Inter-Cultural Therapy, Themes, Interpretations and Practice by J. Kareem; R. Littlewood (eds)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
The Cambridge Companion to William James by Ruth Anna Putnam (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
William James (1842-1910) was both a philosopher and a psychologist, nowadays most closely associated with the pragmatic theory of truth. The essays in this Companion deal with the full range of his thought as well as other issues, including technical philosophical issues, religious speculation, moral p ...Show more
Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality - Part/Whole Analysis by Thomas J. Scheff; Antony Manstead (Contribution by); Keith Oatley (Contribution by)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction Ser.
In his important new book, Thomas Scheff offers an innovative approach to researching human behavior that relates the smallest parts of social interaction to the greatest wholes of social structure. These are the details and connections usually found only in the finest novels, but Scheff combines the in ...Show more
The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in America - Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985 by Nathan G. Hale Jr.
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Although Freud made only one visit to the United States, the spectacular rise and equally precipitous decline of his theories on human behavior continue to make headlines. In 1956, celebrating the centennial of Freud's birth, popular magazines reported that this "Darwin of the Mind" had fathered modern ...Show more
Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924-1925 by Perry Meisel (Editor); Walter Kendrick (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
The Other Country by Michael Whelan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good
Michael and Helen Whelan believed that life after the birth of their first child would be the most amazing adventure. But at 14 months of age, their precious son Charlie's development seemed to stall and they began to realise that something was wrong. Charlie was autistic.
Zero Degrees of Empathy - A New Theory of Human Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift, turning the focus away from evil and on to the central factor, empathy. ...Show more
Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians, and Anti-Semitism by Aryeh Maidenbaum (Editor); Stephen Martin
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: C. G. Jung Foundation Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Laughter: A Scientific Investigation by Robert R. Provine
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Do men and women laugh at the same things?Is laughter contagious?Has anyone ever really died laughing?Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on l ...Show more
Meeting Freud's Family by Paul Roazen
$16.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
In this book Roazen reaches back to the beginning of his career in the 1960s, when he interviewed more than 70 people who had known Sigmund Freud personally, among them nearly a dozen members of Freud's family. These included three of Freud's children - Oliver, Mathilda and Anna - and several in-laws, n ...Show more
The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis by Phyllis Grosskurth
$15.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Traces the history of Freud's secret committee, designed to insure the continuing existence of psychoanalysis.
Psychology For A Better World - Strategies to Inspire Sustainability by Niki Harre
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Psychology for a Better World is for people who believe it is worth trying to make a world in which both our species and the ecological systems we are part of can flourish. The book is based on the latest research in psychology and is jam-packed with action strategies.It offers new ways to think about ...Show more