Expanding Frontiers of Neonatal Care
Explore the fragile world of premature babies, their families, and caregivers. Written by an international team of experts, this book blends cutting-edge research with practical strategies, offering an accessible resource for students, educators, and professionals.
Modernist Group Dynamics
Modernist scholarship has moved beyond solitary figures to the group formations that fostered these movements. The essays in Modernist Group Dynamics explore how artists worked in concert and conflict, reconsidering well-known figures and recovering groups worldwide.
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.
Explaining the Mental
This collection presents philosophical perspectives on the mental, exploring how to define and understand mental processes, and exhibiting the contrast between naturalistic and non-naturalistic approaches to thinking, knowledge, and intentionality.
Researching the Self
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and computer science unite to explore the self. What are its neural correlates? Can individuals have multiple selves? How do selves depend on others? Will engineers ever construct artificial selves?
Intersecting Identities and Interculturality
This volume adopts a fluid approach to identity, exploring its development in intercultural contexts. With international contributions from diverse fields, it provides empirical research into identification processes for scholars, students, and all interested in diversity.
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.
Being Doll
This book explores the symbolic relationship between self and object, studying how the mind integrates opposing ideas like “youngness” and “oldness” to expand its understanding of Self through the experience of a “doll” as memory, metaphor, and art.
Environmental Psychology
This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.
This handbook is the needed bridge between gestalt therapy and psychotherapy research. It provides vital empirical support for the practice—a timely response to the evidence-based movement and the increasing policy call for “what works.”
This book presents studies on the influence of childhood abuse on adult functioning, including various symptoms, problems, and personality and neurobiological disorders. It also contains psychotherapeutic issues connected with interpersonal trauma.
A first-hand perspective on Traditional Indigenous Medicine and ayahuasca, based on teachings from the Asháninka, Mazatec, Cocama, & Navajo. This book explores spirituality and healing past traumas, while analyzing the psychedelic world’s potential, contradictions, and dangers.
Millions are spent on employee training, but often ineffectively. Successful training requires understanding both organizational goals and employee behavior. This book focuses on how to train people to thrive and succeed in the workplace.
This book shows why control and happenstance are crucial to methodology and statistics. Control reduces ambiguity, while tests of statistical significance rule out happenstance as an explanation for research results, demonstrating that research impartiality is possible.
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.
Connected Minds
This volume explores social cognition from psychological and collective viewpoints. It examines how the human mind processes social information, and how social interactions influence our cognition, shaping everything from stereotypes to entire societies.
Regarding the Mind, Naturally
This book asks philosophical questions about the mind in the context of recent developments in cognitive science and evolutionary theory. Using naturalistic approaches, it explores the mind’s place in the world and re-examines traditional philosophical issues.
Common Threads
Common Threads explores the artistic identity and memory of ten textile artists. Through their stories, it reveals how individuals create a cohesive sense of self and deepens our understanding of what it means to be an artist.
Constructing Capacities
This book explores how learning helps people build capacities to overcome challenges. Through diverse, researched accounts, it generates new understandings of how capacities can be constructed effectively and sustainably.
Investigating the human side of the UK’s temporary work industry, this study exposes the psychological toll of reduced protection and the fraught power dynamics between workers, agencies, and employers.