Story by Story
A psychiatrist and a philosopher listen to stories of illness, discovering that to understand an illness is to establish the right relation between what is being suffered and who is suffering. This approach resists medical prejudice by focusing on the person, not the condition.
Where Agnon and Jung Meet
This book uses Carl Jung’s theory to analyze the Jewish archetypes in Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon’s novel, The Bridal Canopy. It serves as a practical guide to applying psychological theory to a novel, offering a new perspective on the depths of the universal human soul.
The Psychology of Pandemics
While virologists predict the next pandemic, little attention has been paid to the psychological factors that influence the spread of infection, emotional distress, and social disruption. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the psychology of pandemics.
Hollywood’s (m)Other Aperture
Blockbusters like *Avatar* and *Annihilation* mine our prelingual origins. This book reveals how their primal imagery reshapes our understanding of femininity, maternal authority, queer identity, and the bonds between human and nonhuman.
A Fractal Epistemology for a Scientific Psychology
Fractal dynamics provide a tool for understanding complexity. This book brings experts together to reconcile dichotomies like mind-brain and subjective-objective, bringing subjective experience into a scientific framework.
Islands of the Mind
Islands are both open communities and enclosed worlds, points of arrival and departure. This collection explores the psychology they shape, the literature they inspire, and the urgent ecological questions they pose in our increasingly globalised world.
Teaching Psychology around the World
A handbook for psychology professors aiming to internationalize and diversify their curricula. This work provides practical tips, innovative teaching ideas, and global perspectives on psychology education from distinguished authors representing every major region of the world.
A Critical Investigation into Precognitive Dreams
The precognitive dream is a compelling phenomenon ignored by orthodox science. This book explores their history, neuroscience, and what they reveal about consciousness, free will, and the very nature of time itself.
This book presents a collection of personality and psychopathology scales, developed originally in Arabic and translated into English. Suitable for surveys and large-sample studies, these scales are useful in psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, and social sciences.
Teachers have expressed a lack of training in how to manage student aggression. This book improves understanding of antisocial orientation by examining its causes and treatments, and concludes with classroom strategies and school modifications to foster a prosocial orientation.
For a generation living longer than ever, retirement is uncharted territory. This volume brings together distinguished psychologists to share their personal journeys. Learn from their stories and explore the idea of “retiring to” something, not just “from” it.
This book unifies Freud’s scattered writings on healing to spell out exactly what happens in successful psychotherapy. It clarifies the healing process for neurotic, borderline, and psychotic illnesses, adding a new level of precision to the therapeutic process.
Awareness Integration Therapy
This book offers Awareness Integration Therapy (AIT), a multi-modality approach synthesizing cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and body-mind theories. AIT is a must-read for clinicians and coaches who desire to offer deep therapeutic work in a brief period of time.
The Psychology of Multilingualism
This comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to multilingualism explores its individual and societal consequences. The book underlines the normality of using more than one language, dispels common myths, and offers practical recommendations for education.
The Continuum of Mental Disorders and Unitary Psychosis
This investigation of Griesinger, Kahlbaum, and Kraepelin’s foundational works in psychiatry illuminates the current debate on classification and diagnosis. It offers a new perspective on unitary psychosis, demanding a comprehensive view of mental disorders.
Transpersonal Psychology and Science
Transpersonal psychology’s progress has been compromised by disagreement over its relation to science. This is the first book to bring together international experts to discuss this challenge, offering diverse perspectives and concrete recommendations for the field’s future.
The first English-language book on the psychoanalytical clinical setting in Japan. It introduces the actual clinical practices of Japanese psychoanalysis, covering basic theories like neutrality and transference, and Freud’s Wolfman and Rat Man cases.
Psychological Evaluations after Motor Vehicle Accidents
This book systematically reviews the steps in preparing psychological assessments of individuals after a motor vehicle accident. It outlines common mental disorders and causation, assisting psychologists, lawyers, and insurers in determining fair compensation and rehabilitation.
Learning and Long-Term Illness
Nearly 40 years after it was written, Susan Sapsed’s diary was rediscovered. It told a story of personal illness, practitioner misunderstanding, and patient frustration. Using psychoanalytic frameworks, this book invites a mature Susan to reflect on her younger self.
This book develops an integrative view of individuality by combining it with the systems of intelligence and creativity. It unifies key theories, revealing a new understanding of the integral individual.