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Offers guidance on how to apply the theory and refine TA psychotherapy skills in practice.

Jacques Lacan is one of the important thinkers of the 20th century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural and media studies. This work is a transcript of his important lecture series. It includes readings of Sophocles' "Antigone" and Elizabethan courtly love poetry in relation to female sexuality.

Revolutionary and innovative, Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, and enjoyment.

Investigative Psychology is the first academic text for this new strand of psychological science. Drawing upon twenty years of research studies, professional reports, and unpublished material, the book has been structured according to the operational challenges presented by research.

Gnosticism was for C.G. jung the chief prefiguration of his analytical psychology. In this volume Robert Segal has searched the Jungian corpus for Jung's main discussions of this ancient form of spirituality.

Offers guidance on different aspects of the writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language. This title also offers guidance on choosing the headings, tables, figures, and tone that results in strong, simple, and elegant scientific communication.

"Love is a force of destiny whose power reaches from heaven to hell". So Jung advises while reflecting on "The love problem of a student", contained in this volume. He also speaks of concepts crucial to his understanding of the personality, such as animus and anima.

This book offers an accessible and broadly conceived introduction to social psychology. Written in a lucid and lively style, it assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and is the ideal textbook to get students thinking about the subject.

The author of this text offers a theory of consciousness. He proposes that conscious experience must be understood as an irreducible entity similar to such physical properties as time, mass, and space that exists at a fundamental level and cannot be understood as the sum of its parts.

This volume collects and organizes passages on myth by Jung himself and by some of the most prominent Jungian writers after him: Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz and James Hillman.

This book presents a development of cognitive therapy based on clinical experience and evidence, which offers guidelines for innovative treatments of emotional disorders and conceptual arguments through the concept of metacognition for the future development of cognitive therapy.

Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought people actually think - and even see - the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China, and that have survived into the modern world.

As author himself points out in his introduction to this seminal childcare book, to be a successful parent means a lot of very hard work. Controversial yet powerfully influential to this day, this classic collection of his lectures offers important guidelines for child rearing based on the crucial role of early relationships.

This work examines the therapeutic significance of posture, movements, and bodily experience for the psychotherapy patient. The author then provides a framework for incorporating these physical expressions of personhood into a therapeutic framework using an experiential Gestalt approach.

Providing a map of the entire process, this is the perfect textbook and guide to the often bewildering world of experimental design and statistics.

A collection of hypnotherapy scripts that Hunter, a fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, has used and refined during her 25 years of practice. Provides scripts for problems in the workplace, pain relief, psychosomatic disorders, fears and phobias, self-discovery, asthma, and sexual

This book addresses key issues in child neuropsychology, with particular relevance for clinical practice.

Numerous case examples illustrate clinical techniques created by the authors to work in synchrony with their development model. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

* A major contribution to scholarship on Hegel, moral philosophy and critical theory* An original approach from a well known author, moving smoothly between philosophy and social theory* Draws together a wide variety of themes and concerns. .

This captivating book explores Antonino Ferro's conception of the way the mind works, his interpretation of the analytic understanding of psychopathology, his reconceptualization of the therapeutic process, and implications for analytic technique.

Serge Moscovici first introduced the concept of social representations into contemporary social psychology nearly forty years ago. Since then the theory has become one of the predominant approaches in social psychology, not only in continental Europe, but increasingly in the Anglo--Saxon world as well.

Explains the patient's identification in treatment with a significant other for purposes of mastering traumatic experiences.

Picture yourself sitting down to read the latest issue of your favourite journal. Are you prepared? Will you identify crucial defects in methodology? This volume provides methods for reviewing research from any area in the social sciences.

A study of 20th-century American society. Its now-classic analysis of the "new middle class" in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political and economic problems that confront the individual in society.

In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussion of feminist theory and practice.

Explains how cognitive therapy can be used to treat those suffering from bulimia nervosa. This book incorporates case examples offering explanations of the treatment process, questionnaires, worksheets and practical exercises for the client, which provides a framework and focus for therapy.