This comprehensive introduction to schizophrenia is an ideal starting point for students. It covers the theoretical foundations of different perspectives of schizophrenia, including medical, evolutionary and social, to give readers a solid grounding and then discusses the various forms of treatments and the arguments surrounding each perspective.

Falling in love is one of the strangest things we can do - and one of the things that makes us uniquely human. But what happens to our brains when our eyes meet across a crowded room? How are our romantic relationships different from our relationships with friends, family or even God? This book deals with these questions.

From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.

Anna Freud was one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis, whose pioneering work in child analysis and development revolutionized the treatment of the young. This book offers an overview of her entire career, displaying the richness, variety and originality of her thinking.

Provides an overview of the self and how it is conceptualized across the psychotherapies within various theories of personality. Outlining some of the philosophical and historical issues surrounding the notion of selfhood, this book examines classical and developmental models of psychoanalytic thought that implicitly point to the idea of self.

The new updated and fully revised edition of this bestselling title. Poor self-esteem can sabotage relationships and careers, cause self-destructive behaviour and can hold us back from achieving our full potential.

Design to help students achieve whatever life goals they set for themselves. In this book, the authors provide a general theory of behavior, guide students through exercises for developing skills in self-analysis, and provide scientifically based instruction in the principles and practices of self-applied psychology.

Based on Bandura's theory that those who believe they can do what they set out to do are healthier, more efficient and more successful than those with low self-efficacy expectations. This theory has stimulated programs of research in education, clinical and developmental psychology, medicine and related fields, athletics and business organization.

Self-Esteem: A Practical Guide brings you easy-to-follow techniques for improving your self-image. It's packed with practices from CBT and related disciplines so you can achieve a realistic and positive view of yourself and live a happier and more successful life.

This innovative text sheds light on how people work - why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive.

Conscious sensations ground our sense of self, but is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Nicholas Humphrey tells the story of his quest to understand the evolutionary history of consciousness and explains the startling answers he has come to.

Sexuality is an obsessive human concern; it has often been the real subject of cultural, religious, and political discourses that did not dare to mention it or did not have the language for addressing it directly. In order to understand contemporary sexuality this text looks at the past.

Come on, don't be shy: pick up this outstanding cultural history of shyness from the brilliant Joe Moran.

In this important theoretical treatist, the authors push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process.

The Six Hats method is a devastatingly simple technique based on the brain's different modes of thinking. The intelligence, experience and information of everyone is harnessed to reach the right conclusions quickly. This title shows how meetings can be transformed to produce quick, decisive results every time.

A unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life.

David Brooks weaves a vast array of new research into the lives of two fictional characters, revealing a fundamental new understanding of human nature. He outlines a new definition of success, highlighting what economists call non-cognitive skills - those hidden qualities that can't be easily measured, but which lead to happiness and fulfilment.

Leading scholars in the field of social networks from diverse disciplines present the first systematic and comprehensive collection of current theories and empirical research on the informal connections that individuals have for support, help, and information from other people

Provides a much-needed bridge between disparate bodies of research, examining the specific processes through which children internalize the lessons learned in social contexts.

* Written specifically for undergraduates with no or little knowledge of child development, and includes a variety of pedagogical features to help them* Fully up-to-date account which reflects current trends in the field* The only text to stress the practical implications of research findings. .