Interpersonal Relations category: 1443 books
by Karen Charles
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Do have trouble trying to persuade people? Do your arguments fall flat? Others seem to have the golden gift of gab when it comes to connecting to others and now you can too. Never struggle to make conversation again because this book will teach you how to instantly form a friendly bond with the people...
Community and Confluence
Undoing the Clinch of Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Bridging the gap between psychology and politics, Lichtenberg presents a powerful argument for applying the methods and insights of the Gestalt perspective to social and political problems. Focusing on the inner dynamics of power and abuse relationships, this thoughtful treatment of victim/oppressor...
Playing Pygmalion
How People Create One Another
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Like Pygmalion with his Galatea, we create the characters of people in our lives. Although others appear to us to be who they just "are", there are complicated psychological processes, outside of our awareness, that lead us to experience people in ways that we ourselves construct.
Psychoanalytic...
by John E. Gedo
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
In this remarkable survey of "the communicative repertory of humans," John Gedo demonstrates the central importance to theory and therapeutics of the communication of information. He begins by surveying those modes of communication encountered in psychoanalysis that go beyond the lexical meaning of...
The Power of Connection
Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Relational-Cultural theory (RCT) proposes that all people grow through and toward relationships throughout the lifespan. RCT challenges prevailing theories that depict the "separate self" as the hallmark of maturity. Rather than movement toward autonomy and separation, RCT suggests we develop...
Mating Intelligence
Sex, Relationships, and the Mind's Reproductive System
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Human intelligence is sexually attractive, and strongly predicts the success of sexual relationships, but the behavioral sciences have usually ignored the interface between intelligence and mating. This is the first serious scholarly effort to explore that interface, by examining both universal and individual differences in human mating intelligenc
Relating Difficulty
The Processes of Constructing and Managing Difficult Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Relating Difficulty offers insight into the nature of difficulty in relationships across a broad range of human experience. Whether dealing with in-laws or ex-spouses, long-distance relationships or power and status in the workplace, difficulty is an all too common feature of daily life. Relating...
Tradition and innovation in Psychoanalytic Education
Clark Conference on Psychoanalytic Training for Psychologists
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book, a record of the Clark Conference sponsored by the APA, consists of a series of papers on psychoanalytic education. The book is dedicated to the memory of Helen Block Lewis, who realized the necessity for detailed re-examination and further development of all ideas in psychoanalysis.
The Psychology of Today's Woman
New Psychoanalytic Visions
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The sexual revolution, oft discussed in the journalistic literature of recent years, has brought in its wake a host of questions that are only beginning to be addressed. How are women coping with "real world" challenges for which they may be ill prepared, both socially and psychologically? How successfully...
Psychoanalysis and Women
Contemporary Reappraisals
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Within the psychoanalytic framework, there is a growing body of research and thinking about female development. In addition, there is ongoing research within other areas of psychology, such as developmental psychology and social psychology, which has important implications for an understanding of...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 13
Conversations in Self Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Volume 13 provides valuable examples of the very type of clinically grounded theorizing that represents progress in self psychology. The opening section of clinical papers encompasses compensatory structures, facilitating responsiveness, repressed memories, mature selfobject experience, shame in the...
My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend
Making and Breaking Sibling Bonds
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Stories about siblings abound in literature, drama, comedy, biography, and history. We rarely talk about our own siblings without emotion, whether with love and gratitude, or exasperation, bitterness, anger and hate. Nevertheless, the subject of what it is to be and to have a sibling is one that has...
Here Now Next
Paul Goodman and the Origins of Gestalt Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Paul Goodman left his mark in a number of fields: he went from being known as a social critic and philosopher of the New Left to poet and literary critic to author of influential works on education (Compulsory Mis-education) and community planning (Communitas). Perhaps his most significant achievement...
by Ram Bansal
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
For a man, success of marriage relies heavily on his selection of woman for the partnership. For this, the man is required to discover himself before making a choice of the compatible woman. After the marriage, he is required to understand basics of womanhood and the chosen woman, and then adjust...