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Experts investigate the role of child development in promoting a culture of peace, reporting on research in biology, neuroscience, genetics, and psychology.

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Shoham presents existentialist and object-relationship personality theory using mythology as a projection of human behavior. Through the myth of Don Juan as well as the personality of Casanova, he highlights the biological parameter of the personality and the thought of Kierkegaard and Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav.

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In the first book to argue that neurotic, psychotic, and borderline personality disorders can be identified, diagnosed, and treated even in the young, a renowned child psychiatrist marshalls her developmental perspective and adduces clinical evidence to support it. Kernberg and her colleagues elucidate assessment criteria and advance therapeutic approaches for each disorder.

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Since the publication of Huizinga's "Homo Ludens" in 1938, a literature has developed in philosophy and social science that suggests the idea of play should be taken seriously. This study examines the role of play in our understanding of human activity and social and political organization.

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This book focuses on the ramifications of the father-child relationship and its effects on the child-turned-adult.

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This book shows how, and in what ways, prenatal development serves as a preparation for life after birth. Here, the authors provide authoritative reviews of current knowledge regarding continuities and discontinuities between prenatal and postnatal development of brain-behavior relationships across a variety of species, including humans.

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Contents: Introduction: Psychedelics, page 1. Glossary, page 4. Legal Aspects of Drug Use, page 7. Medical Aspects of Drug Use, page 8. Social Aspects of Drug Use, page 11. The Psychedelic 'Experience', page 16. A Successful Trip, page 16. An Unsuccessful Trip, page 17. Counsel and Information, page 19. Conclusions, page 20. Bibliography: Psychedel

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Psychodynamics Commencing in Early Childhood adds to an understanding of the psychodynamics that are associated with and derived from early-life development. Marvin P. Osman draws on copious case material and research to document the effects of an unresolved separationindividuation process and earlier Oedipus complex on persons in later life.

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Psychologists have long sought to understand and explain human change and development. In applied psychology there are three dominant approaches which have been particularly influential - humanistic, psychodynamic and behaviourist. Psychological Change introduces these models and demonstrates how the theory can be related to practice.

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Conjoined twins born before the advent of surgical separation techniques have long been of special interest to scientists. He investigataes the lives of the first recorded conjoined twins, Chang and Eng, and the lives of other, lesser known conjoined twins.

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This collection of studies represents work being done in the area of qualitative research in early childhood settings. The research spans the full range of early childhood settings from the infant-toddler and home day care programs to primary classrooms.

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Children need to play and the benefits of play are many and varied, but they are too often underestimated. This title offers a re-examination of children's play drawing together insights and experiences across fields such as education, sociology, philosophy and psychology to encourage an inter-disciplinary approach.

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A re-examination of children's play drawing together insights and experiences across fields such as education, sociology, philosophy and psychology to encourage an inter-disciplinary approach.

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An engaging examination of current research into how exposure to television, iPads, and other "screen time" affects the development of babies and toddlers

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Silver Universe explores the topic of aging through an interdisciplinary lens and promotes a high quality life for aging individuals through the idea of active living, which encourages patients to exercise, have a healthy diet, and engage in disease prevention efforts.

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An analytical study, with the MMPI, of the interrelationships of behavior and personality.