Psychology category: 48213 books
Ego Psychology and Communication
Theory for the Interview
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Writing in a lively straightforward tone and offering numerous examples, Polansky demonstrates that verbal communication plays a major role in mental health and is essential to preventing and curing emotional disorders. He shows why the inability to achieve effective speech reflects neurosis, interferes...
Revitalizing Political Psychology
The Legacy of Harold D. Lasswell
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2004
The goal of this book is to recapture the diminished roles of affect, psychological needs, and the psychodynamic mechanisms that are crucial for understanding political behavior by explaining and extending the contributions of Harold D. Lasswell, the dominant figure in political psychology in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges. Edited by a leading authority in the field, this volume further establishes critical social psychology as a discipline of study, distinct from mainstream social psychology....
Self, Attitudes, and Emotion Work
Western Social Psychology and Eastern Zen Buddhism Confront Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book is about how Western social psychology interfaces with an Eastern Zen Buddhist perspective. It is neither a purely Zen Buddhist critique of the former, nor is it merely a social psychological interpretation of Zen. Rather, it is an attempt to create common ground between each through the...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 19
Explorations in Self Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The contributors to Explorations in Self Psychology, volume 19 of the Progress in Self Psychology series, wrestle with two interrelated questions at the nexus of contemporary discussions of technique: How "authentic" and relationally invested should the self psychologically informed analyst...
Threats To Optimal Development
Integrating Biological, Psychological, and Social Risk Factors: the Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 27
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Psychology's recent immersion in risk research has introduced a new variant in which the focus is not solely on disease, but also on the effects and consequences produced by the multiple aspects of risk on individual adaptation. Variations in such patterns of adaptation signal the entrance of protective...
by Geoffrey Beattie, Andrew Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This wide-ranging introduction to the psychology of human language use offers a new breadth of approach by breaching conventional disciplinary boundaries with examples and perspectives drawn from many subdisciplines - cognitive and social psychology, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology and sociology....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
The construct ‘‘quality of life (QoL)’’, since the 1980s, when it was introduced, is being used mainly in the context of health problems. Areas of one’s life that contribute to QoL are good physical and mental health, efficient cognitive functioning, social support, being able to meet the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1998
This book takes as a starting point, John Dewey's article, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology, in which Dewey was calling for, in short, the utilisation of systems theories within psychology, theories of behaviour that capture its nature as a vastly-complex dynamic coordination of nested coordinations....
by Tony Cline, Anthea Gulliford, Susan Birch
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Educational Psychology, Second Edition offers a comprehensive overview of how key advances in social, developmental and cognitive psychology impact upon the role of educational psychologists working today. Written by leading researchers, the book also explores controversies and dilemmas in both research...
Validation in Psychology
Research Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Why do we respond to others-both to their physical appearances and to their personalities? What are the social influences on face perception? Current research perspectives on physical appearance by distinguished behavioral scientists from around the world were brought together in a special issue of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume of Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, which is the second under our editorship and the sixteenth of the series, continues the tradi tion of including a broad range of timely topics on the study and treat ment of children and adolescents. Volume 16 includes contributions per taining...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The psychology of aesthetics and the arts is dedicated to the study of our experiences of the visual arts, music, literature, film, performances, architecture and design; our experiences of beauty and ugliness; our preferences and dislikes; and our everyday perceptions of things in our world. The...
The Self in European and North American Culture
Development and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
How diverse or potentially overlapping are the numerous self-models, self-theories, and directions of self-research? It has become clear that the processes associated with the self are complex and diverse, and that many of the approaches associated with the self have been pursued in isolation. Moreover,...