Psychological theory & schools of thought (217)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism. In presenting vivid illustrations of how our understanding of psychological problems can be enric...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The boo...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This book extends the critical scope of the previous volume, De-Medicalizing Misery, into a wider social and political context, developing the critique of the psychiatrization of Western society. It explores the contemporary mental health landscape a...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Der Lebensrückblick in Therapie und BeratungDie Psychoanalyse begann mit biografischer Selbsterforschung, während andere Therapieschulen sich davon distanziert haben. Seit einiger Zeit ist über alle Schulenorientierungen hinweg das Interesse an Leben...

publisher: Springer
year: 2008
description:An annotated edition of a landmark study in the history of psychology, including extensive essays and other critical apparatus that place Antoine Despine's work in its proper historical and scientific context.

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This volume examines the developmental aspects of the general psychological construct of self-determination. The term refers to self- (vs. other-) caused action—to people acting volitionally—as based on their own will. Research conducted in the field...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This book critically evaluates the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Through analysis of the history of psychiatric diagnosis and of the handbook itself, it argues that the DSM-5 has a narrow biomedic...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book explores the discipline of psychology through in-depth dialogues with scholars who have lived at the turbulent edges of mainstream psychology in the USA, and who have challenged the most cherished theoretical frameworks. It includes researc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models of the self, gender, sexuality, relationships, and agency. Through an innovative 'd...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction argues that literary critics have tended to distort the impact of pre-Freudian psychological discourses, including psychical research, on Modern British Fiction. Psychoanalysis has received undue attent...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book draws on recent developments across a range of perspectives including psychoanalysis, narrative studies, social practice theory, posthumanism and trans-species psychology, to establish a radical psychosocial alternative to mainstream unders...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book focuses on what makes people happy. The author explains methods for measuring subjective life satisfaction and well-being by discussing economic and sociodemographic factors, as well as the psychological, cultural and political dimensions o...