Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up To Be
A Journey of Discovery, Snow and Jazz in the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
What if you spent years of your life seeking spiritual enlightenment, but were looking in the wrong place over a long time? It’s happening right now to millions of seekers around the world. That’s why Dr. Robert Forman has written his revolutionary book. Told in often poetic prose, it offers new...
by Paz Orellana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Para los occidentales, la muerte es el último tabú. Tanto, que no sabemos siquiera despedir a nuestros seres más queridos. Ceremoniosamente, dejamos que se marchen tras una liturgia en la que nadie nos enseña a olvidar ni a recordar. Más tarde, el luto se nos echa encima como una losa implacable...
by Freud Sigmund
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), père de la psychanalyse, est né le 6 mai 1856 à Freiberg en Moravie. Après avoir fait des études de médecine à l'Université de Vienne, Freud accomplit un stage à Paris, dans le service Dr. Charcot, spécialiste...
by Alfred Binet
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Depuis une quinzaine d’années la psychologie est entrée dans une ère nouvelle. Cette ère date approximativement de 1878, époque doublement importante pour la psychologie, puisque c’est celle où, en Allemagne, M. Wundt a ouvert le premier laboratoire de psychologie expérimentale, celle aussi...
by Alfred Binet
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Alfred Binet (Alfredo Binetti), né le 8 juillet 1857 à Nice et mort le 18 octobre 1911 à Paris, est un pédagogue et psychologue français. Il est connu pour sa contribution essentielle à la psychométrie.
En 1900, Binet fut le premier savant à...
The Other Side of Normal
How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
In this enthralling work of popular science, respected Harvard psychiatrist Jordan Smoller addresses one of humankind’s most enduring and perplexing questions: What does it mean to be “normal?” In The Other Side of Normal, Smoller explores the biological component of normalcy, revealing the...
Inner Work
Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
From Robert A. Johnson, the bestselling author of Transformation, Owning Your Own Shadow, and the groundbreaking works He, She, and We, comes a practical four-step approach to using dreams and the imagination for a journey of inner transformation. In Inner Work, the renowned Jungian analyst offers...
Connecting through Music with People with Dementia
A Guide for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
For people with dementia, the world can become a lonely and isolated place. Music has long been a vital instrument in transcending cognitive issues; bringing people together, and allowing a person to live in the moment. Connecting through Music with People with Dementia explains how a caregiver can...
Finding Kansas
Living and Decoding Asperger's Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
All I want is someone to care, to know, to understand. And maybe, for a brief moment, I will be free...
Finding Kansas is a memoir like no other, written by an unlikely author who at first never dreamed he would find even one reader. When he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at age 20,...
The Nostalgia Factory
Memory, Time and Ageing
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Staring at the Sun
Overcoming the Terror of Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much...
Becoming a Tiger
The Education of an Animal Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
From the co–author of the New York Times bestseller When Elephants Weep comes a book that uses true stories backed by scientific research to explore the way young animals discover their worlds and learn how to survive.
How does a baby animal figure out how to get around in the world? How...
Supernormal
The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity.
Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness...
Reflective Thinking in Educational Settings
A Cultural Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This volume examines the role that culture plays in the acquisition of cognitive, linguistic, and social skills. Taking reflective thinking as a central analytical concept, the contributors investigate the role of personal reflection in a series of mental activities, including the creation of social...