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  • Such Stuff as Dreams

    The Psychology of Fiction

    by Keith Oatley ...
    Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers.Demonstrates how reading fiction can contribute to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselvesInformed by the latest psychological research which focuses on, for example, how identification with fictional characters occurs, and how literature can ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Action and Consequence: The Psychology of Detective Stories

    by Keith Oatley, Jennifer Jenkins ...
    Why do people like reading and watching detective stories? This book is a detective story, moving to discover an answer to this question. A murder tears a jagged hole in society. A detective discovers this hole and then repairs it, helping us all to live with each other. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Therefore Choose

    by Keith Oatley ...
    On a summer visit to Germany, George, a young medical student at Cambridge, meets Anna von Kleist, whose intellectual force, beauty, and self-assurance smite him full in the heart. It is 1936. Hitler is already in power, and a shift has occurred in Germany that Anna, George, and their friend Werner have not fully grasped. Europe is on the cusp of war when the three find themselves in a painful ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Our Minds, Our Selves

    A Brief History of Psychology

    by Keith Oatley ...
    An original history of psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the people who made themAdvances in psychology have revolutionized our understanding of the human mind. Imaging technology allows researchers to monitor brain activity, letting us see what happens when we perceive, think, and feel. But technology is only part of how ideas about the mind and brain ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Selves in Relation (RLE: Group Therapy)

    An Introduction to Psychotherapy and Groups

    by Keith Oatley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Group Therapy
    Emotional crises and breakdowns are not things going wrong in individuals’ minds: they are disturbances in their relations with themselves and others. In psychotherapy an attempt is made to resolve such crises through a therapeutic relationship with an individual or in a group. First published in 1984, this book introduces the theory of individual and group therapy, and explains some of its ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Case of Emily V

    by Keith Oatley ...
    Narrated by Jack Estes ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 30 min

    "Part diary, part scientific journal, part detective story, part love story: The Case of Emily V is thoroughly post-modern in its deliberate blurring of the distinction between fact and fiction, its cavalier blending of literary genres. But Oatley's first novel … also resembles old 19th-century literature. His characters are dynamic, his storylines complex and suspenseful, his soial commentary ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perceptions and Representations

    The Theoretical Bases of Brain Research and Psychology

    by Keith Oatley ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Perception
    Originally published in 1978, this study examines the shortcomings of some theoretical approaches to psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms at the time. Keith Oatley illustrates the extent of these shortcomings by showing how inefficient brain researchers – using their present approaches – would be in trying to understand a computer, which is considerably simpler than the human brain. He ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

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  • While Still We Live

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  • The Story Hour

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