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...

Theory and practice of couples and family counseling

This introduction to couples and family counseling lays the foundation for student skill-building by encouraging the development of personal, professional, and ethical standards of practice. This third edition has been expanded to include couples counseling and updated to reflect recent research ...

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...

Why men hurt women and other reflections on love, violence and masculinity

Using conversations, observations, and reflections, psychologist Kopano Ratele meditates on love, violence and masculinityThis book seeks to imagine the possibility of a more loving masculinity in a society where structural violence, failures of government and economic inequality underpin much of...

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...

Brotherhood is a constant possibility

A deeply personal, provocative portrait of how race, culture and sexuality intersect to reshape what it means to be an Asian man in North America today. What does it mean to be an Asian man in North America? In this timely and insightful memoir, Ryan Cho unpacks ideas about masculinity and Asian...

Polysecure

A practical translation of the principles of attachment theory to nonmonogamous relationships. Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate secure monogamous relationships. What if, like many people, you’re striving for secure, happy attachments...

Carry on

An exploration of the messy but liberating process of defining and decentring inner narratives of shame, fear and regret for one’s own queer identity. Queerphobic and transphobic messaging can arrive from nearly any direction, and once queer and trans people are exposed to the fear, disgust and j...

The fundamentals of erotic dominance

A fierce, lucid meditation on the ethics and ecstasies of power. What are we doing when we erotically dominate another? Most kink resources focus on technique, safety and consent while overlooking less tangible elements that are equally important in defining the shape and quality of a scene. Info...

The monster under the bed

A practical guide to navigating sex and relationships for people with depression and their partners. Almost everyone has had some interaction with depression. Whether it’s you, a family member, a friend, or a partner who is affected, depression has the potential to touch us all. Even so, many of ...

In it together

A practical, insightful and much-needed guidebook for people with depression and those who love them. Millions of people worldwide are coping with depression. Whether it’s you, a family member, a friend or a partner—odds are depression affects your life. Even so, many of us don’t know what to do ...

Transforming the shame triangle

A practical, accessible primer on using parts work to transform shame and self-criticism to authenticity and integrity.

How do i sexy?

A practical and insightful consideration of what it means to be sexual as a trans, queer person from activist Mx. Nillin Lore. What even is “sexy,” and how do you do it? A tough question for trans and nonbinary queers struggling to find their sexual selves in a landscape rife with misogynistic, t...

What is music for?

Why do we have music? Why do we love music, and have such a deep, human need for it? It is just vibrating air, yet it is at the heart of so many of our rituals; weddings, funerals, parties and all kinds of gatherings. Fleur Bouwer is both a musician and a cognitive neuroscientist, and in this fas...

Ageing and technoscience

Ageing in the digital age isn’t just biological, it’s technoscientific. This book reveals how technoscience is transforming later life in profound ways. Offering a bold rethinking of ageing, it challenges readers to reconsider the boundaries between body, technology and society.

Outdoor-based dementia support and care

Rethinking dementia care through nature, this book explores how outdoor activities can enhance wellbeing. It combines global research, practice and lived experience to shape future policy and care.

Body talk

Body Talk teaches you to see and use gestures more intentionally, giving you practical guidance to drive human-centered product work. You already use gestures naturally. Everyone does. But most product teams rely too much on what people say—in interviews, meetings, and documents—missing a rich la...

¿te enojaste conmigo?: cómo dejar de entrarte en lo que piensan los demás y empezar a vivir para ti / are you mad at me?

Una guía reveladora y compasiva para quienes viven demasiado pendientes de la aprobación ajena. Meg Josephson enseña a soltar la hipervigilancia, a confiar en la propia voz y a construir relaciones desde la calma, la claridad y la autenticidad. ¿Te preocupa constantemente lo que los demás pien...

Starting from peace with young people

This book offers a bold new way of understanding peace: not as something limited to conflict zones or moments of crisis, but as a lived, everyday practice shaped through relationships, choices, and community life.

Cultural psychology goes to school

Cultural Psychology Goes to School explores the vital connections between human development, culture, and education, showing how Cultural Psychology can offer fresh and valuable insights into school life.

The evolution of religions

This extraordinarily ambitious and comprehensive book demonstrates how evolutionary theory can yield new insight into the development of organized religion. Lance Grande examines the growth and diversification of hundreds of religions over time, highlighting their historical interrelationships.

Gaba: la molécula de la calma / gaba: the molecule of calm

Una guía práctica respaldada por la neurociencia para recuperar la calma, no como un lujo de unos pocos, sino como una función biológica que cualquiera puede fortalecer. Basándose en años de investigación y práctica clínica, la neuropsicóloga Carina Castro Fumero introduce el GABA, el principal ...

Breathe the wind, drink the rain

Breathe deeply, embrace life’s small wonders, and absorb the beauty of each day in these joyful reflections from Douglas Wood. Life offers countless invitations: to notice, to listen, to give thanks, to begin. In Breathe the Wind, Drink the Rain, best-selling author Douglas Wood shares a little b...

The inflamed brain

THE “INFLAMED BRAIN” IS THE HIDDEN ENEMY OF MEMORY AND MOODMEMORY, BRAIN AND AGING EXPERT DR. GARY SMALL HAS A REVOLUTIONARY PROGRAM TO REVERSE YOUR BRAIN’S DECLINE AND PROTECT YOUR LONG-TERM BRAIN HEALTH!From memory, brain & aging expert, Dr Gary Small, named one of the world’s leading innov...

Drawing the line

Backed by neuroscience and years of experience, Drawing the Line reframes boundaries not as a wellness buzzword but as a survival mechanism wired into the brain. George Dieter shows readers that most of their stress comes from carrying problems that were never theirs to hold, and that strengtheni...

The hidden inequity

The Hidden Inequity uncovers a silent public health crisis within Scotland’s education system: the creation of unusually wide 19‑month school cohorts that leave the youngest children at a lifelong disadvantage.

Emotional amoral egoism

A groundbreaking analysis of human nature, our innate predispositions and their implications for universal security and dignity.What makes us who we are? Are we born good or evil? Do we have free will? What drives our behaviour and why? Can technology change what it means to be human? In this tho...

Blasted with antiquity

Perspectives on the perils and pitfalls of ageing, viewed through the lens of novels, plays and poems from across history.Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historians or social scientists and,...

You and your bs

The Belief System That Holds People Back … and the Truth That Sets Them Free! Many people feel like something is inherently wrong with them. The truth is they are neither lazy nor destined to fail. What holds them back is a belief system they never consciously chose. Early experiences shape peopl...

Good girls, good sex

What happens when a woman’s identities as a Christian and as an embodied sexual woman collide? What impact does a conventional Christian view of sexuality have on women’s sexual lives? Through conversations with thirty-six Protestant women, Good Girls, Good Sex explores how both religious values ...

Applied psychometrics using r software

Applied Psychometrics Using R Software is a hands on guide to evaluating the quality of educational, psychological, or survey-based measures. Blending accessible theory with practical application, it introduces key tools and techniques for modern psychometric practice.

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...

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.

Transgender and psychoanalysis

Transness and gender diversity from a psychoanalytic perspective – emancipatory approaches beyond simplifications and pathologization.

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...