Heinz Heckhausen & Jutta Heckhausen 
Motivation and Action [PDF ebook] 

One of developmental psychology”s central concerns is the identification of specific ‘milestones’ which indicate what children are typically capable of doing at different ages. Work of this kind has …

How can we make sense of change and stability through the lifespan of human development? What role does personal experience, our relationships with others, and historical and sociocultural contexts p …

The human mind is both extraordinary and compelling. From the leader who convinced his followers to kill themselves to the man who lost his memory, these famous accounts have provided invaluable insi …

This book considers the evidence for freeing ourselves from the creeping medicalisation of psychological theory and practice. Contributors from a range of modalities illustrate how to practise in a d …

Over the past decades, the field of health psychology has witnessed a tremendous growth, and social psychologists have contributed substantially to the theoretical foundation of this field. Their res …

This remarkable collection traces central themes in the work of Erving and Miriam Polster, two of the best-known and best loved Gestalt therapists in the world. The writings herein span 4 decades in …

The purpose of this book, is to present a rather simple argument. Parents” thoughts about childrearing and the ways in which they interact with children to achieve particular parenting or developmen …

First published in 2006. Professor Jean Piaget is most widely known as a child psychologist; nevertheless he is also a zoologist, a mathematician, and a philosopher; but perhaps, above all, he is a g …

Most studies on reading have been conducted with English-speaking subjects. It is crucial to also examine studies conducted in different languages, in order to highlight which aspects of reading acqu …

First published in 1979. Ethological attachment theory is a landmark of 20th century social and behavioral sciences theory and research. This new paradigm for understanding primary relationships acro …