Personality category: 1900 books
Trends in Youth Development
Visions, Realities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
MOVING THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT MESSAGE: TURNING A VAGUE IDEA INTO A MORAL IMPERATIVE Peter L. Benson and Karen Pittman THE CONTAGION OF AN IDEA In the past fifteen years, countless programs, agencies, funding initiatives, profes sionals, and volunteers have embraced the term "youth development....
by John G. Bruhn
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Many of our current social problems have been attributed to the breakdown or loss of community as a place and to the fragmentation of connections due to an extreme value of individualism in the Western world, particularly in the United States. Not all scholars and researchers agree that individualism...
Cracking Psychology
You, this book & the science of the mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Learn all about the history of psychology, the theories that shaped society and the experiments that changed the world - with biographies of the most influential psychologists of our times and insight into fascinating psychological phenomena, such as the Freudian Slip and False Memory.
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More-than-Human Sociology
A New Sociological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
More-than-Human Sociology is a call for a bolder, more creative sociology. Olli Pyyhtinen argues that to make sociology responsive to life in the 21st century we need a new sociological imagination, one that addresses connectivity, understands the world in which we live as both a human and non-human...
Portraits of the Artist
Psychoanalysis of Creativity and its Vicissitudes
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Gedo's pathbreaking exploration of the psychology of creativity incorporates first-hand material drawn from his extensive clinical work with artists, musicians, and other exceptionally creative individuals. Using this body of clinical knowledge as conceptual anchorage, he then offers illuminating...
by Milton Rokeach
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward his family;...
Nelson, Hitler and Diana
Studies in Trauma and Celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Clinical psychologist Richard Ryder approaches three iconic celebrities - Horatio Nelson, Adolph Hitler, and Diana Princess of Wales - as though they were his patients and presents a short psycho-biography of each. Beneath their obvious differences he finds striking similarities in their backgrounds...
Combat Stress Reaction
The Enduring Toll of War
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This highly readable text details the findings of an exhaustive series of studies of Israeli combat veterans, documenting the effects of combat stress reaction on mental and physical health, social interaction, and military effectiveness. It provides mental health professionals, trauma victims, and...
by Normand R. Bernier
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
When Professor John Robis becomes a subject in a secretive sensory-input experiment, he doesnt anticipate that he will enter an inter-dimensional portal more mysterious than a black hole. Crossing the chasm between matter and spirit, and brain and mind, he discovers a world inhabited by mindlings, beings...
The Lewin Legacy
Field Theory in Current Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I have attended quite a few conferences and meetings devoted to the ideas of Kurt Lewin. Among these the 1984 conference at Temple was out standing for its high quality. What made it so successful? Several things. The conference included a stimulating mix of generations. The first generation of...
Happiness and Place
Why Life Is Better Outside of the City
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
This book is about places - cities, suburbs and towns - and happiness of people living there. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Okulicz-Kozaryn examines the relations between human happiness and the infrastructure of the places they live. This thought-provoking book argues for the overlooked idea that we are happiest in smaller areas.
Frontiers of Motivational Psychology
Essays in Honor of John W. Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Psychological Journey To and From Loneliness
Development, Causes, and Effects of Social and Emotional Isolation
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2019
There are three universal experiences that we cannot escape: loneliness, illness, and death. The Psychological Journey To and From Loneliness addresses what was termed the plague of the 21st century--loneliness. Loneliness is stigmatized in our society, so untold number of people walk around lonely,...
by M. Regis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
This book seeks to re-define the role of fantasy in human life by overturning mainstream psychology's understanding of daydreams as being task-distracted mind wandering by proposing that all waking fantasies function to transform mood states into specific emotional reactions.