What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a groundbreaking series of articles...
Psychology
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Author:Ellenberger, Henri F.Summary: - Author:Ross, Howard J.Summary:
If you are human, you are biased. From this fundamental truth, diversity expert Howard Ross explores the biases we each carry within us. Most people do not see themselves as biased towards people of different races or different genders...
- Everything isn't terrible : conquer your insecurities, interrupt your anxiety, and finally calm downAuthor:Smith, KathleenSummary:
Licensed therapist Dr. Kathleen Smith offers a practical guide for people who want to become beacons of calmness in their families, at work, and in our anxious world. Ultimately, living a calmer, less anxious life is possible, and with...
- Author:Shaw, JuliaSummary:
What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia...
- Author:Longaker, ChristineSummary:
Christine Longaker's experience with death and care of the dying began in 1976 when her husband was diagnosed with acute leukemia at the age of twenty-four. Since his death, she has devoted her life to ease the suffering of those facing...
- Author:Johnson, StevenSummary:
Plenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential decisions, the ones that affect our lives for years or centuries to come? Our most powerful stories...
- Author:Bader, Christopher, Baker, Joseph O., Day, L. Edward, Gordon, AnnSummary:
From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear. While fear is typically discussed in emotional or poetic terms-as the opposite of courage or an...
- Author:DeVault, Marjorie L.Summary:
Housework—often trivialized or simply overlooked in public discourse—contributes in a complex and essential way to the form that families and societies assume. In this innovative study, Marjorie L. DeVault explores the implications of "...
- Author:Amen, Daniel G.Summary:
If you want to feel happier, more optimistic, more joyful, and resilient, Dr. Amen's groundbreaking new book is for you. We've all felt anxious, sad, traumatized, grief-stricken, stressed, angry, or hopeless at some point in...
- Author:Westhoff, BenSummary:
Drugs like fentanyl, K2, and Spice--and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe--were originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by...
- Author:Schottky-Osterholt, ConnieSummary:
Dr. Connie Schottky-Osterholt is one of the leading experts in psychoneurology worldwide. She created the first PhD program for life coaches with the Barron University in Los Angeles where she is teaching the art of life coaching to...
- Author:Addington, Donald E.Summary:
The First Episode Psychosis Services Fidelity Scale (FEPS-FS 1.0) is used to assess the degree to which mental health teams deliver specialized care to people experiencing a first episode psychosis. Comprising of a range of evidence-...
- Author:Wilson, SarahSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of I Quit Sugar transforms cultural perceptions of the mental health issue of our age--anxiety--viewing this widespread condition not as a burdensome affliction but as a powerful spiritual teacher...
- Author:Querry, JoséeSummary:
Ma vie avec un trouble de stress post-traumatique. Le 5 août 1997, Josée Querry reçoit son insigne de la GRC. Réalisant son rêve de petite fille de devenir policière, elle se sent prête à affronter tout ce qu'elle trouvera...
- Author:Csikszentmihalyi, MihalySummary:
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically...
- Author:Fontaine, Anna LouiseSummary:
Où se situe la frontière entre la norme et la folie ? Existe-t-il un chemin de retour et un possible bonheur quand on est habité par tant de démons ? « ... Car il existe une norme. Des limites à ne pas dépasser. On n’étale pas ainsi ses...
- Author:Button, Tim, Magnus, P. D.Summary:
"This is a textbook on formal logic. The book is divided into nine parts. Part I introduces the topic and notions of logic in an informal way, without introducing a formal language yet. Parts II-IV concern truth-functional languages. In...
- Author:Pozzulo, JoannaSummary:
The text covers topics that might otherwise be discussed in social and cognitive psychology courses--including eyewitness testimony, jury decision making, and police procedures--as well as topics that are clinical in nature and might...
- Author:Pozzulo, JoannaSummary:
The text covers topics that might otherwise be discussed in social and cognitive psychology courses--including eyewitness testimony, jury decision making, and police procedures--as well as topics that are clinical in nature and might...
- Author:Gray, PeterSummary:
Psychologist Peter Gray suggests that it's time to stop asking what's wrong with our children, and start asking what's wrong with the system.
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