What does it mean to “come home”? Spiritual teachers share their intimate and startling stories of consciousness exploration. Through their psycho-spiritual challenges, readers will gain insights for their own journey, realizing there are many paths to being wholly oneself.
Narcissism and Sexuality
This book explores the narcissistic wound, differentiating it from a severe disorder by focusing on one common expression—sexuality. Using a Jungian approach, it reveals the analytic process through an in-depth client case study illuminated by 54 dream interpretations.
This volume contributes to closing the divide that still exists today between the so-called ‘practical’ and ‘classical’ disciplines in seminary curricula. The essays here model a dynamic reading of human situations and biblical texts that reveal their multivalent complexities.
This book challenges modern psychology’s view that we are victims of circumstance. It argues that by denying human freedom and personal responsibility, we risk undermining our civilisation, and offers a ‘purposive psychology’ to help individuals gain mastery of themselves.
Psychotherapy, Ethics, and Society
Drawing on psychoanalytic thinking from over a century and the author’s three decades of experience, this text asks whether psychotherapy can offer insight into a more inclusive kind of ethics, and, if so, whether it can glean any guidance on how such an ethics may be furthered.
Ożańska-Ponikwia addresses a prominent area of second language acquisition research, specifically the factors that mediate learning outcomes in learning a second or foreign language. She provides a comprehensive overview of the field from the point of view emotional intelligence.
Principles and Practices for Psychodynamic Group Career Counseling
The first manual on psychodynamic group career counseling, this book offers insights into unconscious processes affecting career decisions. It provides a complete intervention with detailed sessions, methodological tools, case illustrations, and scripts for practitioners.
The Well-being of Chinese Older Adults
Ouyang studies the well-being of the Chinese elderly through the relationship among personal factors, environmental factors, person-environment fit, and the mediating effects of supplementary fit.
Practical Action
This book presents a dynamic model of practical action that challenges the one imposed by the cognitive sciences. Integrating Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and interactionist sociology, it reveals a radically contextual conception of human individual and collective behaviour.
This handbook helps psychology professors internationalize their courses and curricula. It offers practical tips and innovative ideas to enrich teaching, with authors from every major geographic region providing a truly global perspective on psychology education.
Saylan covers a selection of Yeats’s poems from 1889 to 1939, discussing them within the frame of the quest to find oneself and its gyroscopic transformation. In doing so, she illustrates that self is not a single entity, but has multiple layers.
The Story Cookbook
The Story Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of over 80 story-based activities. This easy-to-follow guide provides a treasure trove of techniques to apply and adapt. It is a must-read for consultants, educators, and leaders using storytelling for positive change.
Western civilization endures three seminal, tragic father-son stories. This book explores a fourth, softer myth: that of Jacob and Joseph. In this alternative path, the son, chosen by his father, unites a tribe and furthers his father’s dreams, and neither is destroyed.
Conceptual Blending and the Arts
Warchoł analyses how the processes described in Conceptual Blending Theory can be applied in practice, on the basis of Michał Batory’s posters designed for artistic events, highlighting how Batory’s artefacts influence people and convey hidden messages.
This book introduces “AfroSymbiocity,” a paradigm for conflict resolution based on original African strategies. It provides the missing cultural pieces in the puzzle of conflict, using the historical example of King Moshoeshoe to demonstrate an approach with universal relevance.
This text compiles conceptual research in cognitive linguistics and empirical studies on language, showing the current state of five areas of cognitive explorations of language, namely conceptual blending, narratology, multimodality, linguistic creativity and construction grammar
This book articulates Christian anthropology as a foundation for psychotherapy. Contributors integrate scientific psychology with Christian theology, viewing spirituality as an intrinsic part of humanity that influences health and the search for meaning.
This book is for everyone interested in the prevention and treatment of addiction. It applies research on the causes and cures of drug addiction using the author’s unique personality theory, analyzing 12 addict case studies. A timely read for dealing with the opioid crisis.
Psychology for a Better World
This anthology from World without Anger (WWA) promotes peace. Peer-reviewed papers from an international conference reflect diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives on anger management, emotional intelligence, and cultural harmony.
A positive link exists between religiosity and well-being. This book brings together in one volume scattered empirical studies on the topic from different Arab, mainly Muslim, countries, exploring the connection to mental health, happiness, and quality of life.