The Self, Ego, Identity, Personality

Psychobiography is often attacked by critics who feel that it trivialises complex adult personalities, `explaining the large deeds of great individ...

The essays in this volume explore the psychological dimensions of lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities from puberty to adulthood. The essays focus...

Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was one of the most eminent and prolific psychologists of the 20th century. Over his long career he published a dozen book...

Where does consciousness come from? What is it? Where is it taking us? In 1971 Nicholas Humphrey spent three months at Dian Fossey's gorilla resear...

Originally published in 1979, the world’s leading researchers contributed chapters describing their work on the orienting reflex in humans. The con...

Much of what we say is never said aloud. It occurs only silently, as inner speech. We chastise, congratulate, joke, and generate endless commentary...

Should you care less about your distant future? What about events in your life that have already happened? How should the passage of time affect yo...

THE SELF-ESTEEM CLASS: SIMPLE LESSONS FOR A LIFETIME OF CONTENTMENT by Dr Yoon Hong GyunA Korean phenomenon with over 1.1 million copies sold, The ...

In this completely revised second edition of the definitive book about twins, Ainslie examines the complex interactions between heredity and enviro...

This book addresses the practices of consumption in tourism, a major theme in the sociology of tourism. To date, most tourism analysis has tended t...

The emotions have traditionally been marginalized in mainstream social theory. This book demonstrates the problems that this has caused and charts ...

This is the first easy - and fun - guide to the Enneagram, the fascinating and revealing method of understanding personality types, for the beginne...

This landmark work offers a tour of the latest developments in Social Identity Theory from the leading scholars in the field. First proposed by Taj...

What are the limits of national belonging? Focusing on Biak--a set of islands off the coast of western New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Ir...

Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself....