Pop Culture and Psychology

Author: Alex ComfortBinding: HardbackPublished: Thomas Nelson & Sons., 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.The book presents a compelling sociological critique, arguing that...

Author: Ronald W. ClarkBinding: HardbackPublished: JONATHAN CAPE & WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, Freud: The Man And The Cause, chronicles the...

Author: Dr. Peter O'ConnorBinding: PaperbackPublished: Sun Books, 1981Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerDr. Peter O'Connor's Understanding The Mid-Life Crisis presents a comprehensive psychological examination of a common developmental...

Robert A. Johnson's groundbreaking, brilliant, and insightful work on how women transition into being mature and developing their own identity-newly reissued. What does it mean to be a woman What...

From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to "a better, more human way to live" (Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author) that examines the "laziness lie"-which...

Depression is now regarded as one of Australias most serious health problems. It affects 1 in 10 people and can strike at any time in a persons life. While psychologists...

The field of child and adolescent psychotherapy is still relatively young and its short history has resulted in a paucity of mental health services for this neglected group. There is...

In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart draws on breathtaking real-life stories, cognitive science, ancient wisdom and much more to show that signs can guide and empower us. Have...

Kindness can be your super-power. It feels good to be kind to others. And it feels good to receive kindness. Making the world better, in however small a way, feels...

One of the world's greatest thinkers investigates the logic and psychology of common knowledge As a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven Pinker's fascination is how we think about...

Infancy: The Basics offers an introduction to the developmental science behind the fascinating world of infant development. This book takes the reader from before birth through the moment infants come...

It is rare, indeed, to discover a voice among modern psychoanalysts that can portray and radically reconsider theoretical and clinical issues with such elegance that the reader is enthralled as...

In this volume, Josephine Klein provides a detailed picture of the way young infants experience life and how this lays the foundations for later personality structures.

In ost Angels , Vicky Lebeau re-reads Freudian theories of femininity to develop a remarkable contribution to spectatorship theory. Lebeau discusses Freud's distinctive preoccupations with female fantasy and femininity -...

Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst,...

Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion outlines the basic ideas in their thinking and shows in detail how these ideas can be used to tackle a clinical problem. The contributors...

About Children and Children-no-longer is the long awaited collection of Paula Heimann's published and unpublished papers. From the published work it includes the seminal paper 'On Countertransference' (1950); 'Dynamics and...

To comprehend the Freudian revolution, it is necessary to understand the private as well as the public man. This work, which uses illustrations assembled from family collections, manuscripts, letters and...

From the author of the bestselling 'Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind', comes a breakthrough book on the future of learning. The new sciences of brain and mind are revealing that everyone...

Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents...

`It is a very impressive book. Its coverage of contemporary discourses of fatherhood is comprehensive. The theoretical stance is one that allows for complexity and fluidity. The authors write well,...

From the author of the enormously popular When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends, comes this powerful and groundbreaking examination of the father-daughter relationship and how it sets the...

The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Psychological Ethics is a valuable resource for psychologists and graduate students hoping to further develop their ethical decision making beyond more introductory ethics texts. The...

In this work, a developmental psychologist examines the methods and meanings of children's narratives. Engel explores: the different functions of the storytelling process; the way the storytelling process changes as...

What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning , Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply...

After an absence of several years, Roses long-time client Lynette got in touch. During their session, Lynette explained that shed been feeling off. For sure! This hunch was definitely confirmed,...

We are now experiencing one of the most significant - but not yet fully understood - revolutions in human life: the dramatic rise in life expectancy. This revolution does not...

A light-hearted look at the pleasures and pitfalls of sitting on a committee. de-mystifies committee dynamics and procedures, offers diagnoses and examines a range of remedies and survival strategies. It...

Here is an amusing collection of ingenious mnemonics devised to help us learn and understand hundreds of important facts that we used to know as children, but have since forgotten....

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you're...

Relationships everywhere are in crisis due to our inability to talk about "difference" without polarizing. Since objection to difference is the core human problem, we need a skill that helps...

Wayne Berry is convinced that, to achieve the most desirable result when we are negotiating, our behaviour should be counter instinctive and based on the quality of relationships. In this...

From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a ground-breaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of awe Social psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to...

A riveting, revelatory account of how the climate emergency is changing us from the inside out It is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth....

A compassionate, funny and beautifully written exploration of contemporary womanhood - the book may have 'panic' in the title, but Nell's words calmed and soothed me deeply.' - Daisy Buchanan...

How to understand our human biases to separate fact from fiction, identify misinformation when we see it and make smarter decisions. A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases...

One of the seminal texts on child development, which continues to influence contemporary ideas on parenting D. W. Winnicott was one of the most influential figures in child psychiatry. In...