Pathological Psychology category: 903 books
by William McDougall
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Originally published in 1926, a complement to the author’s Outline of Psychology, this book surveys the field of neurotic and mental disorders in so far as they are not due to gross organic lesions. It discusses this principal types of mental process that are abnormal or disorderly in the sense...
The Transdiagnostic Road Map to Case Formulation and Treatment Planning
Practical Guidance for Clinical Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Transdiagnostic treatment is the future of psychology.
Mounting evidence shows that moving beyond treatment protocols that focus on a singular diagnosis and toward transdiagnostic approaches that target psychological mechanisms can improve outcomes. If you are seeking to correctly identify mechanisms...
by William J. Ray
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In *Abnormal Psychology: Perspectives on Human Behavior and Experience Second Edition, *William J. Ray brings together current perspectives concerning the manner in which the human mind, behavior, and experience can be understood. In addition to the traditional psychological literature, this book...
Yoga & Psyche
Integrating the Paths of Yoga and Psychology for Healing, Transformation, and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Has yoga improved your health and expanded your awareness—but emotional and relationship issues continue to challenge you?
Or, have you found psychotherapy helpful . . . yet yearn for further spiritual discovery?
With Yoga & Psyche, Mariana Caplan invites you to explore these two profound...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
Mexican-Americans now constitute two thirds of what has become the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States, Hispanics. They have distinct cultural patterns and values that those who seek to serve them competently as clinicians and educators, and those who attempt to study them,...
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...
Classical Adlerian Psychology Theme Pack 6: Criminals & Crim
"Individual Psychology & Crime," by Alfred Adler
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
In criminals, social interest is deeply disturbed, or in some cases non-existent. Not interested in others, he can cooperate only to a certain degree. When this level is exhausted, and a problem is too difficult for him, he turns to crime. Chapter XXIII from "The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler" - Volume 6 (11 pages).
The Mental Health of Refugees
Ecological Approaches To Healing and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
It is estimated that at least 33 million people around the world have been displaced from their homes by war or persecution. Numerous studies have documented high rates of psychological distress among these survivors of extreme violence and forced migration, yet very few have access to clinic-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
How is it that cultures come into existence at all? How do cultures develop particular customs and characteristics rather than others? How do cultures persist and change over time? Most previous attempts to address these questions have been descriptive and historical. The purpose of this book is to...
Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health
Spaces, Places, People and Activities
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. It starts from the premise that contemporary mainstream psychiatry and psychology struggle to capture how distress results from complex embodied arrays of social experiences that are embedded...
Reminiscence, Motivation, and Personality
A Case Study in Experimental Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is a book on reminiscence, or more modestly a book on reminiscence in motor tasks, or more modestly still on reminiscence in pursuit rotor learning, with occasional references to other types of reminiscence. The vast majority of experiments investigating reminiscence with the pur suit rotor...
Freud and Modern Psychology
Volume 1: The Emotional Basis of Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The tension between Freud's clinical discoveries about the power of human emotions and the theoretical framework in which he embedded these discoveries has been most eloquently detailed by Freud himself. His agoniz ing reappraisal. in 1926, of the libido theory of anxiety is just one example. But,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Emergence of Individual Differences in Social Context ROBERT B. ZAJONC A priest who was a heavy smoker once asked his bishop if it was all right if he smoked while praying. Appalled, the bishop chastised the priest for the very thought of soiling the solemn moment of prayer with such a filthy habit....