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“susana bloch”

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  • Alba Emoting: A Scientific Method for Emotional Induction

    by Susana Bloch ...
    The actor is an athlete of emotions, says Antonin Artaud, and though actors are an extreme case, nowadays, thanks to Alba Emoting, the capacity for regulating our emotions in a simple physical way, without mental intervention, is possible for everyone.Alba Emoting: A Scientific Method for Emotional Induction offers us the means to reexamine six basic emotions that are universal: joy, sadness, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • This Is Your Brain on Music

    The Science of a Human Obsession

    by Daniel J. Levitin ...
    In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain.Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning: Why We Are So Unhappy

    by Iain McGilchrist ...
    In this 10,000-word essay, written to complement Iain McGilchrist's acclaimed The Master and His Emissary, the author asks why - despite the vast increase in material well-being - people are less happy today than they were half a century ago, and suggests that the division between the two hemispheres of the brain has a critical effect on how we see and understand the world around us. In particular ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • How Emotions Are Made

    The Secret Life of the Brain

    by Lisa Feldman Barrett ...
    Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind.“Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.”—The Wall Street Journal“A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Against Empathy

    The Case for Rational Compassion

    by Paul Bloom ...
    “Like a tough-to-crack case against an idea that most of us have long known is key to repairing the world… will legitimately change how you think about the world and your own sense of morality.” —New York MagazineNew York Post Best Book of the YearWe often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Psychology of Love

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality - that there is no sexuality without fantasy, conscious or unconscious - have changed the ways we think about erotic life. In these papers Freud develops his now famous theories about the sexuality of childhood and the transgressive ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • That's Disgusting

    Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion

    by Rachel Herz, PhD ...
    "A lively look at all things revolting." —New York Times Book ReviewWhy do we watch horror movies? What is the best way to persuade someone to quit smoking? And what on earth is the appeal of competitive eating? In this lively, colorful book, Rachel Herz answers these questions and more, shedding light on an incredible range of human traits—from food preferences and sexual attraction to moral ... Read more

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  • Affective Neuroscience : The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

    The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

    by Jaak Panksepp ...
    Series series Series in Affective Science
    Some investigators have argued that emotions especially animal emotions are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting understanding of the biology and psychology of emotion. In Affective Neuroscience Jaak Panksepp provides the most up-to ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

    Theory, Models, Therapy and Outcome

    by Barbara A. Wilson, OBE, Fergus Gracey, Jonathan J. Evans, Andrew Bateman ...
    The aim of neuropsychological rehabilitation is to enable people with cognitive, emotional, or behavioural deficits to achieve their maximum potential in the domains of psychological, social, leisure, vocational or everyday functioning. Describing the holistic programme devised and adopted at the world famous Oliver Zangwill Centre and embracing a broad theoretical base, incorporating a variety of ... Read more

    $172.99 CAD

  • Clinical Neuropsychology of Emotion

    by Yana Suchy, PhD ...
    Written in an engaging, accessible style, this book synthesizes the growing body of knowledge on the neuropsychology of emotion and identifies practical clinical implications. The author unravels the processes that comprise a single emotional event, from the initial trigger through physiological and psychological responses. She also examines how patterns of emotional responses come together to ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Altered Egos

    How the Brain Creates the Self

    by Todd E. Feinberg ...
    In Altered Egos, Dr. Todd Feinberg presents a new theory of the self based on his first-hand experience as both a psychiatrist and neurologist. Feinberg introduces dozens of intriguing cases of patients whose disorders have resulted in what he calls "altered egos": a change in the brain that transforms the boundaries of the self. He describes patients who suffer from "alien hand syndrome" where ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Culture, Cognition, and Emotion in China's Religious Ethnic Minorities

    Voices of Suffering among the Yi

    by Rachel Sing-Kiat Ting, Louise Sundararajan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This study examines the suffering narratives of the Bimo and Christian religious communities of the Yi minority who reside in the remote mountains of Sichuan and Yunnan, China, respectively. It is informed by the theoretical framework of ecological rationality, which posits that religions influence and are influenced by cognitive styles that have co-evolved with the ecological niche of a culture. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD