Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Steven C Hayes, Jason Lillis
American Psychological Ass, PB, 9781433811531
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically-based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness processes, and commitment and behavior change processes to produce psychological flexibility. Steven C. Hayes, who helped develop ACT, and co-author Jason Lillis provide an overview of ACT's main influences and its basic principles. In this succinct and understandable survey, the authors show how ACT illuminates ... More/Buy
Adult Attachment Projective Picture Syste: Attachment Theory and Assessment in Adults
Carol George, Malcolm L West
Guilford, HB, 9781462504251
This book presents cutting-edge research on adult attachment together with a complete overview of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP), the authors' validated developmental assessment. In addition to identifying attachment classification groups, the AAP yields important information about dimensions–including defensive processes–not evaluated by other available measures. Detailed case illustrations show what the AAP looks like "in action" and what it ... More/Buy
Behind the Shock Machine: The untold story of the notorious Milgram psychology experiments
Gina Perry
Scribe Publications, PB, 9781921844553
In the summer of 1961, a group of ordinary men and women volunteered for a memory experiment to be conducted by young, dynamic psychologist Stanley Milgram. None could have imagined that, once seated in the lab, they would be placed in front of a box known as a shock machine and asked to give electric shocks to a man they'd just ... More/Buy
Broken Bounds: Contemporary Reflections on the Antisocial Tendency
Christopher Reeves (ed)
Karnac Books, PB, 9781780490373
In 2009 - 2010, The Squiggle Foundation, whose aim is to stimulate interest in the work of Donald Winnicott, organized a series of lectures on the theme of 'the antisocial tendency'. These lectures are offered here to the wider public much as they were originally given. The speakers, each one an established figure in child care policy or in the residential ... More/Buy
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
Sebastian Seung
Allen Lane, PB, 9781846146589
Sebastian Seung is at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. He believes that our identity lies not in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells - our own particular wiring, or 'connectomes'. Connectome tells the incredible story of how Seung and a dedicated group of researchers are mapping these connections, neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse. They ... More/Buy
Developmental Psychology by Alan M Slater and Paul C Quinn: Revisiting the Classic Studies
Alan M Slater, Paul C Quinn
Sage Publications, PB, 9780857027580
This book revisits classic studies in Developmental Psychology with a view to showing not only how they shaped the field, but also how the field has itself moved on through engagement with the issues these studies raise. It engages critically with the studies in order to reveal new ways of thinking both about them and about the ideas they explore. In ... More/Buy
Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Anxiety: A Transdiagnostic Treatment Manual
Peter J Norton
Guilford Publications, HB, 9781462504800
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is highly effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders, regardless of the specific type of fear that is causing difficulties. This practical, hands-on clinical resource presents a proven group treatment protocol for patients with any anxiety diagnosis. Step-by-step guidelines are provided for setting up transdiagnostic groups, using comprehensive assessment to plan and monitor treatment, and implementing carefully sequenced cognitive ... More/Buy
Handbook of Adult Resilience
John W Reich, Alex J Zautra, John Stuart Hall (eds)
Guilford Publications, PB, 9781462506477
What enables people to bounce back from stressful experiences? How do certain individuals maintain a sense of purpose and direction over the long term, even in the face of adversity? This is the first book to move beyond childhood and adolescence to explore resilience across the lifespan. Coverage ranges from genetic and physiological factors through personal, family, organizational, and community processes. ... More/Buy
Hatred and Forgiveness
Julia Kristeva
Columbia University Press, PB, 9780231143257
Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought. Kristeva rearticulates and ... More/Buy
How to Give Clients the Skills to Stop Panic Attacks: Don't Forget to Breathe
Sandra Scheinbaum
Jessica Kingsley, PB, 9781849058872
How to Give Clients the Skills to Stop Panic Attacks shows how it is possible to prevent and abort a panic attack through lifestyle change and mind-body relaxation. Presenting an effective approach rooted in the philosophy of functional medicine, this book proposes using calming breathing techniques as the foundation to controlling the anxiety that causes panic. Breathing is then combined with ... More/Buy
Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Anxiety
Henny A Westra
Guilford Publications, HB0, 9781462504817
This wise and practical book provides effective strategies for helping therapy clients with anxiety resolve ambivalence and increase their intrinsic motivation for change. The author shows how to infuse the spirit and methods of motivational interviewing (MI) into cognitive-behavioral therapy or any other anxiety-focused treatment. She describes specific ways to use MI as a pretreatment intervention or integrate it throughout the ... More/Buy
Practical Ethics for Psychologists: A Positive Approach 2ed
Samuel J Knapp, Leon VandeCreek
American Psychological Ass, HB, 9781433811746
Ethical behavior involves much more than avoiding being sanctioned by a disciplinary body. For psychologists, being ethical is also a positive goal that involves striving to reach one's highest ethical ideals. Guided by the APA Ethics Code, amended in 2010, the authors provide short sketches illustrating the standards that psychologists must follow. In addition, they emphasize how psychologists can actualize their ... More/Buy
Psyche and Brain: The Biology of Talking Cures
Fred M Levin
Karnac Books, PB, 9781855758773
This book provides a coherent, entirely readable account of an exciting new area of research regarding brain science and psychoanalysis. Comprehensive and groundbreaking, accessible to clinicians and scientists alike, Fred Levin's volume will become essential reading for anyone seriously concerned with the foundations of psychoanalysis. His study of neurobiology and human behavior places both on equal footing while respecting the fundamental ... More/Buy
The Psychology of Ageing: An Introduction 5ed
Ian Stuart-Hamilton
Jessica Kingsley, PB, 9781849052450
Providing a comprehensive overview of the psychological processes of ageing, the text examines what constitutes older age, and presents the latest theory and research in various domains, including ageing and memory; ageing and language; ageing, personality and lifestyle; and mental illness and ageing. Consideration is given to the problems inherent in measuring the psychological status of older people, and the author ... More/Buy
The Psychology of the Person
Neville Symington
Karnac Books, PB, 9781780490694
'In this book I attempt to sketch out a 'psychology of the person'. The definition of 'person' implies that no two people, even identical twins, are the same. Although this is obvious, and no sensible person would quarrel with such a view, yet many terms are used that imply that there is a sameness between two or more people. For instance, ... More/Buy
The Silent Past and the Invisible Present: Memory, Trauma, and Representation in Psychotherapy
Paul Renn
Routledge, PB, 9780415898591
Drawing on research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience, as well as 20 years in forensic and private practice, Paul Renn deftly illustrates the ways in which this research may be used to inform an integrated empirical / hermeneutic model of clinical practice. He suggests that silent, invisible processes derived from the past maintain non-optimal ... More/Buy
Social Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies
Joanne R Smith, S Alexander Haslam
Sage Publications, PB, 9780857027566
The field of social psychology is defined by a number of 'classic studies' that all students need to understand and engage with. These include ground-breaking experiments by researchers such as Asch, Festinger, Milgram, Sherif, Tajfel and Zimbardo. With the help of international experts who are renowned for work that has extended upon these researchers' insights, this book re-examines these classic studies ... More/Buy
Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved
Robert A Neimeyer (ed)
Routledge, PB, 9780415807258
Techniques of Grief Therapy is an indispensable guidebook to the most inventive and inspirational interventions in grief and bereavement counseling and therapy. Individually, each technique emphasizes creativity and practicality. As a whole, they capture the richness of practices in the field and the innovative approaches that clinicians in diverse settings have developed, in some cases over decades, to effectively address the ... More/Buy
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
Robert Kurzban
Princeton University Press, PB, 9780691154398
We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind. Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The human mind consists of many specialized units designed by the process of evolution by natural selection. While these modules sometimes work together seamlessly, they don't always, resulting in impossibly ... More/Buy
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
Harper Collins, PB, 9780732292393
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn--or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense of an analogue clock. But by relying on her formidable memory and iron will, she made her ... More/Buy
Women`s Bodies in Psychoanalysis
Rosemary M Balsam
Routledge, PB, 9780415390309
Why has the female body been marginalised in psychoanalysis, with a focus on female problems and pains only? How can we begin to think about body pleasure, power, competition and aggression as normal in females? In Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis, Rosemary Balsam argues that re-tracing theoretical steps back to the biological body's attributes is fruitful in searching the clues of our ... More/Buy