Human Science / Psychology

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

by Milton Rokeach & Rick Moody

On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel,...

Energy Psychology: Self-Healing Practices for Bodymind Health

by Michael, Ph.D. Mayer

Energy Psychology presents a comprehensive approach to healing that combines leading-edge Western bodymind psychological methods with a broad system of ancient, sacred traditions. Incorporating Dr. Mayer's integral...

Being Human at Work: Bringing Somatic Intelligence Into Your Professional Life

by Richard Strozzi-Heckler

This anthology of interdisciplinary writings looks at the integration of mind, body, and spirit as it plays out in the workplace—whether in birth coaching, teaching parents, assisting the terminally ill, or...

Anti-Semitism: A Disease of the Mind

by Theodore Isaac Rubin

As a psychiatrist, Dr. Rubin learned that Anti-Semitism and other deep-seated prejudices are non-organic diseases of the mind: malignant emotional illnesses that can be treated by only first understanding the...

Marriage and Family Therapy: A Practice-Oriented Approach

by Linda Metcalf

There are many different models of marriage and family therapy; the challenge for students and beginning practitioners is deciding which one best suits their individual purposes. This highly practical volume...

The New Love and Sex After 60

by Robert N. Butler & Myrna I. Lewis

LIFE CAN BE RICH AND FULL--AT ANY AGE

You may be getting older but love and sex are still a vital part of your life. Here is the book that speaks to your concerns about sex beyond the middle years. Two leading...

Addiction to Love: Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in Relationships

by Susan Peabody

Love addiction manifests in many forms, from Fatal Attraction-type obsessive lust to less extreme but nonetheless psychologically and emotionally harmful forms. The most common of these is staying in a bad relationship...

Handbook of the Psychology of Aging

by James E. Birren & K. Warner Schaie

The Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, 6e provides a comprehensive summary and evaluation of recent research on the psychological aspects of aging. The 22 chapters are organized into four divisions: Concepts,...

Research Methods in Forensic Psychology

by Barry Rosenfeld & Steven D. Penrod

The only professional resource to focus exclusively on research methods in forensic psychology

With specific advice on topics of particular importance to forensic specialists, Research Methods in Forensic Psychology...

Contemporary Neurobehavioral Syndromes

by Gerald Goldstein, Theresa M. Incagnoli & Antonio E. Puente

During the twentieth century, new neurobehavioral diseases appeared or were described for the first time. Exposure to certain toxins or noxious environments, for example, produced illnesses that did not exist...

Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success

by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny & David Maxfield

A stunning new approach to how individuals can not only change their lives for the better in the workplace, but also their lives away from the office, including (but not limited to) finding ways to improve one's...

Disorders of Personality: Introducing a DSM/ICD Spectrum from Normal to Abnormal

by Theodore Millon

Now in its Third Edition, this book clarifies the distinctions between the vast array of personality disorders and helps clinicians make accurate diagnoses. It has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the...

Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Perversions, Violence, and Criminality

by Estela Welldon

Estela Welldon brings together a generous selection derived from her many literary gems, in which she illustrates her groundbreaking-and sometimes explosive-studies of female sexuality and perversions, perverse...

Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming: A Practical Guide

by Neil Shah

An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to the therapy designed to help people have better, fuller and richer lives – as well as work far more effectively. By focusing on how we communicate – the words we use as...

Introducing Psychology of Success: A Practical Guide

by Alison Price & David Price

An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to getting what you want in life. Occupational Psychologist Alison Price explores both how successful people think, and how the organizations in which they work foster a culture...

Introducing Child Psychology: A Practical Guide

by Kairen Cullen

An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to how children think and grow. Child Psychology is a branch of developmental psychology, which is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that occur in human...

Malignant Sadness

by Lewis Wolpert

Several years ago, Lewis Wolpert had a severe depressive episode. Despite a happy marriage and successful scientific career, he could think only of suicide. When eventually he did recover, he became aware of...

Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry

by T.M. Luhrmann

In this groundbreaking book, Tanya Luhrmann -- among the most admired of young American anthropologists -- brings her acute intelligence and her sophisticated powers of observation to bear on the world of psychiatry....

The Couples Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner

by David J. Berghuis & Arthur E. Jongsma

The Couples Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner, Second Edition contains complete prewritten session and patient presentation descriptions for each behavioral problem in The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment...

Counselling .... Me?: A Guide to the Talking Therapies

by Jonathan Ingrams

Although exact figures are hard to come by, statistical surveys suggest that as many as one in four of us in Britain suffer mental distress at some time in our lives. This is reflected in the increasing numbers...