Social dreaming gives and opportunity to share a dream with others and the dream is then further developed by free association and discussion. The focus is on the dream and the social context of the dreamers, rather than the individual dreamers.

An essential textbook for students of psychology and related disciplines to help them understand the fundamentals of social psychology and its application in the Indian context.

Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize 2018. I couldn't put it down.' - Professor Robert Winston Drawing upon her cutting-edge research Professor Blakemore explores:* What makes the adolescent brain different?

An Invitation to Cultural Psychology looks at the everyday life worlds of human beings through the lens of a new synthetic perspective in cultural psychology - that of semiotic dynamics.

'What is intelligence?' may seem like a simple question to answer, but the study and measurement of human intelligence is one of the most controversial subjects in psychology. IQ and Human Intelligence provides an authoritative overview of the main issues surrounding this fascinating area.

Do you procrastinate? Find yourself putting things off until tomorrow -later-this year, next year, sometime, never? Andrea Perry describes how we need to develop trust in our abilities to follow our own logic into satisfying action, and how procrastination is a strategy to compensate for significant gaps in this process.

Psychology is a discipline that comprises various schools of thought with each taking a different position on key issues such as ethics and the nature vs. nurture debate. In this concise introduction, Fairholm focuses on the biological, behaviourist, cognitive, psychodynamic and humanist approaches and explores the differences in their standpoints.

The groundbreaking science of solutions that turns problems - and how we solve them - upside down.

An accessible, sharp and contemporary introduction to Lacan and his work

Laurens van der Post was a long-time friend of Jung and here presents Jung as he knew him: Jung the man, the discoverer and explorer of a new dimension in the human spirit, rather than Jung the psychologist.

Explains the basic concepts of Jungian psychology, and examines Jung's views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, 'sychronicity', and the psychology of gender differences. This book also discusses the stages of life, Jung's theory of psychological types, the interpretation of dreams, and the practice of Jungian analysis.

A 'one stop' analysis of key issues, theories, models and methods in contemporary health psychology

The story of Emma and Carl Jung's highly unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud, and their part in the early years of Psychoanalysis.

Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps and become ensnared time and again.

Why do some people always seem to have new ideas while others of equal intelligence never do? This book offers the portrayal of what lateral thinking is, how it works and how to use it to develop your own potential for thinking and problem solving.

Shows how to stimulate the mind in new and exciting ways. This is about freeing up your imagination.

In this book Bion describes his use of the term 'alpha-function' to conceptualize how the data of emotional experience is processed and digested. This includes his thinking on 'contact barriers' and the bearing of 'projective identification' on the genesis of thought.

This book addresses the generic principles by which each and every kind of life form-from single celled organisms to multi-celled organisms-perceives the circumstances of their living so that they can behave adaptively.

The fourth book in the authoritative BACP Legal Resources for Counsellors and Psychotherapists series is an essential reference for practitioners working across a range of practice settings. It provides practical examples and applications of the law as it varies across counselling contexts.

This thorough revision of the highly successful first edition offers the reader a wide-ranging and thought provoking account of human development throughout the life-span.