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A report of research on two groups of residentially placed, emotionally disturbed adolescents compared on the basis of their adoptive status.

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Emotional Exorcism: Expelling the Four Psychological Demons That Make Us Backslide offers a powerful, research-grounded model and tools to help us overcome our problems without beating up on ourselves for backsliding to negative habits.

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National bestselling author Dr. Orloff invites readers to take a remarkable journey, one that leads to happiness and serenity, and a place where they can gain mastery over the negativity that pervades daily life.

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Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.

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Robert Kastenbaum, creator of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Death, has now collected and edited a source of reliable information on adult development that is accessible to the general reader, useable by professionals, and perfect for those who are simply browsing.

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This compelling volume explores the various aspects of Native American healing found cross-culturally in North America, including Canadian and Inuit cultures.

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This book covers the role of prophecy in world history, religion, folklore and literature.

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The reader is also exposed to how lifespan relationships are shaped by international, racial, ethnic, and class differences.

Over 500 easy-to-read entries analyze terms, concepts, themes, theories, and policies, as well as current, historical, and multicultural perspectives, and provide over 1,500 sources for further study.

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This collection of essays addresses problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, and various conceptions of the learning and thinking process as well as suggestions on how to facilitate these within the academic and business domains.

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Draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation. This book addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture.

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Intertwines the idealization of perfect love with the clinical stages of hypnosis. The stages of hypnotic entrancement are delineated, starting with fantasy fixation of perfect love and its eventual demise.

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This work addresses the cultural background of stewardship as a progression from individual personal aesthetics to a deeply informed environmental ethic that could become a national environmental policy.

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With entries ranging from Alzheimer's disease to the Zeignarik effect, this unique dictionary provides information about the researchers, scholars, and scientists whose names have become part of terms in common use among psychologists.

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It meaningfully and systematically integrates observations and theories from a broad range of psychological disciplines in terms of one principle - equilibration.

Part I of Equilibration, Mind, and Brain elaborates on the concept of equilibration in terms of the representation and processing of information and the process of control.

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Originally published in hardcover in 2020 by Bloomsbury Academic.

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A report on the relation between personality and extrasensory perception, based on data gathered by a psychologist and statistical analysis by a physicist.

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A study of the mystifying language of workplace downsizing, restructuring, reengineering, managed care, and community disaster, and of how we deceive ourselves by masking the true horror of these events behind euphemism and what has come to be called "spin."

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Psychological, educational, gerontological, marketing, and other literatures all report recent research in everyday problem solving, yet few sources have made these various types of results available in one state-of-the-art volume.

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An exploration of human adolescence, this book is unique because of its ethological perspective. The author presents a comprehensive treatment of adolescent development from a functional, evolutionary point of view, providing a research-based description of human adolescence. He also offers a comparative perspective, describing adolescence in other species, human cultures, and historical periods.

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This book considers the complexities of human nature from a biological, psychological, and evolutionary standpoint and demonstrates how common modern behaviors can be traced back to early man.