Decoding Consciousness and Bioethics
How do we know if someone else is conscious? This book offers a compelling bioethical analysis of one of neuroscience’s most intriguing topics: states of consciousness, bringing together contributions from international experts in neuroscience, philosophy, law, and ethics.
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.
This book unifies Freud’s scattered writings on healing to spell out exactly what happens in successful psychotherapy. It clarifies the healing process for neurotic, borderline, and psychotic illnesses, adding a new level of precision to the therapeutic process.
Many topical tasks of logical analysis, such as forming and testing hypotheses or searching for inconsistencies in reasoning, are often outside the scope of standard logic courses. This book demonstrates two simple mathematical systems that model reasoning and solve these tasks.
Awareness Integration Therapy
This book offers Awareness Integration Therapy (AIT), a multi-modality approach synthesizing cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and body-mind theories. AIT is a must-read for clinicians and coaches who desire to offer deep therapeutic work in a brief period of time.
Teachers have expressed a lack of training in how to manage student aggression. This book improves understanding of antisocial orientation by examining its causes and treatments, and concludes with classroom strategies and school modifications to foster a prosocial orientation.
For a generation living longer than ever, retirement is uncharted territory. This volume brings together distinguished psychologists to share their personal journeys. Learn from their stories and explore the idea of “retiring to” something, not just “from” it.
Modern challenges cause stress and poor health. This book develops the concept of ‘emotional health’ as a bio-psycho-socio-cultural balance, bridging medical treatments with alternative therapies to highlight new solutions to these problems.
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.
Conceptual Blending and the Arts
Warchoł analyses how the processes described in Conceptual Blending Theory can be applied in practice, on the basis of Michał Batory’s posters designed for artistic events, highlighting how Batory’s artefacts influence people and convey hidden messages.
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.
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.
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.
This volume contributes to closing the divide that still exists today between the so-called ‘practical’ and ‘classical’ disciplines in seminary curricula. The essays here model a dynamic reading of human situations and biblical texts that reveal their multivalent complexities.
What does it mean to “come home”? Spiritual teachers share their intimate and startling stories of consciousness exploration. Through their psycho-spiritual challenges, readers will gain insights for their own journey, realizing there are many paths to being wholly oneself.
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.
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.
Friendship and its Paradoxes
In this collection, leading Jungian analysts from Latin America explore friendship and its paradoxes. The essays share psychological reflections on fraternity, conflict, empathy, and psychotherapy, showing how Jungian psychology meets the challenges of a changing world.
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.
The Well-being of Chinese Older Adults
Ouyang studies the well-being of the Chinese elderly through the relationship among personal factors, environmental factors, person-environment fit, and the mediating effects of supplementary fit.
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