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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Environmental Attitudes and Awareness
At all levels today, efforts are being made to protect and preserve the environment from further deterioration. Tankha presents an empirical study on the relationship between the measures of ecological concern and their demographic and psychosocial determinants.
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.
Bianaca discusses topics like monist dualism, nomiotic theory of the mind, differences between brain processes and configurations and mind processes and configurations, and the architecture of the mind. He formulates a nomiotic-wave theory of the mind grounded in 6 key aspects.
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.
This collection challenges our negative and incorrect definitions of psychoanalysis by focusing on psychoanalysis as a movement for social justice. It highlights psychoanalysis’ social justice origins, illustrating how it improves our understanding of modern social problems.
Disasters
With numerous disasters occurring throughout the world, understanding their mental health consequences is a pressing need. This volume deals with Natural, Human-made, and Economic Disasters, helping to manage and mitigate their mental health effects.
This monograph highlights that school climate is a science of education and psychology that must be studied in detail in order to understand the dynamic nature of learning environments, and to learn how to improve the conditions for learning in all schools.
This foundational text for an emerging field integrates the vast context of yoga with Western psychology. This inquiry combines the perennial wisdom of yoga with breakthroughs in somatic psychology, trauma research, and insights from neuroscience.
Four Questions on Visual Self-recognition
There are very few clear-cut answers to questions regarding human self-perception, vanity and concerns over one’s appearance, with a lack of consensus on how the brain underlies self-recognition. David Butler provides a broad theoretical framework for understanding these issues.
Human Development II
This title offers an overview of a wide range of contemporary issues in education and society, including emotional intelligence, family, and personal development, and represents a useful manual for students and the general public interested in the social sciences.
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.
Creative Learning and MOOCs
This publication showcases papers presented at the 11th Learning and Technology Conference held in Saudi Arabia in 2014, reflecting upon the recent implementation of Massive Open Online Courses, which provide opportunities for learning to large numbers of students at little cost.
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 provides a systematic structure for sport psychological interventions to give athletes a competitive edge. For psychologists, athletes, and coaches, it offers scientifically-proven measures for skills training, stress monitoring, and handling crises.
Different Psychological Perspectives on Cognitive Processes
This book highlights research in cognitive psychology in the Alps-Adria region, bringing together diverse authors from six countries. In a spirit of unity and interdisciplinarity, it serves as a basis for fruitful exchange beyond geographical and theoretical borders.