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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Cognitive theory

Against Theory of Mind (Hardcover, New): I. Leudar, A. Costall Against Theory of Mind (Hardcover, New)
I. Leudar, A. Costall
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The "theory of mind" framework has been the fastest growing body of empirical research in contemporary psychology. It has given rise to a range of positions on what it takes to relate to others as intentional beings. This book brings together disparate strands of ToM research, lays out historical roots of the idea, and indicates better alternatives.

Against Theory of Mind (Paperback): I. Leudar, A. Costall Against Theory of Mind (Paperback)
I. Leudar, A. Costall
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The "theory of mind" framework has been the fastest growing body of empirical research in contemporary psychology. It has given rise to a range of positions on what it takes to relate to others as intentional beings. This book brings together disparate strands of ToM research, lays out historical roots of the idea, and indicates better alternatives.

Big Mind - How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World (Hardcover): Geoff Mulgan Big Mind - How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World (Hardcover)
Geoff Mulgan
R810 R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Save R151 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind"--human and machine capabilities working together--has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? Gathering insights from diverse fields, including philosophy, computer science, and biology, Big Mind reveals how collective intelligence can guide corporations, governments, universities, and societies to make the most of human brains and digital technologies. Geoff Mulgan explores how collective intelligence has to be consciously organized and orchestrated in order to harness its powers. He looks at recent experiments mobilizing millions of people to solve problems, and at groundbreaking technology like Google Maps and Dove satellites. He also considers why organizations full of smart people and machines can make foolish mistakes--from investment banks losing billions to intelligence agencies misjudging geopolitical events--and shows how to avoid them. Highlighting differences between environments that stimulate intelligence and those that blunt it, Mulgan shows how human and machine intelligence could solve challenges in business, climate change, democracy, and public health. But for that to happen we'll need radically new professions, institutions, and ways of thinking. Informed by the latest work on data, web platforms, and artificial intelligence, Big Mind shows how collective intelligence could help us survive and thrive.

The Psychotherapy of Hope - The Legacy of Persuasion and Healing (Hardcover, New): Renato D. Alarcon, Julia B. Frank The Psychotherapy of Hope - The Legacy of Persuasion and Healing (Hardcover, New)
Renato D. Alarcon, Julia B. Frank
R1,367 Discovery Miles 13 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Directly inspired by the work of Jerome D. Frank and his field-defining book "Persuasion and Healing," this volume of essays by distinguished contemporary scholars broadly assesses the current state of research and practice in psychotherapy.

Editors Renato D. Alarcon, a former student of Frank's, and Julia B. Frank, Jerome Frank's daughter and coauthor, bring diverse perspectives to the volume. Each chapter, based on one of the themes of Frank's classic book, offers honest critique and fearless criticism of psychotherapy as it has evolved in the twenty-first century. Contributors update classical psychotherapeutic concepts such as demoralization, hope, meaning, rhetoric, and cultural variation and add new insight into how the neuroscience revolution affects our understanding of mental organization and psychotherapy. As Frank did in his own time, these authors challenge the claims made for the specificity or superiority of cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, and other varieties of psychotherapy, providing a candid assessment of the value and limitations of many competing approaches to diagnosis and treatment. They also focus attention on psychotherapies for special populations, including children, people with serious medical illness, and those from culturally and religiously diverse backgrounds.

Like "Persuasion and Healing, " this volume advocates not for any particular approach but for psychotherapy more generally grounded in principles of evolutionary biology, culture, narrative, and behavior change. It provides researchers, theorists, and practitioners of every kind of training with a genuinely phenomenological approach to a wide range of psychiatric issues. Echoing Frank's voice, in particular his emphasis on the commonalities of suffering and the therapeutic power of hope, "The Psychotherapy of Hope" offers scholarly wisdom and practical advice on how to understand psychotherapy--and apply its principles to the greatest benefit of patients.

Knowing Hands - The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control (Hardcover): David A. Rosenbaum Knowing Hands - The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control (Hardcover)
David A. Rosenbaum
R2,316 R1,957 Discovery Miles 19 570 Save R359 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Whenever you get dressed, carry objects, write, draw, or gesture, you express knowledge about how to get things done with your hands. Ironically, that knowledge is often difficult to express. Typically you can't say what you know. Still, it would be enormously useful to identify the knowledge underlying manual control. The design of equipment and transportation systems might better anticipate the abilities and limitations of users, and methods of teaching and rehabilitating skills might improve. This book, the first on the cognitive psychology of manual control, uncovers the hidden knowledge that hands express. Organized around key topics in this emerging area, including the role of the will in manual control, illusions concerning hand position sense, and the coordination of manual actions with others, Knowing Hands explains the planning and control of manual actions in everyday life.

Confabulation Theory - The Mechanism of Thought (Mixed media product, 2007): Robert Hecht-Nielsen Confabulation Theory - The Mechanism of Thought (Mixed media product, 2007)
Robert Hecht-Nielsen
R2,410 Discovery Miles 24 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Confabulation theory offers the first complete detailed explanation of the mechanism of cognition, i.e., thinking, an essential information processing capability of all enbrained Earth animals (bees, octopi, trout, ravens, humans, et al.). Concentrating on the human case, this book offers an hypothesis for the neuronal implementation of cognition, and explores the mathematics and methods of application of its mechanism. Thinking turns out to be starkly alien in comparison with all known technological approaches to information processing. While probably not yet scientifically testable, confabulation theory seems consistent with the facts of neuroscience. Beyond science, any complete detailed explanation of cognition can be investigated by applying it technologically. Multiple experiments of this nature are described in this book in complete detail. The results suggest that confabulation theory can provide the universal platform for building intelligent machines. In short, this book explains how thinking works and establishes the foundation for building machines that think.

Because of the theory s implications for philosophy, education, medicine, anthropology and social science, this book will also be of interest to scientists in those domains."

A Mark of the Mental - In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics (Hardcover): Karen Neander A Mark of the Mental - In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics (Hardcover)
Karen Neander
R1,141 R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Save R104 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation. In A Mark of the Mental, Karen Neander considers the representational power of mental states-described by the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn as the "second hardest puzzle" of philosophy of mind (the first being consciousness). The puzzle at the heart of the book is sometimes called "the problem of mental content," "Brentano's problem," or "the problem of intentionality." Its motivating mystery is how neurobiological states can have semantic properties such as meaning or reference. Neander proposes a naturalistic account for sensory-perceptual (nonconceptual) representations. Neander draws on insights from state-space semantics (which appeals to relations of second-order similarity between representing and represented domains), causal theories of reference (which claim the reference relation is a causal one), and teleosemantic theories (which claim that semantic norms, at their simplest, depend on functional norms). She proposes and defends an intuitive, theoretically well-motivated but highly controversial thesis: sensory-perceptual systems have the function to produce inner state changes that are the analogs of as well as caused by their referents. Neander shows that the three main elements-functions, causal-information relations, and relations of second-order similarity-complement rather than conflict with each other. After developing an argument for teleosemantics by examining the nature of explanation in the mind and brain sciences, she develops a theory of mental content and defends it against six main content-determinacy challenges to a naturalized semantics.

Rethinking Cognitive Computation - Turing and the Science of the Mind (Hardcover, 2005 Ed.): Andy Wells Rethinking Cognitive Computation - Turing and the Science of the Mind (Hardcover, 2005 Ed.)
Andy Wells
R5,703 Discovery Miles 57 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rethinking Cognitive Computation explores the hypothesis that the mind is a computer. The exploration is based on the pioneering work of Alan Turing and presents the first detailed exposition of his theory of computation intended specifically for psychologists. Turing's bold and beautiful theory provides an ideal perspective from which to evaluate current computational thinking about the mind. The book examines the strengths and weaknesses of symbol systems and connectionist theorising and proposes a new approach called ecological functionalism. Ecological functionalism is based on Turing's fundamental insights and extends them by drawing on contemporary theories of concurrent and distributed computation to cover a wide range of psychological domains. Ecological functionalism provides the basis for a powerful, unified theory of great scope which includes social as well as individual processes. The book is intended for teaching but will also be of interest to researchers in cognitive science, psychology and philosophy of mind. Andrew Wells is a lecturer in psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has qualifications in philosophy, psychology and computer science and has published papers on a range of psychological topics.

Ecology of the Brain - The phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind (Hardcover): Thomas Fuchs Ecology of the Brain - The phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind (Hardcover)
Thomas Fuchs 1
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body as a collective, a living being which uses the brain to mediate interactions. Those interactions may be both within the human body and between the human body and its environment. Within this framework, the mind is seen not as a product of the brain but as an activity of the living being; an activity which integrates the brain within the everyday functions of the human body. Going further, Fuchs reformulates the traditional mind-brain problem, presenting it as a dual aspect of the living being: the lived body and the subjective body - the living body and the objective body. The processes of living and experiencing life, Fuchs argues, are in fact inextricably linked; it is not the brain, but the human being who feels, thinks and acts. For students and academics, Ecology of the Brain will be of interest to those studying or researching theory of mind, social and cultural interaction, psychiatry, and psychotherapy.

Principled Headship - A Teacher's Guide to the Galaxy (Paperback, Revised edition): Terry Mahony Principled Headship - A Teacher's Guide to the Galaxy (Paperback, Revised edition)
Terry Mahony
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Principled Headship equips you with the essential skills needed for a future in school leadership. Pioneering a programme of techniques and exercises using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and a combination of left and right brained approaches, it includes indirect suggestions, visual image associations and extensive work on personal beliefs. Written in a light and personal style, it will improve your ability to lead, communicate and motivate. The book covers a range of personal skills that are currently given insufficient prominence in teacher training. It provides you with practical ways of improving your awareness and your emotional, behavioural, linguistic and self-management skills. It also presents a fresh and practical approach to clarifying and consolidating a core of personal beliefs and values. If you are contemplating launching yourself into a teaching career, and especially if headship is your aim, Principled Headship is the book that will help you achieve your goals.

Fantasies of Flight (Hardcover): Daniel M. Ogilvie Fantasies of Flight (Hardcover)
Daniel M. Ogilvie
R1,297 Discovery Miles 12 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fantasies of Flight invigorates the field of personality psychology by challenging the contemporary academic view that individuals are best studied as carriers of traits. Daniel Ogilvie exchanges a heart-to-heart, case study approach to understanding human behavior for the current strategies of categorizing and comparing individuals according to their manifest traits. Ogilvie asks and endeavors to answer questions like "What were the psychological conditions that led Sir James Barrie to create a character named Peter Pan?" and "What were the dynamics behind the Marshall Herff Applewhite's conviction that a space ship, hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet, would rescue him and his Heaven's Gate followers after they enacted a mass suicide pact in 1997?" Answering these questions requires him to resurrect "old" ways to think about personality and "old" strategies for studying individuals one by one. Early in the book, Ogilvie reviews the history of why intensive case studies were discredited in psychology and describes how Sigmund Freud's psychobiographical account of Leonardo da Vinci's fascination with flight inadvertently abetted critics of psychoanalytic psychology. He then performs a partial psychobiography of James Barrie and the origins of Peter Pan, followed by an investigation of Carl Jung, who fashioned the collective unconscious to serve as humankind's link to eternity. Arguing that personality psychology needs to become less insular, Ogilvie integrates information from the disciplines of developmental psychology and neuroscience into a theory regarding the latent needs that both Barrie and Jung sought to satisfy. The theory, including its emphasis on the onset of self and consciousness, is then applied to an array of well-known and obscure individuals with ascensionistic inclinations. Well written and accessible, but complex and scholarly, this volume will restore interest in the investigation of people's inner lives.

Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics (Hardcover): Hubert Cuyckens, Rene Dirven, John R. Taylor Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics (Hardcover)
Hubert Cuyckens, Rene Dirven, John R. Taylor
R5,224 Discovery Miles 52 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A number of papers re-ignite the polysemy vs. monosemy debate, and testify to the fact that polysemy is no longer simply taken for granted, but is currently a much more contested issue than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Other papers offer fresh perspectives on the prototype structure of lexical categories, while generally accepted notions about the radial network structure of categories are questioned in papers on the development of word meaning in child language acquisition and in diachrony. Additional topics include the interaction of lexical and constructional meaning, and the relationship between word meanings and the contexts in which the words are encountered. This book is of interest to semanticists and cognitive linguists, as well as to scholars working in the broader field of cognitive science.

Self-Creating Language (Paperback): Aleksander Marcisz Self-Creating Language (Paperback)
Aleksander Marcisz
R522 R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Save R69 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book presents an alternative system describing the connection of consciousness with matter. It explains physical, psychical and sociological phenomena on the uniform ground unifying miscellaneous fields of science.

Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads - A Cognitive Perspective (Paperback, New edition): Antonio Barcelona Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads - A Cognitive Perspective (Paperback, New edition)
Antonio Barcelona
R1,413 Discovery Miles 14 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads is a collection of essays, most of them written from a cognitive linguistics standpoint by leading specialists in the fields of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, and conceptual integration (blending). The book has two main goals. One of them is to discuss in new, provocative ways the nature of these conceptual mappings in English and their interaction. The other goal is to explore by means of several detailed case studies the central role of these mappings in English. The studies are, thus, concerned with the operation of metaphor and metonymy in discourse, including literary discourse or with the effect of metaphorical and/or metonymic mappings on some aspects of linguistic structure, be it polysemy or grammar. The book is of interest to students and researchers in English and linguistics, English literature, cognitive psychology and cognitive science.

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness - Our leading theories of how your brain really works (Paperback): Patrick House Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness - Our leading theories of how your brain really works (Paperback)
Patrick House
R460 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R85 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A concise, elegant, and thought-provoking exploration of the mystery of consciousness and the functioning of the brain. 'Intriguing ... impressively rich. This is bursting with insight.' Publishers Weekly Despite decades of research, remarkable imagery, and insights from a range of scientific and medical disciplines, the human brain remains largely unexplored. Consciousness has eluded explanation. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness offers a brilliant overview of the state of modern consciousness research in twenty brief, revealing chapters. Neuroscientist and author Patrick House describes complex concepts in accessible terms, weaving brain science, technology, gaming, analogy, and philosophy into a tapestry that illuminates how the brain works and what enables consciousness. This remarkable book fosters a sense of mystery and wonder about the strangeness of the relationship between our inner selves and our environment. 'In Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness, Patrick House explores intensely interesting, beautifully provocative ideas about the neurobiology of consciousness. In addition to being an intellectual pleasure, this is an aesthetic one as well - House writes like a dream, with great drollness and elegance of phrase. This book is a gem.' - Robert Sapolsky, author of Behave and MacArthur Fellowship winner 'A highly unusual but brilliant book...with a distinct voice that is fiercely unique.' - Christof Koch, president and chief scientist, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Software Design - Cognitive Aspect (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002): Francoise Detienne Software Design - Cognitive Aspect (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
Francoise Detienne; Translated by F. Bott
R1,491 Discovery Miles 14 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Software Design - Cognitive Aspects covers a variety of areas including software analysis, design, coding and maintenance. It details the history of the research that has been conducted since the 1970s in this fast-developing field before defining a computer program from a computing and cognitive psychology viewpoint. Detailed treatment is given to the two essential sides of programming; software production and software understanding and throughout the book parallels are drawn between studies on processing texts written in natural language and processing computer programs.This book will be of particular interest to researchers, practitioners and graduate students in Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology, and Cognitive Ergonomics.

Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002): Michael Anderson, Bernd... Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
Michael Anderson, Bernd Meyer, Patrick Olivier
R4,664 Discovery Miles 46 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The recent rise of multimedia technology has turned visual communication into an everyday reality and made it necessary to achieve a better understanding of the role of diagrams and sketches in communication and in creative thought and problem-solving.Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning is a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary overview of this area, covering relevant research in computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and psychology.Key topics include:- Cognitive aspects of diagrammatic information;- Formal methods for computing with diagrams;- Applications of advanced diagrammatic systems.This book is a state-of-the-art survey that will be a valuable resource for researchers and students in the fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and graphics and visualisation.

Connectionist Models of Learning, Development and Evolution - Proceedings of the Sixth Neural Computation and Psychology... Connectionist Models of Learning, Development and Evolution - Proceedings of the Sixth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, Liege, Belgium, 16-18 September 2000 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
Robert M. French, Jacques P. Sougne
R2,901 Discovery Miles 29 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Connectionist Models of Learning, Development and Evolution comprises a selection of papers presented at the Sixth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop - the only international workshop devoted to connectionist models of psychological phenomena.With a main theme of neural network modelling in the areas of evolution, learning, and development, the papers are organized into six sections:The neural basis of cognitionDevelopment and category learningImplicit learningSocial cognition EvolutionSemanticsCovering artificial intelligence, mathematics, psychology, neurobiology, and philosophy, it will be an invaluable reference work for researchers and students working on connectionist modelling in computer science and psychology, or in any area related to cognitive science.

Cognitive Models and Spiritual Maps - Interdisciplinary Explorations of Religious Experience (Paperback): Jensine Andresen,... Cognitive Models and Spiritual Maps - Interdisciplinary Explorations of Religious Experience (Paperback)
Jensine Andresen, Robert K.C. Forman
R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book throws down a challenge to the field of religious studies. It offers new and exciting approaches for our understanding of religious experience, drawn from the methods of cognitive science, neuropsychology, developmental psychology, philosophy of mind, anthropology, and the many other fields that have joined together to investigate the phenomenon of consciousness.

Mother Brain - Separating Myth from Biology - the Science of the Parental Brain (Paperback): Chelsea Conaboy Mother Brain - Separating Myth from Biology - the Science of the Parental Brain (Paperback)
Chelsea Conaboy
R467 R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Before Chelsea Conaboy gave birth to her first child, she anticipated the joy of holding her newborn son, the endless dirty nappies and the sleepless nights. What she didn't expect was how different she would feel. It wasn't simply the extraordinary demands of this new role, but a shift in self - as deep as it was disorienting. In truth, something was changing: her brain. New parents undergo major brain changes, driven by hormones and the deluge of stimuli a baby provides. These neurobiological changes help all parents - birthing or otherwise - adapt in those intense first days and prepare for a long period of learning how to meet their child's needs. Yet this science is mostly absent from the public conversation about parenthood. Conaboy delves into the neuroscience to reveal unexpected upsides, generations of scientific neglect and a powerful new narrative of parenthood.

What Makes Us Smart - The Computational Logic of Human Cognition (Hardcover): Samuel Gershman What Makes Us Smart - The Computational Logic of Human Cognition (Hardcover)
Samuel Gershman
R2,532 Discovery Miles 25 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognition At the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match the power and flexibility of human perception, language, and reasoning. Yet, we routinely commit errors that reveal the failures of our thought processes. What Makes Us Smart makes sense of this paradox by arguing that our cognitive errors are not haphazard. Rather, they are the inevitable consequences of a brain optimized for efficient inference and decision making within the constraints of time, energy, and memory-in other words, data and resource limitations. Framing human intelligence in terms of these constraints, Samuel Gershman shows how a deeper computational logic underpins the "stupid" errors of human cognition. Embarking on a journey across psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics, and economics, Gershman presents unifying principles that govern human intelligence. First, inductive bias: any system that makes inferences based on limited data must constrain its hypotheses in some way before observing data. Second, approximation bias: any system that makes inferences and decisions with limited resources must make approximations. Applying these principles to a range of computational errors made by humans, Gershman demonstrates that intelligent systems designed to meet these constraints yield characteristically human errors. Examining how humans make intelligent and maladaptive decisions, What Makes Us Smart delves into the successes and failures of cognition.

Foundations and Tools for Neural Modeling - International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks,... Foundations and Tools for Neural Modeling - International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, IWANN'99, Alicante, Spain, June 2-4, 1999, Proceedings, Volume I (Paperback, 1999 ed.)
Jose Mira, Juan V Sanchez-Andres
R3,067 Discovery Miles 30 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes, together with its compagnion LNCS 1607, the refereed proceedings of the International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, IWANN'99, held in Alicante, Spain in June 1999.
The 89 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. This volume is devoted to foundational issues of neural computation and tools for neural modeling. The papers are organized in parts on neural modeling: biophysical and structural models; plasticity phenomena: maturing, learning, and memory; and artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience.

Grammar and Conceptualization (Hardcover, Reprint 2012): Ronald W Langacker Grammar and Conceptualization (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Ronald W Langacker
R5,750 Discovery Miles 57 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Grammar and Conceptualization documents some major developments in the theory of cognitive grammar during the last decade. By further articulating the framework and showing its application to numerous domains of linguistic structure, this book substantiates the claim that lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a gradation consisting of assemblies of symbolic structures (form-meaning pairings).

How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science (Paperback, New): Valerie Gray Hardcastle How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science (Paperback, New)
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Oxford Guide to Behavioural Experiments in Cognitive Therapy (Paperback, New): James Bennett-Levy, Gillian Butler, Melanie... Oxford Guide to Behavioural Experiments in Cognitive Therapy (Paperback, New)
James Bennett-Levy, Gillian Butler, Melanie Fennell, Ann Hackmann, Martina Mueller, …
R1,666 Discovery Miles 16 660 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Behavioural experiments are one of the central and most powerful methods of intervention in cognitive therapy. Yet until now, there has been no volume specifically dedicated to guiding physicians who wish to design and implement behavioural experiments across a wide range of clinical problems. The Oxford Guide to Behavioural Experiments in Cognitive Therapy fills this gap. It is written by clinicians for clinicians. It is a practical, easy to read handbook, which is relevant for practising clinicians at every level, from trainees to cognitive therapy supervisors. Following a foreword by David Clark, the first two chapters provide a theoretical and practical background for the understanding and development of behavioural experiments. Thereafter, the remaining chapters of the book focus on particular problem areas. These include problems which have been the traditional focus of cognitive therapy (e.g. depression, anxiety disorders), as well as those which have only more recently become a subject of study (bipolar disorder, psychotic symptoms), and some which are still in their relative infancy (physical health problems, brain injury). The book also includes several chapters on transdiagnostic problems, such as avoidance of affect, low self-esteem, interpersonal issues, and self-injurious behaviour. A final chapter by Christine Padesky provides some signposts for future development. Containing examples of over 200 behavioural experiments, this book will be of enormous practical value for all those involved in cognitive behavioural therapy, as well as stimulating exploration and creativity in both its readers and their patients.

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