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  • Challenging the Therapeutic Narrative

    Historical and Clinical Perspectives on the Genetics of Behavior

    by Robert G. Goldstein ...
    Series series Explorations in Mental Health
    This volume explores and challenges the assumption that behavioral proclivities and pathologies are directly traceable to experience—an assumption that still widely dominates folk psychology as well as the perspective of many mental health practitioners. This tendency continues despite powerful evidence from the field of behavioral genetics that genetic endowment dwarfs other discrete influences ... Read more

    $39.84 CAD

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  • Beyond Human Nature

    How Culture and Experience Shape Our Lives

    by Jesse J Prinz ...
    In this provocative, revelatory tour de force, Jesse Prinz reveals how the cultures we live in - not biology - determine how we think and feel. He examines all aspects of our behaviour, looking at everything from our intellects and emotions, to love and sex, morality and even madness. This book seeks to go beyond traditional debates of nature and nurture. He is not interested in finding universal ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Neuroexistentialism

    Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience

    Edited by Gregg Caruso, Owen Flanagan ...
    Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault. In the first-wave of existentialism, writings typified by Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche concerned the increasingly apparent inability of religion, and religious tradition, to support a foundation of being. Second-wave existentialism, personified philosophically by Sartre, Camus, ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

    Edited by KWM Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, Tim Thornton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. This has become only more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, accompanied by developments in the neurosciences. However, too few practising psychiatrists are familiar with the literature in this area. The ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • On Depression

    Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World

    by S. Nassir Ghaemi ...
    Lasting happiness comes not from chasing the American dream but from living an authentic life—which includes despair.In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts Medical Center, reflects on our society's current quest for happiness and rejection of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Anxiety

    A Short History

    by Allan V. Horwitz ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
    Fears, phobias, neuroses, and anxiety disorders from ancient times to the present.More people today report feeling anxious than ever before—even while living in relatively safe and prosperous modern societies. Almost one in five people experiences an anxiety disorder each year, and more than a quarter of the population admits to an anxiety condition at some point in their lives. Here Allan V. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity

    Our Predictive Brain

    by Joaquín M. Fuster ...
    Joaquín M. Fuster is an eminent cognitive neuroscientist whose research over the last five decades has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the neural structures underlying cognition and behaviour. This book provides his view on the eternal question of whether we have free will. Based on his seminal work on the functions of the prefrontal cortex in decision-making, planning, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Social Phobia

    An Interpersonal Approach

    by Ariel Stravynski ...
    Social phobia is a disorder involving an intense fear of being judged by others and it affects the lives of many people. This book takes a critical stance towards the received view of social phobia as a disease of sorts, characterized by abnormal anxiety and caused by an inner mental or physical defective mechanism. Ariel Stravynski adopts an alternative approach to social phobia – as a purposeful ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Ontogeny of Information

    Developmental Systems and Evolution

    by Susan Oyama ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Originally published in 1985, this was a foundational text in what is now the substantial field of developmental systems theory. In this revised edition Susan Oyama argues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Human Spark

    The Science of Human Development

    by Jerome Kagan ...
    As infants we are rife with potential. For a short time, we have before us a seemingly infinite number of developmental paths. Soon, however, we become limited to certain paths as we grow into unique products of our genetics and experience. But what factors account for the variation -- in skills, personalities, values -- that results? How do experiences shape what we bring into the world?In The ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Critical Neuroscience

    A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience

    Edited by Suparna Choudhury, Jan Slaby ...
    ***Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience***brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field. This text’s original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creative potential for ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • A History of Personality Psychology

    Theory, Science, and Research from Hellenism to the Twenty-First Century

    by Frank Dumont ...
    In this book Frank Dumont presents personality psychology with a fresh description of its current status as well as its prospects. Play, sex, cuisine, creativity, altruism, pets, grieving rituals, and other oft-neglected topics broaden the scope of this fascinating study. This tract is imbued with historical perspectives that reveal the continuity in the evolving science and research of this ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD