Multiple personality-the mysterious capture of the body by alien, unseen personalities, or "alters"-is the stuff of courtroom drama and the basis of riveting accounts like Sybil. It's also a staple in horror movies, and that, according to Nicholas Spanos, is where it should stay. In Multiple Identities and False Memories, Spanos, one of the ......
`This brief and powerful book has very important things to say to a wider audience; to health care professionals, to therapists, and also to social scientists who deal with questions of femininity, the body, and poststructuralism' - Journal of Health Psychology `A readable book that contains simplified information of some complicated concepts. ......
The authors explain and discuss a series of transpersonal research methods designed to help researchers develop new ways of investigating extraordinary human experi ences of a subjective nature. '
Many of us know what it is like to live on the edge. Sometimes we feel stuck there, in limbo and in fear of tumbling over. Or, we make desperate decisions that all too often turn out to make things worse. Yet, as Elizabeth Wilde McCormick shows, our fear of the edge and our personal darkness can be transformed into a positive and creative drive for greater inner strength.
Written by a key founder in the field of loss and trauma, this is the first book to bring together the twin fields of loss and trauma. It: * reviews theory and research on a sampling of loss and trauma phenomena that include losses due to the death of close others, divorce and dissolution, losses due to disease processes and injuries, losses due ......
In this work, Hubert J.M. Hermans and Els Hermans-Jansen elaborate a model of the clinical use of self-narratives - the stories people use to construct meaning out the events in their lives - in counseling and psychotherapy. It is based on extensive case studies.
Jerome Bruner is one of the grand figures of psychology. From his role as a founder of the cognitive revolution in the 1950s to his recent advocacy of cultural psychology, Bruner's influence has been dramatic and far-reaching. Such is the breadth of his vision that Bruner's work has inspired thinkers in many of the major areas of psychology and ......
Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion
Passing for what you are not - whether assuming another sexual, racial or religious identity - is behaviour which trades on secrecy and revelation. This book analyzes the destructive impact of passing on the ingrained classifications and social demarcations of identity within Western society.
