Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

The culture of psychoanalysis has many traditions and multiple schools of theory and thought. This work presents informative and original investiga...

What is the nature of the 'self', how do everyday experiences shape it, and how does it influence our thinking, judgements and behaviors? Such ques...

Hardly a month goes by without a media report proclaiming that researchers have discovered the gene for some complex human behavior or trait-intell...

This book draws connections between recent advances in analytic philosophy of mind and insights from the rich phenomenological tradition concerning...

The time has gone by when any one man could hope to write an adequate text book of psychology. The science has now so many branches, so many method...

Sigmund Freud’s name is known throughout the world. He opened up the world of the unconscious, so people can understand themselves so much better t...

Music offers a new insight into human cognition. The musical play with sounds in time, in which we share feelings, gestures and narratives, has fas...

The author sets out to examine migration movements to Australia and the role of successive immigration legislation: from the notorious White Austra...

The theories or programs of research described in the chapters of this book move beyond the traditional evaluation model of prejudice, drawing on a...

This unique book provides lessons on how to affect good leadership in turbulent times by taking a historical lens and examining the life and impact...

This volume offers a holistic, empirically grounded examination of the factors which influence educational leaders’ ethical judgments in their day-...

This volume presents essays on the theory, methodology, and disciplinary history of Systematic and Comparative Musicology as well as on concepts of...

In a rapidly changing world, businesses must create a high-performing, metrics-driven workplace environment characterized by respect, inclusion, te...

A pioneering ethnography of psychoanalysis, Illusions of a Future explores the political economy of private therapeutic labor within industrialized...

Narcissists are seen as people who could inspire others due to their strong charisma, great vision, and ability to convince the crowd that they pos...

Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo offers a depth psychological analysis of the art and life of Remedios Varo, a Spanish surrealist painter. The book...

How do some political leaders capture popular support? What is the appeal of belonging to a nation? Can democracy thrive?The Psychology of Politics...

The emotions pose many philosophical questions. We don't choose them; they come over us spontaneously. Sometimes emotions seem to get it wrong: we ...

This volume offers a holistic, empirically grounded examination of the factors which influence educational leaders’ ethical judgments in their day-...

Friction is what keeps us from realizing our goals. It is what compromises all of our plans, sometimes making them unrecognizable. It defies our wi...

This book has a practical purpose. It seeks to help the reader to understand himself and his problems, that he may increase his successes, his frui...

Erotics of Deconstruction takes advantage of over a decade of publications from Derrida's seminars to creatively demonstrate the deep material rang...

The book is a journal that presents narrations and factual accounts of events covering 144 days the author spent during the Third Scientific Expedi...

The Gestalts of Mind and Text bridges literary studies and cognitive psychology to provide a unique contribution to the field of Cognitive Literary...

The aim of this volume is to offer an updated account of the transcendental character of phenomenology. The main question concerns the sense and re...

In a rapidly changing world, businesses must create a high-performing, metrics-driven workplace environment characterized by respect, inclusion, te...

Foundations of Educational Technology offers a fresh, interdisciplinary, problem-centered approach to educational technology, learning design, and ...

In large surface mining operations, drilling and blasting activities constitute more than 15% of the total costs. In order to optimize performance ...

What happens in our brain when we create a story? Based on neuro-cognitivism, the study of narratives – ranging from novels to “life-stories”, whic...

Many "nudges" aim to make life simpler, safer, or easier for people to navigate, but what do members of the public really think about these policie...

Making Sense of Statistics, Eighth Edition, is the ideal introduction to the concepts of descriptive and inferential statistics for students undert...

This unique book provides lessons on how to affect good leadership in turbulent times by taking a historical lens and examining the life and impact...

In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to th...

Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's ideas - in particular her explorations into the world of the infant and her emphasis on the complex interactio...

Originally published in 1930, this book was designed to meet the needs of students in Training Colleges. It is the outcome of first-hand experience...