Psychology

Minding the Children: Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present

by Geraldine Youcha

"Beyond childcare theories and early childhood gurus, here is how children have actually been raised in America over the last four centuries. From wet nurses and Southern mammys, settlement houses and"

Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia: A Step-by-Step Guide

by Ronald M. Rapee

Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia provides a detailed program for eliminating social anxieties based on the latest cognitive behavioral treatments for social phobia.

The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

by Jack Kornfield

You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, one of the leading spiritual teachers of our...

Sandplay: Therapy with Children and Families

by Lois J. Carey

Lois Carey explores the application of sandplay therapy as she learned it from Dora Kalff, among others, and shares her professional experience in a chapter on equipping the office with miniatures and also with...

Ericksonian Approaches: A Comprehensive Manual (Second Edition)

by Rubin Battino & Thomas L. L. South

This is the definitive training manual in the art of Ericksonian Psychotherapy. Accessible and elucidating, it provides a systematic approach to learning the subject.

Moving On: A Guide to Good Health and Recovery for People with a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

by D'Ombraine Roz

About one person in a hundred will be diagnosed with schizophrenia at some time in their life. The condition can be severe and debilitating with symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations and the loss of concentration,...

Traveling: An Accidental Experts How To Leave Your Body Handbook

by Alan Guiden

Lucid dreaming, astral projection, out-of-body experiences... There is much philosophical baggage implicit in these terms, but in this refreshing and humorous book Alan Guiden casts it all aside to present the...

Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction

by Murray Stein

Murray Stein, a longtime Jungian therapist and author, provides readers with an accessible introduction to the essential Jungian ideas. A major challenge to anyone who is trying to understand Jung's thought...

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

by Brian H. Ross

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning...

The Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance

by Paul Williams

This book presents the proceedings of the of the conference on the Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance held in Belfast in June 2008.The aim of the conference was to offer a state of the art communication...

The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy

by Donald Robertson

Why should modern psychotherapists be interested in philosophy, especially ancient philosophy? Why should philosophers be interested in psychotherapy? There is a sense of mutual attraction between what are today...

Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience: From Unconscious Fantasies to Neural Algorithms

by Vesa Talvitie

The aim of "Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience" is to create a conception of the Freudian things around the unconscious that takes seriously both the clinical data gathered in the scope of psychoanalytic...

Identity, Gender, and Sexuality: 150 Years After Freud

by Peter Fonagy, Rainer Krause & Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

'While Freud opened the door on the formative and motivating power of sexuality, contemporary psychoanalysts, with some notable exceptions, have consigned sexuality to the psychoanalytic closet. This book not...

The Art of Inspired Living: Coach Yourself with Positive Psychology

by Sarah Corrie

This book is about learning to live your life more fully. It doesn't promise you abundant joy, the relationship of your dreams, untold riches or miracle cures. But what it does promise you is a comprehensive...

On Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle"

by Salman Akhtar & Mary O'Neil

Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory. Pushing aside the primacy of the tension-discharge-gratification model...

Lacanian Psychoanalysis

by Ian Parker

Lacanian Psychoanalysis looks at the current debates surrounding Lacanian practice and explores its place within historical, social and political contexts. It draws on Lacan's approach to shed light on issues...

Critical Thinking

by Peg Tittle

In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation - skills that should underpin every student's education....

Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives- Paperback

by John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess & Robert K. Ressler

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Anyone You Want Me To Be: A Shocking True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet

by John Douglas & Stephen Singular

JOHN DOUGLAS -- THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MINDHUNTER AND THE UNDISPUTED MASTER PROFILER OF SERIAL CRIMINALS -- TELLS THE CHILLING TRUE STORY OF JOHN ROBINSON, THE INTERNET'S FIRST SERIAL MURDERER.

In Olathe,...

The Personality Code

by Travis Bradberry

A revolutionary approach to success and fulfillment-already being used by hundreds of thousands of individuals and organizations-now available for the first time in an accessible, practical book.

T he Personality...