Psychological theory Books

Book SynopsisThe concept of the Self has a long history that dates back from the ancient Greeks such as Aristotle to more contemporary thinkers such as Wundt, James, Mead, Cooley, Freud, Rogers, and Erikson (Tesser & Felson, 2000). Research on the Self relates to a range of phenomena including self-esteem, self-concept, self-protection, self-verification, self-awareness, identity, self-efficacy, self-determination etc. that could be sharply different or very similar. Despite this long tradition of thinkers and the numerous studies conducted on the Self, this concept is still not very well defined. More precisely, it is not a precise object of study, but rather a collection of loosely related subtopics (Baumesiter, 1998). Also, in the philosophical literature, the legitimacy of the concept of “self” has been brought into question. Some authors have argued that the self is not a psychological entity per se, but rather an illusion created by the complex interplay between cognitive and neurological subsystems (Zahavi, 2005). Although no definitive consensus has been reached regarding the Self, we emphasis in this volume that the Self and its related phenomena including self-concept, motivation, and identity are crucial for understanding consciousness and therefore important to understand human behavior.Self-Concept, Motivation and Identity: Underpinning Success with Research and Practice provides thus a unique insight into self-concept and its relationship to motivation and identity from varied theoretical and empirical perspectives. This volume is intended to develop both theoretical and methodological ideas and to present empirical evidence demonstrating the importance of theory and research to effective practice.

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Book SynopsisThis volume traces the socialization processes, professional development, career paths, and theories and research of contemporary pioneers in education and psychology. This volume contains interviews of leading scholars who are at the vanguard of teaching and learning. They shared how their childhood development influenced their theoretical paths and research endeavors and revealed their thoughts, beliefs, and experiences that made them who they are today. These scholars responded to questionspertaining to their childhood socialization, initial interest in education and psychology, role models, research interests and major findings, future direction of their research, educational implications derived from their research, and perception of their legacy. They are real people who have had experiences like anybody else, but who found homes and teachers who supported them. While in college, they found educators who mentored them.Readers will find that this volume offers them an opportunity to learn the background of contemporary pioneers in education and psychology, provides helpful sources where they can learn about how major theories developed and where they are moving, and reveals the personal anecdotes that influenced the conceptualization of contemporary theories and research. Educators andstudents will find that this book provides hope and a rejuvenated enthusiasm about the status of education and psychology and that they too can be leaders in their own ways.

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Book SynopsisThis volume traces the socialization processes, professional development, career paths, and theories and research of contemporary pioneers in education and psychology. This volume contains interviews of leading scholars who are at the vanguard of teaching and learning. They shared how their childhood development influenced their theoretical paths and research endeavors and revealed their thoughts, beliefs, and experiences that made them who they are today. These scholars responded to questionspertaining to their childhood socialization, initial interest in education and psychology, role models, research interests and major findings, future direction of their research, educational implications derived from their research, and perception of their legacy. They are real people who have had experiences like anybody else, but who found homes and teachers who supported them. While in college, they found educators who mentored them.Readers will find that this volume offers them an opportunity to learn the background of contemporary pioneers in education and psychology, provides helpful sources where they can learn about how major theories developed and where they are moving, and reveals the personal anecdotes that influenced the conceptualization of contemporary theories and research. Educators andstudents will find that this book provides hope and a rejuvenated enthusiasm about the status of education and psychology and that they too can be leaders in their own ways.

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Book SynopsisWhat does the world look like from Africa? What does it mean to think, feel, express without apology for being African? How does one teach society and children to be African – with full consciousness and pride? In institutions of learning, what would a textbook on African-centred psychology look like? How do researchers and practitioners engage in African social psychology, African-centred child development, African neuropsychology, or any area of psychology that situates African realities at the centre?Questions such as these are what eminent professor of psychology Kopano Ratele grapples with in this lyrical, philosophical and poetic treatise on practising African psychology in a decolonised world view. Employing a style common in philosophy but rarely used in psychology, the book offers thoughts about the ideas, contestation, urgency and desire around a psychological praxis in Africa for Africans. While Setting out a framework for researching, teaching and practicing African psychology, the book in part coaxes, in part commands and in part urges students of psychology, lecturers, researchers and therapists to reconsider and reach beyond their received notions of African psychology.Trade ReviewThis book builds a case for thinking and doing psychology differently in and for Africa. Its strength lies in the author’s arguments on psychology as a colonial discipline and what it does as it is transported to the African continent. — Floretta Boonzaier, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town Ratele is the kind of scholar whose experience means he can jettison old ways of doing things in favour of experimentation and breaking boundaries. He insists on meddling with and poking at accepted ways of knowing and doing. Innovative in both form and content, the book is an important contribution to our scholarship. — Hugo Canham, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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Book SynopsisThis is a highly practical handbook aimed specifically at medical and health care professionals. The book begins with an overview of the main issues of counselling and communication looking also at the importance of self-care from both a personal and organizational perspective. Basic counselling and communication skills are followed by their application to specialised settings including sexual health, child health, infertility and rehabilitation.Trade Review'This exciting book provides a satisfying blend of theory and practice with vignettes of practice that bring the text to life.' Dr Graham Curtis Jenkins, Director, Counselling in Primary Care Trust. 'This is an excellent text that deals with the burgeoning areas of counselling and communication skills.' British Journal of Medical Psychology. 'It gives useful diagrams and models for interviewing, illustrating the text throughout with real patients. Overall it is an interesting and very readable book.' Practice Nurse. 'Although all the chapters are good, those dealing with "listening to stories about illness and health" and "rehabilitation counselling" are particularly impressive. I would not hesitate in recommending this book to nurses.' Journal of Community Nursing.Table of ContentsBackground. 1. Counselling and Communication in health care. 2. Looking after yourself. . General Skills. 3. Listening: some basic qualities and skills. 4. Listening to stories about illness and health: applying the lessons of narrative psychology. 5. Mental illness and communication. 6. Increasing multicultural competence. 7. Psychological type (Myers-Briggs). 8. Group Membership. . Specialised Skills and Settings. 9. Talking to children and adolescents about life, death and sex. 10. Talking about sexuality and sexual problems. 11. Working with infertility. 12. Solution-focused brief therapy: from hierarchy to collaboration. 13. Communicating about ethical dilemmas: a medical humanities approach. 14. Rehabilitation counselling.

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Book SynopsisPublished with the Parkinson's Disease Society, this book contains highlights of PDS-sponsored welfare research over the last 10 years, with reports of key projects carried out to improve the lives of people with the disease and provide them with better standards of care, both professional and voluntary.Table of Contents1. The needs of people with Parkinson's and their families. 2. Member's Survey. 3. Quality of life. 4. Children with parents with Parkinson's. 5. A psychological group approach. 6. Support networks. 7. Communicating with Parkinsonians. 8. Referral Criteria for speech and language problems. 9. A targeted physiotherapy service. 10. The use of video recording in assessment. 11. Parkinson's disease and driving. 12. The new community care. 13. Action research in a time of change.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses, explains and illustrates some of the potential of psychology beyond the strait-jacket that has been imposed upon it by its Western intellectual and empirical roots. It provides a positive model for psychological theory, research and practice, and offers a racially and culturally aware perspective.Trade Review"This is an ambitious book that forces the reader to think more deeply about the role of psychology in perpetuating structural forms of societal prejudice, especially racism. Considerable evidence is presented that strongly supports this thesis. It is a book that succeeds in meeting its main objective - provoking further critical thought about the ideology and practice of dominant psychologies." Dr Gerry Finn, Reader in Department of Educational Studies, University of Strathclyde, UK "A well-written and well-researched book that makes a powerful and persuasive plea for psychology to break out of its self-imposed confines and reach beyond Western perspectives so that it may serve the needs of peopple of all cultures equally well." Dev Sharma, Educational Psychology in Practice, Vol 18, 2002 "This book represents an important step forward in the field of (Western) psychology because it is one of the few books that attempts to carve out an archaeology of psychological knowledge that goes beyond Western perspectives... Owusu-Bempah and Howitt must be commended for producing a provocative text that is much needed within the field of psychology. They deserve praise for foregrounding issues of race, ethnicity and gender with a degree of bluntness and forthrightness that is often lacking in much psychological research." Sunil Bhatia, Connecticut College, Theory & Psychology, Vol. 13(2): 285-287Table of Contents1. Beyond the limitations of Western psychology. 2. A universal psychology. 3. The influence of Western psychology upon psychological practice. 4. Interactions between cultures. 5. The social construction of failure. 6. Race, culture and the family. 7. Race, self and culture. 8. Normal development - beyond the Western model. 9. Mixed race and mixed cultures. 10. Euro-centric assumptions, counselling and psychotherapy. 11. Integrating perspectives: meeting wider needs.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationship between creative innovation, deviance and morbidity. To innovate, one has to be able to view the medium and the object of creativity in a different, hitherto unexplored manner. The essence of art is creative innovation, coupled with an ability, in varying degrees, to transcend the boundaries of consciousness. But this 'ability' is also the prerogative of the mentally deranged. Likewise, the criminal and the deviant are more likely to transcend normative barriers while creating, hence the wide range of criminal and deviant behaviour in society. Although the inverse hypothesis does not hold -- the mere existence of deviance or morbidity does not predispose the individual to creativity -- nevertheless criminal and mad behaviour are often very innovative. This thesis is illustrated by historical case histories of creative deviance and genius madness, and contemporary observations. The painter Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio killed a man while still a teenager, and a second victim during a ball game. In his lifetime he was considered degenerate, but today he is considered the greatest painter of the Italian Settecento, and his portrait adorns the Hundred-Thousand Lira note. Jean Genet the homosexual thief was born out of wedlock and as a teenager he transgressed almost all the paragraphs of the French criminal code. But he became a famous French playwright, the mouthpiece for criminals and deviants. His plays built up a philosophical apology for the raison d'etre of the criminal group.Trade Review"Rich in detail and psychocultural analysis this book will take its place beside Freud's Moses and other classics of art interpretation..." -- Graeme R Newman, Professor, School of Criminal Justice."Broad intellectual range, curiosity, deep and profound knowledge and authenticity. The whole spirit of Shlomo Shoham's reasoning is both refreshing and challenging..." -- Dr Manfred Wimmer, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Roger Hood; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mytho-Empiricisim; The Personality and its Disruption; Hubris, Suppression and Stigma; Don Carlo Gesualdo -- A Murdered Love; Caravaggio -- The Violent Enlightenment; Jean Genet -- A Criminal Manifesto; The Creative Villains; Genius and Madness; St. Vincent -- Absolute Authenticity; Antonin Artaud -- Outside of Time; Notes; Giora Shoham's Published Works and His Theory of Personality; Index.

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Book SynopsisHow we became what we are. There are many explanations. One plausible account is found in the work of Rudolph Allers who writes about the European intellectual landscape from 1850 to the opening decades of the twentieth century...Allers is not alone in recognizing that a true account of human nature may await the recovery of classical antiquity. From Plato and Aristotle, modernity may learn that the immaterial or spiritual component of human nature is not empirically discerned but reasoned to from empirical evidence. - from the translation by Jude Dougherty

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Book SynopsisThis book presents perspectives from world experts in the field of wisdom studies to propose how wisdom can provide the foundation upon which solutions to social and global problems can be grounded. The authors argue that where society has come to rely on leaders with skills relating to knowledge and intelligence; instead we should focus on wisdom-based acumen for our leaders in government, business, and the military.In this book the authors offer evidence-based definitions of wisdom and apply these to world problems they believe could potentially be solved using wise solutions. Among the case studies confronted are terrorism and war, poverty and economic disparity, climate change, increasing antibiotic resistance and political corruption.Focusing on the cognitive, social and emotional processes involved in everyday decision-making, this book presents a compelling argument for the application of wise problem-solving to complex world issues that will appeal in particular to those in leadership, teaching and policy roles, and open new pathways in the fields of wisdom-studies, psychology, sociology and political theory.Table of Contents1. Where Have All the Flowers of Wisdom Gone? -- An Analysis of Teaching for Wisdom Over the Years; Robert J. Sternberg.- 2. The Erosion of Democracy: Can We Muster Enough Wisdom to Stop It?; Don Ambrose.- 3. Wise Reasoning in an Uncertain World; Igor Grossmann & Anna Dorfman.- 4. Wisdom vs. Populism and Polarization: Learning to Regulate Our Evolved Intuitions; Judith Glück.- 5. The Breakdown of Civic Virtues and the Problem of Hate Speech: Is There Wisdom in Freedom of Speech?; Howard C. Nusbaum.- 6. “Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence”: A Wisdom-based Analysis of Contemporary Social Activism; Nic M. Weststrate.- 7. Wisdom and Moral Exemplars; Megan Mischinski & Eranda Jayawickreme.- 8. Practical Wisdom in Islamic law: From the Local to the Global; Tom Woerner-Powell & Ricca Edmondson.- 9. Can Wisdom be Helpful?; Ursula M. Staudinger.- 10. Wisdom in the Workplace; Hannes Zacher & Ute Kunzmann.- 11. The Practical Applications of Self-Transcendent Wisdom; Carolyn M. Aldwin & Michael R. Levenson.- 12. Vedanta Philosophy’s Contribution to Wisdom Development for Leadership: Grounding Indian Practical Wisdom in Higher Knowledge and Purpose; Surya Tahora, Snehal Shah, & David Rooney.- 13. How Wisdom Can Help Solve Global Problems; Nicholas Maxwell.- 14. Practical Wisdom and Health Care; Barry Schwartz & Kenneth E. Sharpe.- 15. Seeking Wisdom: A Physician’s Journey in the Wake of ‘Charlottesville’; Margaret Plews-Ogan.- 16. Not Today, and Probably Not Tomorrow Either: Obstacles to Wisdom and How We May Overcome Them; Judith Glück, Robert J. Sternberg, & Howard C. Nusbaum.

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Book SynopsisA Manifesto for Mental Health presents a radically new and distinctive outlook that critically examines the dominant ‘disease-model’ of mental health care. Incorporating the latest findings from both biological neuroscience and research into the social determinants of psychological problems, Peter Kinderman offers a contemporary, biopsychosocial, alternative. He warns that the way we care for people with mental health problems is creating a hidden human rights emergency and he proposes a new vision for the future of health organisations across the globe. The book highlights persuasive evidence that our mental health and wellbeing depend largely on the society in which we live, on the things happen to us, and on how we learn to make sense of and respond to those events. Kinderman proposes a rejection of invalid diagnostic labels, practical help rather than medication, and a recognition that distress is usually an understandable human response to life's challenges. Offering a serious critique of establishment thinking, A Manifesto for Mental Health provides a well-crafted demonstration of how, with scientific rigour and empathy, a revolution in mental health care is not only highly desirable, it is also entirely achievable. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Events and Consequences.- Chapter 3: We are not the Slaves of our Brains.- Chapter 4: Making Sense of Things.- Chapter 5: Labels are for Products, Not People.- Chapter 6: Appreciating the Functions of Diagnoses.- Chapter 7: A Phenomenological Approach.- Chapter 8: Formulation and the Scientific Method.- Chapter 9: The Drugs Don’t Work – The Difference between Curing and Helping.- Chapter 10 Residential Care; Hotels Not Hospitals.- Chapter 11: The Mental Health Act.- Chapter 12: Working Practices.- Chapter 13: The Social and Political Prerequisites for Genuine Psychological Health and Well-Being.- Chapter 14: A Manifesto.

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Book SynopsisThis book challenges the perception of the psychiatric chart as a neutral and objective text. The chapters included in this book coalesce to reveal the psychiatric chart as a text that is, in fact, “storied” by institutional ideology that reflects, reinforces, reinterprets, and, at times, resists gendered, raced, sexualized, and classed norms, values, and presuppositions. Intersectional analysis highlights the nuanced ways in which dominant ideologies are activated in chart documentation to produce qualitatively specific psychiatric narratives of distress and related responses in the psychiatric institution. The book serves as a much-needed resource for mental health professionals, education and training programs, and researchers that meaningfully takes into account the social and structural materiality of people’s lives and its impact on experiences of distress. It will also appeal to scholars investigating equity in health care across the fields of Critical Psychology, Disability Studies, Social Work, Allied Health, Mad Studies and Social Justice.Trade Review“The volume should be of interest to a readership concerned with interdisciplinarity and dialogue across academic and practitioner disciplinary boundaries. For the educators of mental health professionals, the chapters will be a useful resource … .” (Isobel Moore and Philip John Archard, Journal of Social Work Practice, May 2, 2023)Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisDie psychosozialen Studien im Vereinigten Königreich sind ein vielfältiger Arbeitsbereich, der sich durch Innovation in Theorie und empirischer Forschung auszeichnet. Die außerordentliche Lebendigkeit dieses Bereichs zeigt sich in diesem Buch, das die Forschungsarbeiten der Abteilung für psychosoziale Studien an der Birkbeck University of London, UK, vorstellt und drei zentrale Bereiche der Disziplin beleuchtet: Psychoanalyse, Ethik und Reflexivität sowie Widerstand. Das Buch befasst sich auf psychosoziale Weise mit einer Vielzahl von Themen, von der Sozialkritik der Psychoanalyse über postkoloniale und Queer-Theorie bis hin zu Studien über psychische Gesundheit und Widerstand gegen Diskriminierung. Diese "New Voices in Psychosocial Studies" bieten eine kohärente und doch weitreichende Darstellung der Forschung, die in einem "Dialekt" des neuen Terrains der psychosozialen Studien stattgefunden hat, und ein Agenda-setzendes Manifest für einige der Arten von Arbeit, die die fortgesetzte Kreativität der psychosozialen Studien in der nächsten Generation sicherstellen könnten. Dieses Buch zeigt die kontinuierliche Entwicklung der psychosozialen Studien als innovative, kritische Kraft und wird sowohl neue als auch etablierte Forscher aus allen Bereichen inspirieren, die ihren transdisziplinären Ansatz beeinflussen, einschließlich: kritische Psychologie und radikale Soziologie, feministische, queere und postkoloniale Theorie, kritische Anthropologie und Ethnographie und Phänomenologie. Table of ContentsKapitel 1: Neue Stimmen in den psychosozialen Studien: Einführung; Stephen Frosh.- Teil 1: Psychoanalyse.- Kapitel 2: In den Wandschränken von Fanon und Riviere: Psychoanalyse, postkoloniale Theorie und das Psychosoziale; Marita Vyrgioti.- Kapitel 3: Eins, zwei, zu viele; Felipe Massao Kuzuhara.- Kapitel 4: Über das Subjektwerden; Iulia Minulescu.- Kapitel 5: Die Zeit folgt einem Wunsch; Kelly Noel-Smith.- Teil 2: Ethik und Reflexivität.- Kapitel 6: Allein mit dem Gesetz: Ethik und Subjektivität; Javier Taillefer.- Kapitel 7: Der Signifikant des Begehrens und das Begehren nach Signifikation: eine psychosoziale Neuinterpretation meiner Forschungsbegegnung mit einem älteren schwulen Chinesen; Chenyang Wang.- Kapitel 8: Das Soziale mit dem verbinden, was sich in der Psyche entfaltet: Das Psychosoziale in der ethnographischen Forschung; Erol Saglam.- Kapitel 9: Die "Wohlfühl"-Ökonomie: Angst und hegemoniale Psy-Kulturen; Ana Carolina Minozzo.- Teil 3: Widerstand.- Kapitel 10: Laing im 21. Jahrhundert: Psychisches Leiden in der neoliberalen Landschaft; Matt Oakes.- Kapitel 11: "Gay Culture Rampant in Hyderabad": Analyse der politischen und libidinösen Ökonomie der Homophobie; Jordan Osserman.- Kapitel 12: Adoptierte Töchter und biologische Väter: Trauma, Verlust und die Fantasie der Rückkehr; Elizabeth Hughes.- Kapitel 13: Überdenken der Bewältigungsperspektive im Kontext von Diskriminierung: Junge religiöse Minderheiten in der Türkei; Bahar Tanyas.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1 Benevolence and Expertise? Questioning the role of coercive psychiatry in women's lives.- Chapter 2 Disruption: Using participatory, collective, and creative research processes to challenge psy-coercion in women's lives.- Chapter 3 Violence: Psycho-patriarchal oppression across the lifecourse.- Chapter 4 Resistance: Diverse and non-linear journeys in challenging psy-knowledges.- Chapter 5 Imagination: Collective creative responses to psycho-patriarchal oppression.- Chapter 6 Dialogue: Talking about psy-oppression with family members and mental health workers.- Chapter 7 Dissent: Building alternative worlds beyond psy-oppression.

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Book SynopsisKunsttherapie in der PsychotherapieProfessor Martin Schuster hat im Feld der Kunstpsychologie, Kreativität und des bildhaften Denkens viele Arbeiten und Forschungen geliefert. Er zeigt, wie Kunsttherapie innovativ im psychologischen Tatsachenwissen zu verankern ist. Auch Nicht-Künstler können solche Methoden mit Gewinn in ihrer Psychotherapie anbieten. Interesse an künstlerischen Tätigkeiten ist hilfreich, aber ein besonderes Talent ist nicht erforderlich.Verbindet Grundlagenwissen mit therapeutischer PraxisDer Praktikumsteil bietet Selbsterfahrung in Kunsttherapie und die Einübung therapeutischer Fertigkeiten, wie z.B. der Interpretation von Bildmetaphern. Die Darstellung ist verständlich, leicht lesbar und wissenschaftlich fundiert. Neben der deutschen Literatur wird auch das breite Spektrum amerikanischer Beiträge rezipiert. Martin Schuster ist Verhaltenstherapeut, Gesprächstherapeut und Kunsttherapeut. Aus dem InhaltWas ist Kunsttherapie? - Theoretische Grundlagen: Kreativität und Kunsttherapie - Einsatzfelder und Indikationen - Ausgewählte Methoden der Kunsttherapie - Kunst und Kunsttherapie - Effizienz der Kunsttherapie. Geschrieben für Psychologische Psychotherapeuten, Berater, Psychiater, Ärzte, Studierende und Psychotherapeuten in der AusbildungTable of Contents1 Was ist Kunsttherapie?- 2 Theoretische Grundlagen.- 3 Die Indikation von Kunsttherapie und Einsatzfelder.- 4 Methodische Varianten bei der Therapie mit bildnerischen Mitteln.- 5 Effizienz der Kunsttherapie.- 6 Kunst und Kunsttherapie.- 7 Die Entwicklung der Kunsttherapie.

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Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band versammelt einführende Beiträge, die einen Überblick über das Feld kritischer Psychologien im deutsch- und englischsprachigen Raum sowie deren methodisch-methodologische Implikationen verschaffen. Damit begegnet er einem zunehmenden Interesse an jenen Theorie- und Forschungsansätzen, die im Zuge einer paradigmatischen Engführung der Psychologie seit den 1990er Jahren fast vollständig aus dem akademischen Betrieb verschwunden sind. Im Fokus der Beiträge stehen die Grundlagen psychoanalytischer, marxistischer, sozialkonstruktionistischer und queer-feministischer Psychologie.Table of ContentsPsychologiekritik.- Psychoanalytische Sozialpsychologie.- Marxistische Subjektwissenschaft.- Sozialer Konstruktionismus.- (Queer-)Feminismus.- Qualitative Sozialforschung.

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Book SynopsisIm vorliegenden essential gibt Antje Sonntag einen grundlegenden Einblick in die verschiedenen Formen und Möglichkeiten der Meditation sowie deren Wirkung auf Stressfaktoren. Meditation kann bei der Bewältigung von körperlichem und psychischem Stress sehr gute Dienste leisten: Bei regelmäßiger und richtiger Übungspraxis lernen Betroffene, Stressfaktoren zu erkennen und zu verstehen. Der eigene Umgang mit Stressoren ändert sich, so dass Stress reduziert und sogar vermieden werden kann. Die hier vorgestellten Ergebnisse aus der Meditationsforschung belegen zudem die zahlreichen positiven Wirkungen der Meditation. Praxistipps im Buch ergänzen, auf welche Weise Meditation im Alltag und in der Therapie eingesetzt werden kann.Trade Review“… erläutert, wie durch die fortgeschrittene Meditation ein erweitertes Weltbild entsteht. Spannend sind auch die darauf folgenden Ausführungen zur wissenschaftlichen Erforschung der Meditation.” (Joachim Koch, in: Yoga Das Magazin, Heft 5, Oktober-November 2016)Table of ContentsGrundzüge der Meditation.- Mit Hilfe von Meditation Stress erkennen, verstehen, reduzieren und vermeiden.- Praxistipps für den gelungenen Einstieg in die Meditation.- Ergebnisse aus der Meditationsforschung.

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Book SynopsisAufbauend auf einer Studie, die fünf Entdeckerqualitäten innovativer Unternehmer identifiziert, entwickelt Nora-Corina Jacob ein Kreativ-Coaching für Führungskräfte, welches auf aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen und praktischen Übungen fußt und in einem Prozessmodell zur Förderung kreativer Fähigkeiten mündet. Die Autorin vermittelt ein tiefgehendes Verständnis kreativer Prozesse und leistet einen Beitrag zur aktuellen psychologischen Kreativitätsforschung. Dazu gibt sie einen umfassenden Einblick in theoretische und praktische Grundlagen zum Themenkomplex Kreativität und entwickelt theoriegeleitet sowie anhand von Einzelfallstudien ein Entdeckermodell der Kreativität. Das Kreativitäts-Modell sowie die Diskussion der Arbeit zielen darauf ab, Impulse für zukünftige Initiativen zur Kreativitätsförderung sowie die Kreativitätsforschung zu geben. Table of ContentsStrategien kreativer Personen.- Theoriekonstruktion durch Einzelfallstudien.- Kreativ-Coaching.- Weiterentwicklung des Innovatoren-DNA-Modells.- Diskussion eines möglichen Generalfaktors der Kreativität.

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Book SynopsisKreative Selbstverwirklichung dient in unserer Gesellschaft dem Zweck, eigene Ziele, Sehnsüchte, Bedürfnisse und Wünsche im Leben zu verwirklichen, sodass sich das Individuum möglichst um-fassend entfalten kann. Der vorliegende philosophisch-psychologische Ratgeber zeigt einerseits die damit verbundenen Risiken auf, die etwa in Charakterschwächen, ungünstigen äußeren Umständen oder auch im Zeitgeist des Narzissmus liegen, auf der anderen Seite erläutert er umfassend Wege zum sogenannten „Wohlfühl“- und dem „Werteglück“, die beide von der Positiven Psychologie eingehend untersucht wurden. Darüber hinaus untermauert die Autorin anhand diverser psychologischer Modelle das von ihr so genannte „Sich-Widmen-Glück“ im Sinne von Selbst-transzendenz als eine weitere Möglichkeit, ein erfülltes Leben zu führen. Zahlreiche Anregungen zur Selbstreflexion runden das Werk ab.Table of ContentsWohlbefinden und seelische Gesundheit.- Seelische Gesundheit als eigene Qualität.-Empathie und Resonanz.- Aufblühen in gesunden Beziehungen.- Wertschätzung - Dimensionen der Anerkennung.- Selbstverwirklichung und Bedürfnispyramide.- Flow-Konzept.- Kreativität und Selbstverwirklichung.- Alltagskreativität.- Die goldene Regel.- 6 Tugenden und 24 Charakterstärken der Positiven Psychologie.- 6 Untugenden und 24 Charakterschwächen.- Geringschätzung – Dimensionen der Abwertung und Ignoranz.- Verwelken in ungesunden Beziehungen.- Hölle auf Erden.- Narzissmus als Charakterschwäche.- Zeitgeist Narzissmus.- Überlebensstrategien für kreative Köpfe.- Selbstverpflichtende Zielbindung.- Kopf-Herz-Bauch – ein psychologisches Modell mit Charakter.- Watzlawicks Ebenen.- Lösungsideen für das Wohlbefinden

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Book SynopsisContextualising Happiness: Beyond the smile.- Philosophy of Happiness Through the Lens of Bhagavad-Gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam.- Study on the Causal Relationship Between Values and Happiness.- An Exposition of Happiness in the Context of Positive Psychology and Indian Psychology.- Understanding the Determinants of Happiness Among Young Adults.- Science of Individual Peace: A System Dynamics Model.- Decoding Spiritual Happiness in Poetry: An Analytical Study of the Selected Poems of John Keats.- Exploring Resilience and Psychological Well-being among the Transgender Community in India.- Bhutan's GNH: Exploring Bliss Beyond Materialism in the Land of Dragons.- Impact of Music on Happiness.- Do Musicians Perceive Happiness Differently? An EEG-based Neuro-psychological Exploration.- Do Exams and Fests Affect College Students' Emotions? A Case Study Using Sentiment Analysis Approach on Social Media Data.- Happiness in Learning Space (Schools).- Exploring Sleep and Happiness Among Indian Undergraduate Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.- Happiness Equation for Employees & Consumers: Beyond the smile.- Factors Influencing Flow at Workplace: A Study on University Faculties in Bangalore.- Beyond the Smiles: Investigating the Emotional Intelligence Factors Shaping Employee Happiness.- Evolving Trends of Happiness at the Workplace Owing to the COVID-19 Crisis.- The Impact of Virtuous Organizational Practices on Flow at Work Among Kitchen Employees in Bengaluru.- The Impact of Virtuous Organizational Practices on Flow at Work Among Kitchen Employees in Bengaluru.- Unveiling Happiness at Work: A Conceptual Paper.- An Empirical Study to Identify Experiential Marketing Facets for Customer Delight.- An Empirical Study to Identify Experiential Marketing Facets for Customer Delight.- High Performance Work System and Turnover Intentions in Hospitality and Tourism: Examining the Mediating Role of Employee Happiness.- Fast Food Restaurants: Shift from Catchlines to Consumer Happiness.- Nurturing Happiness: Beyond the smile.- The Science of Sensory Engagement: Emergence, Recurrence, and Reformation.- Mindful Pottering and Time Affluence Among Students: A Qualitative Investigation.- Elevating Happiness Through Mindfulness: An In-depth Systematic Literature Review.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a novel perspective on psychology's methodology—moving it from quantification as a given imperative to science-philosophical look at phenomena-data relationship. The idea for this volume emerged from inquiries into the history of psychology of the 18th-19th centuries where the developmental focus within German Naturphilosophie led philosophers to emphasize the dialectical nature of biological and psychological development. The nature of the natural and social worlds is curvilinear and includes knot-complexes that cannot be investigated in terms of the consensually accepted General Linear Model of the 20th century. In this the new book continues the creative search for new forms of epistemological ways of thinking that was started in 2010 in the volume Methodological thinking in psychology: 60 years gone astray. General Liner Model and turned into metaphoric complexes that acquire life of their own in psychologists' thinking needs to be replaced by qualitative-structural units of thinking about how human psychological organization can be presented.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a novel perspective on psychology's methodology—moving it from quantification as a given imperative to science-philosophical look at phenomena-data relationship. The idea for this volume emerged from inquiries into the history of psychology of the 18th-19th centuries where the developmental focus within German Naturphilosophie led philosophers to emphasize the dialectical nature of biological and psychological development. The nature of the natural and social worlds is curvilinear and includes knot-complexes that cannot be investigated in terms of the consensually accepted General Linear Model of the 20th century. In this the new book continues the creative search for new forms of epistemological ways of thinking that was started in 2010 in the volume Methodological thinking in psychology: 60 years gone astray. General Liner Model and turned into metaphoric complexes that acquire life of their own in psychologists' thinking needs to be replaced by qualitative-structural units of thinking about how human psychological organization can be presented.

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Book SynopsisUna colección de ensayos, testimonio de la vitalidad intelectual de una de las creadoras más fecundas de nuestro tiempo.Publicado por primera vez en 1966, este celebrado libro de Susan Sontag, su primera colección de ensayos, se convirtió rápidamente en un clásico contemporáneo que ha tenido una gran influencia en el pensamiento sobre el arte y la cultura contemporáneos, no solo circunscrita a Estados Unidos. Además del ensayo que le da título y el famoso Notas sobre lo camp, Contra la interpretación y otros ensayos incluye textos originales y provocativos sobre Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, la ciencia ficción, el cine, el psicoanálisis y el pensamiento religioso contemporáneo. Los ensayos de Susan Sontag son grandes interpretaciones, incluso acontecimientos, sobre lo que está sucediendo realmente. Carlos Fuentes

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Book SynopsisTherapeutic changes occur in many places, and among animals as well as humans. A theory that attempts to explain therapeutic changes should be based on principles that apply not only to those changes occurring during the hour, but also to those observed in the educational process, in interpersonal relations, and in the social milieu, as well as with animals. It would be desirable to discover principles broad enough to provide a deeper understanding of therapeutic change in this wide variety of situations.Experienced therapists appear to be similar in what they are doing, although they may disagree as to why they do it. In spite of the arguments about theoretical formulations, it can be observed that during an hour with a patient many psychotherapists may not follow their own theories too well. There probably is some relevance in a comparison of psychotherapy with a concept formation test: the subject gives the correct answers but is unable to state why he did so or what princTable of Contents1: Introduction and Overview; 2: The Anatomy of a Message Structure and Motivation; 3: Developing Patterns Choosing Responses to the Environment; 4: Information-Gathering Process in Psychotherapy; 5: The Use of Conventions; 6: Interventions in Psychotherapy; 7: Labeling the Therapist’s Activity; 8: Content Choices in the Psychotherapeutic Hour; 9: Extratherapeutic Incidents; 10: Technical Problems in the Therapeutic Process; 11: Communication Analysis in Family Group and Group Therapy; 12: The Child’s Communication in Therapy; 13: The Changing Landscape of Psychotherapy Practice Managed Care; 14: The Therapist as a Consultant; 15: Supervision in Communication Analytic Therapy *; 16: Nonverbal Communication in Psychotherapy; 17: The Ethical Problems of Control of Behavior; 18: Pills and Caring Talk; 19: Summary and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisNot then, men and their moments. Rather, moment and their men, writes Erving Goffman in the introduction to his groundbreaking 1967 Interaction Ritual, a study of face-to-face interaction in natural settings, that class of events which occurs during co-presence and by virtue of co-presence. The ultimate behavioral materials are the glances, gestures, positionings, and verbal statements that people continuously feed into situations, whether intended or not.A sociology of occasions is here advocated. Social organization is the central theme, but what is organized is the co-mingling of persons and the temporary interactional enterprises that can arise therefrom. A normatively stabilized structure is at issue, a social gathering, but this is a shifting entity, necessarily evanescent, created by arrivals and killed by departures. The major section of the book is the essay Where the Action Is, drawing on Goffman's last major ethnographic project observation of Nevada casinTable of ContentsIntroduction, On Face-Work, The Nature of Deference and Demeanor, Embarrassment and Social Organization, Alienation from Interaction, Mental Symptoms and Public Order, Where the Action Is

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