What is evidence-based practice in human services, and how do you do it? This book addresses these questions through the insights of policy-makers, clinicians, researchers, and a consumer, exploring the definition, history, development, and challenges of this crucial approach.
The Making of a Jungian Analyst
In the crucible of training analysis, a woman confronts her own shadows to become a Jungian analyst. Guided by a tough supervising analyst—a Holocaust survivor—and a flood of dreams, she discovers the guiding force of the Self in the second half of life.
The Enduring Effects of Prenatal Experiences
How do our experiences in the womb and at birth shape us? A leading specialist in prenatal psychology explores how these primary events influence our behavior and manifest in our art, religion, and politics, based on many years of research.
R.D. Laing and the Politics of Truth
This collection of essays appraises R.D. Laing’s life, work, brilliance, and frailties. Contributions from colleagues, friends, and clients confirm the enduring relevance of this original, critical voice. This inspiring book will challenge you to rethink your assumptions.
A well-updated and comprehensive second edition, this handbook covers the philosophy, evolution, methodology and teaching of gestalt therapy, and exists as a valuable resource of contemporary research for both trainee therapists and advanced practitioners of the discipline.
Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship
Global migration has challenged old certainties about nationalism, ethnicity, and citizenship. This book examines these issues from multiple perspectives, revealing that nationalism remains a dominant ideology and highlighting education’s crucial role.
This handbook is the needed bridge between gestalt therapy and psychotherapy research. It provides vital empirical support for the practice—a timely response to the evidence-based movement and the increasing policy call for “what works.”
This book shows why control and happenstance are crucial to methodology and statistics. Control reduces ambiguity, while tests of statistical significance rule out happenstance as an explanation for research results, demonstrating that research impartiality is possible.
This collection explores enhancing human performance. It examines disparate contexts and the many factors that impinge on performance, revealing the conditions under which it can be improved, from the effects of exercise to national innovation.
This overview of teaching psychology internationally incorporates research from psychologists in over 30 countries. A must-read for instructors, psychologists, and students interested in the international aspects of the discipline.
This collection offers lively and informed discussions of important themes in contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. These essays demonstrate that the future of psychoanalytic studies is full of promise.
This monograph highlights that school climate is a science of education and psychology that must be studied in detail in order to understand the dynamic nature of learning environments, and to learn how to improve the conditions for learning in all schools.
This foundational text for an emerging field integrates the vast context of yoga with Western psychology. This inquiry combines the perennial wisdom of yoga with breakthroughs in somatic psychology, trauma research, and insights from neuroscience.
Human Development II
This title offers an overview of a wide range of contemporary issues in education and society, including emotional intelligence, family, and personal development, and represents a useful manual for students and the general public interested in the social sciences.
This book provides a systematic structure for sport psychological interventions to give athletes a competitive edge. For psychologists, athletes, and coaches, it offers scientifically-proven measures for skills training, stress monitoring, and handling crises.
Four Questions on Visual Self-recognition
There are very few clear-cut answers to questions regarding human self-perception, vanity and concerns over one’s appearance, with a lack of consensus on how the brain underlies self-recognition. David Butler provides a broad theoretical framework for understanding these issues.
The General Theory of Behaviour
Discover the revolutionary Law of Equilibrium unifying the science of mind. This single principle—our drive for safety and stability—explains motivation, emotion, and addiction with a stunning 97.4% predictive accuracy.
Human Characteristics
What special behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures make us human? Uniting evolution, psychology, and cognitive science, these studies explore cognition, sociality, and sexuality to provoke debate and stimulate new research.
A Fractal Epistemology for a Scientific Psychology
Fractal dynamics provide a tool for understanding complexity. This book brings experts together to reconcile dichotomies like mind-brain and subjective-objective, bringing subjective experience into a scientific framework.
This collection challenges our negative and incorrect definitions of psychoanalysis by focusing on psychoanalysis as a movement for social justice. It highlights psychoanalysis’ social justice origins, illustrating how it improves our understanding of modern social problems.
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