Psychotherapy of the Future
Transpersonal psychotherapy is a heroic journey beyond appearances to free yourself from your personal history and drink from the source of being. It is a path of awareness, acceptance, and self-knowledge. Through 15 questions, this book explores this approach in a thorough way.
The first English-language book on the psychoanalytical clinical setting in Japan. It introduces the actual clinical practices of Japanese psychoanalysis, covering basic theories like neutrality and transference, and Freud’s Wolfman and Rat Man cases.
Personality Type and Art
Discover the psychological roots of your artistic tastes. Revising the theories of Jung and Freud, this book unveils a new understanding of personality that will irrevocably change how you perceive music and art.
Many topical tasks of logical analysis, such as forming and testing hypotheses or searching for inconsistencies in reasoning, are often outside the scope of standard logic courses. This book demonstrates two simple mathematical systems that model reasoning and solve these tasks.
This guide provides a clinical and forensic approach to personality disorders, comparing the categorical (ICD-10) and dimensional (ICD-11) classifications. With diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, it will appeal to psychiatrists, psychologists, and students.
On Personal Space, the Traversable Self, and the Happily Ever Experience
This book explores the symbolic relationship between personal space and the Cinderella fairy-tale. It characterizes personal space as a deeply individual realm of memory and self, where such nuanced associations are the essence of the happily ever after personal experience.
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.
Learning Disabilities
While smart, many students with learning disabilities don’t know how to learn. This book examines evaluation procedures and intervention programs that recognize student strengths and address their needs, providing guidance for educators and building their capacity to help.
Positive Education and Work
Based on positive psychological research covering the whole lifespan, this volume critically discusses positive education and work and their connection to life-long flourishing. It will appeal to educators, researchers, and anyone interested in the foundations of well-being.
Transpersonal Psychology and Science
Transpersonal psychology’s progress has been compromised by disagreement over its relation to science. This is the first book to bring together international experts to discuss this challenge, offering diverse perspectives and concrete recommendations for the field’s future.
The Continuum of Mental Disorders and Unitary Psychosis
This investigation of Griesinger, Kahlbaum, and Kraepelin’s foundational works in psychiatry illuminates the current debate on classification and diagnosis. It offers a new perspective on unitary psychosis, demanding a comprehensive view of mental disorders.
The Psychology of Multilingualism
This comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to multilingualism explores its individual and societal consequences. The book underlines the normality of using more than one language, dispels common myths, and offers practical recommendations for education.
Uncover the hidden power of metaphor in the media. This collection reveals how manipulative framing in news and film shapes reality and offers fresh insights to help you decode bias and avoid being misled. Essential for any critical thinker.
Awareness Integration Therapy
This book offers Awareness Integration Therapy (AIT), a multi-modality approach synthesizing cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and body-mind theories. AIT is a must-read for clinicians and coaches who desire to offer deep therapeutic work in a brief period of time.
This book unifies Freud’s scattered writings on healing to spell out exactly what happens in successful psychotherapy. It clarifies the healing process for neurotic, borderline, and psychotic illnesses, adding a new level of precision to the therapeutic process.
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.
For a generation living longer than ever, retirement is uncharted territory. This volume brings together distinguished psychologists to share their personal journeys. Learn from their stories and explore the idea of “retiring to” something, not just “from” it.
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.
Teachers have expressed a lack of training in how to manage student aggression. This book improves understanding of antisocial orientation by examining its causes and treatments, and concludes with classroom strategies and school modifications to foster a prosocial orientation.
This book presents a collection of personality and psychopathology scales, developed originally in Arabic and translated into English. Suitable for surveys and large-sample studies, these scales are useful in psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, and social sciences.