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  • 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

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  • The Society of Timid Souls

    or, How To Be Brave

    by Polly Morland ...
    A journey into the modern life of an ancient virtue – bravery – and a quest to understand who might possess it and howWith The Society of Timid Souls, or How To Be Brave, documentary filmmaker Polly Morland sets out to investigate bravery, a quality that she has always felt she lacked. The book takes inspiration from a vividly eccentric, and radical, self-help group for stage-frightened performers ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $60.29 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

  • 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

  • Persons, Animals, Ourselves

    by Paul F. Snowdon ...
    The starting point for this book is a particular answer to a question that grips many of us: what kind of thing are we? The particular answer is that we are animals (of a certain sort)--a view nowadays called 'animalism'. This answer will appear obvious to many but on the whole philosophers have rejected it. Paul F. Snowdon proposes, contrary to that attitude, that there are strong reasons to ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Cooperation

    A Philosophical Study

    by R. Tuomela ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In Cooperation, A Philosophical Study, Tuomela offers the first comprehensive philosophical theory of cooperation. He builds on such notions a collective and joint goals, mutual beliefs, collective commitments, acting together and acting collectively. The book analyzes the varieties of cooperation, making use of the crucial distinction between group-mode and individual-mode cooperation. The former ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Consciousness

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Susan Blackmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, ... Read more

    $7.99 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

  • The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy

    by M. Altman, C. Coe ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy examines Freud's transformation of German philosophical approaches to freedom, history, and self-knowledge; defends a theory of situated knowledge and agency; and considers the relevance of Freudian thought for contemporary cultural issues. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD