This text presents a concise summation of the state of theoretical psychology. It explores topics such as narrative studies, language and discourse, perspectives on cultural psychology, identity and subjectivity, critical history and post-modern debates about constructivism vs. realism.
Presenting a collection of diary entries made by British psychiatrist E A Bennet, during his visits with the Swiss analyst C G Jung, E A Bennet reveals Jung's personality and his extraordinary mind. He also introduces Jungian psychology while providing a perspective into Jung's life and work.
Explores developments in the sociology of knowledge, and highlights the shift away from traditional - particularly Cartesian - conceptions of person, mind and social behaviour.
Through myth, fairy tales, case studies, and Jungian psychology, this book explores the relationship between a father's daughter and her father, its rewards and pitfalls, and how this idealised relationship affects the mother-daughter bond.
Explores a range of problems in psychology, philosophy, cognitive and brains sciences, and identifies topics, debates and controversies. This book contains content on developments in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, including neural networks and dynamics systems. It is intended for students needing an understanding of these issues.
In this work, William Swann not only dissects the mistaken assumptions that underlie current self-esteem programs, but also incisively analyzes the nature of self-worth and the self-traps that make achieving and sustaining a sense of self-esteem so difficult.
This text explores the relationship between creative innovation, deviance and morbidity. To innovate one has to be able to view the medium and the object of creativity in a different, hitherto unexplored manner.
In this study, Austen Clark examines the strategy used in psychophysics, psychometrics, and sensory neurophysiology to explain qualitative facts. He argues that this strategy could succeed, its structure is sound, and it can answer the various philosophical objections lodged against it.
This text collects the thoughts and experiences of psychologists from around the world who have come to challenge the dominant frameworks and practices of their discipline. Over the course of 20 chapters, scholars/activists develop critiques of psychology's scientism and individualism.
Person-Centred Practice, the journal of the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA), was established in 1993 and published twice a year until 2004. With all but the latest issues out of print but in demand, PCCS Books published this selection of over thirty papers.
Beginning from Michael Polanyi's theory of tacit knowing and drawing upon an original model of the mind and its workings, this book develops the thesis that all consciousness is grammatically structured. Comparison is made in detail with the theories of Daniel Dennett and Gerald Edelman.