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  • Context in Action and How to Study It

    Illustrations from Health Care

    Edited by Ninna Meier, Sue Dopson ...
    Context is a central concept in organization and management studies, yet it is often used in a generalized, unspecific manner. This book offers an interactionist view on context as a dynamic, relational, and socially enacted phenomenon. It explores context in action and the theoretical, methodological, and analytical consequences of this approach through a collection of reflections and research ... Read more

    $77.39 USD

  • Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research

    In Praise of Detours

    Edited by Elina Maslo, Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field. The authors discuss how elements of academic work and life – usually edited out of traditional research papers – can elicit important analytical insight. The book reveals how the unplanned, accidental and even obstructive events that often occur in ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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  • Invisible Prisons of the Human Mind

    by Andreas Michael Theodorou ...
    Why do people think, believe, and behave the way they do?Invisible Prisons of the Human Mind explores the hidden psychological structures that shape human behaviour, beliefs, morality, and decision-making. Through a philosophical yet accessible framework, Andreas Michael Theodorou examines how the human Mind, Soul, Consciousness, and personal reference systems interact to regulate behaviour and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Make The Right Choices

    by Anna Gallotti, Maryvonne Lorenzen ...
    We make choices every day, from the simplest to the toughest. Considering all the opportunities life offers, the question is not only WHAT to choose but HOW to choose what will make us happy, without regrets, without being weighed down by education, conventions and the desire to please.In this book you are going to discover• The SEVEN STEPS leading to good choices.• The keys to choices that are ... Read more

    $8.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Psychology of Personhood

    Philosophical, Historical, Social-Developmental, and Narrative Perspectives

    Edited by Jack Martin, Mark H. Bickhard ...
    What is a person? Surprisingly little attention is given to this question in psychology. For much of the past century, psychology has tended to focus on the systematic study of processes rather than on the persons who enact and embody them. In contrast to the reductionist picture of much mainstream theorising, which construes persons as their mental lives, behaviours or neurophysiological ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • What Freud Really Meant

    A Chronological Reconstruction of his Theory of the Mind

    by Susan Sugarman ...
    Through an exacting yet accessible reconstruction of eleven of Freud's essential theoretical writings, Susan Sugarman demonstrates that the traditionally received Freud is the diametric opposite of the one evident in the pages of his own works. Whereas Freud's theory of the mind is typically conceived as a catalogue of uninflected concepts and crude reductionism - for instance that we are nothing ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to Consciousness

    Edited by Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken ...
    Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges. How does the brain's activity result in the rich phenomenology that characterizes our waking life? Are animals conscious? Why did consciousness evolve? How does science proceed to answer such questions? Can we define what consciousness is? Can we measure it? ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Social Science Methods for Psychodynamic Inquiry

    The Unconscious on the World Scene

    by William R Meyers ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explains, with case examples, a variety of social science research methods suitable for studying the unconscious components of irrational social and political actions in world affairs, which can be defined as those that are intensely destructive, self-destructive, or extremely bizarre. The book argues that they are driven in part by feelings and fantasies that are outside of conscious ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Narcissism and the Self

    Dynamics of Self-Preservation in Social Interaction, Personality Structure, Subjective Experience, and Psychopathology

    by R. Behrendt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book examines how coevolved intraspecific aggression and appeasement gestures can give rise to complex social, cultural, and psychopathological phenomena. It argues that the individual's need regulate narcissistic supplies and maintain feelings of safety is the overriding determinant of human conduct and thought in mental health and illness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Metamorphoses of the Brain – Neurologisation and its Discontents

    by Jan De Vos ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    What are we exactly, when we are said to be our brain? This question leads Jan De Vos to examine the different metamorphoses of the brain: the educated brain, the material brain, the iconographic brain, the sexual brain, the celebrated brain and, finally, the political brain. This first, protracted and sustained argument on neurologisation, which lays bare its lineage with psychologisation, should ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship

    Edited by Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Franklin Santana Santos ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a critical, but unspecified, threshold level of complex computation among neurons. The brain-as-computer model, however, fails to account for phenomenal experience and portrays consciousness as an impotent, after-the-fact epiphenomenon lacking causal power. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Schizophrenia and Common Sense

    Explaining the Relation Between Madness and Social Values

    Edited by Inês Hipólito, Jorge Gonçalves, João G. Pereira ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores the relationship between schizophrenia and common sense. It approaches this theme from a multidisciplinary perspective. Coverage features contributions from phenomenology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, and social cognition.The contributors address the following questions: How relevant is the loss of common sense in schizophrenia? How can the study of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD