Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

Higher education leaders, managers, human resource professionals, faculty, and staff increasingly face uncivil, bullying behaviors in academe. This...

An inherent tension exists in the history of psychoanalysis and its applications between the concepts of freedom and security. In Managed Lives, th...

Jean Piaget was one of the most significant contributors to our current understanding of how children think and learn, from birth through to adoles...

This bibliography in two volumes, originally published in 1988, lists and describes works by and about Jacques Lacan published in French, English, ...

Many people who work in education start out with enthusiastic ideals about education as a positive force that can spur change in the life of the le...

Conversations about Calling explores management perspectives of the calling construct. Using Max Weber’s seminal work, The Protestant Ethic and the...

Co-published with The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF)An important contribution to the emerging body of rese...

Athletes’ Careers Across Cultures is the first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researc...

This bibliography in two volumes, originally published in 1988, lists and describes works by and about Jacques Lacan published in French, English, ...

Although scholarly examinations of privilege have increased in recent decades, an emphasis on privilege studies pedagogy remains lacking within ins...

The ability to mould a group of talented individual athletes into an effective team takes effort and skill. Team Psychology in Sports examines the ...

Sport generates some of the most intense feelings and levels of commitment. It is big business globally, but also the source of the most powerful p...

The ability to mould a group of talented individual athletes into an effective team takes effort and skill. Team Psychology in Sports examines the ...

Egoicism, a mindset that places primary focus upon oneself, appears to be rampant in contemporary Western cultures as commercial advertisements, po...

This historical interdisciplinary book contextualises the Rorschach ink blot test and embeds it within feminist action and queer liberation. What d...

Initiating Psychoanalysis presents an international collection of papers brought together by the Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis of the ...

Second edition, completely revised and updatedJohn Bowlby is one of the outstanding psychological theorists of the twentieth century. This new edit...

The Life and Work of Joan Riviere traces her journey from dressmaker’s apprentice, and member of the Society for Psychical Research, to Sigmund Fre...

Research on Becoming an English Teacher considers the process of becoming a teacher from a variety of perspectives, where the ambition is to consid...

Are humans fair by nature? Why do we often willingly trust strangers or cooperate with them even if those actions leave us vulnerable to exploitati...

Part of the Oxford Library of Psychology, the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work examines what positive psychology offers to our under...

Cyberspace is composed of a multitude of different spaces where users can represent themselves in many divergent ways. Why in a video game, is it m...

This book is principally about what is commonly referred to as Gnosticism and its influence on Jung's analytical psychology. It is intended for any...

This accessible new book looks at how and why individuals leave terrorist movements, and considers the lessons and implications that emerge from th...