Psychology category: 48213 books
Forensic Psychology
Routes through the system
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This brand new textbook provides a complete course in forensic psychology, covering the criminal justice system, law and legislation, and treatments and outcomes for offenders. It offers rigorous coverage of the major topics: from theoretical concepts and research methods to explaining criminal acts...
Forensic Child Psychology
Working in the Courts and Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
A guide to working effectively with children in the criminal justice system
Uniquely designed to train psychology, criminology, and social work students to work with children in the criminal justice system—both in the courtroom and as clinical clients—Forensic Child Psychology presents...
Phenomenological Psychology
The Dutch School
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Over the past decades many books and essays have been written on phenomeno logical psychology. Some of these publications are historical in character and were designed to give the reader an idea of the origin, meaning, and function of phenom enological psychology and its most important trends....
by Daniel Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A concise overview of the field of psychology—its historical roots, its most influential thinkers, and its role in the modern world.
Psychology is frequently the most popular major on campus, but it can also be the most treacherous. In this guide, Daniel N. Robinson surveys the philosophical...
Conceptual Metaphor in Social Psychology
The Poetics of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
We learn in grade school that metaphor is an ornamental figure of speech reserved for poets. But we now know that it is also a key strategy people use to make sense of the world, from basic concepts like time and causation to the major social issues facing society. In this book, Mark Landau clarifies...
Philosophic Foundations of Genetic Psychology and Gestalt Psychology
A Comparative Study of the Empirical Basis, Theoretical Structure, and Epistemological Groundwork of European Biological Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
XVI Psychologists have, however, shown that what we are primarily aware of is not a succession of sense-data but figures-ground phenomena: Wittgenstein's ambiguous duck-rabbit is merely one such example. They have also drawn our attention to the existence of tertiary qualities in perception, such...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. Covering both experimental and theoretical perspectives, each of the 11 sections is edited by an internationally...
by Jaan Valsiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This Brief aims to provide a theoretically innovative introduction to the methodology of the human sciences. It presents a new version of methodology, as a system of mutually linked acts of creating knowledge where both abstract and concrete features of research are intricately intertwined. It shows...
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology
Volume IV
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
This fourth book in the series continues the tradition of the popular earlier volumes by offering lively and entertaining information about some of contemporary psychology's most illustrious ancestors. The 21 chapters, many of them written by today's most visible and eminent authors, concentrate on...
A History of Psychology
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Offering a fresh, accessible, and global approach to the history of psychology, the fully revised Second Edition of Eric B. Shiraev’s A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective, provides a thorough view of psychology’s progressive and evolving role in society and how its interaction with culture...
Towards Cultural Psychology of Religion
Principles, Approaches, Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The aims pursued in this book are quite modest. The text is not an introduction in the traditional sense to any psychological subdiscipline or field of application, nor does it present anything essentially new. Rather, it shows ‘work in progress’, as it attempts to contribute to an integration...
The Energies of Men (Psychology Revivals)
A Study of the Fundamentals of Dynamic Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
First published in 1932, the original blurb states: "This is a simplified condensation of the author’s two volumes, An Outline of Psychology and An Outline of Abnormal Psychology, which together give a comprehensive survey of the principles and findings of modern psychology. This is designed...
Psychology and Culture
Thinking, Feeling and Behaving in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The increasing globalization of society is causing shifts in social, linguistic, religious, and other cultural differences, which may increase the potential for misunderstandings in communication, the workplace, health care, and education. The new second edition of Psychology and Culture provides...
Principles of Developmental Psychology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Developmental psychology is concerned with the scientific understanding of age-related changes in experience and behaviour, not only in children but throughout the lifespan. The task is to discover, describe, and explain how development occurs, from its earliest origins, into childhood, adulthood,...