Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
Nocturnes
On Listening to Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Nocturnes, literally music for the night, is a delightfully impressionistic investigation into everything that is not known, and perhaps can never be known, about dreams. Rather than espousing yet another strategy of dream interpretation, Lippmann proffers a naturalistic approach appreciative of the...
by Jean B. Sanville
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Building on the foundations of the "independent tradition" of British object relations theory and modern infancy research, Sanville proffers a new understanding of the role of play in the clinical situation. She attends especially to the therapeutic situation as a safe playground, the therapist's...
Impasse and Innovation in Psychoanalysis
Clinical Case Seminars
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Impasse and Innovation in Psychoanalysis offers a rare perspective on the technical difficulties and creative responses to them that typify clinical psychoanalysis. The four seminars at the heart of this volume are not case reports in the usual sense. Rather, each seminar revolves around the challenges...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The Widening Scope of Shame is the first collection of papers on shame to appear in a decade and contains contributions from most of the major authors currently writing on this topic. It is not a sourcebook, but a comprehensive introduction to clinical and theoretical perspectives on shame that is...
The Dreamer and the Dream
Essays and Reflections on Gestalt Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
In this collection of papers and lecturers from the late Rainette Fantz, we witness firsthand the exhilarating possibilities inherent in the Gestalt therapy model. Frantz brings her background in theater to bear on her remarkable work as a therapy and teacher-work marked by delightful imagination,...
Solution Focused Harm Reduction
Working effectively with people who misuse substances
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This is the first book to explain the many synergies between solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) and harm reduction (HR). Seán Foy discusses how these two approaches are complementary and when used in conjunction, create a novel way of approaching addiction work. The book covers several detailed...
Biosemiotic Medicine
Healing in the World of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This book presents an interpretation of pharmaceutical, surgical and psychotherapeutic interventions based on a univalent metalanguage: biosemiotics. It proposes that a metalanguage for the physical, mental, social, and cultural aspects of health and medicine could bring all parts and aspects of human...
by Edwin R. Wallace, IV
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
What do the psychoanalyst and the historian have in common? This important question has stimulated a lively debate within the psychoanalytic profession in recent years, bearing as it does on the very nature of the psychoanalytic enterprise. Edwin Wallace, a clinician with training in the history and...
by Mohammadreza Hojat
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In this thorough revision, updating, and expansion of his great 2007 book, Empathy in Patient Care, Professor Hojat offers all of us in healthcare education an uplifting magnum opus that is sure to greatly enhance how we conceptualize, measure, and teach the central professional virtue of empathy....
The Social Nature of Man – falsifiable / Die soziale Natur des Menschen – falsifizierbar
Empirical Study on the Global Meaning of Spatial Positioning of Humans to Each Other / Empirische Studie über Systemaufstellungen und die weltweite Bedeutung räumlicher Stellungen von Menschen zueinander
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The author's fundamental empirical study of system constellations with life-sized figures from the year 2005 could also be realised in China in 2015. In this book, he proves that the perception of the position in a space actually follows the generally comprehensible semantics of a language and this...
Thinking in Circles About Obesity
Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Today’s children may well become the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will be shorter than that of their parents. The culprit, public health experts agree, is obesity and its associated health problems. Heretofore, the strategy to slow obesity’s galloping pace has been driven...
The Primary Care Toolkit
Practical Resources for the Integrated Behavioral Care Provider
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Integrated care is receiving a lot of attention from clinicians, administrators, policy makers, and researchers. Given the current healthcare crises in the United States, where costs, quality, and access to care are of particular concern, many are looking for new and better ways of delivering behavioral...
Psychologie der Massen
Vollständig überarbeitete Ausgabe
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Le Bons Werk über die Psychologie der Massen ist das Gründungswerk der modernen Massenpsychologie, Medienpsychologie und Werbepsychologie. Einleitend schreibt Le Bon: Die organisierten Massen haben zu allen Zeiten eine wichtige Rolle im Völkerleben gespielt, niemals aber in solchem Maße wie heute....
Homeopathy - The Undiluted Facts
Including a Comprehensive A-Z Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book traces the genesis, principles and practice of homeopathy, and discusses the reasons for its enduring popularity. Two hundred years ago, medicine had little to offer except blood letting and the administration of violent purgatives – practices which shortened the course of illness by hastening...