De gruyter handbook of the psychology of terrorism

This handbook offers readers an overview, including policy implications, of research into the psychology of radicalization, terrorism, and response to terrorism. The Editors, themselves leading terrorism scholars, introduce psychological theories of terrorist behavior, examining both risk and pro...

Know yourself

By striving to know ourselves, we can discover greater peace, freedom, and purpose.An introspective self-help guide that invites readers to embark on a journey of self-discovery. Exploring how our childhood experiences, hidden emotions, and unconscious patterns shape our feelings and relationship...

Assessment in counseling

This best-selling text explains the basic principles of psychological assessment and measurement and guides students and practitioners in the appropriate selection, interpretation, and communication of test results. Danica Hays introduces more than 150 assessment instruments used to evaluate ment...

Coparticipant psychoanalysis

Traditionally, two clinical models have been dominant in psychoanalysis: the classical paradigm, which views the analyst as an objective mirror, and the participant-observation paradigm, which views the analyst as an intersubjective participant-observer. According to John Fiscalini, an evolutiona...

Law and justice as seen on tv

Law and Justice as Seen on TV examines the impact, significance, and social and political problems raised by the enormous onslaught of law-related television programming, both fiction and nonfiction, in the years since the rise of live televised trials as major media events. The book weaves toget...

Becoming advocate

Features the first study of the parent-led autism advocacy movement in Portugal, contributing to contextualizing its emergence and understanding the changing discourses of disability politics in the country. Appropriate for readers interested in medical anthropology, social movements, an...

Individually ourselves

Individually Ourselves addresses the process of identity and community building through an examination of individuality and group dynamics during a formative juncture of life (based on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school).

Hairy hippies and bloody butchers

First book-length study of Greenpeace campaign against Norwegian whaling that I am aware of In-depth insight into the Greenpeace organization and the anti-whaling campaign with lots of insider accounts quoted Systems theory has so far not been used a lot to analyze social movements a...

Dreaming and the imagination

Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreami...

Children in the holocaust and its aftermath

The interviews conducted with Holocaust child survivors and war children were done in the 80s and early 90s therefore these are the first interviews many gave The collection also includes interviews conducted immediately after liberation Various qualitative analytic methods are used ...

Towards an anthropology of psychology

Challenging contemporary enthusiasm for interdisciplinarity, the book calls for rethinking ‘psychology’ as an anthropological inquiry. It provides ethnographic studies of talking therapies, subjects, institutions, professionals and psychological persuasions, suggesting how anthropology can impr...

Practices of care in an italian eating disorder clinic

The first book-length qualitative study of eating disorder treatment in a European country with a national healthcare system. The first book-length ethnography that brings together the voices of patients, healthcare professionals and families during and after treatment. The first eth...

Traumatic pasts in asia

Traumatic Pasts in Asia extends Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, explores how these new terrains of investigation inform and enrich earlier understandings.

Difference and sameness in schools

Through eleven case studies across Europe, this book looks at the handling of difference and sameness in European schools from an anthropological perspective. It offers insights into the diversity of and within these central institutions and, in a broader sense, European society itself.

Silent dilemmas of project managers

A fastidious investigation into the nature of self-identity, Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers uses the context of project management to challenge the perceived separation of objective experience from subjective perception, highlighting how these adopted self-notions act as the object of exis...

The social life of achievement

Innovatively explains the multiple effects of "achievement" Brings together cutting-edge insights into politics, psychology, ethics and materiality Advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology Promotes "achievement" as a moment of cultural invention, and...

Viktor frankl's search for meaning

First objective look at Viktor Frankl’s life. Covers his entire life from 1905 to 1996. Has original biographical information and incorporates official biographies. Insight into the Holocaust as well as the history of psychology.

Journeys into madness

At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud’s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this ‘territory’ in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art wo...

Ten things every child with autism wishes you knew

WINNER OF Independent Publishers Book Awards Gold Medal for Nonfiction Series(with Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew) Grand Prize for Instruction and Insight, Chanticleer International Book Awards Grand Prize short list, Eric Hoffer Book Awards The 20th Anniversary Edition of Te...

A state of fear

Starting a much needed conversation about the ethics and impacts of the behavioural psychology, manipulation and the strategy of fear that is so deeply embedded in government.

The legacy of pierre janet

The Legacy of Pierre Janet: Theory, Method, and Clinical Practice aims to bring Pierre Janet’s thought back to the center of contemporary psychological debate through a critical and selective re-examination of his most significant ideas.

Haptics and perception

In a digital world, it is our sight that is persistently stimulated. But what about our other senses? How does the touch stimuli impact upon the experience of consuming products, such as journalistic content or even coffee? This book provides an overview of key research related to sensory marketi...

Possessions

How access is replacing ownership—and changing who we are."You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy. Whatever you want you'll rent." That was the World Economic Forum's number one prediction for 2030, made back in 2016. The timing might be slightly off, but it's undeniably true that ownership is o...

Playology

This book offers a sharp, timely exploration of how digital technologies and global media reshape the ways we think, communicate, and understand ourselves. As multinational corporations increasingly mediate our access to information, identity, and civic life, it examines the profound consequences...

Dyslexia

This first comprehensive history of dyslexia charts a journey that begins with Victorian medicine and continues to dyslexia becoming the most globally recognized specific learning difficulty. Philip Kirby and Margaret Snowling use a historical lens to explain current debates around dyslexia, and ...

The romance of transgression in canada

The rich and contradictory history of Canadian cinema and video - queer, queered, and queering.

Mainstreaming porn

Mainstreaming Porn reveals how sexual norms, practices, and desires are shaped by corporate platforms such as Pornhub in the same way that social media has affected society at large. It is a powerful argument for law and policy responses to the impact of monopolistic, corporate porn platforms on ...

Attitudes of play

Gabor Csepregi presents a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring attitudes of play to even serious and mundane situations. He offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, examines the skills that support them, and provides diverse examples.

Integrity, second edition

How to restore integrity so that social values can be upheld and family welfare strengthened.

The experience of meaning

A provocative exploration of the experience of meaning, and a clarion call for its recovery in contemporary culture.

Imperial paradoxes

At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and...

The weariness of the self

A history of depression that describes the illness across social history and within psychiatry.

Towards constructive change in aboriginal communities

A new pathway for positive change in response to years of misdirected human and financial resource allocation.

Psychiatry disrupted

A provocative argument against conventional study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of "mental illness."

Doing harm

*Doing Harm *recounts a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field’s enmeshment in the “war on terror,” and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during times of threat. Eidelson exposes the challenges that the American Psychological Association faced when government a...

Canadian counselling and counselling psychology in the 21st century

A comprehensive review of Canadian counselling and counselling psychology scholarship.

Achieving inner balance in anxious times

Whether our anxiety arises because of uncertain tough economic times or as a result of our own struggle with workaholism, obsession, or depression, too often we lose touch with our feeling side, experience numb flat affect, and gradually become immobilized by fear. Constructive and easy-to-follow...

The mechanics of passions

Cognitive neuroscience, once a specialised area of psychology and biology, has enjoyed increased worldwide legitimacy in the last thirty years not only in psychiatry and mental health, but also in such fields as education, economics, marketing, and law. How can this surge in popularity be explained?

Who was responsible for the troubles?

Who was primarily responsible for the prosecution of the Troubles and their attendant toll of the dead, the injured, and the emotionally traumatized? Who Was Responsible for the Troubles? is an original and controversial work that captures the terror and the pain but also the hope of life and pur...

Slut-shaming, whorephobia, and the unfinished sexual revolution

The sexual revolution is unfinished. A sexual double standard between men and women still exists, and society continues to punish bad girls and reward good ones. Until we eliminate good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma, women will not be fully free to embrace their sexuality. Meredith Ralston l...

D.h. lawrence and attachment

Using concepts from attachment theory, D.H. Lawrence and Attachment presents innovative readings of Lawrence’s fiction. Ronald Granofsky teases out hidden patterns in Lawrence’s work, deepening our understanding of his fictional characters and revealing new significance to key thematic concerns l...

Don't tell, first edition

Nearly one male in six has been the victim of sexual abuse during childhood or adolescence - and yet this abuse remains a taboo subject, even among victims. In Don't Tell, Michel Dorais gives the victims a voice, providing a sensitive analysis of their traumas and self-questioning, and offering s...

Battle exhaustion

Battle Exhaustion introduces a new kind of military history that will transform existing views of the Canadian Army's experience during the Second World War. Terry Copp and Bill McAndrew examine the behaviour of soldiers under the extreme stress of war and the medical and military attempts to man...

Women, work, and coping

Until recently, theories and research about job stress and ways of coping have been based primarily on men's experience. Women's experience of stress and coping has remained unexplored, despite studies which show that women are confronted with more and different work-related stressors than men.

The corpus and the cortex

While The 3-D Mind 1 started the trilogy on the lateral plane (right and left hemispheres), The Corpus and the Cortex looks at brain and sign processing from an axial, or vertical, perspective, with an emphasis on neural projections that divide and connect the neocortex and the lower emotional sy...

Scorpions and the anatomy of time

Previous books in Jacques Chevalier's The 3D Mind trilogy dealt with the horizontal and vertical planes of brain science and their relevance for a better understanding of signs in culture and language. Scorpions and the Anatomy of Time brings the trilogy onto a third and final plane, the associat...

Depression and the social environment

While depression has been the subject of much research in the last decade, far too little attention has been paid to the influence of the social environment on depression and on mental health generally. This lack has become more conspicuous since the Canadian federal government began requiring th...

Anxiety and depression

Dilemmas of trust

Every human relationship, whether between lovers, friends, family members, or colleagues, involves trust or distrust. When we trust, we take for granted that others are not out to harm us; we relax and feel safe. When we distrust, we are fearful; we withdraw and try to protect ourselves. In Dilem...

Mental health and canadian society

In 1860, inmates built a brick wall around the Toronto Lunatic Asylum to separate themselves from prying eyes. The lunatic asylum has played a continuing role in historical attempts to deal with mental health, injecting tragic, almost gothic overtones of geographical isolation, medical experiment...

Depth psychology, interpretation, and the bible

In Depth Psychology, Interpretation, and the Bible Brayton Polka shows that the ideas central to Freud's major texts can be truly understood only in light of a theory of interpretation whose ontology is consistent with biblical values. Polka argues that only this hermeneutic frees Freud's insight...

A sadly troubled history

A comparative history of suicide, consulting the largest set of case files ever assembled.

Delayed impact

In Delayed Impact Franklin Bialystok explores the evolution of the legacy of the Holocaust in the collective memory of the post-war Canadian Jewish community. He seeks to understand why the Holocaust's effect was relatively muted up to 1960, moved to the forefront with the rise of antisemitism in...

Boys and girls apart

This original book contributes significantly to an understanding of sexism by revealing a major arena for its formation - the play practices of children. This is the first sociological work to use children's drawings to make inferences about structured gender inequality. The author examines the s...

Healing through art

In "Healing through Art" Nadia Ferrara shows how art therapy has been used as a successful form of healing among Crees. The result of her work as an art therapist in communities in northern Quebec, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the nature of her patients' experiences. Ferrara exam...

Dead boys can't dance

Dead Boys Can't Dance is a ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five. North American society has been reluctant to recognize that there is a link between the social stigmatization of homosexuality and the h...

Chee chee

Benjamin Chee Chee lived with anger and frustration for more than thirty years before he took his own life. An Ojibway artist who killed himself just as he was beginning to gain international recognition, Chee Chee is one of the thousands of aboriginal peoples in Canada who have commited suicide....

Origins

A provocative look at the role of the unconscious that challenges scientific theories about the mind.

The being human collection

The Being Human series dives into the complexities of the human condition through engaging stories and practical guidance. From our increasing disconnection with the physical world to coping with unwelcome changes, each book introduces a unique lesson and process, assisting readers on their path ...

The sorrows of work

A fresh approach to our careers, offering hopeful solutions to a myriad of professional challenges. Work can be a source of creativity, excitement, and purpose. Yet many of us find ourselves confused, discouraged, and exhausted by our jobs. We are often tempted to blame ourselves, and to feel pri...

Why we hate cheap things

How to rethink your consumer habits and feel richer at heart.Our society encourages us to equate expense with value. The more expensive something is, the more we're encouraged to covet it. Yet as its market price falls, our interest and passion tend to fade.This recurrent pattern, The School of L...

Relationships

A fresh approach to matters of the heart, Relationships offers practical skills and new attitudes for a more mature vision of love. Since around 1750, we have been living in the era of Romanticism, which has shaped the way we approach love, marriage, and sex. When it comes to love, this book argu...

The school of life dictionary

The School of Life's dictionary of emotional intelligence brings us the vocabulary we need in order to understand ourselves, others, and the world around us.A dictionary is a guide to a language. This one is a guide to the language of emotions and a tool to help us express our truest selves.Throu...

Revolutionary subjectivity in the thought of karl marx

Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Thought of Karl Marx presents a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis of Marx’s social philosophy. Paul Elias critically examines a terminal inconsistency within Marx’s idea of revolutionary subjectivity. In doing so, major areas of Marx’s thinking which have bee...

Vulnerability

To be alive is simply to be vulnerable. It is a condition inherent in being mortal, being embodied, being emotional, and being social creatures in a world with others. Erinn Gilson explores the meaning and significance of vulnerability, seeking to illuminate some of its complexity as an experienc...