Human Science / Psychology / Applied Psychology

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol Dweck

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea–the power of our mindset.

Dweck explains why it’s...

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 Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

by Philip Zimbardo & John Boyd

Your every significant choice -- every important decision you make -- is determined by a force operating deep inside your mind: your perspective on time -- your internal, personal time zone. This is the most...

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...

Succeed For Yourself: Unlock Your Potential for Success and Happiness

by Richard Denny

Succeed for Yourself is a practical, step-by-step guide to unlocking your potential for success and happiness. It focuses on a variety of areas, demonstrating how you can improve both your business and personal...

Understanding NLP: Strategies for Better Workplace Communication.. Without the Jargon

by Frances Kay & Neilson Kite

Understanding NLP provides a comprehensive introduction to NLP. By applying its principles to the working environment it will help you make radical changes in the way you approach people, life and work.

Freud on the Psychology of Ordinary Mental Life

by Susan Sugarman

Freud, although best known for his elucidation of the unusual in human mental life, also attempted to illuminate ordinary human experience, such as peopleOs appreciation of humor, their capacity to become engrossed...

Teaching Mathematics Creatively

by Linda Pound & Trisha Lee

Teaching Maths Creatively offers a range of strategies to enable trainee and practicing teachers to take an innovative, playful and creative approach to maths teaching.

Transforming Aggression: Psychotherapy with the Difficult-to-Treat Patient

by Frank M. Lachmann

Dr. Frank M. Lachmann, eminent clinician, teacher, and researcher, offers help to clinicians working with difficult-to-treat patients. Designed to avoid escalating spirals of aggression and prevent therapeutic...

Theraplay: Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing Play Therapy

by Evangeline Munns

Theraplay is a form of structured play therapy designed to strengthen the attachment between parents and their child. Dr. Evangeline Munns, a Theraplay therapist and trainer, introduces this treatment method...

Selections from Science and Sanity

by Alfred KORZYBSKI & Lance Strate

Selections from Science and Sanity represents Alfred Korzybski's authorized abridgement of his magnum opus, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics. This second...

Athletes' Careers Across Cultures

by Natalia B. Stambulova & Tatiana V. Ryba

Athletes' Careers Across Cultures is the first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researchers and practitioners into one comprehensive resource. This...

Shyness

by Bernardo J. Carducci & Susan Golant

Shy Facts

• Shy children are not destined to be shy adults.
• Shyness does not equal low self-esteem.
• Shyness is not a "disease," personality deficit, or character flaw.
• Humans aren't the only species to experience...

Handbook of Vocational Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice

by W. Bruce Walsh, Mark L. Savickas & Paul Hartung

The Handbook of Vocational Psychology aims to identify, report, and evaluate significant developments in vocational psychology and career counseling, thus providing both professional clinicians and students...

POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL: THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS

by Ilona BONIWELL

Discover the latest research findings and thinking on the topics of happiness, flow, optimism, motivation, character strengths, love and more.

Progress in Self Psychology, V. 17: The Narcissistic Patient Revisited

by Arnold I. Goldberg

Volume 17 of Progress in Self Psychology, The Narcissistic Patient Revisited, begins with the next installment of Strozier's "From the Kohut Archives": first publication of a fragment by Kohut on social class...

The Annual of Psychoanalysis, V. 19

by Jerome A. Winer

Volume 19 of The Annual of Psychoanalysis turns to the ever-intriguing relationship between "Psychoanalysis and Art."  This introductory section begins with Donald Kuspit's scholarly reflections on the role...

The Annual of Psychoanalysis, V. 17

by Jerome A. Winer

Volume 17, the first volume of The Annual published by The Analytic Press, includes John Gedo's examination of the "epistemology of transference" and Edwin Wallace's outline of a "phenomenological and minimally...

Progress in Self Psychology, V. 4: Learning from Kohut

by Arnold I. Goldberg

The fourth volume in the Progress in Self Psychology series continues to explore the theoretical yield and clinical implications of the wok of the late Heinz Kohut.  Learning from Kohut features sections on...

The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural Perspectives

by Ruth Formanek

In this scholarly compilation of a major event in the life of every woman, editor Ruth Formanek has adopted an avowedly multidisciplinary mandate: to illuminate menopause as both an event and a stage of life...