Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality

The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis observes different aspects of life - childhood, romantic love, sex, death, and human suffering - through a Lacanian lens, with a glance toward a Buddhist point of view.

Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of masculinities and femininities.

Individual Differences and Personality, Third Edition provides a comprehensive overview of research on personality.

This book explores the relevance of literature and the performing and visual arts for effective clinical psychotherapy.

Domestic animals are an integral component of human leisure experience and can enhance the physical, social, and mental wellbeing of humans.

Self and Others is addressed to students and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Best-selling author Albert J.

Individual Differences and Personality, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive overview of research regarding what personality is and how and why it differs between people.

En estos últimos años reflexioné mucho sobre la importancia de la transformación personal como puerta para lograr esos cambios que te permitan llevar una vida mejor, una vida más consciente, una vida que puedas amar.

This book presents a new agency paradigm that can resolve complex socio-political situations in cross-cultural environments.

Emotions have emerged as a topic of interest across the disciplines, yet studies and findings on emotions tend to fall into two camps: body versus brain, nature versus nurture.

This book advances understanding of the manifestations, causes, and consequences of generosity.

Was bedeutet es, ein erfolgreiches Leben zu führen, wenn sich unsere Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen ständig erneuern?

We live in a society that defines us by what we consume and how.

Despite profound disagreement on whether identities are essential or existential, primordial or constructed, singular or multiple, there is little dispute over whether identities exist or not.

Originally published in 1977, Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Social, Psychological, and Physiological Effects of Expectancies integrates a wide variety of research and theory dealing with inter- and intrapersonal expectancies, from which the author develops a new theoretical model.

Werde zur unverwechselbaren Marke!

First published in 1982.

This book brings together cutting-edge contemporary research and discussion concerning drinking practices among young adults (individuals aged approximately 18-30 years old).

Creativity and Morality summarizes and integrates research on creativity used to achieve bad or immoral ends.

A constructive critique and development of the new realist philosophy of social science as it is specifically applied to sociology and social psychology.

Economic inequality has been of considerable interest to academics, citizens, and politicians worldwide for the past decade-and while economic inequality has attracted a considerable amount of research attention, it is only more recently that researchers have considered that economic inequality may have broader societal implications.

Political Communication and Cognition draws on a range of theories from communication psychology to explain how citizens receive communication about politics, how communication might make a citizen think and importantly what stimulates political participation, whether simply paying attention, chatting online or going to vote.

The study of the relationship between the person and the situation has had a long history in psychology.

Gott ist nicht tot.

(Post)apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation advances a series of psychoanalytic perspectives on contemporary South Africa, exploring key psychosocial topics such as space-identity, social fantasy, the body, whiteness, memory and nostalgia.

Markus Bredendiek untersucht aus psychologischer Perspektive, wie menschliche Diversität konstruiert wird, wie soziokulturelle Unterschiedlichkeit überwunden und Gemeinsamkeit hergestellt werden kann.

First published in 1985.

We live in an age of surveillance.

This successful textbook on the psychology of communication explains - here in English for the first time - how human communication works in a very understandable way.

Dieses Sozialpsychologie-Lehrbuch erklärt alltagsnah und kompakt, wie wir uns aus dem sozialen Kontext Informationen beschaffen, um die eigene Person - das Selbst - und unsere Mitmenschen zu verstehen.

Offering a unique set of case studies that invites readers to question and reimagine the concept of community engagement, this collected work provides an overview and analysis of numerous, creative participatory research methods designed to improve well-being at both the individual and societal level.

In this edited collection a distinguished set of contributors present a broad overview of psychological research on self-esteem.

This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the rapidly growing research base on child and adolescent psychopathy: its nature, causes, development, assessment, and treatment.

Les introvertis, condamnés à moins bien réussir en société?

Dans ce livre, où se mêlent la pratique et la formation, la vie de l’autre en soi et la part de soi dans la vie des autres, Danièle Brun montre comment la perte et le deuil tissent leur présence dans nos existences.

Criminology is concerned with many questions which are inherently longitudinal.

Written by a foremost expert in the field, this hands-on, evidence-based guide describes how to conduct a comprehensive forensic neuropsychological evaluation and provide expert testimony.

The volume addresses important issues of human adaptation and change.

This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can be identified, described and named.

Manchmal findet man die Lösung für ein schwieriges Problem über Nacht im Traum.

This is the second of a three volume landmark study of the criminal mind.

Ich freue mich über alle, die bis hierher gelesen haben, und ich hoffe, sie lesen weiter.

This book is the product of an intensive cooperation between psych- ogists and sociologists who study solidarity and prosocial behavior, and its fruits are briefly summarized in Chapter 1.