Category: Psychology

Beyond Borderline: True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications : August 2016

Seller ID: 647955

ISBN-13: 9781626252349

"These survivors hit their mark in helping to change the conversation about borderline personality disorder (BPD)." --Jim Payne, former president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness This provocative book uncovers the truth about a misunderstood and stigmatized disorder, and offers an opportunity for a deeper, more empathetic understanding of BPD from the real experts--the individuals living with it.BPD affects a significant percentage of the population. It is a disorder of relationships, one whose symptoms occur most in interpersonal contexts--and thus impact any number of interperson...
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Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder

By: Abrahamson, Eric

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : April 2015

Seller ID: 135770

ISBN-13: 9780316013994

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ever since Einstein's study of Brownian Motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. But most people still shun disorder-or suffer guilt over the mess they can't avoid. No longer With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess, A Perfect Mess overturns the accepted wisdom that tight schedules, organization, neatness, and consistency are the keys to success. Drawing on examples from business, parenting, cooking, the war on terrorism, retail, and even the meteoric career of Arnold Schwarzenegger, co...
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A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Vintage : March 1998

Seller ID: 778000

ISBN-13: 9780679771333

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

his astonishing book by the prizewinning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses reveals Ackerman's parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor. "(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers."--San Francisco Examiner.
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The Psychology of Happiness

By: Argyle, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Routledge : January 2002

Seller ID: 528960

ISBN-13: 9780415226653

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What is happiness? Why are some people happier than others? This new edition of The Psychology of Happiness provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of research into the nature of happiness. Major research developments have occurred since publication of the first edition in 1987 - here they are brought together for the first time, often with surprising conclusions. Drawing on research from the disciplines of sociology, physiology and economics as well as psychology, Michael Argyle explores the nature of positive and negative emotions, and the psychological and cognitive processes invo...
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Honest Truth About Dishonesty

By: Ariely, Dan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : October 2014

Seller ID: 640624

ISBN-13: 9780062183613

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational, examines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in this groundbreaking look at the way we behave: The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders' extra-marital affairs to the Ponzi schemes undermining our economy, cheating and dishonesty are ubiquitous parts of our national news cycle--and inescapable parts of the human condition.Drawing...
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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Aviv, Rachel

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : September 2022

Seller ID: 796477

ISBN-13: 9780374600846

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The Reciprocating Self: Human Development in Theological Perspective (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books)

By: Balswick, Jack O.,King, Pamela Ebstyne,Reimer, Kevin S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: IVP Academic : July 2016

Seller ID: 743710

ISBN-13: 9780830851430

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Along the way, they provide a context for understanding individual development issues--concerns, tensions, worries or crises encountered by the self in the context of change. Awareness of these issues is most pronounced at developmental transitional points: learning to talk and walk, beginning to eat unassisted, going to school, developing secondary sexual physical features, leaving home, obtaining full-time employment, becoming engaged and then married, having a child for the first time, parenting an adolescent, watching children move away from home, retiring, experiencing decline in physical...
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Understanding Psychotherapy: The Science Behind The Art

By: Basch, Michael Franz

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : October 2016

Seller ID: 326953

ISBN-13: 9780465088607

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Peripheral Visions: Learning along the Way

By: Bateson, Mary C.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : April 1995

Seller ID: 726740

ISBN-13: 9780060926304

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and concludes with a description of a tour bus full of Tibetan monks. Bateson's reflections bring theses narratives homes, proposing surprising new vision of our own diverse and changing society and offering us the courage to participate even as we are still learning.
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Connectionism and the Mind

By: Bechtel, William/Abrahmsen

Price: $4.00

Publisher: : April 2016

Seller ID: 744666

ISBN-13: 9780631165774

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Femenism, and the Problem of Domination

By: Benjamin, Jessica

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : February 2015

Seller ID: 780568

ISBN-13: 9780394757308

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

book is heavily used
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Introducing Psychology: A Graphic Guide

By: Benson, Nigel

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Totem Books / Icon Books : October 2003

Seller ID: 777069

ISBN-13: 9781840468526

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What is psychology? When did it begin? How does psychology compare with related subjects such as psychiatry and psychotherapy? To what extent is it scientific? Introducing Psychology answers all these questions and more, explaining what the subject has been in the past and what it is now. The main 'schools' of thought and the sections within psychology are described, and key figures are covered as well as many lesser-known but important psychologists.
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Freud and Man's Soul

By: Bettelheim, Bruno

Price: $3.00

Publisher: : January 2012

Seller ID: 732744

ISBN-13: 9780394710365

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Has Sigmund Freud been seriously misunderstood? The author of The Uses of Enchantment argues that mistranslation has distorted Freud's work in English and led students to see a system intended to cooperate flexibly with individual needs as a set of rigid rules to be applied by external authority. This provocative argument cuts through the myths to reveal a greater, more compassoinate and also far more disturbing figure.

VITAL...an eloquent attempt to reclaim Freud's reputation in America. --THE NEW YORK TIMES

Lucid and provocative. --THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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Freud's Vienna and Other Essays

By: Bettelheim, Bruno

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Knopf : December 1989

Seller ID: 694973

ISBN-13: 9780394572093

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Informed Heart

By: Bettelheim, Bruno

Price: $2.50

Seller ID: 378917

ISBN: 29711707

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

The Art of the Obvious

By: Bettelheim, Bruno

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Knopf : January 1993

Seller ID: 503607

ISBN-13: 9780679400295

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self

By: Bettelheim, Bruno

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Free Press : September 1972

Seller ID: 784813

ISBN-13: 9780029031407

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

By: Bettelheim, Bruno

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 412568

ISBN-13: 9780307739636

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award A charming book about enchantment, a profound book about fairy tales.--John Updike, The New York Times Book Review Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to "The Three Little Pigs," "Hansel and Gretel," and "The Sleeping Beauty," Bettelheim ...
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The Creation of Doctor B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim

By: Bettelheim/Pollak, Richard

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Touchstone : April 1998

Seller ID: 515354

ISBN-13: 9780684846408

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hailed as "a monument to scrupulous investigative reporting" by The Washington Post, this highly critical portrait of one of the most revered psychologists of this century raises important questions about Bruno Bettelheim's integrity -- both as a therapist and a man.Drawing on Bettelheim's unpublished papers and more than 225 interviews with his professional associates, former patients and their parents, Richard Pollak exposes a man whose much-touted success in treating schizophrenic and autistic children was based on false statistics conjured up to enhance his own reputation. Pollak offers su...
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Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human

By: Blackmore, Susan

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 2007

Seller ID: 776530

ISBN-13: 9780195179590

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In Conversations on Consciousness, Susan Blackmore interviews some of the great minds of our time, a who's who of eminent thinkers, all of whom have devoted much of their lives to understanding the concept of consciousness. The interviewees, ranging from major philosophers to renowned scientists, talk candidly with Blackmore about some of the key philosophical issues confronting us in a series of conversations that are revealing, insightful, and stimulating. They ruminate on the nature of consciousness (is it something apart from the brain?) and discuss if it is even possible to understand the...
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Category: Psychology