Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCSDs) are conditions that, while not meeting diagnostic criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), share many similar symptoms. This book reviews the latest research on OCD and OCSDs and provides evidence-based guidance for assessment and treatment.
This book surveys the state of the science and practice of today's couple and family therapy, looking beyond single models of treatment to instead present an integrative view of the field and its methods of practice.
While many people view love as a nebulous concept that is difficult to study scientifically, there exists a substantial psychological discipline that studies intimate relations. This incisive text provides a comprehensive tour of both classic and contemporary theories and research on the how and why of human love.
Explores the multifaceted nature of this highly subjective construct. Contributors to this groundbreaking edited volume examine the phenomenological, empirical, and clinical aspects of people's reactions to the loss of meaning, to uncertainty, and to meaning violations. The book concludes with a scholarly, clinical chapter on how psychotherapy can ......
Describes the most current gestalt approaches to treating substance abuse and other self-medicating behaviours by a leading practitioner and scholar in the field. It is based on the gestalt view of the self-medicating dynamic as one of pattern repetition and difficulty overcoming rigid patterns of response to sensory experience and life's routine ......
Assessing the problems and potentials facing African Americans, this book argues that in order for achieving individuals to advance to the final step of freedom, they must break free from the mental shackles created by the black community.
Illustrates the parallels between anxiety in the individual and discord in civilisation. This book argues that the resistance to face hidden motives is what lies at the core of political and religious strife and individual anxiety. It also describes the meaning of anxiety, explains how the pathology arises, and how it can be relieved.
Presents an examination of psychology's underlying principles, assumptions, and concepts. This title explores the following key issues: what do we mean by 'science' and can psychology be legitimately described as a science; what are the general principles that should be applied to any science; and, what is the role of mathematics in psychology.
The Search for Truth and Agency in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychol
Presents an argument that any philosophy of psychology that in principle precludes the possibility of objective psychological knowledge and truth also undermines an agency founded on rational interpretive grounds. This work offers a critique concerning psychology's fragmentation mount and attempts at unification proliferate.
Part of the ""History of Psychology in Autobiography"" series, this book takes personal and intellectual journeys of nine eminent people whose research has psychology into the 21st century.
Bringing together leading scholars and investigators, the Handbook presents the influential theories and research findings that collectively are helping to define the emerging field of experimental existential psychology.
An exciting contemporary thinker considers what consciousness is like and how it can be achieved. Traces the development of consciousness from the late nineteenth century onwards, including Ouspensky, Steiner, Bergson and Barfield.
Offering a primer for practitioners and researchers, this volume strives to incorporate assessment of human strengths, resources and fulfilments into their work. Contributors examine the scientific underpinnings and practical application of measures of optimism, faith and other emotions.
Evaluating the careers of eminent scholars and practitioners, this volume identifies and describes particularly important works, pinpoints specific attributes that led to great impact and offers practical advice to students and professionals striving to achieve substantial impact in their own work.
Despite its avowed shift away from behaviouristic ways of thinking, psychology today, according to Rychlak, is essentially mechanistic. But while biological and automatic processes clearly have vital uses, they are unable to fully account for such phenomena as free will and agency.
A practicing psychotherapist lays the foundation for a truly spiritual psychology and examines the principles of Freud and Jung. Steiner claims that because Freud did not recognize the spirit, the human soul experience was reduced to subjective personal history.