Psychologie

Memory loss can be one of the most terrifying aspects of a diagnosis of dementia. Yet the fear and dread of losing our memory make the experience of the disease worse than it needs to be, according t …

For nearly three decades, Sandra Bertman has been exploring the power of the arts and belief–symbols, metaphors, stories–to alleviate psychological and spiritual pain not only of patients, grieving …

William Schofield presents a classic analysis of mental illness, of professional psychotherapists and their training, and of the elements of psychotherapy. He asserts the need for more rigorous selec …

The advent of ‘Big Data’ has brought with it a rapid diversification of data sources, requiring analysis that accounts for the fact that these data have often been generated and recorded for differen …

Lacan and Education Policy draws on the rich conceptual resources of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Using Lacan »s four discourses Matthew Clarke offers a sophisticated critique of recent education policy …

This book offers a close glimpse of the nuanced dialectic between major psychoanalytic concepts and the sociopolitical environments in which such ideas were germinated, spread, took roots, and furthe …

This book draws together two domains of psychological theory, Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory of cognition and narrative theories of identity, to offer a way of rethinking the human subject as …

A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Bringing valuable lessons from the cutting edge of communication science, Conflicted does for our verbal communication what Thinking Fast and Slow did for our inner decis …

This book is an accessible, research-based introduction to behavioral ethics. Often ethics education is incomplete because it ignores how and why people make moral decisions. But using exciting new r …

This handbook provides an up-to-date reference point for ethnography in healthcare research. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the chapters offer a holistic view of ethnography within medical con …