Psychology

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,...

Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting

by Terrie Williams

Terrie Williams knows that Black people are hurting. She knows because she's one of them.

Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie...

Mad Men And Medusas

by Juliet Mitchell

In this eagerly anticipated new work, the author of the classic Psychoanalysis and Feminism argues that we must reclaim hysteria to have a full understanding of the human condition.

Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction

by Jake Halpern

Why do more people watch American Idol than the nightly news? What is it about Paris Hilton’s dating life that lures us so? Why do teenage girls — when given the option of “pressing a magic button and becoming...

My Answer is No . . . If That's Okay with You: How Women Can Say No and (Still) Feel Good About It

by Nanette Gartrell

• Are you afraid you'll hurt the people you care about if you say NO to them?
• Can you set limits when employees neglect their responsibilities? How about with your boss?
• When friends ask you to do something you...

The Story of Infant Development

by Martha Harris & Romana Negri

This book brings together the closely observed development of Simone (from birth to three) and the perceptive comments of Martha (or Mattie) Harris, who was such an influential figure in the development of the...

Your Teenager: Thinking About Your Child During the Secondary School Years

by Martha Harris & Meg Williams

The Teenager books by Martha Harris, originally published in 1969, take a similar approach to her long-term bestseller Thinking about Infants and Young Children. Rooted vividly in the practicalities of everyday...

Politics on the Couch: Citizenship and the Internal Life

by Andrew Samuels

This is an accessible, lucid and stimulating account of the hidden psychology of politics and the hidden politics of the psyche. It is packed with original and imaginative ideas on economics, nationalism, "good-enough"...