Thank You For Being A Lamp
Ever thanked your lamp? No? Well, maybe it's time."Thank you, lamp," I mumbled one night. And meant it.That odd little moment turned into an accidental experiment in gratitude, no journals, no vision boards, no life coaches whispering affirmations in the background. Just me, a couch, and the sheer realization that my toaster might be the most reliable relationship I have.Thank You For Being a Lamp is a heartwarming exploration of what happens when you stop chasing "big gratitude" and start appreciating the stuff that actually shows up for you, like your favorite mug, your indestructible socks, and that one pen that somehow never runs out of ink.Along the way, you'll discover that muttering an apology to your chair after bumping into it might actually be a sign of emotional growth (or at least mildly charming insanity). That taking a moment to salute your Wi-Fi router could offer more peace than your last three mindfulness apps combined. And that being sincerely grateful for the things we usually ignore, like doormats, chargers, and the unwavering loyalty of your coffee machine, can shift your mindset in surprisingly powerful ways.Because here's the truth: gratitude doesn't have to be deep. It just has to be real. Sometimes, the most profound joy comes from noticing the ordinary and saying, "Hey... thanks, buddy."So let's get weird. Let's get grateful. And let's raise a glass (or at least a reusable water bottle) to the objects that quietly make our lives work.Warning: may cause you to develop heartfelt relationships with staplers, spatulas, and your surprisingly emotional hairbrush.
Aging and the Criminal Legal System
This book examines issues specific to older adults within the criminal legal system. As the population of older adults continues to grow, so does the need to address the unique legal and psychological challenges related to this demographic. This book brings the latest behavioral science research to bear in examining the issues specific to the developmental aging process and older adults across the criminal legal system as a whole. Topics covered include: stereotypes and misconceptions about older age prevention and intervention with older populations at various intercepts of the legal system older adults as victims of, eyewitnesses to, or perpetrators of crime assessing older adults in the court system and in correctional facilities issues in sentencing reentry into the community, and conducting research with older adults within the criminal legal system. This timely volume presents a call to researchers and scholars across disciplines (law, psychology, gerontology, sociology, social work, and related fields) to work together to improve understanding of, treatment for, and care for this population.
Working With Crisis and Trauma From an Islāmic Perspective
Working with Crisis and Trauma from an Islāmic Perspective provides a holistic framework and treatment methods for working with trauma and crises, framed within an Islāmic Psychology paradigm. The book begins by conceptualizing trauma and existing models of understanding treatment and then places trauma and crises within an Islāmic viewpoint. The authors focus on the Qur'an, the Sunnah, and Islāmic Psychology to rationalize and explain the effects of trauma and how it presents while proposing treatment methods within this context. The final chapter uses case studies to illustrate practical applications and includes coping strategies directly from authentic Islāmic sources, and the sixth chapter focuses on the legacy of trauma in terms of post traumatic growth.This book will be essential reading for professionals in the fields of psychology and mental health looking to understand how Islāmic Psychology practices can be presented as a treatment intervention for patients experiencing trauma and gain insight into how to incorporate these protocols into their own practice.
Getting Rid of Depression and Anxiety Disorders Using Schema Therapy
The unpleasant consequences of the rapid and uncontrollable advancement of technology have forced a number of researchers and therapists in the humanities to think of a solution. A group of therapists known as cognitive therapists and schema therapists believe that thinking, or in a broader sense, cognition, plays a fundamental and important role in how human behavior occurs. In other words, human action depends on thinking and the extent to which he emphasizes his erroneous beliefs and perceptions about the origin of psychological problems.This book has five chapters.
The Role of Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy
From the perspective of therapists, extramarital relationships emphasize the concept of infidelity, sexual diversity or betrayal. Infidelity is all behaviors and actions of a married person with the opposite sex outside the family framework. In a way that leads to friendly, intimate, emotional and romantic relationships, so that this relationship has specific emotions such as; Emotional, mood and behavioral turmoil and feelings of dissatisfaction for the acting spouse. When a woman is emotionally involved, she receives care, sympathy, love and understanding from a third party, withholds her feelings, condones and refuses to discuss problems in marital relationships. This book has seven chapters.
Effective Treatments for Children with Learning Disorders
Learning disorders refer to a group of disorders that affect learning, memorization, comprehension, organization, or the use of verbal and non-verbal information. These disorders stem from damage to one or more psychological processes related to learning, which are essential in combination with average abilities for thinking and reasoning. Children with learning disorders form a heterogeneous group. The common feature among them is that they all have difficulties learning school subjects. Even when the instruction provided is tailored to their special learning needs, these problems persist or even increase throughout the school years. This book has five chapters.
Breaking the Cycle - Insights Into Violent and Aggressive Behavior - From Personality Traits to Social Movements
The Logic of Psychology
​Throughout its history, the science of psychology has been attempting to find its footing. Its theories, ideas and perspectives remain disparate - the incongruities presumed to be a natural by-product of its subject matter. Psychology appears to have no logic to drive theory, achieve unities and confer intersubjective agreement. This starkly contrasts with physical science, which has so successfully harnessed mathematics and all the agreement it confers, and given us an extraordinary mastery of the physical world.​The logic within mathematics has afforded us this mastery, and the means to view the physical world very simply. This simplicity has proven far less effective though in advancing our understanding of psychology. But the failure of historical rationality to be as effective for psychology as it has for physics is not only due to the complicated nature of psychological subject matter. Classical rationality is missing a lot of essentials without which the subject matter of psychology cannot be conceptualized in the well-formed way required. With its wealth of implications and applications, richness and rigor, the logic of psychology has universality, facilitates insight - and offers a well-founded, satisfying understanding of self-and-world.
Personality Measures As Predictors of Long-Term Employment in Air Force Officers
The Logic of Psychology
​Throughout its history, the science of psychology has been attempting to find its footing. Its theories, ideas and perspectives remain disparate - the incongruities presumed to be a natural by-product of its subject matter. Psychology appears to have no logic to drive theory, achieve unities and confer intersubjective agreement. This starkly contrasts with physical science, which has so successfully harnessed mathematics and all the agreement it confers, and given us an extraordinary mastery of the physical world.​The logic within mathematics has afforded us this mastery, and the means to view the physical world very simply. This simplicity has proven far less effective though in advancing our understanding of psychology. But the failure of historical rationality to be as effective for psychology as it has for physics is not only due to the complicated nature of psychological subject matter. Classical rationality is missing a lot of essentials without which the subject matter of psychology cannot be conceptualized in the well-formed way required. With its wealth of implications and applications, richness and rigor, the logic of psychology has universality, facilitates insight - and offers a well-founded, satisfying understanding of self-and-world.
Knowledge Doesn't Exist and Other Thoughts on Critical Thinking
Critical thinking (CT) is essential in education, the workplace, and everyday life, yet many struggle to understand or apply it effectively. This book breaks down the 'what, how, and when' of CT in a clear, accessible way, making it practical for readers from all walks of life. Drawing on over fifteen years of researching CT, Dwyer presents accessible evidence-based lessons and strategies for using CT in real-world situations, helping readers navigate the overwhelming flood of information we face daily. Written in an informal, engaging tone, this book makes CT approachable for anyone looking to improve their decision-making skills.
The Psychology of Secrets
'Andrew Gold is the new Jon Ronson. Smart, funny, brave and deeply thoughtful, The Psychology of Secrets is an absolute must read' - Will Storr, author of The Status Game Cult leaders, murderers, psychopaths - and you. Take a deep dive into the bizarre psychology of secrecy with Andrew Gold, award-winning investigative journalist and host of Heretics. We all keep secrets. 97 per cent of us are hiding a secret right now, and on average we each hold thirteen at any one time. There's a one-in-two chance that those secrets involve a breach of trust, a lie or a financial impropriety. They are the stuff of gossip, of novels and of classic dramas; secrets form a major part of our hidden inner lives. Andrew Gold knows this better than anyone. As a public figure, he has found himself the unwitting recipient of hundreds of strangers' most private revelations. This set him on a journey to understand this critical part of our societies and lives. Why do we keep secrets? Why are we fascinated by those of others? What happens to our mind when we confess? Drawing from psychology, history, social science, philosophy and personal interviews, The Psychology of Secrets is a rollicking journey through the history of secrecy. 'Andrew Gold is - but should not be - one of our culture's best kept secrets. He is a truly edgy journalist, broadcaster and writer' - David Baddiel, bestselling author of The God Desire
The Oedipus Complex
In this book, Poul Rohleder presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory of the Oedipus Complex and its standing in contemporary psychoanalysis.The Oedipus Complex: A Contemporary Introduction charts the developments of the theory, exploring Freud's original work on the subject before moving on to later developments by Klein and the Independents in the UK. Rohleder interweaves perspectives from French psychoanalysis and contemporary relational thought, and explores the various critiques of the theory, including feminist, queer, and cross-cultural perspectives. Through this holistic and contemporary exploration, Rohleder offers the contemporary practitioner a broad and nuanced consideration of how Oedipal dynamics can play a vital role in their work with patients.This book will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and training who have an interest in expanding their understanding of the Oedipus Complex and its relevance to a contemporary way of working.
Essays on Integrative Psychotherapy
This book is a distinctive collection of essays on the theory and methods of a developmentally-based, relationally-focused integrative psychotherapy.In an easy-to-read style, Richard Erskine elaborates on a relationally-focused psychotherapy for acute and cumulative neglect, dissociation, alcoholism, obsession, prolonged grief, as well as psychotherapy with couples. Detailed examples of actual psychotherapy sessions illustrate the therapeutic methods of both phenomenological and developmental inquiry as well as the significance of the psychotherapist's interpersonal involvement through acknowledgment, validation, normalization, and presence. Each chapter takes the reader into further depths of understanding the complexities of an in-depth psychotherapy. Erskine writes from the heart while drawing from over fifty years as a psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer.Essays on Integrative Psychotherapy vividly illustrates the interpsychic struggle of clients who engage in the schizoid process of relational withdrawal and live in loneliness, and will be essential reading for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in practice and in training.
Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work
Psychoanalysis is not just about what happens in the room - it is also about the structure that holds it all together. In Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work, Allannah Furlong rethinks one of the traditional approaches to the analytic frame, arguing that disruptions - missed sessions, consent complexities, and third-party demands - are not necessarily obstacles but can be essential moments for deepening therapeutic insight.The book argues for a benevolent expectation of "trouble" as an inherent part of the therapeutic couple getting to know each other more deeply, and as an aspect which distinguishes the psychoanalytic frame from that usually taught by professional regulatory bodies. Furlong proposes that the analyst or psychoanalytic therapist welcome framework glitches as opportunities to "put the framework to work" rather than simply disposing of them as acting out or error. In so doing, the book invites clinicians to critically examine different theoretical approaches to the framework and its inevitable breaches.A why-to rather than a how-to book, Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work aims to invigorate the practice of analysts everywhere - both seasoned and in training.
Work Psychology and the Climate Crisis
This book explores the psychological impact of climate change on organisations and individuals, encouraging the reader to consider the ways in which they can take action to address this critical issue.Written in a clear and concise style, with an emphasis on the application of theory to practice, the author takes topic areas from work psychology to help readers identify methods which are appropriate to them personally and for their organisations. Topics such as the management of change, leadership, engagement, and wellbeing at work are of interest to many professionals in the workplace. The climate crisis makes it even more important that these issues are addressed in a systematic, robust, and effective manner. This is a handbook of the psychological principles underpinning the actions required to support, encourage, and enable individuals, managers, and leaders to implement the range of actions required in their organisations and practice.This is a valuable resource for students, academics, and practitioners of occupational psychology, environmental psychology, and sustainable business. It will also be of interest to a variety of other practitioners and researchers interested in climate mitigation, as well as businesses and HR professionals looking to use occupational psychology in their climate strategies, and those working in 'green' jobs.
Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Supervision
In this comprehensive and informative book, Christine Driver provides a systematic overview of the key issues that a supervisor of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy needs to consider and understand in order to work effectively and dynamically.Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Supervision: A Contemporary Introduction examines key elements of the supervisory role, from container, contract, frames and boundaries to the dynamics of supervisory relationship, unconscious processes, including the reflection process and parallel process, evaluation and assessment and ethics. Driver considers the importance of learning and exploration for both supervisor and supervisee, and provides guidance on how to effectively conduct these sessions. She provides clinical examples of in person and online supervision and considers learning theory, neuroscience and systemic ideas to support the reader on their own journey. The systematic approach to the key dynamics are outlined to enable readers to generate understanding about the patient and their internal world, as well as the development of the work of the supervisee with their patients.Part of the Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series, this book is a rich resource for all analysts, counsellors and therapists who work psychodynamically or psychoanalytically as supervisors or who are conducting supervision training.
Essays on Integrative Psychotherapy
This book is a distinctive collection of essays on the theory and methods of a developmentally-based, relationally-focused integrative psychotherapy.In an easy-to-read style, Richard Erskine elaborates on a relationally-focused psychotherapy for acute and cumulative neglect, dissociation, alcoholism, obsession, prolonged grief, as well as psychotherapy with couples. Detailed examples of actual psychotherapy sessions illustrate the therapeutic methods of both phenomenological and developmental inquiry as well as the significance of the psychotherapist's interpersonal involvement through acknowledgment, validation, normalization, and presence. Each chapter takes the reader into further depths of understanding the complexities of an in-depth psychotherapy. Erskine writes from the heart while drawing from over fifty years as a psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer.Essays on Integrative Psychotherapy vividly illustrates the interpsychic struggle of clients who engage in the schizoid process of relational withdrawal and live in loneliness, and will be essential reading for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in practice and in training.
Work Psychology and the Climate Crisis
This book explores the psychological impact of climate change on organisations and individuals, encouraging the reader to consider the ways in which they can take action to address this critical issue.Written in a clear and concise style, with an emphasis on the application of theory to practice, the author takes topic areas from work psychology to help readers identify methods which are appropriate to them personally and for their organisations. Topics such as the management of change, leadership, engagement, and wellbeing at work are of interest to many professionals in the workplace. The climate crisis makes it even more important that these issues are addressed in a systematic, robust, and effective manner. This is a handbook of the psychological principles underpinning the actions required to support, encourage, and enable individuals, managers, and leaders to implement the range of actions required in their organisations and practice.This is a valuable resource for students, academics, and practitioners of occupational psychology, environmental psychology, and sustainable business. It will also be of interest to a variety of other practitioners and researchers interested in climate mitigation, as well as businesses and HR professionals looking to use occupational psychology in their climate strategies, and those working in 'green' jobs.
Psychological Growth After Trauma
Psychological Growth After Trauma is a guide to moving away from assumptions about trauma as a simple form of 'psychological damage.' Each chapter promotes an understanding of difficult experiences as learning opportunities that help us attune to the reality of existence and become more at ease with the truths that trigger our anxieties.The book holds close to a phenomenological stance in which understanding emerges through experience and reflection. This is not a book that argues for a model that practitioners would be required to adopt and impose on their clients. Instead, Psychological Growth After Trauma brings insights and explorations together, allowing the reader to build their own framework for understanding.
Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work
Psychoanalysis is not just about what happens in the room - it is also about the structure that holds it all together. In Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work, Allannah Furlong rethinks one of the traditional approaches to the analytic frame, arguing that disruptions - missed sessions, consent complexities, and third-party demands - are not necessarily obstacles but can be essential moments for deepening therapeutic insight.The book argues for a benevolent expectation of "trouble" as an inherent part of the therapeutic couple getting to know each other more deeply, and as an aspect which distinguishes the psychoanalytic frame from that usually taught by professional regulatory bodies. Furlong proposes that the analyst or psychoanalytic therapist welcome framework glitches as opportunities to "put the framework to work" rather than simply disposing of them as acting out or error. In so doing, the book invites clinicians to critically examine different theoretical approaches to the framework and its inevitable breaches.A why-to rather than a how-to book, Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work aims to invigorate the practice of analysts everywhere - both seasoned and in training.
Positive Existential Psychology for the Prevention of Extremism
Many scientific works and studies have focused on the phenomena of extremism and violent radicalization. However, very few resources exist to effectively address this issue from an educational perspective. The diagnoses are often fragmented and give prominence to geopolitical and socio-political factors. Yet an interdisciplinary analysis of the processes of extremism and radicalization indicates the central role of biographical, psychological, or even psychopathological variables and traumas. How can we draw deep lessons from this to innovate in education and truly give ourselves the means to prevent these processes of extremism and radicalization? This book, deliberately choosing positive and existential psychology as a resource, proposes to answer this question with the support of scientific and creative resources that finally address and respond to the root causes. These resources are adapted to socio-educational professions and understandable by parents. They finally restore courage, ideas, and motivating and positive approaches for all those who want to take up this increasingly widespread and threatening challenge within our societies. At the same time, these resources make it possible to work on the transmission of values, strengths, and to contribute to the mental health and fulfilment of our youth, a capital theme if there ever was one.
Between Trauma and Memory
This book is a collection of essays covering diverse perspectives within the study of trauma and memory. In its compartmentalisation into four sections, the book diligently analyses the literary representations of trauma and memory in the micro and macro levels of cultural contexts. Analysis of these representations can illuminate societal attitudes toward trauma, memory, and healing, as well as shed light on larger issues such as war, violence, oppression, and injustice, and help the readers gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of human emotions, reactions, and coping mechanisms. The ethical questions discussed in the book also engage with the notions of authenticity, and responsibility, prompting the readers with a sense of validation and solidarity.
The Last Lectures
In 1958, just three years before his death, Carl Jung sat with students and followers offering some of his final instructions on working with patients in analysis. The event was transcribed, preserved and eventually translated to become this concise volume. This short book-never before published in English- brings together the thoughtful reflections of the master as he looks over the landscape he explored and charted with singular dedication.Whether he speaks to the shadow cast by Analytical Psychology or an early defeat upon realizing that he had overlooked the function of intuition, Jung's wisdom, humor, and humility shine through. While this book is published on the 150th anniversary of Jung's birth, the reader may feel like part of the audience for these last lectures of Jung.
The Human Soul
New edition of the classic study of the characteristics of the human soul, which outlines four distinct stages of consciousness. New in the Karl Kӧnig Archive. In this book Karl Kӧnig looks at a range of human experiences, including pain, anxiety, fear, shame and anger, and distinguishes four stages of consciousness: normal day-consciousness, dreaming, sleeping and deep sleep. Although much has changed in the field of psychology since The Human Soul was written in the middle of the twentieth century, this book nevertheless remains a meaningful exploration into the mysteries and complexities of the human psyche. This new Karl Kӧnig Archive edition of the classic text has been updated with never-before published lectures by Konig on psychology and the human soul, including notes from the two talks that originally inspired this book.
Schema Therapy Worksheets for Therapists
Schema Therapy Worksheets for Therapists 65+ Evidence-Based Clinical Resources for Assessment, Mode Work & Interventions Transform Your Clinical Practice with 65+ Evidence-Based Schema Therapy Worksheets The Most Comprehensive Collection Available: This professional resource offers therapists a full set of ready-to-use worksheets for every stage of Schema Therapy. Designed by clinicians for clinical use, each worksheet comes with clear instructions and step-by-step application guides that you can use right away. What Makes This Resource Unique: Over 65 worksheets covering all 18 Early Maladaptive Schemas Targeted interventions for Child, Parent, and Coping modes Assessment tools with scoring guides included Experiential exercises for both individual and group settings Custom versions for adolescents, couples, and other populations Tips for integrating with CBT, DBT, and trauma-informed care Ideal For: Therapists, social workers, counselors, clinical supervisors, psychology students, and anyone using Schema Therapy in practice. Whether you're certified or just beginning, this toolkit gives you a practical foundation for effective treatment. Use These Tools For: Personality disorders Complex PTSD and childhood trauma Hard-to-treat depression and anxiety Relationship and attachment problems Changing long-standing behaviour patterns Running Schema Therapy groups What's Inside Each Worksheet: Simple instructions, background theory, clinical pointers, and printable formats that work for both telehealth and in-person sessions. Everything aligns with both basic and advanced Schema Therapy training standards. Note: This workbook is for trained mental health professionals. Use the content within appropriate clinical guidelines and supervision.
The Science of Living
The Science of Living-Abridged EditionIn this landmark work, Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler-founder of Individual Psychology-presents his core ideas about human behavior, personality development, and the challenges of everyday life. Drawing on years of clinical experience, The Science of Living offers a clear, practical framework for understanding how feelings of inferiority, striving for significance, and social connectedness shape who we are.Accessible and humane, Adler explores topics such as love, work, family, and the education of children, showing how our beliefs about ourselves and our place in society guide the choices we make. Rejecting deterministic models of biology and Freudian theory, Adler emphasizes courage, social interest, and the creative power of the individual to shape their own life.First published in 1929, The Science of Living remains a cornerstone of modern psychotherapy and self-development literature-compassionate, optimistic, and strikingly modern in its emphasis on personal growth and social contribution.
Evolving the Employee Experience
Evolving the Employee Experience explores the evolving landscape of employee experience and leadership in the face of unprecedented global disruption. Drawing on first-hand research and case studies, it examines how organizations are adapting to meet changing employee needs and expectations in the new world of work. The volume is structured around three interconnected themes: Expanding the Employee Experience, Inclusive Talent Practices, and Developing Leaders for the Future, with each section offering insights into critical areas such as human connection, remote work, organizational agility, diversity and inclusion, data-driven decision-making, and technology-enabled development. Throughout, this book emphasizes the importance of aligning talent practices with strategic priorities, leveraging technology effectively, and embracing a holistic approach to employee experience. It provides practical guidance for HR professionals and leaders on implementing and scaling these approaches while addressing ethical considerations and diverse workforce needs. By integrating cutting-edge research with actionable strategies, this volume offers a comprehensive roadmap for organizations seeking to thrive in an era of continuous disruption and transformation.
The Competency Restoration Handbook
In order for defendants facing legal charges in the United States to be able to move forward with the legal process, they must be competent to proceed with their cases. Defendants are presumed to be competent to make legal decisions, until someone calls their competency into question. Once the presumption of competency is questioned, their legal case is paused and the defendant is evaluated, so that the court can determine whether they are competent to proceed. If a person is not adequately knowledgeable about how the court system works, or too psychiatrically unstable to proceed with their case, their case gets put on pause and the defendant is ordered for "competency restoration." The Competency Restoration Handbook is a collection of foundational materials for competency restoration providers who work with adult pretrial defendants in the United States. The book begins with a description of the legal context related to adjudicative competence and an overview of foundational competency restoration practices. Following these foundational resources are chapters explaining how various clinical interventions can be adapted to help restore individuals to competency, and an assortment of practical tools (study guides, vocabulary-based games, and other hands-on activities) for use with defendants undergoing competency restoration. Covering empirically informed, theoretical, and creative approaches that can be individualized for each specific defendant, the book encourages and facilitates best practices in competency restoration. Readers are encouraged to adopt these interventions to address defendant-specific barriers to competency. The authors also encourage competency restoration providers to consider adapting other treatment modalities (i.e., particularly those which are empirically supported or newly developed) to facilitate competency restoration.
