Psychology
Explore top psychology books, from social psychology and sports psychology to novels and beginner guides. Discover bestsellers and highly recommended reads in human psychology available online.
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Motivation 101What drives people toward their goals? Does motivation come from outside the individual or from within? This text is a concise, engaging overview of leading theories and the wide body of research about this core concept in psychology. It draws from a broad spectrum...
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Sex and DisabilityThe title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in...
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Figurations: Child, Bodies, WorldsAlways in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Casta eda shows how this malleability is itself generated--how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures...
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Gender and Mental HealthGender and Mental Health provides a critical introduction to the ways in which gender affects mental health experiences and mental health service use. The volume is unique in including a policy perspective and an overview-including a look at crime, the law, and service structures-of...
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Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A MemoirJay Neugeboren and his brother, Robert, grew up in Brooklyn in the years following World War II. Both brothers--smart, talented, and popular--seemed well on the way to successful lives when, for reasons that remain ultimately mysterious to this day, Robert had a mental breakdown...
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle SchoolHomework, hormones, heartache...middle school has no shortage of perils. Never fear, the authors of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series return with a survival guide for those who are facingor just about to facethis big transitional time in school and life. The handbook is packed...
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Dreams and Spiritual Growth: A Judeo-Christian Way of DreamworkA comprehensive dreamwork methodology including thirty-seven dreamwork techniques, that integrates psychological, spiritual, historical, and theological perspectives. +Author: Louis M. Savary, Patricia H. Berne, Strephon Kaplan WilliamsPublisher: Paulist PressPublished: 01/01/1984Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.32h x 5.74w x 0.64dISBN: 9780809126293
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What to Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed: A Practical, Compassionate, and Helpful GuideA clinical psychologist and expert on depression updates the book that has helped thousands with its combination of professional advice and comfort There are few circumstances in life as hard and at the same time as important as being a friend to a person...
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A Theory of Cognitive DissonanceLeon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of dissonance is here applied to the problem of why partial reward, delay of reward, and effort expenditure during...
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Happiness: A HistoryToday, human beings tend to think of happiness as a natural right. But they haven't always felt this way. For the ancient Greeks, happiness meant virtue. For the Romans, it implied prosperity and divine favor. For Christians, happiness was synonymous with God. Throughout history,...
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Speculum of the Other Woman: New EditionSpeculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a "dark continent," unfathomable and unapproachable; its...
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Happiness Is a Choice: New Ways to Enhance Joy and Meaning in Your LifeWhether depression is felt mildly or acutely, temporarily or persistently, it strikes just about everyone at some point. Drs. Minirth and Meier believe, however, that the emotional pain of depression can be overcome and avoided. Drawing from their professional training, counseling experience, and biblical...
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Psychology of the FutureSummarizes Grof's experiences and observations from more than forty years of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness. This accessible and comprehensive overview of the work of Stanislav Grof, one of the founders of transpersonal psychology, was specifically written to acquaint newcomers with his work....
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Political Plasticity: The Future of Democracy and DictatorshipPolitical plasticity refers to limitations on how fast, how much, and in what ways political behavior does (or does not) change. In a number of important areas of behavior, such as leader-follower relations, ethnicity, religion, and the rich-poor divide, there has been long-term continuity...
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The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook: Exercises, Questions, and Self-Tests to Help You Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your LifeFeatured in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story starring Heather Locklear, premiering on Lifetime For the millions who have read Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, this inspiring new workbook has been designed to help put the book's principles into practice. Includes...
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Grieving: Your Path Back to PeaceWritten at a much-appreciated length, this brief book gently guides readers through the healing process of grief. Showing how grief doesn't happen in neat orderly stages, it explains how to work through painful emotions and questions and find God's peace and healing. Here is...
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Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis ResponsePrehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis Response was designed to complement Jones & Bartlett Learning's Continuing Education series. This resource educates readers on the crisis and behavioral health issues of patients in the prehospital environment. Separated into three parts, coverage includes: the acute behavioral crisis,...
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Self-Scoring IQ TestsHonorary International President of MENSA Victor Serebriakoff has created two comprehensive tests--similar to the elaborate standardized ones administered by professional psychologists--perfectly designed to measure your cognitive skills, reasoning abilities, quick-learning capability, and problem-solving proficiency. Begin with the practice quizzes to warm up, and then...
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The Ten Basic Principles of Good ParentingMost parents do a pretty good job of raising kids, says psychologist Laurence Steinberg, but truly effective parenting means not just relying on natural instincts but also on knowing what works and why. In The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting, Dr. Steinberg distills...
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Envy and GratitudeFrom Simon & Schuster, Envy and Gratitude and Other Works 1946-1963 is a perfect introduction to Melanie Klein's modern neuroscientific research. Melanie Klein's writings, particularly on infant development and psychosis, have been crucial both to theoretical work and to clinical practice. Envy and Gratitude...
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