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The Ascetic Self
This book is about the ascetic self in the scriptural religions of Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism. The author claims that asceticism can be...
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Measuring Intelligence
The testing of intelligence has a long and controversial history. Claims that it is a pseudo-science or a weapon of ideological warfare have been...
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Rethinking Homicide
Using multiple data sources and methods, this book involves a micro-historical analysis of the nature of change and stability in homicide situations...
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The Virtual Prison
The last twenty-five years have seen dramatic rises in the prison populations of most industrialised nations. Unable to keep up with increased...
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Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology
This edited collection is a tribute to Andrew Mathews, distinguished researcher in cognition and emotion. It presents a ‘state of the art’...
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Feelings and Emotions
Emotions are central to human behavior and experience. Yet scientific theory and research ignored emotions during most of the 20th century. This...
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The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts
One of the most fascinating sub-divisions within the rapidly growing field of psychology and law is the area of deception detection. Traditionally...
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International Handbook of Intelligence
This book is the first international handbook of intelligence ever published. It is intended to prove a truly international perspective on the nature...
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Galen: On Antecedent Causes
This book is a new edition of a short but fascinating treatise by Galen on causal theory. This text survives only in a Latin translation of the...
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Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents
In this book, a clinical scientist highlights youth psychotherapies that have been tested and shown to work. Treatments for fears and anxiety,...
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Creativity in Science
Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, historians - and even scientists themselves - have often tried to decipher the basis for creativity in...
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Communicating Social Support
When stresses and hassles challenge our abilities to cope, we frequently turn to family, friends, and partners for help. Yet social support from...
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Families
Entirely revised, rewritten and augmented with 11 completely new chapters, this new edition builds strongly on the aims of the previous edition to...
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Psychological Investigations of Competence in Decision Making
The premise of this book is that many of the experiences we encounter are novel, infrequent in our experience, or variable with respect to action to...
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Out of Options
This book tackles an area of adolescent behavior that presents a significant challenge for parents, teachers and professionals the world over. Whilst...
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The Ascetic Self
This book is about the ascetic self in the scriptural religions of Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism. The author claims that asceticism can be...
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Somatoform Disorders
People with somatoform disorder (which used to be known as hysteria) present with a range of symptoms that typically last for years and can\'t be...
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Contemporary Psychological Research on Social Dilemmas
A social dilemma is a situation in which the interests of the collective and its individual members clash. In these situations individuals typically...
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Feelings and Emotions
Emotions are central to human behavior and experience. Yet scientific theory and research ignored emotions during most of the 20th century. This...
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Bioterrorism
After the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995 just 12 people died but more than 5000 sought medical care for possible exposure....
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Gradiva and Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen’s Gradiva
Here together in one edition is the strange and evocative "Pompeiian Fancy" by German author Wilhelm Jensen and one of the major texts of...
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Trauma and the Memory of Politics
In this interesting study, Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism, and questions the...
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En sikker base
John Bowlby (1907-90) var som psykoanalytiker af den freudske, objektrelationsteoretiske tradition tidligt inspireret af etologiske studier, som...
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Consent to Sexual Relations
When does a woman give valid consent to sexual relations? When does her consent render it morally or legally permissible for a man to have sexual...
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