
ilość książek w kategorii: 114967
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Doing Good?: Psychotherapy Out of Its Depth
ISBN: 9780192628688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Over the last few decades, psychotherapy and counseling have become mo re and more popular, with many people turning to therapists in the hop e of finding a better, happier, more fulfilling life. In this cogently argued and beautifully written book, Peter Lomas argues that as psych otherapy enters the mainstream, therapists have become dependent on th e technical aspects of their profession at the expense of the many mor al issues involved. In fact, Lomas believes therapists have grown so a fraid of moralizing or of departing from what he views as a spurious s cientific neutrality that the...
Over the last few decades, psychotherapy and counseling have become mo re and more popular, with many people turning to therapists in the hop e of fin...
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553,72 |
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Counselling in Primary Care
ISBN: 9780192631565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The authors include practitioners and academics, service providers and counselling clients, supporters and skeptics. Overall they offer a co mprehensive and thought provoking guide to those responsible for commi ssioning, working with providing counslling services in a health servi ce that seeks to be increasingly primary care led and evidence based. This book discusses the establishment and evaluation of counselling se rvices in primary care and the need to consider the most appropriate f orms of service for different groups. It describes the specialist coun selling services that are...
The authors include practitioners and academics, service providers and counselling clients, supporters and skeptics. Overall they offer a co mprehensi...
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346,40 |
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Integration in Psychotherapy: Models and Methods
ISBN: 9780192632371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Psychotherapy is growing and changing rapidly, and much of this development is integrative in nature.
Integration in psychotherapy can mean many things, from the sequential or simultaneous use of different established techniques, through the adoption of specific hybrid therapies, to the flexibility that is found in the practice of mature clinicians, who consciously or unconsciously adopt techniques or theories borrowed from other disciplines. This book explores and expounds on these integrative currents as they affect the spectrum of contemporary psychological therapy. In section one,... Psychotherapy is growing and changing rapidly, and much of this development is integrative in nature.
Integration in psychotherapy can mean many th... |
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472,19 |
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The Psychology of Bulimia Nervosa: A Cognitive Perspective
ISBN: 9780192632654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive review of the key psychological aspects of Bulimia Nervosa, along with associated problems, psychological theories and different treatment approaches. Drawing on research and theory from cognitive psychology and non-clinical areas, The Psychology of Bulimia Nervosa provides an original and challenging perspective on this debilitating condition. It questions assumptions about cognition and the role of standard cognitive therapy in treating the disease, suggests novel treatments, and outlines areas for further research activity.
This book provides a comprehensive review of the key psychological aspects of Bulimia Nervosa, along with associated problems, psychological theories ...
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495,48 |
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The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution
ISBN: 9780192802279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nicholas Humphrey's writings about the evolution of the mind have done much to set the agenda for contemporary psychology. Here, in a series of riveting essays, he invites us to 'take another look' at a variety of the central and not-so-central issues: the evolution of consciousness, the nature of the self, multiple personality disorder, the placebo effect, cave art, religious miracles, medieval animal trials, the seductions of dictatorship, and much more.
Nicholas Humphrey's writings about the evolution of the mind have done much to set the agenda for contemporary psychology. Here, in a series of riveti...
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139,03 |
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The Meme Machine
ISBN: 9780192862129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation: stories, fashions, inventions, recipes, songs, ways of plowing a field or throwing a baseball or making a sculpture. The meme is also one of the most important--and controversial--concepts to emerge since The Origin of the Species appeared nearly 150 years ago.
In The Meme Machine Susan Blackmore boldly asserts: "Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our... What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to...
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73,25 |
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Foundations of Psychopathology
ISBN: 9780195011371 / Angielski / Miękka / 1966 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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229,88 |
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The History and Politics of Community Mental Health
ISBN: 9780195029567 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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125,06 |
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Integrations of Clinical and Social Psychology
ISBN: 9780195030518 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,75 |
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Life Histories and Psychobiography
ISBN: 9780195034868 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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669,80 |
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Response Times
ISBN: 9780195036428 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 577 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Written by a distinguished psychologist, this book is an integrated treatment of the mathematical theory of human response times. Professor Luce provides a comprehensive, well-balanced, and clear review of the experimental data and puts forth the relevance of the hazard function, a novel and important approach he and his colleagues have developed. Since measurements of response times are widely used by experimental psychologists as one approach to distinguishing among theories of intellectual functioning, the conceptual arguments Professor Luce brings to bear on mathematical models of...
Written by a distinguished psychologist, this book is an integrated treatment of the mathematical theory of human response times. Professor Luce provi...
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926,43 |
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Fears, Phobias and Rituals: Panic, Anxiety, and Their Disorders
ISBN: 9780195039276 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book draws on fields as diverse as biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, psychology, psychiatry, and ethology, to form a fascinating synthesis of information on the nature of fear and of panic and anxiety disorders. Dr. Marks offers both a detailed discussion of the clinical aspects of fear-related syndromes and a broad exploration of the sources and mechanisms of fear and defensive behavior. Dealing first with normal fear, he establishes a firm, scientific basis for understanding it. He then presents a thorough analysis of the development, symptoms and treatment of fear-related...
This book draws on fields as diverse as biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, psychology, psychiatry, and ethology, to form a fascinating synthesis ...
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397,65 |
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The Psychobiology of Behavioral Development
ISBN: 9780195039412 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this textbook explores both the psychological and biological influences on the development of behavior, using data from both animal and human subjects to support principles and hypotheses. The arrangement of the book is both chronological and topical, commencing with embryonic behavior and the influence of prenatal exposure to hormones and teratological agents and moving on to postnatal maternal influences and early stimulation. Play, learning and memory, and finally weaning and puberty complete this volume.
This comprehensive work... Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this textbook explores both the psychological and biological influences on the development ...
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1210,23 |
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Freud for Historians
ISBN: 9780195042283 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Is psychoanalysis a legitimate tool for helping us understand the past? Many traditional historians have answered with an emphatic no, greeting the introduction of Freud into historical study with responses ranging from condescending skepticism to outrage. Now Peter Gay, one of America's leading historians, builds an eloquent case for "history informed by psychoanalysis" and offers an impressive rebuttal to the charges of the profession's anti-Freudians. In this book, Gay takes on the opposition's arguments, defending psychoanalysis as a discipline that can enhance social, economic, and...
Is psychoanalysis a legitimate tool for helping us understand the past? Many traditional historians have answered with an emphatic no, greeting the in...
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153,01 |
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Ethical Issues in the Psychotherapies
ISBN: 9780195044461 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mental health professionals face many complex questions in the course of their work with clients and patients. Among the most difficult are dilemmas that involve ethical issues. This book presents a forthright exploration of these dilemmas and the ethical considerations they raise. Drawing on extensive interviews, the author identifies common ethical problems that practitioners encounter. What happens, for example, when personal interests intrude into therapy? How can the therapist make an accurate assessment of his or her appropriateness as a care provider for a particular patient? What...
Mental health professionals face many complex questions in the course of their work with clients and patients. Among the most difficult are dilemmas t...
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171,64 |
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Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status
ISBN: 9780195049459 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Is it better to be a big frog in a small pond or a small frog in a big pond? Here, economist Robert H. Frank argues that concerns about status permeate and profoundly alter a broad range of human behavior. He shows how status considerations affect the salaries people earn, the way they spend them, and even many of the laws, regulations, and cultural norms they adopt. Provocative and insightful, this book is sure to spark widespread and lively debate in classrooms and boardrooms alike.
Is it better to be a big frog in a small pond or a small frog in a big pond? Here, economist Robert H. Frank argues that concerns about status permeat...
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584,19 |
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Profile Analysis: Auditory Intensity Discrimination
ISBN: 9780195049480 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book brings together recent research on the ability of human listeners to discern changes in the shape of complex acoustic spectra. It systematically discusses issues surrounding the discrimination of a change in acoustic intensity and the physiological mechanisms responsible for this process. The book also proposes two new theories which attempt to explain spectral shape discrimination on the basis of more elementary auditory processes. The research described here is helping scientists gain a better understanding of auditory skills such as those involved in listening to music and...
This book brings together recent research on the ability of human listeners to discern changes in the shape of complex acoustic spectra. It systematic...
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374,35 |
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Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being
ISBN: 9780195051377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. All human beings have spontaneous needs for happiness, self-understanding, and love. In Feeling Good: The Science of Well Being, psychiatrist Robert Cloninger describes a way to coherent living that satisfies these strong basic needs through growth in the uniquely human gift of self-awareness. The scientific findings that led Dr. Cloninger to expand his own views in a stepwise manner during 30 years of research and clinical experience are clearly presented so that readers can consider the validity of his viewpoint for themselves. The principles of well-being are based on a...
All human beings have spontaneous needs for happiness, self-understanding, and love. In Feeling Good: The Science of Well Being, psychiatrist...
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295,14 |
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Visual Pattern Analyzers
ISBN: 9780195051544 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The visual system must extract from the light that falls on the retina meaningful information about what is where in our environment. At an early stage it analyzes the incoming sensory data along many dimensions of pattern vision, e.g. spatial frequency, orientation, velocity, eye-of-origin. Visual Pattern Analyzers provides a definitive account of current knowledge about this stage of visual processing. Nowhere else can such a comprehensive summarty of the lower level pattern analyzers be found. The book's emphasis is on psychophysical experiments measuring the detection and...
The visual system must extract from the light that falls on the retina meaningful information about what is where in our environment. At an early stag...
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406,96 |
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Gay, Straight, and In-Between
ISBN: 9780195054071 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The diverse historical, cultural, and physiological influences that determine sexual orientation are the focus of this fascinating work by one of the foremost investigators of human sexuality. Drawing on case studies from his sexology clinic, the author explores such topics as prenatal and postnatal history, gender differentiation in childhood, and postpubertal hormonal theories. In so doing, he addresses the many enigmas of sexual orientation: What makes some children grow up to be homosexual, while others become heterosexual or bisexual? To what degree is gender identity determined before...
The diverse historical, cultural, and physiological influences that determine sexual orientation are the focus of this fascinating work by one of the ...
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281,17 |