Psychology: Handbooks. Encyclopedias, Dictionaries

From atavisticto folie a deux, from engramto Weltschmerzand Seashore test, this edition of The Concise Dictionary of Psychologycontains more than 1,300 references to words, phrases and eminent pioneers in psychology.

Fully cross-referenced and source-referenced, this dictionary contains over 1200 entries consisting of terms concerning laws, theories, hypotheses, doctrines, principles, and effects in early and contemporary psychological literature.

An invaluable and reliable source, the 'APA Concise Dictionary of Psychology' answers the needs of individuals from all walks of life who are interested in the ways that psychological science and knowledge cast light on the issues of everyday living.

The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology is the first and only dictionary that surveys the broad discipline of psychology from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary focus.

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This classic text provides accessible and authoritative explanations of key terms and draws on a range of disciplines from medicine to the social sciences.

With a clear, functional design and written in a highly readable style, the dictionary offers over 10,000 entries, more than 125 illustrations, copious examples of terms, as well as extensive cross-referencing of entries.

This text is a compilation of the biographical details of 500 persons who made important contributions to modern psychology from the mid-19th century to the early 1990s.

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology presents the most comprehensive survey of transpersonal psychology yet published. Covers topics including shamanism, neurobiology, holotropic states, transpersonal experiences, and more.

This book presents current research in the study of the psychology of violence. Topics discussed in this compilation include the effect of adolescents' attitudes towards violence and prosociability; intimate partner violence and substance abuse; the causes of violence towards animals; targeting interventions for children and violence; the psychology of hatred and violence and sexual homicide offenders and their criminal careers.

A contemporary, broadly-based, and clinically grounded text that summarizes the scientific basis and practice of addiction medicine for the assessment, diagnosis, and clinical management of patients with substance use and related addictive disorders.

Counseling Psychology, one of the original specialties recognized in the profession of psychology, centers on and promotes clients' personal strengths during times of developmental transition or personal challenge and crisis.

As one of psychology's oldest fields, personality assessment is one of the most extensively studied subsets of contemporary psychology. The Oxford Handbook of Personality Assessment synthesizes new and existing literature with clinical practice to provide a comprehensive volume on contemporary personality assessment.

Established approaches covered in depth include experimental cognitive psychology, cognitive science with its focus on modelling and cognitive neuropsychology with its focus on cognition following brain damage.

The Handbook of the Brief Psychotherapies is intended to capture the development of a group of empirically grounded, time-limited therapies all sharing a common interest in the clinical utilization of a structured focus and an emphasis on time and action. Interest in the brief psychotherapies has not so much involved a radical departure from traditional therapeutic modalities as it has emphasized a new pragmatism about how time, action, and structure operate in life as well as in therapy.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers of all orientations.

This volume includes entries on a broad array of issues and covers the breadth of psychology viewed through the lens of the racial and ethnic minority experience. The Encyclopedia addresses culture across a broad spectrum of psychological perspectives and includes topics that are relevant to social psychology, cognitive psychology, environmental psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and clinical psychology.

'The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology' covers the entire spectrum of psychological terms, theories, personalities and experiments. The book is designed to be of use to both students and the general public.

Here in eight superbly organized volumes is the definitive guide to every area of psychological theory, research, and practice.

This four-volume set features over 2000 alphabetized entries by over 500 contributors. It provides coverage of every major area of psychology including applied, clinical, cognitive, developmental, educational, forensic, industrial, measurement, personality, physiological, social and theoretical.