. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us susceptibile to bias and error. The study of thinking and reasoning goes back to Aristotle, and was one of the first topics to be studied when psychology separated...
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Your Route Out of Perfectionism, Self-Sabotage and Other Everyday Habits with CBT
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Find out how to use CBT techniques in everyday life for emotionally healthy living
What happens to you in life matters less than the way you feel about life; that's the message of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). If you've ever tried to change something about yourself—your mood, your weight,...
by Mark A. Runco, Steven R. Pritzker
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
The first edition of the successful Encyclopedia of Creativity served to establish the study of creativity is a field in itself. Now completely updated and revised in its second edition, coverage encompasses the definition of creativity, the development and expression of creativity across the lifespan,...
The Political Mind
A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
A groundbreaking scientific examination of the way our brains understand politics from a New York Times bestselling author
One of the world 's best-known linguists and cognitive scientists, George Lakoff has a knack for making science make sense for general readers. In his new book, Lakoff...
On Second Thought
Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Our lives are composed of millions of choices, ranging from trivial to life-changing and momentous. Luckily, our brains have evolved a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to quickly negotiate this endless array of decisions. We don’t want to rationally deliberate every choice...
The CBT Anxiety Solution Workbook
A Breakthrough Treatment for Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Panic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
You are stronger than your anxiety! In this important workbook, best-selling authors Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, and Michelle Skeen offer a breakthrough anxiety solution based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you understand and overcome your fears and worries, rather than try to avoid...
by Carolyn Boyes
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Think better. Be happier. Is your style of thinking affecting your feelings? Could you make some basic changes and improve your self-esteem, motivation, and happiness? CBT is already a medically approved method of treating depression, and is now growing in popularity as a self-help mechanism. Need...