Many women expect to become mothers but are childless through social rather than biological reasons - perhaps they haven't met the right person or they prioritised career or education earlier in life.
Providing an up-to-date, multi-perspective and cross-linguistic account of the centrality of the expressive function in communication, this book explores the conceptualization of emotions in language and the high emotional 'temperature' of a variety of contemporary discourses.
This book is an interdisciplinary project that brings together ideas from aesthetics, philosophy, psychology, and music sociology as an expansion of German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer's theory on the aesthetics of play.
Love and the Politics of Intimacy articulates the concept of love within the relationship between the intimate and the social, rethinking how intimacy is conceived and experienced in the context of 21st-century neoliberalism.
From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens.
Gefühle des Einsseins mit Anderen, der Natur und dem Universum; Begegnungen mit Außerirdischen, Göttern und Dämonen; außerkörperliche Erfahrungen und Erinnerungen an frühere Leben.
We all have indistinct outlines of our life's trajectory, but we need to formulate a much clearer guiding principle of existence and learn the art of living.
How to change the subconscious patterns underlying chronic conditions*; Explains how to use prominent emotional and physical symptoms to determine the core existential stress underlying one's chronic condition*; Introduces five, seminal existential questions correlating with both the five miasms of homeopathy and the Five Phases of Traditional Chinese Medicine*; Presents homeopathic remedies connected to specific existential quandaries and explains their indications through detailed examples from the author's practiceIn addition to working well for physical ailments, homeopathy offers remedies for engaging with the subconscious mind to ameliorate embedded, existential causes of chronic illness called ';miasms.
Why are some performers exhilarated and energized about performing in public, while others feel a crushing sense of fear and dread, and experience public performance as an overwhelming challenge that must be endured?
Although society encourages us to deny and repress such negative emotions as rage and resentment, psychiatrists know that such denial can lead to a variety of psychological, physical, and social problems.
Das Buch erörtert die psychologischen Aspekte einer funktionalen Selbstregulation, also von Prozessen, die zwischen den Anforderungen des Kontextes ("der Realität") einerseits und den Ansprüchen des eigenen Motiv-Systems vermitteln und die zu tragfähigen Entscheidungen einer Person führen.
Klienten mit sogenannten "Distanz-Störungen" (schizoide, passiv-aggressive und paranoide Persönlichkeitsstörung) sind zwar in der ambulanten Praxis relativ selten, bereiten in der Psychotherapie jedoch äußerst große Probleme.
The interaction between emotion and cognition is a fundamental issue which has only recently been reintroduced as a legitimate object of study in experimental psychology.
This groundbreaking volume examines the complex role of the cerebellum in emotional regulation and disorders that are insufficiently understood, subverting the widely held belief that the cerebellum is solely involved in balance and motor functions.
The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner during King Phillip's war through works by Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, the film-maker John Ford, and actor John Wayne.
All of us feel anxious from time to time, but for one in six people in the UK chronic depression can become unbearable and severely disrupt everyday life.
Over the past decades, the field of health psychology has witnessed a tremendous growth, and social psychologists have contributed substantially to the theoretical foundation of this field.
"e;This book's strengths are [Brenda Mallon's] clinical wisdom, experience and insights, and the practical, constructive, down-to-earth way in which she conveys these to her readers.
This book applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism.
WINNER - NAUTILUS GOLD BOOK AWARDWINNER - AASECT PROFESSIONALS BOOK AWARDExploring how the essentialism of the gender binary impacts on clients of all genders, this ground-breaking book examines how historical, social and culturally gendered trauma emerges in clinical settings.
Im Verlauf der Evolution erfanden Menschen immer komplexere Formen und Muster des sozialen und kulturellen Miteinanders, der Kooperation und kommunikativen Abstimmung.
In recent decades there has been a shift in focus from psychological and social problems-what might be called the "e;dark side"e; of humanity-to human well-being and flourishing.
Originally published in 1992, this title came out of a conference on emotion and cognition as antecedents and consequences of health and disease processes in children and adolescents.
Die IFS-Therapie (das Modell des "Inneren Familien-Systems") geht davon aus, dass unsere Persönlichkeit aus verschiedenen Anteilen besteht: Teile, die beschützen, verwundete Teile und im Zentrum das Selbst, das in der Lage ist, unser inneres System mit Weisheit, Mut und Mitgefühl zu führen.
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