Psychology Led Astray: Cargo Cult in Science and Therapy
This book shows how scientific and psychotherapeutic practices change into worthless rituals called by the famous physicist, Richard Feynman, "cargo cult." It is a must-read for everybody who is...
View ArticlePsychology in Black and White: The Project of a Theory-Driven Science
A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University This book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies. It is a...
View ArticleReflexivity and Psychology
A volume in The YIS: The Yearbook of Idiographic Science Series Editors: Sergio Salvatore, University of Salento and Jaan Valsiner, Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University...
View ArticleNine Dimensions of Madness: Redefining Mental Health
In a book that reframes the mental health debate, Robert L. Gallon challenges the widely-held notion that mental disorders are medical diseases. Drawing on his extensive experience as a psychologist...
View ArticleCritical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience: Why We Can't Trust Our Brains
<p>This unique text for undergraduate courses teaches students to apply critical thinking skills across all academic disciplines by examining popular pseudoscientific claims through a...
View ArticleIn Search of Congruence and Success in Selling
Congruence is when the buyer and seller are aligned and the sale is made. In this book the experience of a successful sales professional joins with the insight of a business psychology practitioner in...
View ArticleIntroducing Psychology: A Graphic Guide
What is psychology? When did it begin? Where did it come from? How does psychology compare with related subjects such as psychiatry and psychotherapy? To what extent is it scientific? This book aims to...
View ArticlePsychodynamic Psychotherapy in South Africa: Contexts, Theories and Applications
Offering a fresh and innovative perspective on psychodynamic psychotherapy, this book captures the possibilities of using psychodynamic theory in service of progressive and socially relevant...
View ArticleDoing Interview-based Qualitative Research
For many students, the experience of learning about and using qualitative methods can be bewildering. This book is an accessible step-by-step guide to conducting interview-based qualitative research...
View ArticleResearch Methods in Psychology: Evaluating a World of Information (Second...
<p>A text that will make your students care about research methods as much as you do.</p>This market-leading text emphasizes future consumers of psychological research, uses real-world...
View ArticlePurr Therapy: What Timmy & Marina Taught Me About Life, Love and Loss
<p>Cats aren't a typical choice for animal-assisted psychotherapy, but Timmy and Marnia are anything but typical.<p>Research has found that petting a cat can lower blood pressure and a...
View ArticleA Girl's Childhood: Psychological Development, Social Change, and The Yale...
Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the Yale Child Study Center joined together with the purpose of formulating a general...
View ArticleDoing Research on Purpose: A Control Theory Approach to Experimental Psychology
The core of the book are six papers by Dr. Richard S. Marken which have been published in peer reviewed journals over the past decade explaining why Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) offers the most...
View ArticleHeredity, Environment, and Personality: A Study of 850 Sets of Twins
This volume reports on a study of 850 pairs of twins who were tested to determine the influence of heredity and environment on individual differences in personality, ability, and interests. It presents...
View ArticleBiographical Ruptures and Their Repair: Cultural Transitions in Development
A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University Biographical ruptures and their repairs: Cultural transitions in development represents the efforts of...
View ArticleMaking Our Ideas Clear: Pragmatism in Psychoanalysis
A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University This book brings pragmatic theory and praxis into dialogue with contemporary psychodynamic ideas,...
View ArticleThe Life Space of the Urban Child: Perspectives on Martha Muchow's Classic Study
<p>This volume provides background on Martha Muchow and her study, addresses various lines of research developed from the study, including her work in describing children in urban environments,...
View ArticleCultural Psychology of Recursive Processes
A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University Cultural Psychology of Recursivity illustrates how recursivity, often neglected in the social sciences, can...
View ArticleTemporality: Culture in the Flow of Human Experience
A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University This book comes as part of a broader project the first editor is developing in collaboration with the other...
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