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...

Language teacher recognition

This book presents the career narratives of an under-researched group of teachers: immigrant Filipino teachers of English working mainly with young and very young learners in Japan. It provides a nuanced and revealing critique of poststructuralist views of identity and proposes recognition theori...

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 ...

New perspectives in employee engagement in human resources

New Perspectives in Employee Engagement in Human Resources is a unique collection of articles that represent the very highest level of scholarship in the field. The articles published in this collection identify some emergent themes which include: - career development - career satisfaction - empl...

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...

On theology and psychology

Jung's correspondence with one of the twentieth century's leading theologians and ecumenicistsOn Theology and Psychology brings together C. G. Jung's correspondence with Adolf Keller, a celebrated Protestant theologian who was one of the pioneers of the modern ecumenical movement and one of the f...

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...

Family strategies

A new edition of Dr. Claudia Black's comprehensive workbook for behavioral health practitioners for use treating families affected by addiction.

Explain me this

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrainedWe use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when a creative and easily interpretable formulation—su...

Emotion in the library workplace

Authors explore application of the study of emotion in the library workplace and look at future trends in the area. Library managers will take away knowledge about how the library workplace can and should operate with consideration toward emotion, and will glean ideas for implementation with thei...

Shame

The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violenceToday, we are caught in a shame spiral—a vortex of mutual shaming that pervades everything from politics to social media. We are shamed for our looks, our culture, ...

The emotionally strong leader

Axiom Business Book Award 2023 Bronze Co-Medalist, Leadership CategoryBronze award recipient for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year – Career (Adult Nonfiction) The Emotionally Strong Leader offers those leading our workplaces, organizations, and institutions an opportunity to transform the...

Superaging

Get older without getting old!  Welcome to the dazzling new world of SuperAging, where everything you’ve been taught about aging is challenged. Getting older does not need to mean the end of accomplishment and growth. For SuperAgers, the period after age sixty-five can be one of the most producti...

Making a mindful nation

How mindfulness came to be regarded as a psychological support, an ethical practice and a component of public policyMindfulness seems to be everywhere—in popular culture, in therapeutic practice, even in policy discussions. How did mindfulness, an awareness training practice with roots in Buddhis...

Jung on ignatius of loyola’s spiritual exercises

Jung’s lectures on the psychology of Jesuit spiritual practice—unabridged in English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a ...

Autonomy support beyond the language learning classroom

Through the application of self-determination theory (SDT) to research and practice, this book deepens our understanding of how autonomous language learning can be supported and understood outside of the classroom. The chapters deal with learning environments and open spaces, communities and rela...

The key to creativity

Readers of Susan Cain's Quiet and Daniel Pink's When will appreciate this passionate investigation into creativity and the human brain—from the perspective of an author investigating her own brain after a concussion.Author and journalist Hilde Østby was cycling to work one day when she crashed he...

Varieties of melancholy

An insightful and consoling guide to the melancholic state of mind. This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn’t depression, rage, or bitterness.  It’s a serene, wise, and kindly response to the difficulties of being alive. It he...

What makes us smart

How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognitionAt the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match the power and flexibility of human perception, language,...

Asylum ways of seeing

Asylum Ways of Seeing is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heather Murray also suggests that it is in these hospitals that pat...

Psychedelic psychotherapy

Psychedelic Psychotherapy is a comprehensive, easy-to-read resource for therapists and laypeople who need practical guidelines for psychedelic drug-assisted psychotherapy.

Side effects

Human behaviour is lopsided. When cradling a newborn child, most of us cradle the infant to the left. When kissing a lover, we tend to tilt our head to the right. Our brains influence our actions and habits more than we know.

Consciousness and the unconscious

Jung’s lectures on consciousness and the unconscious—in English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics...

When women rise

When Women Rise is a timely, transformative, and inspiring guide for women who want to bring more joy, power, and peace into their lives. It invites every woman to nurture her inner wisdom and strength, transcend the prevailing fears of our time, and rise into her highest wellbeing. Dr. Michele K...

Beyond the narrow life

Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide to Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration presents a framework for understanding and experiencing psychedelic-assisted therapy including foundational therapeutic approaches, the psychospiritual aspects of the psychedelic journey, and integration of the...

Vision

A natural history of human emotions

Sex

Analytical psychology in exile

Two giants of twentieth-century psychology in dialogueC. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally acclaimed for his own brand of psychotherapy. Neumann, twenty-eight, had just finished his studies i...

Building bridges through sensory integration, 3rd edition

Winner of the Summer 2015 Academics' Choice Smart Book Award! Written by three experienced occupational therapists, this book offers a combination of theory and strategies. It is a perfect tool for those working with young children, but also broad enough to be adapted for older children and ad...