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.
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.
An Integrated Approach to Curricular Contents
This pragmatic work provides concrete, validated teaching methods for an integrated curriculum in primary schools. Based on vast experience, it helps teachers design activities that develop specific and transdisciplinary competences.
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.
In a series of judgments, an error in one is passed to the next because each judgment acts as a reference point for its successor. This book explores this phenomenon, known as ‘absolute identification,’ and the biases that result. A key text for psychologists studying judgment.
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.
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.
R.D. Laing and the Politics of Truth
This collection of essays appraises R.D. Laing’s life, work, brilliance, and frailties. Contributions from colleagues, friends, and clients confirm the enduring relevance of this original, critical voice. This inspiring book will challenge you to rethink your assumptions.
Principles and Practices for Psychodynamic Group Career Counseling
The first manual on psychodynamic group career counseling, this book offers insights into unconscious processes affecting career decisions. It provides a complete intervention with detailed sessions, methodological tools, case illustrations, and scripts for practitioners.
Success is deeply intertwined with psychology. This book explores the power of mindset, emotional intelligence, and resilience, offering practical strategies for personal and professional growth. Build the mental frameworks necessary to thrive and unlock your full potential.
Unifying the Field of Psychosexual Therapy
This groundbreaking book gathers insights on psychosexual therapy from leading experts. What distinguishes this volume is its dedication to diversity, offering a rich mosaic of perspectives on the psychological, cultural, and ethical dimensions of sex therapy. An essential read.
The General Theory of Behaviour
Discover the revolutionary Law of Equilibrium unifying the science of mind. This single principle—our drive for safety and stability—explains motivation, emotion, and addiction with a stunning 97.4% predictive accuracy.
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.
Near-death experiences, mystical states, and lucid dreaming have long been dismissed as dysfunctional phenomena. This book presents a transdisciplinary scientific approach, revealing them as meaningful states with potential for healing, Self-knowledge, and spiritual development.
Mindreading in the Classroom
This book explores how educators can teach young people to understand the minds of others, helping them navigate identity and relationships. Based on cutting-edge social neuroscience, it translates research into practical, culturally-informed strategies for educational practice.
Psychology in Cultures and Contexts
This book challenges the universal claims of WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) Psychology. It explores how indigenous roots and cultural contexts modify psychological processes, and how this understanding can enhance societal development and wellbeing.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps patients reclaim their quality of life. This portable book summarises the practical application of CBT, helping dental practitioners use it to treat patient issues like dental fears, orofacial pain, and other psychosomatic disorders.
A Theoretical and Practical Guide to the Creative World
What unites all forms of creativity? This book defines it as an openness to the world where time is suspended, allowing us to find solutions. It discusses known concepts, introduces innovative models, and is written for scholars, professionals, and any curious reader.
The Making of a Jungian Analyst
In the crucible of training analysis, a woman confronts her own shadows to become a Jungian analyst. Guided by a tough supervising analyst—a Holocaust survivor—and a flood of dreams, she discovers the guiding force of the Self in the second half of life.
Personality and its Disorders
To understand a disordered personality, we must first understand normal personality. This book re-frames personality disorders not as an inner pathology, but as aberrant variations of the normal, derailed by injuries and shaped by social and cultural environments.
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