Humanidades / Psicología

Thought Paralysis: The Virtues of Discrimination

de Farhad Dalal

Given the enormous struggles, efforts and money expended on the equalities enterprise, why has more progress not been made? And further, why have things actually become worse in some circumstances? It is argued...

The Anna Freud Tradition: Lines of Development - Evolution and Theory and Practice over the Decades

de Norka Malberg & Joan Raphael-Leff

This volume honours Anna Freud's work and legacy by providing a detailed summary of the Psychoanalytic Developmental Tradition and illustrations of its contributions to the field of Child Psychotherapy and beyond....

From Late Adolescence to Young Adulthood

de David Brockman

'By focusing on the transition from late adolescence to young adulthood, this innovative book makes a unique and valuable contribution to our understanding of a neglected area of development. Drawing on his...

Essentials of TAT and Other Storytelling Assessments

de Hedwig Teglasi

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret a variety of storytelling techniques

Storytelling techniques are a popular projective approach for assessing many...

Five Minds for the Future

de Howard Gardner

We live in a time of relentless change. The only thing that?s certain is that new challenges and opportunities will emerge that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know which skills will be required...

The Science of Social Influence

de Anthony R. Pratkanis

The contributions to this volume capture the thrill of current work on social influence, as well as providing a tutorial on the scientific and technical aspects of this research. The volume teaches the student...

Handbook of Self-Help Therapies

de Patti Lou Watkins & George A. Clum

This volume constitutes the first solidly research-grounded guide for practitioners wending their way through the new maze of self-help approaches. The Handbook of Self-Help Therapies summarizes the current...

Personality Assessment

de Robert P. Archer & Steven R. Smith

Personality Assessment provides an overview of the most popular self-report and performance-based personality assessment instruments. Designed with graduate-level clinical and counseling psychology programs...

Intersections of Multiple Identities

de Miguel E. Gallardo & Brian W. McNeill

Over the past two decades, there has been an increase in the need to prepare and train mental health personnel in working with diverse populations. In order to fully understand individuals from different cultures...

Principles of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy

de Uwe P. Gielen, Juris G. Draguns & Jefferson M. Fish

In an era of globalization characterized by widespread migration and cultural contacts, psychologists, counselors, and other mental health professionals face a unique challenge: how does one practice successfully...

Culture and Therapeutic Process

de Mark M. Leach & Jamie D. Aten

While there are numerous resources for practitioners on the subject, the ambiguity remains of what actually constitutes effective multicultural counseling and psychotherapy and how it should be incorporated...

Making a Difference in Patients' Lives

de Sandra Buechler

Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication!

Within the title of her book, Making a Difference in Patients' Lives, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians.  But,...

Promises, Oaths, and Vows

de Herbert J. Schlesinger

Considering that getting along in civil society is based on the expectation that (most) people will do what they say they will do, i.e., essentially live up to their explicit or implicit promises, it is amazing...

Coasting in the Countertransference

de Irwin Hirsch

Winner of the 2009 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship!

Irwin Hirsch, author of Coasting in the Countertransference, asserts that countertransference experience always has the potential to be used...

Transforming Narcissism

de Frank M. Lachmann

Using Kohut's seminal paper ""Forms and Transformations of Narcissism"" as a springboard, Frank Lachmann updates Kohut's proposals for contemporary clinicians.  Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy,...

The Consulting Room and Beyond

de Therese Ragen

The Consulting Room and Beyond is not a typical example of clinical writing in the field of psychoanalysis. Therese Ragen, pushing the boundaries of the genre, thoughtfully explores in a very immediate way the...

Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty

de Doris Brothers

Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered...

From Psychoanalytic Narrative to Empirical Single Case Research

de Horst Kächele, Joseph Schachter & Helmut Thomä

Recognition of the need for empirical research and interest in its findings are growing in psychoanalysis. Many psychoanalysts now acknowledge that research is imperative to try to deal with the factors propelling...

Thinking for Clinicians

de Donna M. Orange

Thinking for Clinicians provides analysts of all orientations with the tools and context for working critically within psychoanalytic theory and practice. It does this through detailed chapters on some of the...

The Analyst in the Inner City, 2E

de Neil Altman

In 1995, Neil Altman did what few psychoanalysts did or even dared to do: He brought the theory and practice of psychoanalysis out of the cozy confines of the consulting room and into the realms of the marginalized,...