Behaviourism, Behavioural theory Books

C. G. Jung saw in the cultural history of Western man a progressive evolution of its God-image. During the last ten years of his life, he wrote a series of remarkable letters about the new God-image which is now emerging through the discoveries of depth...

Life's betrayals both define and condemn us to re-create ourselves. Jungian analyst Aldo Carotenuto shows us the positive and fundamental role of betrayal in our growth throughout life. Betrayal visits us from the moment of birth and remains a life...

In a spirited and accessible interpretation, Angelo Spoto presents at least four perspectives on Jung’s philosophy of typology, including an analysis of the popular Myers-Brigg Type Indicator. He shows where typology fits into Jung’s broader...

Fairy tales can reveal a hidden side of our lives, our unconscious, and our interrelationship with others. Each of these essays provides a Jungian interpretation of a well-known or rare fairy tale to reveal the universal psychic dynamics that affect us...

The Transcendent is a reality that functions in all our lives all the time -call it God, the unknown, or the holy. It is not some obscure out-of-reach Other available only to those with specialized knowledge or a phenomenon spoken about only in a church,...

As Hogenson writes in chapter 1:  “Jung’s memory of the ocean passage (from Jung’s memoirs, recording a voyage to America with Freud) focuses our attention on the central problem of this essay: What does it mean to lay claim to...

Barbara Hannah was a close associate of Carl Gustav Jung. This book features a seminar she gave at the Psychological Club in 1954 about the images of the cat, the dog, and the horse in the psychological and cultural life of the western world. It also...

Sporting events, seen from the perspective of both participant and spectator, have risen to the level of religious conviction over the years. The passion, the bond, and the sacrifice involved is shared by countless people fascinated with “the game...

Here is the thought of Carl Gustav Jung, the great Swiss psychologist, applied to the real world of the therapist's office. Dr. Wilmer explores the Jungian approach in a deceptively light style, bringing not only his years of experience but his...

Humor permeates every aspect of society and has done so for thousands of years. People experience it daily through television, newspapers, literature, and contact with others. Rarely do social researchers analyze humor or try to determine what makes it...

 Discover The Easiest Way To Free Yourself From Obsessions And Find Your Inner Peace!Do you often find yourself trapped in an endless cycle of obsessive thoughts or routines?Would you like to regain control over your behavior and cast your fears...

"Case studies provide the reader with a variety of interesting examples of ways that control theory can be translated into the practice of reality therapy. . . . [Dr. Glasser's] commentaries . . . are one of the strengths of the book".--Gerald Corey

The experimental and highly regarded Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University was endowed in the late nineteenth century. Over the years, participants have including many leading representatives of religion, science, and philosophy. This series has as...

This book was developed to help researchers and practitioners select measures to be used in the evaluation of human/machine systems. The book begins with an overview of the steps involved in developing a test to measure human performance. This is...

The presentation and interpretation of visual information is essential to almost every activity in human life and most endeavors of modern technology. This book examines the current status of what is known (and not known) about...

This volume has three goals with respect to the interplay between philosophy and behavioral psychology's experimental, applied, and interpretive levels of knowing. It aims to examine core principles in the philosophy of...

In this landmark book the impulse toward self-destructiveness is examined as a misdirection of the instinct for survival, a turning inward of the aggressive behavior developed for self-preservation. The self-imposed illness, despair, even suicide, that...

Certain basic assumptions, essential to any scientific activity, are sometimes called theories. That nature is orderly rather than capricious is an example. Certain statements are also theories simply to the extent that they are not yet facts. A...

First published in 1988, behavioural family therapists worked in an area that had greatly changed since its inception over 20 years before. Growing out of the pioneering work of Gerald Patterson, Robert Paul Liberman, and Richard Stuart, whose...

This book describes the origin, development and current state of volunteerism in Asia and Hong Kong. It also presents a field-tested model of empowering through volunteerism (namely, the CYEP at City University), that involves youth,...

People Skills for Behavior Analysts provides a much-needed introduction to the people skills needed to succeed as a behavior analyst.

Théodule Ribot présente une analyse de l'école expérimentale de psychologie anglaise. Il examine les théories de John Locke, de David Hartley, de James Mill et de John Stuart Mill, entre autres. Ce livre est une introduction essentielle à la psychologie...

In this groundbreaking work, renowned psychologist John B. Watson lays out the principles of behaviorism. Drawing upon both animal and human experiments, Watson demonstrates how behavior can be conditioned and modified through stimulus and response. This...

The term "behavior therapy" is applied to many techniques and strategies, some theoretically based and some not, unified by a common goal: the application of learning principles to the treatment of psychopathology. Although treatment paradigms have...