Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals.

In the past few decades, we have accumulated an impressive amount of knowledge regarding the neural basis of the mind.

Despite the prominence of television in our everyday lives, psychoanalytic approaches to its significance and function are notoriously few and far between.

What is a dream?

Originally published in 1992, this work compliments and extends the theory and results of nonlinear psychophysics - an original approach created by the author.

Originally published in 1948 the blurb read: 'Dr Berg has an extraordinary flair for presenting a difficult subject in a most realistic and attractive manner, without sacrifice of scientific essentials.

At the outset of World War I - the "e;Great War"e; - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought.

Dieser Bericht gibt Einblick in die Endphase einer mit 70 Jahren begonnenen analytischen Psychotherapie.

Over the course of the past 15 years, there has been a vast sea change in American psychoanalysis.

A mystical experience, no matter what else, is a subjective occurrence in the psyche.

Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition provides a coherent and comprehensive introduction to the basic principles of classical (Pavlovian) and instrumental (Skinnerian) conditioning.

A stirring reappraisal of the brilliant, maligned psychoanalytic thinkerRobert S.

Many technological, socio-economic, environmental, biomedical phenomena exhibit an underlying graph structure.

Narrative therapy is an exciting and evolving psychotherapeutic approach.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can develop at a young age and when it does, it can cause significant distress for the child and the family.

This volume is the final publication of the Interdisciplinary Working Group, "e;Psychological Thought and Practice in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective,"e; sponsored by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities from October 2000 until March 2004.

2022 Gradiva Award nominee for Best Edited Book!

Originally published in 1924, this title is substantially a continuation of Baudouin's earlier work Studies in Psychoanalysis, being an application of psychoanalysis to the theory of aesthetics, as illustrated by a detailed study of the works of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren.

The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years.

Das stete Streben nach dem optimalen Ergebnis gehört heute zum guten Ton und wir wollen immer schneller, besser und erfolgreicher sein.

Narrative therapy is an exciting and evolving psychotherapeutic approach.

To understand the profound changes in the modes of public political debate over the past decade, this volume develops a new conception of public spheres as spaces of resonance emerging from the power of language to affect and to ascribe and instill collective emotion.

Originally published in 1954, this was a new study of aggressive behaviour and phantasies in children of school age, combining the scientific-experimental with the clinical approach.

Jung's correspondence with one of the twentieth century's leading theologians and ecumenicistsOn Theology and Psychology brings together C.

Everyday Applications of Psychological Science explores several core areas of psychology, showing readers how to apply these principles to everyday situations in order to better their understanding of human behavior and improve their quality of life.

Although clinical interpretation originated with Freud, the latter's positivist preference for purely observational methods made him ambivalent toward interpretive methods.

According to Jacques Andre, "e;the patient's encounter with the analyst is a scene of seduction, the seductive statement being that of the fundamental rule or the invitation to address that which is most intimate or personal to a complete stranger.

Originally published in 1978, this seventh volume of an international series continues the objective to increase and disseminate scientific knowledge in the area of human attention, performance and information processing, and to foster international communication in this area.

This book presents an introduction to the problems and strategies for modeling age, period, and cohort (APC) effects for aggregate-level data.

The sixth volume in the series "e;Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues,"e; published with the International Psychoanalytic Association, turns to Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921).

Why did Newton struggle for thirty years to make gold by alchemy - and then become Master of the Mint?

The Science of Life: Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow is part of the series Creative Lives and Works.

Psychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience: The Two Minds of Cognition and Feeling introduces new insights from the neurosciences into the nature of our emotions and feelings, and argues for a more empathetic approach to psychotherapy as a result.

Engaging and authoritative, this unique workbook enables therapists and students to build technical savvy in contemporary CBT interventions while deepening their self-awareness and therapeutic relationship skills.

First published in 1988, Alcoholism Etiology and Treatment provides a stimulating discussion concerning an understanding of the etiology and treatment of alcoholism.

The unconscious is a term which is central to the understanding of psychoanalysis, and, indeed everyday life.

Frantz Fanon, Erich Fromm, Pierre Bourdieu, and Marie Langer are among those activists, clinicians, and academics who have called for a social psychoanalysis.

Paul Rée (1849-1901), an interdisciplinary traveller and admirer of the French moralistes, but also of Schopenhauer and Darwin, was for a time one of the closest friends of Lou Andreas-Salomé and Friedrich Nietzsche.

This book provides the first consideration of quantum principles in legal decision making.

This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd.

This book examines the science and practice of character strengths as the backbone for understanding, studying, and applying positive interventions across a wide range of disabilities.

Hailed as "e;important book certain to stir extended psychoanalytic debate"e; (American Journal of Psychiatry) on publication in 1979, Gedo's Beyond Interpretation set forth a radically new theoretical framework and clinical agenda for modern psychoanalysis.

Why Science Needs Art explores the complex relationship between these seemingly polarised fields.

In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, boad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gestalt model to working with children, adolescents, and their families and worlds.

It is usual to consider the effects parents have on children; this title, originally published in 1977, reverses the focus and reveals a subject every bit as important and interesting.

First published in 1994.

Dr Alistair Ross is a University of Oxford academic whose previous work has been described by Ruby Wax as very, very smart.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

In this volume, originally published in 1970, an attempt is made to examine the more logical aspects of thinking, such as the ability to abstract and the manner in which concepts develop.