Author: Alan Carr
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: psychology, focus, abnormal
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2001-04-27
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1841692425
ISBN-13: 9781841692425

Abnormal Psychology provides a thorough grounding for undergraduate students with little or no previous knowledge of this complex area of psychology. The focus is on clinical descriptions, using illustrative case studies, and on the implications of the major theoretical perspectives and relevant empirical evidence for clinical treatment.

Authors:Linda J. Beckman, S. Marie Harvey,
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Keywords: psychology, abortion, women, politics, culture, war, new, civil
Number of Pages: 406
Published: 1998-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1557985170
ISBN-13: 9781557985170

Univ. of California, Los Angeles. Examines the individual and combined influence of religion, morality, race, politics, personal history, sociopolitical context, and economics on a woman’s decision to continue or terminate her pregnancy.

Authors:Ronald Roesch, Stephen D. Hart, James R.P. Ogloff,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: psychology, law, perspectives, state, discipline
Number of Pages: 459
Published: 1999-02-28
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0306459507
ISBN-13: 9780306459504

As law is instituted by society to serve society, there can be no question that psychology plays an important and inevitable role in the legal process, clarifying or complicating legal issues. In this enlightening text, Roesch, Hart, Ogloff, and the contributors review all the key areas of the use of psychological expertise in civil, criminal, and family law. An impressive selection of academic scholars and legal professionals discusses the contributions that psychology brings to the legal arena. Topics examined in this insightful text include: juries and the current empirical literature witne

Authors:Ronald Roesch, Stephen D. Hart, James R.P. Ogloff,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: psychology, law, amp, perspectives, state, discipline
Number of Pages: 459
Published: 1999-02-28
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 0306459493
ISBN-13: 9780306459498

As law is instituted by society to serve society, there can be no question that psychology plays an important and inevitable role in the legal process, clarifying or complicating legal issues. In this enlightening text, Roesch, Hart, Ogloff, and the contributors review all the key areas of the use of psychological expertise in civil, criminal, and family law. An impressive selection of academic scholars and legal professionals discusses the contributions that psychology brings to the legal arena. Topics examined in this insightful text include: + juries and the current empirical

Authors:Michela Gallagher, Randy J. Nelson, Irving B. Weiner
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: psychology, volume, biological, handbook
Number of Pages: 756
Published: 2003-01-03
List price: $220.00
ISBN-10: 0471384038
ISBN-13: 9780471384038

* Includes established theories and cutting-edge developments. * Presents the work of an international group of experts. * Presents the nature, origin, implications, an future course of major unresolved issues in the area.

Author: Jaap van Ginneken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: psychology, history, studies, politics, crowds, cambridge
Number of Pages: 283
Published: 1992-07-31
List price: $99.99
ISBN-10: 0521404185
ISBN-13: 9780521404181

Jaap van Ginneken’s study explores the social and intellectual history of the emergence of the field of crowd psychology in the late nineteenth century in France and Italy. Both the popular work of the French physician LeBon, considered the "father" of this field, and his predecessors are shown to be influenced and closely connected with the dramatic events and academic debates of their day. Although LeBon is generally thought of as the creator of the field of crowd psychology, this study demonstrates how he derived most of his key concepts from immediate predecessors, without ackn

Authors:Alexander G. Asmolov, James Wertsch,
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: psychology, horizons, classical, non, verge, vygotsky
Number of Pages: 106
Published: 1998-10
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1560726164
ISBN-13: 9781560726166

This outstanding book examines the psychology of personality as the history of development of the changing person in a changing world. It develops a historical-evolutionary approach which reveals the regularities of human development in natural evolution, the history of society and the construction of the individual life course of the personality on the basis of the system methodology approach to human development using different approaches to psychology.