The Self, Ego, Identity, Personality

This book explores the relationships between intellectual development, self and personality, and proposes a comprehensive theory which answers suc...

The starting point for this book is a particular answer to a question that grips many of us: what kind of thing are we? The particular answer is th...

Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges. How d...

Where once science painted humans as self-seeking and warlike, today scientists of many disciplines are uncovering the deep roots of human goodness...

How do you sniff out danger? What is a sense of direction or a gut instinct? You know about your five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste and touc...

Originally published in 1928, the principle aim of this book was to present and apply an original viewpoint in psychology. The work is substantiall...

Volume III complete the publication of Susanne Langer's monumental treatise on the rise and development of mind—an exclusively human phenomenon— by...

Since 2009, the artist collective SCHAUM operates in lieu of the average person, upon which the experimental set-ups for the current processes of s...

Both chess play and psychological research offer rewards to their participants in the form of intellectual satisfaction. It seems to follow that co...

Landrum's 13th book is a self-help work on the inhibiting inner fears that either motivate or debilitate. As a pundit once said, ""Hesitate and you...

How does something as potent and evocative as the body become a relatively neutral artistic material? From the 1960s, much body art and performance...

In this book dialogue is used as a research, knowledge-sharing and community-building tool in which participants engage with each other in reflecti...

Due to its theoretical and educational significance within the language learning process, the study of L2 motivation has been an important area of ...

She discusses the driving forces in the neuroses, the different stages of psychoanalytic understanding, the patient's and the analyst's share in th...

In his acclaimed book A Theory of Personality Development, Luciano L'Abate introduced a revolutionary theory of personality development and functio...

With a new chapter This new edition of Herbert Fingarette's classic study in philosophical psychology now includes a provocative recent essay on t...

In the first lecture, entitled "The Founders: Jeffersonion Action and Faith," Erikson uses selected themes from Jefferson's life to illustrate some...

Drawing on every theme of the modern life sciences, Donald Nathanson shows how nine basic affects—interest-excitement, enjoyment-joy, surprise-star...

In today’s culture the self is considered largely a work in progress, and as we constantly reinvent ourselves, the challenge becomes one of coordin...

Narcissism and Machiavellianism in Youth highlights how knowledge of both narcissism and Machiavellianism may influence problematic youth social in...

In this thought-provoking addition to the Herzliya Series on Personality and Social Psychology, editors Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer have...

Why do people—even identical twins reared in the same home—differ so much in personality? Armed with an inquiring mind and insights from evolutiona...

Beneath the Mask presents classic theories of human nature, much as each theorist might if the theorist were to teach his or her ideas to people en...

Do you see the past through a rosy filter that makes it seem like Paradise Lost? Are you convinced that traffic lights always turn red for you? Do ...

This book offers an integrative examination of the role of motivation in shaping moral cognition, judgment, and behavior. How do we define good an...

Henrik Fexeus uses his expert psychology knowledge to teach the reader how to hone their social skills, perfect for fans of Dale Carnegie.Research ...

This book analyzes the science behind pathological lying and offers important lessons for research and clinical practice. Curtis and Hart expertly ...

Allen Wheelis starts from the premise that human beings do not know themselves because deception—including self-deception—is not only a strategy fo...

What is the difference between a child who is temperamentally sad and one who has depression? Can a kid be angry by temperament without being menta...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been...

When and why did it become chic for members of the white middle and upper classes to perceive and value themselves as neurotic, primitive, and emot...

Our proper name is as much a part of us as our own skin. It travels with us like a passport, testifying to our unique presence on this earth. The a...

What does extremism mean? How does it show up in our daily lives? What drives people to extreme behaviors, and how can we learn to live and thrive ...

The Selfish Gene Pool was written to encourage dialogue on the issue of the claim that all people are destined to act selfishly in all situations, ...