Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality

This interdisciplinary volume examines the challenges adolescents face and the self-regulation tools that most effectively ease the transition to adulthood.

This welcome resource traces the evolution of self-concept clarity and brings together diverse strands of research on this important and still-developing construct.

Understanding the interplay between memory and emotion is crucial for the work of researchers in many arenas--clinicians, psychologists interested in eyewitness testimony, psychobiologists, to name just a few.

Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice is largely a product of a unique collaboration between Russell K.

With unparalleled access to some of the world's most reflective and thoughtful philanthropists, this book explores the philanthropic journeys of 48 high net worth individuals (HNWIs) and ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) to uncover the person behind the giving.

The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of research from different psychological domains with regards to intergroup helping, arguing for intergroup helping as a research area in and of itself.

Clients enter therapy grappling with a range of difficulties.

This Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment 2-Volume Set constitutes an essential resource for shaping the future of the scientific foundation of personality research, measurement, and practice.

Why are jokes funny?

Originally published in 1953, this third edition was first published in 1970.

Why a new book on stress when so many are already available?

Erkenne dich selbst - der uralte Anspruch der Menschheit auf anschauliche und amüsante Weise in einem konkreten Ratgeber umgesetzt.

This book rectifies a much neglected area in the conceptualization and treatment of attachment disorders.

Millennials have been stereotyped as both "e;entitled slackers"e; and "e;the next greatest generation.

Men and the Language of Emotions challenges the commonly held association of rationality with masculinity, involving distancing from the language of emotions.

Personality and Dangerousness, first published in 2001, traces the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder.

Social identity research has transformed psychology and the social sciences.

This book summarizes and integrates the social scientific research on racial colorblindness, focusing primarily on work within the field of psychology.

Featuring case vignettes from nearly 30 years of Dr.

Parenting: An Ecological Perspective was originally created in 1993 to answer questions such as: Why do parents differ markedly in the ways in which they care for their children?

Through examples of Whitty's own research on cyber-relationships, online dating, cyber-harassment, and presentation of self online, as well as drawing from other people's research, the positive and negative aspects of online relating are presented.

This closely integrated collection of essays constitutes a wide-ranging and comprehensive attempt to understand persons within psychology--a long-lost enterprise.

This is an edited volume of approximately 17 essays that deal with various types of spontaneous shrines and other, related public memorializations of death.

Distinguished psychologist G.

What are the elements upon which a healthy personality is built?

This book draws out the essence of a range of personality theories in a clear and accessible way, moving from the seminal works of Freud and other prominent analytical theorists, to the stage theories of Erikson and Levinson and the development of personality as it is viewed in existential and person-centred theory.

Serial killers like Seattle's Ted Bundy, Maryland's Beltway Sniper, Atlanta's Wayne Williams, or England's Peter Sutcliffe usually outsmart the task forces on their trail for long periods of time.

This volume presents a theoretical defense of the potential of ordinary individuals to construct values and through them to become self-empowering, responsible participants in a democratic community.

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition is used by a broad range of clinicians to assist with the diagnosis of mental disorders and the selection of appropriate treatment methods.

Provides an overview of leading scholars'' approaches to understanding the nature of intelligence, its measurement, its investigation, and its development.

Are we born selfish or primed to help others?

Half a century after the collapse of the Nazi regime and the Third Reich, scholars from a range of fields continue to examine the causes of Nazi Germany.

Buckle up, folks.

Diese Arbeit widmet sich dem Thema der szenespezifischen Moden.

Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges.

Since the mid-1980s, the psychology of liberation movement has been a catalyst for collective and individual change in communities throughout Latin America, and beyond; and recent political developments are making its powerful, transformative ideas more relevant than ever before.

“An unusually engaging book on the forces that fuel originality across fields.

Building on our prior ISA-based Palgrave pivot, the aims of the book are twofold.

Published in the year 1983, Advances in Personality Assessment is a valuable contribution to the field of Psychiatry/Clinical Psychology.

In diesem Buch entwickelt der Autor konzeptionell ein ganzheitliches, theoretisch fundiertes Modell zur Überwindung aktueller Veränderungsdynamiken im politischen Markt der BRD: das persönlichkeitsbasierte Identifikationsmodell.

Subjectivity, the Unconscious and Consumerism is a unique and imaginative psycho-sociological exploration of how postmodern, contemporary consumerism invades and colonises human subjectivity.