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.
Script and Addiction
The 12 Steps programme for addiction has a low success rate. This book demonstrates how combining it with the “Life Script” concept from Transactional Analysis can achieve a much higher rate of success. Pioneered by the author, this new approach is supported by case studies.
Demons on the Couch
Belief in possession has ancient roots. This book traces its global history and explores how mental health professionals can help a person who believes they are possessed. Featuring interviews with exorcists, this is a fascinating study for believers and sceptics alike.
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.
By studying various myths, folk tales, examples in cinema, commentary from modern individuals, reports from traditional shamans, and neuroscience, Kline discerns the features and characteristics of the “Otherworld” and argues for its existence in the physical world.
Psychic River
Using a variety of psychoanalytic and philosophical lenses, and using the Psychic River as a metaphor, Mathew asks the question of what it means “to learn” and “to teach”. He considers the joys and frustrations of lifelong learning, and what drives us to learn as we age.
The Creative Advantages of Schizophrenia
Is there a link between madness and genius? This book explores the age-old assumption that schizophrenia is tied to creative illumination. But is the association veracious? Using new empirical findings, it explains how creative potential can be channelled.
This book interrogates the breakages in our lives: psychological breakdowns, political ruptures, and historical change. Through creative writing and essays, it explores the plight of broken minds and bodies and the enduring impact of the past.
Cultural Memory Studies
This overview of cultural memory theories explores how communities establish their identity—a process now challenged by the digital turn. The book presents arguments by the most important memory theorists and describes the most significant forms of cultural memory.
Story by Story
A psychiatrist and a philosopher listen to stories of illness, discovering that to understand an illness is to establish the right relation between what is being suffered and who is suffering. This approach resists medical prejudice by focusing on the person, not the condition.
What is the structure of conscious experience? This book argues it is narrative form. This allows us to communicate our experience, but more importantly, to make informed predictions about the future, assess potential threats, and take action to prevent their occurrence.
Discovering New Educational Trends (V3)
This textbook of articles and narratives assists educational professionals and students across diverse disciplines—from education and health to psychology and the humanities. It is an excellent resource for university coursework and a supplemental reading tool.
Where Agnon and Jung Meet
This book uses Carl Jung’s theory to analyze the Jewish archetypes in Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon’s novel, The Bridal Canopy. It serves as a practical guide to applying psychological theory to a novel, offering a new perspective on the depths of the universal human soul.
The Psychology of Pandemics
While virologists predict the next pandemic, little attention has been paid to the psychological factors that influence the spread of infection, emotional distress, and social disruption. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the psychology of pandemics.
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.
A Fractal Epistemology for a Scientific Psychology
Fractal dynamics provide a tool for understanding complexity. This book brings experts together to reconcile dichotomies like mind-brain and subjective-objective, bringing subjective experience into a scientific framework.
Islands of the Mind
Islands are both open communities and enclosed worlds, points of arrival and departure. This collection explores the psychology they shape, the literature they inspire, and the urgent ecological questions they pose in our increasingly globalised world.
Teaching Psychology around the World
A handbook for psychology professors aiming to internationalize and diversify their curricula. This work provides practical tips, innovative teaching ideas, and global perspectives on psychology education from distinguished authors representing every major region of the world.
A Critical Investigation into Precognitive Dreams
The precognitive dream is a compelling phenomenon ignored by orthodox science. This book explores their history, neuroscience, and what they reveal about consciousness, free will, and the very nature of time itself.
We see our social environment not as it is, but as we believe it to be. This book uses numerous examples to show that people with different beliefs produce different images of the same object, interpret them differently, and struggle to communicate through them.