The Real Stories behind Honour Killing
Honour killing, as it is widely understood, is the cold-blooded murder of a woman or a man involved with her, by the male members of her household in order to cleanse the reputation of the family, clan, community or tribe. This violent tradition in the name of religion, custom and culture continues to be carried out in a significantly large part of the world. The majority of people still believe that honour killings happen for reasons such as marriage from choice or a love affair of a kinswoman,...
Study Guide for Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World
by Jeffrey S. Nevid, Spencer A Rathus, and Beverly Greene, Ph.D.
Love and Its Vicissitudes
by Andre Green, Gregorio Kohon, and Andr Green
In Love and its Vicissitudes Andre Green and Gregorio Kohon draw on their extensive clinical experience to produce an insightful contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of love. In Part I, 'To Love or Not to Love - Eros and Eris', Andre Green addresses some important questions: What is essential to love in life? What, in the psychoanalytic method, is related to it? Should we understand love by referring to its earliest and most primitive roots? Or should we take as our starting point th...
When the beautiful home that Janita Sakoschek had built for her family burned down it caused a catastrophic breakdown. She lost everything she owned: her clothes and furniture, her diaries and photographs, her antiques and paintings and, ultimately, her sanity. We find her rooted to a borrowed sofa, chain-smoking, and blackly depressed. Friends and family try to intervene but she only resents the intrusions and the humiliations.When she finally agrees to see a psychologist, she gets incarcerated...
Rich with insight and awareness, Recovery explores the secrets, fears, hopes and issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. Authors and widely respected therapists and ACOA workshop leaders Herbert Gravitz and Julie Bowden detail in a clear question-and-answer format the challenges of control and inadequacy that ACOAs face as they struggle for recovery and understanding, stage-by-stage: Survival * Emergent Awareness * Core Issues * Transformations * Integration * Genesis. If you...
Mastery of Your Specific Phobia Client Workbook
by Michelle G Craske, David H Barlow, and Martin M. Antony
Is anxiety making your child's life a misery - causing problems at school, difficulties in making friends or facing new experiences, even affecting their physical health? Anxiety is a curse that can cast a damning spell over your child's life. But there is a solution. Chronic anxiety is a serious problem which may be general, or a specific anxiety about taking exams or doing sums, or a phobia about anything from trains or spiders to eating in public or going to the toilet. It can be treated succ...
MyLab Psychology Pegasus -- Standalone Access Card -- for Abnormal Psychology
by James N. Butcher, Susan M Mineka, and Jill M. Hooley
Schizophrenia
by Steven M Silverstein, William D Spaulding, and Anthony A Menditto
Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders: A Clinician's Manual for Light and Wake Therapy
by Anna Wirz-Justice, A Wirz-Justice, F Benedetti, and M Terman
You left the doctor's surgery before you could ask the things you really wanted to know. You've googled your question about anxiety and had 75 answers, all contradicting each other.You asked your best friend - but they looked at you strangely.You have so many questions, but no idea where to start finding the answers. Here they are. In this book you'll find the definitive, expert responses to all your FAQs: On Anxiety. No question is too simple, too embarrassing, too rude or too offbeat to be inc...
The Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease (At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries)