A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This bestselling book examines childhood trauma and the enduring effects it has on an individual's management of repressed anger and pain. Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skill... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
An introduction to esoteric psychology based on the Gurdjieff system of dev elopment. Some references to the writings of Krishnamurti are included. View More...
More than five thousand languages are currently spoken around the globe. Le arning to speak one of them is virtually effortless for most of us, so why is it commonly so difficult to learn a second language? Unraveling this mys tery, two top researchers in the field explain how language acquisition can be an odyssey of self-discovery. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. An introductory text on child psychology discussing different theoretical perspectives by analyzing major figures' work on the mental life of babies. It looks at Darwin, Freud, Piaget, Skinner, Chomsky, Bowlby and others, thus appraising the origins and development of the discipline. Bradley's critical analysis concludes that child psychology should be thought of less as a branch of natural science than as an intrinsically interpretative discipline. View More...
If personal experience is the basic raw material for psychology, why do all the major psychologies of the past century find reason to marginalize or d eny it? Benjamin Bradley presents a thought-provoking study which explores the way our everyday experience of life has been marginalized within the sc ientific discipline of psychology. Arguing that an experience-based approac h to psychology should complement the more traditional scientific approach, Bradley takes a bold initial step towards reclaiming the Enlightenments vi sion for the discipline. View More...
Aiming to help readers to maximize their brainpower, the book features a ra nge of exercises and a collection of photographs and mind maps which illust rate the technique. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Psychotherapist Philip Sutton Chard integrates the environmental movement with personal development and self-help psychology in The Healing Earth he shares his belief that by turning to Mother Earth for wisdom and nurturing, and by developing a deeper bond with the natural world, people can find solutions to personal struggles. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This is a thoroughly updated revision of the most highly acclaimed and successful undergraduate measurement text in testing over the last fifteen years.Psychological Testing and Assessmentexamines the philosophical, historical, and methodological foundations of psychological testing, assessment, and measurement, while helping students appreciate their benefits and pitfalls in practice. The text's time-tested and trusted approach incorporates up-to-dat... View More...
The world is changing at a dizzying pace. We're all looking for new ways of thinking that can bring about real solutions to modern problems, from the pursuit of inner serenity to solving world conflicts. In Do You QuantumThin k? bestselling author Dianne Collins shares her ingenious discovery that r eveals a critical missing link to make sense of our changing times. Her dis covery provides us with the understanding and methodology to rise above pro blems of today by laying the foundation for an entirely new way to think. T he result is an experience of newfound ease, grace and mastery. Part sc... View More...
In Mind Fields, Thomas J. Cottle argues that the period known as adolescenc e is essentially a social construct influenced greatly by popular culture. To understand young people, therefore, is to recognize how the very conscio usness of adolescents is shaped by a culture, dominated by the entertainmen t industry, and the power of television and the computer, constantly urging them to turn away from the normal evolution of their personal and social l ives. In this fundamentally distracting environment, young people explore t heir consciousness, sharing it with others, as well as form their sens... View More...
A crisp clean first edition/printing, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-lib .(1983)Book only. Speeches discuss the nature of altered states of consciousness and ways to use hypnosis to control pain, relieve stress, and solve problems. View More...
In The Heartland, Nathan Filer, a former mental health nurse, invites us to spend time in the company of some extraordinary people whose lives have be en affected by this most strange of human conditions, and to discover their complex, surprising, painful, funny and ultimately relatable stories. Inte rlacing these first person encounters with a series of meditative essays, h e debunks myths, challenges orthodoxy and offers fresh insight into what is traditionally considered to be psychiatry's heartland: the diagnosis and t reatment of schizophrenia. Just as The Shock of the Fall did, The Heart... View More...
Civilization and Its Discontents, is one of the last of Freud's books, writ ten in the decade before his death. In it he makes known his views on the b road question of man's place in the world, which he sees in terms of the ne ver-ending conflict of he claim of the individual for freedom and the deman ds of society. Writing of the book, The Spectator says: "The theme is a ver y simple one which has often been foreshadowed in Fredu's earlier work. Civ ilization is only made possible by individual renouncement. The instinctive life of man is one of aggression and egoistic self-satisfaction. The... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Freud's seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in ps ychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Written in the decade before Freud's death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer several questions fundamental to human society and its o... View More...
In this comprehensive volume the repressed memory controversy is explored b y leading clinicians in a discussion free of the accusatory tone that has o ften dominated the literature to date. The perspectives presented include a n overview of neurological research on the encoding of memory, a feminist c ritique of the frenzy surrounding the current debate, and an exploration of the social taboos that still hamper objective discussion of child abuse. T he issues raised on both sides of the 'false memory' debate cut to the hear t of psychotherapeutic practice. The possibility of falsely implanted... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
An early work that lays the foundation for establishing a "polemical" dimen sion to psychoanalysis. We certainly have the unconscious that we deserve, an unconscious for speci alists, ready-made for an institutionalized discourse. I would rather see i t as something that wraps itself around us in everyday objects, something t hat is involved with day-to-day problems, with the world outside. It would be the possible itself, open to the socius, to the cosmos...-from The Machi nic Unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis In his seminal solo-authored work The Machinic Unconscious (originally publishe... View More...
