This overview of teaching psychology internationally incorporates research from psychologists in over 30 countries. A must-read for instructors, psychologists, and students interested in the international aspects of the discipline.
This handbook is the needed bridge between gestalt therapy and psychotherapy research. It provides vital empirical support for the practice—a timely response to the evidence-based movement and the increasing policy call for “what works.”
Human Characteristics
What special behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures make us human? Uniting evolution, psychology, and cognitive science, these studies explore cognition, sociality, and sexuality to provoke debate and stimulate new research.
Teaching Psychology around the World
This book brings together current information on the teaching and practice of psychology from experts throughout the world. It is highly recommended by prominent psychologists including Dr. Phillip Zimbardo, former President of the American Psychological Association.
Building Asian Families and Communities in the 21st Century
Psychology is growing more rapidly in Asia than in any other part of the world. This book presents current research showing how the discipline adapts to the philosophies and history of the region, blending Western science with Eastern practices.
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.
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.
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.
Teaching Psychology around the World
This book provides a current overview of teaching psychology internationally. Experts from around the world cover information from secondary to post-graduate programs. A must-read for instructors, students, and university personnel.
This collection offers lively and informed discussions of important themes in contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. These essays demonstrate that the future of psychoanalytic studies is full of promise.
This collection explores enhancing human performance. It examines disparate contexts and the many factors that impinge on performance, revealing the conditions under which it can be improved, from the effects of exercise to national innovation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.