Identifying and Countering Behavioral Influence and Engineered Narratives
Loneliness and Social Isolation in Old Age
This book is a seminal guide to loneliness and social isolation in old age, providing a comprehensive overview of the important correlates of socioeconomic, health and lifestyle factors upon loneliness and social isolation in old age.
The Dread of Falling
The Dread of Falling: Reflections on Primitive Mental States offers a comprehensive and original view of primitive mental states from a psychoanalytic perspective, allowing the reader to understand the nature of these states from developmental, theoretical and clinical vantage points.
Psychotherapy in the Age of Political Polarization
Psychotherapy in the Age of Political Polarization explores how highly politicized interactions can often affect psychotherapy and counseling, and ways to combat the division.
Arts Therapies Research and Practice with Persons on the Autism Spectrum
This volume presents cutting-edge research and practice on creative arts therapies for individuals on Autism Spectrum of all ages, outlining the development of effective and accessible approaches to support diverse needs of this client group.
Executive Functioning & AHDH for Teenagers and Young Adults
Executive Functioning & ADHD for Teens and Young AdultsNo Fluff. No Nonsense. Just Real Talk.Hey, you. If you're reading this, chances are you have ADHD-or you love someone who does. Either way, let me start by saying this: ADHD is not a flaw. It's a different way of thinking, and when you learn to work with your brain instead of against it, you'll unlock strengths you didn't know you had.But let's be real. ADHD can make everyday life feel like a never-ending rollercoaster. Maybe you struggle with getting started on things (even when you want to). Maybe deadlines sneak up on you, and no matter how many planners or apps you try, you just can't seem to stay on top of everything. Maybe people around you don't get it, and you're tired of hearing things like "Just focus more!"I hear you. I see you. And that's why I wrote this book.You Don't Need to Change-You Just Need the Right ToolsThis isn't one of those generic self-help books. This is a guide written FOR YOU, by someone who understands ADHD. No vague advice, no impossible rules-just real strategies that work.What You'll Learn: ✅ How to Stop Procrastinating (Even When You Don't Want to Start) ✅ Time Management That Works for ADHD Brains ✅ Staying Focused Without Fighting Yourself ✅ Getting and Staying Organized (Without the Overwhelm) ✅ How to Stop Beating Yourself UpWhy This Book is DifferentI don't believe in one-size-fits-all advice. ADHD brains work differently, and that's okay! That's why I don't just give you strategies-I help you understand why they work so you can choose what fits your life.This book is packed with real-life examples, easy-to-apply strategies, and zero judgment. You don't have to change who you are to be successful. You just need to understand how your brain works and use that to your advantage.ADHD is Your Superpower-If You Know How to Use ItADHD isn't a curse. It's a different operating system, and once you learn how to work with it, you'll be unstoppable.Some of the most successful, creative minds in history had ADHD. People like Einstein, Da Vinci, Simone Biles, and countless others didn't succeed in spite of their ADHD-they succeeded because they learned how to harness it. And so can you.Bonus Chapter: For Parents & FriendsADHD doesn't just affect you-it affects the people around you, too. That's why I've included a special section for parents and friends, filled with tips on how to support someone with ADHD in a way that actually helps.Because here's the truth: You are not alone. ADHD can feel isolating, but you don't have to figure this all out by yourself. This book is here to guide you, encourage you, and remind you that you are not broken. You're just wired differently-and different is powerful.Your Journey Starts NowIf you're tired of struggling, tired of feeling misunderstood, and ready to take control of your ADHD instead of letting it control you-this book is your roadmap. No fluff, no fake positivity, just real tools and real talk to help you succeed on your own terms.You've got this. I believe in you. Now let's make it happen.
The Quest for Significance
The Quest for Significance: Harnessing the Need that Makes the World Go Round is a fascinating exploration of why we all seek Significance - a fundamental human motivation - and how we can understand it to help us lead better lives.
Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy
In this comprehensive volume, Richard M. Billow provides a thorough introduction to group psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective. Billow integrates contemporary psychoanalytic thinking with Freudian and Kleinian core concepts, as well as Bion's early group theory and his later metapsychology, to provide a holistic overview of group therapy and its potential benefits for patients. He incorporates major psychoanalytic thinkers outside the American relational mainstream -- such as Lacan, Laplanche, Kaes, Foulkes, and Pichon Riviere, as well as his own prominent contributions to the field - to provide a unique and interdisciplinary overview. Throughout the chapters, readers will be introduced to challenging clinical experiences that illustrate some of the similarities and differences among psychoanalytic and other psychodynamic group approaches. Offering guidelines on how to harness and conduct the group, Billow provides exceptional insight into the veritable benefits of maintaining an analytic stance within the clinical setting. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book is a vital tool for students and professionals interested in a thorough overview of psychoanalytically based group treatments.
Mental Health and Quality of Life of Adolescents with Physical, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This timely volume addresses issues related to the mental health and health-related quality of life of adolescents through a study with three groups: those with physical, intellectual, and other developmental disabilities, specifically Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
Advancing Positive Organizational Behaviour
The book offers a valuable resource for students and scholars of work/organizational psychology, organizational behaviour and applications of positive psychology. It is also a useful reference for organizations looking to understand and implement positive organizational policies in their workplaces.
Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Residential Care for Children and Youth
Is residential care 'inherently harmful'? This book argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong and is, itself, harmful to a significant number of children and youth.
Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God
Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God discusses four distinct attachment relationships to the God of personal spiritual experience and considers how each of these relationships has implications for working with clients in psychotherapy.
The Science of Weird Shit
An accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences. Ghostly encounters, alien abduction, reincarnation, talking to the dead, UFO sightings, inexplicable coincidences, out-of-body and near-death experiences. Are these legitimate phenomena? If not, how should we go about understanding them? In this fascinating book, Chris French investigates paranormal claims to discover what lurks behind this "weird shit." French provides authoritative, evidence-based explanations for a wide range of superficially mysterious phenomena, and then goes further to draw out lessons with wider applications to many other aspects of modern society where critical thinking is urgently needed. Using academic, comprehensive, logical, and, at times, mathematical approaches, The Science of Weird Shit convincingly debunks ESP, communicating with the dead, and alien abduction claims, among other phenomena. All the while, however, French maintains that our belief in such phenomena is neither ridiculous nor trivial; if anything, such claims can tell us a great deal about the human mind if we pay them the attention they are due. Filled with light-bulb moments and a healthy dose of levity, The Science of Weird Shit is a clever, memorable, and gratifying read you won't soon forget.
Jung and Spirituality
An exploration of spirituality in the modern world using Carl Jung's insights Jung believed that a spiritual life lies buried in everyone's unconscious and could be brought before consciousness with therapeutic results and that rationality and hubris prevented many in the modern world from acknowledging the spiritual aspects of our lives, and repressing the spiritual was as harmful as repressing the sexual. This book contains a series of chapters which explore the applications and ramifications of Jung's psychospiritual theory. Starting with how to bring back spirituality into religion, it then looks at the activation of 'earth energies' and the primordial mind by bringing the spirit back into nature. It proceeds to examine the spiritual journey, dreams, the individuation of god, and the healing power of spirituality.
Outsmarting Death Two Times
The discussion about no life or life after death can be considered solved after reading this book. Because neuroscientists have recognized that between the medically even with modern methods determined end of life and the really final death still a span exists in which brain activities can be proved. These processes can also be explained theoretically with psychoanalytical understanding. It reminds of Sisyphus, who, in contrast to Oedipus, is not so well known in Freud's psychoanalysis. But Sisyphus was not only a hero regarding the severity of life, but also a role model in dying, outsmarting death twice. The narrow passage between life and death represents a life of a different kind that can be neuro-psychically grasped. And so it is no longer about a life after death, but about one while dying. This orientation probably also plays a role in Sisyphus, but it can also be used for a direct self-practice for today. With the method of Analytic Psychocatharsis the author has combined psychoanalytic and meditative procedure, which, even practiced by oneself, helps to outsmart death even today by using this span of life in dying. Because this other life can be used only who has learned it before to a large extent.
The Psychology and Science of Pseudoscience
Excellent up-to-date book about pseudoscience and science denial, with an in-depth look at how human psychology promotes these problems. An engaging and comprehensive critical review of a wide range of pseudoscientific topics which explores the underlying psychological factors behind paranormal and related beliefs.
The Psychology and Science of Pseudoscience
Excellent up-to-date book about pseudoscience and science denial, with an in-depth look at how human psychology promotes these problems. An engaging and comprehensive critical review of a wide range of pseudoscientific topics which explores the underlying psychological factors behind paranormal and related beliefs.
The Instability of Truth
Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often don't recognize it while it's happening--unless we know where to look. As Rebecca Lemov writes in The Instability of Truth, "Brainwashing erases itself." What we call brainwashing is more common than we think; it is not so much what happens to other people as what can happen to anyone. The Instability of Truth exposes the myriad ways our minds can be controlled against our will, from the brainwashing techniques used against American POWs in North Korea to the "soft" brainwashing of social media doomscrolling and behavior-shaping. In our increasingly data-driven world, anyone can fall victim to mind control. Lemov identifies invasive forms of emotional engineering that exploit trauma and addiction to coerce and persuade in everyday life. Tracing the word "brainwashing" from deep in the files of an operative of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services in the 1950s to the pioneering research of Robert Jay Lifton, to the public trials of cult leaders and the case of Patty Hearst, Lemov also studies how the idea of mind control has spread across the globe and penetrated courtrooms, secret labs, military schools, and today's digital sites. The Instability of Truth offers lessons from mind-control episodes past and present. Truth is always subject to question in more mundane walks of life than most people believe, and Lemov equips us for the increasing challenges we face from social media, AI, and an unprecedented, global form of surveillance capitalism. The Instability of Truth develops a rigorous new understanding of both brainwashing's paradoxes and its emotional roots, by giving voice to brainwashers, the brainwashed, and third-party observers alike.
Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging
Fully updated and revised, Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging, 2nd Edition provides an accessible introduction to aging and the brain. Now with full color throughout, it includes over fifty figures illustrating key research findings and anatomical diagrams. Adopting an integrative perspective across domains of psychological function, this edition features expanded coverage of multivariate methods, moral judgments, cognitive reserve, prospective memory, event boundaries, and individual differences related to aging, including sex, race, and culture. Although many declines occur with age, cognitive neuroscience research reveals plasticity and adaptation in the brain as a normal function of aging. With this perspective in mind, the book emphasizes the ways in which neuroscience methods have enriched and changed thinking about aging.
Of Nod
OF NOD is a poetic memoir in which the author describes his life's journey: struggling and overcoming mental health issues pertaining to schizophrenia; falling in love; recovering from addiction; and developing a sense of spirituality. This is essentially a story about the loss of innocence and the regaining of that innocence. "A hauntingly beautiful piece that will coax you into a journey spanning several years from innocent childhood through adulthood and the grapplings of mental illness. Poetic imagery and dreamlike passages will keep the reader turning pages, or perhaps lingering to absorb it all. This is a story of loss and discovery, of love and understanding. You will find yourself willingly lost in Mark's world as you begin to see life from his perspective. There is beauty and there is pain and there is always hope. This work will be one that you reach for again and again." a Misty Yandell review * OF NOD was previously published as a poetic novel, but in this version, the author has taken a more personal approach, editing out the fictional parts, and adding a new chapter.
ADHD In Sport
Some athletes with ADHD describe it as their superpower; seeing that the creativity, hyperfocus and speedy decision making amplifies their potential sporting success. Other athletes with ADHD find that narrative infuriating as they try to handle executive dysfunctions, emotional dysregulation and difficulties in focusing alongside the frustrations of trying to thrive in a neurotypically designed sporting environment. This book is written with all these athletes in mind; from juniors starting out in school teams through to elites making their careers in professional sport and adults using sport to stay mentally regulated, maintain social connections and boost confidence.ADHD in Sport: Strategies for Success illuminates the ADHD brain in sporting environments, looks at the benefits of exercise on ADHD, the impact of ADHD traits on sporting performance, has chapters full of tools to help wellbeing, training and competition, information on co-occurring conditions and ADHD medication in sport and concludes with chapters for coaches, parents and partners to help them successfully support and scaffold.If you have ADHD (or spend time with those who do) then this book will give you tools, techniques and strategies to thrive and succeed in sport.
Personality Imagery Deconstruction
Personality imagery deconstruction is an innovative theory in personality psychology, grounded in Imagery Communication Psychology (ICP). This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the sources of personality imagery, as well as the significance and methods of deconstructing it for practical applications. Inspired by Chinese cultural philosophy, this approach views personality as a system rather than a collection of separate traits. Instead, personality is deconstructed into distinct, independent sub-personalities, each with its own motives, behaviours, and preferences. Through ICP, these sub-personalities emerge in the conscious mind, appearing as individual entities within a broader 'community' of the self. By consciously engaging with each sub-personality, individuals can encourage communication and harmony among them. This process allows for the transformation of negative or stagnant sub-personalities, helping to restore vitality and clarity to the overall personality. In essence, personality imagery deconstruction enables personal growth by transforming the inner dynamics of one's mental life.
Family Therapy
Family Therapy: Conversations for change invites readers directly into the therapy room with systemic family psychotherapists, all of whom are registered members of the Family Therapy Association of Ireland Here, therapists describe carefully anonymised consultations with individuals, couples, parents, children, adolescents and adults facing many of the challenges that confront people in their lives today. Family Therapy: Conversations for change shows systemic family psychotherapists in action with issues of addiction autism adolescent anxiety harmful sexual behaviour neurological presentations problem eating violence and self-harm the management of older age and the pain of bereavement, so that readers know exactly how this model of therapy operates, and if it might be helpful for them. Written by front line clinicians, with creativity, compassion and care, this is a book for everyone; for family therapists and all psychotherapists, for general practitioners, psychologists, social workers, multidisciplinary health professionals and the general public. All Royalties are dedicated to the Family Therapy Association of Ireland (FTAI) to promote the accessibility of systemic psychotherapy in Ireland.
Men's Silences
First published in 1992, Men's Silences represents a personal and a political attempt to break out of the narrow parameters of men's sexual politics. It focusses on men's feelings to language. The early chapters provide a social context for exploring the practice and theorizing of men's sexual politics. The book continues by developing an alternative theoretical framework for addressing male subjectivity, using Wittgenstein's theory of language and the psychoanalytic theories of Winnicott, Bion and Klein. The author argues for the centrality of the pre-oedipal mother-son relationship in the making of male subjectivity, language and identity. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, gender studies, political science and cultural studies.
What We Truly Need
Finding happiness and contentment: What makes us truly content and what lures us down the wrong path.How to live more authentically: Draw courage from the experiences of a psychoanalyst to fight for yourself! A psychoanalyst takes stock after thirty years on the "other side of the couch." What has really helped his patients? What does happiness mean and how can we achieve it? Adler concludes that in the end, it was always the seemingly simple changes that really helped: making friends, finding a sense of security and confidence, having goals in life, rediscovering curiosity, and taking everything much more calmly. Above all, to draw on a deeply felt sense of one's own self, rather than on external and internal constraints. To be authentic and to identify and implement the things in life that bring true satisfaction. This book helps readers find out for themselves: what do I truly need? How do I become secure in myself? How can I shape the best possible version of my life?
Unmasking for Life
Live your best, unashamedly unmasked Autistic life with this invaluable resource featuring tools for navigating friendships, family, work, and love, from the author of Unmasking Autism. "Unmasking for Life should be read by not only autistic people but their loved ones, to ensure they facilitate a truly fulfilling life."--Eric Garcia, author of We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation Most masked Autistics have spent a lifetime being told how to perform neurotypically: how to behave, how to carry themselves, what to feel, and how to live. With his previous book, Unmasking Autism, Devon Price, PhD, has given them the space and the tools to unmask and embrace their neurodiversity. But no matter where you are in the unmasking process, there is still work to be done. Unmasking is more than just a personal process of self-acceptance, after all--it also requires figuring out how to move comfortably throughout life building friendships, nurturing family, pursuing love, finding a means of survival, and expressing oneself on one's own terms. In order to live a brilliantly unashamed Autistic life, you need more than internal healing--you need practical tools of assertiveness and interpersonal effectiveness, and solutions to the problems of ableism and inaccessibility. Enter Unmasking for Life, which provides the resources to help you advocate for your needs and invent new ways of living, loving, and being that work with your disability rather than against it. You'll learn how to develop five key skills for living unmasked in all areas of life: - Acceptance of change, loss, and uncertainty- Engagement in productive conflict, discussion, and disagreement- Transgression of unfair rules, demands, and social expectations- Tolerance of distress, disagreement, or being disliked- Creation of new accommodations, relationship structures, and new ways of living Unmasking for Life will help validate and support you so you can move beyond unmasking your Autism and begin unmasking your world.
