Psychology

Aggressive and violent patients are an increasing concern for mental health professionals.

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.

During Brexit, political questions were continually framed in emotional terms.

This authored book's purpose is to extend and consolidate the evolving literature on multinational work teams by developing a comprehensive theory that incorporates a dynamic, multilevel view of such teams.

This text is an attempt to trace out a line of development in the understanding of how things happen, from origins in infancy to mature forms in adulthood.

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

The editors of this volume suggest that there are missing elements in the conceptualization upon which standard test theory is based.

In an era of longer hours and shorter contracts, of tighter margins and frequent organizational change, stress can undermine both the mental health and performance of employees.

Providing a personal overview of hemispheric differences in human cognitive activity, Professor Efron is selective in his presentation of significant issues.

Preventing War and Promoting Peace focuses on how health professionals can actively engage in the prevention of war and the promotion of peace.

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.

Over the last two decades, empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than simply punishing them.

Data Analysis of Asymmetric Structures provides a comprehensive presentation of a variety of models and theories for the analysis of asymmetry and its applications and provides a wealth of new approaches in every section.

Peer conflicts that arise from incompatible goals or from different views on how a task should be accomplished can usually be resolved.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

5-HT Interaction with Other Neurotransmitters: Experimental Evidence and Therapeutic Relevance, Part B, Volume 260 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Serotonin-noradrenalin interactions, Electrophysiological and neurochemical evidence for an interaction of serotonin on noradrenergic neurons, Serotonin and cannabinoid system, 5-HT/CB interaction in the CNS in health and disease, Serotonin2A receptors and Cannabinoids, CB1/5-HT/GABA in food intake, A close interaction between serotonergic system and BDNF in the mechanism of action of antidepressant, 5-HT/ Ach, Interaction of 5-HT2A/2C ligands and nicotine, and more.

Supplying a foundation for understanding the development of the brain and the learning process, this text examines the physical and environmental factors that influence how we acquire and retain information throughout our lives.

Intelligence allows people to understand events and to shape their surrounding environment.

A Life Worth Living brings together the latest thought on Positive Psychology from an international cast of scholars.

Philippe Rochat's FINITUDE is a rumination on time and self-consciousness.

Pour la première fois, des psys racontent leur parcours et leur vie intérieure.

Understanding who you are can be a lonely and difficult process following the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome (AS).

One of the most striking features of contemporary psychology is the return of language of the 'soul' in contemporary discourse.

Lacan was not an ahistorical post-structuralist.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published.

As we all know, sexuality is not an easy topic for parents and carers to deal with once their children enter adolescence.

Jung's landmark account of the connections between alchemy, its symbolism, the collective unconscious, and modern psychologyPsychology and Alchemy is one of Jung's most influential works.

Terrorism and radicalization have a long history, but in recent years their prominence has been a particularly conspicuous and influential feature of the global political landscape.

Readers of this book will venture deep into the dark and mysterious side of the American South and discover the heart-palpitating, eyewitness accounts of ghosts, poltergeists, and voices from beyond the grave which still linger.

Contains questions and exercises which examine all aspects of communication disorders and give readers practice at analysing clinical linguistic data.

What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it?

On Narcissism: An Introduction is a densely packed essay dealing with ideas that are still being debated today - from the role of narcissism in normal and pathological development and the relationship of narcissism to homosexuality, libido, romantic love, and self-esteem to issues of therapeutic intervention.

Mit diesem Standardwerk liegt eine praktisch orientierte Einführung in alle Anwendungen des Gestaltansatzes vor, die entlang des therapeutischen und beraterischen Prozesses mit zahlreichen Handreichungen als Lehrbuch für Psychotherapie, Beratung und Ausbildung dient.

This book considers how a young child becomes a member of culture through the practices and procedures of everyday conversation.

On a global platform we are witnessing the increased visibility of the people we call children and teenagers as political activists.