Personality category: 1900 books
Self-Censorship in Contexts of Conflict
Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This groundbreaking volume explores the concept of self-censorship as it relates to individuals and societies and functions as a barrier to peace. Defining self-censorship as the act of intentionally and voluntarily withholding information from others in the absence of formal obstacles, the volumes...
Are We Getting Smarter?
Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The 'Flynn effect' is a surprising finding, identified by James R. Flynn, that IQ test scores have significantly increased from one generation to the next over the past century. Flynn now brings us an exciting new book which aims to make sense of this rise in IQ scores and considers what this tells...
What Is Intelligence?
Beyond the Flynn Effect
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2007
The 'Flynn effect' refers to the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the twentieth century. Does it mean that each generation is more intelligent than the last? Does it suggest how each of us can enhance our own intelligence? Professor Flynn is finally ready to give his own views....
Psychotherapy in an Age of Narcissism
Modernity, Science, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Adopting a friendly but critical approach to the talking therapies, this book places psychotherapy in a social and historical context, exploring its relationship to contemporary culture and recommending a different way of thinking about practice.
by Philip Watkins, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Does happiness matter? What are happy people like? Can people enhance their sense of well-being? One of the most important movements in psychology during the past two decades, positive psychology is a discipline that seeks to understand the factors that contribute the most to a well lived and fulfilling...
Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion. It examines how the prevalence of exhaustion – both as an individual experience and as a broader socio-cultural phenomenon – is manifest in the...
Self and Motivational Systems
Towards A Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
In this sequel to Lichtenberg's Psychoanalysis and Motivation (TAP, 1989), the authors show how their revised theory of motivation provides the foundation for a new approach to psychoanalytic technique. The approach in Self and Motivational Systemsemphasizes a finely honed sensitivity to moment-to-moment...
Orgasmic Bodies
The Orgasm in Contemporary Western Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of masculinities and femininities. Engaging with both science and popular culture it examines the meanings given to orgasmic bodies in contemporary heterosex.
Bisexuality
Theories, Research, and Recommendations for the Invisible Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This pathbreaking volume brings together a diverse body of sexual, behavioral, and social science research on bisexuality. Arguing for a clear, evidence-based definition of bisexuality and standardized measures for assessing sexual orientation, it spotlights challenges that need to be addressed toward...
In Pursuit of Silence
Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A brilliant, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them.
Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day*. In Pursuit of Silence*...
Shaping Social Identities After Violent Conflict
Youth in the Western Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This book examines the identities of young adults in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia. With research drawn from a large multidisciplinary project exploring a potential for reconciliation in post-conflict societies, the authors discuss the interplay between ethnic, religious and national...
by Erik H. Erikson
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1994
Identity: Youth and Crisis collects Erik H. Erikson's major essays on topics originating in the concept of the adolescent identity crisis.
Identity, Erikson writes, is an unfathomable as it is all-pervasive. It deals with a process that is located both in the core of the individual and in the...
Human Behavior
The New Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
The New Synthesis consists of 1) a new understanding of heritability, 2) a new interpretation and understanding of the broad heritability coefficient, 3) a new understanding of the human instincts, 4) a new understanding of normal and abnormal behavior, 5) a new interpretation and understanding of...
Anxiety
5 Little Known Ways to Naturally Fight Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Are you looking for a way to naturally fight anxiety without prescription pills? Is Anxiety a problem you have that has been crippling your life? Is hurting not only hurting you, but your relationship with others? If you have reluctantly answered yes to one or more of the above...