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  • Psychology, Development and Social Policy in India

    Edited by Yoganand Sinha, R. C. Tripathi ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book examines how and where psychology can engage itself in the framing of social policies for national as well as human development in India. Although the role that psychological knowledge can play in informing social policy decisions has been discussed for a long time, psychologists by and large have had little role in framing policy decisions related to such important domains as education, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Blue Dreams

    The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

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    The explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs.Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first ... Read more

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  • Therafields

    by Grant Goodbrand ...
    At one point in the 1970s 900 people were engaged with a therapeutic community in Toronto. Living together and sharing emotional problems the participants helped to create an institution owning houses farms and buildings. Therafields the largest urban commune in Canada was created by Lea Hindley-Smith a woman from England with no formal training in therapy. But she exuded an astounding charisma ... Read more

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  • Madness in Civilization

    A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine

    by Andrew Scull ...
    A beautifully illustrated history of the human encounter with unreasonThe loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go—these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also ... Read more

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  • Sites of the Unconscious

    Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting

    by Andreas Mayer ...
    Translated by Christopher Barber ...
    In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though the efforts of the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to transform hypnosis into a laboratory science failed, his Viennese translator and disciple Sigmund Freud took up the challenge and invented psychoanalysis. ... Read more

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  • Psychology's Grand Theorists

    How Personal Experiences Shaped Professional Ideas

    by Amy P. Demorest ...
    Psychology's Grand Theorists argues that the three schools in psychology that have been dominant historically--the psychodynamic, behavioral, and phenomenological--have resulted in large part from the personal experiences of their originators. Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, and Carl Rogers each believed that he had discovered the truth about human nature, yet their truths are entirely different. ... Read more

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  • Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy

    by Marke Ahonen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive study of the views of ancient philosophers on mental disorders. Relying on the original Greek and Latin textual sources, the author describes and analyses how the ancient philosophers explained mental illness and its symptoms, including hallucinations, delusions, strange fears and inappropriate moods and how they accounted for the respective roles of body and mind ... Read more

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  • Psychology and Catholicism

    Contested Boundaries

    by Robert Kugelmann ...
    In this study of psychology and Catholicism, Kugelmann aims to provide clarity in an area filled with emotion and opinion. From the beginnings of modern psychology to the mid-1960s, this complicated relationship between science and religion is methodically investigated. Conflicts such as the boundary of 'person' versus 'soul', contested between psychology and the Church, are debated thoroughly. ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa

    by William Murphy, Victoria de Menil, Theresa Betancourt, Rene Collignon, Ama de-Gaft Aikins, Andrew Dawes, Michael R. Reich, Seggane Musisi, Zuhayr Kafaar, Shoba Raja, Soroya Seedat, Katherine Sorsdahl, Elialilia S. Okello, Sarah Kippen Wood, Victor Christian Korley Doku, Crick Lund, Pamela Collins, Ursula Read, Bronwyn Meyers, Rita Gillian M. Thom, Guiseppe Raviola, Dan Stein, Vikram Patel ...
    In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and ... Read more

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  • Psyche, Culture and the New Science

    The Role of PN

    by E. W. F. Tomlin ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    Originally published in 1985, this distinguished and constructive critique of modern culture introduced into our language a brand-new term, ‘PN’, standing for ‘psychic nutrition’, which at the time promised to become a household expression.Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of oriental civilizations; on discoveries of Jung, especially his concept of psychic energy; on the ideas of the cultural ... Read more

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  • Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People

    The work of Murray Jackson

    by Murray Jackson ...
    Series series The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series
    Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals: Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, José Saramago and John Nash. Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a contextual framework by Jeanne Magagna, revealing the wellspring of creativity in the subjects’ emotional experiences and delving into the nature of ... Read more

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