Psychological theory Books

Book SynopsisAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalisation to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease, Wang’s analytical eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood.

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Book Synopsis"Perhaps the acid test for any book on psychoanalytic theory is the light it sheds on the complex problems that a therapist faces. This book passes that test with flying colors. I now see my patients in a different light and I have changed my approach with beneficial results." —Samuel L. Bradshaw, Jr. The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic A Jason Aronson BookTrade ReviewNo book with which we are familiar presents as good an account of the clinical application of the . . . psychoanalytic viewpoint as Object Relations and the Developing Ego in Therapy. No other exposition breathes life into these abstract principles as well as this volume does. -- Raphael SternDr. Horner presents rich and useful ideas for formulating and working dynamically with severely limited patients. Her integrative formulation of preoedipal pathology is both useful and practical. -- Edward R. Shapiro * American Journal of Psychiatry *Perhaps the acid test for any book on psychoanalytic theory is the light it sheds on the complex problems that a therapist faces. This book passes that test with flying colors. I now see my patients in a different light and I have changed my approach with beneficial results. -- Samuel L. Bradshaw, Jr. * The Bulletin Of The Menninger Clinic *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Organizing Processes and the Genesis of Object Relations Chapter 2 The Developmental Paradigm Chapter 3 Attachment and Detachment: Developmental and Clinical Issues Chapter 4 The First Differentiation: Theoretical and Clinical Issues Chapter 5 The Practicing Period: Developmental Anlage for the Grandiose Self Chapter 6 The Second Differentiation: The Rapprochement Phase of the Separation-Individuation Process Chapter 7 The Consolidation of Identity and Object Constancy Chapter 8 Interaction of Oedipal and Preoedipal Issues Chapter 9 Separation-Individuation and the False Self Chapter 10 Character Detachment and Self-Esteem Chapter 11 Treatment of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder by David R. Doroff, Ed.D. Chapter 12 Diagnosis: The Medical Model, Ego Assessment, and the Developmental Model Chapter 13 The Therapeutic Matrix Chapter 14 Anxiety and the Integrity of the Self Chapter 15 Refusal to Identify: Developmental Impasse

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Book SynopsisBrings together contributions from leading scholars in different fields of psychology - cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, cultural psychology, methodology of psychology - to discuss methodological issues that were more thoroughly understood more than half a century ago than they are now. Overall, the contributions support the idea that in important ways the psychology of 60 years ago was ahead of the most recent trends in mainstream psychology.

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Book SynopsisThere is a saying among off-world people that is based on eons of experience and wisdom. It goes: There is no point in trying to change the world. Instead, change the people. They are the ones who make the world. Accompanying this dictum is a matching bit of advice that goes: When a new world is being born, help the people to become new humans. A new world is being born here, and those who want to survive and thrive will have to become new humans. We cannot do this without deeply assessing who and how we are and what we want our lives to be. The Revival was written to help us walk the path to that new world, hopefully a 4th dimensional system. The paradigm shift now occurring on our planet is one of major proportions, one in which every aspect of life is changing. The task now in front of us will be to come together in conversations, take responsibility for our lives, assess the reality we have been living in for many years, and navigate the changes with our eyes on the future. We all know that change over time is continuous. We also know that trying to force change is very difficult when things are running smoothly and quietly. It is during periods of upheaval and challenge that windows of opportunity open and old habits and routines come to an end. These are the moments to embrace new structures in every sector of life from food, education, governance, and medicine to science, the arts, technology, and our view of the planet and solar system. These are the times to seize the day, make new decisions, try new things, introduce new thinking, and become a new human living in a new and revitalized reality system on Planet Earth. The Revival is about taking the opportunity to explore yourself, what you contribute, how you think, what your attitudes and biases are, The goal is to make you more conscious of what we are doing and what we could be doing, must be doing. Join in and become a new human!   

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Book SynopsisAccording to Alfred Adler, one of the founding fathers of modern psychoanalysis alongside Freud and Jung, an individual’s level of social interest is key to his or her success in solving the problems of life, from forming meaningful relationships to achieving promotion in the workplace. Withstanding the test of time, this practical psychology continues to inform our way of life, influencing such areas as education, psychotherapy and healthcare.

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Book SynopsisIn this positive and empowering book, Adler demonstrates how we can overcome the limitations of our past, and develop the courage to transform ourselves and the world we live in.Trade Review"The great strength of Adler's psychology is that it rings with experience, and that it works in practice." * Resurgence *Table of ContentsFOREWORD by Rita Udall 9 1 THE MEANING OF LIFE 15 2 MIND AND BODY 33 3 FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY AND SUPERIORITY 52 4 EARLY MEMORIES 69 5 DREAMS 86 6 FAMILY INFLUENCES 107 7 SCHOOL INFLUENCES 135 8 ADOLESCENCE 156 9 CRIME AND ITS PREVENTION 168 10 THE PROBLEM OF WORK 198 11 THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY 209 12 LOVE AND MARRIAGE 219 GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS 239 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 241 INDEX 242

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Book SynopsisIntended for both the general reader and students, Understanding Life offers an excellent introduction to Adler’s work, and presents an accessible overview of all his main theories: inferiority and superiority complexes; early memories as keys to understanding personality; interpreting dreams; love, marriage and children; sexuality and sexual problems. Straightforward and clearly written this guide gives a basis for understanding both Adler's unique theories and the development of twentieth-century psychology, in which his work has played such an important part.

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Book SynopsisPerson-Centred Practice, the journal of the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA), was established in 1993 and published twice a year until 2004. With all but the latest issues out of print but in demand, PCCS Books in association with BAPCA published this selection of over thirty papers, representing the breadth of international material published in this journal.Trade ReviewThis splendid book should do much to embolden person-centred practitioners so that they can enter the dialogical battle ground with renewed confidence and no little pride in the tradition which they represent. The book's very existence points to a thriving professional association, a flourishing journal and a successful publishing house primarily committed to the advancement of person-centred therapy and its associated activities. This is no mean springboard for the approach at the beginning of the new millennium and we do well to remind ourselves of the strength inherent in all three accomplishments. Professor Brian Thorne, Person-Centred Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2. Autumn 2000.Table of ContentsJerold Bozarth, Playing the Probabilities in Psychotherapy David Brazier, Beyond Carl Rogers Alan Brice, A Case Study of Therapeutic Support Using e-mail Barbara Temener Brodley, The Therapeutic Clinical Interview -- Guidelines for Beginning Practice Barbara Temener Brodley and Tony Merry, Guidelines for Student Participants in Person-Centred Peer Groups Rose Cameron, The Personal is Political -- Re-reading Rogers Pru Conradi, Dreams, the Unconscious and the Person-Centred Approach: Revisioning Practice Alan Coulson, The Person-Centred Approach and the Reinstatement of the Unconscious Alan Coulson, Person-Centred Process and Personal Transformation Ivan Ellingham, Key Strategy for the Development of a Person-Centred Paradigm of Counselling/Psychotherapy Irene Fairhurst, Rigid or Pure? Mike Farrell, Person-Centred Approach? Working with Addictions Sheila Haugh, Congruence: A Confusion of Language Jan Hawkins, Survivors of Childhood Abuse -- The Person-Centred Approach: A Special Contribution Pam Janecka, On Being There Matt Jones, Person-Centred Theory and the Postmodern Turn Anne Kearney, Class, Politics and the Training of Counsellors Suzanne Keys, The Person-Centred Counsellor as an Agent of Human Rights Mary Kilborn, The Quality of Acceptance Mary Kilborn, Too Close for Comfort: Levels of Intimacy in the Counselling Relationship Dave Mearns, The Dance of Psychotherapy Tony Merry, Client-Centred Therapy: Origins and Influences Tony Merry, Selected Editorials Judy Moore, Who is the 'Person' in the Person-Centred Approach? Liz Nicholls, Storymaking and Storytelling John Pratt, The Logic and Practice of Counselling Skills Garry Prouty, Carl Rogers and Experiential Therapies: A Dissonance? Gary Prouty, Pre-Therapy and the Pre-Expressive Self Ruth Reid, Person-Centred Counselling in a Primary Health Care Setting: A Personal Perspective Keith Tudor, The Personal is Political - and the Political is Personal Paul Wilkins, Towards a Person-Centred Understanding of Consciousness and the Unconscious Paul Wilkins, Can Psychodrama be Person-Centred?

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how Jacques Lacan has influenced Black Studies from the 1950s to the present day, and in turn how a Black Studies framework challenges the topographies of Lacanianism in its understanding of race. David Marriott examines how a contemporary Black Studies perspective might respond to the psychoanalysis of race by taking advantage of the recent revitalization of Lacanianism in its speculative, metaphysical form. While the philosophical side of the debate makes a plea for a new universalism, this book proposes a Lacanian reassessment of the notion of race, a notion distinct from culture, language, religion, and identity. It argues that it is possible to re-establish the theoretical relation between capitalism, anti-blackness, and colonialism, by reassessing the links between Lacanian psychoanalysis and three main domains of black inquiry: mastery, knowledge, and embodiment. The book offers a strikingly original rereading of the place of Lacan in both Fanon Studies and Afro-pessimism. It will appeal to students and scholars of Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Philosophy.Table of ContentsPart 1: Slave and Signifier.- Part 2: The X of X.- Part 3: Tell It Like It Is.

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access book offers a model of the human subject as complicit in the systems that structure human society and the human psyche which draws together clinical research with theory from both psychology and the humanities to advance a more social just theory and practice. Beginning from the premise that we cannot separate ourselves from the systems that precede and formulate us as subjects, the author argues that, in reckoning with this complicity, a model of subjectivity can be created that moves beyond binaries and identity politics. In doing so, the book examines how we might develop a more socially just psychological theory and practice, which is both systems work and intra-psychological work. In bringing together ways of thinking developed in the humanities with clinical psychotherapeutic practice, this book offers one interdisciplinary take on key questions of social and emotional efficacy in action-oriented psychotherapy work.Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Personal Is Still Political2 Well-Intentioned White People and Other Problems with Liberalism 3 Wakanda Forever 4 Thought Bodies: Gender, Sex, Sexualities 5 Love and Money 6 The Complicit Therapist 7 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis new and fully updated edition of the bestselling Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide brings this essential guide for ICF coaches up to date for 2024 and onwards. This book equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional coach. It will encourage you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the ICF Gold Standard for coach training and the latest coaching research, it will ensure your practice is well-informed by evidence and is up to the highest professional standards.The book will also help you as you undertake any coaching training program, deepening your understanding of the core skills to be a coach and broadening your thinking as to how these can be applied with real clients in your own coaching practice. 

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Book SynopsisDiversity Competence and Leadership Personality.- Board diversity as institutional competence: recognition and misrecognition of diversity claims.- Migration and success: Conditions for success and obstacles.- History still matters: Unpacking the complexities of gendered black violence.- Interculturality between Majority and Minority in the European Context of Ethnic Nationalism.- Multiculturalism in the United Kingdom: Past, Present, and Future Directions.- What is intercultural competence?.- Diversity and urban economic growth.- Managing Cultural Diversity in Switzerland.- Diversity management at Universities in Germany and Austria.- Managing Team Diversity through Leadership.- Predicting German Managers' Intentions to Discriminate Against Minorities: A Theory of Planned Behavior-Based Model.- An Intercultural Training Module that is more about Us than about Them and the underlying Rationale.- Implementing group learning activities to foster intercultural competence: Facilitating interaction across differences in higher education.- The Promise of Board Gender Diversity State of the Art and Conclusions.- Diversity as a multi-level phenomenon in management and economics.- Culturally Diverse Classrooms as Natural Arenas for Promoting Adolescents' Competence to Engage with Cultural Diversity and Social Inequity The Case of Germany.- Diversity in learning processes.- Cultural Diversity in Lithuania: Challenges and Contradictions in Combating Hate Crime.- United in Diversity: Evidence from Romania.- Cultural Diversity and Entrepreneurial Capacities in Western Balkans.- Intercultural Education and Teacher Professional Development in Serbia: Between Tolerance and Transformation Paradigm.- Macedonian inter-ethnic relations: a path of continuous adjustment and political, social, and legal changes.- Minorities and inclusion in the case of Greece.- Unity in diversity from the perspective of diversity competence in Poland.- Understanding and Tolerance towards the Ethnic and Cultural Diversity among Bulgarians.- Diversity management in higher education under accelerating digitalization and workforce ageing: the cases of the Czech Republic and Ukraine.- Intercultural Competencies in Higher Education in Spain: development, assessment, and recommendations.- Europeanizing diversity: a cross-Atlantic conversation.- Being children of immigrants. Ambivalences, risks and potentials of present and future.- Urban Governance Beyond Diversity: The Case of Antwerp, Belgium.- Is there a space for diversity in the Italian Welfare System?.- Intercultural education in Finnish research: A literature review of the past 20 years.- Understanding Diversity in Norway: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Social Class.- Cultural Diversity in Public Service Media.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Darwin and choosing soft.- Chapter 2. The Dodo rule and raising self-esteem.- Chapter 3. Intelligence and the Holy Grail.- Chapter 4. Standardized Testing and mismatch.- Chapter 5. Unconscious bias.- Chapter 6. Data too good, data too strange.- Chapter 7. A Summation.

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Book SynopsisPart 1: Theoretical and Historical Context.- 1. Psychopathology revisited. Keys for a cultural understanding of pathologisations/de-pathologisations and their relationship with conceptions of mental health.- 2. "Defend yourself from madness": stigmatisation of mental illness in mental hygiene literature in Latin America at the beginning of the 20th century (1920-1960)".- 3. Approach to the aesthetic ways of the Pathos.- 4. The limits of the enunciation on the subject and the Pathos in psychoanalysis: The case of Autisms.- 5. Pathos and networks: notes for study on a circular relationship.- Part 2: Case Studies in Latin America.- 6. Care: following the micropolitics of pathologisation and depathologisation of children in Chilean schools.- 7. Pathologisation and depathologisation: a point of view based on psychoanalysis in Brazil.- 8. At risk or a risk: Latinas migrants in Europe, from vulnerability to social agency.- 9. Some guidelines to understand social discourses on pathologisation and well-being in public sports policies: a case study in Chile.- 10. Violence Saturation in the Lives of Black People in Latin America: The Pathology of Coloniality and What We Can Do About It.

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Book SynopsisCritical Geographies of Optimal Experience.- CONCEPTS AND MODELS.- Introduction to Part I A Diffuse Archipelago of Constructs.- The Componential Model and its Discontents.- Channel and Process Models of Flow .- Conclusion to Part I Bridging the archipelago.- ACTUAL AND VIRTUAL PLACES.- Problematising Place.- Actual Places.- Virtual Places.- Conclusion to Part II Flow as Place-Making.- MANIPULATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS.- Introduction to Part III Instrumentalising Flow.- Spaces of Flow Manipulation.- Flow Interventions in Place.- Conclusion to Part III Recrafting the Future of Flow.- Conclusion to Part III Recrafting the Future of Flow.- Conclusion: Hopeful Geographies of Optimal Experience.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: De-Sign and Hypnosis.- Chapter 2: Hypnosis and Reality: About that Which is Overlooked.- Chapter 3: Working With.- Chapter 4: Thinking and Doing: The Challenge of Effectiveness.- Chapter 5: Hypnosis, De-sign & Paradoxes.- Chapter 6: The Multiple Faces of Love.- Chapter 7: Hypnosis and Trance-Modernity.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- The Intersection of AI and Emotions: Deep Learning Applications for Well-being and a Better Society.- Feeling machines: Challenges and ethical perspectives in developing robots with emotions.- Robotic Positive Psychology Interventions and Emotional Well-being.- Zuversicht and Antifragility: A New Emotion Theoretical Perspective on a German Concept.- Sehnsucht is a Signpost - A German Case Study.- Saudade: Empirical Analysis of a Portuguese Concept.- Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emotions and Other Aspects of Well-Being: Variations Within and Across Diverse Cultures.- Test Anxiety from a Cross-cultural Perspective.- The Interplay of Self-Efficacy and Test Anxiety in Academic Performance From an Individualistic Cultural Perspective.- Positive and Negative Affect Across Cultures - The Case of Latin Americans.- Post-traumatic Growth and Emotional Resilience in Immigrants and Refugees from Africa and the Middle East.- Boredom in Interactive Learning Settings.- Low-socioeconomic status Students Experience Positive Emotions Through Academic Intervention Programs in Japan: A Systematic Review.- The Socio-Cultural Context of Well-Being: The Case of Poland

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Book SynopsisNavigating Emotional Diversity: Editorial Volume 1.- Part I: Foundations and Classifications of Emotions.- The Spectrum of Affect: A Classification of the 64 Emotions.- Investigating Shame as a Resource in the Anthropocene: An Emotional Psychology Perspective.- Light Still Shines in the Darkness: Mindsets that Shape Encounters with the Storm of Suffering.- Coping and Stress-Related Emotions from a Cross-Cultural Perspective.- Part II: Healing, Transformation, and Growth.- What Can Older Adults Tell Us About Emotional Wisdom? Experiencing Emotion and Mental Health In Old Age.- The Emotion of Love Across Generations: An Intergenerational, Interethnic Perspective.- Forgiveness Reconsidered: Agency and the Contextual Nature of Forgiveness in the Aftermath of Clergy Sex Abuse.- Blessed is the One Whose Transgressions are Forgiven: Conceptual Foundations and a Template for Measuring Christian Experiences of Reconciliation with God.- Emotions and Moral Living: A Case Study In An Evolving Tradition.- Understanding Jealousy, Guilt, and Depression from a Commitment Point of View: Philip Brickman’s Unified Theory of Emotions and its Practical Implications.- Part III: Emotional Well-being in Education and the Workplace.- Exploring Peer Support in Emotional Well-being: A Positive Psychological Perspective.- An Approach to Build Trust in Opposition to the Fear of Making Mistakes in English – a Circle of Dialogue Based on Positive Psychology.- From Conflict to Connection: Harnessing Emotions in the Workplace with the EmC Method.- Part IV: The Arts and Aethetics in Positive Psychology.- The Emotional Impact of Aesthetic Appreciation on Individual and Collective Well-Being.- Aesthetic Emotions as Expression Of Experiencing The Beauty.- Experiencing Art: The Paradox of Positive and Negative Emotions.- How do you feel? Literature’s Contribution to Learning the Granularity of Emotions.- Bridging Chapter: Connecting Individual and Cultural Emotional Dynamics.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction to Positive Psychology: A new paradigm for the wellness of students in universities.- Chapter 2: Examining Positive Psychology Interventions to boost mental health of students in universities in India.- Chapter 3: Effectiveness of gratitude focused-positive psychology interventions to enhance students’ mental health in higher education.- Chapter 4: Using Personal Growth Mindset Positive Psychology Interventions (PPI’s) to Boost Well-being of Students in Universities.- Chapter 5: Programmes for Promoting University Students' Well Being.- chapter 6: Self-control-positive psychology interventions to enhance mental health of students in Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 7: Adoption of Positive Spirituality and Religiosity to Strengthen the Well-being of Students in Universities in Uganda.- Chapter 8: Positive psychology interventions: Navigating Social relationships to enhance mental health and well-being of students in Universities in Africa.- Chapter 9: Meaning of life based positive psychology interventions and mental health of students in universities: Implications for inclusive education.- Chapter 10: Unmasking Positive Psychology Interventions Utilized to Boost the Psychological Well-Being of Students in Universities in Africa.- Chapter 11: Optimism-based positive psychology interventions for well-being of students in Africa.- Chapter 12: Benefits of character strengths and virtues in enhancing the well-being of students: An integrated literature review.- Chapter 13: Benefits of happiness interventions in positive psychology frameworks to boost the well-being of students in universities.- chapter 14: Using Mindfulness Strategies in Strengthening the Well-Being of Students in Universities.- Chapter 15: Positive-Empathy-oriented interventions and well-being of students in Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 16: Multilingualism as a resource: A systematic review on the use of translanguaging for the well-being of students in primary education.- Chapter 17: Utilizing strength-based positive psychology interventions to enhance students' well-being and mental health in African universities.- Chapter 18: Utilizing positive psychology initiatives to enhance inclusion of people with disabilities in research: The emancipatory approach.- Chapter 19: The organizational trust - the magic ingredient of well-being among students in higher education institutions.- Index.

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Book Synopsis1 Introduction: Lacan and Italy.- 2 The History of Italian Lacanianism.- 3 Clinic.- 4 Politics.- 5 Aesthetics.- 6 Conclusion: Towards an Affirmative Real.

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