Personality category: 1900 books
Action in Social Context
Perspectives on Early Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This is a book about the development of action and skill in the first years of life. But it differs in an important way from most past treatments of the subject. The present volume explores how the development of ac tion is related to the contexts, especially the social ones, in which actions function....
Eros and Chaos
The Sacred Mysteries and Dark Shadows of Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
A provocative book that reminds us that our soul's primary longing is for love and then explores that longing. Goodchild explains that our most important task is the growth of our consciousness and that this cannot be accomplished apart from an awareness of the complexities of love and its shadows....
Human Adaptation to Extreme Stress
From the Holocaust to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book is one additional indication that a new field of study is emerging within the social sciences, if it has not emerged already. Here is a sampling of the fruit of a field whose roots can be traced to the earliest medical writings in Kahun Papyrus in 1900 B.C. In this document, according to...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Eine Masse ist nach Freud ein "provisorisches Wesen, das aus heterogenen Elementen besteht, die sich für einen Augenblick miteinander verbunden haben." Er bezieht sich in seinem Text stark auf die Schriften des Soziologen und Psychologen Gustave Le Bon und referiert zu Beginn auch im Kapitel...
Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking
Why the Differences Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking shines an unforgiving light on popular and lucrative ‘miraculous’ practices that promise to offer answers during times of trouble. Throughout the book, the authors unfold the fallacies underlying these practices, as well as consumers’...
Social Deviance
Testing a General Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Based upon Ajit Maan's groundbreaking theory of Internarrative Identity, this collection focuses upon redefining self, slave narrative, the black Caribbean diaspora, and cyberspace to explore the interconnection between identity and life experience as expressed through personal narrative.
Psychosocial Imaginaries
Perspectives on Temporality, Subjectivities and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Psychosocial studies challenges the traditions of psychology and sociology from a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective. The book reflects this agenda in its varied theoretical and empirical strands, producing a newly contextualised and restless body of understanding of how 'psychic' and 'social' processes intertwine.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender combines cutting edge research to provide a thorough overview of all the normative - and many of the less common - sexualities, genders and relationship forms alongside psychological and intersectional areas relating to sexuality and gender.
Reflecting on Cosmetic Surgery
Body image, Shame and Narcissism
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Cosmetic surgery represents an extreme form of modern grooming. It is the fastest growing medical specialty, yet misconceptions abound about those who undertake it and their reasons for doing so. With a grounded approach, engaging 30 women through in-depth interview, this study explores how they chose...
Location-Based Social Media
Space, Time and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book extends current understandings of the effects of using locative social media on spatiality, the experience of time and identity. This is a pertinent and timely topic given the increase in opportunities people now have to explicitly and implicitly share their location through digital and...
The Self-Concept
European Perspectives on its Development, Aspects, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the Preface: "The purpose of this book is to present the state-of-the-art of the study of the self-concept in Eastern and Western Europe. It offers an overview of the type of questions, points of emphasis, employed methodologies, and major findings in the various European countries... while...
by Claude Santoy
Language: French
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Graphologue diplômée, l’auteur transmet ici les rudiments de sa spécialité et explique comment cette science peut contribuer à une connaissance de la personnalité des individus. À l’aide de nombreux exemples, elle livre ses clés d’interprétation au lecteur.
by M. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Modern men the world over are becoming increasingly fascinated with their image, spending more of their disposable income on beautification products and services. This book examines 'metrosexuality', highlighting the negotiation and construction of masculinities and sexualities in the twenty-first century.