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Название: Integral Psychology: Yoga, Growth, and Opening the Heart
Автор: Brant Cortright
Издательство: State University of New York Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 244
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

A bold new view of the human psyche, integrating Eastern and Western approaches.

Название: Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology
Автор: Jeff Greenberg, Sander L. Koole, Tom Pyszczynski
Издательство: The Guilford Press
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 553
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

Social and personality psychologists traditionally have focused their attention on the most basic building blocks of human thought and behavior, while existential psychologists pursued broader, more abstract questions regarding the nature of existence and the meaning of life. This volume bridges this longstanding divide by demonstrating how rigorous experimental methods can be applied to understanding key existential concerns, including death, uncertainty, identity, meaning, morality, isolation, determinism, and freedom. Bringing together leading scholars and investigators, the Handbook presents the influential theories and research findings that collectively are helping to define the emerging field of experimental existential psychology.

Название: Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling
Автор: Grover Maurice Godwin
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 349
Размер: 6 MB
Язык: English

Offender profiling has been developing slowly as a possible investigative tool since 1841 and the publication of Edgar Allen Poe's The Murder in the Rue Morgue. In this book, detective C. Auguste Dupin demonstrates the ability to follow the thought patterns of a companion while they stroll through Paris for 15 minutes without speaking a word.

Название: Coping: The Psychology of What Works
Автор: C. R. Snyder
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Год: 1999
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 367
Размер: 76 MB
Язык: English

Like health, the ability to cope often goes unappreciated until it's too late. This volume, breaking from the traditional focus on pathology, takes a preventative approach, focusing on new ways to improve people's ability to cope with mental stress. This award-winning research emphasizes the role of people as positive copers. The volume collects work by leading experts and includes new research. It explores a wide variety of topics, including reality negotiation, confessing through writing, emotional intelligence, optimism, hope, mastery-oriented thinking, and more. The book will be an invaluable resource for mental health professionals, as well as a useful guide for general readers.

Название: Contemporary Clinical Psychology
Автор: Thomas G. Plante
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 650
Размер: 9 MB
Язык: English

This new edition provides the reader with the latest developments in clinical psychology. An excellent text for introducing and motivating students to become well-informed consumers of clinical psychology information. Every chapter provides valuable information for mental health students entering the profession.

Название: Trauma Psychology Issues in Violence Disaster Health and Illness
Автор: Elizabeth K. Carll Ph.D.
Издательство: Praeger
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 712
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

These volumes by a team of internationally recognized experts reflect and highlight both recognized and under-recognized events that cause trauma. They also examine current and emerging research on effective interventions to minimize and heal the effects of the trauma. Special attention is also given to culture and context, because what is considered healthy or problematic may vary widely across cultures, and culture can influence people's coping styles. Sources of trauma discussed include stalking, killing, terrorism, torture, kidnap, workplace violence, domestic violence, children and war, fires, floods, AIDS, pain, burns, spinal cord injury, children and medical illness, homelessness, and more. Case examples, treatment recommendations, and public policy recommendations are included in each of the chapters.The growing field of trauma psychology has been spurred recently by natural events from Hurricane Katrina to the Tsunami, and by terrorist events worldwide, as well as chronic health and social issues—from persistent pain to homelessness—that are mounting. The experts offer a gripping overview of the most traumatic and widespread events causing trauma and of the symptoms and health impairment that may result. Most important, they explain how we can best recognize, understand, and treat the sufferers and develop intervention policies.

Название: Fuzzy Sets in Psychology
Автор: T. Zetenyi (Eds.)
Издательство: North-Holland
Год: 1988
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 483
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

This volume provides an up-to-date picture of the current status of theoretical and empirical developments in the application of fuzzy sets in psychology. Fuzzy set theory could benefit researchers in at least two ways: first, as a metaphor or model for ordinary thought, and secondly, as an aid to data analysis and theory construction. One can find examples for both kinds in the volume, which will be of interest both to the advanced student in the field as well as to anyone possessing a basic scientific background.

Название: The psychology of culture shock
Автор: Colleen Ward, Stephen Bochner, Adrian Furnham
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 386
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Furnham and Bochner's classic Culture Shock (1986) examines the psychological and social processes involved in intercultural contact, including learning new culture specific skills, managing stress and coping with an unfamiliar environment, changing cultural identities and enhancing intergroup relations.

Название: The mind doesn't work that way: the scope and limits of computational psychology
Автор: Jerry Fodor
Издательство: The MIT Press
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 122
Размер: 275 kB
Язык: English

In this engaging book, Jerry Fodor argues against the widely held view that mental processes are largely computations, that the architecture of cognition is massively modular, and that the explanation of our innate mental structure is basically Darwinian. Although Fodor has praised the computational theory of mind as the best theory of cognition that we have got, he considers it to be only a fragment of the truth.

Название: Extending mechanics to minds: the mechanical foundations of psychology and economics
Автор: Jon Doyle
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 477
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

This book deploys the mathematical axioms of modern rational mechanics to understand minds as mechanical systems that exhibit actual, not metaphorical, forces, inertia, and motion. Using precise mental models developed in artificial intelligence the author analyzes motivation, attention, reasoning, learning, and communication in mechanical terms. These analyses provide psychology and economics with new characterizations of bounded rationality; provide mechanics with new types of materials exhibiting the constitutive kinematic and dynamic properties characteristic of different kinds of minds; and provide philosophy with a rigorous theory of hybrid systems combining discrete and continuous mechanical quantities. The resulting mechanical reintegration of the physical sciences that characterize human bodies and the mental sciences that characterize human minds opens traditional philosophical and modern computational questions to new paths of technical analysis.