Personality category: 1900 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book highlights different aspects of the problem of elder abuse and neglect in India, and discusses its forms as well as means of prevention, intervention and management. It presents a framework for understanding the occurrence of elder abuse and neglect in India, placing the discussion within...
Breaking Murphy's Law
How Optimists Get What They Want from Life - and Pessimists Can Too
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Pollyannas take heart, pessimists take note: Recent studies on achievement and well-being show that optimistic behavior contributes to better physical health, greater resilience in the face of life’s twists and turns, and more satisfying relationships. As psychologists Suzanne Segerstrom reveals,...
Self-Determination Theory
Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Self-determination theory (SDT) provides a framework for understanding the factors that promote motivation and healthy psychological and behavioral functioning. In this authoritative work, the codevelopers of the theory comprehensively examine SDT's conceptual underpinnings (including its six mini-theories),...
Forgetting
Myths, Perils and Compensations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In his highly praised book The Nostalgia Factory, renowned memory scholar Douwe Draaisma explored the puzzling logic of memory in later life with humor and deep insight. In this compelling new book he turns to the “miracle” of forgetting. Far from being a defect that may indicate Alzheimer’s or...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Reflecting a diversity of thought and intellectual power, this unique volume provides undergraduate students with an important historical context and demonstrates the continuity of many issues in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the American...
Peace Psychology in the Balkans
Dealing with a Violent Past while Building Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The volume covers the development of peace psychology in the Balkans. The Balkans is a region marked by post-communist and post-conflict transitional turmoil, and this book provides a comprehensive introduction to research in peace psychology in this part of the world, written by scholars primarily...
Cultural Psychology
Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume aims to build on the approach to cultural psychology originally developed by the Russian psychologist Vygotsky and his colleagues Luria and Leontiev by providing qualitative methods such as interview techniques and content analysis as empirical tools for exploring the cultural aspects...
by Greg Parry
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Do you wake up in the morning wondering if things could be so much better for you than they are right now? If you're really ready for a change and willing to make the effort, this could be one of the defining moments of your life. Because so much of our experience, our successes and our failures,...
The Other Side of Mind
A Journey Through Bipolar Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
The Other Side of Mind delves into the mind of a bipolar patient, exploring the soaring highs of mania and the devastating lows of depression. When Sarah Smyth began writing, she was consumed by madness and desperately needed psychiatric care. Because of the complexities of this illness, diagnosis...
Anatomy of a Secret Life
The Psychology of Living a Lie
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
We think we know those who are close to us, and we want to believe that what we see is what we get. But we can never know for certain, because what really goes on inside another’s head and heart is essentially a secret. How do you know if that secret is something that will hurt you?
Your...
Introverts in the Church
Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Introverts in the Church
Popular
Finding Happiness and Success in a World That Cares Too Much About the Wrong Kinds of Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A leading psychologist examines how our popularity affects our success, our relationships, and our happiness—and why we don’t always want to be the most popular
No matter how old you are, there’s a good chance that the word “popular” immediately transports you back to your teenage...
by Greene, Liz
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1992
The third volume in the Seminars in Psychological Astrology series. The authors discuss the mythology and psychology of the Moon, and show its relevance as a significator of relationships. Inaddition, the correspondence between the Sun and the development of consciousness is explored in depth. Includes a chapter on the lunation cycle.
The Eldest Daughter Effect
How First Born Women – like Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, JK Rowling and Beyoncé – Harness their Strengths
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
"What do Angela Merkel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, JK Rowling and Beyoncé have in common?" was the headline in the English newspaper The Observer in 2014. "Other than riding high in Forbes list of the world’s most powerful women," journalist Tracy...