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Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Agnieszka Piotrowska Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Agnieszka Piotrowska
R3,912 Discovery Miles 39 120 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- author-organized Visible Evidence conference slated to be held in August 2022, which offers a great pre- or post-pub promotional opportunity – utilizes interesting autobiographical approach

Deconstructing the Feminine - Psychoanalysis, Gender and Theories of Complexity (Hardcover): Leticia Glocer Fiorini Deconstructing the Feminine - Psychoanalysis, Gender and Theories of Complexity (Hardcover)
Leticia Glocer Fiorini
R3,986 Discovery Miles 39 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The guiding thread of this theoretical review is the illumination of the impasses of binary thought and of the essentialist conceptions of women and the feminine. In this trajectory, the author's ongoing dialogue with Freud is connected with one aspect of his way of thinking: multicentred and complex. The text addresses questions relating to love, sexual desire, maternity, beauty and the passing of time and highlights current debates concerning women, the feminine, and sexual difference as well as some controversial topics that have been discussed throughout the history of the psychoanalytic movement. One of the most relevant subjects is the notion of 'feminine enigma' and the conceptions of the feminine as the negative of the masculine, which means going into the nature-nurture debate, as well as into considerations of the feminine seen as the other of the masculine. The author points out that the notion of 'feminine enigma' is a displacement of the enigmas inherent to the origins, to the finite time of life (the inevitability of death) and to sexual difference.

Quick Python 3 (Hardcover): David Matuszek Quick Python 3 (Hardcover)
David Matuszek
R2,426 Discovery Miles 24 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Are you a programmer who wants to get started quickly in a new language? This book is for you. Are you a novice who wants to learn to program? This book is not for you. Are you a Python programmer who needs encyclopaedic information? This book is not for you. Like any mainstream language, Python has loops, if statements, assignment statements, functions, etc. I'll show you what these look like in Python. I won't waste your time telling you what they're good for. Python has features you may not be familiar with--iterators, list comprehensions, maybe even dictionaries. I'll spend more time on these. I'll cover some of the library functions I found most immediately useful, and tell you where to find more. In short, this book will help you hit the ground running. Next week, you'll be ready to buy that Python encyclopaedia.

Freud, Dora, and the Confusion of Tongues (Hardcover): Arnold W. Rachman, Paul Mattick Freud, Dora, and the Confusion of Tongues (Hardcover)
Arnold W. Rachman, Paul Mattick
R1,553 Discovery Miles 15 530 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Offers a contemporary perspective on one of Freud's most famous cases * Brings both a psychoanalytic and philosophical perspective to the case * Draws on the work of Ferenczi, who is increasingly popular in contemporary psychoanalysis

Agent-Based Modelling for Criminological Theory Testing and Development (Paperback): Charlotte Gerritsen, Henk Elffers Agent-Based Modelling for Criminological Theory Testing and Development (Paperback)
Charlotte Gerritsen, Henk Elffers
R1,235 Discovery Miles 12 350 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Agent-Based Modelling for Criminological Theory Testing and Development addresses the question whether and how we can use simulation methods in order to test criminological theories, and if they fail to be corroborated, how we can use simulation to mend and further develop theories. It is by no means immediately obvious how results being observed in an artificial environment have any relevance for what is going on in the real world. By using the concept of a "stylized fact," the contributors bridge the gap between artificial and real world. With backgrounds in criminology or artificial intelligence (AI), these contributors present agent-based model studies that test aspects of various theories, including crime pattern theory, guardianship in action theory, near repeat theory, routine activity theory, and general deterrence theory. All six simulation models presented have been specially developed for the book. Contributors have specified the theory, identified stylized facts, developed an agent-based simulation model, let it run, and interpreted whether the chosen stylized fact is occurring in their model, and what we should conclude from congruence or incongruence between simulation and expectations based on the theory under scrutiny. The final chapter discusses what can be learnt from these six enterprises. The book will be of great interest to scholars of criminology (in particular computational criminologists and theoretical criminologists) and AI (with an emphasis on AI for generative social processes), and more widely researchers in social science in general. It will also be valuable for master's courses in quantitative criminology.

God Behind the Screen - Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion (Hardcover): Janko Andrijasevic God Behind the Screen - Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion (Hardcover)
Janko Andrijasevic
R3,984 Discovery Miles 39 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy identifies and rigorously examines protagonists in works from a variety of genres, written by authors such as Aldous Huxley, Jane Austin, Sinclair Lewis, and Steven King, who are both fervently religous and suffer from a range of disorders underneath the umbrella of psychopathy.

Raising Boys With ADHD - Secrets for Parenting Successful, Happy Sons (Paperback, 2nd edition): Mary Anne Richey Raising Boys With ADHD - Secrets for Parenting Successful, Happy Sons (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Mary Anne Richey
R350 R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Save R19 (5%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The second edition of the best-selling Raising Boys With ADHD features the latest information on research and treatment for boys with ADHD. This book: Empowers parents to help their sons with ADHD find success in school and beyond. Covers topics not often found in other parenting guides. Provides a strength-based approach to helping boys discover their strengths and abilities. Helps boys become motivated, successful, and independent adults. Discusses the preschool years, early diagnosis, and strategies for teens transitioning to work and college. Filled with practical knowledge, a dynamic action planning guide, resources, and tools needed to help parents address the many strengths and challenges of boys with ADHD, this book provides parents with encouragement and hope for the future.

Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience (Hardcover): Roger Smith Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience (Hardcover)
Roger Smith
R1,546 Discovery Miles 15 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Interdisciplinary book that weaves together ideas from psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and dance. * Considers how movement is central to our sense of reality, our sense of self, and our relationships with others and the surrounding world. * Accessibly written book that foregrounds the author's voice and experiences

Early Psychological Research Contributions from Women of Color, Volume 1 (Paperback): Jon Grahe, Michelle Ceynar, Rihana S Mason Early Psychological Research Contributions from Women of Color, Volume 1 (Paperback)
Jon Grahe, Michelle Ceynar, Rihana S Mason
R1,383 Discovery Miles 13 830 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Early Psychological Research Contributions from Women of Color, Volume I, collects the dissertations of 20 cultural pioneers: women of color who were among the first to earn their doctorate degrees in psychology. Collectively, these chapters offer an important resource to diversify the history of psychology. This book is structured so that each chapter provides a biographical sketch of the woman, a summary of the dissertation, a reproducibility critique, a discussion about a modern alternative theory or methodological approach associated with the work (feminist theory, ethnopsychology, liberation psychology, etc.), and examples of how the dissertation can be used as instructional content in psychology and related disciplines offers suggestions for classroom use. The dissertations were completed as early as 1912 and as late as 1979 with the range reflecting differences in when women of certain groups could access education. The topics also range broadly across the breadth of the field of psychology, including physiological, cognitive, developmental, social, clinical, and more topics. The diversity of the work collected here will allow this book to be used to augment coursework either as a complete collection or as individual chapters. Instructors and students in undergraduate and graduate Research Methods courses will find this a crucial text in maintaining a true and inclusive historical perspective of psychological research. Additionally, due to the inclusion of research spanning the breadth of Psychology, this edited volume will appeal to scholars both across the discipline and in related fields, such as Women's Studies, Cognitive Science, Education, and Cultural Studies.

Challenging the Therapeutic Narrative - Historical and Clinical Perspectives on the Genetics of Behavior (Hardcover): Robert G.... Challenging the Therapeutic Narrative - Historical and Clinical Perspectives on the Genetics of Behavior (Hardcover)
Robert G. Goldstein
R1,412 Discovery Miles 14 120 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume explores and challenges the assumption that behavioral proclivities and pathologies are directly traceable to experience-an assumption that still widely dominates folk psychology as well as the perspective of many mental health practitioners. This tendency continues despite powerful evidence from the field of behavioral genetics that genetic endowment dwarfs other discrete influences on development and psychopathology when extrinsic conditions are not extreme. An interdisciplinary collection, the book uses historical, cultural and clinical perspectives to challenge the longstanding notion of identity as the product of a life-narrative. Although the nativist-empiricist debate has been revivified by recent advances in molecular biology, such ideas date back to the Socratic dialogue on the innate mathematical sense possessed by an illiterate slave. The author takes a philosophical and historical approach in revisiting the writings of select figures from science, medicine, and literature whose insights into the potency of inherited factors in behavior were particularly prescient, and ran contrary to the modern declivity toward the self as narrative. The final part of the volume uses historical and clinical perspectives to help illuminate the elusive concept of innateness, and highlights important ramifications of the revolution in behavioral genetics. Seeking to challenge the clinical utility of the therapeutic narrative rather than the importance of experience per se, the book will ultimately appeal to psychiatrists, psychologists, and academics from various disciplines working across the fields of behavioral genetics, evolutionary biology, philosophy of science, and the history of science.

Positive Leadership in Practice - A Model for Our Future (Paperback): Cornelia Lucey, Jolanta Burke Positive Leadership in Practice - A Model for Our Future (Paperback)
Cornelia Lucey, Jolanta Burke
R1,062 Discovery Miles 10 620 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Aims to help leaders become the best versions of themselves, achieve extraordinary results and help their team accomplish the same Introduces an ALIGHT model that guides leaders through six fundamental resources that can alight their own and their team's motivation, and transform their performance to an extraordinary level Further breaks down the six resources into 18 core components, the book expands on what constitutes the six resources to make them tangible and accessible

Environmental and Architectural Psychology - The Basics (Paperback): Ian Donald Environmental and Architectural Psychology - The Basics (Paperback)
Ian Donald
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Environmental and Architectural Psychology: The Basics is a jargon-free and accessible introduction to the relationship between people and their natural and built environment. Exploring everything from the effectiveness of open plan offices to how people respond to life-threatening disasters, the book addresses issues around sustainability, climate change, and behaviour, and is grounded in theory and ideas drawn from psychology, geography, and architecture. Author Ian Donald introduces both the theoretical underpinnings and the applications of environment-behaviour research to solving real world problems, encouraging readers to reflect on the role of design and policy in shaping the environments in which they live and work. With chapters considering the impact of environment on identity, wellbeing, crime, and spatial behaviour, Donald shows us not only how people shape and affect the environment, but also in turn how the environment shapes and affects people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Addressing some of the most important questions of our time, including how behaviour drives climate change, and what we can do about it, this is the ideal book for anyone interested in the interactions between architecture, the environment, and psychology.

Attention and Performance VI - Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Stockholm,... Attention and Performance VI - Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Stockholm, Sweden, July 28-August 1, 1975 (Hardcover)
Stanislav Dornic
R6,055 Discovery Miles 60 550 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Originally published in 1977, this sixth volume of an international series presented new and original material in the broad area of human performance. Included are the most recent findings, modern methodologies, and latest models and theories that indicate the trends and focus on recent points of debate. Among the topics covered are reaction processes, perceptual encoding, selective attention, visual search, processing a recognition of words as well as the reading process, and memory. This volume will be of paramount interest to experimental psychologists, from graduate students to post-graduate research workers.

Attention and Performance VII - Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Senanque,... Attention and Performance VII - Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Senanque, France, August 1-6, 1976 (Hardcover)
Jean Requin
R6,049 Discovery Miles 60 490 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Originally published in 1978, this seventh volume of an international series continues the objective to increase and disseminate scientific knowledge in the area of human attention, performance and information processing, and to foster international communication in this area. This volume covers the following topics: time in perception; word perception and reading; speech perception and coding; hemisphere differences; response and physiological processes; theories and models. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

United Nations International Police Officers in Peacekeeping Missions - A Phenomenological Exploration of Complex Acculturation... United Nations International Police Officers in Peacekeeping Missions - A Phenomenological Exploration of Complex Acculturation (Hardcover)
Michael R. Sanchez
R3,976 Discovery Miles 39 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why do international policing missions often fail to achieve their mandate? Why do United Nations Police officers struggle when serving in foreign peacekeeping missions? United Nations International Police Officers in Peacekeeping Missions: A Phenomenological Exploration of Complex Acculturation unravels these problems to find a causal thread: When working in hyper-diverse organizations such as the United Nations Police, United Nations police officers must grapple with adjusting to a kaleidoscope of different and competing cultures simultaneously-an issue the author identifies as complex acculturation. In this introduction to the novel concept of complex acculturation, Michael Sanchez explores the reasons behind the chronic performance troubles of the United Nations Police, and explains how the very fabric of the organization contributes to its ineffectiveness. While previous research has focused on private sector expatriate workers' challenges when adapting to a single new culture, this timely book describes a previously unstudied phenomenon and applies this knowledge to help businesses, governments, organizations, and citizens navigate the increasingly diverse workplace of the future. This book lays the foundation for a new area of study and provides a forward-thinking perspective that will interest multinational companies, police agencies, international relations organizations, prospective expatriate workers, and academics alike.

An Introduction to the Social Geography of India - Concepts, Problems, and Prospects (Paperback): Asif Ali, Hemant An Introduction to the Social Geography of India - Concepts, Problems, and Prospects (Paperback)
Asif Ali, Hemant
R1,095 Discovery Miles 10 950 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book discusses the significance of social geography, a multi-dimensional concept encompassing social health, social security and social ethos. It presents the socio-spatial dynamics of the population in India through an understanding of the various issues related to migration, urbanisation, unemployment, poverty and public health. With a thorough analysis of various social indicators relating to health, education, income and employment, the volume presents a detailed picture of the social geography of India. It discusses in detail, The origin, nature and scope of social geography, its relations with other social sciences and applications The nature and importance of social well-being along with welfare geography and the role of welfare state in ensuring social well-being The population of India and its attributes The status and spatial patterns of various social indicators relating to health, education and income and employment The composite indices which aggregate several social indicators such as the Human Development Index, Multidimensionally Poverty Index, Global Hunger Index, Gross National Happiness, Sustainable Developmental Goals Index and Freedom Index in the context of India. This comprehensive book will be useful for students, researchers and teachers of social geography, human geography, population geography, demography and sociology. The book can also be used by students preparing for exams like civil services, UPSC, PSC and other competitive exams.

Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis (Paperback): Lauren Levine Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
Lauren Levine
R970 Discovery Miles 9 700 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Explores the therapeutic value of storytelling * Focuses on work with trauma * Offers theory and clinical guidance for relational practitiioners

Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy - A Field-oriented Approach (Paperback): Margherita Lobb, Pietro Cavaleri Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy - A Field-oriented Approach (Paperback)
Margherita Lobb, Pietro Cavaleri
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- presents new areas of research within the field of Gestalt therapy - contributors are veterans in the field

A Constraints Led Approach to Baseball Coaching (Paperback): Rob Gray, Randy Sullivan A Constraints Led Approach to Baseball Coaching (Paperback)
Rob Gray, Randy Sullivan
R1,137 Discovery Miles 11 370 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A Constraints-Led Approach to Baseball Coaching presents a new approach to baseball coaching and practice. Applying a CLA to player development process across the skill spectrum from the beginners to elite, this book uses practical examples to demonstrate the theoretical principles of the Constraints-led coaching style embedded in research showing the numerous benefits of the approach. This book incorporates cases studies and examples of how constraints are manipulated to develop more adaptable players that can perform at a higher level with a reduced risk of injury, shifting the reader's view of skill acquisition from the concept of one "correct" solution, acquired through repetition, to the ecological dynamics framework focused on variability, adaptability and self-organization. Individual chapters cover major topics such as hitting, pitching and fielding for players at range of levels form little leagues to the pros and illustrating the underlying principles so that coaches can develop their own practice activities. A Constraints-Led Approach to Baseball Coaching is key reading for undergraduate students and practising sports coaches, physical education teachers and sport scientists alike as well as practising players and coaches in baseball and related sports.

Communicating with Vulnerable Patients - A Novel Psychological Approach (Paperback): Maria Leticia Castrechini Fernandes... Communicating with Vulnerable Patients - A Novel Psychological Approach (Paperback)
Maria Leticia Castrechini Fernandes Franieck; Contributions by Niko Bittner
R978 Discovery Miles 9 780 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Communicating with Vulnerable Patients explores ways to improve the communication process between highly vulnerable patients and the therapist, based on the assumption of the permanent presence of an 'outsider' or potential space in the communication field between them. In this space, the therapist and highly vulnerable patients can undergo transitional states of mind established between and within their relationship. Leticia Castrechini-Franieck, also known as Maria Leticia Castrechini Fernandes Franieck, presents practical methods to overcome communication issues and engage therapeutically with highly vulnerable patients suffering from personality disorders, addiction, and trauma, as well as with deprived children. Communicating with Vulnerable Patients is presented in five parts, with Part one focused on building communication through a Transient Interactive Communication Approach (TICA) and Part two applying TICA in forensic settings with five case studies illustrating the approach in a range of contexts. Part three considers TICA in intercultural settings, including work with refugees, and Part four outlines adaptations of the approach, including T-WAS (Together We Are Strong), which aims to avoid an increase of antisocial behavior in deprived children, and the use of TICA in the COVID-19 pandemic. The book concludes in Part five with reflections on outcomes and limitations of both TICA and T-WAS. Communicating with Vulnerable Patients will be invaluable reading for professionals, psychotherapists, group therapists, and group analysts working with at-risk populations.

Grace Pailthorpe's Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism (Paperback): Alberto Stefana, Lee Ann Montanaro Grace Pailthorpe's Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism (Paperback)
Alberto Stefana, Lee Ann Montanaro
R960 Discovery Miles 9 600 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Pailthorpe's important contributions to the development of psychoanalysis are largely overlooked now * Many of her key writings are published here for the first time * Her work ties into the contemporary interest in links between psychoanalysis and creative endeavour

William James's Pluralism - An Antidote for Contemporary Extremism and Absolutism (Paperback): Wayne Viney William James's Pluralism - An Antidote for Contemporary Extremism and Absolutism (Paperback)
Wayne Viney
R1,368 Discovery Miles 13 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

William James's Pluralism: An Antidote for Contemporary Extremism and Absolutism explores extremism and the related problem of absolutism in the context of the psychology and philosophy of William James. Extremist and absolutist views were topical in James's day, especially around the time of the Civil War, but they are no less common in these early years of the 21st century. James argued that the love of singularities such as belief in one God, one method, one political system, or one value system contributes to extremist, even violent mentalities. In this book, James's views on singular versus pluralistic perspectives are explored and then applied to contemporary practical issues such as abortion, birth control, and death with dignity legislation. These perspectives are furthermore applied to more theoretical issues, such as causality, values, and methods or ways of investigating the world. Within William James's Pluralism, these theories are investigated in a comprehensive philosophical and psychological examination of the human experience. Written in a nontechnical manner to appeal to the general public-just as William James hoped for his pluralistic philosophy-this book is additionally of considerable interest to academics and students across many fields such as psychology, philosophy, history, and sociology.

Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis - Breaking Boundaries (Paperback): Roger Frie, Pascal... Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis - Breaking Boundaries (Paperback)
Roger Frie, Pascal Sauvayre
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Covers key theory and clinical practice * Covers key social, cultural and political issues affecting psychoanalysis * Offers guidance for contemporary interpersonal practice

Person-Centered Studies in Psychology of Science - Examining the Active Person (Paperback): Lisa M. Osbeck, Stephen L Antczak Person-Centered Studies in Psychology of Science - Examining the Active Person (Paperback)
Lisa M. Osbeck, Stephen L Antczak
R1,260 Discovery Miles 12 600 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Uses an integrative approach, examining the personal, social, and cognitive dimensions of science practice. Features engaging Case Studies across sciences and time periods for reflection and discussion Largely written by students for students, with description of each author's personal connection to the scientist examined and discussion questions following each case study. Invites discussion of questions such as "What is a scientist?" "What is science?" "What does it mean to do science, and when is one doing it?" Offers scholarly commentary on the value of case studies for psychology of science (and psychology more broadly) Includes a chapter of commentary from an authority on case study method and the philosophical foundations of psychology.

Changing Brains - Essays on Neuroplasticity in Honor of Helen J. Neville (Paperback): Aaron J. Newman, Giordana Grossi Changing Brains - Essays on Neuroplasticity in Honor of Helen J. Neville (Paperback)
Aaron J. Newman, Giordana Grossi
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Helen Neville was a pioneer in the field of Neuroplasticity, focusing her research on deafness and contributing to an acceptance of the role that experience plays in shaping the sensory system This book will honour her work, following her untimely death in 2018 Featuring contributions from former students, collaborators, and colleagues, the book showcases Professor Neville's legacy to the field

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