Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality

Character traits may be used as defenses, or, 'coping mechanisms' that may be developed by individuals in an exaggerated fashion in order to conceal psychological conflicts.

Utilizing "e;new wave"e; research including new psychological theories, new statistical techniques, and a stronger methodology, this collection unites a diversity of recent research perspectives on attitudes and the psychological functions of an attitude.

What does a dementia diagnosis mean for an individual's sense of self?

Leading theoreticians and researchers present current thinking about the role played by group memberships in people's sense of who they are and what they are worth.

This book covers the whole range of personality dysfunction, following the new ICD-11 classification of personality disorder.

This book offers new insights into how English speakers talk about their own and others' emotions.

Marco José zeigt auf, wie emotionale Kompetenzdurch positive Psychologie und konstruktive Kommunikation im Unterrichtgefördert werden kann.

The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented.

El presente libro es una síntesis amplia, la primera que se debe a un autor español, de un movimiento que de día en día aumenta en todo el mundo; un movimiento en el que lo místico y lo científico, lo racional y lo intuitivo, Oriente y Occidente, se complementan y se unen en el contexto de un paradigma, a la vez nuevo y antiguo, que unifica a materia, consciencia y energía.

A pragmatic guide to a growing area of professional practice, this book describes the multiple roles of the trial consultant and provides tools for carrying them out competently and ethically.

In this interdisciplinary collection leading experts and scholars from criminology, psychology, law and history provide a compelling analysis of practices and beliefs that lead to violence against women, men and children in the name 'honour'.

Any agenda for family research in the 1990s must take seriously a contextual approach to the study of family relationships.

This contributed volume is a real "e;who is who"e; in Latin American psychology.

Details each of the 10 personality disorders, in a format that makes locating information easy.

This cutting-edge handbook examines moral psychology and behavior, uncovering layers of human morality through a comprehensive overview of topics and approaches.

Understanding the effects of and psychology behind ethical and unethical leadership decisions can have a lasting and far reaching effect on any working environment.

Originally published in 1981, this volume presents the domain of personality as a fuzzy set that includes features previously identified with cognitive and social psychology.

The purpose of this book is to provide understanding of the relationship between childhood trauma and serious mental illness.

This book demonstrates Dialogical Leadership which is the workplace application of the Dialogical Self Theory, first developed by Dutch psychologist Hubert Hermans in the 1990s.

Drawing on recent developments within the sociology of family life, this book examines family connection and solidarity within different stepfamily networks, focusing on relationships from a kinship perspective and using case studies of people's experiences to explore how family connection is constructed within different stepfamilies.

The first English translation of correspondence tracing the development of Jung's theory of psychological typesIn 1915, C.

A colleague recently recounted a conversation she had had with a group of graduate students.

In diesem Buch geht es um den Spiegel.

Was bedeutet erfolgreiche Führung wirklich?

`Rofe's book is a unique scientific contribution to the understanding of psychopathological phenomena.

As the attacks in Norway, Munich and most recently Christchurch have shown: a new threat is now shaking liberal Western societies.

This book provides fresh sociological analyses on family violence in Japan.

Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health professionals to address.

More than ten years on from its original publication, Concepts of the Self still mesmerizes with its insight, comprehensiveness and critique of debates over the self in the social sciences and humanities.

How do people manage their environments?

This book evolved from our interest in rape as feminists and as sodal sdentists.

Every year in this country, some 10,000 college and university courses are taught in applied ethics.

Nostalgia is a topic that most lay people are familiar with, but, until recently, few social scientists understood.

It was our privilege, some twenty years ago, to assemble a group of Canadian and American investigators to examine the status of research in the then newly burgeoning field of psychological stress (Appley & Trumbull, 1967).

First published in 1983.

Dieser Ratgeber richtet sich an alle Betroffenen sowie an all jene, die in ihrem beruflichen oder privaten Alltag mit dieser Thematik konfrontiert sind, wie z.

The first in a two-part set, this book takes a deep dive into the history and theory of existential psychology.

When establishing a relationship with someone, coming across as manipulative and self-serving is a bad move.

This book theorizes identity on key themes, explores their methodological implications, and provides examples from several applied domains.

Although the importance of context has been emphasized by temperament researchers, until now there has been remarkably little systematic research on the unique role specific aspects of context play in the development and impact of temperament.

This book develops a performative and relational approach to gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary transnational sexual politics.

Correctional officers face considerable stress, risk, and danger that lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes.

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Each day, we make judgments about the personality characteristics of those around us, and we routinely rely on them to guide our behavior in interpersonal interactions and relationships.

In the last decade, the literature of phobic and obsessive-compulsive disorders has increased enormously.

Identity is one of the most extensively studied constructs in the social sciences.

What does it mean to have a personality?

Why do so many people become overweight and obese and why do they find it so difficult to lose weight?