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Toward a computational explanation of thought: an argument that underlying mind is a complex but compact program that corresponds to the underlying complex structure of the world.

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Colette Soler examines Lacan's thought on the controversial question of sexual difference. What Lacan Said About Women also explores the mother's place in the unconscious, depression, and why depressives feel unloved. And she examines the cultural implications of the texts from the 1950s to the 1970s.

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Sorting out the scientific facts from the unsupported hype about emotional intelligence.

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The trauma of losing a sibling when we are in our adult years is one of the most unrecognized areas of psychology. This book explores the unique connections we have with brothers and sisters and describes the trauma of losing a sibling as an adult. It includes interviews with psychologists and counsellors who specialize in bereavement issues.

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Revealing the shocking and detailed accounts of how adult women stalk, sexually assault, and even rape adult men, this book portrays an eye-opening reality: women can act as aggressive predators and victimize men.

Crimes of a sexual nature perpetrated by adult females against males constitute a serious problem in our society.

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Where Children Live is a natural extension of the Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology Series. The message of this volume is that effective delivery of child and family services, a comprehensive theoretical model, is needed so that efficient delivery can take place, as well as an evaluation of the quality of those services.

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Where Children Live is a natural extension of the Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology Series. The message of this volume is that effective delivery of child and family services, a comprehensive theoretical model, is needed so that efficient delivery can take place, as well as an evaluation of the quality of those services.

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Talking about the explanations we give and how we give them, this book looks at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help constitute, social relationships. It explores the manner in which people claim, establish, negotiate, repair, rework, or terminate relations with others through the reasons they give.

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For new explorers into the creativity literature, it will provide helpful grounding in the work of a major figure in the field and foundation for new questions and directions.

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Many seemingly unexplainable behaviors are manifestations of what Jung termed the Shadow, that unconscious part of the self that contradicts the image of the public self. Hollis suggests that becoming more attuned to the complexity of behavior is the first step toward wholeness.

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Exploring various sexual phenomena, this book exposes fundamental defects in sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, tracing them to their misguided emphasis on "why" questions at the expense of "how" questions.

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Mental health professionals are beginning to focus on the identification of factors which can promote healthy adjustment in children. This volume attempts to define these factors of resilience providing the groundwork for developing and implementing preventive programmes for children "at risk".

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A series of candid personal interviews with nearly 100 donors gives an in-depth look at the world of elite philanthropy. Harvard sociologist Francie Ostrower focuses on the New York City area to explore the motivations of single donors and the significance of elite group philanthropy. This book won the 1996 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize and was co-recipient of the 1996 ARNOVA Award.

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Psychoanalytic treatment utilised the patient's capacity to love and desire as a means to an end. The stuff of romance became the stuff of cure. This book discusses about techniques in psychoanalysis.

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A new paperback edition of an early collection from Edward Hirsch. Whether describing pines and cedars in the night forest or a cat's purring as exquisite instruction in the art of praise, these poems express profound gratitude for life.

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This insightful and moving book looks at how people of various ages view the process of aging and the social and emotional perspectives it evokes.

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At the turn of the twentieth century, William James was America's most widely read philosopher. This title details James' contributions to experimental psychopathology, psychical research, and the psychology of religion.

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The biography of Donald Winnicott, a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who spent nearly all of his professional life at Paddington Green Children's Hospital, London. His work and writing about children has been increasingly regarded as an influential contribution to psychoanalysis.

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