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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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.”
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.
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.
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.