Psychological perspectives on lesbian, gay, and bisexual experiences

Designed for both the undergraduate and graduate classroom, this selection of important articles provides a comprehensive overview of current thought about the psychological issues affecting lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men. The editors have revised and updated the introduction and included a new...

Exhaustion

This book helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about exhaustion. By uniting the mind with the body and society , we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant...

Freud's free clinics

Today many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. However, in this new work Elizabeth Ann Danto presents a strikingly different picture of Freud and the early psychoanalytic movement. Danto recovers the negle...

The environment

Challenging Freud's assumption that an individual first develops intrapsychically and is only later confronted with the demands of external reality, Carolyn Saari posits that human beings initially construct a picture of their immediate environment and then construct their identities within that ...

Media persuasion in the islamic state

Drawing upon research in cultural psychiatry, cultural psychology, and psychiatric anthropology, Neil Krishan Aggarwal investigates how the Islamic State has convinced people to engage in violence. Aggarwal offers a definitive analysis of how culture is created, debated, and disseminated within m...

The origins of schizophrenia

The Origins of Schizophrenia synthesizes key findings on a devastating mental disorder that has been increasingly studied over the past decade. Advances in epidemiology, translational neuroscience technology, and molecular and statistical genetics have recast schizophrenia's neurobiological natur...

What we truly need

A psychoanalyst takes stock after thirty years on the “other side of the couch.”

Fairbairn’s object relations theory in the clinical setting

W. R. D. Fairbairn (1889-1964) challenged the dominance of Freud's drive theory with a psychoanalytic theory based on the internalization of human relationships. Fairbairn assumed that the unconscious develops in childhood and contains dissociated memories of parental neglect, insensitivity, and ...

The therapist in mourning

The unexpected loss of a client can be a lonely and isolating experience for therapists. While family and friends can ritually mourn the deceased, the nature of the therapeutic relationship prohibits therapists from engaging in such activities. Practitioners can only share memories of a client in...

The summons of love

We are conditioned to think that love heals wounds, makes us happy, and gives our lives meaning. When the opposite occurs and love causes fracturing, disenchantment, and existential turmoil, we suffer deeply, especially if we feel that love has failed us or that we have failed to experience what ...

Contextual axiological conditions of mental resilience and health

Resilience is founded primarily on positive psychology and health psychology, but the theoretical construct is also present in interdisciplinary research perspectives: medicine, pedagogy, and sociology. The authors of this monograph pay attention to the aspect of the relationship of the individua...

Psychoanalysis and cinema

Lebeau examines the long and uneven history of developments in modern art, science, and technology that brought pychoanalysis and the cinema together towards the end of the nineteenth century. She explores the subsequent encounters between the two: the seductions of psychoanalysis and cinema as c...

Image and insight

Memory, trauma, and history

In these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a more expansive conception of history to decode the cultural construction of memory. He first examines the development in nineteenth-century France of medical criteria for diagnosing m...

Counselor education in the 21st century

This distinctive text provides master's- and doctoral-level students, as well as new professionals, with a thorough exploration of the range of responsibilities, working conditions, roles, evaluation criteria, benefits, and challenges experienced by counselor educators. Each chapter focuses on a ...

Learning with william stern

This book restores and expands William Stern's critical personology, applying it to fields like career counseling, psychotherapy, and personnel selection. It benefits scholars and practitioners of psychology by offering insights into Stern's theories and practical frameworks for understanding and...

Humorous actions, play and rules

This book explores new methodological approaches to studying humor through Vygotsky's proposal, focusing on developmental psychology and higher psychological processes. It highlights humor as a developmental mechanism and a source of creativity, linking it to Cultural Psychology and Semiotic cult...

Digital developments

This book offers insights for psychology students and professionals on integrating technology into clinical and educational practices. It covers behavioural and psychological implications of technology, with chapters from the 2021 European Conference on Digital Psychology.

Children around the world

This book examines major trends and interventions affecting children. Topics include the UN Convention on Children, NGOs, pre and post-natal health, family systems, gender roles, puberty, and challenges like sex trafficking, child labor, and violence. It also addresses future challenges such as l...

Being and appearance

Being and Appearance: The Aporia of Husserlian Phenomenology sets out to take phenomenology at its word, with a phenomenological examination of Husserlian phenomenology.

The hidden curriculum

Shred through Social Confusion!The world around us is a complicated place filled with expectations, rules, assumptions, guidelines, regulations, and policies. This “hidden curriculum” exists across environments, places, people, and cultures. Although rules and mandates can be complex, most of us ...

Making of distinctions

This volume explores 'inclusive oppositions' in social sciences, challenging artificial dichotomies and standardization. It focuses on cultural dynamics and identity formation in Kerala, India, highlighting the intersection of gender, identity, religion, ethnicity, caste, and global market forces.

The cultural psyche

This book highlights improvements in human development indicators and the decline of extreme poverty. It advocates for a convergence of psychology, anthropology, and other disciplines to address global challenges. The book emphasizes collaboration between universalist and relativist scientists to...

The compass model in criminal and forensic psychology

The Durkin COMPASS Model offers a groundbreaking theoretical framework for criminology and forensic psychology, integrating compassion and positive psychology with evidence-based practice to facilitate desistence from crime.

Subjectivity and development in rural contexts

Subjectivity and Development in Rural Contexts presents a compilation of chapters that explore different phenomena of ruralness. 

Qualitative research and social intervention

This book explores critical perspectives in Psychology and Education, focusing on the relationship between researchers and their contexts. It emphasizes Marxist-based perspectives, especially Vygotsky's ideas, and examines methodological techniques for understanding human processes and collective...

Reimagining dialogue on identity, language and power

This book reimagines dialogue as a tool to drive inquiries, encourage reflection and develop meaningful collaborations. It aims to foster public conversations surrounding identity, language and power that inspire criticality, innovation and multimodal engagement.

Ten years of idiographic science

The Yearbook of Idiographic Science (YIS) explores the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in science. Celebrating its tenth issue, contributors discuss the current and future meaning of idiographic science, highlighting challenges and innovative ideas. Each work offers unique pe...

Deep loyalties

This book explores how cultural practices and values shape individual moral horizons and identities. It highlights the affective, meaningful, and moral-ethical dimensions of these experiences, contributing to research and practice in human development, social processes, education, and people mana...

One dog is enough

This volume analyzes Ivan P. Pavlov's major contributions from the standpoint of idiographic science, highlighting his epistemology of generalization. Pavlov, a pioneering Russian physiologist, received the 1904 Nobel Prize for his work on the digestive system and influenced Russian psychology in...

Collected papers on inner speech

This book compiles research on Inner Speech by the Cognition and Culture Laboratory at Universidad del Desarrollo, exploring Inner Speech from theoretical and empirical perspectives, and highlighting contributions from various disciplines. The book aims to position this research within the intern...

Peer support work

To aid the progress of peer support care, Peer Support Work highlights the experiences of contributors who work or study social care and have lived experience with mental health, substance use, homelessness, criminal justice, and migration.

Crisis intervention ethics casebook

The fast-paced, unpredictable, and high-risk nature of crisis intervention creates critical ethical dilemmas that can result in personal harm and professional liability if not handled appropriately. Applying a traditional model of ethical decision-making is often impractical when time is limited ...

Counseling strategies for loss and grief

This practice-oriented book describes a range of effective counseling strategies appropriate for the treatment of diverse loss and grief issues commonly presented in individual, family, and group psychotherapy settings. Based on contemporary understandings of the nature of personal and interperso...

The ideas-informed society

Presenting concepts from academia, industry, and practice, The Ideas-Informed Society closes the gap between the ideal of the ideas-informed society and reality - the chapters conceive what an ideal ideas-informed society would look like, the key ingredients of an ideas-informed society, and how ...

Intimacy

This book explores the concept of intimacy in cultural psychology, highlighting its fluid boundaries and its role in identity formation. It examines how intimacy spaces are redefined in a globalized world and considers intimacy as culture in the making, emphasizing its lived experience and its im...

Behavioral science in the global arena

This volume explores how behavioral scientists advise global decision-makers on the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Focusing on health, it covers trends like COVID, opioids and health disparities. Co-authored by experts, it provides a concise overview, glossary and study resources.

The schubert treatment

For readers of Oliver Sacks and Being Mortal by Atul Gawande comes a “shimmery account of performing … for a series of patients with varied afflictions, including the inevitable final one.”—New York TimesA celebrated art therapist plays the cello for her patients—and offers a moving reflection on...

Evidence based counselling & psychotherapy for the 21st century practitioner

Evidence Based Counselling & Psychotherapy for the 21st Century Practitioner answers how counselling and psychotherapy can be operationalised in the 21st century, dispelling long-held beliefs about how psychotherapy works.

Figure it out

Information is easy. Understanding is hard. From incomprehensible tax policies to confusing medical explanations, we're swamped with information that we can'’t make sense of. Figure It Out shows us how to transform information into better presentations, better meetings, better software, and bett...

Anxiety

A guide to our anxious minds, offering a pathway to calm, self-compassion, and mental well-being.We all experience anxiety, but too often we bottle up our anxiousness, ashamed of what others might say, and end up feeling isolated and afraid. But anxiety is normal and deeply human. This book expla...

How to overcome your childhood

A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns we learned in childhood. As we try to navigate the complexities and anxieties of adulthood, considering our childhoods can feel like a daunting task. They happened so long ago; we can probably barely remember,...

Dream symbols of the individuation process

Jung’s legendary American lectures on dream interpretationIn 1936 and 1937, C. G. Jung delivered two legendary seminars on dream interpretation, the first on Bailey Island, Maine, the second in New York City. Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process makes these lectures widely available for the...

Not born yesterday

Why people are not as gullible as we thinkNot Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe—and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion...