The Unsung Psychoanalyst touches on the founding and growth of New York's Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and on the development of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute where Easser taught during the last five years of her life.
In a lengthy and detailed new introduction, T.M. Robinson surveys the scope and value of a number of contributions to Plato’s theory of psyche, individual and cosmic, that have appeared since 1970.
In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians believed that radical measures were justified to protect the community from the "degenerate."
Order and Disorder in a Pre-trial Psychiatric Clinic
by Robert J. Menzies
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$46.95
ISBN: 9780802067371
Pub Date: November 1989
In this study of pre-trial clinical assessment, Robert Menzies examines a key element in our system of criminal justice and finds is wanting. His book calls into question the entire process by which the state determines that defendants are – or are not – mentally fit to stand trial.
An introduction of the psychology of language learning and teaching
by Marcel Danesi and Renzo Titone
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$35.95
ISBN: 9781487585341
Pub Date: December 1985
Applied Psycholinguistics examines principal linguistic theories, recent research into first-language development, second-language learning, psychometric methodology, and other important topics in a way that makes the technical literature accessible and relates it to pedagogical practice.
This book brings together, in the spirit of dialogue, the arguments on both sides of the most important issue in literary criticism today. It will be of interest to all concerned with textual theory, regardless of which literature are considered.
Problems and Solutions in the Analysis of Non-Western Forms
by Jay Rahn
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$41.95
ISBN: 9781487585273
Pub Date: December 1983
The author also discusses the fields of anthropology and psychology, showing how his approach serves as a starting point for studies of perception and the concepts, norms, and values found in specific music cultures.
The Jungian Self in the Novels of Robertson Davies
by Patricia Monk
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$35.95
ISBN: 9781487587079
Pub Date: December 1982
The concepts of the Jungian theory of personality have long held considerable interest for Robertson Davies. This interpretive study discusses Davies' use of Jungian psychology as both a structural and a thematic device and touches on related themes of illusion and the nature of reality.
This study of the personality of William Lyon Mackenzie King challenges the view that he led 'a double life. ' Joy Esberey shows how King 's personality traits influenced his political behaviour, and how his personal and public life were an integrated whole, neither contradictory nor unrelated.
In this context Raoul discusses more than fifty novels or short stories wholly or partly in diary form and written in France between 1800 and the present.
Roberts sifts through a maze of theories and emerges with a plausible theory of community development that is backed a every stage by the lessons of practical experience. The broadly based and humane work will interest all concerned with the process of community development, from planning to action.
This collection of papers represents the first Canadian book devoted to the study of sexual behaviour. The papers provide a general view of sexual attitudes, sexual identity, and current sex research in Canada as well as perspectives on the subject from a variety of disciplines.
The fourteen chapters of this volume offer guidance for the application of animal studies to human questions. Specific topic areas include mother/infant relationships, learning, aggression, the evolution of interpersonal behaviour, and social organization.
Written within the tradition of Wittgenstein's work, these eight original essays in philosophical psychology are either by-products of efforts to understand Wittgenstein's later writings or applications of techniques and approaches derived from Wittgenstein to problems about which he did not say a great deal.
This book reveals emerging theory in the nebulous area between neurophysiology and behavioural science which is of such vital importance in the mental health field.
