A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye
This theoretical biography of Ye focuses on 2016-2021, thinking psychoanalytically about his complex subjectivity, his struggle with manic-depression, and his art. Taking him seriously and avoiding stigma, the author attempts to see him from his mother Donda’s point of view.
A Theoretical and Practical Guide to the Creative World
What unites all forms of creativity? This book defines it as an openness to the world where time is suspended, allowing us to find solutions. It discusses known concepts, introduces innovative models, and is written for scholars, professionals, and any curious reader.
A Clinician’s Guide to Radical Care Beyond Institutional Walls
This book is a rallying cry for a mental health revolution. It dismantles coercive psychiatry and replaces it with bold, community-rooted alternatives grounded in dignity and liberation. It offers real-world tools and a blueprint for building systems that heal rather than harm.
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.
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.
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.
Teaching Psychology around the World
This book brings together current information on the teaching and practice of psychology from experts throughout the world. It is highly recommended by prominent psychologists including Dr. Phillip Zimbardo, former President of the American Psychological Association.
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.
Hollywood’s (m)Other Aperture
Blockbusters like *Avatar* and *Annihilation* mine our prelingual origins. This book reveals how their primal imagery reshapes our understanding of femininity, maternal authority, queer identity, and the bonds between human and nonhuman.
Personality and its Disorders
To understand a disordered personality, we must first understand normal personality. This book re-frames personality disorders not as an inner pathology, but as aberrant variations of the normal, derailed by injuries and shaped by social and cultural environments.
Induced Affect in Psychotherapy and Stress Management Training
For mental health practitioners, this book describes induced affect, a clinical procedure to counter emotional avoidance and build regulation skills. It provides step-by-step instructions, transcripts, and a stress management program to enhance emotional resilience.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps patients reclaim their quality of life. This portable book summarises the practical application of CBT, helping dental practitioners use it to treat patient issues like dental fears, orofacial pain, and other psychosomatic disorders.
The Psychology of People, Power and Politics
We view the world in increasingly psychological terms, yet the discipline itself has been largely overlooked. In a series of essays covering issues from mental health to war, this book reflects on psychology, questions its relationship to power, and offers new perspectives.
In a series of judgments, an error in one is passed to the next because each judgment acts as a reference point for its successor. This book explores this phenomenon, known as ‘absolute identification,’ and the biases that result. A key text for psychologists studying judgment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This book explores why resource-poor groups are excluded from the economic benefits of watershed development projects. It traces the factors denying them equal opportunities and discusses potential avenues for their meaningful inclusion in the governance of natural resources.
Thinking Styles
Are thinking styles distinct from personality? Can they be changed? Are some styles better than others? This book answers these controversial questions, providing solid research evidence and intriguing insights into the nature of thinking styles for academics and students alike.