Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Education & Training

Over the past century psychoanalysis has gone on to establish training institutes, professional societies, accreditation procedures, and models of education, thus bringing into uneasy alliance all three impossible pursuits. In Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education, Emanuel Berman turns his attention to the current status and future prospects of this daunting project.

Berman is ideally suited to tackle the impossibility of psychoanalytic education. A graduate of two psychoanalytic institutes, one in Israel and one in America, he has devoted much...

G is for Genes shows how a dialogue between geneticists and educationalists can have beneficial results for the education of all children--and can also benefit schools, teachers, and society at large.

• Draws on behavioral genetic research from around the world, including the UK-based Twins' Early Development Study (TEDS), one of the largest twin studies in the world
• Offers a unique viewpoint by bringing together genetics and education, disciplines with a historically difficult relationship
• Shows that genetic influence is not the same as genetic...

Much of the fear and uncertainty surrounding recessions is the adverse impact they will have on organizations and society. However, recessions are nothing new and past experience has shown that once countries have pulled through, some companies and individuals have not only survived, but thrived. They often emerge stronger, fitter, and better performing.

Developing Resilient Organizations argues that one of the fundamental keys to survival in these circumstances is resilience or mental toughness. The book addresses a wide variety of organizational issues including motivation,...

• Represents a new research area with direct relevance to current educational practices and policy making
• Features individual chapters written collaboratively by educationalist, psychologists, and neuroscientists to ensure maximum clarity and relevance to a broad range of readers
• Edited by a trio of leading academics with extensive...

• Represents a new research area with direct relevance to current educational practices and policy making
• Features individual chapters written collaboratively by educationalist, psychologists, and neuroscientists to ensure maximum clarity and relevance to a broad range of readers
• Edited by a trio of leading academics with extensive...