A compilation of blogs charting Julie Hay's Transactional Analysis ideas and publications from 1986 to present day (2020). From October 2017 until May 2019, Julie Hay published a series of 77 blogs that tracked how she had been developing her TA ideas - including several that have now become well known: the competence curve, steps to success, windows on the world, internal and behavioural ego states, working styles, sailship success, the assessing cube (AP3) and leadership styles. The blogs al...
Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to get out of bed in the morning? And why you always wake up bursting for a pee? Why that small blackhead has erupted into a hideous red spot overnight? And why stepping into a hot shower gives you goose bumps?Following an average family and their daily routine, Dr Hilary Jones takes you on a bold and captivating journey through the human body, answering these questions and hundreds more.From how our bodies function to why they react in certain ways, D...
A profound and deeply personal collection of essays by renowned psychologist Carl Rogers The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement and father of client-centered therapy, based his life's work on his fundamental belief in the human potential for growth. A Way of Being was written in the early 1980s, near the end of Carl Rogers's career, and serves as a coda to his classic On Becoming a Person. More philosophical than his earlier writings, it traces his professional a...
An enormous amount of scientific research compels two fundamental conclusions about the human mind: The mind is the product of evolution; and the mind is shaped by culture. These two perspectives on the human mind are not incompatible, but, until recently, their compatibility has resisted rigorous scholarly inquiry. Evolutionary psychology documents many ways in which genetic adaptations govern the operations of the human mind. But evolutionary inquiries only occasionally grapple seriously with...
Person-Centred Therapy Today
by Professor Dave Mearns and Professor Brian Thorne
`This is a book that is rooted in the origins of person-centred therapy but stands at the cutting edge of new ideas developing in this tradition. It will reinvigorate those of us already immersed in this tradition. It should convince newcomers of the vitality and potential of this approach to therapy′ - Tim Bond, University of Bristol `This book is clearly a labour of love by two authors with unique abilities and unparalleled experience: readers will be educated, inspired and encouraged in thei...
A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs--and new insights for realizing your full potential and living your most creative, fulfilled, and connected life. When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow's unfinished theory of transcendence, sprinkled throughout a cache of unpublished journals, lectures, and essays, he felt a deep resonance with his own work and life. In this groundbreaking book, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unraveling the mysteries of hi...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)
Humility is a vital aspect of political discussion, social media and self-help, whilst recent empirical research has linked humility to improved well-being, open-mindedness and increased accuracy in assessing persuasive messages. It is also a topic central to research and discussion in philosophy, applied ethics and religious studies. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility is the first collection to present a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of humility, whilst also covering i...
Beyond Lacan (SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)
by James M. Mellard
The editors of this text present an authoritative handbook on diversity in feminist psychology. Landrine and Russo discuss the many dimensions of 'diversity' within the context of feminist psychology, including ethnic, social-class, disability, nativity, sexual preference and other socially-constructed status differences among women. The aim of this new book is substantially broader than the editors' first book, ""Bringing Cultural Diversity to Feminist Ppsychology: Theory, Research, and Practic...
In a waking dream, we inhabit the dreamworld with an awareness of doing so-as sometimes happens upon waking from sleep when a dream continues to feel present alongside an awareness of lying in bed. Taking perspectives from transpersonal psychology, ecotherapy, complexity theory, and fractal geometry, this book develops new possibilities within waking dream practice (also known as "active imagination" and "guided imagery") to show: how the in-between waking/dreaming experience allows us to be...
