Search Results: Psychology/Psychiatry from 100 POCKETS

Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books/McGraw-Hill, 2002. First Edition, First Pinting . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. First Printing. Dispression, defined as that state of of being caught in a web of am endless of sadness and helpless, drives many to seek relief in mood altering drugs often more harmful than helpful. This exposittion reviews solutions without chemical alterations to the selfc.

Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1989. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Steve Bjorkman (Illustrator); Charles Brooks (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF. Authors Dave and Claudia Arp, a husband and wife team, are experienced in conducting family and marriage enrichment workshops. This book offers some 60 helpful ideas to promote happy times within the family ... as the title suggests, to build a fund of fun, pleasant, engaging memories that all happily recall in later years.

New York, NY: Free Press/Macmillan Inc., 1991. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Gift inscription from psychologist and anthropologist, co-author Dr. Herbert Barry, III, Emeritus Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Univ of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. Cross-cultural, comparative study of adolescent behavioriol patterns of near 200 pre-industrial societies. Focus on pyschogenic and sociogenic determinants; apparent universal patterns a contribution to developmental and clinical child psychologists. 11 chapters: 1, The Anthropological Study of Adolescence; 2, An Ethological Approach to Human Social Organization; 3, Looking at Adolescent Socialization Across Cultures; 4, Adolescents & Their Families; 5, Peer Groups & Community Participation; 6, Marriage, Mating, & the Duration of Adolescence; 7, Adolescent Sexuality; 8, Violating Cultural Norms; 9, The Adolescent Self; 10, Gender Differences: Final & Proximate… Read More

New York, NY: Robert Brunner, Inc, 1961. 4th Symposium of 1959, First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Green linen boards w/gitl spine lettering/NF w/trace rubs to lower front edge. DJ/Poor; intact but tattered w/losses, nips & chips. Minor light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) text blocks. PO name to fEP dated 1961. 334 pgs, 46 chapters from the Fourth European Conference of Psychsomatic Research held April 21st - 25th, 1959, in Hamburg. The 46 essays are presented in 4 parts: Part I, Methods & Principles of Research on Psychosomatic Fundamentals; II, Concept of Constitution in Psychosomatic Medicine; III, Training for Psychosomatic Medicine; and, IV, Free Papers.

Center City, MN: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services, 1983, 1983. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. Biography of positive gains from joining Emotions Anonymous, offering a 12 - step, one-day-at- a-time healing program. Prior to joining, author had no control over her emotions. So severe she had been hospitalized, subject to shock treatments, and perscribed numerous tranquilizers & antidepressants to no avail. A personal journey from suffering to peace. A persomal account helpful for those confronted from like, seemingly insurmountable daily problems, and, for supportive family members & friends at a lost to help. 102 pgs in 12 chapters. Fine copy.

London, UK: Watkins Publishing, 2018. First Edition, 6th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Illustrated softcover/Fine. Practical guide to loneliness & isolation, not physical states of being alone, but feelings of alienation even when in company of other people. Teal Swan isolates 3 key variables contributing to this type of disconnection. They are: Separation, Shame & Fear --- often triggered & aggrivated by trauma, loss, addiction, grief, lack of self-esteem & insecurity. Author then shares her solution: The Connection Process. An intuitive journey, usually involving two people, a 'receiver' and a 'journeyer'. A series of exercises, each experiences 'walls' & 'blockages' as they move through the process requring both participants to confront their real & imagined anxieties, fears, and come to peace through mutual understanding. 252 pgs, in 5 Parts.

Troutdale, ORregon, U.S.A.: NewSsage Press, 1995. First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Author signed to title page; Books on Tape label to front cover verso. Personal experiences and moving testimonies of how human lives are enriched through true companioship with animals we share Earth with.

Washington, D.C.: Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, 1963. Stated First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/One folded corner; highlighting to pgs 61 - 66. Gilt embossed green linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. Stated First Edition. Principles & techniques in developing communicative skills in aphasic children --- those handicapped with speech, hearing and language disorders. 154 pgs, 8 chapters with illustrations in 2 parts: Part I, Identification; and II, Education by the Association Method.

New York, NY: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1990. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. BRAND NEW COPY w/faint creasing to rear inner flap of dustjacket, and, trace brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block. English translation of the 1988 3rd Edition of Das Verbannte Wissen by Swiss psychologist Alice Miller (1923 - 2010) noted for her books on parental child abuse, in particular The Drama of the Gifted Child of 1981. In this volume Miller reveals she was abused in childhood herself, so is semi-autobiographical. 11 chapter in 2 parts: I, Humanity's Fateful Sleep; and II, The Awakening. The last chapter, Why I Reject Psychoanalysis Also as a Therapy Method, she concludes that the psychoanalytic profession actually tends to reinforce repression of childhood abuse so necessary for one to be liberated from.

New York, NY: Science House, 1971. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Collectible. Black linen boards/NF. DJ/VG; strong w/light rubs to edges & corner tips, & faint creasing to upper front edge. Textbook. Theory, practice, and effectiveness of behavior therapy. 9 chaoters: 1, Introduction; 2, Principle of Conditioning & Learning; 3, Learning Theory Formulations of Psychiatric Disorder; 4, Rheory & Methods of Treatment; 5, The Efficacy of Behavior Therapy; 6, Current Research I: The Specific Process of Psychological Treatment; 7, Current Research II: Cognitive & Non-Specific Processes of Psychological Treatment; 8, Clinical Application of Behavior Therapy; and, 9, Conclusion: Behavior Therapy -- Present Status & Prospects.

New York, NY: Random House, 1970. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW. Tri-color boards/NF, w/trace edge & surface rubs. DJ/None. The letter "H" stamped to fEP. Study of adaptive behavior. Experimental psychology. Textbook evolved from courses taught at Columbia and Princeton universities. Text in 10 parts: Part I, Foundations of Modern Psychology; II, Variables of Psychology; III, Modifying Responses Through Reinforcement Operations; IV, Modifying Responses Through Cue Establishment; V, Cognitive Processes; VI, Modifying Response Through Drive Operations; VII, Physiological & Neurological Concomitants of Behavior; VIII, Extensions to the Individual; IX, Extensions to the Group; and, X, Epilogue & Prologue. Professor Notterman also authores Reductionism and Dialectical Materialism, a comparative study of acquired behaviorial patterns between the U.S. and pre- and post-Soviet Union.

Boston, MA: Shambala, 2009. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Author signed to first title page. First Edition, First Printing. An invitation to write poetry to free both mind and imagination. Psychotherapist David Richo offers a fresh and liberating path to personal growth by tapping on the creative, intuitive process of making poetry to gain access to deeper truths, experience experiences in a new way, and break out of contraints imposed by everyday language. 7 chapters: 1, Discovering Your Truth; 2, Writing the Poems Inside You; 3, Healing the Past; 4, Learning to Let Go; 5, Facing Life's Emotional Challenges; 6, Poetry & Spirituality; and 7,Reading Poetry for Growth & Healing.

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1989. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Printing/Review Copy, Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. LAID IN: Viking Press inserts. Modern fathers may be anxious to perform differently than their own distant, though loving, fathers did. But most men are raised to succeed in work, not at home; society has traditionally failed to socialize men in the dynamics of child rearing, particularly in the art of being touched and free expression of feelings. Clinical psychologist, founder of Boston University's renowned Fatherhood Project Ronald Levant collaborates with John Kelly for this practical, skill-oriented guide for men to become a father that children are intimate with & can confide in --- particularly a women's social roles change. 236 pgs, 11 chapters in 3 parts: Part I, The Skills; II, The Skills & Child Development; and III, The New American Family.

New York, NY: ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 1997. First Edition, 28th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/trace bend to upper front corner. Four-step cognitive, self-treatment method for liberation from compulsive-obessesive disorder (OCD) be it fear of contamination in use of public facilities or handling door knobs, and other debiliating pre-occupations urging performance of the same tasks over and over again. Authors conclude OCD is "in the truest sense, a family disorder", and hence healing requires family cöoperation. The guide, with much clinical work done at UCLA, to developing new patterns of response is in 3 parts: I, The Four Steps; II, Applying the Four Steps to Your Life; and, III, Self-Treatment Manual for the Four-Step Method. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Regan Books/HarperCollins, 2004. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. New/New. BRAND NEW COPY. Case study. A psychological portrait of George Walker Bush (1946 -), 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. A study by psychoanalyst, Clinical Professor in the Dept of Psychiatry at George Washington Univ Medical Center and columnist, Dr. Justin Frank M.D., for whom, alas, George W. did not recline on the couch for. Nevertheless, a compelling portrait. "Obama on the Couch" followed.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972. First Edition, 8th Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Tex/BRAND NEW & Bright. Pale green linen boards/NF w/trace color loss to upper front spine corner. DJ/Poor; intact w/edge wear, and showing light soiling & discoloration. Prentice-Hall Counseling & Human Development Series. Practical, useful and effective principles to help children learn new behavior. A common sense approach illustrated with over 150 concrete examples based on actual happenings. 14 chapters in 6 parts: Part I, Strengthening Behavior; II, Developing New Behavior; III, Maintaining New Behavior; IV, Stopping Inappropriate Behavior; V, Modifying Emotional Responses; and VI, Changing Your Behavior.

Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins, 1966. 6th Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/As New. Linen boards/NF w/trace rubs. DJ/None. PO name to fEP. LAID-IN: copy of "Reconstructive: Submucous Cleft Plate" from Arch Otolaryng, Vol 88, 1968. 8 chapters w/23 case studies demonstrating though each case is unique, all require full collaboration of the surgeon, dental surgeon, and speech therapist that patients may look well, eat well, and speak well..

Chicago, IL: Dorsey Press, 1984. 2nd Revised Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/2 fold corners, else As New. Red boards/Fine. DJ/None. Textbook of Clinical Psychology. First published in 1979; this is the Revised 2nd Edition. 16 chapters covering historical background, professions, and methodologies in individual, group, and community therapy.

New York, NY: Basic Books/Harper Collins, 1977. First Edition, 5th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Orange soft cover/Fine. PO name to fEP. Anthology of twenty-five 30-minute talks prepared for a Forum Lecture Series on "Psychology and Communication" of Voice of America, for broadcasting outside the continental limits of the United States. Lucid and immensely readable lectures addressing the psychology of language and communication.

New York, NY: John Wiley, 1995. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Printing. Monograph. Academic underacheivers. Authors, drawing on some 25 years of profession engagement, identify 6 typical underacheiver profiles and dispell myths driving concerned parents to jump to "pushing" or "rewarding" solutions. They are: 1, Coasters, or ultimate procrastinators, who are the most frequent; 2, Anxious Underacheivers, who want to do better but are too tense and uptight; 3, Indentity-Searchers, who are distracted from all other concerns; 4, Wheeler-Dealers, who are impulsive, manipulative, and so self-seeking and bent on instant gratification that schooling is of no value; 5, Sad Underacheivers, who are handicapped by depression and difficultiy in making decisions with no energy left for school; and 6, Defiant Underacheivers, whose poor performance is an act of rebellion. 291 pgs; 9 chapters. An enlightening dialogue. Read More