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Een psychotherapeute beschrijft de herkenning van en omgang met excessieve manipulatie binnen een belangrijke emotionele relatie.

Internationale inleiding op de Reine-Landtraditie (Shin) van het Japans boeddhisme, een meer volkse en pragmatisch georiënteerde evenknie van het monastieke zen.

Op basis van inzichten uit het taoïsme en de dieptepsychologie wordt een weg beschreven die moet leiden tot wijsheid en geluk door het menselijke energiesysteem te optimaliseren.

Waarom doen slimme en verstandige tieners af en toe domme dingen? Hoe komt het dat ze soms eerst minder goed presteren en later hun achterstand omzetten in een voorsprong? Waarom hebben jongens en meisjes andere studieprestaties? Dit boek probeert deze en vele andere vragen te beantwoorden. Jelle Jolles beschouwt de tienertijd als een periode van kansen en mogelijkheden en ziet de tiener als 'werk in uitvoering'. Niet alleen de hersenen, maar ook steun, sturing en inspiratie uit de omgeving zijn bepalend voor hun ontplooiing. Het boek biedt neuropsychologische inzichten met aanbevelingen voor ouders, leraren, sportcoaches en andere opvoedprofessionals om de tiener beter te begrijpen. Aan de orde komen het cognitief functioneren, het tienerbrein en de hersenfuncties, emoties, sociaal gedrag, de verschillen tussen jongens en meisjes, slaap, sport en meer.

Eisler's absorbing epic exposes the truths about sex that have been swept under the rug of religious dogma and scientific jargon. Showing what has gone wrong between the sexes, it reveals a whole new history of intimate relations - and how these affect and are in turn affected by all our relations, whether in the public or private sphere. It charts our course from prehistory, when sex was a celebrated mystery linked to all that is sacred, through the invasion of Europe by nomadic warriors, when sex became a means of domination, to the earliest Western civilizations, the reign of the church, and into our time of "culture wars" - when women and men all over the world are searching for new ways of living and loving. Along the way, it looks at the economics and politics of sexual and other intimate relations, the modern revolution in consciousness, the epidemic of AIDS, the failure of traditional morality, and the emerging new ethics for sex and spirituality.

In 1966 William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson published their landmark study, Human Sexual Response, one of the first books to report scientifically on a subject shrouded in taboo and prudery - a book that changed the way Americans think about sexuality and is often credited with helping to start the sexual revolution because of its bold, careful debunking of myths. Today, almost three decades later, critically important changes have occurred in the social, legal, political, scientific, medical, epidemiological, psychological, emotional, public, and private perspectives on sexuality. In Heterosexuality, the world's foremost trio of sex researchers and therapists - Masters, Johnson, and their longtime colleague, Robert C. Kolodny, M.D. - addresses these changes with a comprehensive, definitive, and up-to-date survey of virtually every aspect of the sexual relations between women and men. Here, for the first time ever, is Masters, Johnson, and Kolodny's practical program of exercises for all those seeking to enhance their responsivity or deal with a sexual problem without the aid of a therapist. Sexuality is the source and arena of some of the deepest joys men and women share, and some of the deepest vulnerabilities. Writing with candor and sensitivity, Masters, Johnson, and Kolodny provide the best, most sensible, and most useful information on topics as diverse as sexual response and sexuality, love and intimacy, performance anxiety, male and female sexual dysfunction, compulsive sexual behavior, sexual and reproductive health, conception, contraception, fertility, HIV and AIDS, teenage sexuality, sex and aging, and extramarital affairs. Heterosexuality cuts through the platitudesand media hype to delve deeply into the sexual psyche, promoting, a fuller and richer understanding of male-female sexuality for the general public, and for social scientists, mental health professionals, and medical practitioners.

Kritische analyse van de huidige opvatting dat sekseverschillen een biologische basis hebben in plaats van zijn aangeleerd.

A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage behavior
The brain creates every feeling, emotion, and desire we experience, and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, scientists believed our brains were fully developed from childhood on. Now, thanks to imaging technology that enables us to look inside the living human brain at all ages, we know that this isn't so. Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, one of the world's leading researchers into adolescent neurology, explains precisely what is going on in the complex and fascinating brains of teenagers--namely that the brain goes on developing and changing right through adolescence--with profound implications for the adults these young people will become.
Drawing from cutting-edge research, including her own, Blakemore shows:

• How an adolescent brain differs from those of children and adults
• Why problem-free kids can turn into challenging teens
• What drives the excessive risk-taking and all-consuming relationships common among teenagers
• And why many mental illnesses--depression, addiction, schizophrenia--present during these formative years

Blakemore's discoveries have transformed our understanding of the teenage mind, with consequences for law, education policy and practice, and, most of all, parents.

"Evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller shows the evolutionary power of sexual choice and the reasons why our ancestors became attracted not only to pretty faces and healthy bodies, but to minds that were witty, articulate, generous, and conscious. The richness and subtlety of modern psychology help to reveal how the human mind evolved, like the peacock's tail and the elk's antlers for courtship and mating." "Drawing on new ideas from evolutionary biology economics, and psychology, Miller illuminates his arguments with examples ranging from natural history to popular culture, from the art of New Guinea's bowerbirds to the sexual charisma of South Park's school chef. Along the way, he provides insights into the inarticulacy of teenage boys, the diversity of ancient Greek coins, the reasons why Scrooge was single, the difficulties of engaging with modern art, and the function of sumo wrestling."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Populair-wetenschappelijke beschrijving van onbewuste invloeden op het geheugen.

Across the country, families are being torn apart and people sent to prison, all because of a trendy new psychological phenomenon: recovered memory. According to many clinical psychologists, when the mind is forced to endure a horrifying experience, it has the ability to bury the entire memory of it so deeply within the unconscious that it can only be recalled in the form of a flashback triggered by a sight, a smell, or a sound. Therapists and lawyers have created an industry based on treating and litigating the cases of people who suddenly claim to have "recovered" memories of everything from child abuse to murder.
Dr. Loftus reveals that despite decades of research, there is absolutely no controlled scientific support for the idea that memories of trauma are routinely banished into the unconscious and then reliably recovered years later.

Adviezen aan vrouwen om het type man te vinden dat bij hen past.

This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "total allergy syndrome" are only the most recent examples of patients complaining of ailments that express the truths about the culture in which they live.

"A work of subtle insights and of bold illumination, written with persuasive eloquence; it should become a classic in its field."--William Styron

"Will rush to the top of the list of important books on psychohistory . . . balanced and provocative . . . it's a blockbuster."--Carl N. Degler, Stanford University

"An illuminating overview of the prevailing understanding of suicide over the past 300 years, tracing current theories back, in some cases, to their roots in Puritan New England. [Kushner] shows how the conflicting views of psychology, sociology, and biochemistry emerged and hardened into dogmatic theories within each discipline that impeded cross-pollination. . . . Fascinating stuff."--San Diego Tribune

"Outstanding . . . the only work I know that is adequate to the complexity and multidimensionality of suicide, and which genuinely combines, indeed synthesizes, a wide range of disciplinary perspectives into a coherent and satisfying view of the issues. . . . a tour de force."--Joel Kovel, M. D.

De Amerikaanse neuroloog beschrijft, onder meer aan de hand van ervaringsverhalen van patiënten en onderzoeksresultaten, het fenomeen hallucinaties in zijn verschillende verschijningsvormen zoals bij de ziekte van Parkinson, het syndroom van Bonnet, epilepsie, drugsgebruik en een delirium.

150 Geleden werd Sigmund Freud geboren. Dit boek bevat de tekst van 27 lezingen ter gelegenheid daarvan. Vele aspecten komen via 30 wetenschappers aan bod. 

Neurobiologische benadering van de menselijke geest, vooral van de rol van de emoties bij de rationaliteit.

On the South Pacific atoll of Pingelap, Sacks finds that a startlingly high proportion of the population is colour-blind. On Guam, an endemic neurogenerative disease is linked to the island's cycads which form the islanders' staple diet

filosfiloleidooi voor een atheïstische c.q. humanistische levensbeschouwing.

In dit boek beschrijft de auteur (neuroloog en psychiater) hoe de unieke structuur van vrouwelijke hersenen niet alleen bepaalt hoe vrouwen denken en waar ze waarde aan hechten, maar ook hoe ze communiceren en van wie ze zullen houden. Publicatie is gebaseerd op tientallen jaren onderzoek en aangevuld met feiten en casestudies. Oorspr. titel 'The female brain' (2006).

Ever since Freud first unveiled his theories of female psychology arguments have raged - from his contemporaries' denial of infantile sexuality to the feminist attacks of today. This reader contains Freud's central statements on women, from letters as well as published work. It presents an accessible view of the development of his thought. The introduction and linking commentaries lay out the arguments and relate his ideas to his clinical practice and broader theory. There is also an annotated biography.

"This is the second, greatly expanded edition (previously available only in Century editions) of one of the world's most successful books on negotiation. Published in more than 20 languages, it has helped millions of people turn adversarial haggling into constructive joint problem solving. We all negotiate something every day, whether in business, government or the family. Most decisions are reached through negotiation, and everyone wants to participate in the decisions which affect them. GETTING TO YES provides a few powerful memorable principles which will guide you to success no matter what the other side does or whatever tricks they get up to."

Roots of Empathy — an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon — has already reached more than 270,000 children in Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere.

Now, as The New York Times reports that "empathy lessons are spreading everywhere amid concerns over the pressure on students from high-stakes tests and a race to college that starts in kindergarten", Mary Gordon explains the value of and how best to nurture empathy and social and emotional literacy in all children — and thereby reduce aggression, antisocial behavior, and bullying.

This comprehensive volume of writings and lectures spans thirty-two years of this popular teacher's career, from 1964 to 1996. Topics include Zen training and practice; Buddhist ethics; illness, death, and dying; and Zen in America. Roshi Philip Kapleau underwent thirteen years of formal training in Japan with two of Japan's most noted Zen masters, Harada Roshi and Yasutani Roshi. Roshi Kapleau returned to the United States in 1966 and has made it his life's work to translate Zen Buddhism into an American idiom.

Tussen het feminisme en de biologische wetenschappen heeft het nooit geboterd. Er zit volgens feministen nogal wat vrouwenhaat verborgen in evolutionaire verklaringen van menselijk sociaal gedrag. Evolutionaire wetenschappers verwijten feministen dat zij, door aan te nemen dat gender-identiteit geheel sociaal geconstrueerd is, antiwetenschappelijk te werk gaan. Vandermassen behandelt de geschiedenis van feministische kritiek op het darwinistische denkkader en ook de geschiedenis van de 'biofobie' onder feministen. Zij komt tot de conclusie dat een goed begrepen darwinistisch perspectief op de menselijke natuur en op de seksen noodzakelijk is om de grote vraagstukken binnen het feminisme op te lossen. Verkorte en licht bewerkte versie van: Who's afraid of Charles Darwin? : Debating feminism and evolutionary theory. - Oxford, 2005.

Hoksbergen schetst in dit boek de geschiedenis van zestig jaar adoptie in Nederland. Adoptie was immer een maatschappelijk kwestie waarover de visies in de loop der tijd veranderden. Zo laat het boek zien dat de adoptie binnen Nederland in de loop der tijd praktisch verdween en dat inter-landelijke adoptie vanaf de jaren zeventig sterk in opkomst kwam. Daarnaast staat het boek ook stil bij andere facetten, zoals het wel en wee van de adoptiegezinnen en de kinderen en komen de procedures, wetgeving en organisaties aan bod die een rol speelden bij het adoptieproces in ons land. Dit alles werd door Hoksbergen geïllustreerd met toepasselijke persoonlijke verhalen.

Psychologische studie naar de redenen, waardoor kinderen binnen één gezin vaak zulke grote karakterverschillen tonen.