Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality Books

This book is about Italian American women, food, identity, and our stories at the table. This mother-daughter research team explores how Italian American working-class women from Syracuse, New York use food as a symbol and vehicle which carries multiple...

This book uses Viktor Frankl's Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration camps,...

"Tourse, Hamilton-Mason, and Wewiorski discuss major concepts that help explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism in the U.S. - with a focus on social construction, oppression, scaffolding, and institutional web - providing insight into...

This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news. This violence occurs when powerful institutions seek to manipulate the thoughts of marginalized people-manufacturing...

This book examines both academic and practical theories relating to leader development. It broadens the scope of this topic by including data-driven theory and proposals from diverse areas that are either not currently represented or are poorly addressed...

This book weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: the author's journey and transition from a once undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic, and five years of on-going national research on the...

Offering a unique set of case studies that invites readers to question and reimagine the concept of community engagement, this collected work provides an overview and analysis of numerous, creative participatory research methods designed to improve...

This book applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism. In presenting vivid illustrations of how our understanding of psychological problems can be enriched...

This timely and thought-provoking collection explores the ways in which psychological science interacts with and addresses gender across varied subdisciplines in the field, from a feminist viewpoint. A particular aim of this volume is to move the...

This timely resource offers fresh research on companies'use of social media platforms-from Twitter and Facebook to LinkedIn and othercareer sites-to find and hire personnel. Its balanced approach explains why andhow social media are commonly used in both...

This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values-the core beliefs that guide people's cognition and behavior-and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the...

This book helps us to understand the therapeutic processes involved in the multifamily group and gives us tools for effective management, making it an indispensable guide for professionals in all areas of human care who are interested in including...

Dieses Buch bringt führende Wissenschaftler auf dem Gebiet der Kreativität zusammen, um einen Überblick und eine Untersuchung der Arbeit von Teresa Amabile, einer Pionierin der Forschung über organisatorische Kreativität, zu geben. Die Autoren...

Based on the analysis of eighteen authentic and inspiring personal stories, this book illustrates how people with severe childhood disabilities achieved extraordinary career success. Growing up, the people surrounding them and environmental conditions...

This insightful book proposes a holistic theory of the development of self, drawing on interdisciplinary literature in existential-phenomenology, neurophenomenology, intracrinology, endocrinology, and naturopathic medicine. The psychoneurointracrine...

This book focuses on language and identity online within the context of running from an interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together digital ethnography, existential phenomenology, interpretative phenomenological analysis and sporting...

This book provides fresh insight into the creative practice developed by Paul McCartney over his extended career as a songwriter, record producer and performing musician. It frames its examination of McCartney's work through the lens of the systems model...

This unique volume is one of the first of its kind to examine infancy through an evolutionary lens, identifying infancy as a discrete stage during which particular types of adaptations arose as a consequence of certain environmental pressures. Infancy is...

This Handbook provides a broad and comprehensive overview of psychological research on alcohol consumption. It explores the psychological theories underpinning alcohol use and misuse, discusses the interventions that can be designed around these...

The theory behind graphotherapy is simple: change the handwriting stroke and you change the associated handwriting trait. Graphoanalysis has proven that each stroke in your handwriting means something about you and your personality.This book will give...

So gehst du endlich selbstbewusst durchs Leben:Gehe einmal tief in dich und frage dich:Wie würde dein Leben aussehen, wenn du nur so vor Selbstbewusstsein strotzen würdest?Wenn du ein Mensch wärst, der alles haben und erreichen kann?Du alle Gelegenheiten...

Do you feel like you're stuck in a cycle of intense emotions and impulsive behavior that ruins your relationships and leaves you feeling empty and alone? Are you tired of the angry outbursts, fear of abandonment, and intense relationships that come with...

Improve Your Communication Skills, Influence, and PersuasivenessHave you spent most of your life watching the people around you overtake you and always get the better end of the stick, professionally and personally? Do you sit in meetings or at bars and...

Would you feel like you're oftentimes missed? However hard you try, does this look like people don't wish to obey you? They might just find you to be non-threatening or overly submissive to maintain their focus, or maybe they feel just like you...

ENTJ 101 is an anecdotal guide with tips for the Myers-Briggs personality type ENTJ. A fun read with loads of personality, this guide walks you through:• Where ENTJ qualities come from• How ENTJ qualities play out in the world• How ENTJ...

When you look in the mirror, do you see a good person or a bad person? Author Joel Primus grew up believing he needed to "do good" and "be good" to earn his parents' love and society's acceptance, but no matter what he accomplished, he never felt...

This book questions the belief that patronage explains poor governance and weak organizations. Its focus is on high-level political appointees in the Philippines, but its implications for development processes and policy are far-reaching. Patronage...

This book on business psychology-particularly organizational leadership-crosses industries, continents, and business environments: it includes 45 précis on emerging theories of leadership; ethical and cultural considerations; group and team leadership;...

This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings. Wellbeing has become a catchphrase in educational, health and social care policies...

This book uses a post-modern approach to explore how Japanese returnee students (kikokushijo) and former returnees who work in Japanese industry, negotiate multiple identities. Methodological triangulation is used to study inner perception of face,...

This book comprehensively explores the changes in the Chinese spiritual world from the perspective of transition and transformation. Chinese feeling, a brand-new concept corresponding to Chinese experience, refers to the vicissitudes that 1.3 billion...

This book studies the variety of organizational strategies selected to cope with critical uncertainties during crises. This research formulates and applies an institutional sense-making model to explain the selection of strategies for coping with...

"Frohe Weinachten euch allen" ist ein Buch, das der Weihnachtsstimmung gewidmet ist und für diejenigen gedacht ist, die Weihnachten mit größerem Bewusstsein, Dankbarkeit und Freude erleben möchten. Durch tägliche Reflexionen, Selbstbewertungsaktivitäten...

Êtes-vous las de cette solitude pesante ? Ce vide sidéral qui vous dévore malgré vos efforts pour l'ignorer ? Il est temps de briser les chaînes toxiques de cet isolement !Préparez-vous à embrasser une renaissance initiatique vous menant à reconquérir...

"Sueños con Significado" es un libro creado para aquellos que buscan explorar el fascinante mundo de los sueños de manera profunda y significativa. Este libro te invita a embarcarte en un viaje personal hacia el entendimiento de tus sueños, no solo como...

This volume summarizes and organizes a growing body of research supporting the role of motivation in adaptive and rewarding interpersonal interactions with others. The field of human motivation is rapidly growing but most studies have focused on the...

This book returns critical theory to its roots in both psychology and the social sciences. It shows some of the relationships between equality in a political and social sense and personal identity that either relates well to such equality, or rebels...

Digital gaming is today a significant economic phenomenon as well as being an intrinsic part of a convergent media culture in postmodern societies. Its ubiquity, as well as the sheer volume of hours young people spend gaming, should make it ripe for...

Preface: Ingrid Brdar.- Introduction: The Human Pursuit of Well-Being: A Cultural approach, Ingrid Brdar.- Part 1. Happiness and Well-being: 1. Can we get Happier than we are?: Ruut Veenhoven.-2. Self-serving Attributional Bias and Hedonic and Eudaimonic...

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Social and Environmental Psychology in the European Context, Lisbon, Portugal, September 22-26, 1986

This book endeavors to be a study of identity in Indian urban youth. It is concerned with understanding the psychological themes of conformity, rebellion, individuation, relatedness, initiative and ideological values which pervade youths' search for...

G. A. E. Rudolf Es ist schon Tradition, daB die Schering-AG zum Berliner Kongress fur Arzt­ liche Fortbildung ein Begleitsymposium zum Thema Schlafstorungen veran­ staltet und die Referate anschlieBend publiziert werden. Immel...

Die Tatsache, daß Unterricht und Erziehung im Machtbereich des Kommunismus eine Rolle spielen wie vielleicht nirgendwo sonst, findet seit einiger Zeit wachsende Aufmerksamkeit in der freien Welt. Manchmal hat es sogar den...

This book will interest anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the psychological relationship between individual psychological dynamics, social structure and the unconscious collective paradigms. It focuses on an analysis of patriarchal culture,...

New Leadership - muss das wirklich sein? Ist New Work nicht genug? Oliver Titzmann zeigt auf, warum die agile und digitale Arbeitswelt eine neue Art der Mitarbeiterführung braucht: von der Reflexion des eigenen Leadership Mindsets über die...

Was ist eigentlich Wissenschaft? Diese Frage wird angesichts globaler Herausforderungen wie COVID-19, dem Klimawandel u.a. zunehmend neu diskutiert - und wir erleben eine beängstigende Zunahme des Widerstandes gegen die wissenschaftlichen Methoden...