Personality category: 1900 books

With the major goal of building an inclusive international community that promotes peace-related research and action, this volume reflects on local, national and global peace engagement and works towards transdisciplinary understandings of the role of psychology in peace, conflict, and violence....

Extrait : "Commençons par la connaissance des corps. Qu'y a-t-il en nous, lorsque par nos sensations nous prenons connaissance d'un corps extérieur, lorsque, par exemple, éprouvant à la main des sensations tactiles et musculaires de froid, de résistance considérable, de contact uniforme et doux,...

Chi siamo noi: quello che vogliamo apparire o quello che ci sentiamo dentro e vogliamo a tutti i costi far sparire? Siamo la maschera colorata che portiamo addosso dalla nascita o quello che non vogliamo neanche noi scavare e che sopravvive e urla dal profondo del nostro animo? Ci rendiamo conto dove...

‘Netnografia’ è un neologismo che contiene al suo interno due parole, ‘net’ ed ‘etnografia’. Come l’etnografia, anche la netnografia studia la genesi e il comportamento dei gruppi umani, ma il suo lavoro si svolge nel mondo cibernetico di internet. Cos'è la Netnografia è un saggio...

Vol. 1 of New Directions in Holistic Brain Balance Neurology as if self-connection mattered. A neurology of connecting body-mind-spirit, of personal choice and personal responsibility. The author does not pretend to be a neurologist. Conventional brain research is taken into account. Topics...

This comprehensive handbook, the first in its field, brings together 106 different contributors. The 38 interrelated but at the same time independent chapters discuss key areas including conceptual frameworks; empirically grounded constructs; intervention strategies and tactics; social systems; designs,...

Waar we boos over zijn geeft ons energie en brengt ons in beweging. In 'Waar verzet jij je tegen?' geven toonaangevende wetenschappers, ondernemers en kunstenaars antwoord op e´e´n vraag. Dit jaar werd de vraag gesteld door Anton Corbijn: 'Waar verzet jij je tegen?' Of je nu dichter, entrepreneur...

This book examines how intellectual disability is affected by stigma and how this stigma has developed. Around two per cent of the world's population have an intellectual disability but their low visibility in many places bears witness to their continuing exclusion from society. This prejudice has...

This book was created to describe the social psychological approach (SPA) to the social work process. It has long been asserted that social workers need to understand and use social psychology in their practice. Yet the literature avail· able to social workers has been limited. There have been no...

In "The Primacy of Structure" Althea Horner argues that effective psychotherapeutic intervention depends on the understanding of clinical symptoms in terms of the patient's underlying character structure. For example, obsessive behavior that functions to hold together a fragile, inadequately...

This book presents a genetic-phenomenological approach of existential psychotherapy, articulating its theoretical underpinnings with principles supported by scientific evidence and concluding with clinical examples.The volume also offers a clear perspective about the relational stances and the therapeutic...

My Twisted Mind is the fictional tale of one body with three female entities. I want to introduce to you Faith, she is a sex addict, call her The Dick Slayer. Indee is the power drivenvital, exuberant, sensual, and flamboyant diva. Jennifer is a career mom-buddy. She is a wife/mother who portrays...

In this book we'll take a look at behavioral patters and see how they affect the roles and dynamics of relationships. It will have a focus on romantic relationships specifically, but the lessons derived from this book can be applied anywhere. On a more basic level we'll be having a look at roles themselves,...

The first of its kind, this book focuses on empirical studies into creative output that use and test the systems approach. The collection of work from cultural studies, sociology, psychology, communication and media studies, and the arts depicts holistic and innovative ways to understand creativity as a system in action.