Why Talented People Quit and How to Get Them to Stay
We're currently confronting a once-in-a-century opportunity to create a future of work that's better for everyone. The corporate standard of extreme hours, sleep deprivation, and nonstop travel is dead. Tomorrow's successful businesses will be hybrid, flexible, and-as glimpsed in The Brain-Friendly Workplace-optimized for peak performance.
In this innovative book, cognitive psychologist Shelia Kennison presents an overview of research on how the human brain works when processing humour, drawing on the new and sophisticated brain imaging technologies that have enabled researchers and health professionals to expand their knowledge about how the brain works under different conditions.
How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what the mind is, how it grows, and how to promote healthy development and resilience. Daniel J. Siegel synthesizes cutting-edge research from multiple disciplines, ......
Thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition is more sophisticated, current, and complete than ever, while still retaining the book's signature emphasis on the 'essentials' of conditioning and learning.
The human brain is the most complex object in the universe. This book on the science of the brain explores the findings on a host of topics: Consciousness, unconsciousness, and brain death; Learning, memory, and role of genes; Motivation, aggression, and the range of emotions; The plasticity of the growing brain; and Mental illness and treatment.
Building on pioneering animal studies, and making use of noninvasive techniques for studying the human brain, research on the human amygdala has blossomed over the years. This volume brings together leading authorities to synthesize the knowledge on the amygdala and its role in psychological function and dysfunction.
This authoritative work, now thoroughly revised, has given thousands of clinicians, students, and researchers a state-of-the-art understanding of the human frontal lobes--the large brain region that plays a critical role in behavior, cognition, health, and disease. Leading experts from multiple disciplines address the anatomy and chemistry of the ......
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.
The Intersection of Poetry and Jungian Analysis Through Metaphor: In Creation You Are Created explores the relationship between Jungian psychoanalytical intervention and poetry, focusing on the emergence of metaphor, which occurs in both processes, as it happens in neuroscience and fairy tales.Metaphor is a mode of communication that forms a ......
