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  • The Globalization of Addiction

    A Study in Poverty of the Spirit

    de Bruce K. Alexander ...
    'The Globalization of Addiction' presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction. Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to cure it, prevent it, or take the pain out of it. There is no durable consensus on what addiction is, what causes it, or what should be done about it. Meanwhile, it continues to increase around the world. This book ... Leer más

    $38.69 USD

  • A History of Psychology in Western Civilization

    de Bruce K. Alexander, Curtis P. Shelton ...
    This book is a re-introduction to psychology. It focuses on great scholarly thinkers, beginning with Plato, Marcus Aurelius and St Augustine, who gave the field its foundational ideas long before better known 'founders', such as Galton, Fechner, Wundt and Watson, appeared on the scene. Psychology can only achieve its full breadth and potential when we fully appreciate its scholarly legacy. Bruce ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD

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  • On Liberty

    de John Stuart Mill ...
    On Liberty is a philosophical work by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality, which he conceived as a prerequisite to the ... Leer más

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  • Gracefully Insane

    The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

    de Alex Beam ...
    Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Inside The Mental

    Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD

    de Kay Parley ...
    Series series The Regina Collection
    Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met. Part memoir, part history, and beautifully written, Inside The Mental offers an episodic journey into the stigma, horror, and redemption that she found within the institution's walls.Now in her nineties, Parley looks back ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Hyper

    A Personal History of ADHD

    de Timothy Denevi ...
    The first book of its kind about what it’s like to be a child with ADHD, Hyper is a “haunting narrative that explores the world’s most scrutinized childhood condition from the inside out” (Nature) that also illuminates the history of how we came to medicate more than four million children today.Among the first generation of boys prescribed medication for ADHD in the 1980s, Timothy Denevi took ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Blue Dreams

    The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

    de Lauren Slater ...
    The explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs.Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health

    Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems

    Edición de Teresa L. Scheid, Tony N. Brown ...
    The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars and researchers present an overview of historical, social and institutional frameworks. Part I examines social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis and the measurement of mental health and illness, theories that explain the definition ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher

    de Alfred I. Tauber ...
    Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to ... Leer más

    $31.69 USD

  • Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

    Edición de Pilar Ordóñez-López, Nuria Edo-Marzá ...
    Series Libro 1 - Language at Work
    This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. Based on corpus-driven studies, it includes a wide variety of approaches including cognitive, corpus and diachronic linguistics. Each chapter examines a different aspect of medical communication, including the use of metaphor referring to cancer, the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Delusion and Dream (Illustrated Edition)

    de Sigmund Freud ...
    Unconscious wishes are always active and ready for expression whenever they find an opportunity to unite themselves with an emotion from conscious life, and that they transfer their greater intensity to the lesser intensity of the latter. - Freud. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known around the world as the Father of Psychoanalysis, and for good reason. If anything, Freuds first patient was himself ... Leer más

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  • Psychology from An Empirical Standpoint

    de Franz Brentano ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Franz Brentano is one of the founding fathers of twentieth century philosophy, celebrated for introducing the concept of intentionality to philosophy as well as making significant contributions to ethics and logic. His work exerted great influence on major philosophers such as Edmund Husserl, but also philosophers travelling in the opposite direction, such Gottlob Frege. He counted Sigmund Freud ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD