Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints

The term 'pre-autism' is becoming more widespread as a result of growing awareness of the importance of a child's first three years of life in diagnosing behaviours which, if untreated, can develop into autism.

Winner of the 2009 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship!

This pioneering text explores the emerging discipline of ethorobotics which brings together the fields of animal behaviour and robotics.

The first ever reference book on the behaviour, physiology, conservation and biogeography of the dwarf and mouse lemurs of Madagascar.

This book discusses Jacques Lacan's contribution to understanding the life and work of James Joyce, introducing Colette Soler's influential reading to English readers for the first time.

This book spotlights the complexities of relationships, drawing on theories that have guided relationship scholars, classic studies, and current research - juxtaposed with the current Indian milieu.

The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology beautifully captures the history, current status, and future prospects of personality and social psychology.

How is it possible that a phenomenon like psychoanalysis, which has dominated the cultural and intellectual life of the last century in Europe, North and South America, has seemingly had little-to-no resonance in Hong Kong?

'Few people would be better qualified than the author to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book.

Psychoanalytically Informed Play Therapy: Fantasy-Exposure Life-Narrative Therapy is a structured manual for the execution of FELT, an integrative play therapy that marries the analytic, relational, and psychodynamic aspects of traditional Play Therapy with the scientific rigor and replicability standards of clinical empiricism.

Originally published in 1951, Homo Faber is an examination of the scientific outlook on human mental evolution through the lens of parapsychology.

This book describes in detail how to effectively treat severely ill but not psychotic patients, by careful psychotherapeutic work on the defenses and the superego.

Everyday Evils takes a psychoanalytic look at the evils committed by "e;ordinary"e; people in different contexts - from the Nazi concentration camps to Stockholm Syndrome to the atrocities publicized by Islamic State - and presents new perspectives on how such evil deeds come about as well as the extreme ways in which we deny the existence of evil.

This remarkable collection traces central themes in the work of Erving and Miriam Polster, two of the best-known and best loved Gestalt therapists in the world.

Jessica Benjamin is one of the most important and influential psychoanalysts of the last 4 decades.

When therapists work in a heart-centered way, they feel freer to be both professionals and loving human beings.

Explores many aspects of the behaviour, genetics, taxonomy and evolution of this genus and its adaptation to multiple environments.

'Brilliant and entertaining' Daniel Kahneman | 'Quit what you are doing right now and read this' Richard Thaler | 'Engrossing, important, and grounded in science' Katy MilkmanWhat if the secret to success is not just hard work, but knowing when to change track?

Sexual dysfunction can cause significant distress in both men and women and their partners.

In 1995, Neil Altman did what few psychoanalysts did or even dared to do: He brought the theory and practice of psychoanalysis out of the cozy confines of the consulting room and into the realms of the marginalized, to the very individuals whom this theory and practice often overlooked.

Slavoj i ek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era.

Building on Winnicott's theory of play, this book defines the concept of play from the perspective of clinical practice, elaborating on its application to clinical problems.

Essays on "e;The Soul's Logical Life"e; in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich: Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority is the second collection of essays dedicated to the study and application of psychology as the discipline of interiority-a new 'wave' within analytical psychology which pushes off from the work of C.

Addiction is often thought about in terms of cause, be that brain chemistry, attachment patterns or cognitive schemas.

This insightful and beautifully written work explores nonlinear processes of recovery of the loss of Self.

This thoroughly revised new edition of a classic book provides a clinically inspired but scientifically guided approach to the biological foundations of human mental function in health and disease.

This new fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry is the essential, evidence-based companion to all aspects of psychiatry, from diagnosis and conducting a clinical interview to management by subspecialty.

The author expands and develops his ideas, first presented in Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion.

This is the second issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry devoted to mothers and daughters.

This book brings together the threads that make up the campaign for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

All the creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama, poetry) can trace their roots to C.

This collection of papers focuses on the interaction of maturation phases and special traumas in the first few years of life and the probable effect of these early patterns on the structure of the later personality.

This volume brings together current research and practice on gibbon conservation, ecology, taxonomy and phylogenetics.

Originally published in 1931, the study reported in this book was undertaken as part of the research programme of the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene.

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world and it changed them ';A riveting, gossipy, action-packed, seam-bursting blast through 100 years of (mainly) European history Impressively wide-ranging in scope and unflaggingly fascinating.

This book aims to facilitate the understandings of nursery age children, that is, children around three, four and five years, and their parents.

This book describes psychosocial working conditions that negatively impact the mental and physical well-being of employees of various "e;assistance-related"e; professional groups, as well as individuals whose work is related to contact with demanding clients.

Human Evolution provides a comprehensive overview of hominid evolution, synthesising data and approaches from fields as diverse as physical anthropology, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, genetics, archaeology, psychology and philosophy.

This challenging book critically examines three forms of contemporary psychology, all displaying various signs of crisis, through analogy with humour associated with three different class perspectives: mainstream psychology; critical psychology; and postpsychology.

A familiar trope of cognitive science, linguistics, and the philosophy of psychology over the past forty or so years has been the idea of the mind as a modular system-that is, one consisting of functionally specialized subsystems responsible for processing different classes of input, or handling specific cognitive tasks like vision, language, logic, music, and so on.

Der Autor behandelt das Thema Komplexdiagnostik und Komplextherapie auf der Basis der Jungschen Konzeption der Komplexe.

The tenth volume in the Progress in Self Psychology series begins with four timely assessments of the selfobject concept, followed by a section of clinical papers that span the topics of homosexuality, alter ego countertransference, hypnosis, trauma, dream theory, and intersubjective approaches to conjoint therapy.

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Assessment of Trauma in Youths: Understanding issues of age, complexity, and associated variables is a collection of articles by well-known specialists in the field of childhood trauma.

In what ways does psychological development differ from spiritual development and psychological experience from spiritual experience?

Evidence based or empirically supported psychotherapies are becoming more and more important in the mental health fields as the users and financers of psychotherapies want to choose those methods whose effectiveness are empirically shown.

Of all the books of the Bible few have had more resonance for modern readers than the Book of Job.

This book explores the underlying mechanisms of the psyche.

Daring to gaze directly into the core of parenting in Israel, this book presents, for the first time, a study that focuses on the conscious and unconscious aspects of the Israeli parenting experience when raising sons is overshadowed by the knowledge that at 18 years old, these sons will be drafted into inherently life-endangering compulsory military service.