Psychology

Entropy of Mind and Negative Entropy: A Cognitive and Complex Approach to Schizophrenia and its Therapy

by Tullio Scrimali

Schizophrenia is the central problem in the sciences of the mind, not only for its etiological, psychopathological and clinical aspects, but also because of its implications for therapy and rehabilitation. In...

A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do

by Thomas Moore

A job is never just a job. It is always connected to a deep and invisible process of finding meaning in life through work.

In Thomas Moore’s groundbreaking book Care of the Soul, he wrote of “the great malady...

Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children

by Alicia Lieberman & Patricia Van Horn

This eloquent book presents an empirically supported treatment that engages parents as the most powerful agents of their young children's healthy development. Child-parent psychotherapy promotes the child's...

Eleven Blunders that Cripple Psychotherapy in America

by Nicholas A. Cummings & William T. O'Donohue

After a period of economic success and high regard in society, clinical psychology has fallen onto hard times, assert authors Nicholas Cummings and William O'Donohue.  In the 1960s, clinical psychologists...

Making a Difference in Patients' Lives

by Sandra Buechler

Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication!

Within the title of her book, Making a Difference in Patients' Lives, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians.  But,...

The Personal Development Group: The Student's Guide

by Chris Rose

The personal development group is a feature of many counselling and psychotherapy trainings. How does it facilitate personal development? Could it be more effective? Looking from the perspective of the student,...

Trauma-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Women

by Hadar Lubin & David Read Johnson

Learn effective PTSD group treatment

The awareness of psychological trauma has grown exponentially in the past decade, and clinicians in many areas have increasingly found themselves confronted with the need...

The Perverse Organisation and its Deadly Sins

by Susan Long

The Perverse Organisation and its Deadly Sins begins by examining the nature of perversity and its presence in corporate and organisational life. Then, four chapters examine the "corporate sins" of perverse...

The Anorexic Mind

by Marilyn Lawrence

Eating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence which may be transitory, to serious and chronic mental illnesses. 'The Anorexic Mind' offers a coherent approach to these difficult...

Lives Across Time/Growing Up: Paths to Emotional Health & emotional Illness from Birth to 30 in 76 People

by Henry Massie & Nathan Szajnberg

Follow seventy-six children from birth to thirty to learn about their various developmental life paths and their influences. Children traverse continuous or discontinuous courses. This book describes their life...

Wish I Could Be There

by Allen Shawn

In addition to being the son of famous New Yorker editor William Shawn and brother of the distinguished playwright and actor Wallace Shawn, Allen Shawn is agoraphobic-he is afraid of both public spaces and isolation....

The Birth Order Book of Love

by William Cane

The Birth Order Book of Love

How to Talk to a Narcissist

by Joan Lachkar

Much has been written about narcissism, addressing not only its theoretical aspects, its psychodynamics and the defense mechanisms within the spectrum of various kinds of narcissists. Yet, little if anything...

Sex Makes the World Go Round

by Colette Chiland

It is well known that Freud laid great emphasis on sexual matters. In the years that followed, a distinction was drawn between sex and gender, and the idea of gender identity was introduced. Human beings do...

The Children Who Lived

by Kathryn A. Markell & Marc A. Markell

Harry Potter's encounters with grief, as well as the grief experiences of other fictional characters, can be used by educators, counselors, and parents to help children and adolescents deal with their own loss...

Journeys in Social Psychology: Looking Back to Inspire the Future

by Robert Levine, Aroldo Rodrigues & Lynnette Zelezny

This volume consists of personal narrative accounts of the career journeys of some of the world's most eminent social psychologists. Each contributing psychologist is an esteemed scholar, an excellent writer,...

Time in Practice: Analytical Perspectives on the Times of Our Lives

by Mary Ellis

This book is an original exploration of the importance in the analytical relationship of an attentiveness to lived, conscious and unconscious experiences of time in its three dimensions. It critically discusses...

Carl Jung, Darwin of the Mind

by Thomas Lawson

"Carl Jung, Darwin of the Mind" is a review and an explanation of Jung's thought set in an evolutionary context. Jung explored the human psyche throughout his long life. His writings, of astonishing scope and...

Family Influences on Childhood Behavior and Development

by Thomas P Gullotta & Gary M Blau

Irrespective of theoretical orientation, families matter. Families are the entity in which children are introduced to words, objects, shapes, and colors. Families are the people related in a myriad of conventional...

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey

A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.

Did you know you can beat stress,...