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Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older
Is it true, as the novelist Cees Nooteboom once wrote, that "Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases"? Where do the long, lazy...
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Pharmaceutical Reason
Andrew Lakoff argues that a new pharmaceutical way of thinking about and acting upon mental disorder is coming to reshape not only the field of...
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Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development
To what extent do creativity and imagination decline in childhood? What factors might influence a decline? Theories of cognitive development show...
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The Mathematics of Behavior
Mathematical thinking provides a clear, crisp way of defining problems. Our whole technology is based on it. What is less appreciated is that...
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Women and Depression
Throughout the world, rates of depression are greater among females than males, and this gender gap emerges during adolescence and persists...
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The International Handbook of Creativity
What constitutes a creative person? Is it someone who can perform many tasks innovatively? Is it someone who exhibits creative genius in one area? Is...
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Constructing Scientific Psychology
Constructing Scientific Psychology is the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley....
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Minding the Close Relationship
This volume provides a statement of a new theory of how committed romantic partners can maintain and enhance their close relationships over an...
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Risk and Resilience
What factors enable individuals to overcome adverse childhoods and move on to rewarding lives in adulthood? Drawing on data collected from two of...
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Psychoeducation Manual for Bipolar Disorder
Although the mainstay of bipolar therapy is drug treatment, psychoeducation is a technique that has proven to be very effective as an add-on to...
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Cognitive Limitations in Aging and Psychopathology
This book examines the major progress made in recent psychological science in understanding the cognitive control of thought, emotion, and behavior...
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The Developmental Course of Marital Dysfunction
How do marriages become unhappy? How do marriages change? What are the theories and methods that can best illuminate our understanding of marital...
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Developmental Regulation in Adulthood
Human behavior is very flexible and ontogenetic potential adds to the scope of variability of developmental paths. Therefore, development in the life...
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Genetic Counselling
The role of a genetic counsellor is to mediate between the rapid advances in molecular medicine and an individual’s ability to understand and...
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Freud’s Literary Culture
This original study investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud’s creation and development of psychoanalysis. Graham Frankland...
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The Phenomenology of Everyday Life
The Phenomenology of Everyday Life presents results from a rigorous qualitative approach to the psychological study of everyday human activities and...
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The Child’s World of Illness
How do I decide I am ill; how do I decide that my children are ill? How do I learn effective ways of conveying to others that I am ill? This book...
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Health Psychology
This textbook aims to provide students with a stimulating alternative to the textbooks currently available by placing the discipline within the...
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Historical Dimensions of Psychological Discourse
In this volume, prominent American and European scholars explore the historical shaping of psychological discourse. Speaking from several...
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From Passions to Emotions
Today there is a thriving emotions industry to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago...
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A Community Reinforcement Approach to Addiction Treatment
The community reinforcement approach (CRA) to treating alcohol and other drug problems is designed to make changes in the client’s daily...
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Affect and Accuracy in Recall
Recollections of unexpected and emotional events (called flashbulb memories) have long been the subject of theoretical speculation. Previous meetings...
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Clinical Psychology for Trainees
This book describes the practice of clinical psychology with special emphasis on providing trainee therapists with the skills and strategies to...
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Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Women
Mood and anxiety disorders in women represent an increasingly important area of research and treatment development. The authors take a broad...
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