Laughter: A Scientific Investigation by Robert R. Provine
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Do men and women laugh at the same things?Is laughter contagious?Has anyone ever really died laughing?Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on l ...Show more
Meeting Freud's Family by Paul Roazen
$16.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
In this book Roazen reaches back to the beginning of his career in the 1960s, when he interviewed more than 70 people who had known Sigmund Freud personally, among them nearly a dozen members of Freud's family. These included three of Freud's children - Oliver, Mathilda and Anna - and several in-laws, n ...Show more
The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis by Phyllis Grosskurth
$15.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Traces the history of Freud's secret committee, designed to insure the continuing existence of psychoanalysis.
Psychology For A Better World - Strategies to Inspire Sustainability by Niki Harre
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Psychology for a Better World is for people who believe it is worth trying to make a world in which both our species and the ecological systems we are part of can flourish. The book is based on the latest research in psychology and is jam-packed with action strategies.It offers new ways to think about ...Show more
Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy by Nina Sutton; David Sharp (Translator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good
Who was Bruno Bettelheim? The brilliant discoverer of a unique method of treating psychotic children, justly acclaimed the world over? Or the brutal and despotic bully who was denounced after his death by former students and patients? In her quest to understand this puzzling and powerful man, Nina Sutto ...Show more
Physical Activity and Psychological Well-Being by Stuart J.H. Biddle, Kenneth R. Fox, Stephen H. Boutcher (Eds.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good
The 'feel-good' effect of physical activity is widely reported among participants. Physical Activity and Psychological Well-Being represents a research consensus on the relationship between physical activity and aspects of mental health, providing an overview of the case for the role of exercise in the ...Show more
Folk Psychology: The Theory of Mind Debate by Martin Davies and Tony Stone (Eds.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Readings in Mind and Language Ser.
Many philosophers and psychologists argue that normal adult human beings possess a primitive or 'folk' psychological theory. Recently, however, this theory has come under challenge from the simulation alternative . This alternative view says that human bings are able to predict and explain each others' ...Show more
Dreaming as Cognition by Cavallero, Corrado and David Foulkes (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: Very Good