In recent years, Peter N. Stearns has established himself as a historian of American emotional life. Now Stearns reveals the dichotomy at the heart of the national character: a self-indulgent hedonism and the famed American informality on the one hand, and a repressiveness on the other.
Often hours and days telescope as life seems to be flitting past, whilst at other times the minutes drag by. This work attempts to ascertain how phenomena such as suffering, violence, danger, boredom, exhilaration, concentration, shock and novelty influence the perception of time.
Is repressed memory fact or fiction? What role should therapists play in determining the truth? Here, doctors, therapists, victims, researchers, and others search for answers in seven major areas: memory and its recovery, childhood trauma, repression and amnesia, hypnosis, suggestibility, professional problems and ethical issues.
Visual Thinkers, Gifted People With Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficul
Some of our most original intellects Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Lewis Carroll, and Winston Churchill relied heavily on visual modes of thought, processing information in terms of images instead of words or numbers. This work probes data on dyslexics to see how computers enhance the creative potential of visual thinkers.
This work offers a multiple code theory for psychoanalysis and cognitive science and explores the factors dividing the two. It reviews the historical role of theory in psychoanalysis and introduces current work in cognitive psychology.
This volume examines those aspects of the unconscious mind most relevant to the psychiatric practitioner, including unconscious processing of affective and traumatic experience, unconscious mechanisms in dissociative states and disorders, and cognitive approaches to dreaming and repression.
Integrates the motivational and cognitive approaches to shed new light on the control of goal-directed action, presenting new findings and suggesting strategies for future research. An introduction outlines themes in the field, and chapters examine issues such as sources and contents, affective inf
Written for students as well as for mental health practitioners, the book provides extensive overviews of the research areas and includes experiments for the reader to complete that illustrate the main point of the text.
