Humanistic psychology Books
Lexington Books Future Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisA crisis in psychoanalysis has been developing since the 1970s, manifesting in a gradual but persistent loss of patients and young mental health providers in psychoanalytic training and therapy. In a peculiar way, the Freudian informative theory of psychoanalysis has been going through a parallel crisis of its own. There have been internal disagreements and differences among analysts about how to develop the theory and protect the profession of psychoanalysis. The internal disputes have resulted in chaotic theoretical plurality, which replaced classical informative theory. In spite of obvious and serious concerns about these crises, none of the solutions has been useful.Future Psychoanalysis: Toward a Psychology of the Human Subject focuses on the future of psychoanalysis considering its current critical condition. The informative theory of psychoanalysis has reached its limits, but its structural base offers a comprehensive theory, promising fruitful future psychoanalysis. It is a theTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One The Informative Theory of Psychoanalysis. Chapter Two The Informative Theory and Theoretical Plurality. Chapter Three The Structural Base of the Informative Theory. Chapter Four Three Structural Conceptions of Psychoanalysis. Chapter Five Psychoanalysis: The End of One and the Beginning of Another. Chapter Six Future Psychoanalysis: Politics and Organization References About the Author
£79.20
Lexington Books Expanding the Category Human
Book SynopsisThe climate within the discipline of psychology has changed considerably since the middle of the twentieth century. More specifically, what it means to be a human has changed. In Expanding the Category Human: Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology, Patrick M. Whitehead argues that the metaphysical problems that psychologists faced sixty years ago are not the same ones they face today. Humanistic psychologists could once choose to protect the integrity of human beings as well as to engage in open inquiry and accept all human beings, but Whitehead contends that a choice between the two must now be made. This book is recommended for scholars and practitioners of psychology and philosophy.Trade ReviewDr. Whitehead’s contribution with this book is vital and timely in a day and age where the propensity is to establish false dichotomies. Psychology, at large, typically does not display a strong appetite for deep theoretical and critical reflection on its own subject matter, methodologies, or epistemic stances. Any form of critical analysis often ends abruptly, eschewing any substantive attempt at further synthesis. Psychology, in its current form, is a house divided against itself. Nonetheless, these divisions are often arbitrary, myopic, and harmful to the craft. Unifying these theoretical divisions takes, beyond a skilled intellect, a sense of humility and candor from visionary psychologist. I consider myself lucky to observe the progression of Dr. Whitehead’s views on these ideas. Psychologists and students of the discipline will benefit from navigating the progression of these ideas, as well. -- Gary Senecal, College of the Holly CrossIn this provocative book, Patrick Whitehead argues persuasively for a path beyond traditional dichotomies that have plagued humanistic psychology for decades, one that will potentially establish a successor field, that of post-humanistic psychology. -- John L. Roberts, University of West GeorgiaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: The Cult of Humanism in Psychology Chapter 2: Problem One: Nature’s Divisions Chapter 3: The Importance of Resolving this Division for Humanistic Ecopsychology Chapter 4: Problem Two: Rejecting Non-Subjective forms of Inquiry Chapter 5: Subjectivity as a Nonhuman Attribute: All Nature as Flesh Chapter 6: Problem Three: Rejecting Posthuman Possibilities Chapter 7: Recognizing how Technology has Shaped Human Being: Towards a Post-Humanisitc Psychology Chapter 8: The Radical Edge: Object-Oriented Psychology or, the Psychology of Things References About the Author
£76.50
Lexington Books Expanding the Category Human
Book SynopsisThe climate within the discipline of psychology has changed considerably since the middle of the twentieth century. More specifically, what it means to be a human has changed. In Expanding the Category Human: Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology, Patrick M. Whitehead argues that the metaphysical problems that psychologists faced sixty years ago are not the same ones they face today. Humanistic psychologists could once choose to protect the integrity of human beings as well as to engage in open inquiry and accept all human beings, but Whitehead contends that a choice between the two must now be made. This book is recommended for scholars and practitioners of psychology and philosophy.Trade ReviewDr. Whitehead’s contribution with this book is vital and timely in a day and age where the propensity is to establish false dichotomies. Psychology, at large, typically does not display a strong appetite for deep theoretical and critical reflection on its own subject matter, methodologies, or epistemic stances. Any form of critical analysis often ends abruptly, eschewing any substantive attempt at further synthesis. Psychology, in its current form, is a house divided against itself. Nonetheless, these divisions are often arbitrary, myopic, and harmful to the craft. Unifying these theoretical divisions takes, beyond a skilled intellect, a sense of humility and candor from visionary psychologist. I consider myself lucky to observe the progression of Dr. Whitehead’s views on these ideas. Psychologists and students of the discipline will benefit from navigating the progression of these ideas, as well. -- Gary Senecal, College of the Holly CrossIn this provocative book, Patrick Whitehead argues persuasively for a path beyond traditional dichotomies that have plagued humanistic psychology for decades, one that will potentially establish a successor field, that of post-humanistic psychology. -- John L. Roberts, University of West GeorgiaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: The Cult of Humanism in Psychology Chapter 2: Problem One: Nature’s Divisions Chapter 3: The Importance of Resolving this Division for Humanistic Ecopsychology Chapter 4: Problem Two: Rejecting Non-Subjective forms of Inquiry Chapter 5: Subjectivity as a Nonhuman Attribute: All Nature as Flesh Chapter 6: Problem Three: Rejecting Posthuman Possibilities Chapter 7: Recognizing how Technology has Shaped Human Being: Towards a Post-Humanisitc Psychology Chapter 8: The Radical Edge: Object-Oriented Psychology or, the Psychology of Things References About the Author
£32.40
Ebury Publishing Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
Book Synopsis'Brilliant and entertaining' Daniel Kahneman 'Quit what you are doing right now and read this' Richard Thaler 'Engrossing, important, and grounded in science' Katy MilkmanWhat if the secret to success is not just hard work, but knowing when to change track?In this game-changing guide, decision-making expert Annie Duke shows why quitting what holds you back is essential for success. Drawing on new research and fascinating examples, this book offers practical strategies and explains:Why it's so hard to walk awayHow to identify when it's best to persevere or pivotHow quitting on time often feels like quitting too earlyPacked with insights from athletes, start-up founders and entertainers, Quit breaks down the mental model that keeps us from walking away and provides a toolkit for quitting anything - a career, a marriage, an investment - at the perfect time.Trade ReviewThis brilliant and entertaining book documents a major flaw in human actions and decisions: the bias against quitting. I learned a lot from its compelling tales of failures and sound recommendations. You will too * Daniel Kahneman, author of THINKING, FAST AND SLOW *Every business school has a course in starting new businesses, but few have a course in shutting them down at the right time. This book fills that gap with brilliant new insights and fantastic stories. Quit what you are doing right now and start reading this book * Richard Thaler, coauthor of NUDGE *Illuminating, easily digestible... she neatly summarizes social-science research from psychologist Daniel Kahneman, economist Richard Thaler and others that helps explain our seemingly irrational behavior when it comes to persisting and even escalating our commitment in the face of losing propositions * Wall Street Journal *Engrossing, important, and grounded in science, Quit is a gem that will allow you to navigate the world more effectively * Katy Milkman, author of HOW TO CHANGE *A game-changing book of strategy from a world-class thinker on risk and decision-making * Shane Parrish, host of The Knowledge Project podcast *Offers a wealth of knowledge to help you figure out when to persist and when to pull the plug * Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of THINK AGAIN *Quit is the rare book that is both a page-turner and a legitimately important contribution. If you've never thought of quitting as a competitive advantage before, prepare to be enlightened * David Epstein, bestselling author of RANGE *There aren't many times you will say, "this book changed my life." This is one of them * Seth Godin *Only a poker player could write this classic book on when--and more importantly how--to fold a bad hand in business, investing, relationships and life * Ryan Holiday, author of COURAGE IS CALLING *The opposite of a great virtue is also a virtue. And Quit is the perfect dialectical complement to Grit. Weave these two virtues into your character and live a much more fulfilling life * Philip Tetlock, author of SUPERFORCASTING *Quitting is not just an art; it's also a science - and there is no one so uniquely suited to teach us both as Annie Duke * Brian Christian, coauthor of ALGORITHMS TO LIVE BY *You won't want to quit reading this book, both because it is such a rewarding read and also because its lessons are so important, useful, and memorable. * Don Moore, author of PERFECTLY CONFIDENT *Not since Kenny Rogers has an expert storyteller so clearly demonstrated the importance of knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, nor presented a clearer strategy to determine when, instead of merely walking away, it's time to run * David McRaney, author of HOW MINDS CHANGE *
£10.99
Merchant Books A Theory of Human Motivation
£7.79
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press The Experience of Human Communication: Body,
Book SynopsisThis book deals with matters of embodiment and meaning—in other words, the essential components of what Continental thought, since Heidegger, has come to consider as “communication.” A critical theme of this book concerns the basic tenet that consciousness of one’s Self and one’s body is only possible through human relationship. This is, of course, the phenomenological concept of intersubjectivity. But rather than let this concept remain an abstraction by discussing it as merely a function of language and signs, this work attempts to explicate it empirically. That is, it discusses the manner in which—from infancy to childhood and adolescence (and the dawning of our sexual identities) through physical maturity and old age—we come to experience the ecstasy of what Merleau-Ponty has so poetically termed “flesh.” It is rarely clear what someone means when she or he uses the word “communication.” An important objective of this book is, thus, to advance understanding of what communication is. In academic discourse, “communication” has come to be understood in a number of contexts—some conflicting and overlapping—as a process, a strategy, an event, an ethic, a mode or instance of information, or even a technology. In virtually all of these discussions, the concept of communication is discussed as though the term’s meaning is well known to the reader. When communication is described as a process, the meaning of the term is held at an operational level—that is, in the exchange of information between one person and another, what must unambiguously be inferred is that “communication” is taking place. In this context, information exchange and communication become functionally synonymous. But as a matter of embodied human psychological experience, there is a world of difference between them. As such, this book attempts to fully consider the question of how we experience the event of human communication. The author offers a pioneering study that advances the raison d’être of the emergent field of “communicology,” while at the same time offering scholars of the human sciences a new way of thinking about embodiment and relational experience.Trade ReviewThe aim of this book is to show that 'communicology is the human science best able to address the manner and motif in which persons connect and attach to each other.' Drawing on . . . a variety of humanistic thinkers—such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Erik Erikson, and Georges Bataille—Macke challenges the technocratic empiricism that upholds a rationalistic and reductive view of communication and outlines and advocates for an embodied and interpersonal perspective. A seasoned scholar in his field, Macke addresses topics such as intimacy, sexuality, and dreams in some detail. . . .This is a scholarly book rich in insights and interdisciplinary in scope, focused primarily on communicology. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals. * CHOICE *Macke clearly ties together all that he has been quoting, questioning, and theorizing in a way that allows the reader to understand how each of the preceding chapters participates in his ultimate goal of inserting humanness into a field where academic and theoretical thinking has taken control, and offering an intelligent and much-needed inaugural study to inspire continual change in communicology today. * International Journal of Communication *Frank Macke's book has enormous implications for the human and social sciences generally and for study of communication in particular. The text is a fresh, bold, intellectually challenging, and at times courageous critique of our taken-for-granted social connections and psychological attachments and the disciplines by which we have heretofore repressed or superficially understood these experiences. This is a work of vitality, of embodied corporeality, and it is about the same. Macke's book has the potential to radically alter communication as a concept and field of endeavor. -- Isaac E. Catt, Isaac E. Catt, Visiting Scholar, Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University, Fellow, International Communicology Institute, and co-editor, Communicology: The New Science of Embodied DiscourseFrank Macke offers a thoughtful examination of a communication theory that unites evidence and ambiguity. Macke articulates communicology as a human science that dwells within the interplay of everyday human existence, unwilling to retreat into a realm above the fray of humanity. Macke contributes significantly to our understanding of communication with this volume. -- Ronald C. Arnett, Duquesne University, author of Levinas's Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication EthicsProfessor Macke asks an embarrassing question: Where is the “human” in communication taught in the American classroom and experienced in the typical family? Cutting through decades of superficial talk about “sharing messages,” he then asks an old fashioned question: What’s the point of talking? With extraordinary clarity and precise scholarship, he helps us understand the psychology of how we come to embody a sense of self-worth and why that emotion matters in the shared community of speech around us: family, friends, strangers. The Experience of Human Communication is a “must read” answer for everyone with a positive interest in today’s society and culture. -- Richard L. Lanigan, Director and Fellow, International Communicology Institute, Washington, DC, and University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology, School of Communication, Southern Illinois UniversityWe’re so used to saying that ‘one cannot not communicate.’ Frank Macke challenges this maxim: we can not communicate—look around you, see how people try to connect with one another, only to fail. The thrust of Frank Macke’s book is de-structuring and transformative: he takes the suppressed potential of communication understood scientifically and helps to unbracket and liberate it as expressed relationality. In this thought-provoking work, Macke provides insights into the human communicative experience and advances the science of Communicology. Anyone who reads this book will find it a transformative and richly rewarding experience. -- Igor E. Klyukanov, Professor of Communication Studies, Eastern Washington UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction: The Experience of Human Communication as a Threshold of Relational Consciousness Chapter Two: Therapy, Vulnerability, and Feeling in the Interstices of Embodied Expression: An Explication of Human Communicative Experience Chapter Three: The Mirrored Body: Phenomenological Reflections on the Visual Experience of the Reflected Self Chapter Four: On Contact: The Phatic Function of Communication Chapter Five: Body, Liquidity, and Flesh: Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, and the Elements of Interpersonal Communication Chapter Six: The Diabolical Parable and the Devil in Speech Chapter Seven: Identity, Intimacy, and Eroticism: Deception, Sin, and the Existential Bargain of Adolescent Embodiment Chapter Eight: An Archaeology of Gender and a Theory of Communication Chapter Nine: The Flesh of Human Communicative Embodiment and the Game of Intimacy Chapter Ten: The Dream and the Self: Consciousness, Identity, the Sign, and the Image Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: The Dawning of Communicology Bibliography Index
£81.00
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and
Book SynopsisRhetoric and the Familiar examines the writing and oratory of Francis Bacon and John Donne from the perspective of the faculty psychology they both inherited. Both writers inherited the resources of the classical rhetorical tradition through their university education. The book traces, from within that tradition, the sources of Bacon and Donne’s ideas about the processes of mental image making, reasoning, and passionate feeling. It analyzes how knowledge about those mental processes underlies the rhetorical planning of texts by Bacon, such as New Atlantis, Essayes or Counsels, Novum Organum, and the parliamentary speeches, and of texts by Donne such as the Verse Letters, Essayes in Divinity, Holy Sonnets, and the sermons. The book argues that their rhetorical practices reflect a common appropriation of ideas about mental process from faculty psychology, and that they deploy it in divergent ways depending on their rhetorical contexts. It demonstrates the vital importance, in early modern thinking about rhetoric, of considering what familiar remembered material will occur to a given audience, how that differs according to context, and the problems the familiar entails.Trade ReviewThis is an ambitious and wide-randing first book. In it, Daniel Derrin examines the rhetorical practices of Francis Bacon and John Donne. ... Any student of Bacon, Donne, or Renaissance rhetoric could turn to this book with profit. * Renaissance Quarterly *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Making mental images: an enargetic rhetoric 3. Reasoning from place to place: a thetical rhetoric 4. Passion and perception: a tropical rhetoric 5. Project-Bacon: gaining properly quiet entry 6. Project-Donne: getting properly included 7. Conclusion: rhetorical style and the familiar Bibliography Index
£70.20
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press The Experience of Human Communication: Body,
Book SynopsisThis book deals with matters of embodiment and meaning—in other words, the essential components of what Continental thought, since Heidegger, has come to consider as “communication.” A critical theme of this book concerns the basic tenet that consciousness of one’s Self and one’s body is only possible through human relationship. This is, of course, the phenomenological concept of intersubjectivity. But rather than let this concept remain an abstraction by discussing it as merely a function of language and signs, this work attempts to explicate it empirically. That is, it discusses the manner in which—from infancy to childhood and adolescence (and the dawning of our sexual identities) through physical maturity and old age—we come to experience the ecstasy of what Merleau-Ponty has so poetically termed “flesh.” It is rarely clear what someone means when she or he uses the word “communication.” An important objective of this book is, thus, to advance understanding of what communication is. In academic discourse, “communication” has come to be understood in a number of contexts—some conflicting and overlapping—as a process, a strategy, an event, an ethic, a mode or instance of information, or even a technology. In virtually all of these discussions, the concept of communication is discussed as though the term’s meaning is well known to the reader. When communication is described as a process, the meaning of the term is held at an operational level—that is, in the exchange of information between one person and another, what must unambiguously be inferred is that “communication” is taking place. In this context, information exchange and communication become functionally synonymous. But as a matter of embodied human psychological experience, there is a world of difference between them. As such, this book attempts to fully consider the question of how we experience the event of human communication. The author offers a pioneering study that advances the raison d’être of the emergent field of “communicology,” while at the same time offering scholars of the human sciences a new way of thinking about embodiment and relational experience.Trade ReviewMacke clearly ties together all that he has been quoting, questioning, and theorizing in a way that allows the reader to understand how each of the preceding chapters participates in his ultimate goal of inserting humanness into a field where academic and theoretical thinking has taken control, and offering an intelligent and much-needed inaugural study to inspire continual change in communicology today. * International Journal of Communication *Frank Macke's book has enormous implications for the human and social sciences generally and for study of communication in particular. The text is a fresh, bold, intellectually challenging, and at times courageous critique of our taken-for-granted social connections and psychological attachments and the disciplines by which we have heretofore repressed or superficially understood these experiences. This is a work of vitality, of embodied corporeality, and it is about the same. Macke's book has the potential to radically alter communication as a concept and field of endeavor. -- Isaac E. Catt, Isaac E. Catt, Visiting Scholar, Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University, Fellow, International Communicology Institute, and co-editor, Communicology: The New Science of Embodied DiscourseFrank Macke offers a thoughtful examination of a communication theory that unites evidence and ambiguity. Macke articulates communicology as a human science that dwells within the interplay of everyday human existence, unwilling to retreat into a realm above the fray of humanity. Macke contributes significantly to our understanding of communication with this volume. -- Ronald C. Arnett, Duquesne University, author of Levinas's Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication EthicsProfessor Macke asks an embarrassing question: Where is the “human” in communication taught in the American classroom and experienced in the typical family? Cutting through decades of superficial talk about “sharing messages,” he then asks an old fashioned question: What’s the point of talking? With extraordinary clarity and precise scholarship, he helps us understand the psychology of how we come to embody a sense of self-worth and why that emotion matters in the shared community of speech around us: family, friends, strangers. The Experience of Human Communication is a “must read” answer for everyone with a positive interest in today’s society and culture. -- Richard L. Lanigan, Director and Fellow, International Communicology Institute, Washington, DC, and University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology, School of Communication, Southern Illinois UniversityWe’re so used to saying that ‘one cannot not communicate.’ Frank Macke challenges this maxim: we can not communicate—look around you, see how people try to connect with one another, only to fail. The thrust of Frank Macke’s book is de-structuring and transformative: he takes the suppressed potential of communication understood scientifically and helps to unbracket and liberate it as expressed relationality. In this thought-provoking work, Macke provides insights into the human communicative experience and advances the science of Communicology. Anyone who reads this book will find it a transformative and richly rewarding experience. -- Igor E. Klyukanov, Professor of Communication Studies, Eastern Washington UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction: The Experience of Human Communication as a Threshold of Relational Consciousness Chapter Two: Therapy, Vulnerability, and Feeling in the Interstices of Embodied Expression: An Explication of Human Communicative Experience Chapter Three: The Mirrored Body: Phenomenological Reflections on the Visual Experience of the Reflected Self Chapter Four: On Contact: The Phatic Function of Communication Chapter Five: Body, Liquidity, and Flesh: Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, and the Elements of Interpersonal Communication Chapter Six: The Diabolical Parable and the Devil in Speech Chapter Seven: Identity, Intimacy, and Eroticism: Deception, Sin, and the Existential Bargain of Adolescent Embodiment Chapter Eight: An Archaeology of Gender and a Theory of Communication Chapter Nine: The Flesh of Human Communicative Embodiment and the Game of Intimacy Chapter Ten: The Dream and the Self: Consciousness, Identity, the Sign, and the Image Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: The Dawning of Communicology Bibliography Index
£36.90
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and
Book SynopsisRhetoric and the Familiar examines the writing and oratory of Francis Bacon and John Donne from the perspective of the faculty psychology they both inherited. Both writers inherited the resources of the classical rhetorical tradition through their university education. The book traces, from within that tradition, the sources of Bacon and Donne’s ideas about the processes of mental image making, reasoning, and passionate feeling. It analyzes how knowledge about those mental processes underlies the rhetorical planning of texts by Bacon, such as New Atlantis, Essayes or Counsels, Novum Organum, and the parliamentary speeches, and of texts by Donne such as the Verse Letters, Essayes in Divinity, Holy Sonnets, and the sermons. The book argues that their rhetorical practices reflect a common appropriation of ideas about mental process from faculty psychology, and that they deploy it in divergent ways depending on their rhetorical contexts. It demonstrates the vital importance, in early modern thinking about rhetoric, of considering what familiar remembered material will occur to a given audience, how that differs according to context, and the problems the familiar entails.Trade ReviewThis is an ambitious and wide-randing first book. In it, Daniel Derrin examines the rhetorical practices of Francis Bacon and John Donne. ... Any student of Bacon, Donne, or Renaissance rhetoric could turn to this book with profit. * Renaissance Quarterly *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Making mental images: an enargetic rhetoric 3. Reasoning from place to place: a thetical rhetoric 4. Passion and perception: a tropical rhetoric 5. Project-Bacon: gaining properly quiet entry 6. Project-Donne: getting properly included 7. Conclusion: rhetorical style and the familiar Bibliography Index
£39.90
Black Curtain Press A Theory of Human Motivation
£8.97
Bedford Square Publishers The Housefly Effect
Book SynopsisAn accessible, fun and practical introduction to behavioural science, featuring insightful examples from the laboratory, advertising and marketing, as well as from daily life.
£18.00
Anthem Press A Theory of Thrills, Sublime and Epiphany in
Book SynopsisThis book offers a psychological account of thrills (goosebumps and tears), of the epiphanic experience of seeing ordinary things in a profoundly new way, and of the experience of the sublime. The unifying characteristic of these ‘strong experiences’ is that they all begin with surprise. They are important in literature: literature is about these experiences, and literature can cause these experiences. This book offers an overview of theories of these kinds of experience, and of what might cause them to happen. In the final chapter, various literary strategies are explored as possible causes. The book draws on psychological accounts of surprise, and of emotion, and cognitive approaches to what knowledge is, why it is possible to have feelings of profound knowledge, and why what we know can sometimes not be put into words.Trade Review‘Cognitive literary study has tended to confine itself to a few approaches. Nigel Fabb’s exciting new book reminds us that there is a vast range of underutilized cognitive research and theorization that may contribute greatly to our understanding of literary reception, significantly extending the scope of psychological explanation of literature.’ – Patrick Colm Hogan, author of Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts (2016). ‘Nigel Fabb has written a wonderfully informative book exploring the ineffable thrills and chills that can make literature so compelling to readers. Fabb presents a taxonomy of strong emotional experiences based on an encyclopedic tour of the pertinent philosophical, psychological, physiological and literary ideas. A major contribution to the scientific understanding of the literary experience.’ – David Huron, PhD, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University, USA.‘Nigel Fabb’s book is the fruit of decades of gestation and condenses a lifetime of research into a clear, exciting and illuminating argument. He provides insights into how the ordinary becomes extraordinary in everyday life and how that helps us understand the complex process of aesthetic practice and the ways people are affected by aesthetic forms. Surprise and the strong experiences it can generate, and the sublime and epiphany are organizing tropes that show commonalities and differences across different modes of expression. As Fabb writes, these are ‘ways of grouping certain experiences which might be related, with the goal of understanding why they arise’. They are fundamental to the ways in which people experience being in the world and are integral to aesthetic practices. The book helps us understand how, in different ways and different genres, artists can create sublime moments which may or may not be accompanied by a sense of understanding or realization. At times reading this book produced my own moments of epiphany!’ – Howard Morphy FASSA. FAHA., Emeritus Professor, Head of the Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, AUS. ‘Professor Nigel Fabb’s book is a highly interesting and successful attempt at gathering diverse aesthetic phenomena and affective experiences of literature under the common rubric of “strong experiences”, and to seek a general, simple and unified account of such experiences in surprise. Fabb thoroughly and clearly explains how the two kinds of surprises, “surprise caused by a perception, and metacognitive surprise about the perception itself” lead to such strong experiences. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and students of literature, aesthetics and psychology.’ – Thor Magnus Tangerås, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Narrative Methods, Kristiania University College, Norway.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Dedication; 1. Introduction: Strong experiences and what causes them; 2. The study of strong experiences; 3. Epistemic feelings and knowledge; 4. Arousal, emotion and strong experiences; 5. The psychological background; 6. How literature triggers strong experiences; 7. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
£72.00
Quercus Publishing Psychology in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained
Book SynopsisTo what extent is memory based on mood? Why do we compare ourselves to others? Are there different types of intelligence? How do we change with age? This book answers all these questions and many more in 200 short and accessible essays. From Pavlov's dogs to experimental ethics and from the development of personality to cognitive behavioural therapy, this book will take you from the foundations of psychological thought to modern-day applications, drawing on recent research and established theories. Each essay is accompanied by an illustration or diagram to help unravel complex ideas. The principles of psychology apply to each and every one of us as they shed light on everything from our childhood development to our interaction with others - and Psychology in Minutes is the perfect insight to this fascinating subject. Contents include: Behaviourism, Experimental ethics, Problem solving, Illusions and paradoxes, Dream analysis, Management and leadership, Compliance and conformity, Attitudes and prejudices, Attraction, Moral development, Gender development, The big five personality traits, Classification of mental disorders, Criticisms of psychoanalysis, Positive psychology, Advertising and the media and The working environment.
£10.44
Checkpoint Press HUMANTRUTH Volume One: A World In Crisis
£14.00
PCCS Books The Handbook of Person-Centred Therapy and Mental
Book SynopsisFirst published in 2005 as Person-Centred Psychopathology, and now extensively updated and with a new title, The Handbook of Person-Centred Therapy and Mental Health challenges the use of psychiatric diagnoses and makes a powerful case for the effectiveness of person-centred approaches as the alternative way to work with people who would otherwise be diagnosed with severe mental illnesses, such as psychosis, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This updated second edition captures the significant changes in recent years in how mental health and ill health is conceptualised and understood, and in how mental health care is delivered. It demonstrates how the person-centred approach can help occupy the space that is opening up as mental health professionals look for alternatives to the medical model. And, while acknowledging the chasm that separates person-centred practice from the mainstream medical model, it argues for collaborative working with these fellow mental health professionals. Contributors from across the fields of research, policy-making and practice explore aspects of theory, professionalism, the role of culture, and the politics of the person-centred approach in relation to mental health.They demonstrate how Rogers' theories of personality and the actualising process are able to provide a model of human functioning that is relevant not just to counselling but to all mental health professions, and beyond, to the social sciences. They give examples of how the person-centred approach is being applied successfully in practice (and successfully evaluated). They offer personal testament to the challenges and creative dynamics of working in a person-centred way within mainstream contexts, and they review the vibrant political and professional divisions and arguments that continue to inform thinking and practice today. New chapters examine the influence of the national Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme in England, and how researchers are successfully overcoming the challenge of evaluating the effectiveness of person-centred approaches to severe mental distress.Table of ContentsPrefaceSection I: IntroductionsChapter 1. Mental health and the person-centred approach - Stephen JosephChapter 2. Principled and strategic opposition to the medicalisation of distress and all its apparatus - Pete SandersSection II: TheoryChapter 3. Person-centred theory and 'mental illness' - Paul WilkinsChapter 4. From self-objectification to self-affirmation: the 'I-Me' and 'I-Self' relation stances - Mick CooperChapter 5. Authenticity and alienation: towards an understanding of the person beyond the categories of order and disorder - Peter F SchmidChapter 6. A person-centred view of human nature, wellness and psychopathology - Margaret S WarnerChapter 7. The complementarity between client-centred therapy and psychiatry: the theory and the practice - Lisbeth SommerbeckChapter 8. Assessment and 'diagnosis' in person-centred therapy - Paul WilkinsChapter 9. The concept of evil as a key to the therapist's use of the self - Richard WorsleyChapter 10. A person-centred perspective on diagnosis and psychopathology in relation to minority identity, culture and ethnicity - Colin LagoChapter 11. Using attachment theory in person-centred therapy - Emma Tickle and Stephen JosephSection III ContextsChapter 12. Facing psychotic functioning: person-centred contact work in residential psychiatric care - Dion van WerdeChapter 13. From patient to person: how person-centred theory values and understands unusual experiences - Kirshen RundleChapter 14. Understanding post-traumatic stress from the person-centred perspective - Stephen JosephChapter 15. Working with maternal depression: client-centred therapy as part of a multidisciplinary approach - Elaine CatterallChapter 16. Living with pain: mental health and the legacy of childhood abuse - Jan HawkinsChapter 17. Nine considerations concerning psychotherapy and the care for people 'with special needs' - Marlis PortnerChapter 18. Children and the autism spectrum: person-centred approaches - Jacky Knibbs and Anja RuttenChapter 19. Clinical psychology and the person-centred approach: an uncomfortable fit? - Gillian ProctorChapter 20. Towards a person-centred psychiatry - Rachel FreethChapter 21. Person-centred therapy and the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK - Andy Rogers and David MurphySection IV: ResearchChapter 22. Searching for the core: the interface of client-centered principles with other therapies - Jerold D Bozarth and Noriko MotomasaChapter 23. Client-centered values limit the application of research findings: an issue for discussion - Barbara T BrodleyChapter 24. An evaluation of research, concepts and experiences pertaining to the universality of client-centred therapy and its application in psychiatric settings - Lisbeth SommerbeckChapter 25. Small-scale research as personal development for mental health professionals - Richard WorsleyChapter 26. Assessing efficacy and effectiveness in person-centred therapy: challenges and opportunities - Tom G PattersonSection V: ConclusionChapter 27. Taking stock of the person-centred approach and moving forward - Stephen Joseph
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PCCS Books The Existential Counselling Primer (second
Book SynopsisPart of the PCCS Books bestselling Primers in Counselling series, The Existential Counselling Primer is a concise summary of the philosophical origins of existentialist therapy, existentialist understandings of what it is to be human, and how both inform the theory and practice of existential counselling. It ends with a case study to demonstrate what the approach might look like in practice and includes a helpful glossary of key terms and terminology. The PCCS Books primers offer students concise, accessible descriptions of the key counselling approaches in widespread use today. The series is ideal for students needing texts that provide a bridge between introductory, intermediate and diploma courses or easily digested summaries of the different approaches for comparative essays and integrative theory assignments. The books are perfect supplements to the Steps in Counselling series to accompany students as they progress through training. They are also a helpful for qualified counsellors considering expanding their repertoire of skills. In this revised second edition, Mick Cooper has updated the references to incorporate important additions to the literature and added to some sections to reflect developments in thinking and practice.Trade Review'A very clear introduction to existential counselling by one of Britain's leading counselling academics. It will whet your appetite and leave you wanting more, which is exactly the point of a primer. Mick Cooper writes clearly, sensitively and engagingly. A gem of a book!' Windy Dryden, Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies, Goldsmith's, University of London.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1. The origins of existential therapy, 2. Key existential therapies, 3. Human being: an existential understanding, 4. Chronic psychological distress, 5. The therapeutic process, 6. Therapeutic methods, 7. The process of change, 8. Issues and applications, 9. Research, 10. Client study: a personal existential practice, Resources for learning, Glossary.
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PCCS Books The Art of Bohart: Person-centred therapy and the
Book SynopsisArt Bohart is one of today’s foremost theorists and practitioners of person-centred therapy. His work has influenced generations of person-centred students and practitioners, both here in the UK and in the USA, his home country. This book brings together his personal pick from the many papers he has delivered at conferences in Europe and the USA, previously unpublished. They are, as he says in his introduction, packed with ideas that have only now found their way into print. Here, he shares his thoughts on topics including wisdom in psychotherapy, the role of empathic listening, therapy as a meeting of persons, why interventionism isn’t therapeutic, how to practise integratively from a person-centred point of view, therapist mindsets and assimilative integration, subjectivity in psychotherapy and psychology, client courage, hope, what isn’t wrong with avoidance, and the nature of the self and change. These are all issues with which person-centred therapists grapple daily, distilled by a master of his art and presented here as powerful lessons for us all.Trade Review'Art represents contemporary person-centred therapy at its best: provocative and passionate yet also open-minded, down-to-earth and full of compassion and common sense. I’m delighted that I will now be able to point my students in the direction of this lovely edition of his previously unpublished papers. Read these Artful essays one at time and savour them. An Art a day keeps the CBT away!' Robert Elliott, Professor of Counselling, University of Strathclyde, UK; 'An international treasure of humanistic psychology and psychotherapy integration, Art Bohart offers his poignant insight and clinical wisdom in this new volume. He’s one of a handful of psychotherapists I always read, and I enthusiastically encourage you to do likewise.' John C. Norcross, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychology, University of Scranton, USA; 'Art Bohart is one of the most influential and progressive thinkers within the field of psychotherapy. This book is a reflection of his true creativeness.' David Murphy, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, UKTable of ContentsForeword by Pete Sanders, Introduction, 1. Person-centred therapy: a radical vision, 2. Enhancing personhood: working with the one who does not get ill, 3. Further meditations on clients’ wisdom, 4. Empathy-based psychotherapy: developing a model of person-to-person psychotherapy, 5. Self-organising wisdom in psychotherapy: theoretical conception and early empirical investigations (co-authored with Makenna Berry Newton), 6. Some neglected insights of Carl Rogers, 7. Becoming the self that one is: an implicational view of personal change, 8. Listening to subjectivity, 9. Of mindsets and meta-perspectives: person-centred therapy and assimilative integration, 10. Listening as being, 11. The pernicious idea of avoidance, 12. Working with the internal critic.
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PCCS Books Wild Therapy (second edition): Rewilding our
Book SynopsisIn today’s Western, industrialised society, ‘wild’ has come to mean dangerous, savage, crazy, out of control. This book celebrates wildness, both in global ecosystems and in the human psyche. Totton argues that embracing unpredictability and boundlessness is vital for our wellbeing and, in these times of environmental crisis, for the survival of humans and other-than-humans. Drawing on psychotherapy, philosophy, ecology, anthropology, futuristic fiction and much other literature, he shows the links between domesticated civilisation and the destruction of the innate balance of ecosystems – including human relationships and psyches. This second edition builds on the first to suggest what a wild civilisation might be like, and how psychotherapy could help create it.Trade Review'Wild Therapy is a breakout session in the plenary of creation. A revisitation of sorts. There are no tame gods here, no predetermined bodies with stable boundaries, no human exclusivities, no free-floating abstracted minds, no creatio ex nihilo. The noble human, sovereign and separate, freshly manufactured in the myths of the Enlightenment, is stolen from its ivory perch, smuggled through the back alleys of heaven, and composted in the fugitive enclaves of the wilds beyond those gilded fences. Here, in Nick Totton’s swift storytelling, we are furtive eavesdroppers on this seditious act of deconstruction; we are with-nesses to this cackling carnival of tricksters, liminal flows, mycorrhizal becomings, wild complexities, and animal onto-epistemologies. Their more-than-human operations and Nick’s faithful reportage will leave none of us intact, and – perhaps more critically – will leave therapy, in its dyadic configurations, forever undone. This is nothing short of the remaking of the human. The undoing of the therapist, the complexification of the client, and the politicisation of the clinical alliance. And it rings with a theological irreverence fit for the impasses of the Anthropocene. I should clap, but now I’m not sure where my hands are.' – Bayo Akomolafe, philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, executive director of the Emergence Network, and author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences. ; ‘Nick Totton offers something radical for all practising therapists to consider. He challenges conventional ideas about attachment, containment, holding, safety and boundaries. Wildness is understood, not as a cure but as a much-needed corrective to the rigidities of our one-sided civilised and mature selves. The book is imbued with a profound – yet playful – recognition that therapy must involve risk. This means more than quietly accepting that depth work can be dangerous, but actively running towards it. As with all of Totton’s work, the political marches in step with the psychological as individual distress is reframed as originating in systemic crisis and collapse. I think this is precisely the kind of book our stuck-in-the-mud trainings in counselling and psychotherapy should include on their reading lists. It is sharp, lucid, idiosyncratic in a good way – and the second edition advances the argument of the first in an exciting manner.’ – Professor Andrew Samuels, author of The Political Psyche and former chair, UK Council for Psychotherapy ; ‘For those who are not psychological practitioners, Wild Therapy takes some reading, yet there is a reward – an understanding of how to process the magnitude of the separation and loss of what was once our common home. Nick Totton shows how we can face the world as it is, how we can mourn what is no more and how we can ‘free hope’ to call into being the complex wild world of our imagination and use it to restore our severed connections with the human, the not-human and the beyond human world - the beautiful complex Wild.’ – Sarah Lunnon, co-founder Zero Hour Campaign, former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and former Green Party councillor ; ‘In our increasingly over-domesticated world, we are seeing the beginnings of a much-needed turn to the wild: rewilding the land shows just how easily it can recover when humans are in service to the earth rather than trying to control it. Likewise, in Wild Therapy, Nick Totton shows how our own wild nature can recover when we drop down into the body and relax our control. This book is a fascinating journey through the history of our relationship with ‘the wild’ in both land and psyche. It also invites therapists to rewild their practice. The many vignettes, together with Totton’s lively and original thinking, show how our lives are inextricably interwoven with animals, plants, elements and place. All of these relationships are naturally healing and need to be brought back into the work of healing trauma.’ – Mary-Jayne Rust, ecopsychotherapist and author of Towards an Ecopsychotherapy.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1. Wild roots, 2. Wild complexity, 3. In and out of the wilderness, 4. Wild mind, 5. Domesticating wild mind, 6. Wildness under control, 7. Wild/human, 8. Wildness in the anthropocene, 9. Wild therapies, 10. Wild therapy, 11. Living wild
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PCCS Books The Focusing-Oriented Counselling Primer (second
Book SynopsisFreshly updated, this contribution to the PCCS Books popular ‘Primer’ series is written by one of the UK’s leading authorities on focusing-oriented counselling. Developed by Eugene Gendlin from Carl Rogers’ pioneering model of person-centred counselling at the University of Chicago Counseling Center in the 1950s, focusing-oriented counselling can be applied to enhance any model of talking therapy. Its primary focus is what the client says, but also, importantly, what they have not yet found the words to express – that is, how we articulate the ‘felt sense’ of our experiences. This revised and extended edition offers a comprehensive but concise description of the history, theory and practice of the approach, how and why it ‘works’, the debates around it, what it brings to the counsellor’s primary mode of practice, and the evidence to support it. This is an invaluable guide and introductory outline both for students and for qualified counsellors seeking to enhance their clients’ therapeutic outcomes.Table of ContentsSeries introduction by Pete Sanders, 1 The origins of focusing-oriented counselling, 2. A special way of talking, 3. The idea of a ‘felt sense’, 4. Focusing: working with the whole thing, 5. Working with thinking and emotion, 6. The focusing process, 7. Focusing partnerships, 8. The core of focusing-oriented counselling, 9. Helping the client to focus, 10. A focusing-oriented counselling transcript, 11. Why focusing ‘works’, 12. Research into focusing and focusing-oriented counselling, 13. Focusing-oriented counselling and the schools of therapy, Resources for learning, Glossary
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Exisle Publishing The Being Human Collection
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SteinerBooks, Inc Soul-Size: The Eternal Psychosomatic Dilemma: An
Book SynopsisThe psychotherapeutic approach is one which takes account of the whole person, considering the mind, body and spirit together. This leads to a deeper understanding of the person which helps practitioners take a holistic approach to the care of their patients. Building on his expertise as a physician, James Dyson went on to study psychosynthesis psychology, nonviolent communication and organisational development. Here, he offers his analysis from these studies which, combined with his engagement with the work of Rudolf Steiner for over 50 years and with the therapeutic practice of eurythmy, provides readers with practical tools that they can apply in their work. The selected lectures, essays and interviews cover topics including Moral Intuition and the Value of Education, The Challenges of Adolescence in Challenging Times and Parsifal Seen Psychologically. This book also includes an appendix featuring an introduction to eurythmy and exercises. An insightful and empowering guide for anyone engaged in healing, health care, counselling, and psychotherapy who wants to take a more holistic approach to their caregiving.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Coaching for Human Development and Performance in
Book Synopsis This book addresses important topics of coaching in order to better understand what sports coaching is and the challenges that arise when assuming this activity. It provides the reader with useful insights to the field of sports coaching, and discusses topics such as coaching education, areas of intervention, and main challenges. With contributions by experts and well-known authors in the field, this volume presents an up-to-date picture of the scholarship in the coaching field. It introduces key aspects on the future of the science of coaching and provides coach educators, researchers, faculty, and students with new perspectives on topics within the field to help improve their coaching effectiveness. Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction. 7 Part 1 - Becoming a sports coach. 12 1 – Coaching in the Sport Domain: Definitions and Conceptualisations. 13 2 – Coaching Educational Programs: (Re)conceptualising How Coaches Learn. 41 3 – Coaching Efficacy: The Leadership Effectiveness Model 68 4 – Coaching Impact: The Transformational Coach in Sports. 117 5 – Coaching Around the World: On Becoming a Profession. 147 Part 2 - Acting as a sports coach. 191 6 – Coaching Profession: Acting as a Coach. 192 7 – Coaching Youth Athletes. 218 8 – Coaching High Performance Athletes. 258 9 – Coaching Life Skills to Young Athletes in Sport Participation Contexts. 308 10 – Coaching for Adventures Sports. 345 11 – Coaching Aging Athletes. 378 12 – Coaching Athletes with Disabilities. 409 Part 3 - Challenges of sports coaching. 440 13 – Coaching and Athlete Mental Health. 441 14 – Coaching Life Skills in Sports People. 467 15 – Coaching Cohesive Teams. 494 16 – Coaching Girls and Women. 524 17 – Coaching Efficacy and the Use of Technology. 543 18 – Coaching under Stress and Burnout 570 19 – Coaching the Coach: Helping Coaches Improve Their Performance. 615 20 – Coaching and Effective Leaders: An Overview and Recommended Research Agenda 669 21- Coaching in Sports: Implications for Researchers and Coaches 711
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Penguin Random House India Death Is Not the Answer: Understanding Suicide
Book SynopsisDid you know that India is the world's suicide capital with over 2.6 lakh cases reported every year?But what we know about the causes of suicide lags far behind our knowledge of many other life-threatening illnesses, partly because the stigma surrounding suicidal behaviour has limited society's investment in suicide research. It is said that more than 50 per cent of all those who attempt suicide tell someone about their intention. So how do you recognize suicidal symptoms in people around you and get help?From insights into the mind of a suicidal patient and understanding why one is driven to suicide to the right kind of intervention when suicide has been attempted, and a list of suicide hotlines, this book is an attempt to help thousands who are questioning the motive of their life. It is just as useful to anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide and is looking for a way to overcome grief.
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Editorial Kairos El Nuevo Humanismo: Y Las Fronteras de la Ciencia
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