Psychology Books

Book SynopsisSport Psychology Essentials teaches teams, coaches, and athletes to blend mental skills with physical, technical, and tactical training to achieve performance goals. Discover techniques to improve motivation, imagery, self-regulation, concentration, and more. Examine sport psychology research and real-life success stories.Table of ContentsPart I. Making Sport Psychology WorkChapter 1. Blending Mental Training Into a Performance ProgramDave Collins and Andrew CruickshankChapter 2. Case Conceptualization: Strategies for Assessing and ConceivingAmanda MartindaleChapter 3. Integrating Athlete- and Performance-Centered ApproachesAndreas KüttelChapter 4. Putting Into Practice a Sound Philosophy of Sport PsychologyArtur PoczwardowskiPart II. Enhancing Athletes’ Performance MindsetChapter 5. MotivationDavid ShearerChapter 6. ConfidenceDenis HauwChapter 7. Imagery and Mental PracticeGeoff P. Lovell and John K. ParkerChapter 8. Self-RegulationTynke ToeringChapter 9. Concentration, Focus, and AttentionJohn TonerChapter 10. Reflection and BalanceCarlos Eduardo Gonçalves and Humberto Moreira CarvalhoPart III. Enhancing Team Performance PotentialChapter 11. LeadershipAndrew CruickshankChapter 12. High-Performing CulturesGeir Jordet and Rune GiskeChapter 13. Shared Mental ModelsPam Richards and Dave CollinsChapter 14. Macrostructures and MicrosystemsDave CollinsPart IV. Preparing Individuals and Teams for Optimal PerformanceChapter 15. Program IntegrationTom WillmottChapter 16. Motoric ConsiderationsMaurizio Bertollo and Antonio De FanoChapter 17. Talent DevelopmentÁine MacNamaraChapter 18. Practice and Transfer to Competition, Peaking, and PerformingBoris Blumenstein and Iris OrbachChapter 19. Staying Motivated: Countering Slumps, Injury, and Ill-BeingAndreas Stenling and Andreas IvarssonEpilogue. Getting Help: What to Look for and What to Expect in a ConsultantAndrew Cruickshank and David Collins

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Book SynopsisSlow down, connect with your artistic side, and unleash your innate creativity with this unique guide that’s one part mindfulness practice and one part drawing instruction. “[Dean's] joyful approach to embracing imperfections throughout the process is a breath of fresh air… Thanks to her inclusive style, beginners and pros alike can feel confident in their creativity.” —Brit + Co Let beloved art teacher Peggy Dean (IG: @thepigeonletters) show you how powerful it is to create something! Discover the pleasure of expressing yourself through sketching—even if you think you can’t draw. Peggy’s got tips on the materials you’ll need, easy techniques you can use right away, and methods for approaching any subject or location. She offers step-by-step exercises to help you relax into the drawing process, and gives you ways to tackle tricky beginner problems like “what should I sketch?” Learn how to stay with the small moments as you work, draw what you see around you, and embrace the results. Grab your sketchbook and experience how relaxing, rewarding, and life-changing a drawing practice can be. Trade Review"We love Peggy's take on teaching the art of line drawing. Her joyful approach to embracing imperfections throughout the process is a breath of fresh air. From her perspective, a crooked line is your crooked line—it adds unique character to your artwork. Thanks to her inclusive style, beginners and pros alike can feel confident in their creativity."—Brit + Co"[Peggy Dean’s] ability to break down complex illustrations into simple shapes will have you creating pieces of artwork you didn’t know were possible. Her style inspires the artist in all of us."—Skillshare

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the fundamentals and applications of solution-focused coaching both in individual coaching and in coaching entire teams. It provides central tools for consulting as well as an extensive collection of solution-focused coaching questions for practical use. In the second part of the book, methods and procedures for conducting team coaching workshops are presented. The book is aimed primarily at coaches and consultants who want to enrich their work with solution-focused coaching, as well as managers especially in the field of human resource management. Table of ContentsPart I Individual Coaching.- 1 It Is Not About Solutions!.- 2 If It’s Not Broken, Don’t Fix it.- 3 It Is Simple and Sometimes Easy.- 4 It Is More than a Miracle.- Part II Team Coaching: Reteaming®.- 5 It Is All About Motivation: Reteaming®.- 6 It Starts with a Motto: The Assignment.- 7 It Is About the Team’s Future: The Team Coaching Workshop 91.- 8 It Is Only 12 Steps: The Team Coaching.- Workshop.- Literature.

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Book SynopsisWe all have times when we lack confidence but some of us criticize ourselves constantly. Our self-esteem can suffer, leaving us feeling stressed.The renowned therapist Manja de Neef has helped hundreds of people overcome their low self-esteem and heal the pain in their lives with her practical Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach. No matter how harsh your inner critic, in Build Your Confidence with CBT Manja gives you the insight and tools to vastly improve your ability to develop a positive self-image. By spending 15 minutes a day, twice a day, on her CBT exercises you will learn how to practice self-acceptance and live the life you want â moving from a position of putting yourself down to feeling confident. This empowering, life-affirming book will help you overcome your insecurities and move forward with your life.   &nbTable of Contents1 IntroductionWhy this book?How do I overcome low self-esteem and improve your confidence? Who is this book for?How does this self-help programme work?A matter of motivation...Picking the right momentHow to Use this BookSeeking help from a buddyExercises2 Your Self-EsteemWhat is meant by ‘self-esteem’? What if your self-esteem is low?Do some people have healthy self-esteem?Selective perception and selective memoryIt is not all just in your head The causes of low self-esteemThe consequences of low self-esteem What is healthy?How can you raise your self-esteem and develop your confidence?Exercises 3 The Positive Data LogLook at things from a different angleWriting in your positive data logGetting startedEight ways to enter more facts in your positive data log Persisting and continuingExercises 4 Positive QualitiesWhat does your behaviour say about you?Adding positive qualities to your positive data Log The positive qualities listGetting startedEight ways to add more qualities in your positive list Apply your positive qualities to come to you automaticallyPersisting and continuing Exercises 5 Negative Mind TalkBeaver or woodwormWhat is negative mind talk?Why do you excel at negative mind talk?Eight ways to put yourself down Getting StartedFive ways to negate complimentsPersisting and continuing Exercises6 Changing Your BehaviourSurvival strategiesGetting rid of your old behaviour patterns?New behavioursGetting startedPersisting and continuing Exercises 7 Dealing with CriticismCriticism is deadly if you take everything at face valueFrom destructive to constructiveLearning to listen to criticism Getting startedPersisting and continuing Exercises 8 High Demands and PerfectionismIt can always be betterWho decides on the marks?Look at things from a different angleTake it easy for a whileGetting rid of dos and don’ts?Getting startedPersisting and continuing Exercises 9 The FutureTaking stockNot just believing but feelingA maintenance planWhat if your low self-esteem comes back?No worriesExercises References

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Book SynopsisPresenting an original and vital model for psychological development, the brilliant and pioneering author of He, She, and We offers a new understanding of the stages of personal growth through which maturity and wholeness can be achieved. Using quintessential figures from classical literature--Don Quixote, Hamlet, and Faust--Robert Johnson shows us three clearly defined stages of consciousness development. He demonstrates how the true work of maturity is to grow through these levels to the self-realized state of completion and harmony. In Johnson''s view, we all reach the stages depicted by Don Quixote, Hamlet, and Faust at various times of our lives. The three represent levels of consciousness within us, each vying for dominance. Don Quixote portrays the innocent child, while Hamlet stands for our self-conscious need to act and feel in control though we have no real connection to our inner selves. Faust embodies the master of the true self, who has gained awareness by working through the stages.

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Book SynopsisAs a master teacher, John Santrock connects current scholarship with real-world applications, helping students see how developmental psychology plays a role in their own lives and future careers.  Students report that highlighting the connections among the different aspects of lifespan development helps them to better understand the concepts. The robust research foundation of this text is made accessible to students through an integrated learning goals system, resulting in a comprehensive and chronological approach to lifespan development that helps students gain the insight they need to study smarter, stay focused, and improve performance. McGraw Hill Connect's digital learning tools are invaluable in helping students synthesize and master the broad scope of content of the lifespan development course.Table of ContentsSECTION 1 THE LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE Ch 1 Introduction Careers in Life-Span Development SECTION 2 BEGINNINGS Ch 2 Biological Beginnings Ch 3 Prenatal Development and BirthSECTION 3 INFANCYCh 4 Physical Development in InfancyCh 5 Cognitive Development in InfancyCh 6 Socioemotional Development in InfancySECTION 4 EARLY CHILDHOODCh 7 Physical and Cognitive Development in Early ChildhoodCh 8 Socioemotional Development in Early ChildhoodSECTION 5 MIDDLE AND LATE CHILDHOODCh 9 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle and Late ChildhoodCh 10 Socioemotional Development in Middle and Late ChildhoodSECTION 6 ADOLESCENCECh 11 Physical and Cognitive Development in AdolescenceCh 12 Socioemotional Development in AdolescenceSECTION 7 EARLY ADULTHOODCh 13 Physical and Cognitive Development in Early AdulthoodCh 14 Socioemotional Development in Early AdulthoodSECTION 8 MIDDLE ADULTHOODCh 15 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle AdulthoodCh 16 Socioemotional Development in Middle AdulthoodSECTION 9 LATE ADULTHOODCh 17 Physical Development in Late AdulthoodCh 18 Cognitive Development in Late AdulthoodCh 19 Socioemotional Development in Late AdulthoodSECTION 10 ENDINGSCh 20 Death, Dying, and GrievingMcGraw Hill Psychology’s APA Documentation Style Guide

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Book SynopsisTwo weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee . . .The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neurological conditions at the far borderlands of human experience. But his grasp of science was not restricted to neuroscience or medicine; he was fascinated by the issues, ideas, and questions of all the sciences. That wide-ranging expertise and passion informs the perspective of this book, in which he interrogates the nature not only of human experience but of all life.In The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes - above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companiTrade ReviewReading a book published after its authors death, especially if he is as prodigiously alive on every page as Oliver Sacks, as curious, avid and thrillingly fluent, brings both the joy of hearing from him again, and the regret of knowing it will likely be the last time . . . [The] combination of wonder, passion and gratitude never seemed to flag in Sacks’s life; everything he wrote was lit with it. But it was his openness to new ideas and experiences, and his vision of change as the most human of biological processes that synthesized all of his work -- Nicole Krauss * The New York Times Book Review *Millions of Sacks’s books have been printed around the world, and he once spoke of receiving 200 letters a week from admirers. For those thousands of correspondents, The River of Consciousness will feel like a reprieve – we get to spend time again with Sacks the botanist, the historian of science, the marine biologist and, of course, the neurologist * Guardian *An incisive and generous inquiry into human nature * Elle *[Sacks’s] accumulated wisdom of our experience of time and consciousness makes a marvellous discrete series of meditations – and a profoundly moving one, since several of these pieces were written with the knowledge that his experience of both mysteries was soon coming to an end -- Tim Adams * Observer *Compelling . . . Sacks invites readers into his mind where they can experience the world from his unusually insightful perspective * Science News Magazine *A fascinating book * Daily Telegraph *Sacks continues in this latest collection to focus on questions over answers; the result is a work that leaves plenty of room for possibility beyond what might be immediately observed . . . Intellectually, Sacks is, at heart, a philosopher * New York Magazine *A writer of eloquence, he was always ready to see his medical specialist in reaction to the world and humanity . . . His greatest reverence is for the human mind * The Tablet *A joy to read: a delicious supply of information and commentary organized by a gifted writer of a curious and humane intelligence * The Washington Times *Reveals Sacks as a gleeful polymath and an inveterate seeker of meaning in the mold of Darwin and his other scientific heroes Sigmund Freud and William James . . . As this volume reminds us, in losing Sacks we lost a gifted and generous storyteller * Wall Street Journal *True to its title, the book is dictated by a flood of mental energy, thus it is more than mere sentimentality to say that, more than two years after his death, Sacks’s spirit still courses through us. Long may it flow * The Globe and Mail *Fans of the late neurologist have another chance to enjoy this erudite, compassionate storyteller, essayist, and memoirist . . . This collection of 10 essays, some of which appeared previously in The New York Review of Books, was assembled by three colleagues from an outline provided by Sacks two weeks before his death in 2015 . . . A collection of dissimilar pieces that reveal the scope of the author’s interests—sometimes challenging, always rewarding * Kirkus Reviews *Brilliant, beautiful, and funny . . . Sacks was one of the finest science writers – well read, scientifically exact and literary . . . This collection meets the standard of his previous work . . . Sacks's love of the natural world as well as the human one is contagious. The breadth of his interests encourages his readers to expand their own horizons . . . His curiosity and erudition, and his joy in both intellectual and physical life are in full bloom on these pages * Shelf Awareness *The reader is in thrall to Sacks's ability to braid wide reading, research and experience with his neurology patients to reach original and subtle conclusions . . . Darwin and Sacks, with their expansive abilities to look deeply into small matters and uncover, with evident delight, large truths, seem like brothers separated by a mere century * Chicago Tribune *Readers who encountered [Sacks's] mind through Awakenings mind The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat will be delighted by these pieces * The Washington Post *Fascinating . . . meditative . . . A useful introduction to his restless intellect and elegant sentences and a tribute to his scientific and philosophical heroes: Darwin, Freud and William James * San Francisco Chronicle *[Sacks] examines the fallibility of memory, the nature of creativity, the still monumental insights of Charles Darwin, and more - all with his characteristic sensitivity and spirit of optimism * Esquire *An exuberant, fascinating reminder of the brilliant neuroscientist who opened our eyes to hidden worlds . . . [A] wonder-filled collection * People *Reflects the agility of Sacks's enthusiasms, moving from forgetting and neglect in science to Freud's early work on the neuroanatomy of fish . . . Offer[s] a more humane version of what communion between the specialties might bring * Guardian *The writings are stitched through with Sacks's characteristic curiosity and verve, weaving esoteric research, incisive observations, and intimate anecdotes into lucid expositions on the natural world and those who seek to understand it * Wired *The warm genius of Oliver Sacks comes alive . . . Sacks brings the friendly curiosity for which he is so beloved to this ultimate testing ground of character, emerging once more as the brilliant, lovable human he was * Brain Pickings *

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Book SynopsisSome investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. With advances in neurobiology and neuroscience, however, researchers are proving this position wrong while moving closer to understanding the biology and psychology of emotion. In Affective Neuroscience, Jaak Panksepp argues that emotional systems in humans, as well as other animals, are necessarily combinations of innate and learned tendencies; there are no routine and credible ways to really separate the influences of nature and nurture in the control of behavior. The book shows how to move toward a new understanding by taking a psychobiological approach to the subject, examining how the neurobiology and neurochemistry of the mammalian brain shape the psychological experience of emotion. It includes chapters on sleep and arousal, pleasure and pain systems, the sources of rage and anger, and the neural control of sexuality. The book will appeal to researchers and professors in the field of emotion.Trade ReviewIt is an invaluable reference for any neuroscientist interested in understanding the neurobiological basis of drives and emotions where the best information is contained in the animal literature. This is the strength of Panksepp's book which summarizes and references these data around clinically recognizable concepts making the information highly relevant to practising clinicians. * Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences *Jaak Panksepp presents a synopsis of animal research on emotion together with stimulating new ideas on the role and representation of emotion in humans and other mammals. It seemed clear to me that Panksepp's affective neuroscience can provide a valuable foundation to emotion research. These are not entirely new ideas, but by presenting them in a comprehensive text on the neuroscience of emotion, Panksepp constructs a strong defence against the not uncommon view that emotions are 'illusionary concepts outside the realm of scientific enquiry.' For this reason alone, Panksepp is to be congratulated. This is a powerful text that will make a lasting impression on emotion research in general. Panksepp has provided a much-needed review of the animal literature, together with fascinating new ideas on the nature of affective consciousness. * Andy Calder, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK *Table of ContentsPART I: CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND; PART II: BASIC EMOTIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL PROCESSES; PART III: THE SOCIAL EMOTIONS

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Book SynopsisSometimes relationships do not run as smoothly as we would like. Attunement to others can be difficult, and conversely, from time to time we feel misunderstood ourselves by the ones we love. This can lead to misunderstanding, frustration, and friction. If we mentalize more and better, i.e. give more attention to our own feelings, thoughts, desires, and intentions as well as to those of others, our interactions will be more pleasant and feel safer. This applies to every relationship - those with our children and pupils, and those with our partners and colleagues.We all know a student, neighbour, client, or adolescent who feels alone and misunderstood. Maybe we see but hesitate to really connect and mean something to them. Or we think it that there is nothing we can do. This book shows how everyone can make a difference. Making someone feel important, mentalizing about someone, and connecting with someone who may not have felt contact for a long time does make a difference.The Power of Mentalizing explains in an accessible way what mentalizing means and how it can help make a difference in our own lives as well as in the lives of others. The authors of this book draw on the rich developmental psychology literature on attachment, mentalizing, and epistemic trust. They use several examples to explain what it takes to really connect. In addition, they challenge the reader to self-reflect and to become a slightly better version of themselves.Trade Review... translates complex psychological understanding of human interaction into a comprehensible everyday narrative. Readers will be able to relate to the only too human examples of effective and ineffective mentalizing, and thereby use them to reflect on their own mentalizing and how they function in everyday relationships. * From the foreword by Anthony Bateman *

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Book SynopsisWhen we end up in a really good conversation with a friend, we sometimes pay them a slightly unusual but sincere compliment: we say that chatting to them feels like talking to a good therapist. What we tend to mean is that they’re giving us space to talk, they’re not interrupting us or pushing their own advice aggressively forward: they’re properly listening. This game cannot turn us into real therapists (that would take years of training). But like many good games (ones about flying or being a detective for example), it gives us a chance to try out, entertainingly but safely, one of the most interesting sides of a great profession. The Therapy Game offers us a rare opportunity to listen and speak to one another at truly fulfilling length and depth.

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Book SynopsisDeveloping a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on narratives of family and individual experiences with neurological disorders, paired with texts by neuroscientists and psychiatrists, to decenter the brain and expose the ableist biases in the dominant thinking about personhood. Unraveling articulates a novel cybernetic theory of subjectivity in which the nervous system is connected to the world it inhabits rather than being walled off inside the body, moving beyond neuroscientific, symbolic, and materialist approaches to the self to focus instead on such concepts as animation, modularity, and facilitation. It does so through close readings of memoirs by individuals who lost their hearing or developed trauma-induced aphasia, as well as family members of people diagnosed as autistic—texts that rethink modes of subjectivity through experiences with communication, caregiving, and the demands of everyday life. Arguing for a radical antinormative bioethics, Unraveling shifts the discourse on neurological disorders from such value-laden concepts as “quality of life” to develop an inclusive model of personhood that honors disability experiences and reconceptualizes the category of the human in all of its social, technological, and environmental contexts.Trade Review"Unraveling is a work of cultural reimagination. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer knits together neurological, psychiatric, and neuroscientific theories about ‘the brain’ in this broad-based inquiry into ‘communicative disorders.’ He insists that the many possibilities and blocked channels of communication depend on the interdependency of subject, personhood, family, community, and polity. He joins leading scholars in disability studies and feminist theory, illuminating the thoroughly social nature of all embodied communication and thus its ethical and political reliance on making a world where differences are welcome."—Rayna Rapp, New York University"This is a book for our times—a deep dive into the problematics of personhood in relationship to the neurological. This book, alluringly readable, vigorously challenges our conceptions of what makes a human being human and advocates for an anti-neoliberal vision of complex selfhood that is not dependent on predictable norms. While this subject could lend itself to predictable advocacy, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer stays ahead of the reader's assumptions and provides a new and thoughtful way of conceiving big questions concerning the very definitions of life, thought, value, and ethics. A must read for anyone interested in neurodivergence and disability in general."—Lennard J. Davis, author of Obsession: A HistoryTable of ContentsContentsPreface: Blind-Man-and-WorldIntroduction: Let’s Build a New Nervous System1. Neurological Subjectivity: How Neuroscience Makes and Unmakes People through Neurological Disorder2. Symbolic Subjectivity: How Psychoanalysis and the Communication of Meaning Disable Individuals3. Materialist Subjectivity: How Technology and Material Environments Make Personhood Possible4. Cybernetic Subjectivity: The Fusion of Body, Symbol, and Environment in the Facilitated Person5. Facilitated Subjectivity, Affective Bioethics, and the Nervous SystemEpilogue: Living and Dying in the Nervous System AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisMarriage-enrichment specialists Robert and Rosemary Barnes show you how to overcome roadblocks to communication and develop heart-level intimacy with your spouse. Drawing from a wealth of real-life experiences, they share insights that will help you unlock doors to thoughts and feelings. You''ll learn how to move past each other''s outer walls to discover the rich, often fragile world that lies inside. We Need to Talk is a hands-on, how-to book for couples at all stages of marriage. Helpful summaries and questions at the end of each chapter encourage open and honest sharing and provide practical ways for you to - Reduce misunderstandings and defensiveness - Set aside time for meaningful conversation - Get through to a clammed-up shellfish, a prickly porcupine, an elusive prairie dog, or a vegged-out couch potato - Talk frankly about sensitive subjects -- including sex - Rebuild communication after a serious rift. This engaging, easy-to-read book helps you communicate heart-to-heart

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Book SynopsisClinical psychology treats people who are facing difficulties or changes in their lives. Approaching personal distress as an unhappy outcome of certain ways of thinking, behaving and relating, often occurring within difficult circumstances, practitioners work with people to try and help them change what is distressing or concerning them.Trade Reviewinsightful ... I would be recommending this as essential reading to any psychology student but probably more so to anyone who regularly has conversations with others about anxiety, stress or any psychological issues. Using this book will remind you that you are not alone. * Paul Watson, Nursing Times *This is a well-balanced, accessible, and clear account of the practice, outlook, and training of clinical psychologists, drawing on clinical examples to illustrate how psychologists make their contribution â a valuable resource for laypeople, students, and fellow professionals. * Tony Roth, Professor of Clinical Psychology, UCL *Table of ContentsPREFACE; REFERENCES; FURTHER READING; INDEX

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Book SynopsisWhy do we make mistakes? Are there certain errors common to failure, whether in a complex enterprise or daily life? In this truly indispensable book, Dietrich Dörner identifies what he calls the logic of failure,certain tendencies in our patterns of thought that, while appropriate to an older, simpler world, prove disastrous for the complex world we live in now. Working with imaginative and often hilarious computer simulations, he analyzes the roots of catastrophe, showing city planners in the very act of creating gridlock and disaster, or public health authorities setting the scene for starvation. The Logic of Failure is a compass for intelligent planning and decision-making that can sharpen the skills of managers, policymakers and everyone involved in the daily challenge of getting from point A to point B.

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Book SynopsisBehavior therapy is an increasingly complex approach to the treatment of human problems, ballooning in the last fifty years to nearly one hundred separate techniques.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Contributors ix CHAPTER 1 THE CORE PRINCIPLES OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY 1 William T. O’Donohue and Jane E. Fisher CHAPTER 2 CLINICAL FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS: UNDERSTANDING THE CONTINGENCIES OF REINFORCEMENT 13 Clair Rummel, Christina Garrison-Diehn, Casey Catlin, and Jane E. Fisher CHAPTER 3 SKILLS TRAINING 37 Michael P. Twohig and John P. Dehlin CHAPTER 4 EXPOSURE THERAPY: PROMOTING EMOTIONAL PROCESSING OF PATHOLOGICAL ANXIETY 75 Alyson K. Zalta and Edna B. Foa CHAPTER 5 RELAXATION 105 Holly Hazlett-Stevens and Douglas A. Bernstein CHAPTER 6 COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING 133 Robert L. Leahy and Simon A. Rego CHAPTER 7 PROBLEM SOLVING 159 Arthur M. Nezu and Christine Maguth Nezu CHAPTER 8 SELF-REGULATION 183 Paul Karoly CHAPTER 9 BEHAVIORAL ACTIVATION 215 Jonathan W. Kanter and Ajeng J. Puspitasari CHAPTER 10 SOCIAL SKILLS 251 Joanna E. Strong Kinnaman and Alan S. Bellack CHAPTER 11 EMOTION REGULATION AND CBT 273 Anthony Papa, Matthew Boland, and M. Todd Sewell CHAPTER 12 COMMUNICATION 325 Justin A. Lavner and Thomas N. Bradbury CHAPTER 13 PRINCIPLES OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 353 Jeana L. Magyar-Moe CHAPTER 14 ACCEPTANCE AND COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY 377 Kelly G. Wilson, Maureen K. Flynn, Michael Bordieri, Stephanie Nassar, Nadia Lucas, and Kerry Whiteman Author Index 399 Subject Index 425

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Book SynopsisAn amnesia victim asking "Who am I?" means something different from a confused adolescent asking the same question. Marya Schechtman takes issue with analytic philosophy's emphasis on the first sort of question to the exclusion of the second. The...Trade ReviewSchechtman has greatly enriched the discussion of personal identity. This stimulating book enlarges our sense of the philosophically possible. -- Christopher Williams, University of Nevada at Reno * The Philosophical Review *This excellent and engaging book succeeds in raising questions about the dominant approach to asking questions about our identities and our concern for the future, as well as in offering... the beginnings of an alternative way to ask and answer such questions. That's quite a lot of philosophical work in such a short book. * Ethics *

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Book SynopsisA friendly and accessible guide to psychological research methods, Your A to Z of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology is the perfect companion to your core research methods textbook. This clear and extensive A to Z covers all the key terms and concepts you need to navigate methods and statistics in psychology with ease.Trade ReviewWithout a doubt, this is the handy guide that students have been looking for. * Dr Susanna Kola-Palmer, University of Huddersfield *

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Book SynopsisLong-regarded as the handbook of Individual Psychology, Understanding Human Nature provides an accessible introduction to Adler's key concepts, with which he moved away from his colleague Freud's thinking. These include inferiority/ superiority complexes; memories and dreams; love marriage and children; and sexuality and sexual problems. Adler's holistic personality-based approach to psychology continues to be relevant today to students, the general public and professionals alike.Table of ContentsLong-regarded as the handbook of Individual Psychology, Understanding Human Nature provides an accessible introduction to Adler's key concepts.

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Book SynopsisPROSE Award Finalist for Psychology and Applied Social WorkArgues that a range of behaviors such as murder-suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal onesMass shooters often display behaviors that strongly mirror the warning signs for suicide: lives led in isolation, intense personal suffering, disaffection, and struggle. Letters detailing why they did what they did paint pictures of intense misery and loneliness. As this book makes clear, private despair sometimes leads to social violence.In this groundbreaking work, Thomas Joiner offers a unified theory of suicide, making the case that many acts that appear homicidal are best understood primarily as suicidal. We must recognize that there are several forms of suicidal violence, some of which masquerade as other types of acts, including terrorism and murder. These include suicide-by-cop, suicide terrorism, murder-suicide, and runninTrade ReviewA must read for anyone who desires to understand the complex web of factors that contribute to violent behavior. For decades, scholars have argued that violence cannot be predicted. In The Varieties of Suicidal Experience, however. Joiner does just that -- by building on his decades of expertise and groundbreaking theory of suicide. -- Rheeda Walker, Author of The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental HealthIn The Varieties of Suicidal Experience Joiner manifestly displays his extraordinary scholarly gifts. . . . He shrewdly makes his points with beautifully crafted—and accessible—language brimming with compelling case examples that vividly illustrate his arguments. No one in the field of suicidology today thinks, reflects on, explores, and writes about the topic of suicide quite like Thomas Joiner. This extraordinary new book explores suicidal violence, in all its forms, displaying an intellectual acumen and the sage wisdom of one of the field’s most astute thinkers and singular scholars. -- David A. Jobes, Director of the Suicide Prevention Laboratory, The Catholic University of America, Washington DCJoiner builds on what is arguably history’s most scientifically tested, supported and impactful theory addressing suicidality, the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. ITS has not only moved an entire field forward but literally reshaped it. Joiner's application across vexing problems like murder-suicide, suicide by cop, suicide terrorism, and physician-assisted suicide is impressive, incisive, and practically accessible. Not only do his clarity and precision improve our understanding of these troubling problems, but he crafts an explanatory narrative that allows us to work to coherently identify strategies, targeted interventions, and policies that offer hope of progress to reduce the tragedy of suicide and assuage the suffering of those affected. Once again, Joiner takes on some of the greatest challenges society faces today. The end result is that he helps us more accurately understand why these tragic things happen and opens the door for solutions. -- M. David Rudd, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and President Emeritus, University of Memphis

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Book SynopsisDesigned to guide you toward a profound understanding of why you do what you do, this journal is an invitation to embark on a transformative exploration of self-discovery and personal growth for Enneagram Type Eights. With insightful prompts, mindfulness exercises, and grounding meditations to help Challengers recognize and embrace your unique characteristics, challenges, and strengths, each page is a step along the path toward your authentic self.As a Challenger, you embody an extraordinary reservoir of energy that saturates every aspect of your being, a force intricately crafted to empower you in asserting control and influence over your surroundings. The Enneagram Type 8 Journal is your trusted ally on the journey toward discovering how to tap into the softer side of your true nature, enabling the radiant expression of your inner strength to to come forward as a profoundly compassionate and protective force of nature.THE ENNEAGRAM INNER WORK JOURNAL SERI

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Book SynopsisDesigned to guide you toward a profound understanding of why you do what you do, this journal is an invitation to embark on a transformative exploration of self-discovery and personal growth for Enneagram Type Fours. With insightful prompts, mindfulness exercises, and grounding meditations to help Individualists recognize and embrace your unique characteristics, challenges, and strengths, each page is a step along the path toward your authentic self.As an Individualist, you seek to honor the depths of the human experience and express yourself in a completely unique and authentic way. The Enneagram Type 4 Journal is your trusted ally on the journey toward unraveling your distinct identity and embracing your individual experiences. Within these pages, you'll begin the process of uncovering the essence of your true self and cultivating emotional honesty amidst the exploration of your personal challenges.THE ENNEAGRAM INNER WORK JOURNAL SERIES

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Book SynopsisEveryone makes mistakes in relationships at one time or another. Sometimes they learn from those mistakes. Other times, they return to those behaviors and cycle through failed relationship after failed relationship. Sometimes those behaviors become an addiction to love that may leave a person feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, lonely, or worse. Lesbian Love Addiction: Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things go Wrong makes visible the elements of love addiction that many lesbians suffer from. Love addiction for lesbians comes in many forms. Some struggle by sexually acting out and others are serial relationship junkies, jumping from one relationship into the next. Some are addicted to the high of falling in love and once that wears off don’t know how to handle the day-to-day realities of a committed relationship. Some are even addicted to fantasy and intrigue, while others are love avoidants and sexual anorexics. Love avoidants may be able to get into a relationship but once they are fully committed, struggle with feeling smothered. Others may avoid intimate or sexual relationships all together, becoming sexually anorexic. Some may even vacillate between all of these. The underlying component and common denominator in all of these scenarios is the “Urge to Merge.” Lesbian Love Addiction is designed to help ameliorate at least part of this problem. Lauren D. Costine offers insight for lesbians, bisexual women in relationships with women, queer women, and more specifically, any woman who loves women, as well as their family and friends, and health care professionals, into the psychology of lesbian love addiction. It will give those who struggle with and suffer from love addiction ways to understand, cope, and heal from this debilitating addiction. It will give those who work with this population new tools to use to do this more effectively. Mostly, it will help lesbians understand their relationship failures and how to heal from problems associated with them, so they may grow and cultivate happier, more fulfilling connections in the future.Trade ReviewDr. Costine created a thought-provoking platform and . . . her greatest talent is in connecting the dots. Theology, history, physiology, psychology and sociology intermingle to a specific end. She takes truths, re-examines and perhaps, repurposes those truths to create an interesting hypothesis. Lesbian Love Addiction shines a light on a particular manifestation of humanity and in better understanding that perspective; we're all positioned to better understand ourselves. Clearly, whether it's ancient Vikings, pre-Christian patriarchs, contemporary talk show hosts fretting about femi-nazis or presidential contenders wallowing in sexist slurs, the modern feminist has an ancient torch to bear. Dr. Costine is a gifted speaker, writer and philosopher and her work will continue to generate both heat and light. * Gay San Diego *Lesbian Love Addiction: Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things Go Wrong discusses the phenomenon of love addiction that many lesbians suffer from, discussing the kinds of behaviors that lead to constant failed relationships and how the drive to merge with another at the cost of one's identity results in dysfunctional relationships. It's a common adage that lesbians meet, fall in love, and move in with one another in very short time frames; but Lesbian Love Addiction analyzes why, and provides important insights not just into behaviors, but how to modify them for greater success. The result is highly recommended for any psychology or women's issues collection. * Midwest Book Review *Lauren Costine's voice illuminates a path for women outside dominant, heterosexist margins as they navigate love and desire. With excellent research, Costine offers sound theory and practice for lesbians suffering from addictive love and sex. A wonderful resource and a much needed addition to the emerging literary canon for women. -- Kelly McDaniel, LPC, NCC, Author: Ready to Heal: Breaking Free of Addictive RelationshipsNothing aids recovery more than the deep identification between one addict and another addict. My own experience has allowed me to help many love addicts. Lauren Costine's thoughtful and well-researched book gives me the opportunity to see love addiction through a "lesbian lens," to better identify with and help even more women. I am grateful to her. -- Ethlie Ann Vare, author of Love Addict: Sex Romance and Other Dangerous Drugs (2011)Lesbian Love Addiction fills a critical gap in the literature on sex and love addiction. Lauren Costine uses research and field knowledge to shine a light in a problem area that desperately needs to be addressed, and her examples make the reading easily accessible for all. It's a welcome resource for professionals, lesbian love addicts, and their loved ones. -- Samantha Smithstein, PsyD, licensed clinical and forensic psychologistLauren has cracked the code to why so many of my family, friends and clients attach the way they do – in spite of the results. She then prescribes a new way of doing that is understandable and actionable. Brava! -- Brad Lamm, CIP, Founder of Breathe Life Healing Centers; Author of How to Help the One You LoveTable of ContentsForeword: Rob Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S Introduction: Once Upon a Love Addiction 1.The Power of Our Physiology 2. The Way We Connect 3. What is Unique About Lesbian Love Addiction? 4. How We Merge and Spiral 5. Withdrawal: What It Is and How It Benefits Us 6. How to Develop a Healthy Relationship with Yourself and Others

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Book SynopsisThis is a beautiful book, full of ideas that could help restore America?s genius for freedom and promise.??Thomas Moore,New York Timesbestselling author ofCare of the SoulA lifelong Emerson lover, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson?s twelve essential teachings hold the answer to living an authentic and fulfilling life, one that is in harmony with our souls.In this wise, illuminating book, award-winning author Mark Matousek reveals how Emerson?s timeless wisdom can help us with the problems we?re facing today. America?s ?original Stoic? confronted many of the issues before us, from polarization to fake news, from crooked politicians and rampant materialism, to the scourge of racism.Matousek explains that Emerson?s path of self-reliance can radically improve your quality of life. The mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, Emerson (aka the Oracle of Concord) was America?s first self-help author, and his nation?s conscience for half a century. Like the Stoics before him, he emphasized self-knowledge and mindfulness as paths to happiness; also, self-reliance, cooperation, non-conformity, originality, adaptability, and receptiveness.As Americans are once again discovering the power of Stoicism, Matousek shows why Emerson?s vision is precisely the medicine we need today. The principles of Waldo?s philosophy are universal and require no spiritual faith to put into practice. Each person creates her own reality Obstacles are teachers in disguise Your character is your destiny Wonder and awe are the keys to the kingdom Nonconformity is the greatest virtue Nature is the doorway to God Life without self-knowledge is not worth living Emerson encourages us to throw-off conventions and platitudes, explore ourselves in depth, tell the truth about what we find there, and awaken to our greatest potential.Trade Review“Matousek’s book resurrects an Emerson who was writing to be heard.” — Wall Street Journal "This beautifully written book on Emerson offers great principles and notions for living through these difficult times. It restored my enthusiasm, confidence, compassion, and willingness to resist authority. It made me braver to be myself, to embrace paradox and be proud all the ways I have refused to conform. It’s a guide for living outside binaries. It's a book of great vitality, vision and liberation." — V (formerly Eve Ensler) author of Reckoning “If Ralph Waldo Emerson were alive today, he'd be exactly the man for our times - spiritually independent, psychologically savvy, and full of the common sense we need to infuse our culture with wisdom and moral courage. I am so grateful to Mark Matousek for this user-friendly book and for diving deep into Emerson's works. I keep the book on my bedside table and dip into it whenever my heart needs a lift.” — Elizabeth Lesser, author of the New York Times bestseller, Broken Open “It is a filial love story, a profound appreciation of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s great mind and spirit. This is not only a touching account of the work of a great man by whom too many people today are intimidated, but also a narrative of achieving intimacy with ideas, thoughts, and feelings that had been absent from Matousek’s lived experience." — Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon and Far From the Tree "In this compelling exploration applying deep wisdom to everyday life, Matsousek has masterfully curated a way to live with more freedom, connection, and meaning in our lives. Weaving fascinating stories about Ralph Waldo Emerson, personal accounts, and the ancient perspective of Stoicism, this journey will invite you to get to know three individuals in a powerful way--Waldo, Matousek, and yourself--opening your mind to helpful insights and new ways of living in our challenging world. A fascinating and helpful historical review as current today as it is universal in its applications across time." — Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of IntracConnected, Mindsight, and Aware "In Lessons from an American Stoic, Matousek is more than an outstanding biographer of the legendary Emerson. He joins the lineage of Emerson by adding his own hard-earned wisdom and care. In translating Emerson’s insights to our modern world, Mark has done a great service for the soul of America. This is a great book. It will open your heart, expand your mind, and help you live more truly, more fully, and more lovingly." — Mark Nepo, author of The Half-Life of Angels and Falling Down and Getting Up “Emerson's spirit is exactly what we need to recognize now in our broken country community. I will sing the praises of him, and this book, to everyone I know.” — Marie Howe, author of What the Living Do "Through the crystalline clarity of his writing, Matousek has managed to make Emerson utterly accessible to all of us. This is must-reading for Emerson lovers and anyone looking for deep rooted wisdom to accompany their life journey." — Gail Straub, author of Women and Water "This book is a master class in Emerson, and Mark Matousek is your ideal companion to the timeless and transformative insights of America’s premier thinker. Lessons from an American Stoic showed me a new way of looking at my life, and how I might live it more profoundly if I allowed the wisdom of Emerson to guide me." — Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of Holy Rascals: Advice for Spiritual Revolutionaries "I have been guided by Emerson’s essays and journals for decades, and I’m always astonished by his fresh way of imagining human life and his original way of putting his ideas into words. Mark Matousek's soft and fluid language is perfect for introducing you to Emerson or reminding you to read him again. This is a beautiful book, full of ideas that could help restore America’s genius for freedom and promise.” — Thomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul “In this insightful exploration of Emerson's teachings, Matousek gracefully navigates the intricate pathways of transcendental wisdom, offering readers a luminous guide to the essence of American spirituality." — Rupert Spira, author of You Are the Happiness You Seek "Those looking for commonsense guidance to a more self-directed life will find it here." — Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisRehabilitation psychology is one of the fastest growing fields in psychology and involves the application of psychological theory, research, and practice to the assessment and treatment of individuals with disabilities and chronic health conditions. Rehabilitation psychologists aim to optimize outcomes in terms of health, independence, and daily functioning while also minimizing secondary health problems. Moreover, rehabilitation psychologists work across healthcare and educational settings to provide assessment and clinical care, conduct research, increase knowledge, and advocate for changes to enhance the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Rehabilitation Psychology provides foundational knowledge and an evidence-based overview of the psychological theory, processes, and multi-level interventions that are critical in the prevention and management of the consequences of illness and injury. Bringing together a range of perspectives and expertise as well as contributions from international researchers and practitioners, this volume is guided by a biopsychosocial framework and informed by the World Health Organization''s International Classification of Function. Including 46 chapters across four sections, the Handbook includes chapters on the background and theory of rehabilitation psychology, cross cutting issues in the field, clinical applications and diagnostic information, and professional issues and future challenges. The chapters also highlight the research evidence associated with critical areas, applied interventions, and wider conceptual, clinical, and professional themes associated with disability and society. Overall, this edition provides a comprehensive update to the relevant psychological processes and associated interventions that are critical in enabling individuals and society to manage the consequences of disability and chronic disease.

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Book SynopsisFrom the team that brought you the bestselling and trusted The Complete Companions, The Complete Companions Exam Workbooks provide students with skills-building activities and step-by-step practice questions to ensure they approach their exams confident of success. They are matched to AQA''s AS and A Level examination requirements. The Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Workbook for AQA: Forensic psychology covers Forensic psychology, one of the optional topics examined by A Level Paper 3.Other titles in the series include:The Complete Companions: A Level Year 1 and AS Psychology: Paper 1 Exam Workbook for AQAThe Complete Companions: A Level Year 1 and AS Psychology: Paper 2 Exam Workbook for AQAThe Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Workbook for AQA: Relationships including Issues and debatesThe Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Workbook for AQA: Gender including Issues and debatesThe Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Pa

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Book SynopsisFrom the team that brought you the bestselling and trusted The Complete Companions, The Complete Companions Exam Workbooks provide students with skills-building activities and step-by-step practice questions to ensure they approach their exams confident of success. They are matched to AQA''s AS and A Level examination requirements.The Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Workbook for AQA: Gender with Issues and debates covers the compulsory topic examined by A Level Paper 3: Issues and debates in psychology, and one of the optional topics examined by A Level Paper 3: Gender.Other titles in the series include:The Complete Companions: A Level Year 1 and AS Psychology: Paper 1 Exam Workbook for AQAThe Complete Companions: A Level Year 1 and AS Psychology: Paper 2 Exam Workbook for AQAThe Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Workbook for AQA: Relationships including Issues and debatesThe Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Workbook for AQ

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Book SynopsisFrom the team that brought you the bestselling and trusted The Complete Companions, The Complete Companions Exam Workbooks provide students with skills-building activities and step-by-step practice questions to ensure they approach their exams confident of success. They are matched to AQA''s AS and A Level examination requirements.The Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Workbook for AQA: Relationships including Issues and debates covers the compulsory topic examined by A Level Paper 3: Issues and debates in psychology, and one of the optional topics examined by A Level Paper 3: Relationships.Other titles in the series include:The Complete Companions: A Level Year 1 and AS Psychology: Paper 1 Exam Workbook for AQAThe Complete Companions: A Level Year 1 and AS Psychology: Paper 2 Exam Workbook for AQAThe Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Workbook for AQA: Gender including Issues and debatesThe Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Wor

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Book SynopsisFrom the team that brought you the bestselling and trusted The Complete Companions, The Complete Companions Exam Workbooks provide students with skills-building activities and step-by-step practice questions to ensure they approach their exams confident of success. They are matched to AQA''s AS and A Level examination requirements.The Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Workbook for AQA: Schizophrenia covers Schizophrenia, one of the optional topics examined by A Level Paper 3.Other titles in the series include:The Complete Companions: A Level Year 1 and AS Psychology: Paper 1 Exam Workbook for AQAThe Complete Companions: A Level Year 1 and AS Psychology: Paper 2 Exam Workbook for AQAThe Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Workbook for AQA: Relationships including Issues and debatesThe Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Workbook for AQA: Gender including Issues and debatesThe Complete Companions: A Level Psychology: Paper 3 Exam Wo

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Book SynopsisWe know about our immediate environment--about the people, animals, and things around us--by having sensory perceptions. According to a tradition that traces back to Plato, we know about abstract reality--about mathematics, morality, and metaphysics--by having intuitions, which can be thought of as intellectual perceptions. The rough idea behind the analogy is this: while sensory perceptions are experiences that purport to, and sometimes do, reveal how matters stand in concrete reality by making us aware of that reality through the senses, intuitions are experiences that purport to, and sometimes do, reveal how matters stand in abstract reality by making us aware of that reality through the intellect. In this book, Elijah Chudnoff elaborates and defends such a view of intuition. He focuses on the experience of having an intuition, on the justification for beliefs that derives from intuition, and on the contact with abstract reality via intuition. In the course of developing a systematic account of the phenomenology, epistemology, and metaphysics of intuition on which it counts as a form of intellectual perception Chudnoff also takes up related issues such as the a priori, perceptual justification and knowledge, concepts and understanding, inference, mental action, and skeptical challenges to intuition.Trade ReviewChudnoff's treatments of various mental phenomena are phenomenologically astute, epistemologically nuanced, and metaphysically robust . . . Intuition deserves praise as a creative, rigorous, ambitious, and sensitive contribution to our collective effort to understand the nature and scope of our intellectual powers, including those powers ascribed by Platonic rationalists. * John Bengson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsPART 1: INTUITION EXPERIENCE; PART 2: INTUITIVE JUSTIFICATION; PART 3: INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE

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Book SynopsisStudy and Communication Skills for Psychology is written with first year students in mind and reviews the essential skills a psychology student needs to develop over the course of their undergraduate studies. Written in a practical, motivational style, the book includes plenty of examples and advice to help the reader master the skills being explored. The book covers: how to get the most out of lectures, tutorials, and group work; how to approach and use the vast array of information that is available in books, in journals, and on the web; how to think, read, and write critically; how to communicate research and ideas effectively to others; and how to revise for and complete exams to maximise the chances of success.Written specifically for psychology students by an experienced psychology educator, Study and Communication Skills for Psychology is the essential guide to getting the most out of your studies.Online resourcesStudy and Communication Skills for Psychology is accompanied by a Trade ReviewFills a gap for many students who struggle with the expectations of study at university. * Mandy Robbins, Wrexham Glyndwr University *I think that this book is definitely a must have for all undergraduate psychology students. * Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez, Oxford Brookes University *Clear and well-presented coverage of everything a psychology student needs to know about academic skills when entering university * Patrick Rosenkranz, Newcastle University *Very engaging and written in a comprehensible style that students can understand...A very useful book for undergraduate students. * Saima Noreen, Goldsmiths, University of London *Well laid out and easy to follow and understand. The ultimate psychology student guide! * Kathy Anderson, student, University of Sunderland *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Time management: a skill best learned early 3: Teaching time: making the most of it 4: Communication and learning with others 5: Before and after assessments: guidelines, criteria and feedback 6: Sources of information and their uses 7: How to find and read a journal article 8: Plagiarism 9: What is referencing? 10: Reading and evaluating text 11: So you think you can write good? 12: Critical analysis: the big new skill you need to learn 13: Writing essays 14: Writing practical reports: how to write up an experiment 15: Presentations and posters 16: Revision and exam tips

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Book SynopsisThe continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to make claims about consciousness in animals, which has often been taken to be crucial for their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues compellingly that there is no fact of the matter to be discovered, and that the question of animal consciousness is of no scientific or ethical significance. Carruthers offers solutions to two related puzzles. The first is about the place of phenomenal--or felt--consciousness in the natural order. Consciousness is shown to comprise fine-grained nonconceptual contents that are globally broadcast to a wide range of cognitive systems for reasoning, decision-making, and verbal report. Moreover, the so-called hard problem of consciousness results merely from the distinctive first-person concepts we can use when thinking about such contents. No special non-physical properties--no so-called qualia--are involved. The second puzzle concerns the distribution of phenomenal consciousness across the animal kingdom. Carruthers shows that there is actually no fact of the matter, because thoughts about consciousness in other creatures require us to project our first-person concepts into their minds; but such projections fail to result in determinate truth-conditions when those minds are significantly unlike our own. This upshot, however, doesn''t matter. It doesn''t matter for science, because no additional property enters the world as one transitions from creatures that are definitely incapable of phenomenal consciousness to those that definitely are (namely, ourselves). And on many views it doesn''t matter for ethics, either, since concern for animals can be grounded in sympathy, which requires only third-person understanding of the desires and emotions of the animals in question, rather than in first-person empathy.Trade ReviewIronically, we are presented with a book whose well-structured chapters offer a series of complex conceptual analyses and empirically-informed arguments about different aspects of consciousness in humans and animals just to recommend readers that 'they should stop thinking about consciousness and start investing their time in more important things.' It is a worthy and enlightening reading, though. * David Villena, Metapsychology *In this well-argued and engaging book, Peter Carruthers makes a comprehensive case for a first-order global workspace theory of phenomenal consciousness, and then considers the upshot for animals: are they phenomenally conscious, and does it matter morally? Answer: there is no fact of the matter about whether animals are phenomenally conscious, but this doesn't change anything morally, because consciousness is not what matters morally. ... Conclusion: this is a great book, written with Carruthers' characteristic insight, lucidity, and open-mindedness. Everyone should read it. * Jonathan Simon, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Peter Carruthers stands out among philosophers for having previously argued that most animals lack conscious experiences. He returns to the question of non-human consciousness in Human and Animal Minds with another striking view. Where he once proposed that the capacity for higher-order thoughts is essential to phenomenal consciousness and restricted to a small number of species, he now regards its significance as indeterminate. He infers that for many species, there is no fact of the matter either way. ... While Carruthers makes a compelling case, many details remain to be filled in. * Derek Shiller, Philosophical Quarterly *Table of Contents1: Important preliminaries 2: Animal minds: The state of the art 3: The need for a theory 4: Some initial possibilities 5: Global-workspace theory 6: Explaining the "hard" problem 7: Animal consciousness: No fact of the matter 8: Does consciousness matter?

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Book SynopsisMotivational hedonism (often called psychological hedonism) claims that everything we do is done in pursuit of pleasure (in the widest sense) and to avoid pain and displeasure (again, in the widest sense). Although perennially attractive, many philosophers and experimental psychologists have claimed to refute it. Human Motives shows how decision-science and the recent science of affect can be used to construct a form of motivational hedonism that evades all previous critiques. On this view, we take decisions by anticipating and responding affectively to the alternatives, with the pleasure / displeasure component of affect constituting the common currency of decision-making. But we do not have to believe that the alternatives will bring us pleasure or displeasure in the future. Rather, those feelings get bound into and become parts of the future-directed representation of the options, rendering the latter attractive or repulsive. Much then depends on what pleasure and displeasure reallyTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: The science of affect 3: The new hedonism 4: Traditional critiques critiqued 5: Feelings versus representations of value 6: Indicatives versus imperatives 7: Pain: A test case 8: Moral motivation References

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Book SynopsisPresents the key findings from the survey, Midlife in the US (MIDUS) conducted by the MacArthur Foundation, on physical health, quality of life and psychological well-being, and the contexts of midlife. This study measures not only health - the absence of illness - but also reports on the presence of wellness in middle-aged Americans.Trade Review"A decade of innovative research by an all-star scientific team yields this insightful description of strategies we use to navigate challenges over the life course. How Healthy Are We? redefines 'middle age' for scientists and for the rest of our society by debunking the myth of the midlife crisis and revealing the reality of middle age in America today." - Jack W. Rowe, Chairman and CEO, Aetna"

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Book SynopsisMost studies of social development in children have relied on the assumption that adults' instructions to children pass on knowledge of the rules of behavior which govern and preserve society. In this volume, James Youniss argues that the child's relations with his or her friends and peers make a distinctive and critically important contribution to social development. While the child's relations with parents and other adults provide a sense of order and authority, peer relations are a source of sensitivity, self-understanding, and interpersonal cooperation. Following a discussion of the views of Harry Stack Sullivan and Jean Piaget, whose theories are synthesized in Youniss's perspective, Youniss presents a wealth of empirical data from studies in which children describe their own views of their two social worlds.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Robert Merrett tackles our ancestors' world of eating and drinking with relish. Tapping into a lifetime's knowledge of literary texts, leavened with rare archival sources scattered throughout France, and more discursive readings into British, French, and Canadian history, he compellingly demonstrates that eating and drinking were part and parcel of the overall movement towards the Enlightenment and cultural imperialism." Donald W. Nichol, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Book SynopsisUsing concepts from attachment theory, D.H. Lawrence and Attachment presents innovative readings of Lawrence’s fiction. Ronald Granofsky teases out hidden patterns in Lawrence’s work, deepening our understanding of his fictional characters and revealing new significance to key thematic concerns like gender identification, marriage, and class.Trade Review"Ron Granofsky is an astute psychologist and literary critic in one. D.H. Lawrence and Attachment is an incisive, persuasive examination of the tricky lifelong balancing acts between merger and separation in Lawrence's life and works and, by extension, our own." Judith Ruderman, author of Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture "Offering a perceptive reading of Lawrence’s poetry, essays, and fiction, Granofsky considers issues such as individuation, narcissism, masculinity, estrangement, and maternal bonds in chapters that focus on abandonment anxiety, gender identification, marriage, class, attachment to home, and otherness. An authoritative, well-grounded, and sensitive inquiry." Choice

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Book SynopsisIn this student-friendly introduction, the authors consider the psychological effects of sport on both the individual and the group. Topics covered include motivation, performance, mental health and leadership, offering a balanced and in-depth resource for students interested in learning more about sport psychology.

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Book SynopsisThrough poignant and sometimes painful stories from their personal and professional lives, three practicing psychoanalysts demonstrate the richness of psychodynamic thinking. Each chapter offers an illustrative and powerful personal vignette followed by an analytical reflection that explicates key psychodynamic concepts.Trade ReviewIn this sequel to Wearing My Tutu to Analysis, Malawista, Kanefield, and Adelman masterfully weave together poetry, prose, and storytelling in a way that is both disarming and compelling. When the Garden Isn’t Eden invites psychoanalytically informed engagement with the timely and troubling issues that permeate society. -- Theresa Clement Tisdale, coauthor of Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in DialogueThis highly original book connects the facts of life with the ideas of psychoanalysis in the most creative way possible. These wonderful authors know very well how to find the right stories to reintegrate our frequently split parts and to connect psychoanalysis to human life, and vice versa. -- Stefano Bolognini, past president of the International Psychoanalytical AssociationThis beautifully written collection teaches more about psychoanalysis than any textbook. By commenting on narratives of emotionally powerful experiences, the authors manage a rare achievement: the intimate and yet scholarly communication of the complexity, beauty, and applicability of psychoanalytic thought. I recommend the book to anyone interested in how the unconscious unceasingly influences human experience. -- Nancy McWilliams, Rutgers UniversityOpen this book and you discover engaging stories that bring psychological theory and practice alive. Clinicians, aspiring clinicians, and the public will marvel at theoretical concepts brilliantly illuminated by touching personal anecdotes. A Garden of Eden for the psychologically curious! -- Sandra Buechler, author of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressing Life's Challenges in Clinical PracticeThis treasure of a book is a gift to us all. The authors have done a superb job of illustrating both key psychoanalytic concepts and the way that analysts think and work by means of stories and clinical vignettes that are as delightful as they are informative. They have made an invaluable contribution to our field. -- Ted Jacobs, author of The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of ChangeKerry Malawista, Linda Kanefield and Anne Adelman bring their perceptive and wise sensibilities to this subtly sophisticated introduction to psychoanalytic ideas for the interested public and mental health workers. This book is a worthy follow-up to the unforgettable Wearing my Tutu to Analysis. -- Rosemary H. Balsam, author of Women’s Bodies in PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Clinical Thoughts1. When the Garden Isn’t Eden (Analysts Reflect on Somatic Memory)2. A Visitation (Analysts Reflect on the Uncanny)3. One Ping at a Time (Analysts Reflect on Mentalization)4. What Are You Thinking? (Analysts Reflect on Projective Identification)5. Three More Days (Analysts Reflect on Identification)Part II: Development6. What Lurks Under the Bed (Analysts Reflect on Separation Anxiety)7. Butterfly Bandage (Analysts Reflect on Death of a Parent in Childhood)8. Saving Swifty (Analysts Reflect on Sibling Rivalry)9. Betrayal (Analysts Reflect on Adolescence Derailment)10. Solid State (Analysts Reflect on Aging)Part III: Therapeutic Listening 11. Lost Cat (Analysts Reflect on Need for Attunement)12. Intoxicating Power (Analysts Reflect on Expansion of Empathy)13. Stepping Over the Threshold (Analysts Reflect on Timing and Tact)14. Ugly Shoes (Analysts Reflect on Reverie)15. The Limo Ride (Analysts Reflect on Self-Disclosure)Part IV: Transitions and Challenges16. I Can’t Believe It’s True (Analysts Reflect on Frozen Grief)17. Mucking the Stall (Analysts Reflect on Sexual Abuse)18. Take Her Blood (Analysts Reflect on Recognizing Resilience)19. On Thin Ice (Analysts Reflect on White Privilege and Othering)20. Virtual Mourning (Analysts Reflect on Remote Connections) Conclusion: The BridgeAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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