Pathological Psychology category: 903 books
Lisa and David / Jordi / Little Ralphie and the Creature
Three remarkable stories of children struggling to find themsleves and their places in this world
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1998
Drawing on more than thirty years' experience as a practicing psychiatrist, Dr. Rubin shows the reader the heartrending and hope-filled stories of emotionally disturbed children as they struggle to make it through each day.
Along with two classic stories in the literature of psychology, Lisa...
Errant Selves
A Casebook of Misbehavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
A major addition to the psychoanalytic casebook literature, Errant Selves: A Casebook of Misbehavior is a collection of case studies dedicated to the psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of behavior disorders. The contributors to this volume explore cases of perversion, delinquency, and addiction...
by Seymour Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
This volume is a wonderfully clear and integrated exposition of the clinical thinking that goes into the strategies employed by a pair of co-therapists working in Dr. Hoffman’s model. The case histories are brought together here in a manner that summarizes the philosophy and theory of his work....
by Jennifer King
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Il carattere essenziale del Disturbo di Personalità Antisociale è un modello pervasivo di mancanza di riguardo e di violazione dei diritti degli altri. E' caratterizzato da una inosservanza per gli obblighi sociali e da una mancanza di preoccupazione per i sentimenti degli altri. C'è un forte squilibrio...
by Amy J. Posey, Lawrence S. Wrightsman
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
In its roughly 25 years of existence, the trial consulting profession has grown dramatically in membership, recognition, and breadth of practice. What began as a small activist group of social scientists volunteering their expertise to assist in the defense of Vietnam War protestors has evolved into...
Crime in a Psychological Context
From Career Criminals to Criminal Careers
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
This engaging book presents a contextual psychological interpretation of crime. It covers essential topics including psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, and criminal lifestyle. The author's compelling analysis explains criminal behavior, by showing how the criminal lifestyle is capable of...
Forensic Psychological Assessment in Practice
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Forensic Psychological Assessment in Practice: Case Studies presents a set of forensic criminal cases as examples of a scientist-practitioner model for forensic psychological assessment. The cases involve a number of forensic issues, such as criminal responsibility, violence risk assessment, treatment...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The development of the material in this volume began with a realization by the staff at The Cambridge-Somerville Mental Health and Retardation Center (in the Massachusetts cities of Cambridge and Somerville) that an increasing num ber of people were entering the mental health system with problems...
Madness
Ideas About Insanity
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness. It is aimed at all of those who are curious about this subject whether out of general inquisitiveness or because it is part of a formal course of study.
Using case studies of real people in order to explain,...
Fathers, Fatherhood and Mental Illness
A Discourse Analysis of Rejection
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Fathers, Fatherhood and Mental Illness provides the first book-length study of fathers' experiences of mental illness, arguing that a discourse analytic focus upon the experience of mental illness is relevant both to social scientists and mental health scholars and practitioners.
Les examens de conscience
Récits de vies
Language: French
Release Date: May 23, 2016
L’existence apparaît plus douce à ceux que l’on prend le temps d’écouter...« Simone Weil raconte comment deux prisonniers, enfermés dans des cellules contiguës, apprennent, au bout d’un temps fort long, à se parler en donnant de petits coups sur le mur. "Le mur est ce qui les sépare,...
The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 15
Essays in Honor of Melford E. Spiro
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Volume 15 features Melford Spiro's "Culture and Human Nature" and "The internalization of Burmese Gender Identity" along with an interview of Spiro by B. Kilbourne and S. Bolle. Additional topics include children's fantasy life in Papua New Guinea (F. Poole); a psychoanthropological...
The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 14
Essays in Honor of Paul Parin
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Volume 14 includes chapters on the psychoanalysis of political commitment (P. Parin); Jews and homosexuals as strangers (P. Parin); the analogous tasks of the psychoanalyst and the ethnographer (M. Gehrie); cultic elements in early Christianity (W. Meissner); Jewish apocalyptists (D. Merkur); creationist...
Une si longue vie
Comprendre et accompagner le très grand âge
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
L'ultime quête de sens des personnes âgées.À quoi pensent donc les personnes très, très vieilles, qui donnent parfois l’impression de ne plus rien attendre de la vie ? C’est la question que pose ce livre. L’auteur y propose un regard innovant sur ceux qu’il appelle « les arpenteurs du...