Personality category: 1900 books

Since the mid-1980s, the psychology of liberation movement has been a catalyst for collective and individual change in communities throughout Latin America, and beyond; and recent political developments are making its powerful, transformative ideas more relevant than ever before. Psychology of Liberation:...

Following up on his groundbreaking 1990 work Sampling Normal and Schizophrenic Inner Experience, Dr. Hurlburt delineates the development of his descriptive sampling method across numerous case studies of depressed, anxious, bulimic, and borderline personalities. Though controversial, the method effectively...

This book analyzes the reasons of spontaneous transformation in self-built houses in the context of developing countries. Recognizing Housing Transformation as a natural phenomenon, the book focuses on self-built houses in the city of Dhaka. Firstly, it explains the explicit reasons behind spontaneous...

ARE YOU READY TO BECOME APHA MALE AND LIVE LIFE ON YOUR OWN TERMSDo you sometimes feel like you aren't in control of your life?

In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions. This collection examines surveillance as it is portrayed in art, literature, film and popular culture, and makes the connection between our sense of...

The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication gathers together leading nonverbal communication scholars from around the world to offer insight into a range of issues within the nonverbal literature with the aim to rethink current approaches to the subject.

This book addresses how best to meet everyday challenges. The author focuses on how to think and act differently about what we do as we face challenges, and how to assess each situation as one of challenge rather than threat or harm because we have the strategies to cope. Spanning eleven chapters,...

Psychology's contribution to health research and clinical practice continues to grow at a phenomenal pace. In this book a global and multidisciplinary selection of outstanding academics and clinicians focus on the psychological well-being and positive health of both children and families in order to 'depathologise' mental disorders.

This eye-opening text brings together research from behavioral science, neuroscience, and other fields to make a cogent case for emotions acting as a practical framework for living our lives. A dozen basic emotions are analyzed in terms of what causes them, how they change thoughts and behaviors,...

This volume discusses prime topics relevant to the practice of short -term psychiatric occupational therapy.

This book challenges the standard view that creativity comes only from within an individual by arguing that creativity also exists ‘outside’ of the mind or more precisely, that the human mind extends through the means of action into the world. The notion of ‘distributed creativity’ is...

Wer auf umkämpften Märkten das Interesse der Konsumenten wecken will, muss Botschaften emotional gestalten und auf neuen Wegen kommunizieren. Diese Erlebniskommunikation ist allgegenwärtig geworden. In dem Buch stellen Experten praxisrelevante und wissenschaftlich fundierte Erkenntnisse zu den...

Offering a unique set of case studies that invites readers to question and reimagine the concept of community engagement,  this collected work provides an overview and analysis of numerous, creative participatory research methods designed to improve well-being at both the individual and societal...

"Vor dem Fliegen keine Angst" ist eine Ratgeber Lektüre welche sich mit der Angst vor dem Fliegen befasst. Die Publikation wurde nach bestem wissen recherchiert und erstellt. Sie weist die Uhrasche der Furcht und deren Auswirkungen auf. Durch viele wertvolle Fakten wird dargestellt, dass die Angst...