Framing

This cutting-edge book draws on the latest ideas from economics and evolutionary theory to provide a toolkit for understanding how issues are framed in the media, built around the key elements of texture, temperature, position and size.

Presence

This book charts a psychologist's journey to understand one of the most unusual experiences known to humankind: the feeling that someone or something is there when we are alone. A tour-de-force through contemporary psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and philosophy, Presence is the story of who ...

Becoming an environmental psychologist

This book explores the interdisciplinary pathways that environmental psychologists have taken to become educators, researchers, and consultants in this highly applied and growing field. Individuals with backgrounds in architecture, urban planning, and geography, as well as in the health sciences ...

A guide to the professional interview

Investigative Interviewing provides more accurate and reliable information than any other known interview technique. It is founded on interpersonal communication theories and informed by cognitive and social psychology. Equally important, it is designed for practitioners and delivered through a p...

Eating disorders in public discourse

Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This book uncovers compelling insights on the intersection of language, discourse and mental health.

Win. lose. repeat: my life as a gambler, from coin-pushers to financial spread-betting

Understanding the depressions

In this new title from Wyn Bramley, many different views on causation and treatment are explored. The emphasis is on real people's experiences from all aspects of the depressions - sufferers, helpers, family and friends - not a self-help work but an all-encompassing aid to understanding this comm...

Take charge of your diet

This is a short, accessible workbook offering a new approach to weight loss based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Rather than proposing a particular diet, the workbook offers practical tools to help slimmers adhere to whatever plan they have chosen.

Martin heidegger's impact on psychotherapy (2nd ed.)

The analytic experience

心路

《心路：走進他人內心世界的心理治療藝術》是一本把西方理論與中華智慧相融合的心理治療實踐指南。黃麗彰博士憑藉逾三十年的心理治療工作經驗，重新審視了西方心理治療理論在華人群體中的應用；張艷博士從實證研究角度深化了書中的論點。本書旨在幫助讀者洞察心理治療中的文化敏感度，並啟發未來的心理治療實踐。本書系統回顧了西方心理治療理論和框架，大量收錄了心理治療真實案例中的珍貴細節，深入探討了走進受助者內心世界的技巧、人生故事的重塑、內在世界的修和、未盡之事和創傷經驗的處理等與人內在體驗相關的主題。因我們共有的人性，不論你是心理治療的專業從業者抑或是愛好者，相信都能透過閱讀本書，享受這段探索人性內在世界的...

疫下心境

新冠疫症是一場全球危機，影響了數百萬人的生命，也令精神健康問題成為眾所矚目的焦點。香港異於其他地方的嚴格防疫規定、檢疫措施和旅遊限制，使情況雪上加霜。與疫情相關的精神健康問題，並未隨口罩令解除而結束。相反，這些衝擊才剛剛開始浮現，其餘波在往後多年持續存在。這本令人眼界大開的書，記述了普通香港人在疫症期間面對極具挑戰的故事。本書糅合了第一身敘述、心理學見解和具體數據，以引人入勝且簡單易明的方式，深入探討新冠疫症對香港人精神健康造成的影響。然而，此書不僅僅是一本苦難的紀實，也是通往療癒和希望的指南。書中提供了一些實用建議，幫助人們克服因疫情引發的精神健康問題，建立韌性和促進身心健康。同時，本...

Inside influence

The book, Inside Influence: The Psychology of Power in Human Life, explores why people grant power to a few sometime authoritarian leaders and how power psychologically transforms those who hold it. Drawing on research, he shows how power can distort judgement, empathy and behaviour, and argues f...

The mind economy

The Mind Economy explores the human psyche as an economic system, positioning memory as its central currency. Combining psychological insight, cognitive science, and philosophical depth, it introduces economic cognitive therapy and practical methods for harnessing memory as a resource for self-aw...

Reverberating past

Reverberating Past: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Art of Nostalgia provides a fresh lens on nostalgia by blending artistic and academic explorations, highlighting how cultural artifacts and personal memories shape collective identities. The anthology introduces a unique viewpoint on how t...

The unspoken morality of childhood

The Unspoken Morality of Childhood: Family, Friendship, Self-Esteem and the Wisdom of the Everyday reflects the thoughts of a senior ethicist and discusses complex ethical concepts such as identity, agency, self-esteem, forgiveness, relations with our parents, dealing with loss, the moral imagina...

Silent dilemmas of project managers

Pandemic minds

The COVID-19 pandemic was a global crisis that affected millions of lives and brought mental health challenges to the forefront. In Hong Kong, the situation was worsened by uniquely strict COVID-19 regulations, quarantine measures, and travel restrictions. The mental health issues associated with...

Early buddhist teachings

Mindfulness and meditation, practices that are rooted in Buddhism, have become mainstream treatments in counseling and psychotherapy that provide evidence of successful outcomes among secular clients. However, for clients from non-Western backgrounds, dissociating mindfulness practice from the co...

Psychopathology

Psychopathology: An Empathic Representational Approach retraces the foundations of classical phenomenological psychopathology and integrates them with modern ideas drawn from anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, computational science, and evolutionary biology to synthesize a comprehensive framew...

Psychosis and schizophrenia in hong kong

Psychosis and Schizophrenia in Hong Kong covers some of the most serious mental health conditions that top the global disease burden and affect 3 per cent of the general population. However, most research on psychotic disorders is undertaken in the West, and few studies have been systematically c...

Excuses

'In the two decades since this book was first published, excuse making has flourished—both as a practice and as a process inviting investigation and theory.” So write the authors in their new introduction. But they also maintain that excuse making is a critical element in what social psychologist...

Vicissitudes: histories and destinies of psychoanalysis

Academics, analysts and artists are gathered together in this illustrated volume, which celebrates the culmination of a two-year project at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies to discover and debate current issues in psychoanalysis in the arts and humanities across five language-field...

The drama therapy decision tree, second edition

Provides a model for therapeutic decision-making, uniting drama therapy interventions with diagnostic information, individual and group processes, psychological distance, the drama therapy pie, and global outcomes in a series of questions for early career drama therapists and other healing profes...

The handbook of sandplay therapy

Now considered a classic in the field, The Handbook of Sandplay Therapy is the core classic training manual and reference source in Jungian Sandplay Therapy. It remains the most-read book in the field. The book comprehensively explains and illustrates the theory, process and procedures of Jungian...

The teachings of dora kalff

Sandplay therapy is based on the psychology of Carl Jung and developed by the Swiss psychotherapist and teacher Dora Kalff. In this beautiful full-colour volume, sandplay therapist Barbara Turner has recorded Dora Kalff's teachings, transcribed from the shorthand notes she made during the origina...

Images of the self

Unavailable for many years, this book has remained the foundational text on sandplay psychotherapeutic theory. The theoretical mechanics of how Sandplay works to heal and transform the psyche are articulated and applied to a complete Sandplay case.

Scientist as subject

This book, originally published in 1976, documents the idiosyncracies and foibles of the scientific process as a field of endeavour. A new introduction updates such aspects of academia as politics and tenure, publication and power relations, science studies and constructivist inquiry, and what ha...

Personality and control

Volume 4 of this innovative series on social and personality psychology showcases the rapid advances being made in the science of cognitive and behavioural control, seen in their experimental (e.g. brain studies) and everyday (e.g. emotion regulation) varieties.

Personality from biological, cognitive, and social perspective

This series grows out of the Biennial Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology, which are intended to become a regular forum for psychologists and representatives of allied disciplines.    

Personality coherence and incoherence

This book presents the Complex-System Approach to Personality, which seeks to promote the development of integrative theorizing and subsumes particular insights from earlier models while permitting both within-person and between-person comparisons.

Personality dynamics

Volume 3 of this series presents contemporary advances in psychological science that address questions about personality dynamics. Twenty-two contributors discuss three challenging themes in personality dynamics: processes of meaning construction, the interplay between personality and the social ...

Temperament as a regulator of behavior

Nature or nurture? Are individuals born as an empty slate or are we already programmed to react in certain ways? Jan Strelau has spent more than fifty years studying this question. He bases some of his conclusions on the work of the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov but carries them into the twent...

Dictionary of behavioral assessment techniques

This resource incorporates descriptions of both major and minor behavioral assessment techniques written by their leading proponents and practitioners in the field. A new preface by the editors contributes to the book’s currency.

Close relationships

When W. H. Freeman originally published this book in 1983, the scientific study of relationships was in its childhood. 'Relationship science' has since become established in psychology, sociology, and other disciplines. A new introduction by Ellen Berscheid and Harold Kelley documents the evoluti...

Psychoanalytic mythologies

‘Psychoanalytic Mythologies’ presents a collection of essays on the theme of what it is to be a human subject in a culture permeated by psychoanalytic imagery.

Personality, cognition, and emotion

In Volume 2 of the series, the editors and contributors examine the interactive influences of personality, cognition, and emotion in order to attain a comprehensive understanding of human behavior.  

Hope for the journey

The authors—professional psychologists who work with children and families—believe that adults can help children build hope and combat hopelessness, and use stories that children construct about themselves to document the hope-building process.    

Sandtray play in education

This is a manual for training teachers in the Sandtray Play in Education method. It is a creative learning tool for use by school counselors, psychologists and special education teachers who have access to a private learning space. Sandtray Play in Education introduces a holistic approach to chil...

Sandplay and storytelling

Combining the fields of child psychology and child education, this groundbreaking work explores how engaging children in Jungian sandplay therapy and imaginative storytelling can improve classroom performance and increase intelligence scores. Educators, psychotherapists and concerned parents alik...

Comparative psychology of mental development

This classic work, first published in German in 1926, was the first comprehensive introduction to the field of comparative developmental psychology. In her new prologue to this reprint of the revised edition, Franklin sketches the key events in Werner's life, the major themes in his concept, and ...

The clinical study of social behavior

The decade of the 1960s witnessed early attempts to create a unified science-profession of clinical psychology. Following in the path of these efforts, Donald Peterson set out to write what he describes in his new introduction as a 'manifesto' for a 'scientifically grounded, practically effective...

Voices of the lost children of greece

Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Their stories will strike home the experience of international adoption, whose impact has been lifelong, but has not been properly measured, l...

Are you making love or just having sex?

Complete with self-improvement exercises and video lectures, this innovative book shows how you can identify your unlovable ways of relating, counter them with lovable goals, embrace philosophies of love that promote these goals, and create action plans to attain enduring love and sexual intimacy.

Sexual bargaining in the digital era

Sexual Bargaining in the Digital Era follows the evolution of genders/sexualities and so on away from their Old Normal pattern, which prevailed during the Agricultural Age and the Industrial Age, and into the New Normal pattern which is currently surfacing in concert with an emerging Digital Era.

Analysing american advice books for single mothers raising sons

Although single fathers as primary careers are on the rise, most single-parent households in the US are headed by women. These women are a lucrative market for parenting books and most of these books are aimed at single mothers raising sons. This intersectional study analyses the way in which the...

Modes of spectating

Modes of Spectating investigates the questions posed by new artistic and technological mediums on the viewer experience. Oddey and White analyze how gaming and televisual media and entertainment are used by young people and the resulting psychological challenges of understanding how viewers navig...

Europe and love in cinema

This book explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a range of films from the 1920s to the present and looks at how love is portrayed in cinema across Europe and the United States. Essays from top film scholars demonstrate the centrality of desire to film narrative and explores m...