Peter Berger is arguably one of the best known living sociologists. Since the 1960s he has been writing on many aspects of the contemporary social scene, and several of his published works are considered classics. This memoir explains not only how he became a social scientist but also the many adventures that his calling led to.
Neuroquirks of a Codependent Killer, or Just Give Me a Shot at Loving
Carole Alden, a brilliant, yet eccentric mother of five, had a deep and abiding need to help society's outcasts. But Carole's desire to help others extended beyond her meagre resources, even beyond the children she insisted she loved, yet sometimes neglected.
What are the personality, motivational, and intellectual traits of good (and bad) leaders? How do effective leaders behave and what kinds of people follow them? How is leadership influenced by gender, cultural differences, and social networks? This title provides answers to these questions.
A concise, reader-friendly introduction to an important but often underappreciated topic in modern psychology, this explains the role of comedy, jokes, and wit in the sciences and discusses why they are so important to understand.
Trouble in Mind is an introduction to psychiatry that provides an original perspective on mental life, explaining the normal processes that become disrupted in mental illness. Dean F. MacKinnon offers a biological focus on the mental nature of human anguish, unreason, disability, and selfdestruction.Trouble in Mind offers alternatives to the ......
Suitable as a resource when counseling patients from trauma-striken groups, this title offers cost-effective, small and large group approaches for people suffering from PTSD, socio-political oppression, and other social problems. It extends the principles and practices of psychodrama and sociodrama to include music, painting, dance, and ritual.
Provides a history of the development of the psychological thought in the field of counselling psychology. This volume traces the origins of counselling psychology in the Guidance Movement and the influence of humanitarian concerns from the Progressive era. It is useful for students, as well as psychologists intending to work as counsellors.
This important and innovative book explores a new direction in psychoanalytic thought that can expand and deepen clinical practice. Relational psychoanalysis diverges in key ways from the assumptions and practices that have traditionally characterized psychoanalysis. At the same time, it preserves, and even extends, the profound understanding of ......
