Dolls & Clowns & Things
Through the lens of cognition, this work explores the symbolic relationship between self and object. It studies how objects are vehicles through which cognitive processes transform our understanding of Self as an ongoing, imaginative endeavor.
Drawing from Memories
This book explores drawing from memory, synthesizing representation, memory, space, and creativity. For both scientific and artistic readers, it reveals drawing as a transformative act of invention, opening new perspectives on perception and creative expression.
This book explores how early trauma leads to loneliness and vulnerability to indoctrination—stress states at pandemic levels. It details how loneliness causes illness and indoctrination fuels a divided world, offering compassionate empathy as a unique path to repair and healing.
Modern challenges cause stress and poor health. This book develops the concept of ‘emotional health’ as a bio-psycho-socio-cultural balance, bridging medical treatments with alternative therapies to highlight new solutions to these problems.
This collection explores enhancing human performance. It examines disparate contexts and the many factors that impinge on performance, revealing the conditions under which it can be improved, from the effects of exercise to national innovation.
Enriching the Lives of Children
Synthesizing decades of research, this book explores innovations in teaching to enrich the lives of children. It offers practical strategies for educators and parents based on whole child development, creativity, and the power of play. Essential reading.
Environmental Attitudes and Awareness
At all levels today, efforts are being made to protect and preserve the environment from further deterioration. Tankha presents an empirical study on the relationship between the measures of ecological concern and their demographic and psychosocial determinants.
Environmental Psychology
This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.
Expanding Frontiers of Neonatal Care
Explore the fragile world of premature babies, their families, and caregivers. Written by an international team of experts, this book blends cutting-edge research with practical strategies, offering an accessible resource for students, educators, and professionals.
Explaining the Mental
This collection presents philosophical perspectives on the mental, exploring how to define and understand mental processes, and exhibiting the contrast between naturalistic and non-naturalistic approaches to thinking, knowledge, and intentionality.
This volume explores extension—a fundamental, yet largely unexplored, aspect of language. Contributors investigate its regularities, limits, and influence on grammar and meaning, using rich examples from English, French, Polish, Russian, and German.
Facilitating Parents’ Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
This book shares the incisive narratives of parents of a struggling child in adolescent mental health services. Though often under-consulted, their experiences provide clinicians with effective ways to engage them as a valued resource for the child’s recovery.
Figurativity is not mere linguistic flourish, but constitutive of human comprehension, communication, and functioning. This volume explores the cognitive operations behind non-literal thought and expression across various languages, cultures, and media.
Four Decades in Infant Mental Health
What can we do about children who withdraw from loving care, or parents lost in the hurts of their own childhood? This book gathers 25 stories from 41 years in infant mental health, revealing how our earliest attachment experiences support or confound our later development.
Four Questions on Visual Self-recognition
There are very few clear-cut answers to questions regarding human self-perception, vanity and concerns over one’s appearance, with a lack of consensus on how the brain underlies self-recognition. David Butler provides a broad theoretical framework for understanding these issues.
Friendship and its Paradoxes
In this collection, leading Jungian analysts from Latin America explore friendship and its paradoxes. The essays share psychological reflections on fraternity, conflict, empathy, and psychotherapy, showing how Jungian psychology meets the challenges of a changing world.
This essential guide to the youth transgender crisis argues social contagion is a key factor in the upsurge. It exposes the perils of medicalization—from puberty blockers to hormones—and offers a vital psychotherapeutic path for families.
This handbook is the needed bridge between gestalt therapy and psychotherapy research. It provides vital empirical support for the practice—a timely response to the evidence-based movement and the increasing policy call for “what works.”
A well-updated and comprehensive second edition, this handbook covers the philosophy, evolution, methodology and teaching of gestalt therapy, and exists as a valuable resource of contemporary research for both trainee therapists and advanced practitioners of the discipline.
Health and Safety for Spirit Seers, Telepaths and Visionaries
While 51 million people in the world are afflicted with schizophrenia, self-help books on the topic are not in ample supply and often very dark in outlook. This extensive study provides a much-needed, positive, hopeful and holistic perspective on how to cope with schizophrenia.