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  • Phenomenology of Emotions

    Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy

    This volume explores the interrelations between emotions, embodiment, and vulnerability through a phenomenological perspective. Scholars of philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry investigate how the fragilities of embodied existence shape emotions, how these vulnerabilities become visible in psychopathological conditions, and how they figure in therapeutic contexts. A central theme is that ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Virtual Reality Headsets - A Theoretical and Pragmatic Approach

    The purpose of virtual reality is to make possible a sensorimotor and cognitive activity for a user in a digitally created artificial world. Recent advances in computer technology have led to a new generation of VR devices such as VR headsets. Accordingly, virtual reality poses many new scientific challenges for researchers and professionals.The aim of this book, a manual meant for both designers ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies

    A manual for both designers and users, comprehensively presenting the current state of experts' knowledge on virtual reality (VR) in computer science, mechanics, optics, acoustics, physiology, psychology, ergonomics, ethics, and related area. Designed as a reference book and design guide to help the reader develop a VR project, it presents the reader with the importance of the user’s needs and ... Read more

    $234.99 USD

  • Contemporary Practice and Theory of Organizations – Part 1.

    Understanding the Organization

    Organizations are the central entities of the business world, comprising multiple people pursuing a collective goal while being linked to an external environment. Both academics and practitioners have kept up a continuing interest in advancing their understanding of organizations. This is the first of two volumes dedicated to the state of the art of theories and practices of organizations. It is ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Psychology

    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    This volume is a comprehensive overview of the scientific discipline that studies psychological and biological processes and behavior in humans and other animals. It features chapters on the history of the field, the thought process, memory, theories of personality, and key figures—such as William James, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, B. F. Skinner, and Daniel Kahneman—who helped shape the field. The ... Read more

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  • The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression

    Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Otto Kernberg is a towering figure in the field of psychoanalysis and has accomplished seminal work in object relations and the treatment of borderline and narcissistic patients. This volume collects his recent work in several areas: severe personality disorders, couples in conflict, and religious experience. In each area, he explores the relationship between the psychoanalytic, clinical ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Understanding Second Language Acquisition

    Series series Understanding Language
    Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

    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

    $71.99 USD

  • Ecology of the Brain

    The phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind

    by Thomas Fuchs ...
    Series series International Perspectives In Philosophy & Psychiatry
    Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body as a collective, a living being which uses the brain to mediate interactions. Those interactions may be both within the human body and between the human ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Existential Therapies

    by Mick Cooper ...
    What does it mean to practice therapy in an existential way? What are the different existential approaches? What are their strengths and limitations?Focusing on practical, face-to-face work with clients, the book introduces students to six existential therapies, highlighting areas of commonality and difference, and discusses key figures and their contributions, includingYalom, van Deurzen, ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Person-Centred Therapy

    A Clinical Philosophy

    Series series Advancing Theory in Therapy
    The person-centred approach is one of the most popular, enduring and respected approaches to psychotherapy and counselling. Person-Centred Therapy returns to its original formulations to define it as radically different from other self-oriented therapies.Keith Tudor and Mike Worrall draw on a wealth of experience as practitioners, a deep knowledge of the approach and its history, and a broad and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • In Defence of the Human Being

    Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology

    by Thomas Fuchs ...
    With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves “in the image of our machines”, and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of ... Read more

    $41.39 USD