Time and Psychological Explanation

Brent D Slife

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• Psychology has been captured by an assumption that is almost totally unrecognized. This assumption-the linearity of time-unduly restricts theory and t... Lees meer

The Power of Reinforcement

Stephen Ray Flora

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• Makes the controversial argument that reinforcement is a real and valuable force in human behavior. 2004 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title According t... Lees meer

The Subject of Lacan

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• An accessible introduction to the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, intended especially for American psychologists but useful to anyone intere... Lees meer

A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans

Laura Uba

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• Challenges existing paradigms of knowledge as they relate to Asian Americans. Focusing on race, culture, acculturation, ethnicity, and ethnic identity... Lees meer

The Morals and Politics of Psychology

Isaac Prilleltensky

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• This book explores the moral, social, and political implications of dominant psychological theories and practices. The analysis entails the therapeuti... Lees meer

Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Eastern Thought

John R Suler

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• This book explores the convergence of psychoanalysis and Asian thought. It explores key theoretical issues. What role does paradox play in psychologic... Lees meer

The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint

Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• Resolves the fundamental debate between cognitivists and social constructionists concerning the metaphysics of human psychology, and offers new insigh... Lees meer

Identification and Character

Howard Kamler

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• This book tells the reader all about psychological identification, the single most important process for becoming, maintaining, or changing who we are... Lees meer

The Paradox of Power and Weakness

George Kunz

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• Offers an alternative paradigm for psychology, one that reflects Levinas's criticism of a self-centered notion of identity. Reveals the secret of an "... Lees meer

Becoming Good Parents

Mufid James Hannush

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• Argues that our struggle to become good parents can help us to become good persons. Becoming Good Parents goes beyond a psychological understanding of... Lees meer

The Last Resistance

Marcus Bowman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• A fundamentally new examination of the controversies raging around psychoanalysis. Radical and uncompromising, The Last Resistance is a penetrating re... Lees meer

Dark Light

Ronald Schenk

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• Reveals the effects of the cultural unconscious or "world soul" in human experience. Dark Light is about seeing the world through imagination and stim... Lees meer

Metaphors of Interrelatedness

Linda E Olds

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• Olds examines the role of metaphor and models in psychology, science, and religion and argues the case for systems theory as a contemporary unifying m... Lees meer

Orientation to Inquiry in a Reflective Professional Psychology

Lisa L Tsoi Hoshmand

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• This book approaches professional inquiry in psychology from a perspective that integrates research and practice and prepares students for the diversi... Lees meer

About Psychology

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• A critical and historical overview of psychology. Demonstrating how psychologists use theory, philosophy, and history to illuminate the subjects they ... Lees meer

Psychology and the Question of Agency

Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, Janice Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• Looks at the limits of free will in human action. Disciplinary psychology has failed to achieve a coherent conception of human agency. Instead, it osc... Lees meer

Between Conviction & Uncertainty

Jerry N Downing

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Alternatives in Psychology
• Explores the philosophical context within which psychotherapy functions. At a time when scores of seemingly incompatible theories and methods are comp... Lees meer