Psychology / Applied Psychology

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Human Factors in Aviation

by Eduardo Salas, Dan Maurino & Terry Allard

This edited textbook will be a fully updated and expanded version of the highly successful first edition of Human Factors in Aviation. Written for the widespread aviation community - students, engineers, scientists,...

Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Approach

by Joyce A. Slochower

In Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective, Joyce Slochower brings a contemporary relational framework to bear on Winnicott's notion of the analytic holding environment.  She presents a fresh,...

Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy?: Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory

by Lynne Layton

Hailed on publication as "an impressive integration of postmodernism and relational psychoanalysis" (James Hansel) and "an intelligent and stimulating account of where the issues of identity, gender, and difference...

Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 2: Innovation and Expansion

by Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris

The "relational turn" has transformed the field of psychoanalysis, with an impact that cuts across different schools of thought and clinical modalities.

In the six years following publication of Volume 1, Relational...

Attachment Theory: Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives

by Susan Goldberg, Roy Muir & John Kerr

At a historic conference in Toronto in October 1993, developmental researchers and clinicians came together for the first time to explore the implications of current knowledge of attachment. This volume is the...

On Trying to Teach: The Mind in Correspondence

by M. Robert Gardner

In an era in which the teaching enterprise is freighted with tactics, techniques, and methods, M. Robert Gardner guides us back to the spirit of teaching. He writes especially about the dilemmas and challenges...

Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 1: The Emergence of a Tradition

by Stephen A. Mitchell & Lewis Aron

Over the course of the past 15 years, there has been a vast sea change in American psychoanalysis. It takes the form of a broad movement away from classical psychoanalytic theorizing grounded in Freud's drive...

Endings and Beginnings: On Terminating Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

by Herbert J. Schlesinger

What sets off the termination of analysis and psychodynamic therapy from the variety of endings that enter into all human relationships?  So asks Herbert J. Schlesinger in Endings and Beginnings: On Terminating...

Lay Analysis: Life Inside the Controversy

by Robert S. Wallerstein

Lay Analysis: Life Inside the Controversy chronicles the history of nonmedical analysis in absorbing detail. It begins with the events of 1910 in Europe and America that initiated their divergent attitudes and...

Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach: Theory, Research, and Differential Diagnosis

by James H. Kleiger

In Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach, James Kleiger provides a thoroughly up-to-date text that covers the entire range of clinical and diagnostic issues associated with the phenomenon of disordered thinking...

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach

by Paul M. Lerner

Few books illuminate a domain of clinical inquiry as superbly as Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach. Paul Lerner has written a comprehensive text that offers a richly detailed, multidimensional vision...