Theoretical Cross-Cultural, and Clinical Implications
Divided into five sections dealing with basic concepts of torture - violence and aggression, the torture syndrome, psychotherapeutic treatment, the cultural psychology of torture syndrome, and cultural psychological treatment, this book employs both classic psychoanalytic and cognitive- behavioral methods.
This biography of the psychologist Lightner Witmer, focuses on personal events and circumstances, but also offers insights into the professional, scientific, academic, and clinical aspects of his life. It also places Witmer's life in the economic and political context of his times.
Using the diaries, class notes, family correspondence, and love letters of William James, this biography explores his thought and life, his intellectual and creative development. It reveals the emotional dependence that James had on his wife Alice.
Uncovers data on sudden shifts in religious and non-religious belief. This title focuses on some amazing people, with unique stories to tell those who join a religious group in spite of being raised in non-religious families, and those who, at great personal cost, choose to leave religion in spite of having a deeply religious background.
Histories of the Divisions of the American Psychological Association, Vo
This volume is the second in the series presenting the histories of the divisions of the American Psychological Association in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the division structure.
What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. It shows how the production of literary texts begins and ends with narcissistic self-love.
This study examines what can be done to help those who have manic depressive disorders. It explores the subject from a wide range of viewpoints and contributors include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists and social workers. The text argues that it is vital that people with manic depressive disorders receive balanced and comprehensive ......
This book should be of value to practitioners and students of psychotherapy from a range of orientations including cognitive, dynamic and experiential, and to students and teachers of psychotherapy.
Boris Vinokurov, of Gostelradio in the former Soviet Union, was found insane, along with his wife and daughter, after he called prematurely for a bipartisan economy and communication system. The Ukranian mathematician Leonid Ivanovich Plyushch was arrested and diagnosed as schizophrenic with messianic and reformist delusions, after helping found ......
