Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was never more insightful and intriguing than when he discussed mythology. The key to understanding the Jungian approa...

This best-selling textbook, written by award-winning educator and past president of the APA, Diane Halpern, applies theory and research from the le...

This special issue of Cognitive Science honors the research and mentorship contributions of Dr. John R. Anderson, the 2004 David E. Rumelhart Prize...

Using data from infant observation, and child, adolescent, and adult analyses, the Novicks explicate a multidimensional, developmental theory of sa...

The study of animal behavior throws light on everything said to be “natural”: social and family relations, mating, communication, and learning. Com...

This collection proposes that using Winnicott's work to think about themes of importance to practitioners now is also a way of thinking about some ...

As the older populations grow, an increasing number of people are faced with the challenges of caring for frail, older family members. Since the ca...

This book comprises a collection of the distinguished psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 's papers ranging from 'Psychoanalysis and Social Democr...

Dyslogical children are commonly labelled as having one or more of a mix of conditions that include Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Condu...

This is the first dedicated text to explain and explore the utility of critical realism for psychologists, offering it as a helpful middle ground b...

The guiding thread of this theoretical review is the illumination of the impasses of binary thought and of the essentialist conceptions of women an...

The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein...

C.G. Jung's ideas continue to be of interest to many readers. Murray Stein, a longtime Jungian therapist and author, provides readers with an acces...

This book responds to the growing need for understanding how we can foster wellness, raise engagement, and strengthen connections in professional c...

The Handbook of Police Psychology features contributions from over 30 leading experts on the core matters of police psychology. The collection surv...

A companion volume to Primary School Teaching and Educational Psychology, this book concerns itself with the day-to-day business of teaching in a s...

Human Resource Development (HRD) involves the design, delivery and evaluation of learning and/or training interventions within organisations to imp...

Previously unpublished in English, this book comprises lectures W.R. Bion gave in Rome, in 1977. The volume consists of questions from the floor an...

In Jungian Literary Criticism: the essential guide, Susan Rowland demonstrates how ideas such as archetypes, the anima and animus, the unconscious ...

This book encapsulates John Beebe’s influential work on the analytical psychology of consciousness. Building on C. G. Jung’s theory of psychologica...

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work examines what positive psychology offers to our understanding of key issues in working life tod...

Written for pre-service and in-service educators, as well as parents of children in preschool through grade five, this book connects research in co...

The concern with time permeates Freud's work, from Studies on Hysteria to Analysis Terminable and Interminable, which point out to a network of con...

The author surveys Bion's publications and elaborates on his key contributions in depth while also critiquing them. The scope of this work is to sy...

Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture offers a comprehensive account of our contemporary media environment—digital culture and audiences in particular...

The second edition of Behavioral Economics: The Basics summarizes behavioral economics, which uses insights from the social sciences, especially ps...

At a time when psychoanalysis is attacked by biologists, psychologists and literary critics alike, this book offers a radical defence.Literature, P...

Management Extra brings all the best management thinking together in one package. These are practical training suitable for Diploma level qualifica...

This book explores how traumatic experiences of impingement and neglect – in childhood and adulthood, and at both the family and the state level – ...

In The Feeling Intellect, Steven Groarke explores the overlap between psychoanalysis and philosophy in order to provide the first critical evaluati...

The mythologising of lost and abandoned children significantly influences Australian storytelling. In The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film, Te...

The first essay, "The Impossible Couple", is both a humorous and razor-sharp analysis of the contemporary relationship between man and woman. In th...

Advances in Group Processes publishes theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory-based empirical chapters on group phenomena. The series adopts a br...

Originally published in 1985, the proceedings in this volume followed a different format from the usual symposium. Participants were asked to share...

Emotions of Menace and Enchantment examines four pivotal human emotions. It explores what defines these emotions, how they interact, and how they i...

Originally published in 1951, this title is a study in developmental psychology with special reference to the effect of various types of religion o...

In this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study, Roger Kennedy looks at the roots of tolerance and intolerance as well as the role of the stranger...

Apocalyptic expectations of Armageddon and a New Age have been a fixture of the American cultural landscape for centuries. With the approach of the...

This book brings together three distinct research programmes in moral psychology – Moral Foundations Theory, Cognitive Adaptations for Social Excha...

This book unites the worlds of physics and depth psychology through analysis of carefully selected existing and new dream materials. Their interpre...

The main emphasis of this new book from Luigino Bruni is a praise of heterogeneity, arguing that society works when different people are able to co...

Analyzes psychological research to offer insights into how methodological and ontological questions are intertwined.   Psychology has seen an inten...

In the classic edition of this outstanding book, originally published in 1998, Richard Frankel explores adolescence as a crucial, unique, and turbu...

Though clinical aspects of epilepsy such as seizure control are crucially important to its management, increasing attention is being given to wider...

Diversification and Professionalization in Psychology offers readers a multicentric perspective on the history of social science and compares the d...

This book investigates the relationship of the work of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, centered around Benjamin’s fractured subject. Through a r...

This book is an introduction to Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras and its core concepts about the self, suffering and consciousness. It highlights its releva...