Love and Its Vicissitudes by Gregorio Kohon; André Green
$10.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
In Love and its Vicissitudes André Green and Gregorio Kohon draw on their extensive clinical experience to produce an insightful contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of love.In Part I, 'To Love or Not to Love - Eros and Eris', André Green addresses some important questions: What is essential ...Show more
Far from the Tree - Parents, Children and the Search for Identity HB by Andrew Solomon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression "comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In "Far from the Tree, "Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find prof ...Show more
Happiness - The TM Program of Psychiatry and Enlightenment by Harold H. Bloomfield; Robert B. Kory
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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
A Life in Pieces - The Harrowing True Story of a Woman with Multiple Personality Disorder by Richard Baer
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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good
In 1989 a woman named Karen showed up at author and psychiatrist Richard Baer?s practice, terribly frightened and at breaking point. She explained that her husband beat her, her mother stole from her; she was in tremendous physical pain and wanted to die. Within a few sessions she also revealed that her ...Show more
Living at the Boundary by Laura Perls; Joe Wysong (ed.)
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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
The Lucifer Effect - How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. He challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will nev ...Show more
Mindblindness - An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind by Simon Baron-Cohen
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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
In Mindblindness, Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we mindread all the time, effortlessly, automatically, and mostly unconsciously. It is the natural way in which we interpret, predict, and participate in social behavior and communicati ...Show more
Erik H. Erikson - The Growth of His Work by Robert Coles
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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Acts of Meaning - Four Lectures on Mind and Culture by Jerome Bruner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Jerusalem Lectures | Reading Level: new
Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor," has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we gras ...Show more
The Future of Psychoanalysis by Johannes Cremerius (editor); Jeremy Gaines (Translator)
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Category: Psychology | Series: Psychoanalysis and Society Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
A century years after the foundation of psychoanalysis it is necessary to re-evaluate its position in the modern world and think about its future. The editor of this volume is guided by the conviction that psychoanalysis as a science of man is not only an important therapeutic procedure whose innovation ...Show more
Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder by Christopher Green; Kit Chee
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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) refers to a cluster of behaviours (including inattentiveness, impulsiveness and overactivity) that cause a child to underachieve academically and behave poorly despite having a good intellect and quality parenting. This text provides an overview of the condition.