Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

How can therapists help clients reflect more deeply on their own--and other people's--thoughts and emotions? How can the therapeutic relationship b...

An Introduction to Applied Behavioral Neuroscience explores the connection between neuroscience and multiple domains, including psychological disor...

Psychology and Behavioral Economics offers an expert introduction to how psychology can be applied to a range of public policy areas. It examines t...

Psychology and Behavioral Economics offers an expert introduction to how psychology can be applied to a range of public policy areas. It examines t...

Cancer and Creativity is a dialogue between accounts by cancer patients and survivors and a more clinical consideration and theoretical discussion ...

What are the ways in which we can understand the meaning of the psychology of meaning in peoples lives? In the last century mainstream psychology h...

Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society describes leadership as a relationship between leaders and followers in a particular context and challenges...

'The mares which bear me as far as my desires might reach ...: a piece of writing from two and a half thousand years ago catches the intent of this...

This volume consists of a series of essays inspired by Freud's paper on Jensen's novel Gradiva - she who steps along. In the story a young archaeol...

Pink Herrings engages in a re-examination of six of Freud's cases via Lacan's account of sexuation. Specifi cally, the book outlines a theoretical ...

Our sense of identity begins (our psychological birth sometime in the first year of life) with the feeling that we are the centre of the universe, ...

A History of the Brain tells the full story of neuroscience, from antiquity to the present day. It describes how we have come to understand the bio...

The chapters in this book represent a cross-section of research conducted in inquiry-based science education at primary levels of schooling in inte...

Practical Guide to Logistic Regression covers the key points of the basic logistic regression model and illustrates how to use it properly to model...

This is the second of two volumes collecting the key proceedings of the 30th International Congress of Psychology, the first to be held in Africa i...

Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this book offers a vital and original contribution to the u...

This volume discusses the interface between human development and socio-cultural processes by exploring the writings of Gerard Duveen, an internati...

This book illuminates the progress of children's ideas about numbers in a way that would make clear both how it is that young children know as much...

Research on physical maturity has demonstrated conclusively that the assumption of an age-homogenous development does not always hold true. This vo...

It is a well known that the Wolf-Man was the subject of what James Strachey described as 'the most elaborate and no doubt the most important of all...

First published in 1935, this volume was designed to explain a range of technical psychological terms along with some amendments on usage. Howard C...

Multistate Models for the Analysis of Life History Data provides the first comprehensive treatment of multistate modeling and analysis, including p...

The Mindful Interview Method: Retrieving Cognitive Evidence provides investigators with a proven methodology to gather authentic, reliable informat...

The Mindful Interview Method: Retrieving Cognitive Evidence provides investigators with a proven methodology to gather authentic, reliable informat...

Art and Mourning explores the relationship between creativity and the work of self-mourning in the lives of 20th century artists and thinkers. The ...

Blending popular culture and design theory, framed by a decade of scholarly research, this book highlights how play and humor fuel innovation. Now,...

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature, value, and limits of self-knowledge. Mitchell S. Green...

What are the barriers and obstacles to adults learning? What makes the process of adult learning so fragile? And what exactly do we mean by Fragile...

Psychoanalysis is an experience of truths and lies in language. It is also a discourse, and it is a praxis. Lacanian Coordinates takes the reader f...

This book concerns the child's emotional and cognitive development during the period of latency. It constitutes a bridge between the first stormy y...

Time and Timelessness examines the development of Jung's understanding of time throughout his opus, and the ways in which this concept has affected...

Sex matters. It is a crucial part of whom we are and what to do. So why do we police what is 'normal' and what is 'bizarre'? As Estela Welldon argu...

In this book, Reher-Langberg undertakes a systematic analysis of the notion of the Ego, such as it evolves throughout the writings of Sigmund Freud...

The new edition of this bestselling textbook, Multicultural Psychology, helps students gain an understanding of how race, ethnicity, and culture sh...

Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R provides coverage, with worked examples, of a large number of dimension reduction procedures along wit...

This reading companion and commentary on Lacan Seminar XXIII provides detailed analyses of Lacan's seminar while maintaining an overall continuity ...