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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Caring Architecture
This volume illuminates how people and spaces negotiate regularities and patterns embedded in the meeting between architecture and institutions. It reveals the relational and transformative conditions of care architecture and how institutions transform into caring architecture.
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.
Facilitating Parents’ Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
This book shares the incisive narratives of parents of a struggling child in adolescent mental health services. Though often under-consulted, their experiences provide clinicians with effective ways to engage them as a valued resource for the child’s recovery.
Counterterrorism and Public Diplomacy
This book presents an innovative approach to counterterrorism. It shows how to prevent recruitment by engaging vulnerable groups and changing how they think and act, offering a new strategic and tactical perspective for state and non-state actors.
Inclusive Hospitality in Online Learning
Inclusive hospitality counters the impersonal nature of online learning by creating a welcoming, safe, and engaging environment. This book provides a path and tools for faculty to welcome and instruct students in a powerful, transformative manner, valuing them as individuals.
The Carer’s Role in Recovery
After a disabling stroke left Karin Cox dependent on full-time care, she and her husband investigated the world of social care. This book combines their experiences with wider research to highlight their belief that person-centred care is fundamental to recovery.
This book covers the consequences of death for patients and families, including grief and health. It offers a health promotion perspective on palliative care for patients, families, and care workers, stressing the importance of fulfilling patient wishes.