LibGuides: E-Books: Psychology

Overview

General Psychology
Abnormal Psychology
Behavioral Psychology
Biological Psychology
Child Psychology
Cognitive Psychology and Consciousness

General Psychology

Advances in Psychology Research This book reviews research on the role of child sexual abuse in the development of psychopathology; enduring personality change after catastrophic experience; the neurobiology of anxiety and affective disorders; the genetics of panic disorders; perceptual motor skills and the cognitive architecture of action; gender issues and implications in depression and suicide; alexithymia and mental health and personality characteristics in men suffering from chronic tension-type and cervicogenic headaches. (Imprint: Nova Press)
Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology Intended for philosophically minded psychologists and psychologically minded philosophers, this book identifies the ways that psychology has hobbled itself by adhering too strictly to empiricism, this being the doctrine that all knowledge is observation-based. In the first part of this two-part work, we show that empiricism is false. In the second part, we identify the psychology-relevant consequences of this fact.
Psychology : Six Perspectives Psychology: Six Perspectives shows students a measure of unity and continuity within this fragmented field by briefly and coherently discussing six primary perspectives that have arisen: biological, psychoanalytical, behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, and evolutionary. Author L. Dodge Fernald provides coherence by presenting these perspectives in successive historical order, offering students a broad, retrospective account of psychology
Psychology and the Other Disciplines : A Case of Cross-disciplinary Interaction Psychology and the Other Disciplines looks at how Aristotelian psychology developed from the medieval to the early modern period, by studying its interactions with the other philosophical disciplines, medicine, and theology.
Putting Theory to Work : How Are Theories Actually Used in Practice? This book contains a continuation and expansion of the topics covered in the author's previous book, Psychoanalysis: from Practice to Theory, about the use of theories in analytic practice.
Realism and Psychology : Collected Essays This volume is a collection of new, published and revised essays, providing a distinctive, thoroughgoing, realist approach to contemporary psychological theories, concepts, methods, and applications. The essays also offer critical analyses of antirealist trends both in and outside of mainstream psychology.
The Causes of Human Behavior : Implications for Theory and Method in the Social Sciences This book examines two root issues in the methodology of explanatory social research--the meaning of the idea of causation in social science and the question of the physiological mechanism that generates intentional behavior. Conclusions on these as well as on several derived problems emerge through the analysis.
The Gap : The Science of What Separates Us From Other Animals In The Gap, psychologist Thomas Suddendorf provides a definitive account of what makes human minds unique and how this disparity arose. He proposes that two innovations account for all of the ways in which our minds appear so distinct: our open-ended ability to imagine and reflect, and our insatiable drive to link our minds together. It is not language or morality that set us apart, but the ability to consider a range of scenarios, real and imagined, past and future.

Abnormal Psychology

A Metaphysics of Psychopathology In this book, Peter Zachar considers such terms as 'real' and 'reality'-- invoked in psychiatry but often obscure and remote from their instances -- as abstract philosophical concepts.
Abnormal and Clinical Psychology : An Introductory Textbook An introduction to and evaluation of the conceptual models of mental health problems and their treatment, with valuable analyses of various disorders.
Abnormal Psychology : New Research This new book specifically discusses depression, self-harm, perception without awareness, the psychological aspect of alcoholism, attachment-related memory in children, the psychology of fear, and dyslexia. In addition, intervention and treatment programs are examined.
Classifying Psychopathology : Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), asking whether current systems are sufficient for effective diagnosis, treatment, and research. Doing so, they take up the question of whether mental disorders are natural kinds, grounded in something in the outside world.
Criminal Psychology : Nature, Nurture, Culture: a Textbook and Practical Reference Guide for Students and Working Professionals in the Fields of Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Forensic Psychology
Dictionary of Psychopathology Henry Kellerman assembles the first dictionary to focus exclusively on psychopathology, featuring more than two thousand entries (over fifteen hundred primary and more than five hundred subentries) on specific symptoms and disorders, general syndromes, facets of personality structure, and diagnosis.
Everything You Need to Know About Psychopathology This e-book on psychotherapy describes various types of psychotherapeutic treatments that are used in clinical psychology and counseling practice with patients presenting different psychological or personality disorders. Non-psychotherapy treatments are described as well, which include relaxation and stress reduction techniques.
The Neuropsychology of Psychopathology This clinical reference book presents state-of-the-science knowledge about the neurobiology and genetics of the major mental disorders and how this corresponds with their psychiatric features and neuropsychological traits. The text demonstrates how the application of neuropsychology to these disorders provides a more comprehensive foundation for greater accuracy in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.

Behavioral Psychology

Adaptive Dynamics : The Theoretical Analysis of Behavior In this book J.E.R. Staddon proposes an explanation of behavior that lies between cognitive psychology, which seeks to explain it in terms of mentalistic constructs, and cognitive neuroscience, which tries to explain it in terms of the brain. Staddon suggests a new way to understand the laws and causes of learning, based on the invention, comparison, testing, and modification or rejection of parsimonious real-time models for behavior.
Behavior Analysis of Child Development First published in 1961, Sidney Bijou's Behavior Analysis of Child Development is a seminal work in the field of child development. Intended for the student with a limited background in psychology who is embarking on a study of child development, the book offers a concise introduction to the natural scientific approach to child psychology.
Behavior and Personality : Psychological Behaviorism In this capstone work, Arthur Staats synthesizes more than four decades of research, theory, and study into a new generation of behaviorism that offers insights and future directions for researchers, professionals, and students. Staats's unified theory of psychological behaviorism builds on current theories in child development, personality, psychological measurement, and abnormal behavior.
Context and Cognition : Interpreting Complex Behavior Behavior analysis has failed to establish a methodology of interpretation to deal fully with such complexity. The message of this essay is that it cannot do so without embracing intentional explanation in the form of an interpretive overlay that plugs the gaps in its explanations of life beyond the lab.
Handbook of Behaviorism Handbook of Behaviorism provides a comprehensive single source that summarizes what behaviorism is, how the various 'flavors' of behaviorism have differed between major theorists both in psychology and philosophy, and what aspects of those theories have been borne out in research findings and continue to be of use in understanding human behavior.
Planned Behavior : Theory, Applications and Perspectives
The Psychology of B F Skinner In this book, the author clarifies the work of B F Skinner, and puts it into historical and philosophical context. Though not a biography, the book discusses Skinner himself, in brief. But the bulk of the book illuminats Skinner's contributions to psychology, his philosophy of science, his experimental research program (logical positivism) and the behavioral principles that emerged from it, and applied aspects of his work.

Biological Psychology

Advances in Biological Psychiatry This series aims to update major areas of biological psychiatry and summarize important research conducted since the 1980s. It also highlights recent approaches that allow researchers to quantify normal and abnormal brain functions at a high level of precision.
Applied Biological Psychology Written for graduate students and trainees in mental health, this is the only text to present neurobiology in the context of clinical issues rather than merely focusing on experimental approaches to biological psychology or structuring it along neurological systems. In clear, easily accessible language the text explains how the brain and nervous system are linked to mental disorders.
Biological Psychiatry
New Directions in Developmental Psychobiology Developmental psychobiology is an interdisciplinary field, encompassing developmental psychology, biological psychology, neuroscience and many other areas of biology. The field covers all phases of organismic ontogeny, with particular emphasis on prenatal, perinatal and early childhood development. This new book presents the latest research from around the world in this growing field.
The Body and Psychology This important and compelling book looks beyond psychology's traditional biological body to explore what insights can be gained from recent theories of embodiment.

Child Psychology

A Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience in Children This book provides a succinct, accessible and clear guide on how to promote resilience in children and achieve positive developmental outcomes for them. The author covers three key factors that affect resiliency: vulnerability to stress and anxiety, attachment relationships, and access to basic needs.
Being Present for Your Nursery Age Child : Observing, Understanding, and Helping Children This book represents an innovative project in which parents, teachers and other professionals work collaboratively to observe children, understand them at a deep emotional level through their play and interaction with others, and facilitate their relationships with themselves as individuals and with others. The work described has been particularly important in nurturing children's creativity and fostering effective relationships between teachers, parents and children. The innovative nursery described has been an important preventative facility in promoting the wellbeing of young children. The Italian government has supported this highly esteemed project.
Cognitive Biology : Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Mind, Brain, and Behavior This volume offers an overview of the cross-disciplinary integration of evolutionary and developmental approaches to cognition in light of these exciting new contributions from the life sciences
Nurturing a Healthy Mind : Doing What Matters Most for Your Child's Developing Brain
Preschool Children : Education, Language, Social Functioning and Behavioral Issues
Quick Guides for Early Years : Cognitive Development Save time and gain confidence with Linda Pound's easy-to-read quick overview of the main cognitive development theories. If you are a Level 4/5, Foundation Degree, or undergraduate student in Early Years, Early Childhood Studies or primary education, or a professional working with young children, this title will be the ideal introduction to the main theories around cognitive development in early childhood.
Social Development In Young Children
Technique in Child and Adolescent Analysis These are the edited papers from a conference held in 2008 on the topic of problems with child and adolescent analysis. This collection helps widen our understanding of technique with children and adolescents and together they show a very modern psychoanalytic technique may be emerging from modern recent work with children and adolescents.
The Child and His Family
The Child in the World : Embodiment, Time, and Language in Early Childhood The Child in the World builds a bridge between continental philosophers, who tend to overlook child existence, and developmental psychologists, who often fail to consider the philosophical assumptions underlying their work. In this volume, author Eva M. Simms draws on both psychological and phenomenological research to investigate child existence in its cultural and historical context and explore the ways children interact with the world around them.
The Nursery Age Child This book aims to facilitate the understandings of nursery age children, that is, children around three, four and five years, and their parents.
The Silent Child : Communication Without Words The Silent Child: Communication without Words describes a way of understanding and communicating with children who are not speaking, but rather using their bodies and somatic symptoms to express states of mind.
Understanding 10-11-Year-Olds Understanding 10-11-Year-Olds introduces the challenges that face children as they start to make their transition from childhood into adolescence. Rebecca Bergese guides the reader through the broad range of emotional and social challenges experienced by children as they are encouraged to take on greater responsibility.
Understanding 8-9-Year-Olds Biddy Youell looks at the ways in which eight and nine year olds experience their world and highlights some of the difficulties that may hinder their emotional, social or educational development.

Cognitive Psychology and Consciousness

Physicist's View Of Matter And Mind, A This is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms. The presentation is from the perspective of physics, in a manner accessible to those interested in scientific knowledge integrated within its socio-cultural and philosophical backgrounds.
Action Science : Foundations of an Emerging Discipline The emerging field of action science is characterized by a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches that share the basic functional belief that evolution has optimized cognitive systems to serve the demands of action. This book brings together the constitutive approaches of action science in a single source, covering the relation of action to such cognitive functions as perception, attention, memory, and volition
Beyond the Learning Curve : The Construction of Mind This new book takes the view that learning is a major influence on the nature of the processes and representations that fill our minds
Cognitive Decision-Making : Empirical and Foundational Issues Cognitive Decision-Making is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and biology about decision-making. While it has been a topic for economists, logicians and psychologists for many years, decision-making is gaining more attention now from a diverse array of approaches.
Cognitive Pragmatics : The Mental Processes of Communication In Cognitive Pragmatics, Bruno Bara offers a theory of human communication that is both formalized through logic and empirically validated through experimental data and clinical studies.
Cognitive Psychology Perspectives Cognitive Psychology Perspectives presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum.
Consciousness : Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience. This engaging book -- part scientific overview, part memoir, part futurist speculation -- describes Koch's search for an empirical explanation for consciousness.
Consciousness in Interaction : The Role of the Natural and Social Context in Shaping Consciousness Consciousness in Interaction is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and historians of philosophy. It revolves around the idea that consciousness emerges from, and impacts on, our skilled interactions with the natural and social context.
Perception and Cognition at Century's End : History, Philosophy, Theory Perception and Cognition at Century's End contains cognitive psychology surveys that are up-to-date and historically based, as well as references to the development of cognitive psychology over the past century. The book can serve as a central or specialized text for a range of psychology courses.
Perplexities of Consciousness In Perplexities of Consciousness, Schwitzgebel examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience.
Phenomenal Consciousness : Understanding the Relation Between Experience and Neural Processes in the Brain This book explains the key concepts that surround the issue as well as the nature of the hard problem and the several approaches to it.
Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Consciousness This introduction to these and many of the other problems posed by consciousness discusses the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy of the past thirty years and presents an up-to-date assessment of the issues and debates.
Roots and Collapse of Empathy : Human Nature at Its Best and at Its Worst Spanning from care-giving infants and civilian rescuers risking their life to the collapse of empathy in agents of torture and extinction, this unique book deals with and illustrates the altruistic best and atrocious worst of human nature.
Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness In this volume, cognitive scientists and philosophers examine two closely related aspects of mind and mental functioning: the relationships among the various senses and the links that connect different conscious experiences to form unified wholes.
Social Brain Matters : Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition This book examines philosophical and scientific implications of Neodarwinism relative to recent empirical data. It develops explanations of social behavior and cognition through analysis of mental capabilities and consideration of ethical issues.
Social Structure and Forms of Conciousness In The Dialectic of Structure and History, Volume Two of Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, István Mészáros brings the comprehension of our condition and the possibility of emancipatory social action beyond the highest point reached to date. Building on the indicatory flashes of conceptual lightning in the Grundrisse and other works of Karl Marx, Mészáros sets out the relations of structure and agency, individual and society, base and superstructure, nature and history, in a dialectical totality open to the future
The Conscious Mind In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible and concise description of the evolutionary breakthrough that created the human mind. Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and linguistics, Torey reconstructs the sequence of events by which Homo erectus became Homo sapiens
The Consciousness Paradox : Consciousness, Concepts, and Higher-Order Thoughts In The Consciousness Paradox, Rocco Gennaro aims to solve an underlying paradox, namely, how it is possible to hold a number of seemingly inconsistent views, including higher-order thought (HOT) theory, conceptualism, infant and animal consciousness, concept acquisition, and what he calls the HOT-brain thesis.
The Crucible of Consciousness : An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain In The Crucible of Consciousness, Zoltan Torey offers a theory of the mind and its central role in evolution. He traces the evolutionary breakthrough that rendered the brain accessible to itself and shows how the mind-boosted brain works.
The Really Hard Problem : Meaning in a Material World
The Wonder of Consciousness : Understanding the Mind Through Philosophical Reflection
Translation and Cognition

Overview

Criminal Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology
Family Psychology
History of Psychology
Industrial Psychology
Moral Psychology
Motivation
Personality
Psychoanalysis
Social Psychology

Criminal Psychology

Applied Criminal Psychology : A Guide to Forensic Behavioral Sciences Forensic psychology is a thriving subject with a dedicated focus beginning to emerge on the issue of crime from the discipline of psychology. Applied Criminal Psychology provides the reader with a comprehensive and practical guide to psychological research and techniques.
Crime in a Psychological Context : From Career Criminals to Criminal Careers This engaging book presents a contextual psychological interpretation of crime. It covers essential topics including psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, and criminal lifestyle. The author's compelling analysis explains criminal behavior, by showing how the criminal lifestyle is capable of integrating two seemingly incompatible crime paradigms: the career criminal paradigm and the criminal career paradigm.
Crimes of Punishment : America's Culture of Violence This groundbreaking book by an award-winning psychoanalyst and forensic psychiatrist presents a comprehensive exploration of a timely but often taboo topic: the failure of punishment to deter crime and violence, an issue that affects us both individually and as a culture. Written at the culmination of the author s fifty-year career as a psychoanalyst, forensic psychologist and scholar, this wide-ranging work identifies the origins of violence and investigates the surprising consequences of punishment from a multitude of perspectives.
Criminal Psychology : Nature, Nurture, Culture: a Textbook and Practical Reference Guide for Students and Working Professionals in the Fields of Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Forensic Psychology Criminal psychology is the application of the principles of normal and abnormal psychology to the understanding, prediction, and control of criminal behavior. Criminal Psychology: Nature, Nurture, Culture provides an in-depth yet readable introduction to the foundations of criminal psychology as it is understood and practiced from the classroom to the courtroom.
Explorations in Criminal Psychopathology : Clinical Syndromes with Forensic Implications The second edition of this book continues to address the complex approach to this very specific and important aspect of human behavior. Emphasizing on psychopathology from a clinical phenomenological perspective, with legal issues and implications playing a secondary role, an impressive group of contributors explores various disorders that have significant forensic implications.
Forensic Psychology : A Very Short Introduction
Homicide : Trends, Causes and Prevention Homicide refers to the act of killing another human being. There are many types of homicide, including criminal homicide, when a person purposely, knowingly, recklessly or negligently causes the death of another (i.e., murder and manslaughter), and there is non-criminal homicide in which the law allows homicide by allowing certain defenses to criminal charges (i.e, self-defense). This book examines new developments in this field.
Playing with Dynamite : A Personal Approach to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Perversions, Violence, and Criminality Estela Welldon brings together a generous selection derived from her many literary gems, in which she illustrates her groundbreaking-and sometimes explosive-studies of female sexuality and perversions, perverse transference, malignant bonding, perverse motherhood, and the impact upon children of viewing domestic violence.
The Criminal Triad : Psychosocial Development of the Criminal Personality Type The author presents and then deconstructs his own unique formulation of the internal deterrence system, and looks specifically at the psychosocial development of each of the proposed component parts—attachment, morality, and identity.
The Dilemma of the Sexual Offender This second edition will act as the antidote to the voyeurism that addictively feeds on the dramatizations that caricature the victims, assailants, and predicaments that constitute the dilemmas for the sexual offender.

Evolutionary Psychology

A Natural History of Human Thinking Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniqueness. Tomasello maintains that our prehuman ancestors, like today's great apes, were social beings who could solve problems by thinking. But they were almost entirely competitive, aiming only at their individual goals.
Adapting Minds : Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature In this provocative and lively book, David Buller examines in detail the major claims of evolutionary psychology -- the paradigm popularized by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate and by David Buss in The Evolution of Desire -- and rejects them all.
Cooperation and Its Evolution This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and utilize research tools that range from empirical survey to conceptual modeling, reflecting the rich diversity of work in the field. They explore a wide taxonomic range, concentrating on bacteria, social insects, and, especially, humans.
Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development, Second Edition considers the role of evolutionary theory in the field of developmental psychology to examine key topics of individual human development. This unique book fills an important gap in the literature, applying evolutionary models to human development by focusing on central development issues.
Evolutionary Psychology 101
Evolutionary Psychology As Maladapted Psychology In Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology, Robert Richardson takes a critical look at evolutionary psychology by subjecting its ambitious and controversial claims to the same sorts of methodological and evidential constraints that are broadly accepted within evolutionary biology.
The Rational Animal : How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think In this animated tour of the latest in behavioral science, psychologist Douglas T. Kenrick and marketing professor Vladas Griskevicius argue that while our decision making may seem superficially irrational, our misjudgments are the result of a psychological mismatch between ancestral drives for survival and our modern lifestyles. Ultimately, The Rational Animal offers an uplifting message—that while our brains may still house caveman impulses, we have evolved to be smarter than we think.
The Unpredictable Species : What Makes Humans Unique The Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation. In doing so, the book challenges the central claim of evolutionary psychology that we are locked into predictable patterns of behavior that were fixed by genes, and refutes the claim that language is innate.

Family Psychology

Cognitive and Neuroscientific Aspects of Human Love : A Guide for Marriage and Couples Counseling This book is about the science of human love, and the authors do a thorough and illuminating job discussing it. But to many people, wise and important as well as ordinary and work-a-day, love encompasses much more than any scientific treatment of it could offer. Having taught many courses over the years on love, marriage and family psychology, Dr. Emener and Dr. Lambos often have asked their students, both young and old, many newly graduated with their bachelor's degree and some who held doctorates in other subjects, what the term love meant to them.
Family Psychology : The Art of the Science The book embodies a series of five systematically and developmentally informed mini-books or manuals, critically examining the existing research in each area and illuminating new directions for future research.
Paths of Life : Six Case Histories Announcing an updated tenth anniversary edition of Paths of Life from the world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller.
Specialty Competencies in Couple and Family Psychology
Educating the Evolved Mind : Conceptual Foundations for an Evolutionary Educational Psychology In this volume, David Geary provides a comprehensive theory that brings children's education into the 21st century, and provides directions for the development of a new discipline, “evolutionary educational psychology.”

History of Psychology

A Hole in the Head : More Tales in the History of Neuroscience Neuroscientist Charles Gross has been interested in the history of his field since his days as an undergraduate. A Hole in the Head is the second collection of essays in which he illuminates the study of the brain with fascinating episodes from the past. This volume's tales range from the history of trepanation (drilling a hole in the skull) to neurosurgery as painted by Hieronymus Bosch to the discovery that bats navigate using echolocation.
Anxiety : A Short History Here Allan V. Horwitz, a sociologist of mental illness and mental health, narrates how this condition has been experienced, understood, and treated through the ages—from Hippocrates, through Freud, to today. Anxiety is rooted in an ancient part of the brain, and our ability to be anxious is inherited from species far more ancient than humans.
History of Psychology 101
Shrink : A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America
The Pathological Family : Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent.
The Story of Intellectual Disability : An Evolution of Meaning, Understanding, and Public Perception Accessible, engaging, and filled with contributions by the country's most celebrated disability experts, this fascinating volume skillfully captures how intellectual disability has been understood from prehistoric times to present.

Industrial Psychology

A Manager's Guide to Human Behavior This updated and revised edition of A Manager's Guide to Human Behavior will prepare managers to better understand, motivate, and focus the energies of individual employees and the collective energy of their work teams. Building on the content in the fourth edition, this updated course reexamines key theories and focuses on their practical application to typical management situations.
Deviant and Criminal Behavior in the Workplace Deviant and Criminal Behavior in the Workplace offers insights at the level of the individual employee and also sheds light on the role organizations themselves may play in fostering such criminal behavior. The volume considers psychological factors involved in theft and fraud, workplace violence, employee discrimination, and sexual harassment.
New Developments in Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches to Job Stress The objective of this series is to promote theory and research in the increasingly growing area of occupational stress, health and well being, and in the process, to bring together and showcase the work of the best researchers and theorists who contribute to this area.
People Styles at Work...And Beyond : Making Bad Relationships Good and Good Relationships Better The book reveals the strengths and weaknesses of four different people styles, providing practical techniques that work both on the job and off. Now including all new material on personal relationships, parenting, and more, this is the ultimate guide anyone can use to enhance even the most difficult relationships.
Psychology and Industrial Efficiency Commercial air flight, mass manufacturing, ergonomic design -- many cornerstones of twenty-first century life have been made possible through the study of industrial efficiency and human factors. In Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, pioneering researcher Hugo Munsterberg elucidates many of the core concepts of this field of study.
The Psychological Contract : Managing and Developing Professional Groups The book seeks to make sense of the organizational experiences of the professional worker by drawing on several areas of research, including the psychological contract, social identity theory, theories of career development and retention. The author uses real-life examples and short case studies to situate psychological theory within organizations.
The Role of Individual Differences in Occupational Stress and Well Being This volume provides a thorough and critical assessment of knowledge, and gaps in knowledge, in this engaging area of interest in the field of occupational stress. It is highly recommended reading for academic and government researchers in psychology, business, health and well being, education and sociology.

Moral Psychology

Being Amoral : Psychopathy and Moral Incapacity The volume proceeds from the basic assumption that psychopathy is not characterized by a single deficit--for example, the lack of empathy, as some philosophers have proposed -- but by a range of them. Thus contributors address specific deficits that include impairments in rationality, language, fellow-feeling, volition, evaluation, and sympathy.
Emotions : An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology In one of the most extensive investigations of the emotions ever published, Robert Roberts develops a novel conception of what emotions are and then applies it to a large range of types of emotion and related phenomena. In so doing he lays the foundations for a deeper understanding of our evaluative judgments, our actions, our personal relationships and our fundamental well-being.
Moral Perception We can see a theft, hear a lie, and feel a stabbing. These are morally important perceptions. But are they also moral perceptions--distinctively moral responses? In this book, Robert Audi develops an original account of moral perceptions, shows how they figure in human experience, and argues that they provide moral knowledge. He offers a theory of perception as an informative representational relation to objects and events
Moral Personhood : An Essay in the Philosophy of Moral Psychology
Moral Psychology : Free Will and Moral Responsibility This volume of Moral Psychology offers essays, commentaries, and replies by leading philosophers and scientists who explain and use empirical findings from psychology and neuroscience to illuminate old and new problems regarding free will and moral responsibility
Moral Realities : An Essay in Philosophical Psychology
Philosophy and the Good Life : Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics Can philosophy enable us to lead better lives through a systematic understanding of our human nature? John Cottingham's thought-provoking 1998 study examines the contrasting approaches to this problem found in three major phases of Western philosophy.
Practical Realism and Moral Psychology

Motivation

A Kick in the Attitude : An Energizing Approach to Recharge Your Team, Work, and Life
Everything You Need to Know About Motivational Factors This book describes what motivational factors influence employees to excel in their job, as opposed to just doing their job. You will learn the factors that work on the majority of people, as well as those that work on specific groups of people.
Goals and Goal Setting : Achieve Measurable Results While it can be difficult to set truly meaningful and motivational goals, it is one of the most essential steps to business success. Goals tell individuals and teams what needs to be accomplished, why it's a priority, and how to do it. Even more importantly, setting, working toward and achieving measurable goals is how we all grow personally while contributing to organizational success.
Motivate to Win : Learn How to Motivate Yourself and Others to Really Get Results In Motivate to Win Richard Denny shows how you can transform your dreams of success into reality by becoming more motivated. Motivation is essential for business survival as well as a rewarding personal life, so learning the skills and techniques to improve it is never time wasted.
Strings Attached : Untangling the Ethics of Incentives Ruth Grant shows that, like all other forms of power, incentives can be subject to abuse, and she identifies their legitimate and illegitimate uses. Grant offers a history of the growth of incentives in early twentieth-century America, identifies standards for judging incentives, and examines incentives in four areas--plea bargaining, recruiting medical research subjects, International Monetary Fund loan conditions, and motivating students.
The Need to Speed : A Study of Behavior and Motivation

Personality

Personality 101
Personality and Individual Differences : Current Directions This book, with contributions from leading researchers, writers and practitioners from Australia, New Zealand and Asia, and further afield, is a snapshot of where we are currently. It demonstrates emphases on theoretical models and on clinical, forensic, organisational, crosscultural and cross-ideological research.
Personality and Individual Differences : Theory, Assessment, and Application
Personality Theories : Critical Perspectives Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives is the groundbreaking, final text written by Albert Ellis, long considered the founder of cognitive behavioral therapies. The book provides students with supporting and contradictory evidence for the development of personality theories through time.
Personality, Stress, and Coping : Implications for Education Nearly all chapters in this volume are contemporary original research on personality, stress, and coping in educational contexts. The research spans primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
The Psychology of the Person This new title, from a distinguished psychoanalyst, will inspire both those in the psychoanalytic field, and the general reader.' In this book I attempt to sketch out a 'psychology of the person'. The definition of 'person' implies that no two people, even identical twins, are the same. Although this is obvious (and no sensible person would quarrel with such a view), yet many terms are used that imply that there is a sameness between two or more people

Psychoanalysis

Consultations in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy In the course of addressing the challenges of conducting assessment consultations in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, this book engages with many technical as well as theoretical issues. It includes chapters on the history of psychoanalytic approaches to assessing patients, assessments within a public health setting, the process of psychotherapeutic engagement, the special cases of trauma and serious disturbance, and research that may inform approaches to consultation - all with a firm grounding in clinical practise.
Contact with the Depths This book explores ways we make contact with the depths in ourselves and each other. We are deeply moved by contact we make with life, yet also puzzled by a need to break or lose contact, and often suffer wounds by failure of contact to be born. Our sense of contact is tenacious and fragile, subject to deformations, plagued with a sense of jeopardy
Families in Transformation : A Psychonalytic Approach Families in Transformation is a collection of essays by eminent scholars on the psychoanalysis of couples and families and provides a wide ranging and articulated picture of the current situation in Europe.
Fanaticism in Psychoanalysis : Upheavals in the Institutions Dr Utrilla Robles examines how a discipline, in this case psychoanalysis, can be manipulated to its detriment. She explains the disquieting processes that take place, which impede the development of psychoanalysis
Independent Psychoanalysis Today Independent Psychoanalysis Today is a book that shows how contemporary Independent psychoanalysts think and work. There are three themes to the book: Independent thinking including the theory of technique; exploration of clinical concepts and demonstrations of ways of working by some of the most prominent Independent clinicians practicing today; finally, the evolution and enduring impact of Independent ideas and the influence of past Independents on present ways of working.
Interview and Indicators in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy The book deals with initial interviews in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, suggesting the idea of special'indicators'.
Lost in Cognition : Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to psychoanalysis.
Making Our Ideas Clear : Pragmatism in Psychoanalysis This book brings pragmatic theory and praxis into dialogue with contemporary psychodynamic ideas, practitioners, and clinical issues. Generally considered as a historical footnote to psychoanalysis, the chapters in this volume demonstrate pragmatism's continued relevance for contemporary thought.
The One and the Many : Relational Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis This book is a of papers written between 2002 and 2012 on the subject of group analysis and relational psychoanalysis. From the author's point of view, these two disciplines are really the two sides of the same coin, since both explore and use therapeutically what happens in the interphase between individual and collective ways of existence.
Paradigms in Psychoanalysis : An Integration This book aims at making explicit the scientific theories, termed paradigms, that the author has found useful in psychoanalysis. It lists nine paradigms: genetics, neurobiology, attachment theory, infant research, trauma, their relational model, the family system, the socio-cultural level, and prehistory. These nine paradigms are presented in as many chapters.
Psychoanalysis and Complexity
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society This collection embraces a range of lively and informed discussions of important themes in contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. The chapters grow out of presentations at “Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society,” a conference organised by the Centre for Psychoanalysis, Middlesex University, for post-graduate students and research fellows. The essays demonstrate that the future of psychoanalytic studies is full of promise.
Psychoanalytic Listening : Methods, Limits, and Innovations
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy : A Handbook
Psychoanalytic Theory : Perspectives, Techniques and Social Implications
Stories From the Bog : On Madness, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis This collection of short stories and essays call into question the medical-scientific narrative, its understandings of psychoanalysis and madness, and the identity, purpose and ethics that flow from and sustain its narrative. These stories are gathered from meetings with people on in-patient units and in private practice. Emphasis is placed on the centrality of the Freudian unconscious in the process of listening, understanding and responding in the analytic discourse.
The Clinic and the Context : Historical Essays This book comprises a collection of the distinguished psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's papers ranging from 'Psychoanalysis and Social Democracy',' Civilization and its Dream of Contentment', 'Reflections on Women and Psychoanalysis' and 'Psychobiography and Character Study'. Each essay is of value in its own right, and the collection together will be found to make an important contribution to our understanding of the history of psychoanalysis.
The Clinical Application of the Theory of Psychoanalysis
The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories : Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis In this book, however, Vesa Talvitie approaches the issue from the perspective of the foundations of behavioural sciences in general. He studies the nature of psychological terms and explanations, and the relation between neuroscience and psychology.
The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis In this book, Jamieson Webster argues that the life and death of psychoanalysis hinges on the question of desire itself, and attempts to bring this question back to the center of psychoanalytic thought and practice.
The Second Century of Psychoanalysis : Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action This book focuses on the question of the theory of therapeutic action underlying the multiple perspectives in psychoanalysis.
Theory of Psychoanalytical Practice : A Relational Process Approach This book makes an original contribution to the study of the psychoanalytic process from a relational point of view, and at the same time serves as a textbook on the theory of technique. It provides a general exposition of the theory of psychoanalytic practice from a process perspective that emphasizes the analytic relationship, the dyadic nature of the psychoanalytic situation, and the impact of unconscious interaction between its two parties, and also includes the authors personal point of view and contributions on the subject.
What Do Our Terms Mean? : Explorations Using Psychoanalytic Theories and Concepts Theoretical and clinical progress in psychoanalysis continues to develop new concepts and to reconsider old ones, often in contradiction with each other. By confronting and opening these debates, we might find points of convergence but also divergences that cannot be reconciled; the ensuing tension among these should be sustained in a pluralistic dialogue.

Social Psychology

An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach : Freedom and Agency
Empathy : From Bench to Bedside The contributors discuss the evolution of empathy within the mammalian brain and the development of empathy in infants and children; the relationships among empathy, social behavior, compassion, and altruism; the neural underpinnings of empathy; cognitive versus emotional empathy in clinical practice; and the cost of empathy
From Conflict to Recognition : Moving Multiculturalism Forward
I'll Have What She's Having : Mapping Social Behavior
Islands of Privacy In Islands of Privacy, Christena Nippert-Eng pries open the blinds, giving us an intimate view into the full range of ordinary people s sometimes extraordinary efforts to preserve the border between themselves and the rest of the world.
Justice This volume brings together sociologists and psychologists who address issues pertaining to distributive, procedural, and interactional justice using a range of methodologies. Substantively, authors grapple with issues relevant to the processes underlying justice evaluations, including motivations, perceptions, identities, ideologies and exclusionary practices.
Mindshaping : A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition
Most Underappreciated : 50 Prominent Social Psychologists Describe Their Most Unloved Work Fifty of today's most prominent social psychologists describe their scholarship, focusing on the human and personal side of the'life of the mind.'Each author spotlights his or her least appreciated work, and discusses theory, methods, findings, or application.
Social Psychology This second edition presents the core fundamentals of the subject in 11 manageable chapters while maintaining the book's scientific integrity. The research methods students need to understand, interpret, and analyze social psychological research are emphasized throughout.
Social Psychology and Health This book applies the most recent social psychological research to health psychology, arguing for an integrative approach to interventions.
Societal Approaches in Social Psychology This book deals with the «social side» of social psychology from diverse points of view. Several European authors analyse this topic from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. In particular, special attention is given to socio-historical frameworks, ideologies, and normative and cultural meaning systems in order to develop a psychosocial understanding of the phenomena under study. The work is composed of two parts.
The Man Who Shocked the World : The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram
The Primate Mind Prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, ethologists, and primatologists from around the world take a bottom-up approach to primate social behavior by investigating how the primate mind connects with other minds and exploring the shared neurological basis for imitation, joint action, and empathy as well as their evolutionary foundations.
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. The social neuroscience approach to the subject is premised on the idea that studying empathy at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, and social) will lead to a more comprehensive understanding of how other people's thoughts and feelings can affect our own thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

Related Subjects

See also Childhood Development, Communication, and Counseling in this Subject Guide.