Moving Bodies, Wandering Minds
This book explores the connection between movement—both physical and mental—and creativity. Research shows physical activity has cognitive benefits like improving memory, while intentional mind-wandering can enhance creative ideation. This book summarizes this fascinating link.
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.
National Archetypes and Labour Subordination
National archetypes represent the outstanding traits of their citizens and serve as role models. This study explores how they are formed and their effect on the behaviour of workers and employers, analyzing five European countries and comparing them to non-European archetypes.
Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship
Global migration has challenged old certainties about nationalism, ethnicity, and citizenship. This book examines these issues from multiple perspectives, revealing that nationalism remains a dominant ideology and highlighting education’s crucial role.
Need for Sleep
This book explores the influence of fairytale details and imagery on adult cognition, and will be of interest to scholars concerned with how cognition relates specifically to understanding the subjective experience of daydreaming.
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 volume explores the mental lexicon from a multitude of perspectives, covering meaning creation, language development, and contemporary discourse. A must-read for anyone interested in a broader overview of the field, it offers seminal approaches for future research.
Metacognition is “thinking about thinking.” In this book, 33 scholars offer techniques and strategies to develop it. Eighteen chapters explore its role in children’s learning, diverse students, the arts, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and as a bridge to the deaf.
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 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.
Personal Construct Psychology at 60
George Kelly’s personal construct theory was a radical new approach to psychology with a broad range of influence beyond the clinical setting. This volume presents contemporary applications, reflecting the continuing relevance and vitality of Kelly’s ideas and methods.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What is evidence-based practice in human services, and how do you do it? This book addresses these questions through the insights of policy-makers, clinicians, researchers, and a consumer, exploring the definition, history, development, and challenges of this crucial approach.
This book explores the human psyche (‘soul’) and its usefulness in a techno-scientific revolution that is often blind to its subject: the human being. It makes a strong intellectual case for the soul by examining consciousness, synchronicity, suffering, and death.
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.
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.
Preventing Child Maltreatment and Traumas
Drawing from experiences in Italy and Japan, this book shares successful clinical cases, new diagnostic techniques, and screening tools for early detecting and treating child maltreatment. An essential resource for clinicians, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and paediatricians.