Social Sciences  /  Psychology
Spider Stories Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781922669391
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2024
Imprint: Arden
Description:
This is a book about spiders and arachnophobia. With a touch of humour, deep curiosity and an artist’s eye the author examines her phobia and the object of her fear. What is a spider?
When He Came Home Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 186
ISBN: 9781922454669
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2024
Imprint: Arden
Description:
When the Vietnam War veterans returned home to Australia, neither the veterans nor their partners were aware of the psychological harm with which many had been afflicted. Post-traumatic stress disorder had not yet been recognised and as the men fell victim to terrible moods and illnesses, they capitulated to their pain and isolated themselves and their families. With great courage and without recognition, veterans' wives held their families together despite government and community indifference, and they did so for decades.
Making Sense of Mental Health Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 226
ISBN: 9781739789213
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2022
Imprint: Liffey Press
Illustrations: 10 diagrams
Description:
Mental health difficulties bring us face to face with our vulnerability as human beings, and after two years of struggling with the effects of Covid-19 concerns about mental health worldwide have never been higher. But our discussions are still fraught with issues of language and understanding. Are we all on a ‘spectrum’ of mental wellness?
Giovanni Hautmann Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 126
ISBN: 9788869773280
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Series: Psychology
Description:
Giovanni Hautmann (Florence, 1927-2017) was president of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and trained generations of analysts. Together with numerous articles, he has published some fundamental texts, among which: La psicoanalisi tra arte e biologia (1999), Il mio debito con Bion (1999), Funzione analitica e Mente primitiva (2002). Despite the fact that during his presidency, he had promoted for the first time the bilingual (Italian-English) publication of the official journal of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, his books have never been published in other languages and therefore his thinking remains still little known abroad.
The Mindful Spark Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781838359317
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2021
Imprint: Liffey Press
Illustrations: 30 B&W illustrations
Description:
In these particularly stressful times, many people are struggling with their mental health. Some are caught up in their painful past, others are fretful about an uncertain future, and even more are anxious about their current circumstances. While the worries and concerns are real, practical steps can be taken to make them more manageable.
Mental Health in the Times of the Pandemic Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 82
ISBN: 9781922454058
Pub Date: 28 May 2021
Imprint: Arden
Description:
Traumatologist Paul Valent believes that knowledge of human responses in disasters can help individuals and societies to better control catastrophic events, such as the present pandemic. This concise book will help the general reader to understand the very wide mental health effects of this pandemic, and thus to understand how distress may be better managed today and in the future. The author summarises disaster responses as they have manifested in this pandemic.
Food, My Frienemy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 124
ISBN: 9788869773730
Pub Date: 21 May 2021
Series: Psychology
Description:
A difficult relationship with food affects not only adolescents but also adults. It is often the symptom of a deep pain that rises from problems of control, low self-esteem, guilt and shame, which can derive from critical or traumatic events experienced in the course of life or at a young age. This book helps the reader to understand the difficult relationship with food and the original causes of the symptoms that maintain it.
Psychoanalytical notes on the origin of money Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9788869772801
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2020
Description:
In the ancient world, many units of measurement were based, approximately, on some parts of the human body: arm, cubit, span, inch, foot; or on their functions: pace, half hour, league… I wondered if there might be some parts of the body, which weighed 4.25g: in other words, half a siqlum or half a giĝ. And I identified, albeit with wide variations, these parts in the foreskin which Abraham/Hammurabi cuts off as a symbol of a new faith, reviving - I cannot say how consciously - an ancient, now forgotten tradition which stands at the base of that antique unit of measurement with an abstract value and the form of a Ring to be worn as a bracelet or anklet on or in one’s own body (eg.
The Brutality of Things Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9788869772177
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2019
Series: Aesthetics
Description:
In every psychic experience, even in the production of a work of art, there exists a nucleus that is impossible to transform. It resists any and every action against itself. We are used to dealing with these irreducible and radical othernesses by adapting them to our own way of knowing and our experience.
The Phallus and the Mask Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9788869771385
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2019
Series: Psychology
Description:
Psychoanalysts of all schools have generally dismissed and sometimes openly disapproved feminism and its critique of male universalism. While other disciplines, like sociology and anthropology, have welcomed the contributions of feminist theory, psychoanalysis remains hindered by its own unconscious, which is patriarchal. This book wants to cast light on the unthought of Freudian and Lacanian theory by way of an analysis of the concept of femininity.
Steps to Freedom Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781912589005
Pub Date: 14 Aug 2018
Imprint: Liberties Press
Illustrations: Not illustrated
Description:
The Weinstein affair in Hollywood has grabbed the headlines for months. Controlling behavior, particularly of men towards women, is far more common in all walks of life than we have been led to believe.In this easy-to-read guide, best-selling author Don Hennessy offers advice to all those dealing with violent or controlling behavior in their own lives, based on his experience of dealing with hundreds of such people in a therapeutic setting.
Women on the Verge of Jihad Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9788869771316
Pub Date: 09 Jul 2018
Series: Politics
Description:
Surprisingly, jihadi groups like ISIS do not only attract female supporters coming from Muslim communities, but also Western women who grew up in non-Muslim environments. Trauma, depression and the need for a more exciting life outside the constraints of Western society brought some women to embrace the political cause of waging jihad and supporting terrorism. This book discovers the hidden psychological and sociological drivers that can lead young Western women to support jihadi ideology, violence and sometimes suicide.
Exploring Human Nature Cover Exploring Human Nature Cover
Format: 
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9789088905599
Pub Date: 06 Apr 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 42bw/3fc
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9789088905582
Pub Date: 06 Apr 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 42bw/3fc
Description:
Exploring human nature takes the reader deep into the human experience of being in nature. Our current ecological predicament highlights the need to change people’s nature awareness and behaviour. This pioneering mixed methods study investigates a method to do this through facilitated Solo time in the wilderness.
Dislocated Subject Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 106
ISBN: 9788869771071
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2018
Series: Geographies of Psychoanalysis
Description:
“The time is out of joint”. This famous line from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet helps to describe the impression of de-centering, of deconstruction, which we currently live and experience. This phenomenon is caused by various factors and while it is happening worldwide, partly as a result of globalization, it is perceived in different ways in the various cultures and countries in the world.
Mental Health in Ireland Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 450
ISBN: 9780995792715
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2017
Imprint: Liffey Press
Description:
One in four individuals will develop a mental illness at some point in their life, and virtually everyone knows someone with a mental illness or a family affected by suicide. Each year, hundreds of thousands of individuals attend general practitioners for mental health problems; tens of thousands attend community mental health teams; and there are 18,173 admissions to inpatient psychiatric facilities in Ireland, of which 1,921 are involuntary admissions under the Mental Health Act 2001.Mental Health in Ireland provides a clear overview of mental health, illness and well-being in Ireland.
Cartographies of the Unconscious Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9788869770579
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2016
Description:
If we think of the beginnings of psychoanalysis, we certainly recognise that it overturned the vision human beings had of themselves, the illusion of ownership of their thoughts and actions. And in reality it still remains a way of reading the world, both inside and outside, that is admittedly disorienting. However, especially in recent years, the principles on which psychoanalysis was founded have been subjected to considerable pressure from the outside that forces psychoanalysis to problematise still more its vision of humankind and to abandon everything connected with prejudice toward the culture and history it was born out of, i.