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C G JUNG & THE SIOUX TRADITIONS
: Dreams, Visions, Nature & the Primitive
[Vine Deloria, Jr]
While visiting the United States, C G Jung visited the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, where he spent several hours with Ochwiay Biano, Mountain Lake, an elder at the Pueblo. This encounter impacted Jung psychologically, emotionally, and intellectually, and had a sustained influence on his theories and understanding of the psyche. Dakota Sioux intellectual and political leader, Vine Deloria Jr., began a close study of the writings of C. G. Jung over two decades ago, but had long been struck by certain affinities and disjunctures between Jungian and Sioux Indian thought. He also noticed that many Jungians were often drawn to Native American traditions. This book, the result of Deloria's investigation of these affinities, is written as a measured comparison between the psychology of C. G. Jung and the philosophical and cultural traditions of the Sioux people. Deloria constructs a fascinating dialogue between the two systems that touches on cosmology, the family, relations with animals, visions, voices, and individuation.
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226pp,
155x230mm,
August 2009;
PB,
£21.99,
1882670612:9781882670611
, AtlasBooks (Spring Journal Books)
} |
 |
ESSAYS OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
[Toni Wolff]
The woman at Jung's side and ear was undisputably unique, creative and original. But her written works rarely made it into print. Why was that? What were her contributions? Here are some of her finest writings translated into English for the first time with commentaries.
{
June 2010;
PB,
£31.99,
3856306234:9783856306236
, Daimon Verlag
} |
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IMAGINATION & MEDICINE
: The Future of Healing in an Age of Neuroscience
[Stephen Aizenstat & Robert Bosnak (eds)]
In this ground-breaking collection of essays, medical scientists in a number of fields join with practitioners from the fields of non-Western medicine -- the Asklepieia, body/soul therapies, and dreamwork -- to explore the intimate relationship between imagination and physical health. By looking at medical science, these scholars, physicians, and healers offer their vision of what medical treatment and psychotherapy might look like in the future. Artists and architects with expertise in health care also describe and present new designs for healing centres that bring together current scientific knowledge and age-old healing practices. This collection will be of great interest to those looking to the future in the fields of therapy, medicine, and the healing professions.
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217pp,
155x230mm,
August 2009;
PB,
£20.99,
1882670620:9781882670628
, AtlasBooks (Spring Journal Books)
} |
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NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF THE SENSE OF AGENCY
[Michela Balconi]
All living system self-regulates, or, within any living system, there needs to be communication between parts of that system. This can include a unit as small as a cell, a plant, or animal, or even more complex organism. For example, my systems are regulating my temperature: regulation is a property of the living system. Secondly, in order to act it is necessary for organisms to be able to distinguish between self and other, whatever this ability is learned or as part of the process of action. The predominant account on explaining the sense of agency of our own actions is the ''central monitoring theory" or ''comparator model" that postulate a monitoring of central and peripheral signals arising as a consequence of the execution of an action. Moreover, the simulation theory was considered in alternative to the comparator perspective. Secondly, the contribution of body representation for agency was explored, taking into account the significance of proprioceptive feedback for self-agent attribution. Finally, the neural correlates of action and agent representation were considered in the light of new empirical results.
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121pp,
155x230mm,
March 2010;
HB,
£65.99,
1608763587:9781608763580
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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PLACE OF HEALING
: Working with Nature & Soul at the End
[Michael Kearney]
In this companion volume to Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing palliative care specialist Dr. Michael Kearney demonstrates that while the medical model has undoubted strengths in easing pain, it is limited in its ability to alleviate the psychological and spiritual suffering that often accompanies terminal illness. Complementing physical treatment with such depth approaches as dream-work, poetry, divination, and a revitalised connection with nature, Kearney allows us to begin to integrate scientific and psychological metaphors. Through research and imaginative reconstructions of the mythology and rites of ancient Greek Asklepian healing, Kearney helps us envision a way of recognising and caring for the soul in its most critical moments. He offers suggestions for workshop activities along with case histories from his own experience. He concludes by proposing a new model for the healing of suffering which draws on the best practices of both the medical and Asklepian traditions.
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292pp,
155x230mm,
August 2009;
PB,
£19.99,
1882670582:9781882670581
, AtlasBooks (Spring Journal Books)
} |
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PSYCHOLOGY OF DECISION MAKING
[Paul M Garrison (ed)]
In a fast-moving world, the necessity of making decisions, and preferably good ones, has become even more difficult. One reason is the variety and number of choices perhaps available which often are not presented or understood. Alternatives are often unclear and complex paths to them confusing and misleading. Thus the process of decision making itself requires analysis on an ongoing basis. Decision making is often made based on cultural factors whereas the best alternative might be quite different. The subject touches ethics aspects as well as psychological considerations. This book presents important research on the psychology of decision making.
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244pp,
180x260mm,
December 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
1600218695:9781600218699
, Nova Science Publishers
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STUDENT'S A-Z OF PSYCHOLOGY
[K Grievem V van Deventer & M Mojapelo-Batka]
This book is a response to the requirements of the modern learning environment, and is suited to an introductory-level course in psychology. It provides the core psychological knowledge traditionally required for a first course in psychology as well as information on specific skills-based topics. As an alphabetically arranged resource, it is an easy-to-use companion for the entry-level student of psychology.
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354pp,
155x230mm,
October 2009;
PB,
£15.50,
0702171603:9780702171604
, Juta Publishing (Academic)
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WHAT PHILOSOPHERS SAY COMPARED WITH WHAT PSYCHOLOGISTS FIND IN DISCERNING VALUES
: How Wise People Interpret Life
[Dolores Pushkar, Sheila Mason, Andrew Burr, Sarah Etezadi & Tracy Lyster]
Psychologists and philosophers have both asked a fundamental question about the human experience -- what is the best way to live -- but have employed different methods of inquiry. Psychological research into this question has taken the form of empirical investigations in three main domains: (1) how wise and competent people live their lives; (2) the values that are embodied in the actions of wise people; and (3) the psychological benefits that come from following different values. Philosophical methods of inquiry, based on appeals to lived experience as presented anecdotally, through literature, and through analysis at the conceptual level, provide complementary ways of understanding wisdom and the values embedded therein. This chapter provides an integrative review combining empirical research related to wisdom and its inherent values with an analysis of wisdom and values from the philosophical tradition with a focus on Aristotelian virtue theory. The content includes both reviews of relevant literature and results from original data sets, illustrates the values inherent in both the psychological and philosophical approaches, and highlights the commonalities as well as current differences between these two methods of inquiry.
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55pp,
155x230mm,
March 2010;
PB,
£35.99,
1608766608:9781608766604
, Nova Science Publishers
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ADOLESCENT SCHIZOPHRENIA
[James T Nillinghouse & Robert P Trotman (eds)]
Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder that impacts a broad range of a person's social and developmental functioning. Until the recent past, most of the research done on schizophrenia did not include children or adolescents who suffer from the disorder. During adolescence, important changes take place in brain development. These changes make adolescence a period of both vulnerability and opportunity. Emergence of psychosis and schizophrenia may be associated with abnormal brain development during adolescence. This book discusses the findings of studies that focus on abnormal brain development during the premorbid period of psychosis and schizophrenia. Cognitive neuroscience constructs of visuospatial memory and working memory are associated with adult- and adolescent-onset schizophrenia. This book reviews the existing literature on the topic and explores the nature of and association between visuospatial memory in adolescent onset schizophrenia. The prevalence of psychotic symptoms in the general population, particularly in children and adolescents, is also explored. The significance of psychotic symptoms in relation to psychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety, and its relation to social factors, such as childhood abuse is examined. To deal with schizophrenic young patients in a hospital, psychoanalytical psychotherapeutic "teamwork" is reviewed. The transference relation between patient and therapist, and what it entails, is also discussed.
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198pp,
180x260mm,
May 2009;
HB,
£107.50,
1606923706:9781606923702
, Nova Science Publishers
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NEUROPSYCHOLOGY WITHIN THE INPATIENT REHABILITATION ENVIRONMENT
[Samuel T Gontkovsky & Charles J Golden (eds)]
Neuropsychology is a specialised area within the larger field of psychology, emerging from the pioneering work of early comparative and physiological psychologists interested in the central nervous system mechanisms underlying behaviour. Although often described simply as the study of brain-behaviour relationships, neuropsychology is far more complex than suggested by this basic definition. At minimum, a thorough understanding of neuropsychology rests upon a requisite foundation in anatomy, biology, chemistry, physiology, and, of course, psychology. Furthermore, technological advances during the past few decades, and especially the past few years, that now permit more direct and precise investigations of brain structure and function through neuroimaging procedures have served to increase the neuropsychological literature dramatically, thereby necessitating the acquisition by neuropsychologists of a basic knowledge in engineering and physics that allows for appropriate comprehension and evaluation of the published literature in this relatively new domain.
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510pp,
180x260mm,
October 2008;
HB,
£65.99,
1604565292:9781604565294
, Nova Science Publishers
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PERCEIVED IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE ON ADULT RELATIONSHIP PARTNERS
[Noelle S Wiersma]
Recently, increasing research and clinical attention has been directed toward the concerns of adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Nonetheless, the relationship partners of these individuals have been largely overlooked in the trauma literature. It has been suggested that partners represent "secondary victims" who may experience significant distress as a result of their vicarious encounter with the trauma sustained by the primary survivor. These speculations, however, have been based almost exclusively on informal clinical observations, predominantly of males as adjunct participants in the therapy of female partners who have been raped in adulthood after their relationships with their partners were already established. Given these deficits, the present qualitative study investigated the perceived impact of the child sexual abuse experienced by female primary survivors on their current relationship partners. Six female survivors and their corresponding relationship partners participated in individual interviews of approximately 2 hours duration, during which they were asked to share their perceptions of the sequelae of the childhood sexual abuse on the partners as secondary survivors. Transcribed data were analysed using the open and axial coding procedures of Strauss and Corbin's (1990) grounded theory method. Results consisted of emergent themes outlining the potential affective, cognitive, self-perceptual, somatic, sexual, academic/career, and social sequelae that may be encountered by the adult relationship partners of women who were sexually abused in childhood.
{
100pp,
155x230mm,
October 2008;
PB,
£24.50,
1604569387:9781604569384
, Nova Science Publishers
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SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH PROGRESS
[Daniel J Walker & William Green (eds)]
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which the interpretation of reality is abnormal. Psychosis is a symptom of a disordered brain. Approximately 1 percent of the population world-wide develops schizophrenia during their lifetime. Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency, the disorder often appears earlier in men, usually in the late teens or early twenties, than in women, who are generally affected in the twenties to early thirties. People with schizophrenia often suffer symptoms such as hearing internal voices not heard by others, or believing that other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. The current evidence concerning the causes of schizophrenia is a mosaic. It is quite clear that multiple factors are involved. These include changes in the chemistry of the brain, changes in the structure of the brain, and genetic factors. Viral infections and head injuries may also play a role. New molecular tools and modern statistical analyses allow focusing in on particular genes that might make people more susceptible to schizophrenia by affecting, for example, brain development or neurotransmitter systems governing brain functioning. State-of-the-art imaging techniques are being used to study the living brain. They have recently revealed specific, subtle abnormalities in the structure and function of the brains of patients with schizophrenia. In other imaging studies, early biochemical changes that may precede the onset of disease symptoms have been noted, prompting examination of the neural circuits that are most likely to be involved in producing those symptoms. This book presents new and important research in the field.
{
261pp,
180x260mm,
September 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
160456637X:9781604566376
, Nova Science Publishers
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TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
: Laboratory Evaluations & Interventions
[Luciano L'Abate (ed)]
The aim of this new and important book is to put together under one cover various types of laboratory practices that pair clinical practice with research using standard operating procedures (SOP'S) in evaluations and interventions. The Internet has changed the way psychological evaluations and interventions are going to be delivered in the not too distant future. The chaotic nature of evaluations and interventions in face-to-face practices (thousands of tests and 400 different psychotherapies) will become even more chaotic when practiced online. It is important, therefore, to rely more and more on standardised, uniform practices, SOPs that will assure that those practices go hand in hand with research. Rather than research and practice going along two separate tracks, as it has happened in the past and is still happening in the present, the laboratory method will allow for both practice and research to go along the same track, hand in hand, rather than separately.
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414pp,
180x260mm,
February 2008;
HB,
£65.99,
1604560622:9781604560626
, Nova Science Publishers
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BODY IMAGE DEVIATION IN CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
[Reiko Koide & Akira Tamaoka]
Body image aberration in schizophrenia was earlier conceived as delusional and hallucinatory symptoms. However, perceptions of schizophrenia have changed dramatically, especially with the concept of negative symptoms in the 1980s and in the 1990s, to include the neurocognitive aspects of schizophrenia. Deviations in schizophrenics' body image from the standard underlying various behaviours or allegations concerning the body should be now refocused. In this book, using the Body Image Questionnaire (BIQ), comprised of three hypothetical components, anatomical, functional and psychological, attempts were made to resolve some primary questions. They were (1) whether or not there is any related clinical characteristics to schizophrenic body image aberration, (2) whether there are aberrant components of body image specific to schizophrenia, (3) whether or not there is unique link between depression and body image in schizophrenia.
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82pp,
155x230mm,
November 2008;
PB,
£24.50,
1604566558:9781604566550
, Nova Science Publishers
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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN THE MEDIAL SETTING
: Unmasking & Managing the Difficult Patient
[Randy A Sansone, MD & Lori A Sansone, MD]
This book provides the reader with a general overview of borderline personality including: (a) a clinical definition of the disorder; (b) epidemiology (eg: prevalence, gender-specific characteristics, ethnic/geographic variation, associated clinical features such as multiple comorbid medical and psychiatric diagnoses); (c) etiology (i.e., a multi-determined disorder with strong clinical associations with childhood trauma); (d) psychological themes (e.g., particularly the evolving role of victimhood from childhood through adulthood); (e) diagnosis (i.e., criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the Self-Harm Inventory, the borderline subscale of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4, and the Mclean Screening Inventory for Borderline Personality Disorder); (f) the classic presentation in the psychiatric setting compared with the "medicalized" presentation in the medical setting (the truly unique portion of the book, which focuses on medically self-defeating behaviours, somatic preoccupation, chronic pain syndromes including fibromyalgia, multiple somatic diagnoses, multiple drug sensitivities/allergies, and disability); and (g) general treatment principles in the medical setting.
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158pp,
180x260mm,
February 2008;
HB,
£74.99,
1600214517:9781600214516
, Nova Science Publishers
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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
: New Research
[Marian H Jackson & Linda F Westbrook (eds)]
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness characterised by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behaviour. This instability often disrupts family and work life, long-term planning, and the individual's sense of self-identity. Originally thought to be at the "borderline" of psychosis, people with BPD suffer from a disorder of emotion regulation. While less well known than schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), BPD is more common, affecting 2 percent of adults, mostly young women. This new book presents the latest new research in the field
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184pp,
180x260mm,
May 2009;
HB,
£114.50,
1606924605:9781606924600
, Nova Science Publishers
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FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH TRENDS
[Raymond C Browne (ed)]
Forensic psychiatry is a branch of medicine which focuses on the interface of law and mental health. It includes psychiatric consultation in a wide variety of legal matters (including expert testimony), as well as clinical work with perpetrators and victims. This book presents new and important research in the field.
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146pp,
155x230mm,
March 2008;
HB,
£57.50,
1600219861:9781600219863
, Nova Science Publishers
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LEADING-EDGE COGNITIVE DISORDERS RESEARCH
[James P Tsai (ed)]
This new book presents important recent research on cognitive disorders which are disturbances in the mental process related to thinking, reasoning, and judgement. They include delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders. Cognition includes the domains of attention, memory, language, gnosis, visuospatial function, praxis, and executive function, and is traditionally distinguished from the emotions or 'feelings'. Cognitive disorders may disturb one domain specifically, as in a selective impairment of memory (amnesia) or language (aphasia), or, more often, a combination of deficits, as in mental retardation and dementia.
{
182pp,
180x260mm,
January 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
1600218431:9781600218439
, Nova Science Publishers
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MY LIFE AS A PSYCHIATRIST
: Memoirs & Essays
[Ajita Chakraborty. Foreword by Ashis Nandy]
Ajita Chakraborty presents her memoirs and selected essays that throw light on psychiatry and the way she practised it. Born in 1926, she was a pioneering women psychiatrist in India. She took a stand against the mainstream that simply used the premises and methods of western psychiatry, insisting that an Indian school of psychiatry must develop to suit Indians who were certainly not to be seen as just a variant of westerners. Right from her childhood, the author knew she wanted to be a psychiatrist., At the age of twelve she read Bijoylal Chattopadhyay’s Moner Khela (The Mind's Games) where he analysed fictional characters, following Freudian methods, and she was riveted. She says she was propelled by the need to know herself; to 'pursue a career that explained things to me' She left for the UK to train in psychiatry as soon as she received her MBBS degree in 1950, returning to Calcutta in 1960 as the first fully trained female psychiatrist of the country. The memoirs discuss her difficulties in building up her career; there was resistance from the medical establishment despite her formidable qualifications. Her first appointment was at the prestigious Presidency General Hospital, at the adjoining Mental Observation Ward, in the absence of a department of psychiatry. She worked very hard in making it almost a full-scale department, creating records of patients and their treatments, providing a much needed database. This experience helped her in conducting the massive survey, covering ten millions, in Greater Calcutta, reminiscent of the Manhattan Project of the USA, with valuable information and analysis. Of special interest is her account of new developments in psychiatry in the West, the anti-psychiatric movement which was a revolt against mainstream psychiatry, led by brilliant practitioners like Dr R D Laing, whom she acknowledges as her guru. She also writes of the growing recognition of the primacy of culture in psychiatry.
{
220pp,
140x215mm,
April 2010;
HB,
£48.00,
8185604924:9788185604923
, Stree
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NEW HOPE FOR MENTAL DISTURBANCES
[Vladimir Lerner & Chanoch Miodownik (eds)]
The purpose of this book is to introduce the importance of vitamins and its use in the treatment of schizophrenia, mood and movement disorders. This subject has been already known for many years. In the last years this issue has become "hot" again. To date there is new modern data based on controlled studies leading to a new attitude in consumption of these preparations. The present experience is related to higher doses in contrast to those which were used previously in addition to the scientific base data consisting of new knowledge about the mechanism of action and the influence on different dimensions. The chapters will include theoretical and scientific background as well as practical data based conclusions which might be useful for the clinician in everyday practice.
{
176pp,
180x260mm,
September 2009;
HB,
£65.99,
1606926918:9781606926918
, Nova Science Publishers
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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN & DEPRESSION
[William Hansson & Erik Olsson (eds)]
This book presents new and important research from around the world on depression which is a serious medical illness affecting 5 to 8 percent of the adult population in a given year. Unlike normal emotional experiences of sadness, loss, or passing mood states, major depression is persistent and can significantly interfere with an individual's thoughts, behaviour, mood, activity, and physical health. Among all medical illnesses, major depression is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and many other developed countries. Depression occurs twice as frequently in women as in men, for reasons that are not fully understood. More than half of those who experience a single episode of depression will continue to have episodes that occur as frequently as once or even twice a year. Without treatment, the frequency of depressive illness as well as the severity of symptoms tends to increase over time. Left untreated, depression can lead to suicide.
{
317pp,
180x260mm,
November 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
1604566485:9781604566482
, Nova Science Publishers
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PERSON IN ART
: Conceptual & Pictorial Frames on Art & Mental Health
[Hans-Otto Thomashoff & Ekaterina Sukhanova (eds)]
Through an interdisciplinary multicultural approach, this book explores the role of psychiatric art in facilitating personal empowerment, fostering the healing process, and confronting stigma. Today when we are constantly reminded of the dangers of thinking in exclusive terms, art affords us a model of dialogue in which the other is accepted as an equal conversation partner. Art fosters co-operative communication in which dignity and individuality of a mental health patient may be reaffirmed. At the same time, art allows for critical distance, retrospection, and vast opportunities for individual choice, and thus may be conducive to an improved self-image and self-esteem. The book discusses norm and its transgression as aesthetic categories influencing the understanding of "outsider" and "mainstream" art. The role of art as a social force that contributes to the way mental health and illness are perceived in a given community is also addressed. Understanding the mechanisms underlying aesthetic perceptions of art helps us understand how psychiatric art can be used to help fight stigma associated with illness. Special attention is given to the semiotics of the portrait, a genre with an especially marked dialogical potential that still lacks a systematic study in the context of psychiatric art. The book is addressed to psychiatrists, other mental health professionals as well as scholars in humanities and social sciences concerned with the issues of creativity and the mind.
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224pp,
180x260mm,
February 2009;
HB,
£74.50,
1604569220:9781604569223
, Nova Science Publishers
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PSYCHIATRIC & METABOLIC DISORDERS
: Research Synthesis & Clinical Translation
[Roger S McIntyre & Jakub Z Konarski (eds)]
This book address metabolic disorders (e.g. diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, overweight/obesity, disturbances in inflammatory response systems) and specifically their prevalence, mediating and moderating variables, implications for psychiatric/medical outcome, endophenotypic research, neurocognition and patient management. It is a concise relevant synthesis of extensive literature describing both pre-clinical and clinical research which scrutinises the interface between mental disorders, and both normal, and abnormal metabolic processes.
{
212pp,
180x260mm,
January 2008;
HB,
£74.50,
1600218423:9781600218422
, Nova Science Publishers
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PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS & CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
: The Role of Psychiatric Pathology & Maladaptive Personality Features
[Leo Sher (ed)]
Psychiatric disorders and certain personality features are frequently associated with cardiovascular disorders. For the past several decades attention to the psychosocial and behavioural factors in cardiovascular disease has increased significantly. Understanding the integration of the interactions among multiple psychological and biological factors in the regulation of the cardiovascular system and the development of cardiovascular disorders is an important challenge for future research. This book will contribute to this goal. The contributors to this book are the leading international experts in the field of the relation between psychological processes and cardiovascular disorders. This important book will be of interest to physicians, psychologists, mental health counsellors, other clinicians, medical and psychology students, and medical residents.
{
365pp,
180x260mm,
November 2008;
HB,
£74.50,
1604568712:9781604568714
, Nova Science Publishers
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SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS
: International Perspectives on Understanding, Intervention & Rehabilitation
[Kam-shing Yip (ed)]
Despite related controversies and argument, schizoaffective disorder is a crucial mental illness that demands attention and study from both scholars and clinicians. However, most of these discussions are merely debates focused on diagnosis, etiology and genetics of persons with schizoaffective persons. Although there is a long awareness of the uniqueness of schizoaffective disorder, comparing the rich theoretical underpinnings in schizophrenia and mood disorders, the studies of schizoaffective disorder are thin and insufficient. After a long history of conceptual development, these two groups of mental illness are profoundly studied, explained and articulated by biochemical, psychodynamic, cognitive, existential, phenomenological, sociological, cultural and humanistic perspectives. In each perspective, there are numerous accounts, and research in describing persons with schizophrenia or mood disorder. Schizoaffective disorder is increasingly common in various countries around the world; this book tries to capture the situation in defining, understanding, intervening and rehabilitating cliens with schizoaffective disorders in various countries, in particular in Europe and North America, Asia and Australia.
{
251pp,
180x260mm,
March 2009;
HB,
£65.99,
1604569484:9781604569483
, Nova Science Publishers
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SCHIZOPHRENIA
: Modern Concepts & Research Findings
[Hakan Hall & Elisabet Hall (eds)]
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that causes great suffering for patients and their families. The aetiology of schizophrenia is not known. It has been suggested that particular environmental factors and susceptibility genes in interaction make individuals more prone to develop the disorder. The pathophysiology of schizophrenia is subject to extensive research where genetics, environmental risk factors, neuropsychology, brain imaging, brain morphology and neurochemistry are some areas of rapid growth. After an introductory chapter on clinical features, this book focuses on these research areas, and gives a picture of important research findings and concepts. It also gives insights into clinical neuropsychological assessment, early detection and intervention, and pharmacological treatment. Historical backgrounds, important discoveries and concepts are presented as well as new technologies. The different chapters are written by highly recognised Scandinavian scientists. The book is primarily intended for healthcare professionals, students and researchers, but will also be informative for readers with a more general interest in schizophrenia in the light of new research.
{
194pp,
155x225mm,
June 2008;
PB,
£30.00,
9144029802:9789144029801
, Studentlitteratur AB
} |
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SOCIAL PHOBIA
: Etiology, Diagnosis & Treatment
[Clayton P Axelby (ed)]
Social phobia (DSM-IV 300.23), also known as social anxiety disorder (DSM-IV 300.23) is a diagnosis within psychiatry and other mental health professions referring to excessive social anxiety (anxiety in social situations)[citation needed] causing abnormally considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some areas of daily life. The diagnosis can be of a specific disorder (when only some particular situations are feared) or a generalised disorder. Generalised social anxiety disorder typically involves a persistent, intense, and chronic fear of being judged by others and of potentially being embarrassed or humiliated by one's own actions. These fears can be triggered by perceived or actual scrutiny by others. While the fear of social interaction may be recognised by the person as excessive or unreasonable, considerable difficulty can be encountered overcoming it. Approximately 13.3 percent of the general population may meet criteria for social anxiety disorder at some point in their lifetime, according to the highest survey estimate, with the male to female ratio being 1:1.5. This book presents new and important research in the field.
{
289pp,
180x260mm,
January 2009;
HB,
£74.50,
1606921592:9781606921593
, Nova Science Publishers
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WOMEN & DEPRESSION
[Paula Hernandez & Sara Alonso (eds)]
Depression is a serious medical illness affecting 5 to 8 percent of the adult population in a given year. Unlike normal emotional experiences of sadness, loss, or passing mood states, major depression is persistent and can significantly interfere with an individual's thoughts, behaviour, mood, activity, and physical health. Among all medical illnesses, major depression is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and many other developed countries. Depression occurs twice as frequently in women as in men, for reasons that are not fully understood. More than half of those who experience a single episode of depression will continue to have episodes that occur as frequently as once or even twice a year. Without treatment, the frequency of depressive illness as well as the severity of symptoms tend to increase over time. Left untreated, depression can lead to suicide. This book presents the latest research in the field.
{
618pp,
180x260mm,
July 2009;
HB,
£107.50,
1604566477:9781604566475
, Nova Science Publishers
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ADVANCED METHODS OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNAL ANALYSIS & SYMBOL GROUNDING
: Dynamical Systems Approaches to Language
[C Allefeld, P Beim Graben & J Kurths (eds)]
What is the origin of meaning? How does the brain achieve symbolic computation? What are the neural correlates of cognitive processes? These challenging questions at the borderline between neuroscience, cognitive science, nonlinear dynamics, and philosophy are related to the symbol grounding problem: How is the meaning of words and utterances grounded in the dynamics of the brain and in the evolution of beings alive interacting with each other and with their environments? Simply by convention? Or is there an inherent correctness of names, of syllables, or even of sounds? This new book examines these important issues and presents probing analyses of the latest research.
{
327pp,
180x260mm,
February 2008;
HB,
£74.50,
1604560223:9781604560220
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH
: Volume 53
[Alexandra M Columbus (ed)]
Presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial research results across a broad spectrum.
{
231pp,
180x260mm,
January 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
1600219241:9781600219245
, Nova Science Publishers
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ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH
: Volume 54
[Alexandra M Columbus (ed)]
"Advances in Psychology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial research results across a broad spectrum.
{
314pp,
180x260mm,
March 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
1604561297:9781604561296
, Nova Science Publishers
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 |
ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH
: Volume 55
[Alexandra M Columbus (ed)]
"Advances in Psychology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial psychology advances across a broad spectrum.
{
May 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
1604561769:9781604561760
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH
: Volume 56
[Alexandra M Columbus (eds)]
"Advances in Psychology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum.
{
195pp,
180x260mm,
July 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
160456508X:9781604565089
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH
: Volume 57
[Alexandra M Columbus (ed)]
"Advances in Psychology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial research results across a broad spectrum.
{
243pp,
180x260mm,
November 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
1604568976:9781604568974
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH
: Volume 58
[Alexander M Columbus (ed)]
"Advances in Psychology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum.
{
250pp,
180x260mm,
October 2008;
HB,
£65.99,
1604569107:9781604569100
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH
: Volume 59
[Alexandra M Columbus (ed)]
"Advances in Psychology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial research results across a broad spectrum.
{
304pp,
180x260mm,
May 2009;
HB,
£65.99,
1606925717:9781606925713
, Nova Science Publishers
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ALBERT ELLIS
: American Revolutionary
[Emmett Velten]
Focusing on Albert Ellis's formulation of the key concepts of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, the original form of cognitive-behaviour al therapy, this unconventional biography describes how the techniques he devised to deal with his personal problems, such as severe illnesses, stage fright, and pathological shyness, directly affected his professional theories and techniques. Also covered are Ellis's decades-long struggles to promote his theories and the tremendous resistance to those theories in the psychological and psychiatric establishments. Ellis's revolutionary political activites as a young man are described at length, as well as his famous feud with Ayn Rand, his numerous contributions to the field of sexology, his courageous battles in the 1950s and 1960s against the forces of sexual repression, and his relationships with such notable figures as Alfred Kinsey, Lenny Bruce, and Paul Kantner.
{
224pp,
125x230mm,
June 2010;
HB,
£20.99,
1884365418:9781884365416
, IPG (See Sharp Press)
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 |
AN EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADER-FOLLOWER RELATIONS
[Patrick McNamara & David Trumbull]
The purpose of the book is to summarise recent advances in our understanding of leader-follower interactions and to illustrate these principles with the lives of ancient political and military leaders from Greece and Rome. The authors review psychologic, cognitive neuroscientific and evolutionary approaches to leader-follower dynamics and illustrate these dynamics as they played out in the lives of the most eminent of the military and political leaders of the classical world. The authors summarise what is known about leader-follower relations by reviewing all extant papers on the topic in the psychology, neuroscientific and evolutionary psychology literature. The raw material for the book came from Plutarch's compendium of 46 biographies of Greek and Roman leaders.
{
April 2009;
PB,
£32.50,
1604566000:9781604566000
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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ANGST & EVOLUTION
: The Struggle for Human Potential
[Francis X Jozwik & John M Gist]
Does life have purpose and meaning? This question is a fount of anxiety that plagues mankind. No one has yet provided a definitive and believable answer that will allow humans to live in mental harmony. Angst and Evolution is a pragmatic investigation into life. It attempts to reveal and make sense of the struggle for human potential. Evidence is gathered and synthesised from the scientific, mythic, literary and cultural experience gained by our presence on planet Earth.
{
224pp,
140x215mm,
February 2009;
HB,
£16.99,
0981624405:9780981624402
, AtlasBooks (Abzar Pub USA)
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APPLIED MEMORY
[Matthew R Kelley (ed)]
The goal of the applied memory volume is to highlight many interesting and creative applications of basic memory phenomena that are underrepresented, or even unrepresented, in the literature. Authors were charged with the task of reviewing relevant basic and applied research and offering new empirical investigations into the applications of these benchmark phenomena. To this end, Applied Memory, consists of 17 chapters that explore the influences of generation, irrelevant speech, verbal overshadowing, isolation, part-set cuing, reminiscence, hyperemnesia, placebos, mental state, metamemory knowledge, flashbulb events, and traumatic events on memory in everyday settings, as well as applications of source memory, social memory, involuntary autobiographical memory, dream memory, and strategic memory regulation. The volume is designed as a resource for basic and applied memory researchers and as a supplementary text in graduate or upper-level undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology, human memory, or applied psychology.
{
355pp,
180x260mm,
October 2008;
HB,
£74.50,
1606921436:9781606921432
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH TRENDS
[Karl H Kiefer (ed)]
The basic premise of applied psychology is the use of psychological principles and theories to overcome problems in other areas, such as mental health, business management, education, health, product design, ergonomics, and law. Applied psychology includes the areas of clinical psychology, industrial/organisational psychology, human factors, forensic psychology, engineering psychology, as well as many other areas such as school psychology, sports psychology and community psychology. In addition, a number of specialised areas in the general field of psychology have applied branches (e.g., applied social psychology, applied cognitive psychology). This book presents the latest research from around the world.
{
271pp,
180x260mm,
June 2008;
HB,
£74.50,
1604563729:9781604563726
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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BRAIN AND DISSOCIATED MIND
[Petr Bob]
This book presents current knowledge regarding relationship between conscious and unconscious processes in the human mind and dissociation between them, in a close relationship with modern neuroscientific research. Following the framework of traditional psychological and psychiatric terms proposed by Janet and developed also by Freud and Jung, the author shows new connections between modern theoretical neuroscience and psychological concept of dissociated mind. As main argument for this synthesis the author uses modern chaos theory that provides conceptual framework for self-organisation that connect mind and brain. In this context the author also deals with the problem of consciousness and other interesting connections and mysteries of the human mind such as dreaming, hypnosis or pain experience.
{
152pp,
185x260mm,
November 2008;
HB,
£65.99,
1606920359:9781606920350
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
CONCISE TEXTBOOK OF HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY
[Dr Sarabjeet Kaur]
There was a dire need for a book on psychology that can quench the thirst of aspiring students to understand this subject of human psychology. This is a basic book to understand the subject of Psychology -- the science of human behaviour. The author has covered the subject very well, beginning with basic functionality of different parts of brain, subtly she enters the arena of human behaviour and covers aspect like Learning, Memory, Intelligence and Emotions while maintaining the link from one chapter to another. The last chapter on Dreams and Dreaming is unique. The book would be of great help to teachers, trainers and a broad spectrum of colleges teaching psychology as a part of curriculum.
{
340pp,
180x240mm,
January 2008;
PB,
£14.50,
8131903338:9788131903339
, B Jain Publishing Group
} |
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CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, & INDIGENOUS PSYCHOLOGY
[Carl Ratner]
Cultural psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and indigenous psychology are the major psychological approaches to studying the relationship between culture and psychology. The three approaches have developed in relative isolation from each other, and each has accumulated a substantial corpus of theoretical and empirical work. This new book compares the similarities and differences of the three approaches, and it assesses their strengths and weaknesses.
{
112pp,
180x260mm,
May 2008;
PB,
£32.50,
1604561734:9781604561739
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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DEPRESSION, SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING & INDIVIDUAL ASPIRATIONS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS
[Ferenc Margitics & Zsuzsa Pauwlik]
The sub-clinical depression syndrome refers to an emotionally negative state which significantly influences level of achievement and quality of life, but which cannot be yet classified as an illness. Based on the seriousness of the symptoms, it can be measured on different scales of depression as mild or moderate. One of the aims of the research was to find out what characterises the state of mind of college students, whether the hopelessness, despondency and sub-clinical depressive mood are also typical of them. The other aim of the research was to examine and discover in their complexity those factors which have a role in the development of sub-clinical syndrome. The authors approach the factors responsible for the development of the sub-clinical syndrome in their complexity, taking into account the biological, psychic, and social relations, as well. Beyond revealing the background factors of sub-clinical depressive syndromes the authors were also interested in what the subjective well-being of college students was like and what individual aspirations were typical of them.
{
April 2009;
PB,
£35.99,
1606928511:9781606928516
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
FLOW AS A RESOURCE
: A Contribution to Organizational Psychology
[Lisa Vivoll Straume]
Lisa Vivoll Straume investigates if and how the state of psychological flow can be used as a resource in organisational psychology. The 170 participants represented occupations from a variety of fields. Results indicate that goal setting can be a predictor of flow experiences at work. Implications regarding measurements of flow are discussed, and suggestions regarding the future research and applicability of the flow model are made.
{
123pp,
180x260mm,
February 2008;
PB,
£24.50,
8251923107:9788251923101
, Tapir Academic Press
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HABIT
[William James]
The habits to which there is an innate tendency are called instincts; some of those due to education would, by most persons, be called acts of reason. It appears that habit covers a very large part of life, and that one engaged in studying the objective manifestations of mind is bound at the very outset to define clearly just what its limits are. This volume illustrates the principles surrounding habit and its structure.
{
192pp,
June 2010;
PB,
£13.50,
1929490283:9781929490288
, Frederic C Beil
} |
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INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
: 2nd Edition
[Lionel Nicholas (ed)]
Book & CD-ROM. This second edition is a visually appealing, comprehensive and accessible text designed to help students make sense of psychology and its relationship to their everyday lives. The areas it covers include: Research methods and statistics; Biological bases of behaviour; Sensation and perception; Developmental psychology; Learning; Industrial psychology; Sexuality. A number of new chapter authors provide fresh perspectives and stimulating South African case materials to an expanded selection of topics. A range of cultural viewpoints are discussed and current debates about psychology are presented from different perspectives to allow students to develop their capacity to think critically. Chapter overviews, suggested further readings and a comprehensive index make the book easy to use. For lecturers there is a CD containing chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides providing direct assistance in teaching the subject. Students and lecturers alike will find this book offers a detailed overview and perfect introduction to the subject of psychology.
{
414pp,
210x275mm,
February 2008;
PB,
£35.99,
1919895027:9781919895024
, Juta Publishing (UCT Press)
} |
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META-COGNITION
: A Recent Review of Research, Theory, & Perspectives
[Michael F Shaughnessy, Marcel V E Vennemann & Cynthia Kleyn Kennedy (eds)]
Over the past two decades, the word 'metacognition' has become a regularly used part of our language and vocabulary in both psychology and education. Many research articles have been written about it, the conceptualisation of this construct has expanded, and conferences abound with investigations and empirical research into various facets of this domain. This book provides some of the most recent research by scholars from various parts of the world. It includes differing perspectives -- some empirical, some theory driven, and some application papers. The book focuses on metacognition and it's relevance to gifted and highly able students. Many of the papers focus directly and specifically on this; others are more tangential in nature.
{
241pp,
180x260mm,
January 2008;
HB,
£74.50,
1604560118:9781604560114
, Nova Science Publishers
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NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MOTIVATION
[Filip M Olsson (ed)]
Motivation is a reason or set or reasons for engaging in a particular behaviour, especially human behaviour as studied in psychology and neuropsychology. The reasons may include basic needs (e.g., food, water, shelter) or an object, goal, state of being, or ideal that is desirable, which may or may not be viewed as "positive", such as seeking a state of being in which pain is absent. The motivation for a behaviour may also be attributed to less-apparent reasons such as altruism or morality.
{
179pp,
180x260mm,
May 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
1604560908:9781604560909
, Nova Science Publishers
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PROCESS & PERSONALITY
: Actualization of the Personal World with Process-Oriented Methods
[Gudmund J W Smith & Ingegerd M Carlsson (eds)]
This book is a joint effort of like-minded researchers to define the concept of process within a psychological setting. Although minor differences exist as regards choice of background theory, their common focus is on personality in a broad psychodynamic context. Their definition of personality rests on a series of test instruments that have been validated during decades of thorough and vigorous empirical work. These were originally designed to open up micro-processes underlying the adaptation to or construction of reality, and have subsequently proven diagnostically efficient. Coming from both sides of the Atlantic, the contributors have their background in psychological as well as medical institutions. The contributions in the book are examples of a vital source sustaining our efforts to get a more profound understanding of the vicissitudes of the human mind.
{
299pp,
150x215mm,
March 2008;
HB,
£103.50,
3938793899:9783938793893
, Ontos Verlag
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PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING RESEARCH FOCUS
[James A Patterson & Irina N Lipschitz (eds)]
Counselling psychology as a psychological speciality facilitates personal and interpersonal functioning across the life span with a focus on emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental, and organisational concerns. Through the integration of theory, research, and practice, and with a sensitivity to multicultural issues, this speciality encompasses a broad range of practices that help people improve their well-being, alleviate distress and maladjustment, resolve crises, and increase their ability to live more highly functioning lives. Though closely related to clinical psychology, counselling psychology differs from that field in a several subtle ways. First, counselling psychologists typically focus on less severe psychopathology (e.g., depression and anxiety), while clinical psychologists deal with more seriously disturbed individuals (e.g., those with schizophrenia or personality disorders). Second, counselling psychologists are more likely than clinical psychologists to assume a client-centred or humanistic theoretical approach. Finally, counselling psychology is unique in its attention both to normal developmental issues as well as the problems associated with physical, emotional, and mental disorders. Despite these differences, counselling and clinical psychology are becoming increasingly indistinguishable, leading some to suggest that these fields be combined. Populations served by counselling psychologists include persons of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Examples of those populations would include late adolescents or adults with career/educational concerns and children or adults facing severe personal difficulties. Counselling psychologists also consult with organisations seeking to enhance their effectiveness or the well-being of their members. This book focuses on new research in the field from around the world.
{
120pp,
180x260mm,
March 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
160456041X:9781604560411
, Nova Science Publishers
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PSYCHOLOGY OF DECISION MAKING IN ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & FINANCE
[Klaus P Hofmann (ed)]
In a fast-moving world, the necessity of making decisions, and preferably good ones, has become even more difficult. One reason is the variety and number of choices perhaps available which often are not presented or understood. Alternatives are often unclear and complex paths to them confusing and misleading. Thus the process of decision making itself requires analysis on an ongoing basis. Decision making is often made based on cultural factors whereas the best alternative might be quite different. The subject touches ethics aspects as well as psychological considerations. This book presents important research on the psychology of decision making related to economics, business and finance.
{
228pp,
180x260mm,
January 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
1600219179:9781600219177
, Nova Science Publishers
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PSYCHOLOGY OF DECISION MAKING IN LEGAL, HEALTH CARE & SCIENCE SETTINGS
[Gloria R Burthold (ed)]
In a fast-moving world, the necessity of making decisions, and preferably good ones, has become even more difficult. One reason is the variety and number of choices perhaps available which often are not presented or understood. Alternatives are often unclear and complex paths to them confusing and misleading. Thus the process of decision making itself requires analysis on an ongoing basis. Decision making is often made based on cultural factors whereas the best alternative might be quite different. The subject touches ethical aspects as well as psychological considerations. This book presents important research on the psychology of decision making related to law and law enforcement, health care and science.
{
267pp,
180x260mm,
January 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
1600219322:9781600219320
, Nova Science Publishers
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PSYCHOLOGY OF DECISION MAKING IN RISK TAKING & LEGAL CONTEXTS
[Rachel N Kelian (ed)]
In a fast-moving world, the necessity of making decisions, and preferably good ones, has become even more difficult. One reason is the variety and number of choices perhaps available which often are not presented or understood. Alternatives are often unclear and complex paths to them confusing and misleading. Thus the process of decision making itself requires analysis on an ongoing basis. Decision making is often made based on cultural factors whereas the best alternative might be quite different. The subject touches ethics aspects as well as psychological considerations. This book presents important research on the psychology of decision making and risk taking.
{
198pp,
180x260mm,
October 2008;
HB,
£107.50,
1600218547:9781600218545
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN PREJUDICE
[Melanie A Morrison & Todd G Morrison (eds)]
Modern prejudice refers to the subtle negative attitudes that are directed toward stigmatised groups such as African-Americans and gay men and lesbian women. Individuals categorised as high in modern prejudice deny the existence of discrimination against stigmatised groups; believe that demands made by these groups are unfair; assert that social institutions accord disproportionate attention to such groups; and reject their efforts to change the status quo. Stated simply, the ethos of an individual high in modern prejudice is: ""Discrimination is a thing of the past because groups now have all the rights they need."" social scientists have devoted considerable attention to studying modern prejudice; however, no book has provided comprehensive coverage of this topic-until now. It also offers students and academics, as well as the interested layperson, a thorough review of modern prejudice; a construct that is at the centre of some of the most innovative studies currently conducted by psychologists.
{
332pp,
180x260mm,
November 2008;
HB,
£65.99,
1604567880:9781604567885
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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PSYCHOLOGY OF RELATIONSHIPS
[Emma Cuyler & Michael Ackhart (eds)]
This book describes the various aspects of interpersonal relationships, which can be defined as the interactions between one group and another. How people represent their interpersonal relationships based on past experiences is explored, as well as the three main aspects of interpersonal representations- structure, content, and nature. Conflictive social interpersonal relationships and how they influence mental health are explored in this chapter, as well as the different coping styles people have. In addition, the various dimensions of empathy and how they relate to interpersonal relationships are reviewed and incorporated into a unified source of reference for future research. The role of the nonapeptide called oxytocin in the pathophysiology of attachment is described as well as the possible involvement of oxytocin in the onset of mental disorders. Differences in romantic relationship intimacy, resulting from identity exploration are discussed, as well as the differences in commitment based on gender. In addition, the correlation(s) between relationship adjustment, satisfaction, and quality are reviewed based on the Relationship Quality Interview (RQI), which assesses relationship quality across five dimensions, including trust, inter-partner support, quality of intimacy, respect, and communication. Furthermore, the association between social relationships and physical health is examined. The tendency to forgive in premarital couples is examined as well as the reasons behind forgiveness- possibly deriving from parental model behaviour or reciprocation of the partner's behaviour. In addition, a review of studies is done on the relationship between serotonin levels and romantic love, as well as how the thoughts of infatuated individuals mirror those who suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Furthermore, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), one of the more common anxiety disorders, is discussed and how it affects occupational, interpersonal and family functioning, as well as the different treatments for GAD. This book presents the most up-to-date information on pheromone research, including how pheromones may influence reproductive endocrinology and have a positive effect on one's mood. In addition, the differences between normal and obsessional jealousy is explored, as well as the role that neurotransmitters may play in the expression of jealousy. The neurobiological correlates of attachment in both animals and humans is examined, including infant-mother attachment, mother-infant attachment, adult-adult pair bonding formation, and human bonding. Human-pet relationships and their importance in the field of human psychology animal are also explained in this book. Furthermore, the relationships between co-operative and non-co-operative or competitive behaviour in pairs of children in the ongoing process of interaction is reviewed. The social networking and psychosocial functioning among children and adolescents coping, in particular, with sickle cell disease is examined in this book, as well as the best practices for treatment.
{
579pp,
180x260mm,
March 2009;
HB,
£74.50,
1606922653:9781606922651
, Nova Science Publishers
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PSYCHOLOGY OF STRESS
[Kimberly V Oxington (ed)]
Stress is a physical response to an undesirable situation. Mild stress can result from missing the bus, standing in a long line at the store or getting a parking ticket. Stress can also be severe. Divorce, family problems, an assault, or the death of a loved one, for example, can be devastating. One of the most common sources of both mild and severe stress is work. Stress can be short-term (acute) or long-term (chronic). Acute stress is a reaction to an immediate threat -- either real or perceived. Chronic stress involves situations that aren't short-lived, such as relationship problems, workplace pressures, and financial or health worries. Stress is an unavoidable consequence of life. As Hans Selye (who coined the term as it is currently used) noted, "Without stress, there would be no life". However, just as distress can cause disease, it seems plausible that there are good stresses that promote wellness. Stress is not always necessarily harmful. Winning a race or an election can be just as stressful as losing, or more so, but may trigger very different biological responses. Increased stress results in increased productivity up to a point. This book deals with the dazzling complexity of this good-bad phenomenon and presents up-to-date research from throughout the world.
{
April 2009;
PB,
£32.50,
1604567376:9781604567373
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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RELIGION & PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRESS
[Joan C Upton (ed)]
The interrelationship of psychology and religion is the subject of this new and important book. The areas of health care, longevity, and terrorism and their links to psychology and religiousness form the central core of subjects approached here.
{
243pp,
185x265mm,
October 2008;
HB,
£65.99,
1600216722:9781600216725
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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STOP THAT SEEMINGLY SENSELESS BEHAVIOR!
: FBA-based Interventions for People with Autism
[Beth A Glasberg, Ph.D., BCBA]
Once you have determined the purpose of a child's or student's seemingly senseless behaviour by doing a functional behaviour assessment (FBA), the next step is to work on changing or modifying the behaviour. This book follows-up on Dr Glasberg's previous book, "Functional Behavior Assessment for People with Autism", with a guide to developing an effective behaviour intervention plan to stop undesirable behaviours such as hitting, screaming, or repetitive questioning. The book outlines an educational approach for parents, teachers, adult service providers, and aides that not only quickly reduces the problem behaviour but also teaches the individual with autism new skills to get his needs met. Full of case studies and "Keep it Simple" tips, plus forms, figures, and graphs, this book offers families and professionals proven strategies to change a person's challenging behaviour, helping him to have a more productive and inclusive future.
{
154pp,
140x215mm,
November 2008;
PB,
£16.99,
1890627763:9781890627768
, Woodbine House
} |
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TRUE GOLDEN HOUR
: How People Respond in Emergencies
[Hayim Granot]
The True Golden Hour offers a unique understanding of the latest findings on population reaction to natural or man-made disasters all over the world; and in particular enhanced by Israeli extensive experience. This updated edition of the book shows that, contrary to popular belief, people can deal with pressures derived from the most difficult emergency situations such as floods, fires, earthquakes, and more. Professor Hayim Granot, a leading Israeli authority with recognised international standing in this area, has extensive background in civil defence practice. In The True Golden Hour, he combines comprehensive knowledge of world-wide research on human behaviour under extreme circumstances with his own practical experience during the Gulf War.
{
135pp,
155x230mm,
June 2009;
PB,
£33.50,
0978252608:9780978252601
, AtlasBooks (Key Publishing House)
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