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.
Benefiting by Design
Benefitting by Design challenges the limited presence of women of color in social science. It dislodges their marginalized position by centering their experience and providing models and strategies for research and practice designed for their benefit.
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.
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.
This book covers the consequences of death for patients and families, including grief and health. It offers a health promotion perspective on palliative care for patients, families, and care workers, stressing the importance of fulfilling patient wishes.
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.
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 explores why resource-poor groups are excluded from the economic benefits of watershed development projects. It traces the factors denying them equal opportunities and discusses potential avenues for their meaningful inclusion in the governance of natural resources.
This guide provides a clinical and forensic approach to personality disorders, comparing the categorical (ICD-10) and dimensional (ICD-11) classifications. With diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, it will appeal to psychiatrists, psychologists, and students.
Induced Affect in Psychotherapy and Stress Management Training
For mental health practitioners, this book describes induced affect, a clinical procedure to counter emotional avoidance and build regulation skills. It provides step-by-step instructions, transcripts, and a stress management program to enhance emotional resilience.
Personality Type and Art
Discover the psychological roots of your artistic tastes. Revising the theories of Jung and Freud, this book unveils a new understanding of personality that will irrevocably change how you perceive music and art.
Systematised Logic from Aristotle to Aquinas, Hegel and Beyond
This book identifies absolute idealism as “the true realism,” a truth expressible only in apparent contradiction. It tackles the elusive theme of divine grace in human destiny and considers faith’s credentials as our link to the infinite, likening it to absolute knowledge.
Relocating self-construction to social and political psychology, these essays explore the postcolonial condition. This is the catalyst for inquiries into collective traumas, new narratives, and the double consciousness of writers living at home and as migrants.
This book discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic affected working environments, learning, and personal lives. It considers policy making, workplace changes, and the pandemic’s impact on specific groups such as LGBT individuals, people in romantic relationships, and victims of abuse.
The Origins of the Love Song
This book offers a new perspective on the origins of human sexuality. It reveals that romantic love and exclusive pair-bonds are not our original evolutionary features. Early humans practiced multiple-partner relations until culture restrained their innate sexual nature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
National Archetypes and Labour Subordination
National archetypes represent the outstanding traits of their citizens and serve as role models. This study explores how they are formed and their effect on the behaviour of workers and employers, analyzing five European countries and comparing them to non-European archetypes.