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This book summarizes the ideas about cognitive psychology expressed in the writings of medieval Europeans. The translation of the works of Aristotle and some of the works of Arab scholars into Latin during the 12th and 13th centuries brought a high level of sophistication to the theories.

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This book defines the worldview of personal well-being for the Inuit Eskimo in order to establish guidelines for counselling strategies.

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Discusses how and why self-deception takes place, and its subtle and profound effects on our everyday lives. This book explains how and why self-deceptions occur in three areas - politics, religion, and terrorism - and also how to recognize and reduce the frequency of fooling ourselves. It is of interest to readers drawn to politics and religion.

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Pronko examines how guiding postulates determine the outcome of inquiry, raises new questions and new possibilities regarding old problems, and stresses the importance of seeing known facts in a new light and describing new theories.

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A portion of the book describes the psychological traumas associated with political unrest and a society undergoing major transition, paying particular attention to three major traumas: child abuse and neglect, children who have been the victims of an unjust and inequitable educational system, and children caught in the war of political violence.

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According to the editors of New Ideas in Therapy, cognitive behaviorist theory is increasingly hampered by intrinsic theoretical limitations.

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By bringing together many of the leading figures in Russian psychology, readers and researchers in psychology have a unique insight into the state of the discipline and its likely future directions.

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This book compares the influence of the period leading up to world War II and of the war itself on the discipline of psychology in two major, but very different countries.

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The Five Stages of Culture Shock examines an international shipboard educational program and seeks to identify specific insights resulting from informal extracurricular contact between students and host nationals in the context of culture shock experiences.

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Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, migration status, religion and many other cultural factors play an important role in recovery from a traumatic event. She offers vignettes illustrating these issues, as well as activities for traumatized people to regain their sense of self-esteem, safety, strength and calm.

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Pardeck provides mental health professionals with readily available information on self-help books that can be effectively used with various clinical problems.

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Robbins (German, Central Missouri State U.) begins by introducing L. S. Vygotsky's (1896-1934) cultural-historical theory, which differs from sociocultural theory in the US, and draws on his Russian background and such thinkers as Spinoza and Marx. Then she moves across the disciplines that he contr

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This study analyzes the reasoning process through which individuals determine what consequences are appropriate for those who do wrong. This sample was asked what consequences would be appropriate for the wrongdoers and why those proposed consequences would be appropriate.

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Given the internationalization of business, and the increasing need to work effectively with culturally diverse people in one's own country, people are facing new and more common challenges in developing workplace relationships.

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Empirical studies of five groups are presented in the book--college writers, advanced expository writers, professional writers, student poets, and teachers of writing.