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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Media Space and Gender Construction
This innovative book explores the relationship between geography and gender from an Indian perspective. It examines how Media Space—a virtual place for ideas and images—is used to construct gender stereotypes through visual media like soap operas.
Advances in Business in Asia
Examine current trends, opportunities, and challenges for organisations in Asia, with a specific focus on China, India, and the ASEAN region. This book is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers by eminent academics in their fields of expertise.
Re-doing Rapunzel’s Hair
This volume explores embodied cognition and our imaginative experience of hair, using Rapunzel’s symbolic hair as a touchstone. It introduces “fancifold,” a quality of imagination that produces both enchantment and disenchantment.
Brain Development in Learning Environments
This volume on bioeducational research forges a dialogue between education, neuroscience, and biology. It analyses biodynamic perspectives on how learning environments shape brain development, embodied cognition, and perceptual knowledge.
Dolls & Clowns & Things
Through the lens of cognition, this work explores the symbolic relationship between self and object. It studies how objects are vehicles through which cognitive processes transform our understanding of Self as an ongoing, imaginative endeavor.
Beyond the Brain
Cognitive science now emphasizes the entrenchment of the brain in body, context and culture, rather than as the only seat of intelligence. This book provides a general overview of current research on embodied, situated and distributed cognition.
Psychology is the scientific study of all human thought and behavior. This book showcases a variety of applications of psychological science in health, law, sports, business, religion, and money, motivating you to explore its potential to impact our daily lives.
Workplace Emotions
When John Wilkinson accepts a job in Bahrain, he doesn’t expect a lesson in emotional intelligence. As his team works to upgrade an aluminum plant, he witnesses cultural change in a traditional corporation and learns how EI improves performance.
The Psychological Model of Illness highlights the role of psychological factors in adapting to chronic illness like heart attacks. This book provides an empirical investigation of illness cognition, coping, and their effects on quality of life.
Teaching and Learning Mathematics Together
How can teachers bring new ideas into classrooms where students are focused on assessment? This book provides an introduction to the thinking behind these ideas and puts forward a model for classroom activity based on collaboration rather than demonstration.
The Power of Compassion
How do we make sense of our world, a world of increasing angst and despair? The essays in this book provide insight from health professionals as they discuss their ideas on compassion, offering you an opportunity to reflect and go forward with a sense of shared humanity.
Religious Attachment
Using attachment theory, this book explores the faith experiences of Christian women. Based on in-depth interviews, it identifies three patterns of religious attachment—Distance/Avoidance, Anxiety/Ambivalence, and Security—with practical implications for pastoral care.